2019-09-26, 10:33 | Link #429 |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
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With the anime currently airing and a new arc starting in the latest chapter, I thought I'd try bumping this thread.
Sigurd's plotline was wrapped up in the first half, and then... two years timeskip! Thorfinn somehow looks younger than before, maybe it's the longer hair that reminds me of his teen self. He's coming back with several ships, so I guess things are currently going well for him.
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2019-09-26, 11:41 | Link #430 |
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I expected some form of a timeskip the Baltic War arc took 30+ chapters, we still had go through the rest of the Baltic sea, through all of Russia, the Black Sea just to reach Constantinople. At the pace of the Baltic War arc this would have easily taken 100 chapters, if not more. So skipping some of that for the next arc would make sense.
But skipping all of that to the return to Iceland is shocking though. Not sure If I'm going to like it, I'm afraid we're going to get a wall of text telling us what happened rather than getting to see it. On top of that the characters are probably closer together now, especially Thorfinn and Gudrid. We didn't get to see that happening, just the end result. And I really wanted to see medieval Constantinople. Ah well, let's see what the next chapter brings to us.
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2019-11-03, 04:23 | Link #437 | |
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Not sure if you're serious or not, but that's Karli, the baby they found a while back (along with the dog). |
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2019-11-10, 10:20 | Link #439 |
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Join Date: Jul 2014
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And from what Yukimura-sensei has said on twitter, we probably shouldn't hold our breath for flashbacks about the trip to Constantinople, which seems to have been skipped altogether. I guess in the end the whole thing was more of a pretext for the Baltic Sea arc and Thorfinn finally finding out about Floki's involvement in his father's death and confronting him (plus introducing Gudrid, Hild, etc).
While on one hand it feels like lost potential, on the other hand I understand that he doesn't want to needlessly prolong the manga even more when he's already been writing it for 14 years, and it seems the trip to Vinland is (as the title implies) what he really wanted to write when he planned the story. I just hope he manages to live up to that ambition of making this "the most interesting and touching chapter ever", especially when the Baltic Sea arc, while still enjoyable, was by far the weakest of three major arcs thus far IMO. Hopefully this final arc will be a return to form and the story can finish on a high. |
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