After a staggering twenty-year run, the final volume of Yukimura Makoto’s Vinland Saga manga has been released. Kodansha published the 29th and final tankobon volume on September 22, just two months after the manga’s last chapter—chapter 220—was released via Monthly Afternoon Magazine on July 25.
Vinland Saga Details
Kodansha first published Vinland Saga in 2005 through their Weekly Shonen Magazine, where it was serialized from April to October of that year. In December 2005, the manga moved to Monthly Afternoon Magazine, where it continued until its conclusion in 2025. Kodansha USA publishes the English version of Vinland Saga. Yukimura’s manga has sold over 7 million copies worldwide and won the grand prize at the 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. It also took home the Best General Manga award at the 2012 Kodansha Manga Awards.
The manga has been adapted into two seasons of anime. The first season was animated by WIT Studio, while Studio MAPPA handled the second. Both seasons consist of 24 episodes and are available on Crunchyroll.
Vinland Saga follows a fictionalized version of the Icelandic explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni Thórdarson on his lifelong quest to find Vinland—what is now believed to be the area around Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
After killing his father, Thorfinn is abducted by Danish Vikings and forced into a life of servitude. Driven by a desire to avenge his father and kill the leader of the Viking raiding party that brought chaos into his life, Thorfinn becomes a skilled fighter. However, as the weight of his actions begins to corrode his soul, he starts to despise the violence he’s been part of. Haunted by remorse, the young Thorfinn dreams of reaching the fertile lands to the west. But can he make it to the fabled lands of Vinland—the lands that Leif Erikson promised to be free from the strife that gripped England and the European continent?
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