The first season of Vinland saga was a huge hit, and while he waited to find out what Thorfin’s future will be like in season two, Makoto Yukimura answered a few questions, delved into the origins of the series, his original idea and how he ended up building one story in which the Vikings are the protagonists.
In fact, as Yukimura himself admitted during the interview on the anime’s official website, the Vikings were not foreseen in the original concept. “I thought of them Topic I wanted to write aboutand the best way to deal with it, and in the end I found a rendezvous with the Vikings”stated Yukimura regarding brutality of violencewhich characterized the barbarism and actions of this population.
βThe Vikings of that time had a society where it was normal not to consider someone who committed acts of violence evil. I personally hate violence, so one of the key elements in writing this story was mine a modern moral consciousness‘, an answer found in the fantastic tables he designed, which emerges from the first episodes of the anime. Let us know what you think of these revelations in the comments. Finally, we leave you with Yukimura’s commentary on the second season of Vinland Saga.
