#viking manga

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My version of Zoro & Sanji with the Elbaf Style.

(before we see the actual canon outfit😅)

[badly-drawn-doflamingo]

Can I just say I am so fucking excited that Oda gets to showcase some of his biggest inspirations in this up and coming Elbaf arc?

We know of a few, such as DBZ, Astro Boy but two that really are going to shine this arc, and already have before and now, are Asterix and Obelix and Vicki the Viking. As the son of a French/Spainard, I personally grew up around the latter, so when I first started One Piece, it really came to mind, especially the color spreads.

Seeing Usopp wearing a Obelix's costume (as well to a degree Queen from The Beast Pirates but thats it's own thing) seems oh so fitting for an homage, as Obelix's entire character is kindness, and a strength of both physical and of heart. We also, the chapter before have a very similar design to Obelix, showing perhaps Oda had a favorite. (Not to mention the way Oda draws certain people seems to stem from some of these, uncharacteristic, designs.)

Than we have the Vicky The Viking insperation, which is absolutely undeniable and EVERYWHERE. From Kaido and his beast pirate uniform being clearly just Sven the Terrible, to a little boy wearing a very familar hat- right down to the barrel and dancing and singing, Oda clearly has taken the series to heart. I am BEYOND excited to see even more of this love for his childhood and comfort in his work.

To leave this post off-- have Zoro dressed as... Zorro.

[zoozki]

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Fan art of Thorfinn from Vinland Saga

Highly recommend ♥

[abyssal-firmament]

Still gonna post Vinland Saga because I still have more pictures

Thorfinn - Vinland Saga

Cosplay by me

Photo by anna.d.sama (Instagram)

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i’m probably not the first one to notice this, but it really breaks my heart that from chapter 17 onwards, thorfinn wears the clothes that the english woman gave him right before he signalled to askeladd and his crew to invade. she says they’ll be big for him, and she’s right - he more than grows into them. by the time askeladd is dead, he’s pretty much worn them out completely. and. i don’t know. just. thorfinn, consumed by rage, so much so that he doesn’t know anything but a quest for revenge, holding onto something like this is just. like i know he probably didn’t have that many other options, but he could’ve got a new set of clothes from any of the other villages askeladd and crew raided if he’d wanted to, but he didn’t. it’s like. he’s so used to the violence by this point, so consumed by hatred and so desperate for some sort of meaning to his emotions, but he wears a symbol of the one time someone was kind to him, and he knows without a doubt that he’s made her suffer. i. my heart goes out to him. because, i think that this is part of the reason he was able to bring himself back. because yes, he carried his father’s knife, and yes, he carried the knife of a man he killed, but he also carried the clothes, the warmth, the comfort, of the first person to look beyond his violence - look it in the face, even - and know that he could be someone so much better.

i just. this is, for me, what makes thorfinn so. i don’t know. i think, this is just a reminder that he is. still a child. and he’s not done growing up, but he’s done so much more and so much less of it than most. he’s an adult but he’s a child. and more importantly, there are people out there who are willing to help him be one. but he chooses not to be, even though he is, and that makes me. i don’t know.

i guess it’s because this marks a turning point for thorfinn. because in choosing to warn the woman who gave him clothes, food, care, and shelter, he is telling her that he doesn’t want the life of a viking raider. but in choosing also to still go through with askeladd’s plan, he’s saying that he does. and as he runs off to raid with askeladd’s men, he’s choosing to leave the english woman and everything she represents behind. but at the same time, he wears the clothes she gave him, right up until the end.

i don’t know. i have a lot of feelings about this scene and what it means. because yes, ultimately thorfinn does choose askeladd over the other possibilities, but he also, just for a moment… doesn’t.

[diariodeunrincondemi]

Why, in my opinion, Arnheid is the true heroine of Vinland Saga season 2

I think I never talked about Vinland Saga here in tumblr, although I've been mulling over the events of this last season (season 2). I've read complaints, from the beginning, that it's a very slow season and that it doesn't contribute anything, but I suppose that comes from people who only likes teenage Thorfinn.

From the beginning there's this idea that in war there is no honor or glory; because there can be neither honor nor glory in something that consists of shedding blood and taking the lives of other people.

Thorfinn is a boy, a male kid, and as a boy, he grows up with very defined expectations and a role in a warrior society; therefore, when it happens what happens, it is he and not his sister (even though she is older), who has to carry out revenge, even if he is only a child.

And that leads him to have to grow on the battlefield. His pride and position, as a Norseman, depend and fall on war and violence; and he is not aware of all this until he loses his only reason for living.

And that's when the second season begins and we find a different Thorfinn, depressed and without any ties to life, an empty shell. And that's when Einar and also Arnheid come in.

Until that moment we have seen war from the point of view of male warriors. And through Einar we have seen the war from a farmer's point of view. But it is with Arnheid that the story changes: because she is a woman.

We don't know what Thorfinn's evolution or life was like in those 2 years of slavery until Einar arrives; and we don't know because that doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter because this arc is about the consequences of war (and not just in the form of Thorfinn's PTSD).

There is also gender bias in war. We see it in Thorfinn, he grows up in the war, and in his sister, who stays at home with his mother. We see it, implicitly and more subtly, in Einar and his sister. And we see it in Thorfinn, Einar and Arnnheid.

The three of them are war victims: a child soldier and two people who lost their homes and families. The three of them ended up as slaves. The line between war and slavery is very thin.

But even as slaves, Thorfinn and Einar's life is much simpler than that of Arnheid: physically hard work, yes, but they are given the opportunity, when the time comes, to buy their own freedom. Arnheid has no such freedom: she is not only a servant, she is also a sex slave. Because she is a woman. And as a woman she is only good for doing domestic work and serving as a sexual object.

It is she, along with her story, the true protagonist of this season. The heroine. Who shows us what awaits women in contexts of war and slavery. And this is not just a thing of the 11th century: currently women in war conflicts are also victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

That is why Thorfinn's evolution in those 2 years in which he was alone doesn't matter. That's why his reunion with Leif doesn't matter. That's why, even though he hasn't interacted with Arnheid that much, he is willing to help and protect her, to get her out of there.

Thorfinn knows the tactics of war better than anyone, he spent most of his life on the battlefield. But that also implied that the context in which he grew up was especially male-dominant.

Arnheid, from my point of view, gave Thorfinn a new perspective (a perspective he may not have considered before) on the consequences of the war.

[xushshshit]

and guys, why we don’t talking about Thorkell and Bjorn…..🙁 they’re really cool

[eiikomae]

Baby boy Askeladd and Mommy Lydia!!! <3

[kawaiigirly21]

So I'm gonna rework my Vinland Saga plot where Thorfinn and my OC are inseparable friends from childhood and grew up on Askeladd's crew together and once older, OC who's grown up around guys all her life, wants to start dressing like a girl and once she does, her estrogen starts going on over drive and the men can smell it (Yes this will be some weird version of a/b/o) Yes Thorkell will still be on the crew. Also! Bonus Canute will be joining in on the fun!

[mareniusart]

Viking-Miku!

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Vinland Saga (Lucius Artorius Castus)

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[abyssal-firmament]

"How to stay human in a cringe world" - A Treatise

Thorfinn - Vinland Saga

Cosplay by me

Photo by anna.d.sama (Instagram)

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