Manga Thoughts: Vinland Saga 12

When the twelfth double-length volume of Makoto Yukimura’s Viking manga Vinland Saga went on sale I was finishing up the anime adaptation of the story’s first volumes. A certain familiar tension at the thought of too-close comparisons between “anime adaptations” and their original sources was somewhere in my mind, but so too was that unfortunate, hard-to-shake feeling that anything brought in from outside should be left to sit for a while before handling at any length. That’s been stuck in my mind for almost as long as I’ve been waiting between volumes. In any case, with all of the instalments in between where the anime left off and I’d got to in the manga I was wondering a bit about how I’d catch up to the story again.
( Multiple returns )