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[JadedWriter]

Indeed. It wasn't bad (nothing in Berserk is bad) but it just wasn't all that interesting. I mean it was necessary since you kinda knew it was coming that Farnese was going to be reunited with her family in Vritannis and it showed how she truly belonged with Guts and his crew, but at the same time it just felt like the story came to a screeching halt. I mean people complain about the boat section lacking story progress, but I thought that part was worse.




I will admit the pirates were pretty annoying, specifically Captain Bonebeard. I just wanted him to die every time he would come back. Isma on the other hand is definitely a great new character. I really love seeing her interact with Isidro, it's cute and it brings out the better side of him too. They have great chemistry going on!

I actually liked all of the inner workings of Farnese's family stuff. It helped flesh out her character a lot in my opinion so that portion really didn't bother me at all. Sometimes a story needs to take a breather and focus on certain things before it goes back to the monster slaying so I actually appreciated that part. Bonebeard was annoying I'll admit, but for the most part the Sea God stuff was good. I do like Isma a lot and she does bring out the best in Isidro, he's leveled up so much since he was first introduced. They're probably like the cast of Final Fantasy IV or something.

 

[ponpo]

Was looking at Wonderfest 2016 stuff and saw this, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjVn8tRQeo

 

[RadioHeadAche]

I can't wait to eat that behelit.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

So I'm currently re-reading volume 34 and it's insane just how epic it is. What a massive turning point! And that art, what exactly was Miura on when doing this volume?! Everything in it looks so consistently jaw dropping! I actually think that volume 34 might be the best volume so far. Now, if you'll excuse me while I go and cry in a corner since I have no new chapters to read.

 

[EvilKatarn]

34 was the volume that made me go to Amazon after reading and order it (along with 35 and 36) right away.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

I'm on 34 right now. Left off after the demon army turned apostle and started fighting.

 

[True Savior]

It seems the new anime project will be a tv show

http://berserk-anime.com/news/index00060000.html

Starting in the summer.

 

[JadedWriter]

It seems the new anime project will be a tv show

http://berserk-anime.com/news/index00060000.html

Starting in the summer.

They still using that ghastly cg?

 

[Slightly Live]

They still using that ghastly cg?

So put your glasses on. Nothing will be wrong.

 

[True Savior]

They still using that ghastly cg?

More neogaf exclusive images of the new anime

 

[LaneDS]

How much was Skull Knight in the DC game? It's been forever since I played it.

I remember playing the game first, having no idea what it was, watching the anime, then reading the manga. Puck voiced by Cam Clarke (GATSU), that's about all I remember.

 

[Moaradin]

Been a while since I played it but I remember it being a small cameo at most. Not much of a role.

 

[JadedWriter]

So put your glasses on. Nothing will be wrong.

There's nothing wrong with my vision.

 

[True Savior]

How much was Skull Knight in the DC game? It's been forever since I played it.

I remember playing the game first, having no idea what it was, watching the anime, then reading the manga. Puck voiced by Cam Clarke (GATSU), that's about all I remember.

He only appears at the end. Small cut scene with him swallowing a behelit.

 

[HStallion]

I really hope the series is good. I'll even take CG as long as its done well, and it can be done well but a lot of studios never seem to go that extra mile to smooth things out and make it less robotic and awkward.

 

[Blade30]

I hope Susumu H. is doing the soundtrack or most of it (with forces god hand mix pls), that way it'll at least sooth the CGI crap, but only if he is doing it. The soundtrack of the movies were forgettable and kinda generic.

I should start re-reading the manga again, it's been quite some time now since I read it the last time.

 

[Monochromaticx]

It seems the new anime project will be a tv show

http://berserk-anime.com/news/index00060000.html

Starting in the summer.

WOWOW

 

[Werewolf Jones]

More neogaf exclusive images of the new anime

This will look better than the new anime though.

 

[LaneDS]

I will never not be bitter about the PS2 game never getting an official localization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdpqV7RPnTE posting the opening because it's still so damn good.

Edit: rewatching that got me thinking that maybe this TV show (or whatever it ends up being) might get us a PS4 game that I can get mad over it not getting localized.

 

[JadedWriter]

I will never not be bitter about the PS2 game never getting an official localization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdpqV7RPnTE posting the opening because it's still so damn good.

Edit: rewatching that got me thinking that maybe this TV show (or whatever it ends up being) might get us a PS4 game that I can get mad over it not getting localized.

You better start tweeting Shu about it now then.

 

[LaneDS]

You better start tweeting Shu about it now then.

Dear Shu, please get someone to make another Berserk game, and then please localize it.

Love-
Lane

 

[JadedWriter]

Dear Shu, please get someone to make another Berserk game, and then please localize it.

Love-
Lane

Tell them to get the Bloodborne guys to do the music.

 

[Moaradin]

get the bloodborne guys to do everything

 

[JadedWriter]

get the bloodborne guys to do everything

I know right. And some think they don't do combat well enough. I played Bloodborne religiously since it came out, combat is fine.

 

[LaneDS]

Everything except the music, Hirasawa Susumu should forever do Berserk music when possible.

 

[JadedWriter]

Everything except the music, Hirasawa Susumu should forever do Berserk music when possible.

They can collaborate. Bloodborne has some of the most metal orchestra music I've heard in a while. They can do the boss music, don't make me post Ludwig's theme in here.

 

[LaneDS]

Hey I love the soundtracks Sakuraba does, but if it's him or Hirasawa for Berserk music I'd want Hirasawa every time.

Miura created Berserk listening to Hirasawa's work and to me there's no sound more fitting than what he's created for it.

 

[EvilKatarn]

Sakuraba had nothing to do with Bloodborne, and honestly it was better for it. http://vgmdb.net/album/48300

 

[RadioHeadAche]

How much was Skull Knight in the DC game? It's been forever since I played it.

I remember playing the game first, having no idea what it was, watching the anime, then reading the manga. Puck voiced by Cam Clarke (GATSU), that's about all I remember.

Only in the post credits scene to eat the Baron's behelit. It was blueberry flavored. He liked it.

 

[LaneDS]

Sakuraba had nothing to do with Bloodborne, and honestly it was better for it. http://vgmdb.net/album/48300

I'll stick with my original answer, but that's interesting to learn all the same.

 

[JadedWriter]

Sakuraba had nothing to do with Bloodborne, and honestly it was better for it. http://vgmdb.net/album/48300

This. Sakuraba's stuff was nice in Demons Souls, but it eventually became samey too me. The Bloodborne stuff kicked it up a notch in the right way.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

It seems the new anime project will be a tv show

http://berserk-anime.com/news/index00060000.html

Starting in the summer.

So it's going to be episodic? That's really surprising. I was almost certain it was going to be another movie trilogy. This is good news, the manga needs as much room to breathe as possible, so doing it this way is so much more promising. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the content that was cut from the original series. That is if they even bother to acknowledge it. Anyway, consider me slightly more hyped now!

 

[True Savior]

So it's going to be episodic? That's really surprising. I was almost certain it was going to be another movie trilogy. This is good news, the manga needs as much room to breathe as possible, so doing it this way is so much more promising. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the content that was cut from the original series. That is if they even bother to acknowledge it. Anyway, consider me slightly more hyped now!

If they want some slight continuity, they should definitely address Skullknight entrance in the Eclipse and start from there. It works both as a "recap" from the last part of the movies and a continuation of the tv series. It allows then to go back to the Black Swordsman arc and just continue from there. And ending with Griffith rebirth which would be the natural contrast with the ending of the first tv series.

 

[EvilKatarn]

This. Sakuraba's stuff was nice in Demons Souls, but it eventually became samey too me. The Bloodborne stuff kicked it up a notch in the right way.

Sakuraba had nothing to do with Demon's Souls either.

http://vgmdb.net/album/15024

 

[RadioHeadAche]

If anything, I'm sure the series will follow the movie canon. The birth ceremony ending would be a perfect season finale.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

If they want some slight continuity, they should definitely address Skullknight entrance in the Eclipse and start from there. It works both as a "recap" from the last part of the movies and a continuation of the tv series. It allows then to go back to the Black Swordsman arc and just continue from there. And ending with Griffith rebirth which would be the natural contrast with the ending of the first tv series.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Did that great "wind" at the end of the Falconia chapter touch everyone allowing them to see elements of the astral plane, or was it a force so great that it dissolved the barrier between both worlds?

 

[Tacitus_]

Did that great "wind" at the end of the Falconia chapter touch everyone allowing them to see elements of the astral plane, or was it a force so great that it dissolved the barrier between both worlds?

The latter I believe.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

The latter I believe.

That's what I was thinking, because showing scenes like the skeletons rising from the graves wouldn't have made much sense otherwise. Or maybe it's a bit of both.

 

[JadedWriter]

Did that great "wind" at the end of the Falconia chapter touch everyone allowing them to see elements of the astral plane, or was it a force so great that it dissolved the barrier between both worlds?

I think the barrier got dissolved, cause after that a lot of big weird shit starts popping up.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

I love this panel. I always wanted to know what the Godhand do in their spare time. I imagined family game nights.

 

[JadedWriter]

I love this panel. I always wanted to know what the Godhand do in their spare time. I imagined family game nights.

What kind of crack was Miura smoking when he drew this?

 

[Kuroyume]

What kind of crack was Miura smoking when he drew this?

Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch

http://www.wga.hu/framex-e.html?file=html/b/bosch/3garden/wings/22right.html&find=hell

Btw, in Miura's interpretation, is that Ubik sitting in the middle of the table in that giant Man/monster's stomach?

 

[Veelk]

Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch

http://www.wga.hu/framex-e.html?file=html/b/bosch/3garden/wings/22right.html&find=hell

Btw, in Miura's interpretation, is that Ubik sitting in the middle of the table in that giant Man/monster's stomach?

That doesn't really answer the question. It just shifts the subject.

What kind of crack was Bosch smoking when he draw that?

 

[Kuroyume]

That doesn't really answer the question. It just shifts the subject.

What kind of crack was Bosch smoking when he draw that?

No idea lol

Btw, also check out this video from Buckethead for an amazing animated version of that scene: https://vimeo.com/12886418

Must watch, but obv nsfw..

Also, Japanese band girugamesh did their take on it in their recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbKJo0a2eTo 1:41 into the video

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

Btw, in Miura's interpretation, is that Ubik sitting in the middle of the table in that giant Man/monster's stomach?

Sure is.

 

[Moaradin]

I love that berserk page. One of my favorites lol

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Is there more Falconia stuff in volume 38? Because I'm up to 36 and getting kind of bored with the sea monster fights.

 

[Moonkid]

Is there more Falconia stuff in volume 38? Because I'm up to 36 and getting kind of bored with the sea monster fights.

Hell yeah there is.

Sakuraba had nothing to do with Bloodborne, and honestly it was better for it. http://vgmdb.net/album/48300

Glad someone else thinks this.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

Is there more Falconia stuff in volume 38? Because I'm up to 36 and getting kind of bored with the sea monster fights.

Like Moonkid just said, yes, there is more Falconia stuff in volume 38. In fact, almost all of volume 38 is focused on it. The introduction to Falconia is one of the highlights of the whole story so far for me. The art is just stunning. Seeing how amazing it looks was definitely worth the wait. You've got some really good stuff coming up!