The Good: I'm rarely interested enough to try long running comic serials but I'd say Berserk is one of my top contenders for that form. Some books that I've read don't neatly fold down the middle, and you sort of have to fight to keep them open - not even a slight issue with this, probably due to the gently curved spine. The Band of the Hawk manage to fend off the Black Dog Knights, only to go through a ordeal when facing their sadistic commander Wyald. You could stick to the first 14 volumes because that does constitute a great story but it would be an infuriatingly open ended one.

Griffith is a charismatic mercenary with dreams of ending a hundred year war in hopes of attaining his own kingdom. The four Guardian Angels of the God Hand appear and inform Griffith that his tribulations have led to him being chosen as their final member, which requires him to sacrifice the Band of the Hawk to everyone's shock. Those chapters have the most ill advised comic relief; they keep the books running far longer than they need to (more on that later) and keeping you from the most exciting main plotlines. In Albion, with the surrounding refugee camp in utter disarray from the starved and over-populated masses, Mozgus begins his task in the Tower of Conviction where "sinful" beggars are tortured.

Miura claims the similarity between Guts and Ash from Evil Dead was a coincidence but later on there is an Evil Dead reference.

Sometimes it looks as if monsters are politely waiting for everyone to finish their speeches before attacking (a privilege that anonymous crowds never get). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, has saved the Band of the Hawk mercenaries from the army of Midland, but he must now descend into the dungeons of Windham Castle to liberate the Hawks' charismatic leader. Guts then sees a newly reconstituted Griffith, yet could not attack him due to Casca while the others use the Apostle's appearance to flee as a Kushan legion arrives. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Griffith is shown visions of his consciousness by Uvik to be convinced that a few more sacrificed lives are trivial in regard to the fulfillment of his dream.