The anime adaptation was widely praised, with several critics calling it one of the best anime series of 2019. The series won the 36th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga and the Grand Prize of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival. A second season, animated by MAPPA, premiered on Tokyo MX and BS11 in January 2023.īy August 2022, Vinland Saga had over 7 million copies in circulation. The story combines a dramatization of King Cnut the Great's historical rise to power with a revenge plot centered on the historical explorer Thorfinn, the son of a murdered ex-warrior who serves under a group of mercenaries responsible for the deed.Ī 24-episode anime television series adaptation, animated by Wit Studio, aired on NHK General TV from July to December 2019. Vinland Saga, however, begins in Dane-controlled England at the start of the 11th century, and features the Danish invaders of England, commonly known as Vikings. The title, Vinland Saga, evokes associations to Vinland as described in two Norse sagas. Vinland Saga has been licensed for English-language publication by Kodansha USA. As of May 2022, its chapters have been collected in 26 tankōbon volumes. The series is published by Kodansha, and was first serialized in the boys-targeted manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine before moving to the monthly manga magazine Monthly Afternoon, aimed at young adult men. Vinland Saga ( Japanese: ヴィンランド・サガ, Hepburn: Vinrando Saga) is a Japanese historical manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura.

Vinland Saga, Tome 1 by Makoto Yukimura