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Alca said: Thors was the brother of Whitebeard. I got the same feeling watching him and whitebeard die. RIP great legends. *Playing Legends Never Die in my head* Yup, great legends stand strong even in death |
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| Such an amazing episode...it was so intense. Can't wait to see the next episode. I love the art style of this anime. When Thors died I cried my eyes out but at the same time I felt proud. Thors had to do what he did to protect everyone. Poor Thorfinn saw his dad die right in front of him. |
UniqueOtaku101Jul 29, 2019 8:54 PM
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| It is unheard of that there is an anime like this today, an anime so pure and beautiful where all effort and focus is put on the development of the story and characters instead of trying to attract morbid or fanservice, because even in other supposedly serious anime fail because of mindless dialogues and a stupid script. |
| Summer is by far the worst season of this year. Vinland Saga is its saving grace. Glad it is back after 3 weeks. |
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| Finally they fit the synopsis of the anime into one episode. Also I love how both groups have to saceifice something to gain balance, also Thors you are a true warrior and a great father. This is great nothing to say more. |
EsieEyenJul 30, 2019 2:13 AM
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| intense. Not much else to say. Rip Thorrs, can't wait for the next episode to see where Thorfin's development goes. |
  We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realise what you are. That's what death is, don't you think? ------------------------------------ Itachi Uchiha |
| Thors' death in the Anime was more emotional than in the manga. That's just my opinion. The music, his solemn voice, etc. added to that effect. You can tell from Askeladd's expression and reaction that he disapproved Bjorn's actions. Fucking Bjorn. Thors is able to intimidate anyone, even Bjorn, despite being at the brink of death. Contender for father of year. |
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| I knew the old blond guy was a fan favourite character, so I had been wondering how on earth would people like someone who kills the protagonist's loved one. Now I get it. Kind of. He is already my favourite character so far. The animation was quite breathtaking in some parts. Till last episode, this anime was just good enough, but this episode, I really liked it. Finally, I found another enjoyable anime this season. Most—this season—were quite bad that I dropped a lot of them. |
| That was insanely gut wrenching to watch.... I cried way to hard, really hits close to home when you know exactly what Thorfinn is feeling. |
| Cool fighting scenes! Thors died the way he wanted, he knew that eventually they would kill him, so at least he saved the village and his son. I want to see what's going to happen with his son now, maybe some of the pirates will give him food, I mean how is he going to survive now on that boat alone? Looking forward to see the actual story this was just the introduction to his character and how he became who he is. |
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| Another great episode, very emotional! The fight scene was pretty cool, if a little slow. I haven't read the manga, so I'm intrigued to see exactly how Thorfinn gets along with Askeladd and his pirates after they killed Thors. |
| This was one of the dumbest episodes of anime ever. All of this just so we can get an edgy Thorfin for the rest of this show? Nice meme. |
herrokan said: This was one of the dumbest episodes of anime ever. All of this just so we can get an edgy Thorfin for the rest of this show? Nice meme. You should try actually paying attention. Nothing about this episode was dumb. |
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| Really nice sakuga but it's ridiculous to have no-kill policy as a medieval Viking. It doesn't even make up for an interestingly tragic character because we don't get to see how his philosophy made sense to him except for some generic "killing breeds more killings" argument. The thing is our moral sentiment evolves in history. We now think killing a person is such a big deal because we have established powerful institutions that help us going about our daily life without having to kill any one. We now have a higher moral bar than the medieval because it has become much easier for us to not to kill thanks to all the modernisation that took centuries to realise. To think a Viking would feel the same kind of horror and remorse over killing a person is simply a naive way to project our sense of morality to historical people who lived a very different life. And you know why I love AoT now 'cuz its ethics is deeply rooted in its material life. They are not like modern people being transported into an isekai with titans. |
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| Damn that was an epic fight. I knew it was going to happen but seeing Thors' death was really sad, what a man he was. I think the part where everyone stopped laughing after seeing the hateful look in Thorfinn's eyes was a really nice touch. Thorfinn's VA did a fantastic job portraying the anguish, despair and hatred he feels after his father's unfair death. Askeladd is an intriguing character, it is obvious that there's more to him than he lets on. I hope we manage to understand him better within the course of the story! |
| I think I can finally understand the felling of hate towards Eren on SNK for being a "annoying edgy MC", because that's definitely what I am felling for Thorfinn (even though I still can't understand why people think Eren can be annoying, considering he pushes the plot foward). Anyway, this is actually a good thing since the main "marketing" of the show is his character development. I honestly can't find any flaw in this start, and if it keep this up, adding tension on the next arc, I can give it a 9 easilly |
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CHC said: Really nice sakuga but it's ridiculous to have no-kill policy as a medieval Viking. It doesn't even make up for an interestingly tragic character because we don't get to see how his philosophy made sense to him except for some generic "killing breeds more killings" argument. The thing is our moral sentiment evolves in history. We now think killing a person is such a big deal because we have established powerful institutions that help us going about our daily life without having to kill any one. We now have a higher moral bar than the medieval because it has become much easier for us to not to kill thanks to all the modernisation that took centuries to realise. To think a Viking would feel the same kind of horror and remorse over killing a person is simply a naive way to project our sense of morality to historical people who lived a very different life. And you know why I love AoT now 'cuz its ethics is deeply rooted in its material life. They are not like modern people being transported into an isekai with titans. Why is it ridiculous? "Killing is bad" is not something humans first thought of in last few centuries. It's true that killing was lot more accepted in their society, but Scandinavians weren't a hive mind. There's nothing stopping an individual Viking to develop his own moral compass and figure out that constantly robbing people their lives might be a bad thing. It would be problem if their whole society had similar mindset to Thor's, but it doesn't. Story clearly portrays Thors as an anomaly, a man in who knows how many thousands. The show even tries to portray how big of a contrast there is between Thors and the rest. |
| I just feel really bad for all the edge-lords/complainers on here that have no idea what they're getting into by watching this show... your loss- Whenever the ED starts playing I get goosebumps, just the thought of losing one of your parents and knowing that no matter who is to blame for it- and that no matter what you do, you can never bring them back. The thought that I will at one point lose one or both of my parents just breaks me. Thanks for that ED... |
| well It ended as expected tbh, obviously the anime Focus on thorrs son so no way he was going to live, Still thors softness kinda killed It for me but k |
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| I was interested in seeing if Thors would get defeated, but he willingly let himself die to save the others. Unexpected outcome but I like how it was handled. A shame we won't see more of Thors, but I see some good character development for his son incoming... Best episode so far. |
| Great episode. Thors is badass this episode, Askeladd lost the fight. Overall emotional episode and Thorfinn start of his revenge. |
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| Oh boy. Great episode. Too bad people jump into conclusion about Thorfinn. This guy is gonna be a beast of a character. |
| Great episode. It was expected that he was going to die but it still hurt me... |
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| Poor Thors never had a chance of escaping alive... Thor Finn is now an avenger! |
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Alca said: Thors was the brother of Whitebeard. I got the same feeling watching him and whitebeard die. RIP great legends. *Playing Legends Never Die in my head* Very very true. Damn I miss WHitebeard... |
| The 3 week wait is worth it all, this episode is just phenomenal. Askeladd already knew that Thors the Troll of Jom will not be an easy opponent, even with the duel that Thors ultimately won the battle but lost the War. At least the Warrior's path was given respect to the very end. Thors allowed dignity, even though Askeladd had to resort to underhand tactics to take his head, back to both his own village people and Askeladd and his mercenary of pirates, to business as usual. And the death of Thors, obvious red flag to boot. RIP to the family man, now the son Thorfinn has a great deal of trouble to defeat Askeladd (which isn't the true enemy). Volume 1 of the manga is done, and I can say that the anime is doing a wholesome amount of justice, going and beyond to the manga adaptation. |
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| The Episode was very Good but i find the death of Thors stupid. nevertheless i wait for his sons journey. |
| These first 4 episodes of Vinland Saga have been great. This is hardly surprising given Wit Studio's back catalog but I do have some minor gripes. Some of the action sequences, involving crazy leaps into the air, while fun to watch are too far fetched for what this shows setting is or at least what I thought it was. Thors is also far too overpowered a character but that is hardly an issue now. Thors' philosophy while not developed deeply is basically parallel to Rurouni Kenshin's, which is interesting, I wish we had spent just a little more time with his backstory. Having a philosophy like that in a time period like that was always going to spell death. Overall, I am excited for the rest of the series but I also think the show is a bit over-hyped. |
| Best anime of this season for sure. It gets better and more epic with each new episode. |
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| I read manga a long time ago, but with this episode I remember why I had love-hate feelings for Askeladd. |
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| Damn a really good ep, but sad to see Thors die already. Sacrificed himself just to save the village and the people on the boat |
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| Super good, but god fucking lord was Thorfinn fucking annoying. |
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Yautja said: Super good, but god fucking lord was Thorfinn fucking annoying. How was he fucking annoying? |
| - Astounding OST, animation, and cinematography. Props to the brilliant voice actors. - Characters that feel human, they even nailed how a 6 year old should act. - Askeladd vs Thors felt tense, it had consequences, great choreography, and principles put to the test. - Faithful and and actually better than the source material (for this part). I know what would happen as I've read the manga, yet it still made me sad. Thors is a good man, his philosophy and thinking led him to the best possible outcome. Sacrificing himself by impressing Askeladd so the others are left unharmed. Well, except Ari, he got what he deserved. Fighting all out would most likely lead to death. This anime is objectively at least an 8/10 in terms of quality, anything lower is very much subjective. This is the point where the story changes drastically, looking forward to what they can do in the next episode as it is an anime original! |
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| This show is what is what keeps me breathing by the air of anime industry and visually I can somewhat feel the 2019'ness or simply being up with the times. As I was absent I had no prejudices but even from the opening itself it was clear that Thors is dying, whole month to prepare if one is invested to the length of overthinking it before sleep etc., though I am glad that it was executed only 4 episodes in (blind how it is in manga case but content-wise it should be parallel) and Thors got his moral portrait drawn pretty clearly in present (because it could have been dragged out with help of dem repeating flashbacks) and I'm intrigued how Thorfinn will be swarming around it since at the moment they seem like complete opposites of each other and simple blood relation/father figure is his current life drive - his intent is revenge and what now at most feels like a revenge story should probably turn out to quenching of his thirst of revenge. Askeladd is not dying for sure and I hope Thorfinn learned with his eyes that personal 'ethics' are useless in battlefield. |
| animation, MUSIC, characters, plot everything is amazing 5/5 this anime will be classic |
| Imagine thinking this is just a generic revenge story LUL. People have already talked about the archers, but what about the village back home? Were there not orders to kill Thors by the Jomsvikings after he deserted 15 years ago? What's stopping them from destroying the entire village if Thors had survived here? He knew he was a dead man, but by sacrificing his life he gets the maximum value out of it. And sure, we all know Thors could've easily killed everyone there, if he wanted to sacrifice his philosophy and the beliefs he's been trying to instill into Thorfinn, but there's just no way they're surviving the archers. And jumping into the water certainly isn't going to do anything. |
| Damn... damn, it was sad. Just very sad. :( Thors died like a hero. He was not defeated. He traded his own life for lifes of those who were with him and his last order was secure the village's future by showing his corpse to Jomsvikings' warchief as a proof that he didn't flee from war. The battle sequence was elite. No need to say more about it. Effects, tension, smooth animation, realism. I rarely see that kind of moments in the first episodes of an anime. Seeing so many sasuga moments up until now was delightful to watch. |
Gwick said: Dumb kid is dumb and dad is killed from dumb kid being dumb also dumb kids dad is a pacifist viking and gets killed from being a pacifist viking, i don't think it'll be AOTY, but it'll be a nice watch (as long as dumb kid turns into smart kid) Thorfinn didn't do anything that got his dad killed, he was just standing there with rest watching. Thors was dead as soon as he arrived at Faroe islands and nothing would have changed that. Also, his pacifism is what actually saved everyone in his crew. Otherwise everyone would have been sold as slaves. |
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