I just came to know about this manga when I was bored and browsing the Onemanga “Recent Updates'” page. Chapter 56 was up and I decided to start from chapter 1.
And I’m glad I did.
Vinland Saga is about Vikings. Yeah, what the hell does a Japanese know of Vikings? There’s a review up on Stefan’s blog about Northlanders, a comic about Vikings too. And yes, that seems awesome too. I mean, what is with Vikings?!
Reeking of kick-ass, awesomeness and animal abuse.\
The storyline works in the form of flashbacks in the beginning, so I’ll spare you the whole lot of time travelling and tell you what happens in chronological order.
The protagonist of Vinland Saga is a boy named Thorfinn, son of Thors (Shit, even his name kicks ass. As if Thors is not a name cool enough, they just had to add a fish body part.) His life as a Viking is seriously cool. Thorfinn is working for the man who killed his father, Askeladd, who ambushed his father in a supposedly fair duel. So he works for Askeladd in return for duels with him, of which he has not won a single one.
I don’t mean to be really really spoiler-ish.
But bah.
My blog.
Hah.
Askeladd ends up dying so that he can groom a next person to be king. I really respect this Askeladd character. Go read Vinland Saga to find out the kind of person he is.
The most attractive thing about Vinland Saga is that freshness that it offers. Seldom do Japanese Mangaka write other non-Japanese stuff, especially when it comes to historical content. It must actually take quite a lot of confidence for Makoto Yukimura to write this manga. The artwork is quite apt, too.
I repeat. Kick ass.
There are more kick ass scenes, of course.
It’s interesting to see how the entire Viking world is portrayed and how the different factions clash. There are lots of politics involved as well. That’s what makes it so different from the normal Mafia manga or Yakuza manga where “We shall fight for our honour and kill whoever gets in our way and get ourselves killed int he end anyway.” It’s more of “We will have the shit beaten out of us if we fight them now. Let’s use underhanded means to ambush them and then run for our lives” in Vinland Saga. Which is really what people do to preserve their lives. So good job there.
Well, i could say more but I’m a lazy pig so I’ll stop here.
Plot – 24/30
Drawing – 25/30
Characters – 17/20
Feel – 16/20
Total – 82/100, really awesome.
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