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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9714775" data-attributes="member: 18">The anime is extremely strong, particularly the second season.I did appreciate that a certain character from the first season shared my pretty unreasonable and undying hatred for the filthy Saxon and Angle invaders as well as the Norse ones, which I thought was maybe just me! And for a Japanese guy to think of that is impressive to me, though perhaps he just read the same histories and the same reaction to them! And the focus on this promise of a better world, free from violence and strife was striking and unusual and made me think there'd be more to this, even with the fairly prosaic revenge story at the core.But the second season's far less outwardly dramatic exploration of life as a thrall in Viking Denmark is much more powerful and frankly elevates considerably above the level of which even most good anime and hell most decent TV operates on. Very rarely do we even think about the lives of those people, how forms of slavery more direct than serfdom absolutely existed in Europe at times we pretend it didn't, very rarely do we acknowledge so how truly disempowered and without real hope so many people were. I think most English-speaking cultures and perhaps most European ones lack the ability to be really honest about certain periods of European history, so maybe only somewhere Japan could originate a story like this.I'm up to the end of S2 of the anime, hopefully S3 will release in 2026 as people are expecting.</blockquote>

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