Vinland Saga Chapter 28 Discussion

Ouch! harsh... and that must've sucked to have been the girl who witnessed that slaughter... but I wonder why the leader of the Danes is a christian. I just thought of it but it makes no sense, I mean why would his mother have any say in his religion.

I understand people wanting to compare it to Berserk but I don't think the comparison makes any sense at all in this case.



This chapter of Vinland saga might've been brutal but mostly because it is a realistic occurrence and we know that work is based on history (not too accurately but the point stands). We feel terrified because we know that something like this could happen in our reality / did happen in our history.

The characters are supposed to be normal humans like us, which makes it that much more frightening when we have to wonder if we could commit those crimes or what would happen if we were attacked like this.



When Berserk is brutal and terrifying (take the Eclipse as an example) it's almost always accompanied by the strong fantasy level and the author depicts everything artistically as something we don't see in reality (I'm talking about the countless demons, landscapes of hell etc.). There is a lot of exaggeration for the sake of visualization of feelings and in order to demonstrate the abstract horror but there are no blood pinatas or cheap mind numbing shallow tricks to get a rise out of the reader.



It doesn't aim for realistic horror, so if you say it's better than Berserk because it's more brutal in your eyes, it just doesn't  make a lot of sense to me.

You CAN compare them, but they don't compete in the same category, so it'd be pointless to judge their overall quality by something like this.



In general, Berserk is not just good because of the brutal and dark elements!

Although part of the fanbase reduces it to that, you would be completely missing the point of Berserk and its story, if you were to dismiss it like that.

Tenth said:
The whole village getting slaughtered and Thorfinn doesn't care,no expression. kinda funny he is the protagonist LoL



Haha you're right but I think this is still not as bad as when he glossed over the woman being gang raped in the shed

The slaughtering of the village was so fucked up

It would have sucked hard to be one of those villagers, just trying to get by and to have even that meager existence stolen from you. But I suppose that's just how the times were back then (and still are to some extent).

it's about 50% accurate  or so..

Yeah, definitely cringe-worthy.

On another note, I love how Vinland Saga is (well I assume it is) historically accurate - or at least it comes across as being that way. It adds to the realism factor, and it makes you feel as though you can relate to it more in a way.

It still amazes me how this series never once feels edgy.

It doesn't zoom in and try to be as gory as possible, it just...shows what actually happened. Nothing more, nothing less.

I don't get though why the Wales guy didn't protest, or the Prince's caretaker.

Excellent, excellent chapter. Gruesome and brutal, just like the Middle Ages were, specially if you were poor.

Berserk is way above epic... this manga cant even be compared to it.

Beatnik said:


Ugh, that was brutal.  More brutal than anything in Berserk or anything of that ilk.  Its because Vinland Saga's atrocities are reality-based, whereas other manga usually are more fantastical.



Also, you have to know the ideology was different at that time. Human lives are not worth that much at that time, where survival of the fittest is everything. Compassion and love and all those concept only become prevalent when some of these basic survival needs are satisfied.



So it was not really that shocking given the historical context. It is what it is... It's my own nihilistic view but once again, it's just an objective view on things.

huntx said:
Berserk is way above epic... this manga cant even be compared to it.i know you are talking about the anime, but its still hilarious how you said then then gave the berserk manga a 6 and this a 10, nothing against you just hilarious