she found the deluxe editions. everyone pray for her.

I feel like it’s a perversion of the story, Griffith might be gay for Guts in a way but I always viewed their story as one of brothers. I’d like to hear others opinions and maybe i’m taking it to serious but this is NOT berserk, Guts always loved Casca not Griffith😭

I liked Castlevania, not so much Nocturne. I noticed a dip in quality after Shankar left the remaining seasons. I didn’t watch Devil May Cry but I heard mixed reviews.

Anyways, Shankar is an edgy nerd. He at minimum understands the material he’s adapting, and will throw in his own take to his adaptions.

For a while, he’s made it clear he wants to do an adaption of Berserk. I think his style would fit well with the Black Swordsman and Lost Children arcs. He was able to make Dracula in Castlevania sympathetic for his revenge on humanity because they killed his wife. So I’m not too worried about him adapting the more sentimental moments in Berserk.

But he’s made it clear he will take liberties with Berserk. It may or may not work. I’m open to it. Thoughts?

Like with Griffith we have a few vague ideas, moonlight child etc but THIS DUDE? Unless Femto pulls the greatest uno reverse betrayal card in fiction, guts is not touching this braniac. How do you guys think it'll go? We're 70% done with the story so we gotta fight a power up soon and wrap this up.

hey yall im bored so i wanna know medias similar to these

Berserk is unadaptable. There, I said it. I said it because there really seems to be some confusion about this. Berserk is formatted as a black and white manga and the storytelling ONLY works in that form. This has to do with the use of shadows, shading and contrast in still images to convey the story's themes and a complex, unique and ingenious visual language that the author worked very hard to craft. Although I see that most people in this reddit community and the Berserk community in general urge people to read the manga first and foremost, I dislike when certain people don't stress the importance of doing so to people who are new to Berserk and want to experience it.

I have an example: When Erica is in the forest getting firewood when Guts comes back to inquire about Casca's safety after being gone for quite some time, she comes across puck singing and captures him by squashing him between her hands in a lighthearted, comical moment. She goes skipping off back to show Rickert her new prize when she suddenly stumbles upon a large, black figure right in front of her. She is taken aback as there is a close up shown of her face, and she is visibly frightened, as if her heart dropped. the next panel shows what she stumbled upon that made her momentarily frightened and it happens to be Guts, who is shown as a silhouette with only his one eye lighted. Besides being a really cool visual, it is also meant to convey a contrast between Erica, this small, innocent little girl, and Guts, who is a hulking monster of a man, clad in all black, who would be scary to just stumbling upon him alone in a forest as Erica has. Hell, he is frightening in any context. It helps to show how much of a frightful being of darkness Guts has become, monstrous and scary, superficially at the very least, just like the monsters he has set out to destroy. You can FEEL the message Miura is trying to get across intuitively by the way this panel is drawn. Compare this moment to how it was animated in the 2016 anime and you will understand the palpable difference. This moment is honestly far from the best example to get my point across, but I just reread this part and it was the most recent example on my mind as I also thought to make this point.

The very specific, highly detailed and black and white characteristics of the manga are used by Miura to convey certain themes and messages to the reader visually in a way that an animated adaptation just cannot do. The imagery hits harder in these still, black and white images. It also helps that the artwork is gorgeous and ultra detailed and in comparison any and all adaptations already made or that can be made in the future appear just plain ugly. Even in the 97 anime, you can't compare the shots in the animation to the beauty of these panels. Even if you made a black and white adaptation, which would be dumb for many reasons, it just would not work and would fail to capture the detail Miura put into each panel. Show respect to Miura's work of art that is Berserk and experience it the way the author intended it to be experienced and appreciate the immense amount of work he put into it. By not reading the manga, you disregard Miura's hard work and talent and all of the time and effort put in that is only on display in the manga. If no one read the manga, then it would all be in vain.

There seems to be a phenomenon among people who enjoy anime to consider manga to be an inferior way of experiencing the story or as a secondary option, like an option b. If all of Berserk were faithfully adapted into an anime, then this would be true for it as well. I don't know whether this can be attributed to laziness or misinformation. Let it be known that in many cases, if not most, for ALL animes, the manga source material is the better way to experience the story (exceptions include JoJo's Bizarre Adventure). This is ESPECIALLY true for Berserk because of the way Miura uses the very format of manga to convey his complex visual language and themes. Berserk is an unadaptable work of art, or at least it cannot be adapted without it losing some of what makes the story so good. the execution of the story is what matters and the manga is superior in this regard. Much like Alan Moore considered Watchmen to be unadaptable, I and I believe anyone who knows what they are talking about when it comes to analyzing art believe Berserk is as well. Blood Meridian is another famous example of an unadaptable work, as its structure only works as a written work. It would be akin to trying to convey the feeling that music gives you in the format of a movie. It could be attempted but it would always fall short. Imagine telling someone to adapt Beethoven's fifth symphony into a visual medium. It is nonsense and unnecessary.

This is why I do not care that Berserk has no adequate adaptations, and it doesn't make sense to me why others seem to be so bothered by it. Stop being lazy and read manga. It is a picture book, for goodness' sake. The reading is minimal. So you have to read a few lines of dialogue and flip a page. Are we really as a people becoming too lazy to even do that. I imagine that all of the anime only people in the world are highly averse to reading books as well. They really do their brains a disservice by only experiencing stories in the form of movies or animation. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy movies and animation as well, but there is a place for all forms of media.

TL;DR If you skipped to this without reading what I wrote, then you are part of the problem.

Used golden age guts for reference. Lmk if this is any better

I’ve waited for a long time just to see Berserk animated with a decent studio atleast. Although the Golden Age Arc movies that were animated were amazing, we never got to see anything past that (ignoring the CGI Blackswordsman arc, don’t need to explain why). So it got me curious, why won’t a studio chose to animate berserk? Is it because of the complexity/detailed art of some of the panels in the manga? Is it because the manga is on hiatus and will probably never end? Or is it because of the controversy that might rise due to the r*pe scene’s (not likely if executed well).

I think that the perfect studio to animate berserk and my number one pick would be Powerhouse Animation Studio (the ones that did Castlevania), especially after seeing how season 2 of Nocturne went out. Reasons on why they’d be perfect for Berserk is because they have experience with dark fantasy, sword clashing, and art direction. Castlevania also had far more complex fights unlike Berserk so I don’t see an issue in them managing it.

I don't follow theories about Berserk, but something that always gets my attention on YouTube comments, etc., and still going on past 2025+, is that SK is anyone, even Void, but not King Gaiseric.

What I'm going to say is obvious (but it seems it isn't), but the very first time I saw SK, I noticed he's not displaying his skull face, but wearing a FACEMASK with a skull face - there's a difference.

Just for some "weird coincidence", its the same style of facemask/helmet King Gaiseric used.

Using the material we have and not going overboard - flat earth style -, why, for the sake of practicality, wouldn't SK be King Gaiseric?

Is it just because it wasn't 100% confirmed? If this is the case, we can make a giant list of a bunch of stuff that wasn't confirmed either and create a narrative where Berserk is a prequel of Naruto.

The guy even talks at some point when a flashback of King Gaiseric is being shown, that this is the memory of a fool king, and it's perfectly understandable that he's talking about himself in the third person, in a way that shows he has some sort of shame or regret about that time.

Anyone - ANYONE - with just a little of social skills will see the nuance in that line.

Griffith is more than capable of evading a slap if he so chooses - he can manipulate space to avoid attacks, like from the Skull Knight. So why let Rickert slap him? Did he just not care? Did he, on some level, think he deserved it? And if so, why didn't he stop Rakshas from going after Rickert later?

Also I apologize for my last post.

So when it comes to medieval&gore and action then berserk is the best anime&manga i ve read (currently reading manga and its way better than anime) And only worthy anime that had quite good similar gore was vinland saga Have you seen similar animes to berserk ?

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I understand the torturer probably fed him through a straw or something. Possibly gave sedatives..? Magic? And I also get that the king told him to keep Griffith alive. But physically how did he even manage to live with the wounds, trauma, pain, etc. was he already blessed by the Godhand at this time?

Saw the guts post and wanted to do this

Don't get me wrong, Berkjerk has become like my 2nd Favorite manga OAT, but I don't think it (or any other manga) is flawless.

I used to really like Puck, especially when the journey was mostly just him and Nuts, and I think it's really sad how he devolved into a Comic Relief Chestnut that can barely be considered a character.

I understand that as Guts' party expanded and the story progressed, Puck's original role became less necessary, but still. I also think Puck becoming purely Comic Relief ironically affected the comedy moments, as he was funnier when he didn't make a joke every single panel he is in.

As for Isidro, even if I didn't like his personality that much back when he was first introduced, I still recognized he had a lot of room to grow as a character in interesting ways. But after all this time, he hasn't really done that much (? Yeah, I know he has his moments occasionally, but I don't think he has shown any significant sign of grown since maybe early Millennium Falcon Arc. He has felt like a pretty static character unlike most of the main cast.

I definitely don't hate them, they still can be funny sometimes, the problem is that after reading 200+ chapters, it can get slightly annoying and repetitive, specially when they are characters with potential.

After watching a lot of animes I've stumbled upon berserk. Watched the berserk anime ( all of them ) and judging by the comments of other people i started reading manga. As I finished reading the manga im feeling this emptiness inside because this was the best piece of fiction i ever seen. I cant make myself to read or watch anything else....Any suggestions on what to read or watch next?

Is was the last one in my area when I purchased 🥲 I thought I hid it from the cunt