Recently I've read "Vagabond" only to know that it went on hiatus, thus being depressed I found a similar manga called Vinland saga and lo it was as if I hit a gold mine. Vinland saga might be similar to berserk and vagabond, but hell no!!! It's actually closer to Fullmetal Alchemist.

Hatred, revenge, failure, realization and finally redemption that what Vinland saga is about. What I found amusing was not the brutality of wars but the ideals or philosophy it conveys effectively.

In this story there are no dragons, there are no mythical beasts, perhaps that’s what it is as of now, but it's just an alternate history of age of Vikings where people try to make the world a better place. Some use power, some use love, some run away, it shows various ways people might struggle to make theirs and the surroundings a better place.

I’ll warn you before itself that this isn’t like “Berserk” where MC is a badass going on rampage nor does it dwell in a lot of supernatural elements where spirits talk as in “Vagabond”, but this is a story of humanity and love.

What makes this manga interesting is not the MC but the side ones which influence the situation.
I don’t want to mention characters as it would only be spoiling so I’ll just mention about one person: Thorkell, he is a ruthless savage who only longs for wars but at the same time he is a person who has a dark sense of humor who makes you laugh crazily, in that way every character depicts the presence or feel.

There is also one drawback many might object is the time-skip, tbh I think I praise the author for avoiding unnecessary pages by drawing those parts as it is better left for imagination rather than spoon feeding everything, cos there is a lot of plot to be completed and it would just be another filler arc.

Many a time there are situation where you might have "hope" for things to go well in the story but finally they end up the same you thought would happen without being given the hope, you might call it cheap trick to provoke unnecessary tear-jerking moments but in fact if you and I were in that situation we would be making the same hasty decisions which might eventually land us in that same shit.

Art is good, also the fighting scenes are well drawn, but as I said it doesn’t focus more on unnecessary crap, so don’t expect berserk or vagabond badass scenes here or the quality of art as every chapter is drawn in just a month.

Thereby I would say that Vinland Saga is the best thing I’ve read and I don’t regret the time I've spent to read it even though I have an exam tomorrow, that much worth is the story. It is easy to understand the philosophy, realistic, thrilling and best thing is we have hope that we get a new chapter released at the end of every month without fail, unlike Berserk and Vagabond which have no clue when they might end.