Berserk manga Wikipedia. BerserkJapanese ,Hepburn Beruseruku is a Japanese dark fantasymanga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval. Europe inspired darkfantasy world, the story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the Band of the Hawk. Themes of isolation, camaraderie, and the question of whether humanity is fundamentally good or evil pervade the story, as it explores both the best and worst of human nature. Both the manga and anime are noted for their use of graphic violence and sexual content. Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1. Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 2 - The Battle For Doldrey Video Download ' title='Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 2 - The Battle For Doldrey Video Download ' />The actual series began the following year in the now defunct magazine Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1. Young Animal, where Berserk continues to be serialized intermittently. The series was adapted into a twenty five episode anime series covering the series Golden Age arc by Oriental Light and Magic from October 7, 1. March 3. 1, 1. 99. A trilogy of films, Berserk The Golden Age Arc, were released beginning in 2. A second anime adaptation began broadcasting on July 1, 2. Guts,Gattsu is a wandering mercenary whose entire world from birth is warfare and bloodshed. Born from a hanged corpse, the adoptive mother who rescued him dies from the plague when Guts is only three years old, and from then on Guts learns to fight in the mercenary band led by his adoptive father Gambino. Gambino is cruel to Guts even as he teaches the boy warfare, selling access to Guts to a rapist among the mercenaries and later attempting to murder Guts in a drunken rage. Guts flees after killing his adoptive father in self defense. As a young man, Guts fights without any regard for his safety and earns a fearsome reputation. He catches the attention of Griffith, the charismatic leader of the Band of the Hawk ,Taka no Dan. Griffith swiftly defeats Guts, forcing him to join the Band of the Hawk, and Guts soon becomes the bands renowned raid leader and Griffiths deadliest subordinate. He also forms a heated rivalry, and later relationship, with Casca, the only female member of the Hawks, who is Griffiths right hand commander. Griffith reveals to Guts that though Griffith is not a noble, he will get his own kingdom, and possesses a Crimson Behelit pendantan Egg of the King, the ownership of which destines the bearer to obtain the world in exchange for his own flesh and blood. Soon thereafter, the Band of the Hawk faces Nosferatu Zodd on the battlefield this seemingly unkillable monster notices Griffiths Behelit and departs, warning Guts that his continued friendship with Griffith will result in Guts death. The Hawks play a pivotal role in ending the 1. Midland and are initially welcomed as heroes, but Griffiths aspirations to rule his own kingdom are shattered when Guts leaves the Hawks to find his own dream, after having overheard Griffith say in private that he can only view someone as his equal and friend, rather than subordinate, if they have their own dream, rather than cling to his. Unable to cope with the loss, Griffith seduces the Kings daughter Charlotte but is caught and ends up in the dungeon for a year, suffering daily torture. By the time Guts learns of this and helps the outlawed remnants of the Hawks rescue Griffith, the Hawks leader has been horribly mutilated and rendered a mute shadow of his former self. Griffiths despair at his inability to fulfill his dream activates the Crimson Behelit. It transports the Hawks to another plane, where they encounter archdemons collectively known as the God Hand in a ceremony known as the Eclipse. External links. Official website in Japanese Berserk The Golden Age Arc I The Egg of the King on IMDb Berserk The Golden Age Arc II The Battle for Doldrey on IMDb. Berserk Japanese, Hepburn Beruseruku is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe. Urged onward by the eldritch beings, Griffith sacrifices his soldiers to the God Hands apostleshumans like Nosferatu Zodd who sacrificed their loved ones and humanity for powerso that he can become the God Hands fifth and final member, Femto. His first act upon resurrection is to rape Casca in front of Guts. Guts witnesses the brutal slaughter of his comrades within the God Hands domain. He and Casca survive through the intervention by the mysterious Skull Knight, a benevolent demonic being whom Guts met on his travels. Guts loses an arm and an eye, while Casca is driven insane, and both bear an occult brand that attracts the predation of supernatural creatures every night. Leaving Casca in the care of the blacksmith Godo and Rickert, a Hawk who escaped sacrifice because he was not present at the Behelits activation, Guts begins hunting down apostles in search of revenge against Griffith. Guts is joined by an elf, Puck, and is later reunited with Casca as she is about to be burned as a witch in the city of St. Albion. There, encountering Farnese of the Holy See Churchs Holy Iron Chain Knights, Guts endures a nightmarish ordeal that ends in Griffiths physical form restored. As Guts takes Casca to the Elven realm of Elfhelm for sanctuary with the help of his new companions, Griffith creates a second Band of the Hawk with Zodd and other Apostles among its ranks to battle the invading Kushan army. The war between Griffith and the Kushan emperor, a rogue apostle, climaxes with the emperors destruction and the overlapping of the mortal realm and the supernatural. No longer challenged by demon or man, Griffith establishes his rule over Midland with the endorsement of the Pope and Princess Charlotte, creating the city of Falconia to provide the Midlanders with refuge from the ever increasing attacks of mythical beasts, unaware their new ruler is actually one of them. Miura first premiered Berserk in 1. Comi Manga School he was enrolled in at the time. On November 2. 6, 1. Hakusensha in its Jets Comics collection. Three more volumes appeared until Berserk was serialized by Young Animal Hakusensha in 1. Bound volumes are still published biannually in Japan by Hakusensha Jets Comics collection as of June 2. Japan. 1 The manga was published on an irregular schedule from late 2. July 2. 01. 5. From then to December 2. It returned to a monthly schedule starting in June 2. In North America and the United Kingdom, the manga is translated and co published between Dark Horse Comics and Digital Manga Publishing, which has released 3. October 2. 2, 2. 00. The series has also been published in France by Samourai Editions, Dynamic Visions and Glnat, in Spain by Manga. Line Ediciones, in the Netherlands by Glnat, in South Korea by Dai Won, in Italy, Germany, Brazil, and Mexico by Panini Comics, and in Poland by J. P. Fantastica. A text tie in to Berserk was recently announced for June 2. AdaptationseditFirst series 1. Produced by Oriental Light and Magic and directed by Naohito Takahashi, the 2. Berserk Kenp Denki,Kenp Denki Beruseruku, lit., Berserk Sword Wind Tales first aired from October 7, 1. March 3. 1, 1. 99. 1080P Hd Video Download Short Animated Films From The National Film Board Of Canada. The series begins with the Black Swordsman arc, continuing through the Golden Age arc. Though the manga storyline remains largely intact, several changes were made, with the modification or elimination of characters, some of the series most violent and brutal scenes, and material that would have extended the storyline beyond the planned run of the anime series. Themes of friendship and ambition are more developed and emphasized than those of causality and the supernatural, each of which were made with the approval of Miura. In Asia, Vap Video has released thirteen VHS and twelve VCD including two episodes each a single one in the last VHS and three in the last VCD from 1. Japan. The seven discs DVD BOX, using Audio CD cases, was released in Japan in 2. DVD regular cases in 2. Film series 2. 01. In September 2. 01. Berserk manga announced a new anime project,4 which was later revealed to be a series of films. The first two films, Berserk Golden Age Arc I The Egg of the King and Berserk Golden Age Arc II The Battle for Doldrey, were released in Japan in February and June 2. Berserk Golden Age Arc III The Advent was released on February 1, 2.