Vinland Saga Season 2 (2023) — Story, Release Date, Rating

Synopsis:

Following a devastating loss, Einar seeks solace in rebuilding his life with his family. This fragile peace is shattered when his community is once again ravaged by invaders, leaving him a captive in Denmark. Forced into servitude under the care of Ketil, Einar finds an unexpected connection with Thorfinn, another slave burdened by sorrow. Their shared struggle for liberation unfolds amidst the harsh realities of their existence – demanding labor and constant vigilance against exploitation. The narrative explores themes of resilience, the weight of historical trauma, and the search for redemption in a world marked by injustice. Through their intertwined fates, Einar and Thorfinn navigate a landscape where hope remains a precious, hard-won commodity.

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Episodes:

Episode 1: Slave (Aired: 01/10/2023)
Episode 2: Ketil's Farm (Aired: 01/17/2023)
Episode 3: Snake (Aired: 01/24/2023)
Episode 4: Awakening (Aired: 01/31/2023)
Episode 5: Path of Blood (Aired: 02/07/2023)
... and 19 more episodes

Characters:

Einar (Main) - Voice Actors: Takeuchi, Shunsuke, Sinclair, Ian, Llorca, Juan, Monteiro, Dado, Redler, Jim, Zurla, Alessandro, Zilse, Felipe, Saab, Alejandro, Estrada, Diego, Miranda, Jonathan, Welbat, Daniel, Banken, Christoph, López, Andreu
Thorfinn (Main) - Voice Actors: Uemura, Yuuto, Haimoto, Mike, Ishigami, Shizuka, Tabarez, Víctor, Nguyen, Alexandre, Fort-Junca, Benoît, Figueira, Daniel, Minei, Alex, Garza, Eduardo, Oldani, Andrea, Le, Aleks, Darazi, Estelle, Chase, Kaycie, Gómez Jiménez, Joel, Peña, Laura, Morgenstern, Tommy
Ari (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ichiki, Mitsuhiro, Andreozzi, Ruggero, Herlin, Simon, Drummond, Felipe, Macías, José Antonio, Fagundes, Vinícius, Fu, Stephen, Grull, Hervé
Arnheid (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Saco, Mayumi, Van Sistine, Natalie, Paulita, Agatha, Cunha, Maitê, Mouchel, Julie, Tamburello, Martina, Messer, Gilli, Maffren, Ludivine, Huicochea, Danann, Hernández, Henar, Weiß, Jennifer
Asgeir (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Machado, Arthur, Rehlinger, Boris, Le Minoux, Martial, Farronato, Davide, Canales, Henrique, Takeuchi, Ryouta, Guerrero, Marco
Askeladd (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Uchida, Naoya, Ramírez, Aldo, Atkine, Féodor, Wald, David, Tiraboschi, Armando, Pichon, Yann, Quartini, Davide, Camilo, Leonardo, Fernández, Dafnis
Badger (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Gotou, Hiroki, de Syllos, Gilberto, Campos, Ramon, Desmarchelier, Guillaume, De Angelis, Francesco, Baugh, Daniel, Pizzuto, Michael, Sportis, Franck
Brodd (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Pappas, Constantin, Ridolfo, Claudio, Moura, Fábio, Hailer, Marcos, Sakuma, Motoki, Artaux, Cyrille, Reeder, Jack, Ugarte, Víctor
Bug-Eyes (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tachibana, Tatsumaru, Araújo, Márcio, Vivolo, Ezio, Laurent, Arnaud, Bangle, Josh, Hackney, Christopher, Martins, Gabriel, Koukissa-Barney, Simon, Dawn-Claude, René
Canute (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ono, Kensho, Grelle, Jessie James, Faliu, Martin, Santos, Caio, Touquet, Mathieu, Novara, Renato, Gama, Lucas, Burns, Griffin, Flores, Luba, Endou, Aya, Pollow, Peggy, Rohrbach, Jan
Drott (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takeda, Kouji, Pandolfi, Silvio, Nanal, Rodrigo, Moreno, Sérgio, Roux, Stéphane, Tang, Kaiji
Emma (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shiota, Tomoko, Powell, Wendy, Ledieu, Virginie, de Almeida, Amazyles, Pradier, Vanina, Lemes, Cecília, De Luca, Lorella, Becerril, Laura, Elias-Fahn, Dorothy, de Luis, Noelia
Erikson, Leif (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ueda, Youji, Swasey, John, Leblan, Jean-Pierre, Vaccari, Hélio, Pistorio, Pierre-François, Guarnieri, José Otávio, Todaro, Frank, Ubaldi, Pietro
Estrid (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Buckland, Kira, Akasaki, Chinatsu, Zhang, Molly, Celini, Letícia, de Brito, Giulia, Bonanomi, Giada, Michaud, Maïa, Berard, Mélissa, Morgenstern, Lydia
Floki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hickman, Jay, Castro, Mauro, Gris, Laurent, Covillault, Jérémie, Fazio, Davide, Costa, Marco Antônio, Ono, Atsushi
Forkbeard, Sweyn (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugou, Takayuki, Cruz, Walter, Roullier, Philippe, Rizzi, Francesco, Seidl, Carlos, Jacomy, Emmanuel, Galindo, Luis
Fox (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takahashi, Shinya, Ronchewski, Stéphane, Bardeau, Jérémy, Imperador, Alessandro, Marques, Glauco, Snow, Derick, Baldoin, Diego
Gardar (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Masumoto, Takuya, Greene, Jarrod, De Mojana, Matteo, Lourenço, Gilmar, Djermag, Nicolas, Souza, Marcos, Hebert, Kyle, Merlet, Valentin, Estrada, Héctor
Gunnar (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Magne, Bruno, Surugue, Gérard, Freitas, Francisco, Mei, Francesco, Mogami, Tsuguo, Romero, Cássius, Oliver, Tony, Gee, Jeremy
Harald (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Laisné, Grégory, Pandolfi, Silvio, García, Iván, Satou, Takuya, Shaffer, Caden
Helga (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takahashi, Ao, Bertolas, Renata, Quinto, Letícia, Di Castro, Leila, Duhamel, Céline, Ravalec, Blanche, Duran, Patricia
Hordaland (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Khakhoulia, Zina, Lacombe, Lila, Peña, Cristina
Ketil (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tezuka, Hideaki, Jackson, Doug, Justamon, Nicolas, Vivona, Ênio, Le Madic, Yann, Tiraboschi, Armando, D'Errico, Alessandro, Burgos, Sean, Klebsch, Klaus-Dieter
Kjallakr (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bellissard, Yannick, Camilo, Leonardo, Barone, Dalton, Kobatake, Masafumi
Lizard (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Grull, Pascal, Hamazoe, Shinya, Ferraz, Fernando, Farronato, Davide, Romuti, Gab, Hernandez, Joe, Simpson, Dirc
Mols (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nakatsukasa, Takayuki, Tatum, J. Michael, Moreno, Sérgio, Monteiro, Douglas, Pagès, Jean-François, Torrigiani, Samuele, Tissier, Gilduin, Castillo, Beto
Narrator (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Darbois, Richard, Le Minoux, Martial, Matsuda, Kenichirou, Chun, Greg, Williams, Kent, Osorio, Dan, Calindri, Gabriele, Júnior, Garcia, Moreno, Sérgio
Oddny (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kumagai, Mirei, Bachère, Valérie, Baroli, Luciana, Capella, Monalisa, Cherubelli, Laura, Buckland, Kira, Bellone, Anissa
Oddny's Father (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mogami, Tsuguo, Violette, Vincent, Campanile, Carlos, Artnic, Ronaldo, Stella, Aldo, Hernandez, Joe
Oddny's Mother (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takeuchi, Emiko, della Mare, Gisa, Di Castro, Leila, Caggiula, Beatrice, Eberhard, Gundi
Olmar (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hayashi, Yuu, DiMascio, Anthony, Forlani, Stanislas, Méyère, Bruno, Sauer, André, Luna, Leandro, Colt Levy, Ryan, Viola, Federico, Balmaceda, Ben, Rivas Villareal, Fernando, Garrido, Salvi, Sierich, Bastian
Pater (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yanaka, Hiroshi, Quilichini, Jean-Pascal, Violette, Vincent, de Syllos, Gilberto, Corbetta, Oliviero, Matjas, Fábio, Hennigan, Sean, Wittorf, Marco
Ragnar (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Rovatti, Riccardo, Mendes, Vanderlan, Ramos, Mauro, Urayama, Jin, Souterelle, Frédéric, Hebert, Kyle, Messe, Patrick, Rangel, Óscar
Rota (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Touyama, Nao, Duran, Marisa, Lemineur, Cindy, Stefane, Mayara, Leguizamo, Denisse, Sabellico, Giada, Quinto, Bruna, Melody, Deneen, Gress, Marion
Snake (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Komatsu, Fuminori, Sabat, Christopher, Mendonça, Fernando, Moreno, Sérgio, Boisseau, Damien, Moretti, Andrea, Kiener, Axel, Griffith, Jason, Posada, Luis, Schulz, Sebastian
Spider (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Minéo, Sébastien, Monteiro, Dado, Diniz, Danilo, Loera, Branden, Würgler, Felix, Ban, Taito
Sture (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kobayashi, Daiki, Ragazzi, André, Berry, Morgan, Singh, Mosè, Gimbord, Jonathan, Dubuis, Jessy, Shaffer, Caden, Quinto, Caio, Ferenc, Tom
Sverkel (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mugihito, Le Doze, Gabriel, Dulcie, Greg, Campanile, Carlos, Amorim, Luiz, Dozier, Patrice, Failla, Andrea, Vega, Jaime, Salyers, William, Kästner, Thomas
Thora (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kurisaka, Minami, Hervieux, Charlotte, Mallié, Salomé, Melody, Deneen, Trunte, Franziska
Thorgil (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kusunoki, Taiten, Juarez, Ricardo, Baylon, Earl, Espinoza, Duda, Uguen, Charles, Fattori, Alessandro, Lassère, Yannick, Wehkamp, Christopher
Thorkell (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ootsuka, Akio, Morvan, Gilles, Daniels, Joe, Amajones, Affonso, Blanpain, Laurent, Odetto, Fabrizio, Primo, Reginaldo, Seitz, Patrick
Thors (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Matsuda, Kenichirou, Douglas, Jason, Chatelet, Julien, Njo Lobé, Daniel, Júnior, Francisco, Júnior, Garcia, Balzarotti, Marco, Klemm, Matti
Wulf (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mamiya, Yasuhiro, Guerrero, Chris, Matjas, Fábio, Guetat, Nessym, Colombo Giardinelli, Andrea, Marcondes, Nill, Baudrier, Patrice, Balderas, Rodolfo, Pizzuto, Michael
Ylva (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nabatame, Hitomi, Giorgio, Elisa, Bienaimé, Nathalie, Horta, Luísa, Minei, Luciana, de Luis, Noelia, Clark, Allegra, Monceau, Jessica, Swasey, Olivia

Staff:

Fujiyama, Naokado (Producer)
Hasegawa, Hiroya (Producer, Production Manager)
Matsumoto, Hitoshi (Producer)
Ootsuka, Manabu (Producer)
Yamato, Masae (Producer)
Yonezawa, Akira (Producer)
Yabuta, Shuuhei (Director, Storyboard)
Hata, Shouji (Sound Director)
Aoshima, Kouki (Episode Director)
Arai, Nobuyoshi (Episode Director)
Araki, Tetsurou (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Fukase, Shigeru (Episode Director)
Hiramuki, Tomoko (Episode Director)
Igarashi, Tokio (Episode Director)
Ishida, Takafumi (Episode Director)
Ishikawa, Io (Episode Director)
Itabisashi, Michiru (Episode Director)
Kaneko, Takahiro (Episode Director)
Kubo, Tarou (Episode Director)
Matsubayashi, Tadahito (Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation)
Matsui, Kento (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Nishiyama, Hiromi (Episode Director, Key Animation)
Satou, Youji (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Sunouchi, Yuusuke (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Uchida, Shingo (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Yamamoto, Yousuke (Episode Director)
Maia, Vinícius (Script)
Otoubo, Márcia (Script)
Seko, Hiroshi (Script, Series Composition)
Inoue, Keisuke (Storyboard)
Kawajiri, Yoshiaki (Storyboard)
Kidokoro, Seimei (Storyboard)
Kobayashi, Atsushi (Storyboard)
Kotake, Ayumu (Storyboard)
Miya, Shigeyuki (Storyboard)
Morimoto, Ikurou (Storyboard)
Anonymouz (Theme Song Performance)
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics)
Kureha, Ryuichi (Theme Song Arrangement)
LMYK (Theme Song Performance)
Survive Said The Prophet (Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Lyrics)
haju:harmonics (Theme Song Performance)
Abe, Takuji (Key Animation)
Abiru, Takahiko (Character Design, Animation Director, Chief Animation Director)
Akamatsu, Kaho (2nd Key Animation)
Akita, Manabu (Animation Director)
Ami, Shuujirou (Key Animation)
Aoki, Mariko (Key Animation)
Awai, Shigeki (Key Animation)
Beniya, Nozomi (2nd Key Animation)
... and 163 more staff

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Related Anime/Manga:

Vinland Saga (anime - Prequel)
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Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Gore, Historical, Seinen
Themes: Gore, Historical
Demographics: Seinen
Studios: MAPPA
Producers: Dentsu, Kodansha, Twin Engine
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks
Rating: 8.81 / 10
Rank: #34
Popularity: #285
Users Listed: 771,548
Users Scored: 426,241
NSFW: No
Last Updated: 10/16/2023
Aired: January 10, 2023 – June 20, 2023 (Winter)
Type: tv
Source: manga
Age Rating: R
Episodes: 24
Broadcast: Tuesday at 00:30 (JST)

Vinland Saga Season 2