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Vinland Saga, Volume 3 by Makoto Yukimura
4.0

This continues to improve, actually. The relationship between characters deepens, there’s some fun plot twists, the art has even improved, and it looked fantastic before. The only negatives is the weird tonal shifts, usually around one character who is the kind-of antagonist, a big beefy guy that I hoped would be a one off in earlier volumes. Even he has grown on me a bit more. But it’s still strange when humour is injected when it’s a pretty grim dark tale, generally. I don’t think it assists anything the story is going for, and is more of a holdover manga trope that wasn’t shirked.