10 Reasons Vinland Saga Deserves A Second Season
10 Reasons Vinland Saga Deserves A Second Season
From the characters to the story arcs, here are the best reasons why Vinland Saga deserves a second season.
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The past couple of years saw the anime scene burst with some particularly big series premiering and returning for new seasons. The third season of Attack on Titan wrapped up in 2019 along with the Golden Wind arc of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Demon Slayer made its explosive debut to name a few. 2020 was undoubtedly a big year also with Haikyuu!! season four finishing, the premiere of Jujutsu Kaisen and AoT’s fourth season.
But another fresh adaptation from 2019 was Wit Studio’s Vinland Saga. It was a welcome change of pace in tone and genre establishing the series further in the community. The anime surely drove fans to read the manga, and the former ended at the perfect spot to lead into the series’ next major turning point. Here’s why Vinland Saga deserves a second season.
10 Among The Best Seinen Series
The shonen genre of manga and anime are certainly the most popular, but seinen has some hallmarks in the manga department especially. Berserk and Vagabond are two of the easiest picks that come to mind–being cited as some of the best manga ever written–but Vinland Saga is top class too, and the anime has thankfully opened the series up to new fans as a whole in the process.
Berserk got a solid anime in the ’90s as well as a trilogy of anime movies (and an admittedly poor series in 2016), though, Vagabond has yet to get one. Given the sheer complexity of Takehiko Inoue’s artwork, perhaps it’s fine it doesn’t get an adaptation. But Vinland Saga is the most high-profile seinen genre anime to release recently, and with how well executed it’s been, it’d be a shame not to renew it for a second season.
9 Closest To Filling That “Berserk-Sized” Hole
Speaking of Berserk, Vinland Saga is probably the closest thing to filling the hole left in fans of the former in both anime and manga. Unfortunately, Berserk is in a near-perpetual state of hiatus in the manga, and the last anime adaptation ended in 2017, which left a bitter taste in fans’ mouths due to poor animation. Makoto Yukimura is fairly consistently publishing chapters on a monthly basis, and the 2019 anime was well received and isn’t unrealistic for more.
Though, the two aren’t too similar. They’re both seinen series that tackle darker, more serious themes, but that’s it. Berserk delves heavily into the supernatural and is much more gruesome and, when it comes to anime/manga, is more akin to Game of Thrones. Vinland is historical fiction but stands on its own as a masterful, sprawling story with compelling characters.
8 The Slave Arc
As mentioned, the 2019 anime ended at the best possible place it could. It goes through Thorfinn’s life as an innocent, yet oblivious and cocky child and time-skipping into a vengeful teenager who’s losing sight of himself and his father’s lessons piece by piece. Season one’s finale concludes in a beautifully poetic, though heart-wrenching way that closes an important part of his life.
The Slave arc picks up into his young adulthood and at one of the most compelling and emotionally profound character arcs for Thorfinn. The narrative scope of the arc gets even more intimate, with him being a proper central focus. Vinland Saga is at some of its character-drama best here.
7 Wit Studio
Of course, a big part of the weight that needs pulling in making a great anime is the studio involved, and Vinland Saga had one of the best in the game. Wit Studio, who also animated Attack on Titan seasons 1-3, did an excellent job at putting together this new project. They’re a reliable studio to have behind a major adaptation, and it’d be fantastic to have an industry-great return with season two.
They haven’t been as busy as fellow A-listers MAPPA have been, so it feels like the time is right for a grand return. With AoT now in MAPPA’s–also capable–hands, Vinland Saga could be their next big-name, long-running project given how their work’s elevated the source material.
6 Introducing Einar
In the final episode of the anime, a montage into the future of the series plays out as Thorfinn lashes out at being denied the one thing that defined and what was left of him. In it there were flashes of scenes from afar of characters who’ll eventually intertwine with the protagonist years down the line, with one being Einar.
The Slave arc is where he’s introduced and he brings significance and emotional resonance in his relationship and dynamic with Thorfinn. Both characters are in turbulent points in their lives, but through each other grow into better versions of themselves. Einar is an excellent character with his own agency, but he simultaneously contributes greatly to Thorfinn’s growth.
5 It’s Great Historical Fiction
As touched on in the contrast between Vinland Saga and Berserk, the former definitely is a firm historical fiction/fantasy series. Of the three seinen heavy-weights mentioned earlier, it’s closer to Vagabond in how it takes historical figures and forges more imaginative stories around them.
Historical fiction/fantasies aren’t genres that typically break into the top of what latest anime releases, but this series proves it can stand with the usual hits. Yukimura’s series takes history and seamlessly fashions it through the lens of a great anime, but also has an appeal through its compelling character drama that can reach to newcomers to the anime medium as a whole.
4 The Perfect Returning Point
With season one ending on the most logical closing chapter of Thorfinn’s life at this point, season two would provide the perfect reentry point into the anime. A few episodes into the first season fans saw a time skip from his childhood into teenage years, but the start of the Slave arc begins with a more substantial one.
Several years go by and will feel like a proper return for fans to the world and fans will have an easy time remembering the key points/context going into this. It still invites an easy excuse to re-watch the first season regardless given its accessibility through Amazon Prime Video.
3 Canute
The anime covers a prologue that transitions Thorfinn into said vengeful, tunnel-vision machine, but it essentially makes other characters bigger figures. Askeladd takes a crucial role–arguably the most–but eventually, Canute becomes important also, doubling up as this season being his origin story.
Now that he’s grown from being a timid young boy who’s been manipulated and backstabbed by his father (and having lost his proper father figure), he’s turned into a battle-hardened, cunning leader. Though Thorfinn is back as the proper focus, Canute’s story at the time is told as a parallel. The following arc sees the two meet again after so many years, striking said parallels in how the two ventured/will venture out to execute their visions of peace.
2 Likely Faithfulness To The Manga
Another reason why Vinland Saga deserves to continue is in how well written and executed the first season was to begin with. The manga is written out far enough in advance, and the team writing delivered an expert-level adaptation in faithfulness to the source. They even had a great episode that was “anime original,” which technically qualifies as “filler;” something that can ruin a series’ pacing.
With a potential second season adapting the Slave arc, the writing room won’t be lacking any material in creating something that’s faithful to the manga arc. Fans could even get another “original” that tastefully expands upon the story.
1 Next Long-Term Fix
Two of the biggest long-term/long-running anime series going on as of now are Attack on Titan and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The former is set to wrap up its final season next year and the Stone Ocean adaptation has recently been revealed. With AoT finishing the anime soon, there could be a slot for another grand epic to shine.
Vinland won’t necessarily match the cultural phenomenon that Attack on Titan managed, but its own quality justifies merit to have more spotlight. Meanwhile, adaptations of JoJo’s arcs take a fair amount of time in-between seasons, meaning Vinland could return with season two as the start of a long-form series given the source material already written.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/vinland-saga-season-2-best-reasons/
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