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.

Allright, I do feel curious about it. I'm not sure how available the manga is, but I'll look for it. I really would prefer having it in book form. Not a big fan of reading books and comics on the screen.

I understand that. I read a large number of the early series in physical form and it was a formative period in my love of manga. But here, Amazon has you covered.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...=berserk+manga

Neat. Don't know how many volumes it spans, but I'll look it up.

There are so many ****ing volumes. It's a very long running series.

Still ****ing love Fist of the North Star. All the strong points of Shonen without any of the downsides. I ****ing love how they shattered the whole "Everybody, give me strength!" Spirit Bomb BS trope years before DBZ unironically spammed it into infinity.

I mean, ****, look at this ****

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I just cancelled an Amazon order for the Uzumaki omnibus cause I wasn't sure that I should be wasting as much money as I've been recently but I'm still unsure if I was right to cancel it. Manga with legit horror is a rare beast and I've been wanting to read it for a long while now. Reading horror comics on your browser simply isn't in any way the same. It was only $18 with shipping for god's sake.

Rewatching Now And Then, Here And There, one of the first great isekai anime. Hits you in the feels like a two ton brick.

Isekai sounds like a bad thing tbh. Anything based on light novels beyond the mid-2000s sounds like a bad thing.