The official website of the Vinland Saga anime series announced a second season on Wednesday. The new season commemorates the second anniversary of the television anime's broadcast. The website also revealed an announcement promo and teaser visual (pictured).
Shuuhei Yabuta (Vinland Saga, Inuyashiki) is returning to direct the new season, with Takahiko Abiru (Hunter x Hunter (2011) animation director, Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season animation director) also returning as the character designer.
Vinland Saga adapts Makoto Yukimura's action adventure viking-themed manga, which he originally launched in Weekly Shounen Magazine in April 2005 before switching it to Monthly Afternoon in December that year. Kodansha published the 24th volume on October 23 last year, with the 25th volume scheduled for release on July 21. Vinland Saga has a cumulative 5.5 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.
The television anime's first three episodes debuted on NHK General in Summer 2019 and ended with 24 episodes in Fall that year, adapting the first eight volumes. Amazon's Prime Video platform streamed the first episode ahead of the television broadcast and holds exclusive streaming rights for the show worldwide.
Shuuhei Yabuta helmed the anime series at Wit Studio, featuring character designs by Takahiko Abiru. Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100) handled the series composition and also penned the script with Kenta Ihara (Youjo Senki). Yutaka Yamada (Great Pretender) composed the scores.
Kodansha Manga licensed the manga in English in October 2012 and began publishing it in 2-in-1 omnibus format the following October. The 11th volume, covering volumes 21 and 22, shipped in December 2019. The manga has also been published in multiple foreign languages, including Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and French.
Vinland Saga won the Grand Prize in the manga division at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009 and the 36th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga in 2012.
Shuuhei Yabuta (Vinland Saga, Inuyashiki) is returning to direct the new season, with Takahiko Abiru (Hunter x Hunter (2011) animation director, Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season animation director) also returning as the character designer.
Hopefully, same Studio too. Some might argue that's a given but I need confirmation before I rest easy.
In any case, this ought to be fantastic!
Looks like our boy, Thorfinn's, grown up a fair bit.
I don't think the manga material post-season 1 is as strong as what we did get in season 1, but it's still some strong material that will likely be covered in these two cours. And the director returning from season 1 is promising news as some of those season 1 episodes - most notably when Askeladd's group slaughter that village in the snow - were fantastically directed and elevated well beyond the source material; hopefully he can work his magic with this next couple of arcs.
Super excited about this. I'm not expecting it anytime soon though.
"They escaped the weight of darkness,
to forge a path into the marrow of the spirit.
They chose to drown in a deeper vacancy,
an emptiness that quells the null,
a pool for the forgotten..."
Well, here comes another modern classic after AOT. Hope it has the same quality of direction as of season 1. I am too hyped for this.
It would be better if it doesn't get fucked by Amazon Prime jail.
Amazing news! I wonder which studio will adapt it. WIT has said they want to focus on original projects, so idk if they will continue with the second season or whether a different studio will take it up. I'm really excited to see the next arc animated.
As much as we all want Wit Studio to come back, the new studio that's created (KAFKA) will most probably be done for the job together with the same production team.
Still though, I plow fields again for the 2nd outing!
Well, well... Look at that, a new season for a show some anime connoisseurs insisted would never get another season because "the japanese don't give a fuck about it and only westerners like it".
This is a good news indeed and a good anime ~ But Dear God, lets hope it is good as previous season atleast...Man, most 2nd season anime kinda floppy goofy for this couple of years.