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panjiro · 3 years

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Anime Recommendations

I'm bored so I decided to try to do a list of animes that I recommend, enjoy!

1. Honobono Log (10 episodes)

Synopsis: Some of us are fortunate enough to have a partner to confide in on our bad days. In even the most devastating times, we can depend on our comrades for support. Others are incredibly lucky to have a special someone that they can just randomly embrace. No matter the situation, there always tends to be a close ally to help us get by. Honobono Log showcases the best and worst of couples and families, enticing romantic-comedy lovers with various relatable situations.

Why you should watch it:

It’s really cute, I loved the couples so much

The episodes are short (2 minutes) so you can watch very fast

It’s really good to watch it when you are sad or feeling alone

2. Starmyu (36 episodes + 3 ovas)

Synopsis: The series tells the story of the five students; Yuuta Hoshitani, Tooru Nayuki, Kaito Tsukigami, Kakeru Tengenji, and Shuu Kuga as they struggle to enter the musical department of Ayanagi Academy, a school focusing on music. They need to be accepted to the Star Frame Class, which is directly taught by the members of Kaou-kai, the most talented from the musical department who stand at the top of the pecking order within the academy. Luckily, they are spotted by Itsuki Ootori, one of Kaou-kai members.

Why you should watch it:

The songs are enjoyable and make you feel motivaded

The plot it’s not strong but if you are bored or want to watch something more simple then this anime will work very well

The characters are pretty...

3. Vinland Saga (24 episodes) TW// blood, violence

Synopsis: Thorfinn is son to one of the Viking's greatest warriors, but when his father is killed in battle by the mercenary leader Askeladd, he swears his intent to have revenge. Thorfinn joins Askeladd's group in order to challenge him to a duel, and ends up caught in the middle of a war for the crown of England.

Why you should watch it:

Ok first of all I just want to say that this anime/manga is my favorite and I love Thorfinn so much (his character development >>>>)

The anime is really good if you want to binge-watch something

The plot is amazing and the anime showed just the tip of the iceberg

It’s going to make you want to read the manga (as you should!!)

4. Tsurezure Children (12 episodes)

Synopsis: Young love—it takes many unique and fascinating forms that flourish as children begin to mature into adults. From being unable to confess to not knowing what real love actually feels like, various obstacles can arise when learning about romantic attraction for the first time. But underneath all that, young love is something truly beautiful to behold, leading to brand new experiences for those young and in love. Tsurezure Children depicts various scenarios of young love coming to fruition, along with the struggles and joys that it entails.

Why you should watch it:

It’s going to make you laugh SO MUCH

Each couple is unique, cute and funny on their own way

Really good to watch it when you are feeling stressed or tense

I hope that you liked my recommendations and sorry for the english mistakes, my writing skills aren’t the best 🤡

#honobono log #anime #anime recommendation #starmyu #vinland saga #tsurezure children #shoujo #idol anime #comedy anime #seinen #shoujo anime #romance anime

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sprintinglightning · 4 years

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My Understanding of Thorfinn Karlsefni

Thorfinn Thorsson never intended to kill Askeladd. He definitely wanted to, no doubt about that, but he was never going to be capable of going through with it. Why? Because Thorfinn was six years old when Thors died. He spent more time with Askeladd’s crew, eleven years, than he did with his own family. So, it seems pretty natural that, being a child with no stress who grew up in a loving home and a stable support system, he would develop an attachment to cope, regardless of his personal feelings. Askeladd meant something to live for. He gave Thorfinn a purpose so he couldn’t just get rid of him - not that he could ever admit it to himself. Because the man KILLED HIS FATHER, how pathetic and downright disrespectful would it be for him to have formed an attachment to someone like Askeladd, the very antithesis of what Thors stood for.

He had the idea of revenge right after Thors was killed, but Thorfinn was an impulsive kid, shown how by he snuck on the ship in the first place. He didn’t have the capacity of thinking things through. Same thing happened when he decided he was gonna kill Askeladd. He came to realize the world isn’t like home. He doesn’t know how to sail or even where the fuck he is. How the hell would he get back to Iceland? What happens to him if he kills Askeladd? He has no concept of the future. Anything could happen. And so he sticks with him because that’s what gives him stability. His interests are conflicted now. He wants to kill Askeladd and he wants purpose, so whether he’s conscious of it or not, he doubles down on the anger and the yelling and the death threats to hide the fact that he needs Askeladd to be able to function. He’s still angry about what happened, but not as much as he pretends.

It all comes out and is shoved in his face in episode 22. Askeladd is sick of Thorfinn’s shit and opens his eyes to what he’s doing. He tells him his story. He tells him, if you really hate someone, you do everything you can to kill them. The method doesn’t matter so long as they’re dead, the implication being that Thorfinn doesn’t want to kill Askeladd so he should drop the act already. When confronted with the idea of his own feelings, which are so abhorrent to him, Thorfinn denies it, falls back on what he’s always done. No. You’re wrong. I hate you. “I’m gonna kill you no matter what.”

Finally Askeladd give him one last smack upside the head. Thorfinn’s only value to his is as an attack dog. All he has to do is dangle a duel in front of his face and he’ll do anything. He fought Thorkell for him. TWICE. Thorfinn fought 7’2” Thorkell who casually cuts people in half for Askeladd, once when he didn’t even ask him to. Doesn’t he realize that what he says vs what he does don’t line up with each other?

The nail in the coffin is when Askeladd brings up Thors. “I must thank Thors”/“I should be thankful to Thors”, hammering it home that if Thorfinn really wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, he wouldn’t be dueling in the first place. The entire concept of “I would never do something so cowardly as to stab a man in his sleep because I’m Thors’ son” and the “honorable duel” is BULLSHIT. Askeladd knows it. Thorfinn knows it. Even Thorkell whose known Thorfinn for like a collective day picks up on it. It’s over at this point.

Once Askeladd starts walking away, he cracks. He tells him to wait and attempts to chase after him. It starts to sink in so he momentarily flips back to the rage, to the point where he stabs the damn snow. Telling himself more than Canute to shut up. But at the end of the day, he’s still a kid. The attachment outweighs the vengeance quest. He’s still a child so can’t let his attachment go because it’s all he has so he gets back up, telling Askeladd to wait.

Gruncle Thorkell puts a voice to what Thorfinn knew. How pathetic.

Once everyone is gone, Thorfinn is forced to accept it. After everything he’s done, no matter what he said or if he was physically capable, he was never going to kill Askeladd.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. even if it didn’t make any damn sense.

#vinland saga #thorfinn #thorfinn karlsefni #askeladd #vinland saga meta #meta

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beneaththetangles · 4 years

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Every Father Loves His Son

Do you love your father? Does your father love you?

For many of us, the answer to those questions is a given: Yes, of course. But for others, the answer is complex, revealing relationships fraught with complications; or it may simply be a resounding no. Absence, abuse, neglect, adultery, divorce, and so many other actions can cause a child’s trust to break and set a curse upon him or her, one that may take decades to break, if it ever does at all.

Father-son relationships, both good and bad, form a framework for the Vinland Saga anime, and particularly through a negative one during the middle portion of this run. Episode 14 of the series opens with a shot of the bearded and partially disrobed King Sweyn of the Danes, scars crisscrossing his back. The imagery may be meant to evoke Christ, though it’s not the beloved one who went to the cross in place of mankind; instead, this is a terrible and cruel king.

Sweyn’s relationship with one of his sons, Canute, reveals his inadequacies. While he feigns a fear that the boy, whom he sent to besiege the Goliath-like warrior, Thorkell, may be dead, the king is actually hoping that this misfortune has come to pass—he ordered the prince into danger so that he will be killed, leaving the Sweyn’s other son, Harald, to be his successor.

Despite the circumstances, the timid and childlike Canute clings to the image of a good father, one who loves him without condition. Later, after being taken hostage by the pirate Askeladd, who has executed the entire populace of an English village, he kneels before a cross set at their grave, along with his guardian, Ragnar, and Willibald the priest. In a moment of despair, Willibald confesses that he doubts God’s goodness. The normally reserved Canute becomes livid, and says that he must not doubt that the Father is good. After all, as he retorts, “Every father loves his son.”

Later, a flashback helps to fill in the story between father and son. A young Canute has prepared a dish for the king, but it is not received well; Sweyn tosses the food aside, screaming at the prince for acting “like a slave.” Ragnar tries to explain away the king’s action, babying Canute as he always does, but the viewer knows the truth: While Canute is a faithful son, his father is a tyrant.

Later in the series, another father-son relationship, just as unforgiving and abusive, takes center stage. Askeladd, who like Ragnar to Canute, is somewhat a (twisted) father figure to the series protagonist, Thorfinn, recalls his own childhood. His father was a Dane who enslaved his Welsh mother. She is thrown aside and descends into madness, eventually confronting her former master. As he lifts his sword to slay her, the young Askeladd steps in. Impressed by his courage and skill, his father takes him in and trains him, but the scheming Askeladd is just biding his time. He later murders his dad and frames a step-brother. The recollection is told when Askeladd, pained by the death of his right-hand man, Bjorn, and frustrated with Thorfinn’s continual desire to duel him (Askeladd’s men killed Thorfinn’s father, Thors, years prior), explains more than emotion is required to successfully fuel vengeance. One also needs the wherewithal to follow through fully on his intentions.

Canute stands as witness during the duel between Askeladd and Thorfinn (what would be their final one). By this point, the prince has overcome his timidity and is himself scheming to commit patricide and regicide both, empowered by Askeladd and Thorkell, who have become his retainers. The change of heart occurs as Canute, previously so devout, comes to a realization regarding fatherly love, and decides to rebel against God:

“Is there no love in the hearts of men? Is anyone sane in this world? Everyone’s the the same. No one knows how to love. No one knows the meaning of life. No one knows the meaning of death. No one even knows why they’re fighting. I’ve had enough. I’m sick of it. What we lost in exchange for wisdom, the most important thing, it’s something that we’ll never get back as long as we live. We’ll never attain it. Yet, even then, you still tell us to seek it? Father in Heaven…I no longer seek your salvation. If you will no longer give us salvation, then with our own hands on this earth, we shall create our own paradise.”

Canute sees God’s silence as worth fighting against, and decides to create his own “paradise” on earth, even if it means “becoming a demon” to obtain. That line of thought falls right matches Askeladd’s, who says that no matter who you believe in as God, it’s up to humans to do the deeds, to make change happen. They both seem to believe in the watchmaker theory, that God has set the world in motion and now just observes without intervening.

It’s not reasonable for Canute for Askeladd to think this way. They grew up in a world where religion is hardly is questioned. They are knee deep in the middle ages, with the Enlightenment and its scientific values, offering a further way to think about the universe, almost a century away. And they have witnessed and been party to a violent, unforgiving world. Askeladd fully participates in it, killing the good man, Thors, among many misdeeds in his long life. But most personally, he and Canute saw cruelty up close at a young age from the very men who should be kindest to them, the men who should most closely resemble the kind, selfless Christ. And yet those men killed, waged war, destroyed, and abused them, their family, and other innocents.

And in this madness, what they’ve concluded is that God is silent. He doesn’t deliver the good from the hands of the evil. And so they both spiritually “overthrow God” by killing him, Askeladd literally assassinates Sweyn, the perverted image of Christ, by beheading him. This occurs mere days after Sweyn’s son put his belief in Christ, also perverted by poor theology, to death.

In Shusaku Endo’s classic book, Silence, he, too, investigates the question of “Why is God sometimes silent in times of great suffering?” in a historical setting, but this one hundreds of years later and across the world, focusing on the persecution of Christians by the shogunate as the Edo era begins. As violent as Vinland Saga is, Silence is even more difficult to swallow, as the government tortures and executes loving, kind Japanese believers in front of the foreign Jesuit missionaries that are their true targets. The man at the center of the narrative, the priest Rodrigues, begins to lose faith: How can God allow this to happen? The power to stop it, as is explained to him, is completely in his hands: Rodrigues need only step on the fumie, thus rejecting his faith, and the torture and violence will end.

It would be too unkind, too flippant, to give the typical church response to this question, which is that the suffering around us is mostly due to sin, and that Christ offers us freedom through his grace, though because we live in a fallen world, we may still endure pain—even terrible suffering—until one day when we walk into eternity with him. As much truth as this statement carries to believers, it doesn’t convey the image of a loving God to those who are suffering now. What of the child soldiers in Africa who are victims of violence and turned into killing machines, much like Thorfinn? Of villages wiped out across the world in acts of genocide, not too distant a scene than that of Askeladd’s killing of the peaceful Christians in Vinland Saga? Of parents who abuse their children and families and destroy their lives, as with the fathers of both Askeladd and Canute? The promise of salvation seems too far off, too unreal when someone is trying to kill a young child right now.

I see the rationale in the biblical answer, and I trust in God’s ways. I believe that the fall is our fault, that the terrible things we think and do are because of the sin we’ve committed, the sin done upon us especially by loved ones, and the sins of our society. I believe, too, that Jesus’s death and resurrection means that for eternity, for the 99.99%+ of our “lives,” we’ll live in peace and goodness. And I believe that the kingdom is here now, too, and that when we live like Christ, we can change the direction of our lives and in the lives of others.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t wrestle with God, like Jacob did; it doesn’t mean that I don’t struggle with my own pains, and see how much more challenging life is for others, and then struggle further. My faith sometimes really isn’t faith at all—it’s a “giving up,” proclaiming that “God is good” instead of continuing to dive deeply into the problem of suffering, which is to say that I would rather follow blindly than consider issues that poke (or spear) at my faith. After all, my faith is imperfect, my mind is small, and my willingness to love is limited—which all means, I suppose, that I do need God desperately after all. On one hand, I’m like Canute, questioning and even blaming God (What response would he have given me had I been one of Job’s counselors?!), and with the other, turning to him in thankfulness and petition because I believe in his truth and have experienced his forgiveness. I am forgiven, but the human in me still fights against the holiness of my new heart and stumbles along the prideful path I’ve carved rather than the narrow but beautiful one God has laid out for me.

I think that, like Canute and Askeladd, I don’t only consider the misery of the present—I get lost in it. I forget both about the kingdom I’ll one day walk into, and also the kingdom now that fights against the evil forces of darkness all around us. Canute blames God and wants to spit in his face, but forgets the blessing he’s received, that despite the abuse at his father’s hands, he was given opportunity to be in a position to help bring peace, one which God would want for us, to a world that isn’t peaceful. The Father desires peace on earth among his creation, while more importantly offering peace to each of us in our hearts, even while we try to snatch that blessing away from one another. But then like Canute, we blame a God who doesn’t snap his fingers to make everything “perfect,” while he is actually here with us fighting by our side.

And in that way, his relationship to us is mirrored in the healthiest father / son dynamic in Vinland Saga—that of Thors and Thorfinn.

This father loves his son and protects him. This father even loves his enemies, punishing them, but still offering mercy. This father chooses death rather than to kill those he rightly should. Thors, now years (and by the finale, some 20 episodes) removed from the tale, is a good father, full of love and justice. And like the Heavenly Father, even though no longer physically in front of Thorfinn, Thors is still drawing him near, with memories of his goodness and visions that encourage him to forgive. The world has been terrible to Thorfinn, but the specter of his dad is even now trying to bring him peace. Why does Thorfinn not kill Askeladd, who he has sought vengeance on after all these years, even when the pirate is dying and tells him to drive the final knife home? It’s because that even though his hateful emotions erupt frequently, deep inside, Thorfinn has started to take his father’s lessons to heart; he has forgiven Askeladd for his crime, and further, as evidenced by how he returns to save the old man during Thorkell’s river attack and by his tears during their final goodbye, even loves him.

“Every father loves his son.” Canute’s statement isn’t true, not even about his own dad, but it is true if you add “good” into it: “Every good father loves his son.” A good father wants what’s best for his child, which isn’t riches, comfort, or even happiness, though the latter is a byproduct of the greater gift he would bestow. He wants to give his child “peace.” Thors walked away from the Jomsvikings because he desired to rear a family in peace, without war and far away from the evil of man. And even now, a decade or more after his death, he still follows Thorfinn, gently pushing to him to make peace with himself and others, to forgive.

And in these visions, Thors also does one thing in addition. He reminds his son of a dream to settle in Vinland, a world not so harsh as their Icelandic home, a land filled with green hills and rich soil. It is a place beyond the horizon, unspoiled by mankind and its violence, where suffering is no more. A perfect place. A land of peace.

The land to which the good father leads.

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Vinland Saga can be streamed on Amazon Prime.

#Anime #Christianity #Vinland Saga #Silence #Shusaku Endo #Chinmoku #Articles #Author: TWWK

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golden-saga-imagines · 4 years

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Can I get a Vinland saga matchup, please? I'm a 24 year old woman, 167 cm tall, with mid-thigh long dark brown hair, green eyes and a pear-shape figure. Might seem quiet, becausemy head is full of either my daydreams or my worries, bottling everything up and when I do open my mouth I might get a bit too sassy. I usually express myself by creating - mainly writing and drawing. Also have a tendency to put others first, causing me to neglect my own needs. Thanks in advance and congrats on 100!

Thank u so much! I match you up with, I hope you like it. Enjoy! 💕

ASKELADD

🔪 Askeladd didn’t expected some cheeky words to come out from the mouth of someone so quiet, at first he was surprised, but he quickly recovered his composure. A smile appears in the Askeladd’s lips, he likes what he just heard. Although you have an aura of daydream, your tongue is sharp, so, Askeladd doesn’t have to worry about you. You’re enough to frighten the men who dare to annoy you.

🔪 Once, you catch Askeladd smile when a man tried flirt with you. You can be very sassy, but it doesn’t mean that others bother you. You aren’t a doll. And if they think like that, they will receive a stab if they dare to overtake with you.

🔪 Askeladd loves caress your hair, is so long, so beautiful, you seem like a Valkyrie. And more if you’re armed with your spear and your helmet. Askeladd (and all gang) wouldn’t mind die in battle if you arrive to pick him up for carry him to Valhalla. One day, when you’re resting at the shadow of a tree with Askeladd, you’re a bit asleep, when you realizes Askeladd is plaiting your hair. You melt under his touch. When he finish, you have a great and beautiful French braid.

🔪 The men of the gang loves (especially Askeladd) when you tell them the poems you have written. You speak in front of the bonfire, the orange and yellow lights shine in your face. All men are absorbed in your words, like if you cast a spell on them, when you finish, they applaud pleasant of your verses. Later, you sit next to Askeladd and drink mead with him, you rest your head in his shoulder and he hugs your waist with his arm.

🔪 Askeladd doesn’t believe that someone so good in the battle, so well-aimed with the lance, can have so much skill and delicacy when she paint. The brush moves gently over the canvas, and you mixed the colours with so patience, so flair that you always have the right colour in your paint. The men of the gang pile to beg you to portray them. You laugh and you refuse. The only portrait you have done and you will do it’s Askeladd’s.

🔪 Askeladd loves your eyes and more when the morning light caresses them, when he has you between his arms in the bed.

Ari 🌿

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recentanimenews · 5 years

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Vinland Saga – 03 – It’ll Pull You In

Askeladd immediately shows both Floki and us what kind of dudes we’re dealing with, as he manages to double the bounty for Thors’ head from five to ten pounds of gold. Floki is a very shrewd man with good instincts, but he also has a solid right-hand-man in Bjorn, who spears a Jomsviking who was hiding behind a tapestry and passes it off as an innocent accident.

As for Thors, he doesn’t leave at the break of dawn, but is seen off by the whole village. Before they leave, all five of the young men he’s bringing along have designs on asking Ylva for her hand in marriage upon their return and presenting her with spoils of war; all Ylva wants is a little more shuteye.

When a young lass who likes Ari (one of the guys who tried to propose to Ylva) is cruelly rebuffed, Leif assures her none of the five greenhorn lads will come to any harm; Thors will see to it they’re dumped off in Norway before they see any battle, and Leif promises he’ll ship them back to Iceland, disappointed, but with their organs still very much internal.

Seemingly the only member of the village not seeing them off is Thorfinn, who is nowhere to be found and presumed by both Thors and Ylva to still be off skulking, angry about being scolded. We get a little more comedy when the five guys line up on one side of the boat, while Thors is on the other side all on his own with one hell of a huge oar. Leif bangs out the pace on the drum, and the ships are off.

It isn’t until they’re already out in the open sea that Thorfinn reveals he stowed away. While peeing over the side (he really needed to pee) he suddenly notices where he is, and his smile is so wide and bright, Thors can’t help but smile back, despite the fact his son just ruined his plans to try to keep him safe.

He later paints Finn’s back door red for his insolence (pretty tame discipline from a viking in the 11th century), as the gears turn in Askeladd’s head. He chats with Bjorn about the bounty deal not seeming quite right; he’s quite sure Floki reached out to them independently and his superior didn’t order Thors’ execution.

Askeladd also believes Floki is afraid of incurring a great loss of his own men, and so hired someone else. This tells Askeladd that this Thors fellow shouldn’t be a pushover, even if Floki says he’s “not a warrior” anymore.

As night falls, Thors warns Ari not to stare at the moon in the sea, lest it “pull him in,” a common nautical hazard. As Thorfinn dozes contently in his lap, Thors tells Ari more about his first child, the woman Ari says he’s in love with.

It was a difficult birth for Helga, the daughter of the leader of the Jomsvikings, but Thors was about to head out on another mission, and was annoyed he got a daughter instead of a son. He’s about to leave when Helga asks him to name her.

He says he’s “busy”, but Helga insists—the first time he ever saw her truly angry. So he named her Ylva, after his mother. And that, he tells Ari, was the first time he started to feel afraid of battle…which makes sense, as dying in battle meant abandoning his newborn child and wife to an uncertain future.

The next day they arrive at the Faroe Islands—the usual rest stop between Iceland and Scandinavia. They row into a cove that leads to a trading village, but the high walls immediately spell foreboding, and Leif notes that there are fewer structures in the village itself.

By the time they start rowing out of the cove, it’s to late—Askeladd’s men start dumping huge piles of debris onto their ships, blocking their only exit. Then another drum can be heard: the drum of Askeladd’s two ships rowing towards them.

Ari and the other men bristle and claim to be ready for battle, but Thors knows better; the boys will be no match for these hardened foes. So he takes a deep, “I’m getting too old for this shit” breath, pulls out his sword, and hands his dagger to Thorfinn, warning him only to use it in time of absolute need.

Before Askeladd’s men know it, Thors has leapt onto one of their ships. He takes out the first man with one punch, two others with two more, and then three with three; six skilled men downed without even drawing his sword. It’s then that Bjorn and Askeladd know: they’re going to have to work their asses off to earn every ounce of that gold.

Each of the first three Vinland Sagas have been very different affairs—from an introduction to Thors and Thorfinn and live in Iceland, to the arrival of a new old threat, to the swashbuckling adventure that begins in this episode. But all three of kicked all kinds of ass in their own way.

Like Thors himself, it doesn’t glamorize violence or killing, and Ari and his four hotshot friends are presented as the naive fools they are. As for Thorfinn, he may not have pissed himself while hiding in that barrel, but yeah…he’s now somewhere that’s absolutely no place for a six-year-old. I just can’t see how this ends well for anyone…but nor dare I look away.

By: braverade

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