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MVM Gives Home Release Details for Vinland Saga on August 15
posted on by Andrew Osmond
MVM has announced more release details for its Collector's Blu-ray edition of Wit Studio's historical series Vinland Saga, to be released on August 15. It will include the 24 episodes of the series, as well as a 176-page book and six art cards inside an artbox.
MVM's Anime-on-line website describes the story:
"Raised in peace and on fanciful tales of a mythical far-off land without war, young Thorfinn dreams of someday traveling to the fabled Vinland. That dream is shattered when threats from the legendary Jomsvikings put him in the path of a band of Viking mercenaries, forcing Thorfinn's father to sacrifice himself to the band's leader: Askeladd.
"Alone and far from home, Thorfinn joins the forces of his father's slayer, determined to compel a duel with the mercenary leader and avenge his father. However, Thorfinn quickly finds himself ill prepared for a soldier's life in the long war between Denmark and England...where the opportunistic Vikings earn coin by fighting for both sides. Now he must learn how to fight and survive, even if it means facing friend and clan in battle."
Shuhei Yabuta (Inuyashiki Last Hero director, Attack on Titan 3D director) directed the anime at Wit Studio (Attack on Titan, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, The Ancient Magus' Bride). Hiroshi Seko (Banana Fish, Ajin: Demi-Human) supervised the series scripts and wrote them with Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil). Takahiko Abiru (Hunter × Hunter animation director) designed the characters. Bamboo was in charge of the art, and Madbox was in charge of special effects.
The original manga was by Makoto Yukimura (Planetes), who launched the series in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2005, but Kodansha moved the series to Afternoon later that year. The manga received the Best General Manga award in Kodansha's 36th Annual Manga Awards in 2012. It also won the Grand Prize in the manga division in the Ministry of Cultural Affairs' 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2009.
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