The Best Episodes Directed By Shuhei Yabuta

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.3/10(23 votes)

   #1 - End of the Prologue

   S1:E2412/30/2019

   Askeladd comes forth before King Sweyn and implores him to halt his invasion of Wales. Meanwhile, Thorfinn decides to return home at Leif’s urging. However, the moment before he boards the ship, Thorfinn catches a glimpse of a single tern taking off into the sky...

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Lazy vs. Unsleeping

   S1:E119/16/2016

   The Imperial Army is pushed back, and Ikta is forced to use every trick at his disposal to keep his numerically inferior force from being overwhelmed. The Alderamin army has 12,000 troops, and his unit has only a little over 600. When he's forced to make a tough call to sacrifice his own men and save the Sinack, Suya confronts him angrily. She wants to know why he was willing to sacrifice his own men for the people he was fighting yesterday, and she says he owes her an answer.

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   7.7/10(20 votes)

   #3 - Somewhere Not Here

   S1:E17/8/2019

   Thorfinn, a boy living in Iceland, longs for adventure and is eager to know more about the world. He dreams of a land of paradise called Vinland that he hears about from the adventurer Leif, while he leads his peaceful life with this father Thors, a former warrior. One day, Thors saves a runaway slave and sets a series of events in motion. This is the story of a true warrior in an age of turmoil.

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   7.5/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Ichiro Inuyashiki

   S1:E110/12/2017

   Ichiro Inuyashiki is unable to tell his family about his terminal cancer diagnosis. That night he has a strange encounter that transforms his body.

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   6.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - 6.5 - Drowning in the Shadow

   S0:E12/14/2023

   Special ONA covering events not shown in the original manga.

   Director:Shuhei Yabuta

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