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Berserk golden age arc 1 sub1/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The pacing of the manga is very variable: sometimes dozens of pages are spent on a battle that lasts only a few minutes, sometimes weeks pass between pages we may get very detailed briefings on socio-political situations, or we may just get “this is the king, he’s evil”. We’re now up to the 36th volume, with on end in sight. ![]() There follows and increasingly confused series of battles, wars, political ploys, and various levels of magic. By the third volume we get to see a 11-volume long flash-back: how Guts became a mercenary, how he got recruited into Griffith’s “Band of the Hawk”, how Griffith got induced into the group of semi-divine beings known as the God Hand. ![]() MIURA Kentarou (三浦 建太郎) started writing his epic manga in 1990: the first few chapters look like a supernatural splatter horror story, with the main character Guts felling monsters with his huge sword. Mythological creatures walking the earth. ![]() Ambition so all-consuming that it destroys souls, friendships, love, and the barrier between worlds. A sword capable of defeating semi-divine beings. A very ambitious project, let down by CGI…Ī boy born from a hanged woman. ![]()
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