Created by Kenturo Miura, Berserk is manga mayhem to the extreme - violent, horrifying, and mercilessly funny - and the wellspring for the internationally popular anime series. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Berserk asks for no quarter - and offers none!
His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice. But Guts won't take his fate lying down; he'll cut a c more
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Berserk is amazing, this is nothing shocking. This however isn't really the best intro to such a revered series. It's definitely the most rough part of Miura's work. It's still breathtaking. His sense of scale and weight in his art is spectacular. It just hasn't aged the best and thrusts you into a world with a lot of unexplained questions. He builds the world around these questions but it's a slow start. This simply serves to establish who Guts is, the dreary and dark world he lives in and what kind of person we will see him as for the time being. One fitting the horrific world he inhabits.
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