Snake Activates Thorfinn! Vinland Saga 2×3 & 2×4 Reaction/Review

Coool

jerry shouting thorfinn to black out exactly tells you what shonen fans are like 🤣🤣🤣

You guys need to watch 1998 berserk. Best anime.

React to the boys a liar by pinkpantheress and ice spice

rttv constantly calling thorfinn a "pussy" or a "bitch" is fucking annoying. shoutout to wellz tho he understands thorfinn's character the most

Where’s blue lock 😢

This man Jerry want thorfinn to be violent as hell

For those who are interested in reading along with the manga, these episodes adapted the remainder of chapter 57 (the last 13 pages), and all of chapters 58-60.

The passage of time isn't always super explicit in this arc, but the fact that the farms are harvesting their wheat crops now is meant to indicate it's now early Autumn in Jutland (which is where modern-day Denmark is located), hence why Einar said he arrived in the Summer (it's been a couple months since Einar arrived at Ketil's farm).

Also good eye for anyone who was able to pick up on the implications of what Arnheid being Ketil's "personal" attendant slave entails.

What's been neat about this arc's animation so far is how the focus in the character animation is now on the little details (or making scenes with numerous background characters less static) instead of action, creates distinct feel to the flow of the scenes compared to the previous season.

The story-boarder of episode 4 was Atsushi Kobayashi, who also boarded some of the more visually striking episodes from season 1 of Vinland Saga (and is apparently a relatively prolific animator/boarder).

Though what was interesting about episode 4 was how there was a number of additions and changes to the content this episode adapted from chapter 60 of the manga. Some of these include stuff like additional lines of dialogue during Thorfinn and Einar's conversation with Pater (the squinty-eyed ex-slave), cutting of some internal dialogue/monologues from characters and relying more on visual storytelling to convey information.
However, the most notable changes episode 4 had from chapter 60 of the manga was the night-time scene with Thorfinn and Einar at the end of the episode. In the manga Einar actually stops himself from trying to choke Thorfinn before he even lays a hand on Thorfinn (with Einar instead internally thinking the "it's not as though he [Thorfinn] was responsible for killing my family…" line to himself), the manga chapter also didn't give us a peek of what Thorfinn was dreaming about (so no trippy dream sequence). The scene after Einar woke Thorfinn up also differed as well, with the manga focusing on Einar realizing Thorfinn is extremely not used to being treated kindly by others (hence why Thorfinn had no response to Pater's earlier kindness and why Thorfinn asks why Einar wakes him up from his nightmares), and then Einar declaring that he and Thorfinn are friends now (the chapter ending with a small comedic moment of Thorfinn asking "what does that mean" in a nonplussed manner).

The anime's decision to instead emphasize Einar's rage more and connect his rebuke of Thorfinn's despairing pessimism back to the lesson/philosophy of Einar's mother was an interesting creative choice. I'm not sure which version I prefer personally, but based on the Twitter of Makoto Yukimura (the mangaka of Vinland Saga) it appears to be a change he is okay with.

And if it wasn’t clear for anyone, that was indeed Canute at the end of episode 4, he's just grown out of his feminine boyish looks over the course of the last 1+ years.

For those who are curious, in this series Thorfinn was born on February 3rd 996 (while the real-life Thorfinn Karlsefni, the character is based on, is estimated to have been born circa 980-985). And it being August-September of 1015 during the events of this episode, means Thorfinn is well his way into his 19th year.

“Ima slave”
Pat: “ thats a come up” LMFAO WHAT

realistically Thorfinn scientificially can only rememberabout 6 months of life being good so ages 3-5 and at 5 his father was murdered infront of him, he;s had to kill many, the man he wanted to kill to avenge his father who was also his reason for living died infront of him and now hes a slave so 6months compared to 16 years of consistent pain. hes very correct and accurate stating not a single good this has happened to him in his life in summary

Everyone forgot the lady lmao the woman he killed at the end of the dream was the woman who took care of him after thorkell mopped his ass. He told her to run but she didn’t and ended up dying to thorfinns crew (one of the few times thorfinn showed emotion in his younger years)

I’m so glad evan is here

They gonna drop this because it ain't the average Shonen trash and they can't understand good writing

These guys should not be throwing around the words “that’s deep” they didn’t understand shit 😂

finally

i love seeing flashbacks of Askeladd, mans was a real G

What did Rob say? 04:00

I low-key want wellz to read the manga because out of everyone in the crew he actually understands what happing regarding thorfinn