VS_Pleb-filter

This adaptation is a rare exception where the anime re-tells the story betterand is generally more of a pleb-filter than the manga. Let's compare how the two versions present the story:
Manga
>Starts out with le big epic battle sequence which is tonally inconsistent with the later parts of the series.
>None of the themes of the show are present
>Glorified violence and vikings are shown as the cool guys
>Le epic longboat carrying which is pure spectacle and adds nothing to the thematic understanding of the series
>Fat out of place looking frenchfuck who looks like he belongs in wan piss
>The after effects of the violence is nowhere to be seen after the battle,we only get to see Askeladd and his crew get what they wanted through violence.
>The only reason for why Yukimura started this way was because he started the manga in Jump and had to have a cool epic battle scene to not get axed
>Tonally inconsistent with the rest of the series

Now let's look at the anime

>First episode starts with Thors in a big beautiful landscape of yellow fields, which what we later find out is Vinland,through Thor's own imagination of the place as he heard it from Leif.
>Thors sees helga and his child in the distance,they are far and as he tries to go to them he looks down and sees the violence under his feet: the reality of his situation.
>This scene visually tells us,the audience,that was on Thor's mind during the battle wasn't the battle itself,but his family and Vinland.
>As Thors stabs a man into the stomach,the man is shedding tears and is crying for Maria,telling us that christianity has
infiltrated the nordic culture and that violence hurts people,irrelevant of whom you pledge your allegiance to.
>Thors kills a man underwater and we see he has a face of someone who hates what he is doing
>Thors throws his sword in the bottom of the ocean,visually telling the audience the whole theme of the series(literally to drop the sword and symbolically to drop the cruel acts of violence) and Thors's warrior philosophy.
> After Thors leaves the battle through the shore, we see the aftermath of the battle with ships burning in the see,reminding us,the audience again,the destruction that war and violence brings.
>Vinland and Leif's exploration is already set up in the first episode.
>The slave thing with Halfdan sets up Thors's willingness to go far to free a life,even if it doesn't benefit him in anyway.
>Instead of Thorfinn's village and its inhabitants being just "those characters from Thorfinn's flashbacks",they are actual characters whom we get to love and appreaciate,so when tragedy does eventually strike to then,it hits alot harder(at least for the first time viewers of the series).
>Starting with Thorfinn as a kid and us the viewer seeing his gradual growth into the character he is the in the manga as of present will be alot better executed in the anime.
>Tonally consistent with the rest of the series

And this is barely scratching the surface,I could go on for days. Now shut the fuck up and cope,mangakeks.