The Anime/Manga thread (quote, Bell)

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Just bought the new Berserk movie Golden Age Arc II. Aside from some dodgy CG animation that looked a bit video gamey at times it was pretty fantabulous. Supposedly the next installment, about the Eclipse, is even more disturbing than the manga. Stoked. The anime was great, but the manga was so much better, so if the new movie can top the manga version of the Eclipse I'll probably crap my pants. And then they claim that they're going to continue the movies to finally get into the rest of the series. Stoked, stoked, stoked.

So am I the only Berserk fan here? Along with Hellsing and Evangelion it's pretty much the best anime since sliced bread though I still have yet to finish the manga series, which is pretty much Dragonball length.

Berserk has never really gotten the anime adaptation it's deserved, but the manga is pretty much regarded as Japan's #1 dark fantasy export and one of the biggest selling "seinen" demographic mangas of all time. Its still ongoing by the way...

What I like most about Berserk though is its a direct descendent (thematically atleast) of all that classic sword n' sorcery / dark fantasy pulp literature that guys like Robert E. Howard and Ashton Clark Smith wrote back in the 1920's through the 40's, not to mention the cosmic indifferentism that H.P. Lovecraft pioneered during that period in his own stories. There's a lot of other influences too of course - Miura is a huge heavy metal fan, so that bleeds through into the narrative and overall aesthetic.

But yeah, you aren't alone in your Berserk fandom, lol.