Blog Post #9

 For this blog post, I wanted to write about my time watching the first few episodes of Vinland Saga, a historical anime that is set in Medieval Europe during the time of the Vikings. I've read the manga before, and enjoyed the strong character writing and detailed art, so I figured the show was worth watching after putting it off for a while. Our main protagonist, Thorfinn, is still a young boy during these first few episodes though, as the story follows his whole life and his relationship/view of the world. 

There were plenty of historical/old-timey words that were used that I couldn't see coming up too often in the classroom or in casual conversation, such as "slave, siege, viking," some of which were katakana loan words that didn't sound too far off from their english counterparts. Basic sentence structure stood out to me in places ("blank" は "blank" です）, and some other verbs/nouns we've covered, like 人 and 大きい. I can't wait to have less reliance on subtitles and expand my vocabulary in the coming chapters!