Vinland Saga Chapter 166 Discussion

Ittan_Momen said:
I'm happy that Thorfinn and Gudrid are together now, but it would have been nice to see their relationship develop.  Perhaps we'll get some flashbacks?  Hild has been traveling with Thorfinn for two years and still hoping to kill him?  It's time for her to move on.  She has no place with them anymore.

Hild traveling with Thorfinn to kill him? Doesn't that remind you of something?

I must say that the time skip bothered me more than I thought it would at the end of chapter 165. Of course I wish I could have seen the Rus, Constantinople, etc but also the relation between Gudrid and Thorfinn evolving would have been nice to see. Especially since there relationship ended on some kind of "suspens" and after that some chapters where they didn't appeared at all and so it make me really impatient to see them again but at the end we still don't know much about them and even there mariage seemed a bit short to me.



But anyway if the author didn't have anything to say about that or don't think he can make a good story out of it maybe it's better to skip it than to have tens of relatively bad chapters...or not who knows. I guess that's the worst, not knowing what we could have got.



But sadly that's true that all that plus the long wait to be able to read the chapter in English and the translation we got at the end make me appreciate this chapter less than I should have since it's a good one and one I was waiting since a ling time.

cutest chapter really , Thorfinn and Gudrid melted my heart  <3

I really hope that they will at least show us some flashbacks of what happened during those years .. i am sure that we wont be dissapointed though

Feels like Gudrids development got completely shafted, she fled from one husband - wanted to be a sailor, was a damsel x2 and then marries Thorfinn after blushing a couple of times. Like I get it, it's not the focus of the plot but It would have been nice to see Gudrid and their relationship develop so it felt a little more rewarding.



Hopefully we get a mini-arc with her and Hild? I want to see the girls get more development, especially Hild whose character hasnt really moved much development-wise since she joined the crew.



Man, I hope we get a Canute chapter soon, we havent seen the dude since March 2017, I wanna see his kingly antics. Historically he should be getting into a lot of cool shit soon.

Cool that they married but for such a big event it really felt rushed. We should have seen their relationship actually develop. Last time we saw them she confessed, didn't even see Thorfinn's response to that, and then the next chapter they appear they hold a wedding on couple of pages.

very very very happy

Tsarko said:
Nupol-Lemish said:
Tsarko said:
If Rus and Eastern Roman Empire really get entirely skipped or we only get a flashback just glossing over it I think I am gonna lose the will to follow the manga. I am already kinda losing it just by thinking about it.You are reading VINLAND saga, I mean Vinland is the important place to go

Then why did we spend 54 chapters going around England exploring Askeladd's character? Why did we spend another ~50 chapters with Thorfinn on the farm? Why did we spend years reading relatively medicore Baltic Sea War? I know! If it's called Vinland Saga then we should've started in Vinland in the very first chapter.



Journey to Constantinople and selling those narwhal horns is actually the most relevant thing to the actual journey to Vinland in the entire story so far.



'Promising' Rus and Constantinople and then skipping it makes no sense. How can travelling big chunk of the known world, meeting lots of different cultures, peoples and relegions, and finally reaching "the City of Emperors", "The Qeen of all Cities", "Miklagard" or simply "Constantinople" be irrelevant? Visiting Constantinople should be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, event of anyone's life at the time, especially for a barbarian from Northern European wastes.



That journey and event should have tromendous impact on anyone's character and simply skipping such development is simply stupid. That's why I hope Yukimura doesn't do that and shows us the journey in a long flashback arc.the prologue arc was to set thofinn background and make he see how the world work,askeladd teach him how to live and survive,canute is introduced and become the king at the end,in the farm arc thorfinn goes through massive character development and find a reason to live,then he find new companions,baltic war arc was to close Floki character,close thorfinn relation with jomsborg and for thorfinn and sigurd development,and it was very good,better than prologue arc that became great at chapter 30,now it's time for Vinland,another 50 chapters for the travel to costantinople are useless,the goal is Vinland,he never promised anything,we can see everyone development even without seeing the travel,thats how time skips work,we still can see mini flashback for 3-5 chapters but another 30-50 chapters only for sell some horns are useless,it's a fucking trading quest,it's not like this is the first timeskip in vinland saga eh.

Tsarko said:
If Rus and Eastern Roman Empire really get entirely skipped or we only get a flashback just glossing over it I think I am gonna lose the will to follow the manga. I am already kinda losing it just by thinking about it.You are reading VINLAND saga, I mean Vinland is the important place to go