Vinland Saga Chapter 86 Discussion

Uhh, what's up with these completely circular speech balloons, they look terrible...

Poor guy man, so sad to die like that. Things will get awesome once everyone meets on the farm

Monad said:




Btw, we never got the story on how exactly he ended up being sold as a slave.



Yeah... I've been thinking about that myself. I hope it'll eventually be explained later on

Amazing... fuckin amazing chapter



Glad Snake didn't die, shit had me on the edge of my seat.

poor gardar, i wish we could've seen more of him...

Glad this disturbance was finally resolved. After two tomes.



3/5





Volume 12

Well, I don't mind what the author is trying to do. I couldn't care less about the larger themes but they were there from the beginning so it's good to see the series is coherent there.

The thing is, getting all those mini intrigues is annoyingly reminiscent of reading a manga's early chapters where the author has no clue of the larger intrigue he will create so he simply wanders around, putting short story after short story to fill his weekly/monthly obligations. After a VERY long 9 volumes prologue, getting more "sub-prologues" will rapidly test my patience (something that should need no prove).



Score: 5/10

Enjoyment: 2/5





FMmatron said:
Aah, right in the kokoro.

XD Does this mean that you were touched by those pages or is it about the Snake's sword hit ?



@FMmatron Ahah, I actually like episodic manga/series too. The problem here (and there) is that they aren't : a large (and long) intrigue is kickstarted before being dropped in the background (saying this is being rather nice) and every small excuse is enough to completely freeze the whole "adventure".

Also, I think I gave a lot of time (even though it was mainly in anime form as episodes bulks saturday and sunday morning) to One Piece for it to have a fair chance to convince me, thanks to my little brother getting fed up far later than me. (since I had to play the german to french interpreter).

(Additionally, I don't dislike it.)

I welcome the fighting too but I'm a bit annoyed at how some people only see this a fighting manga, like its some kind of shonen or as if meaningless gory bloodshed is "mature."



I don't think Arneis is gonna die but her role is probably at an end. Her story is just a chapter in the series and that manga is nearing its end. Snake and Thorfinn's slave buddy might still have more role in story; at the very least, we haven't heard their story yet. Anyways, the fact that Snake is "no ordinary guard" is a hint that he still have bigger roles yet.

Action was pretty intense. What is he doing as a guard?



That ending was fairly sad to see.