The odds of a second season of the NHK anime are high!
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One factor that makes it possible to say that a second season of the Vinland Saga is still possible is that this work is an anime that was broadcast on NHK.
This is because, in the past, works that have been animated on NHK have had sequels produced in the past, regardless of disc sales.
For example, “Piano Forest”, which was also aired on NHK General in 2018, sold less than the Vinland Saga, but the second season was aired the following year in 2019.
In addition to this one, many other films have made it to the airwaves for sequels, including Phi Brain: Puzzle of God, Log Horizon, Baby Steps, RINNE of the Border, and Classica Lloyd.
Probably the majority of these works will be split into two cool seasons, but in any case, there’s no doubt that there’s a pretty good chance that more than two seasons of NHK’s anime will be produced.
MAJOR” has been produced for a long period of time and was broadcasted for 6 seasons from 2004 to 2010.
A second series of MAJOR 2nd, which depicts a generation of children, is also set to air in the spring of 2020.
As for Baby Steps, Boundary RINNE, and MAJOR 2nd based on the same manga, the first season aired in two cool seasons, the same as the Vineland Saga.
As for the sales of the original work, at the time of the anime adaptation, Baby Step sold 5 million copies, Boundary RINNE sold 3 million copies, and MAJOR 2nd sold 5.6 million copies, which is also about the same as Vinland Saga.
With so many works with similar conditions airing a second season, it’s hard to say that Vinland Saga isn’t the only one that has a chance.
Rather, we can infer that there is a pretty good chance that a sequel will be produced.
Stock is fine.
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Even though there’s a chance of a second season being made, there’s no way to make it without the original stock.
So how much stock is left of the Vinland Saga?
The first season of the anime didn’t get visualized until the 8th volume of the original, “Britten Edition”.
It even included that epic episode where Asherad, who was both an avenger and a family member to Tolphin, met his end.
In other words, the calculation is that in order to produce the second season in two cool volumes as well as the first, you only need to have 16 volumes in stock.
As mentioned before, this work has already been released to volume 23, so there is no problem at all in terms of stock.
Now let’s take a look at how far the anime will go if a second season is produced.
After the end of the Britten episode, time will go by in a flash in the production, and the “Slave Episode” will begin, which follows Tolphin, who has lost his purpose in life, which is to avenge his death, and has fallen into the status of a slave.
The portion of the anime that was visualized in the first season is a prologue-like story in the Vinland Saga.
It is no exaggeration to say that this slave chapter is the beginning of the main story.
And the slave chapter is one of the most popular episodes of the film, and one of the most popular episodes of the film that fans are eagerly awaiting to visualize.
The story follows Toruffin’s journey to find a new life in the faraway land of Vinland, where he hopes to create a peaceful country without war and slaves.
The slave part of the story lasts until volume 14, and volumes 15 and 16 contain the “Tern Connected” part.
After that it will be followed by the “North Sea Crossing Chapter”, but if there is a second season, it looks like the “Tsunagareta Tern Chapter” will be filmed up to the “Tsunagareta Tern Chapter” in terms of length.
At the end of the last episode of the first season of the anime, we saw Einar from the Slave Arc, Guzries from the Tern Arc, and Hild from the Crossing the North Sea Arc come out in succession.
It has been done in many works as a service to the fans of the original works (such as Riko from Machikado Mazoku) to show the faces of the main characters that were not shown in the anime (such as Rico from Machikado Mazoku), but this is not necessarily a flag for the second season.
However, as mentioned before, the probability of NHK anime being produced for a second season is high, and this work starts after the first season is made into an anime, so taking all of this into consideration, the end of the first season can be seen as not just a service, but a stepping stone for the second and even third season.
Summary
It’s hard to imagine making an animated version of the Vinland Saga and not doing the slave version, so there must be a pretty good chance of a second season (second season)!
Let’s hope we get some good news before our necks get too long!
