The manga is pretty great tbh, one of my three favorite things about anime. You should definitely read the first two arcs of the manga. The first is a more fleshed out version of the first episode of the anime and is just better, the second was completely cut out but is one of the most gloriously dark and nihilistic fantasy stories you'll ever read. It shows Guts as being the hardass developed by the "Golden Age" origin story from the anime, with brilliant action scenes involving that giant sword from the first episode, and shows just how far he will go to get to the God Hand after what they did at the end of the anime, all the way up to shattering his body and fighting a Lovecraftian horror as just some guy with a sword. It's pretty mindblowing.
After that it goes to the origin story for a long time, but when it goes back to the "current" time period it goes very hard. There are those questionable moments I mentioned (which still fit with the horrendously dark tone of the series), but holy **** is it worth it to read one of the best fantasy stories of all-time. And the art is unparalleled in its painstaking detail. You really need to at least give it a shot. The Berserk manga is amazing. There's a reason they went back after all those years to explore all that **** they left out in the original anime.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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