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Vinland Saga S2 – 11 – Head of the Line

“Norsemen won’t follow a weakling”, says King Canute’s Gunnar as he and a worried-sick Estrid watch her brother sparring with Wurf, the head of his royal guard and…

Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 22 [The King of Rebellion]

Welcome all, to another episode of Vinland Saga! This is a big week, perhaps the best episode of the entire season. We have a lot to talk about…

Jun 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 21 [Courage]

Welcome all, to what may be the best episode of Vinland Saga all season. A tall claim considering some of the previous episodes, I know. But this little…

May 30, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 24 [Home]

Welcome all, to the final episode of Vinland Saga Season 2! I won’t call this the grand finale, as that was last week. This one is more like…

Jun 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 20 [Pain]

Welcome all, to another great episode of Vinland Saga! It’s another emotional one, so strap in because there is a lot of tragedy to talk about. Let’s dive…

May 25, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 9 [Oath]

Welcome everyone, to another episode of Vinland Saga! This week is one giant gut-punch as it takes everything about Thorfinn, throws it on the ground, and steps on…

Mar 8, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 14 [Freedom]

Welcome everyone, to another episode of Vinland Saga! This episode is all about Arnheid, Gardar, and how they ended up here. Not much Thorfinn or Einar, but it’s…

Apr 13, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 Review — A

We still haven’t made it to Vinland.

Draggle's Anime Blog

Jun 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 05 – Pillars of Smoke

After four episodes focused on Einar and Thorfinn, we check in on Prince, now King Canute of the Danes and England during the same general time period. After succeeding…

Feb 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 13 – Revolt of One

This week’s cold (or rather burning hot) open had me a little confused. Was this an older, long-haired, wilder version of Einar we’re watching as he burns down…

Apr 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 09 – Climb of Atonement

It was all a dream. So thinks a clean-shaven Thorfinn, lounging in a grassy meadow when a lamb wakes him. Uemura Yuuto voices this carefree version of him…

Mar 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 07 – The True Master

When Einar and Arnheid are at the well for a few minutes each morning, they’re in their own little world. Neither is a slave, they are just a…

Feb 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 14 – Weathering the Storm

As son as Gardar showed up, I knew someone’s blood would be spilled under the gray storm clouds that day, I just didn’t know whose. When he approaches Arnheid,…

Apr 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 18 [The First Method]

Welcome all, to a (late) episode of Vinland Saga! This one was actually rather hard to write, for a variety of reasons. The episode was great but the…

May 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 21 – Repaying the Kindness

As Canute inspects the dead “soldiers” who fought for Ketil, Floki asks if his men can use some of the houses on the farm. Canute forbids any soldiers…

May 29, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 17 [The Road Home]

Welcome all, to another episode of Vinland Saga and the end of an arc! This was a tragic week, perhaps one of the most emotionally effecting episodes of…

May 3, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 17 – Going Home

The fight between Snake and Thorfinn is impressively badass as expected. He’s shocked a warrior of Snake’s skill is guarding a farm, and Snake is shocked a warrior…

May 1, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 20 – Icelandic Pride

Fox is a pretty tough guy. He’s killed thirteen men. He enjoys it. But these Jomsvikings are just too much, man. They carve through the hands, limbs, and…

May 23, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 10 [Cursed Head]

Another week, another episode of Vinland Saga! This week sees a timeskip, the return of Canute, and the first signs of conflict for the farm. Lets jump right…

Mar 15, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 2 [Ketil’s Farm]

Welcome everyone, to the first post of not only the Winter season but 2023 as a whole! Well… first series post, the first impressions don’t count. Anyways, the…

Jan 17, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 13 [Dark Clouds]

Welcome everyone, to the 2nd half of Vinland Saga Season 2! This episode marks the end of Thorfinn and Einar’s (mostly) idyllic life on the farm and the…

Apr 6, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 23 [Two Paths]

Welcome all, to the penultimate episode of Vinland Saga Season 2! Vinland Saga continues riding high this week with another heart wrenching episode. I’m going to do my…

Jun 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 11 [The King and the Sword]

Welcome everyone, to another week of Vinland Saga! This week sees Canute and Thorfinn enter onto a headlong collision course, meanwhile Ketil runs into an old friend of…

Mar 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 7 [Iron Fist Ketil]

Welcome everyone, to another (late) post this week, this time for Vinland Saga! Turns out that when one post gets pushed back by a day or 2, so…

Feb 23, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 24 (Fin) – Prodigal Son

This week is nothing more or less than Thorfinn’s return to his home village in Iceland, an occurance for which multiple miracles had to take place. When he…

Jun 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 Anime Review – 92/100

The last time a seasonal anime impressed me, affected me, this much was 2018’s Run With the Wind. Not because of any surface level similarities, one is about…

Jul 4, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 8 [An Empty Man]

Hello everyone, and welcome to another week of Vinland Saga! This week continues Einar and Thorfinn’s quest to grow wheat, as well as delving a bit further into…

Mar 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 12 [For Lost Love]

Welcome everyone, to the halfway point of season 2 of Vinland Saga! This week is more Olmar and Canute, but it connects deeply back to Thorfinn and his…

Mar 30, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 19 – A Dark Wood

When Ketil rallies all able-bodied men on the farm, bribing them by releasing them from their debts should they join him, he has about 350 men. Not bad,…

May 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 23 – Someplace Not Here

Sweyn’s head tells Canute that Thorfinn is dangerous and should be killed. But when the king asks him what he’ll do, Thorfinn says he’ll simply run. He’ll run…

Jun 12, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 06 – Too Much Wealth

Cutting down trees was the easy part. Pulling the stumps with just two human bodies is a grueling labor, and threatens to make setting up an actual farm…

Feb 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 16 – Casting Their Lots

Einar is on the move again, with Thorfinn following him. He doesn’t know what he’s going to do, just that he knows he can help Arnheid. Maybe with violence,…

Apr 25, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 01 – Living is Winning

After a thoroughly badass James Bond-style OP followed by a downright poetic sequence about carving “that warmth” into anything and everything, Vinland Saga’s second season settle…

Jan 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 18 – Long Way Down

Content Warning: This episode of Vinland Saga contains an extremely disturbing scene of domestic violence. Extreme viewer discretion is advised. King Canute is on the sea, headed…

May 9, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 3/4 [Snake/Awakening]

Welcome everyone, to another week of Vinland Saga! Apologies for missing last week, a lot of things conspired to prevent me from finishing the post. On the plus…

Feb 1, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 12 – No Love Lost

Here I was thinking Canute was going to march into Ketil’s farm and say “Mine.” But he can’t do that without angering other landowners. No, there’s an art…

Mar 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga Season 2, VINLAND SAGA

Canute’s Leadership in England – Vinland Saga S2 Ep 5 & 6 Review

Prince Canute threatens war against the rural lord of Mercia. Thorfinn discovers the joy of farming through Einar and Sverkel’s guidance.

In Asian Spaces

Feb 25, 2023 • Subscribe

Shin no Nakama – 03 – Off the Path of Blood, On the Path of…COOKIEEES!!!

This week’s Shin no Nakama takes place entirely in the present day, but it doesn’t get off to a strong start when Red (and the camera) gazes a bit too…

Oct 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 10 – Getting Ahead in the World

We open with a couple of bare-chested swole lads chopping wood and shoving trunks. Three years of hard work have honed Thorfinn and Einar’s muscles, and the result…

Mar 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 08 – Way Down In the Hole

Thorfinn awakes screaming from his most frightening dream yet, where he watches a younger version of himself move in on an even younger Einar and his family. When…

Feb 27, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 22 – The Man With No Enemies

The punches begin, and even after twenty of Drott’s best, Thorfinn is still standing. Among the warriors watching, only Wulf realizes that Thorfinn is subtly positioning himself so…

Jun 6, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 02 – The Wheatgrass Is Always Greener

Ketil introduces Einar to his new best friend Thorfinn. He’s given them a forest to clear and eventually sow wheat, which he’ll buy at a fair price when…

Jan 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga 2 – Episode 5 Review

This is one of those instances where I wish I understood the history behind things better and how it would help me separate those events from fiction.

OTAKU SPACE

Feb 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga Season 2 Episode 5

Vinland Saga Season 2 Episode 5 is all about Canute. In this review, I discuss how much Canute has grown since Season 1.

DoubleSama

Feb 6, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga

Vinland Saga is an anime set in Europe around 1000 CE, with the plot primarily centered around Denmark and associated Vikings invading England. The protagonist is a young…

Hexa Blog

Jul 6, 2022 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 6 [I Want a Horse]

Welcome back everyone, to another week of Vinland Saga! This week sees us return to Thorfinn and Einar as they continue their quest to build a farm. Doesn’t…

Feb 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 15/16 [Storm/Great Purpose]

Welcome all, to another (very late) week of Vinland Saga! Due to my busy schedule this week is a double header, meaning we have a lot to talk…

Apr 26, 2023 • Subscribe

Vinland Saga S2 – 19 [War at Ketil’s Farm]

Welcome all, to another week of Vinland Saga! This week marks the beginning of the war, as Canute lands on the farm and battle is joined. Who will…