True Savior
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I just need to find a cool chick to also wear it.
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Berserk |OT| - Big men, bigger swords, OFF THE BOAT - Berserk #344 24/6/2016
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I just need to find a cool chick to also wear it.
5 minutes was a bit of an exaggeration
. I just meant it's tough waiting a month for a small amount of content. But I guess we're all in this together! At least for now it's being released consistently.And yeah... I kind of groaned at Erica running outside.
The Omega Man
Member
To find her you must wear the t-shirt until the cool chick you seek comes your way, you'll know who she is when she starts complementing you on your Berserk shirt ;D
True Savior
Member
Guts boat ride will feel like a short trip next to the journey i would have to go through to find that gal.
When he got caught on fire people on r/berserk said that was his monster form.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Was it ever mention when to expect the next chapter?
Werewolf Jones
Member
October 23rd. It was literally on the last page.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Thanks must have missed that
also on my birthday as well :3Elfforkusu
Member
Just read the new chapter.
That is not going to end well.
That is not going to end well.
The Omega Man
Member
I didn't realize he transformed until after listening to the discussion on 340 in the Berserk podcast, I had to check again, many people still think he hasn't transformed and I don't blame them, Rakshas was already wierd and non human so he just became bigger I think.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Yeah she'll be fine. Miura went soft because of Schierke, really doubt Erica dies
Werewolf Jones
Member
Miura needed a generic fall back to keep this plotline going.
Considering how she draws it sometimes, its the opposite. 😋
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I think it's time for an update.
I'm going to stop doing my volume reviews because to be perfectly honest, it takes up way too much time and I can't be bothered anymore. 15 of them is enough. Anyway, I've now read 22 volumes (wow at the reunion) and I'm still blown away with just how consistently incredible this is. Absolutely everything it does such as writing, overall plot, scale, world building, pacing, characters, back stories, comedy, sadness, depth, themes, foreshadowing and symbolism are all done perfectly.
I honestly didn't know something could be this good! Miura is a genius. It's obvious he's meticulously planned this all very carefully. After every volume I read I watch video reviews from 'Chibi Reviews' and 'AnrikuZer0 Reacts' on YouTube because every single damn volume is worth analysing. When I'm not reading a volume I'm probably still thinking about a volume! This masterpiece sticks with you.
I'm going to stop doing my volume reviews because to be perfectly honest, it takes up way too much time and I can't be bothered anymore. 15 of them is enough. Anyway, I've now read 22 volumes (wow at the reunion) and I'm still blown away with just how consistently incredible this is. Absolutely everything it does such as writing, overall plot, scale, world building, pacing, characters, back stories, comedy, sadness, depth, themes, foreshadowing and symbolism are all done perfectly.
I honestly didn't know something could be this good! Miura is a genius. It's obvious he's meticulously planned this all very carefully. After every volume I read I watch video reviews from 'Chibi Reviews' and 'AnrikuZer0 Reacts' on YouTube because every single damn volume is worth analysing. When I'm not reading a volume I'm probably still thinking about a volume! This masterpiece sticks with you.
Can you just grab all the post you did beforehand and put them in a single post.
RadioHeadAche
Member
It's a one-shot, right? Or several volumes?
Werewolf Jones
Member
It's one volume of like six/seven chapters I think and honestly it's not that good. I guess Miura just needed to blow off some creative steam into something that's not Berserk.
He got in a lot of depth into his main character with the few chapters he had. He established him as a strong but respectful dude of others culture, and he set up the world as a very interesting place.
Man, I would never want to be a mangaka specifically for the problems they face. they have to work on the same story for years on end, and that goes ten times for perfectionists like Miura that give so much detail to their art. But for all that, he produces some of the best work on the market.
Man, I would never want to be a mangaka specifically for the problems they face. they have to work on the same story for years on end, and that goes ten times for perfectionists like Miura that give so much detail to their art. But for all that, he produces some of the best work on the market.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
* Guts is insanely badass!
* I'm really liking Puck so far. His comedy is welcomed.
* The overall atmosphere is amazing. It totally sucks you in.
* Some spectacular gore in this volume thanks mainly to The Count.
* I found some of the action in this volume a little hard to follow at times.
* I really wanted Guts to
save Vargas.
transformation!
* Wow at Guts using
his mouth to swing his sword!
goat/orgy
* The Count. What a tragic character.
* Poor Theresia. I was so glad Guts
showed some sorrow towards her
* Dat Golden Age arc art upgrade!
* The amount of mature themes and general tone in this volume was nuts! What a ride!
*
Donovan
* That two page spread of Guts looking up at the night sky right before he was
attacked by wolves
* That whole nightmare with
Shisu as a dog.
* "Are you a homo?" "Fag boy." Haha, wow! That kind of came out of nowhere.
* The Guts fight with Griffith was the highlight of the volume.
Guts biting the sword
* The art! It has already improved so much! I went back and had a quick look at volume 1 again and the difference is huge.
* Guts is only 18? Really? He looks older. He looked older than 15 in the last volume too.
* The Nosferatu Zodd fight was so damn good! Him
using his severed arm to hit Guts
* The characters are developing wonderfully!
* LOL at Griffith showing Guts a nudie book!
*
Poor Adonis. Poor Guts.
* Loved the vision/nightmare of
Nosferatu Zodd killing Gambino and Guts, essentially mirroring when Guts killed Julius and Adonis.
* Aww, Casca warmed Guts's body and now Guts is warming her body. I never made that connection when watching the anime/movies.
* Guts
killing 100 mercenaries
Samson's death.
* Loved when Guts slapped Casca's butt. Her reaction was amazing.
* Boscogn is badass!
* The battle for Doldrey was epic! So much different stuff happening all at once!
* LOL at the random
Puck
Adon asked Casca for forgiveness.
* Loved the
Nosferatu Zodd
* Corkus called Guts a "fag." Ouch!
* The Queen is such a cold bitch. Love it!
* Griffith's plot to
kill the Queen and the others was delicious.
the Queen saw him from the burning building.
assassination
* What the hell at Corkus telling Guts he aimed his bowgun at him during battles! What an ass!
* The emotions were leaping off the pages during
the sword fight between Guts and Griffith. Griffith looked utterly devastated when he lost.
* Skull Night oozes coolness.
* Wow at Griffith's smirk at the King after
being whipped.
the King violating Charlotte!
* Love the way Silat looks. Also,
dem hidden blades in his shoes!
Guts's return.
* LOL at Guts trying to throw Silat's chakram rings!
* Damn at Gut's past with
Donovan and Gambino coming back to haunt him
* Forget a 6 pack, Guts has a 10 pack!
* "Now...something beyond human knowledge...has begun to stir." Epic! The build up to the eclipse has been incredible! The foreshadowing is fantastic!
* I loved how Casca
grabbed Gut's hand,
grabbed his cape.
*
Poor Rickert!
The Count!
giant serpent
* Glad we got some interesting backstrory on who I'm assuming is
Skull Knight.
5 angels be the Godhand?
putting his hand over Gut's neck to try and choke him
* The
torturer's death
* Guts going into rage mode was epic!
* Whoa,
the King
* I absolutely loved everything about the fight with the Bakiraka in the sewer. It was the highlight of the volume! Shame it was cut from the anime/movies.
* That image of Wyald
raping that poor innocent girl
impale all those body parts?
* I liked how traps were set up by The Band of the Hawk as a back up plan. They really thought things through.
* Wyald stopping Gut's sword
with his mouth
punching Gut's horse in the face?
*
Wyald killing his own men?
* Oh my God at the
penis tongue!
that dead body as a distraction
* Dat sword break! Dat brutality! Guts
going stab happy on Wyald
*
Wyald's death was something else!
that gory end.
demons dragging him away
* I can understand why, but it's still interesting that almost everything in this volume was cut from the anime/movies. The eclipse will only sting more now.
* Yay! We now get the sound effects translated!
* Wow at Griffith trying to
'rape' Casca.
*
Puck!
* I never noticed this before, but is that what I think it is on Slan's chest?!
* The Godhand
being behind the mask of the old lady
* Griffith's face when
he seals the deal.
* The art in this volume was simply spectacular, especially with how detailed all the demons were!
* The deep themes of fate and destiny, the symbolism, foreshadowing, emotions and scale of everything starting to climax in this volume was perfection!
* Would you look at that? The demon
that killed Corkus
* Judeau's
death hurt.
he protected Casca.
when he got stabbed for the final time.
he had feelings for Casca.
* Guts using
that demon horn as a weapon.
* Good God at some of the violent images of
heads exploding as Griffith is 'sinking.'
* Are you freaking kidding me with
Gaston's death?!
The Count?! The Count ripped Pippin apart?!
* Yuck! So many
penis demons
* Even though I knew it was coming,
Griffith raping Casca
* Now I know why some people say they botched
the rape scene
*
Casca being completely broken
* I felt sorry for Guts when he was running away and
thinking of everyone who died.
killing Gambino.
has a new dream.
We've come full circle!
* I really liked how
the demon baby prevented the evil spirits from attacking Casca
it sucked her brand of sacrifice,
* Oh man! Gut's face when he tried
to kiss Casca and she pushed him away
come so far too!
*
The red lake = The Band of the Hawk?
the ritual of sacrifice on that tree involving intestines!
casually cut that bandits tongue.
tree transformation!
throwing the needle balls.
* "Ske...daddle." I literally LOL'd when Puck said that when he wanted Guts
to run from the angry mob.
* Between Jill
being beaten and heavily implied to being raped
getting abused,
* I enjoyed Berserk The Prototype. It was a cool little story. It was interesting to see all the small changes. Also, hi Theresia and The Count!
* Wow at all the
dead burning children
* It's great to see Guts throwing up at
the burning children attacking him,
* Poor Peekaf. I'm willing to bet that story of him really happened.
* LOL at "Betchi, the Behelit."
* Rosine putting
a frog
* Dat
ball of corpses!
* LOL at how Puck remembers The Godhand!
* Guts
using his arm cannon and sword at the same time on 2 different demon insects
* LOL at Puck's reaction when
he's spotted by the fake elves
he's holding an eyeball.
* The Misty Valley is so pretty and peaceful. Oh look, the fake elves are
slaughtering each other!
they're only children!
into an extra-special elf."
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I can't believe I forgot to mention how amazing the art is!
Werewolf Jones
Member
What's it like seeing the art get progressively better as the series goes on? I read Berserk like nearly a decade ago so I don't remember it being that big a deal at the time, was more engrossed into the story.
Tizoc
Member
Is their translation for the Drifters manga good too?
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I honestly find it hard to notice most of the time as I'm reading. It's not until I pick up an earlier volume and flick through it do I realise just how far the art has come. The art in the last few volumes has been unreal, and the crazy thing is that I know it's only going to get better! By the way, I could just be going crazy, but I thought volume 20 had a slight dip in quality when it comes to the art.
Should only be a month or so until Medicom's Black Swordsman Guts figure is out. Can't wait, looks pretty dope.
It definitely is.
Yes.
It's crazy. It's just way more detailed, especially in the backgrounds and action scenes. I've been marathoning over the past few months (on volume 25 right now) and it's definitely a noticeable jump. The Golden Age stuff is better than the early volumes and I think it takes yet another jump once you hit like the Tower of Conviction arc.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I really love all the little details Miura puts into all the volumes. All the way back in volume 5 Casca says to Guts "You're just a mad dog!!" In volume 9 Casca says to Guts "I too want a wound...that I can say you gave me." In volume 23
I'm not sure if it was all supposed to be intentionally connected, but still, mind blown!
Guts/The Beast of Darkness then bites Casca's breast.
Heh. When I first read the Dark Horse books instead of the scans I'd read (you know the group) years ago, I suddenly understood the characterization and cosmology that was simply opaque when I'd read the amateur translation.
True Savior
Member
I know nothing about japanese so i can't complain about translations. I've read some of them are not on point as it should be. But the whole Hawk/Falcon should have been clarified with the author. Instead everyone calls them the wrong name because of a translation.
The early fan translations were just shit. And I'm not just talking about the quality of the translation itself, they must've used something like ms-paint to draw white boxes where to write in the english.
One thing I want to know is it the "band of the hawk" or "band of the falcon"? I loved the the band of the hawk name but then again we have a "Falcon of the Millennium Empire Arc" or "millennium falcon arc". IIRC hawk and falcon mean the same thing in Japanese.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I believe it's actually Band of the Falcon. It's been known as Band of the Hawk for so long that the Western fans still call it that.
True Savior
Member
It's Band of the Falcon. Miura is a Star Wars fan. Millenium Falcon arc , Falconia , etc , all seems strange when they translated the band as Hawk. It's Falcon.
Sure , if you are comparing DH with them , they are probably much better.. I used to read Puella translations (a user from skulknight.net) which tended to be slightly better (or so i was told). But watching images and reading lines on a paper...its hard man. It's hard.
Official Japanese material for the TV series called them "the Hawk Soldiers", so...
EvilKatarn
Member
And Miura said it's Falcon, so...
http://www.skullknight.net/forum/in...l4p6nek49cnga6&topic=9513.msg166232#msg166232
I would have prefer to think that Griffith started off with the Hawks, but the new Band is the Falcons. Maybe his is just me, but when I think Hawks, I think badass birds of prey. But Falcons have an air of nobility around them that Hawks lack. Hawks are birds of Warriors while Falcons are birds of Kings.
Just my personal take on it.
Just my personal take on it.
It's obviously "Falcon" in "Millennium Falcon". Never said otherwise. I'm just pointing out that "Hawk" has officially been used when referring to the group.
Kinda-sorta mine as well (note also how Rickert recently pointed out that the emblem had changed). But it's a bit shaky, considering there's really no difference at all in the Japanese text...
"Everything", as in "Falconia" and... well, just "Falconia", really.
It's definitely not the case in the actual text of the series, and no translation I've seen have used this distinction either It's just a bit of fanon I'm applying to make the world more cohesive and add a bit of symbolism to accompany Griffith's change.
You could just argue he's bird themed in general. His warriors are the hawks, his city is the falcon, one of his knights is a duck...that little girl makes a point of comparing people to other birds. He's a birdy guy.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
What perfect timing for this discussion since I've just recently read through volume 23, which is the first volume that changed it from Hawk to Falcon. It confused me because I wasn't sure if it was actually changed as part of the story or if it was just changed because it was simply a more accurate translation from the very start. I guess it's the latter. It's weird though, they changed the arc name yet they still refer to Hawk in the chapters. Why not just leave it at Hawk for the sake of consistency? I guess if you look at it as the new name for Griffith's new team it kinda makes sense.
Well, the quality was also bad. They did the oddest things with characters' voices, especially Isidro.
RadioHeadAche
Member
He sounds like a weird old man in the PS2 game.
Nappuccino
Member
Aren't there OOP volumes?