Read Vinland Saga. One of the most incredible manga I've ever read.
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In Episode 22, anime watchers get finally introduced to the new ship dynamic between Thorfinn and Canute.
Instead of innocent naive prince/feral murderchild, we get the in my objectively correct opinion superior version of:
Canute: I really wanna do some violence
Thorfinn: Don’t do violence 😜
Canute: But politics...
Thorfinn: 🥺
Canute: Ok
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cannot stop thinking about this
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This week's episode of Vinland saga was deeply heartbreaking.
So far we have seen how terrible slavery is, but only (mostly) in theory. In the way one may look at a neighboring country with serious issues and think, yeah, that sucks.
This episode takes it to a personal level. Sure, we saw Einar's family die at the beginning of the season, but we didn't care for him then. We didn't know him. He was just one of many victims. Like Arnheid. She is first introduced as a mild, nice lady that won't harm a fly, fooling us into thinking her life is perhaps not too bad. And little by little, we're fed pieces of her misery.
Abused by the mistress of the house. Doomed to a life as sex slave, and pregnant with a child of the master. A dead child. A lost family. And yet she smiles through it all. She picks up the little crumbs of joy she can and gives up on her freedom, on her past life. She is able to laugh at last. Until the storm hits, and she's not able to let it pass. Just when she was starting to accept her fate, when she was settling in her life as a slave.
Garnar, her husband, ruined by slavery, shaped into a desperate beast driven by blind revenge finally reunites with her, only to die in her arms as he dreams about the life they can no longer have. And she can't even have that one moment in peace, because she's a slave, and surrounding her are men waiting to take her back to her doom. Her life is no longer hers. Her future snatched right out of her hands.
Just beautifully done. At the beginning of the season I used to think Thorfinn was being too hard on himself. He was just a child after all, when he was out in the war. However, living like this, amongst slaves, experiencing first hand their struggles and regrets, the sheer injustice of the abuse, how could he not blame himself? He, too, ruined lives, broke families apart. Killed indiscriminately and sent people into slavery.
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congratulations on canute and thorfinn who somehow managed to be foils, two sides of the same coin, men with the same dream yet diametrically opposed paths to reach it, whose sense of self was fundamentally shaped by the horrors of war and came out the other side changed and somehow they still managed to have absolutely ZERO romantic chemistry. don't think they're even like. actual friends. love does NOT win ♥️
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