- Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:25 pm
#114286
Berserk is my favorite Manga. I remember at first thinking it was gonna be just a fantasy manga with a strong dude having a big sword and therefore was going to be a bit lame, a bit centered on young boys fantasies, big on sword and magic, but lame on plot. But it's actually very good ! The detailed artwork, excellent characters, cultural references, well done horror... It's very good.
Regarding the anime, I suggest viewing the original series even though it ends on a cliffhanger, then read the manga. There's a 3 part OVA : ''Berserk, the Golden Age'' that's worth seeing, it covers everything from the first series, and a little bit of what happens after the cliffhanger, but everything happens so fast in it, that it might be better to watch it only if one's already familiar with the material from the 90's serie or the manga, beforehand.
The series that started in 2016 is terrible. It's the direction, they do stuff with the camera that you can't do without loosing your spatial cues. It tries to be stylish in the way they use the camera but it ends up being stuuuupid. The CGI isn't great, so that doesn't help. I watched 3 episodes and that and it was enough for me to disregard the serie completely.