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I don't know what Berserk is but Im intrigued
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Aaronrules380
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I feel like people painting Berserk as an entirely bleak, desolate, world of despair don't realy get the story fully. Berserk's world is definitely dark, but the story is thematically more about perserverance and moving forward despite all the shit life throws at you. This is strongly embodied by the main character, and even his name, Guts, is a reference to this theme. I'm positive that Berserk's ending, if we ever get it, will not be a total downer ending. It won't be a fairy tale ending either, mind you, but it'll be more about hope than despair. I'd expect it to be bittersweet honestly.
Palculator
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Aren't they working on a new movie? At least what I heard back then was that the final movie of the Golden Age Arc was not the last one.
cazzlewazzle89
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I have only watched the anime (can't handle the fact that the manga probably won't have a definitive ending) but it has one of the greatest and most haunting soundtracks I've come across
Haunted
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He's 48.
That doesn't really explain why the production rate has gotten so much slower than it used to be. It also doesn't excuse the fact that he spends years worth of production on filler stuff like ghost ships or mermaids.
Dragons Dogma
So he's not wrong.
Laurentius
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Hearing about the Dark Souls/Berserk connection also got me interested in Berserk. I've read the entire manga now and love it.
For the record, though, I think some people find too many connections between Souls and Berserk. There are some clear inspirations, but some of the connections people come up with are a bit tenuous at best. Also, people say that Miyazaki is a huge fan, but we really don't know that. All I've ever been able to find is one comment he made about how Siegmeyer's armor looks a bit like Bazuzo. I think it's just as likely that the concept artists for the series are the ones who are the big fans.
Where do you buy your Melange?
For the record, though, I think some people find too many connections between Souls and Berserk. There are some clear inspirations, but some of the connections people come up with are a bit tenuous at best. Also, people say that Miyazaki is a huge fan, but we really don't know that. All I've ever been able to find is one comment he made about how Siegmeyer's armor looks a bit like Bazuzo. I think it's just as likely that the concept artists for the series are the ones who are the big fans.
Where do you buy your Melange?
GekigangerV
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Another problem with Miura is that he has no assistants. Many of the big Manga-Ka have three or four assistants to help with a chapter to make the weekly release schedule of the major magazines.
Haunted
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shut up shutupshutup
Dragons Dogma was way too traditional fantasy for me
Crash Station
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How many chapters has he put out in the last 5 years?
I trust Togashi more at this point.
Palculator
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People say that due to the Berserk armor. Dragon's Dogma was otherwise not nearly comparable to Berserk, in my opinion. I'm not calling it a bad game, I love it very much, but just the overall tone is very different from Beserk and even previous Berserk games.
PotentialAcorn0
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People always mention Berserk but rarely mention Weird Fiction as a major inspiration. Don't just read Lovecraft's stories, check out Clark Ashton Smith, who Miyazaki seems equally inspired by. Robert E. Howard as well... to a lesser extent.
Also, to those with no patience for bad writing I'd recommend NOT bothering with Berserk. The writing is juvenile, horrible, sexist, and so on. Fantastic art though, so if you're interested in Berserk for that you won't be disappointed.
Also, to those with no patience for bad writing I'd recommend NOT bothering with Berserk. The writing is juvenile, horrible, sexist, and so on. Fantastic art though, so if you're interested in Berserk for that you won't be disappointed.
HTVfanatic
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So where do people read manga? I've never read any manga, but reading this thread really makes me think I should at least read Berserk (which sounds amazing and totally up my alley).
Haunted
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The only other mangas I actively follow these days are Hajime no Ippo and Kingdom.
nothing else is worth a damn
Furfuryl Furforate
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Edit: just to be safe
Crash Station
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I would edit that. It's technically not allowed because piracy.
Haunted
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most depressing thing I've seen all day
R_thanatos
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It's not really the berserk armor , Dragon dogma had several places that are VERY similar to ones in berserk ( witch forest hut is the best exemple ) and many build possibles are reallly , really close to berserk characters.
Plus fighting monsters in the dark with a Very big sword is ...
PRICELESS.
I mean , you don't think that fighting hordes of etherals wisps at night is kinda similar to ... that ?
Ps: i agree with you , the tone IS different , but the nods to berserk are clearly there.
Furfuryl Furforate
Banned
they honor DMCA's and even take down mangas on the simple request of license holders so the mangas they host are somewhat tolerated but I'll take it down to be safe can I PM it?
HTVfanatic
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Oh I'm sorry I should've known better. Meaning I shouldn't have asked that here. Thanks though
It's just plain terrible. Some of the worst the series has to offer.
Let's not forget that there's also a certain brown waifu that's eerly similar to a certain crazy woman from Berserk.
Rogue_Ledr
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I heard they made a new anime since then, in like the last 3 or 4 years.
Those would be the anime movies. They cover the same part of the story as the original anime did.
Crash Station
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I've gotten banned for it before, so just saying.
More Fun To Compute
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The sword design that the main character uses is very bad. It annoys me that it is so influential and many games have awful lumps of metal for the "best" swords in games and think that it is awesome berserk design. Look at real European swords for inspiration. I guess that just for this reason alone I prefer Rurouni Kenshin because the hero has a better sword.
Haunted
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Ricerocket
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I wish the anime actually finished the season but yeah, I think they had to pull the plug middle of a peak due to EXTREME violence and sex. What a shame because it was getting incredibility interesting. I havn't seen the manga yet but I can tell GUTS is that one last hope that tells you need to push on or die like utter trash, eaten, or dissolved into nothing.
Blueingreen
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My introduction to Berserk began with the anime series last year, the ending pissed me off so much that I had to read the manga, at first it was amazing one of the best things I've ever read, Guts is a fascinating character and his relationship with Griffith compelling, and I really want to see where the road ends, that's if Miura ever ends it.
And whilst I do enjoy the manga, the amount of rape, misogyny and occasional violence that women are subject to in the series is really starting to roll my eyes, it's beyond juvenile and just plain cynical, perhaps I'm over analysing.
And whilst I do enjoy the manga, the amount of rape, misogyny and occasional violence that women are subject to in the series is really starting to roll my eyes, it's beyond juvenile and just plain cynical, perhaps I'm over analysing.
Palculator
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Sure, but they're nods at most. Doesn't really fill the void of a proper Berserk game
I thought that was publisher meddling; goading him to make ANYTHING and try to keep it light?
And for the same reasons (with the addition of an absurd amount of racism and classism), I'd recommend not bothering with Lovecraft.
Unless you're interested in finding out what gross garbage horror fans have managed to turn into an icon and a posthumous merchandise empire. It's quite a fascinating, if deeply disturbing.
Point about his sword is that it is just a huge lump of metal that no one could use and was just rusting away. Till he showed up that is.
A giant slab of iron's actually much how it's described rather than a sword like the pic above mentions.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
thewhitehawk
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It's not bad.
Ivan Amiibo
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there's 37 of them and they take like an hour to read each, if that. not exactly Infinite Jest
More Fun To Compute
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You don't sound like much fun
I just like to see good designs.
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