Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition

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.

THANKS EVERYONE FOR MAKING THIS REAL. I read the manga and watched all previo series this one has really good style i know its cgi looking but still the way they put it all together is great. I am really gonna enjoy this series. I hope they keep doing all the undone parts as well. Berserk deserve this and Kentaro Miura will be honored to have a series this good for its masterpiece. I cant wait to see other episodes as well. Arigato gozaimasu to all japanese folks out there. The voices sound different but its probably because of me since its been quite a while for me too. Everything about the show is great. I hope they continue.

In my view this is the absolute best version of the Goldern Age story ark (AKA Season 1) of Berserk. An absolute MUST SEE for any Anime enthusiast. Yes I understand that it does skip some of the lore from the manga but the core of the story arc is there and polished to its absolute best! I tried also going through the original 1997 version that many claim as more accurate but I absolutely could not digest the low res designs and the crappy cheap animation.. If you can endure with this maybe you can get some more depth in the lore from the older version but be aware that it is also incomplete at many points and leaves you with a cliffhanger... We need more Berserk at the Memorial Edition quality!

It has it all. Emotion, story, guts and gore, mystery, Just the best. Looks like a great rework of the berserk anime in 1997. Still the same, but high quality. Maybe good for people that are new to the story. Can be partially compared with Dark Souls, the game. A hack and slash with a lot of mystery and good use of music and image to frighten :). If you like that, watch it! Wait for the end, trust me.

I hope there will finally be more in the future, even though the berserk anime in 2016 was not so popular as the one in 1997, the story deserves a continuation. I am really looking forward to it and hope that the manga is not the only way to see the whole story.

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!