Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition

PLEASE ADD A CONTINUE WE ALL ARE CRYING SO MUCH THAT THE BERSERK IS ENDING I REGISTERED HERE JUST FOR THIS! PLEASE DON'T END THE ANIME.

THE HOW THIS ANIME IS RELEASED NOW* THE HOW IT IS DRAWN IT IS GORGEOUS VERY LIKE PLEASE DON'T FINISH WE WILL SUPPORT YOU ----- PLEASE ADD A CONTINUE WE ALL ARE CRYING SO MUCH THAT THE BERSERK IS ENDING I REGISTERED HERE JUST FOR THIS! PLEASE DON'T END THE ANIME.

THE HOW THIS ANIME IS RELEASED NOW* THE HOW IT IS DRAWN IT IS GORGEOUS VERY LIKE PLEASE DON'T FINISH WE WILL SUPPORT YOU PLEASE DON'T FINISH WE WILL SUPPORT YOU PLEASE DON'T FINISH WE WILL SUPPORT YOU.

PLEASE CONTINUE.

I Thought of nothing else since seeing this anime. CRYING SO MUCH because of the themes raised.

PLEASE DON'T END THE ANIME. This is a real legacy for Kentaro Miura - may he RIP knowing that his legacy lives on and beyond him.

The way IT IS DRAWN IS GORGEOUS.

I WILL SUPPORT YOU IN PROMOTING THE GENIUS OF THIS ANIME.

The funny thing is, it deals with male rape that people never ever really do. It raises some real deep philosophical question about society and friendships.

I know a lot of people talk about the killing, death and murder but to me they were sound notes to this masterpiece.

TLDR: Great show with phenomenal characters and story (I mean its Berserk), but has a mix of beautiful and wacky animation plus a more condensed story.

Review: I was introduced to Berserk a few months ago by the 1997 anime (which is a 10/10 show) and then read the entire manga. After I finished it, I wanted more Berserk of course so I gave it a try. What I found was that it is a pretty safe adaptation of the golden age arc with good voice acting, beautiful animation for the most part, and extra scenes from the manga that 1997 does not show.

Lets talk about the animation and VA for a sec. This show is odd because 75% of the time it has beautiful hand drawn animation, but 25% of the time it has bad cgi animation that completely took me out of it. I have no clue why they didn't just do the hand drawn the whole time. I will also say the voice acting for the english dub was surprisingly pretty alright.

Now the story, which is Berserk. If your new, its a dark fantasy story about Guts who is a soldier with a big sword and the band he fights for called the Hawks. The story from the manga is just a template for a 10/10 show, it's so dark but so good. So of course the story is great. I will also say it adds some great depth even through its short run time for a show.

My biggest gripe with the show is that it is so condensed, if I was a first time watcher I wouldn't know the context and in-depth reasonings of the story. It will literally mention a big part of the manga that they skipped over like we are supposed to have already known. I did, but not if I was watching for the first time.

Overall great story, great animation for the most part, and a good time!

In the 1997 series, they already successfully reflected these parts of the manga. Then a movie trilogy was made in 2012-2013. I think that was unnecessary anyway, but this Memorial Edition version makes no sense. Taking the movie trilogy and dividing it into episodes and releasing it again as if it were a series is like kicking a dead horse. The series in 2016-2017 could have been much more successful if there had been a real effort instead of spending time and resources on these things. If you're not interested in doing something new with Berserk, at least stop ruining what has been done well in the past.

Even though this is technically a new presentation of the same animation from the film trilogy, it is clearly so much better and touched up in comparison. The pacing is wonderful. It feels so much more akin to the original anime than before. The little bits of newly added content covered so many small but iconic moments that NEEDED to be part of the story for the overall vibe that is Berserk. Concise and gets the point across while still honoring the source material. They really blew it out of the water. If you can't access the OG anime and don't wanna read the manga, this is it. This is the one. I love it so much.