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Sep 4, 2022
This is the most pretentious piece of fiction I've ever read.
Story: 1/10
What story!? There is none. We simply follow the main character with 1st world problems, not being happy with himself, with people around him, with the world, and constantly making dumb decisions that annoy the reader.
Characters: 2/10
The main character is 0/10, he is drawn as how a two and a half year old would draw a penguin with their left hand, so we can't properly see Punpun's emotions on his face, and on top of that he barely ever talks, which is clearly an attempt to make the readers insert themselves into the giant
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hole that the main character represents. All the other characters are between 1/10 & 3/10, and are just stereotypes, but on horse steroids. The only character who I found to be sort of okay was Seki, cause he seemed to be the only character that felt human.
Art: 2/10
The author did all that was possible to make the manga easy to draw. Drawing the main character & his entire family as a penguin doodle, but also copy-pasting the same panels again and again and again. When characters show emotions, it's almost always over the top unrealistic, as if the author wants to shove their emotions into our retina.
The worst part of this manga isn't the art, nor the characters, and not even the lack of a proper story, but the author's constant attempt to self-insert his own nihilistic philosophical opinions into EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER. This becomes obvious very early on, as the characters would suddenly start to spout out some philosophical soup full of rotten vegetables, while the other character that's listening to this doesn't have any argument back. And there was definitely a few times when the philosophical horse vomit that's been forcefully spilled onto our nostrils, was something that I agreed upon, but it doesn't change the fact that one of the most annoying things in fiction is when the author forces their own view of life onto their readers.
The only reason I didn't rate this 1/10 is because no matter how bad of a fiction I read, part of me believes that somewhere our there lingers an even worse piece of fiction, and that compared to that, even Oyasumi PunPun would taste like a high quality German beer compared to a bison piss.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Apr 8, 2021
“It’s easier to fool people, than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Supposedly, this quote comes from Mark Twain, and sadly, it fits quite well for this fandom.
Even with all the sub-par and heavily questionable writing that came from Isayama in the last few years, many of us still held hope that everything will make sense in the end. We have been fooled my friends. We foolishly kept our trust in Isayama, and paid the price.
We foolishly believed that there’s gonna be some plot twist which would explain everything. But there was none. Isayama kept writing himself into a corner, not explaining
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anything, and thus, not respecting his readers who clearly saw blatant contradictions and retcons.
I am thankful that SnK entered my life 5 years ago, it really did have an impact on my life, and changed it for the better. But I do wish that I dropped it at some point, when it was apparent that the story no longer had cohesion, and that the railroad on which it was traveling, wasn’t complete at all. The outcome of such a scenario wasn’t hard to predict, but I was blinded like many others.
When did it go wrong?
I can’t help but think that all of the problems started with chapter 91, with the introduction of a whole new set of characters, and the introduction of a whole new setting and genre. Pre-timeskip story and post-timeskip story are just two different types of stories, that demanded two different styles of writing, and two different set of characters. It could never have worked as a same story, without completely butchering the characters, which is what happened, and changing the style of writing, which is what also happened.
For the past 49 chapters, Eren was the new basement. A mystery waiting to be revealed.
The problem with that was that the basement mystery felt natural, because none of the characters knew what was in there, and we followed them on their journey towards it. In a way, we journeyed together with the characters, and together with them learned one truth at a time.
But with Eren, it was unnatural… We weren’t given insight into what Eren thought, and we were occasionally given flashbacks from those 4 years at random moments, whenever the plot allowed it.
We knew some stuff that the main cast didn’t know (AT could see the future, Historia was apparently aware of Eren’s plan, etc.), and at the same time, we never knew all the information that they’ve known about Eren, as there were constantly more flashbacks that we weren’t aware of.
The basement mystery got the readers closer to the characters, and we felt like we were on the same train as them. The Eren mystery separated the readers from the characters, and we were just the spectators of a train rushing towards the finish line.
That change in writing is one of the core problems which started after the RtS arc. Another would be introduction of too many new characters. Anyone can figure out that introducing 15+ new characters in the last third of the story was a bad idea. Gabi, Falco, Udo, Sophia, Colt, Galliard, Pieck, Magath, Tybur family, Onyankoppon, Kyomi, Annie’s Father, Reiner’s Mom, Ksaver, Ymir Fritz, Louise, Kaya, Nicolo, Yelena, etc.
- Remember when Eren and Armin used to talk a lot, before the battle, during the battle, after the battle? Well, they only spoke once post-timeskip in the present time (so not counting flashbacks), and that was in 112.
- Remember when Levi used to talk with his squad during chapters 51-90? First time Levi spoke to someone from 104th post timeskip was in 132 (apart from his small remark from 108 that they all grew). He didn’t talk with 104th about Eren, never mentioned anything regarding Annie joining them even though she killed his squad, and never really had any mentor-like role like before.
- Remember when Historia was a great character? Yeah, she was sorta kinda turned into a plot device, with zero focus.
- Remember when RBZ talked for 10 pages straight in 77? Three characters with history between them, talking about their enemy, about Annie, about trust, etc. Great build up, great characterization. When Annie returned after timeskip, she only talked to Reiner for ONE page, and Bertolt wasn’t even mentioned.
There are countless examples. New characters didn’t offer much, but took away a lot, as the focus on the old cast had to be reduced significantly, and thus certain plots were very rushed, while the conversations between the old cast was reduced to a minimum.
When the main cast was in focus, it was usually about something that defined them, like Armin thinking how Erwin should have lived, or Levi thinking about Zeke, Mikasa about Eren, etc. The author simplified the personalities and motivations of almost all characters, because of their substantial increase in numbers, and lack of time to focus on all of them like he used to.
Even the main reason for some of the character deaths seemed more to have been to simply reduce the number of cast, and less to actually serve the plot. Sasha, Pixis and Nile go into this category.
Than we have Hange, Magath and Shadis sacrificing themselves for a plane that they didn’t even need because Falco could fly. Chapters 128-132 didn’t need to happen if Falco simply had his flying dream when he slept in the forest, and not a few hours later when he slept on the ship.
Post-timeskip behaviour of characters make us wonder whether they suffer from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or have lost most of their intelligence. But how Isayama butchered each of the characters demands it’s own post.
However, one thing we’ve all been waiting for these last few years, one thing we’ve all been asking ourselves, one simple question to Eren: “Why?”
We finally got an answer to that question from Eren, and his answer was "I don't know why."
In other words, there was no answer. Isayama couldn’t figure out a good reason as to why Eren would destroy the world, and bring his friends into hell… and even though it made no sense for Eren to do what he did, Isayama still insisted for his train to take this rail, so the answer that the story gives for why the entire post-timeskip plot happened is: “I don’t know why.”
As a friend of mine suggested, it seems that Isayama wanted to incorporate some philosophical aspects that his older self found fascinating, but that wouldn’t fit into what his younger self already wrote.
Isayama introduced a huge amount of themes and topics into his story. As some have already mentioned in their reviews: There is racism, imperialism, and war. There are naked giants, super-humans, time-shenanigans, an unseen world and magic. There’s a commentary on morality, chauvinism and racial prejudices. There’s political drama, military drama, friendship drama. There’s all sorts of genres: there’s action, there’s mystery, there’s drama, there’s thriller, there’s fantasy, there’s war, there’s crime, there’s sci-fi, there’s adventure, there’s comedy, there’s horror, there’s tragedy, and in the end, there’s even romance.
Isayama overfilled his train with all sorts of stuff, traveling faster than the speed of sound, on a railroad that wasn’t properly finished. There was only one possible outcome for the train in the end, which was to crash. At ground zero, the scenario is such that a fan may look at all this stuff, and think that everyone could find what they want from this train, and that it’s a marvelous thing that a single train had so much to offer.
But a keener observer would take a few steps back in order to observe the entire scenario in front of him, and see it for what it truly is – a trainwreck.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 30, 2020
I was hyped for months to watch Vinland Saga, and in the end was left disappointed after finally seeing it...
I'm left confused as to why this series is so well received. Perhaps, all an anime needs these days is to be action packed with nice animation, all covered in a thick edgy bubble. Having an interesting story, character development and character arcs don't seem to matter nowdays...
Story 4/10
There's not much of a story in Vinland Saga. Synopsis pretty much describe 80% of the entire plot. For the most part, this anime consists of battles, episode after episode. All that people wanna do in this show
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is wage wars, cause they're “warriors” and warriors need to be in a battle... There's potential for a deeper and more meaningful story, but so far that's nowhere to be seen. Don't let the Seinen label fool you... This is an action-packed shounen with the usual edgy teenage protagonist.
The anime has a serious problem deciding whether it wants to have a realistic take on the battles, or a fantasy one. For a moment, the plot portrays realistic battles between people, but when it comes to main characters, they are able to do super-human things because... they are the main characters! The line between realistic and fantasy is constantly erased and redrawn depending on what the plot needs at the moment.
Characters 3/10
There are only 4-5 characters worth mentioning, and for only one of them it can be said that he's a well written character.
Thorfinn
One of the most annoying protagonists of all time. Thorfinn's looks shouldn't fool you. He looks like a human character, but he's really a dog in a human body. There are only 3 things that he does: Follow orders, bites, and barks. And he barks a lot, so watch-out you headphone users!! His most memorable lines are “AAARRGGGHHHHH”, “WAAAAAHHHHH”, “GRRRAAAHHHHHH!!”... Oh, and we shouldn't forget “AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!”
There's no on-screen character development for Thorfinn. We see him how he is as a kid, time-skip happens, and we see how different he is as a teenager. There's maybe half an episode of the transitional period, but for the most part we are simply supposed to accept that his development from point A to point H happened during the time-skip.
Askeladd
The only character who's well written. He's a consistent character, has a backstory that explains why he is the person that he is, and actually contributes to the story with dialogues, unlike Thorfinn.
Canute
Starts off with plenty of potential to grow, but then he's “developed” from point A to point Y in an instant, after he had the most cringe-worthy, parody-like realization about love, that's as nonsensical as his “development”. In fact, it's not development, it's changing a character, and hoping that the audience will accept the “new version” of the said character.
Thors
Character whose actions are extremely questionable and illogical. He changed from the most murderous person in the world, to the most pacifistic person in the world in an instant, and now he wouldn't dare to kill a person even if his son and him are surrounded with dozens of armed warriors trying to kill them. Why did he change his life ideology completely one may ask, but the answer to that question doesn't exist.
Because of nice animation and a good ost, especially both ED songs are great, I gave it a 5/10. But, if I were to judge it only on the story and the characters, it would be a 3/10 or a 4/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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