One of the best manga ever has had an ideal end (and the anime should follow its example)

In “Vinland Saga”, Chapter 181, Thorvin and Einar’s trip to Finland and the establishment of a village there, called the name of their dead friend Arnhid. Abd was killed by her captivity, Arnhid is the type of the person pledged by Thorvin and Einar to build a new nation for. But we know from history that the real settlement of Venlands for Thorfinn Karlsefni failed, and that this knowledge casts a shadow over the last arc.

The land they call Venland is of course home to the original tribes. The attempted of peaceful trade and cooperation failed when the indigenous people get sick from the germs brought by NORSEMEN across the sea.

The last 29 chapters of “Vinland Saga” are called “The Thousand Year Voyage”, which follows the collapse of the Finland settlement and the short war between the indigenous people and the settlers. It also pushes a wedge between Thorphine, who accepts norsemen needs to leave, and Einar, who does not do so. Thorphine driven by guilt and the need to compensate for the souls it took. If Vinci will become another country guarded by violence, it has no reason to reach. Nevertheless, Einar came to Finland to compensate for not to save Arnheid, and refuses to leave the village easily for its memory. In the leadership of other settlers in the battle, he finally takes a life and understands the burden of Thorphine.

The fighting ends with a truce in the eruption of Thorvin, but Einar dies, which stopped another settler, Stirk, from the resumption of the war. Thorphine and Einar presented their promise to each other on Arnhid’s grave, and their promise ends with the burial of Erfinin Einar in Finland.

But while the goal of Thorvin failed, the manga is not a tragedy, nor does it indicate that the Muslim was fool. “Vinland Saga” chooses an open end because the trip that THORFINN took, even after a thousand years, has not ended yet.

We did not know in advance that the real Vinci colony of Thorfinn would fail, as we learned that he would not free the world from war or slavery. We still did not do that in the twenty -first century. Throughout the manga, whenever a personality is asked about the place of Paradise, the answer is always “somewhere not here.” We have appointed the entire planet several times, but we still did not discover the land that Thorfinn was really looking for. It is not the physical Venland, but the land in which people choose to coexist in peace. Chapter 220 is titled “Some Place here” to show the search for this place.

Many “Vinland Saga”, a priest named WillBald suggests that real love may be only in death, when we cannot harm others or “discriminate” in who we choose to love. Remember, what summoned William Shakespeare to death? Unveiled country.