{"id":61182,"date":"2023-05-12T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=61182"},"modified":"2023-05-13T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:55:18","slug":"ketil-rouses-his-men-in-vinland-saga-season-2-episode-18-5-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/05\/12\/ketil-rouses-his-men-in-vinland-saga-season-2-episode-18-5-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketil Rouses His Men In Vinland Saga Season 2 &#8220;Episode 18.5&#8221; Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <strong>MAPPA<\/strong> Channel has released a new <em>Vinland Saga<\/em> Season 2 short titled &#8220;Same old story.&#8221; Labelled as Episode 18.5 of the show, the short sees Ketil giving an impassioned speech to the men on his farm as they prepare to meet Canute&#8217;s arrival with violence.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;Answer me, norsemen!!&#8221; Ketil bellows halfway through the short. &#8220;How do you repay those who come to steal your fields?!&#8221; The first answer: &#8220;With blood!!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Vinland Saga&nbsp;<\/em>Season 2 previously received a similar short, <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/02\/13\/vinland-saga-season-2-gets-episode-6-5-short\/\">Episode 6.5 \u201cDrowning in the Shadow,\u201d<\/a> in February.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2 Episode 18.5 &quot;Same old story&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GUlTTqc4peM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Vinland Saga<\/em>&nbsp;Season 2 premiered on January 9. Netflix and Crunchyroll are streaming the show outside of Japan. The first season of&nbsp;<em>Vinland<\/em><i>&nbsp;Saga&nbsp;<\/i>aired in 2019.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime is based on <strong>Makoto Yukimura<\/strong>\u2019s Kodansha-published manga that began in 2005 and has 26 tankoubon volumes as of May 2022. The series is currently serialized in Monthly Afternoon magazine. Kodansha USA describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who murdered his family, Thorfinn became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band\u2019s leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Throfinn through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery \u2026 the land Leif called&nbsp;Vinland.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Like the <strong>WIT STUDIO<\/strong>-produced Season 1, <em>Vinland<\/em><i>&nbsp;Saga&nbsp;<\/i>Season 2&#8217;s staff includes <strong>Shuhei Yabuta<\/strong>&nbsp;as director,&nbsp;<strong>Hiroshi Seko<\/strong>&nbsp;as series composer,&nbsp;<strong>Abiru Takahiko<\/strong>&nbsp;as character designer,&nbsp;<strong>Yusuke Takeda<\/strong>&nbsp;as art director,&nbsp;<strong>Yuki Kawashita<\/strong>&nbsp;as photography director,&nbsp;<strong>Satoshi Hashimoto<\/strong>&nbsp;as color designer, and&nbsp;<strong>Yutaka Yamada<\/strong>&nbsp;as music composer.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Hashimoto is now joined by <strong>Minori Nishita<\/strong> as color designer while Kawashita is sharing photography directorial duties with<strong>\u00a0Hisashi Matsumuko<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!<\/em>). Meanwhile, <strong>Kouhei Ogawa<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Healer Girl<\/em> 3D director) is the 3DCG director instead of Season 1&#8217;s Mayu Takehana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The cast of <em>Vinland<\/em><i>\u00a0Saga\u00a0<\/i>Season 2 includes<strong>\u00a0Yuuto Uemura<\/strong> as Thorfinn,<strong>\u00a0Kenshou Ono<\/strong> as Canute, <strong>Shunsuke Takeuchi<\/strong>\u00a0as Einar,\u00a0<strong>Mayumi Sako<\/strong>\u00a0as Arnheid,\u00a0<strong>Yuu Hayashi<\/strong>\u00a0as Olmar,<strong>\u00a0Taiten Kusunoki<\/strong>\u00a0as Thorgil,\u00a0<strong>Hideaki Tezuka<\/strong>\u00a0as Ketil, and\u00a0<strong>Mugihito<\/strong> as Sverkel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> MAPPA Channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MAPPA Channel has released a new Vinland Saga Season 2 short titled &#8220;Same old story.&#8221; Labelled as Episode 18.5 of the show, the short sees Ketil giving an impassioned speech to the men on his farm as they prepare to meet Canute&#8217;s arrival with violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":61184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,137,10],"tags":[14,1625,122,90,4692],"class_list":["post-61182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-manga","tag-mappa","tag-vinland-saga-season-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/vinlandsagaseason2_episode16.5sameoldstoryscreenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-fUO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61248,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61182\/revisions\/61248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}