Just bought it. Thanks for recommending it! Now I have hundreds more to get into.
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I suppose it's better than starting with the anime and only getting to the end of the first season. Looks great, but Thorfinn (up to the end of the first season) is not a likable protagonist.
I almost noped out when I saw Naruto-running Viking Thorfinn. It took recommendations from other people insisting on how good it was for me to actually get back in and give it another shot.
When does it get better?
I'm sick of edgy angsty kid Thorfinn & his mary sue powers & I've only watched through episode 8.
Thorfinn is a very different character in season 2. He is still not really likable, though. In season 2 the story is interesting but its a very slow burn. I'm going to stick it out, cause sunk cost and all, but overall I think the show is overrated.
Tail end of Season 1 into Second 2 is what I have been told. To be honest, I only just started picking it back up because I had other stuff in my backlog I cared about more before it. It is just what I am hearing second hand from people I generally trust in terms of taste.
It's doesn't, I was waiting the entire season...then it ended.
Huh... I don't recall that. Plenty of stereotypical reverse grip dual dagger charges, but not necessarily a "Naruto run."
It was the episode where they got hired as mercenaries to attack a fort, and ended up running the boats overland to attack it from the lake (?) side. But he was sent in ahead to attack from the front because Askeladd promised him a duel if he brought the head of the enemy commander. At least from the angle, it looked like a Naruto-Run, where he was leaning forward, arms behind as he was running as he ran at the wall.
Naruto running Viking? Like the writer is the same?
No, as in the running style. Where they run with a forward lean and their arms back, which at least from everything I have ever seen is just referred to as "Naruto-running" regardless of the medium.
It is a different author.
EDIT: Just in case you need a visual idea of what I am talking about, this is a "Naruto-Run".
A normal very fast human runs like this: https://imgur.com/a/UoOjMz9
That's 27mph speed.
But in Naruto, the characters are supposed to run at ridiculous freeway speeds like 60-80mph. lol
Ohh. Ok. Thanks for the breakdown.
Yeah I am on episode 9 & it's a struggle to watch episodes because the kid is such an obnoxious little shit.
I hate that anime writers make character start out being really obnoxious in order to "make them better" later & call that character development. No! bad writer!
It's all about Askeladd. If he wasn't such a good bastard character, the series wouldn't have gone very far. Highly recommend the Sentai/HiDive dub, because David fucking Wald.
Yes, he's the only character in the show I like at all at this point & he's explicitly supposed to be the villain.
https://youtu.be/TDjePCCgNSw
I get that Wald is better than the Netflix dub, but he still comes nowhere near the original Japanese.
That's preferable to them just never changing at all and the writer just telling us they are better because uh, reasons!
Sakura did like 600 episodes of Naruto and didn't change in the slightest, but we were supposed to care about her.