The Genius Of Berserk

0:00 - Prologue
1:24 - The Black Swordsman
8:24 - Golden Age
19:06 - Conviction
28:13 - Millennium Falcon
43:31 - Fantasia

[TheAutistWhisperer]

I already know Berserk is genius, I just came here to have my biases reaffirmed.

[tobluetoblack]

i think a majority of us by now know why we came back to this video. RIP Kentaro Miura. You gave us a timeless masterpiece

[PrimalSnake]

Did anyone else realize how the scenes of Guts vs Griffith 1 and 2 are opposite in someways. Griffith fought Guts to make him join the hawks and it was sunny outside on a hill with the whole band watching. Casca being upset because Griffith is treating Guts like no one else. The second time they fought on a hill but this time it's snowing and Guts is fighting to leave the hawks. Also Casca is upset again but this time she doesn't want them to fight and she doesn't want Guts to leave. Berserk is truly magnificent.

[spiraljumper]

This may sound kinda weird, but I needed Berserk. I needed to see Guts let go of his rage and make a conscious choice to move on and live with his trauma without being defined by it. Because I needed to do that too. I started reading Berserk at one of the lowest points in my life, I was suicidal, I had barely repressed memories bubbling to the surface. Seeing him come to terms with his childhood and deal with how it affected his development gave me an emotional template to follow. A few years later I met a girl in highschool, we fell in love, and she confided in me that she had been raped the previous year. I remember that time as a whirlpool of highs and lows, the joy and excitement of new love contrasted with unimaginable rage and feelings of impotence and helplessness. As I kept reading, I saw a character I admired going on an emotional journey similar to mine yet again, and it helped, it really did. Ultimately, think Berserk transcends the grim-dark nihilism of its early arcs and becomes a deeply humanistic story about the value of found family and finding new reasons to live.

Thank you, Kentaro Miura, for being the best therapist I never hired.

[thomasdevlin]

Me finishing the Guts on a boat arc: "That really wasn't that bad, I actually liked it quite a bit. I wonder why everybody says it took too long"
Me realizing just how long the Guts on a boat arc lasted IRL: "Wait, that's nearly a third of my life..."

[joseandresdupuis]

Masashi Kishimoto: “takes four years to write a war”
Miura: Hold my beer

[bray]

Berserk isn't the Dark Souls of animé...

Dark Souls is the Berserk of video games

[SokkaMe]

The lost children arc is one that I feel gets neglected too much. Terrific enemy design, a great look into Guts' darker side, but also hints at the strong soul he has.

[derekkrum]

I find it odd that people enjoy dark stuff but when it comes to berserk it’s too dark. Yes there are some gruesome stuff that happens but all in all the story telling is made to get you to think about this stuff. It’s meant to put you into the place of said person and make you experience that feeling as well as if you were apart of it. That’s good story telling

[rileyboy]

What I loved most about Berserk my first time going through it, was how during the Golden age arc everything seemed like fairly normal dark fantasy, with a rough and gritty medieval setting where besides the guy swinging around a big sword around like it was a kitchen knife seemed fairly accurate to that era. Then, to see it all go wrong, to see those hints that the world wasn't quite as you thought, like when we meet Zodd for the first time, and the skull knight, it leads you on like that's all this story will ever be, and then BAM the god hand moment hits us right as the cast are at their lowest, with their charismatic leader crippled beyond repair and our protagonist ready to head off on his own, everything is turned upside down entirely. I love how you as a viewer get lead on with these expectations of how things are and will turn out, only to get the whole thing flipped upside down and turned on it's head. For me it was such a shock, people who've watched GOT or something for the first time likely experienced something similar, it was raw disbelief of what I was seeing, I couldn't even imagine a story unfolding in such a way prior to discovering it. I was complete and utterly blindsided and loved every damn second. It was that moment that I knew I would love berserk until the end of my days. That to me was the real genius.

[andrewbrannen]

I'm sad Berserk cant get a proper modern Anime adaptation

[johnbk]

I am kinda a newish fan to berserk. But it had a very very big impact on my life
I was going though a dark time in my life were i had almost given up on life. Then I watched berserk on Netflix and the last part guts talks about how this is just another fight. That stuck with me and berserk became my favorite manga/anime.

[BetaXeeta]

I wish we had a company not afraid and talented enough to make an adaptation exactly like the manga, there is too much to cut out of the manga. If there are things being cut out, then it isn't a true Berserk

[katsuok]

Whenever you're having a bad day remember Guts had it worse

[FreezieX]

Berserk has changed so many of our lives over these years, and for some, it has even been our sole saving grace. Miura poured everything he had into this story, and it will forever go down in history as one of, if not the best, manga ever written.

I don't remember where this quote came from, I think it has been warped over the years, but it went something like this:
"People die three times. The first is when their body and mind cease to function. The second is when they are consigned to the grave. The third is when their name is forgotten. Some people only face the first two. Isn't that beautiful?"

Miura will never face the third death, and will forever be remembered for generations to come.

Rest in Peace forevermore, Kentaro Miura.

[MrMattogreen]

"Conviction arc is the least popular arc" *Boat arc would like to know your location*

[urmumgaylol]

I wish miura has a stand that can draw for him while he thinks of the story

[ofekgayero]

Now playing Sekiro Shadows Die Twice made me realized that from software might be the THE ONE developer to create a true tribute to the series not just because from were inspired by it in demons souls, dark souls trilogy and bloodborne . With both amazing world building and narrative they managed to make and atmosphere they can really make a game that can live up to the MASTERPIECE level of berserk and deliver the adaptation we are looking for.

[biscuitboy]

"Gets to see casca come back"
*laughs in PTSD*

[mileskenney]

Wow I didn’t realize ppl didn’t like the conviction arc. The whole imitation of the eclipse where the tower slowly changed shape into the hand was some of the best use of imagery I’ve ever seen. And all of the crazy circumstances all culminating in griffiths rebirth I thought was brilliant. Like how Griffith used the demon fetus of guts and casca that he himself corrupted years earlier as the basis for his new form is just dripping with subtext