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The chapters of the Berserk manga are written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura.In Japan, they have been published in Hakusensha\'s Young Animal since 1989. The plot follows the adventures of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior on his quest for revenge. Since Berserk \' s premiere, over three hundred and fifty chapters have been released in Japan. An anime adaptation, produced by OLM, premiered.

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. Monthly Animal House. (1989–1992). (1992–present)Original runOctober 1989 – presentVolumes40 Anime television series. (1997–98).

(2016–17)Anime film series. (2012–13)Berserk (: ベルセルク,: Beruseruku) is a Japanese series written and illustrated.

Set in a -inspired world, the story centers on the characters of, a lone, and, the leader of a mercenary band called the \'Band of the Hawk\'. Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988.

The actual series began the following year in the now-defunct magazine Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1992 by the bimonthly magazine, where Berserk continues to be serialized intermittently.The manga has been adapted into a twenty-five episode covering the series\' Golden Age arc by, which aired from October 1997 to March 1998. A trilogy of films, was released beginning in 2012. A second was broadcast in 2016 and 2017 for a total of twenty-four episodes.As of January 2016, Berserk had over 40 million copies in circulation. See also:( ガッツ, Gattsu) is a wandering mercenary who has known war and death since he was born from a hanged corpse and saved by his adopted mother, who died from the plague when he was only three years old.

He was raised and trained as a mercenary by his adopted father, Gambino, but Gambino blamed Guts for his wife\'s death, selling access to the boy to a rapist amongst the mercenaries and later, attempts to murder Guts in a drunken rage. Guts flees after killing his adoptive father in self-defense, eventually growing into a young mercenary who earned a fearsome reputation while fighting.

Guts eventually catches the attention of Griffith, the angelically charismatic leader of the mercenary group, \'Band of the Hawk\' ( 鷹の団, Taka no Dan). Griffith forces Guts into joining his forces upon defeating him in battle.

Guts quickly rises through the ranks of the mercenary group, eventually becoming the Hawks\' renowned raid leader and Griffith\'s deadliest subordinate. They are hired by the kingdom of Midland to help win the Hundred Year War against the Tudor empire. During this time, Guts bonds with the Band of the Hawk and learns of Griffith\'s mysterious pendant, the Crimson Behelit, along with Griffith\'s dream to rule a kingdom of his own.

When the Hawks encounter a monstrous immortal being known as Nosferatu Zodd, it adds further mystery to the Behelit as Zodd spares Guts and Griffith upon seeing it, warning the former of his impending death should he be a true friend of Griffith\'s.In time, the Hawks play a vital role in ending Midland\'s Hundred Year War with the nation of Tudor, eventually becoming ordained knights by the king of Midland. Guts gradually develops a relationship with Griffith\'s unit commander, Casca, the Hawks\' only female member. Casca and Guts are initially hostile toward one another, but eventually start to fall in love after Guts saves Casca\'s life and successfully fights against one hundred men by himself to save her. After having overheard Griffith say that he can only consider someone a true friend if they have their own dream, Guts tries to leave the Hawks as the war ends and Griffith defeats his political enemies. Griffith refuses to let Guts leave the Band of the Hawk, claiming that he owns him. The two duel in single combat and Guts wins in a single blow. Unable to cope with losing to Guts, Griffith ruins his fortunes when found seducing the King\'s daughter, Charlotte.

He ends up imprisoned to be tortured endlessly while the Hawks are marked for death. During Griffith\'s captivity, his torturer throws his behelit away.

Guts spends the next year of his life training to become a better swordsman, but is warned on his first night by a mysterious, seemingly demonic being he calls \'The Skull Knight\', that his actions have set forth \'The Eclipse\', that will happen in one year\'s time.After hearing of the Hawks\' dire straights in a fighting tournament, he temporarily returns to the Hawks and learns of Griffith\'s fate and the rest of the story. He reunites and starts a romantic relationship with Casca and helps the outlawed remnants of the Hawks rescue Griffith, only to find him horribly mutilated and rendered a mute shadow of his former self.Though the group successfully escapes past the border with Griffith, it becomes clear that Griffith\'s injuries are too great and he would never again be able to physically move on his own or fulfill his dream of ruling a kingdom. Guts also soon plans to leave the Hawks again, bringing Casca with him, though she refuses to go, overwhelmed by guilt over Griffith\'s current state.Through preordained events, the despairing Griffith regains his behelit and unknowingly activates it during a solar eclipse. This transports the Hawks to another plane where they encounter archdemons collectively known as the God Hand in a ceremony known as \'the Eclipse\'. Urged onward by the eldritch beings to become one of them to realize his dream, Griffith sacrifices his soldiers to the God Hand\'s \'apostles\'—humans like Nosferatu Zodd who have become powerful demons by sacrificing their loved ones and humanity for power—each of the Hawks are \'branded\' with a symbol on their body identifying them as sacrifices. While Griffith has visions from the God Hand showing him that he was always destined to come to the Eclipse, Guts and Casca desperately fight for their lives while witnessing the brutal slaughter of their comrades.

Eventually all of the Band of the Hawk are slaughtered and devoured by the demons. However, with Casca being the only woman present, she is toyed with naked by the demons. Griffith finally emerges reborn as the God Hand\'s fifth and final member, \'Femto\'. Griffith\'s first act upon his ascension is to rape Casca in front of Guts.

Guts loses his right eye and cuts off his own left forearm to escape captivity in a rage-filled attempt to kill Griffith and save Casca before losing consciousness.Guts and Casca are saved from death and brought back into the physical world at the last minute through the intervention of the mysterious and powerful Skull Knight yet again. However, the damage is done, as Casca is rendered insane from her horrific experiences. Guts learns that the Brands of Sacrifice that he and Casca now bear leave him open to be preyed upon by specters and other evil supernatural creatures on a nightly basis. Casca is left in the care of the blacksmith Godo and Rickert, the only Band of the Hawk member who escaped sacrifice because he was not present at the Crimson Behelit\'s activation. Guts takes an enormous sword from Godo known as Dragonslayer, and a prosthetic left arm that contains a hidden cannon built by Rickert, and begins hunting down apostles in search of revenge against Griffith. During this time, Guts begins seeing an ethereal deformed infant that appears before him, what was his and Casca\'s unborn child tainted by Femto\'s rape.Two years later, Guts is joined by an elf named Puck and a young thief named Isidro. Casca eventually runs away from Rickert, sending Guts on a mad hunt to find her.

Guts is later reunited with Casca as she is about to be burned as a witch in the city of St. There, along with Puck and Isidro, they encounter Farnese and Serpico of the Holy See Church\'s Holy Iron Chain Knights.Guts endures a nightmarish ordeal that ends in Griffith being incarnated into a new physical form being restored through a misshapen Apostle whose dream was to \'hatch\' a new world. This Apostle also ingested the deformed infant after stumbling upon its weakened and dying body moments before the Incarnation ceremony, resulting in Griffith\'s new body bearing some sort of influence of the infant.Puck suggests that Casca\'s mind might be restored if they take her to the Elven realm of Elfhel. Guts, desperate to save his loved one, heads there for sanctuary with the help of his new companions.

They are soon joined by the witch Schierke who teaches Farnese magic and negates the effects of the brand on Guts and Casca. Griffith creates a second Band of the Hawk with Zodd and other demonic Apostles among its ranks to battle the invading Kushan army. The war between Griffith and the Kushan emperor, Ganishka, a rogue apostle, climaxes with the emperor\'s destruction and the overlapping of the mortal realm and the supernatural astral realm.Now unopposed, Griffith finally obtains his own kingdom by establishing 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 that their new ruler is actually one of them. At the same time, Guts and his party take a ship toward Elfhelm. Following a dramatic battle with the Sea God, Guts\'s party reaches Elfhelm, on the island of Skellig.

The elf ruler, Danann, helps Farnese and Schierke travel into Casca\'s mind and restore her to her former self. However, despite recovering her memories, Casca still has not overcome the trauma from the events of the eclipse completely, usually collapsing when she sees Guts or remembers her fallen comrades.At the same time, Griffith is shown leading his new armies of both humans and \'war demons\' against an army of giants that have emerged due to the effects of Griffith\'s and Ganishka\'s war. Griffith\'s army scores a swift victory with Griffith delivering the final blow against the giant leader in the climax of the battle.Production Miura first premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988, a 48-page work which won a prize at the Comi Manga School he was enrolled in at the time.In an interview with, Miura mentioned manga artists and as early influences to his art style, as well series like by and by for the story and atmosphere of Berserk. By and influenced Miura to develop his current art style. Ranpo by Masatoshi Uchizaki served him as a reference for his backgrounds. Pygmalio by and The Snow Queen ( Guin Saga ) inspired Guts\' sword size by mixing the characters\' swords of both series.Berserk is known for its frequent and often extended hiatuses, which date back to late 2006.

After a 10-month hiatus from September 2014, the manga came back in July 2015, and until December 2015, it was published monthly before returning to an irregular schedule. It was published monthly from June to September 2016, before entering another hiatus. The manga resumed from March to June 2017, and then from December 2017, it was published on a regular basis until May 2018, and nearly three months after, a new chapter was published in August before entering an 8-month hiatus.

Two new chapters were published in April and August 2019. Media Manga.

See also:The manga started its serialization in \'s Monthly Animal House in October 1989. On November 26, 1990, the first volume of the manga was published by Hakusensha in its collection.

In 1992, Monthly Animal House was renamed, and new chapters are still being irregularly released in the bimonthly magazine. Bound volumes are published in Japan by Hakusensha; as of September 2018, 40 volumes have been published.In North America and the United Kingdom, the manga is translated and co-published between and, which have released 40 volumes so far, the first on October 22, 2003. In September 2018, announced a \'deluxe edition\' of the Berserk manga, featuring hard covers and larger prints, with the first volume being released on February 27, 2019. Novel A novel adaptation, entitled Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight, written by Makoto Fukami with illustrations by Kentaro Miura, was released on June 23, 2017.

It is focused on the new Band of the Hawk\'s apostle Grunbeld. Anime First series (1997–1998). Main article:In September 2010, a wraparound jacket band on volume 35 of the Berserk manga announced a new anime project, which was later revealed to be a series of films.

The first two films, and, were released in Japan in February and June 2012. Was released on February 1, 2013 in Japan.The first two movies are substantially a retelling of the 1997 TV series. The third movie features new footage beyond the TV series storyline based on the manga. The movies are primarily animated using although rendered with a flat two-dimensional effect which matches the TV series visual style.The voice cast features as Guts (replacing from the original anime), as Griffith (replacing ), and Toa Yukinari as Casca (replacing ). The English voice cast features as Guts, Kevin T. Collins as Griffith, and as Casca, all reprising their roles from the original anime.Second series (2016–2017). Main article:The Japanese magazine announced on December 22, 2015 that a second televised anime adaptation of the Berserk manga would be produced and broadcast on Japanese television network and starting in July 2016.

The first promotional video for the new series was revealed at NBC\'s winter, which featured Guts in his Black Swordsmen attire fighting off dozens of demonic skeletons with his characteristic sword Dragon Slayer. The new series was controversially primarily animated using rather than the previous series\' traditional animated style. It commences with the \'Conviction\' story arc, starting around chapter 115 of the manga, and introduces Puck, Isidro, Farnese and Serpico as characters. The second season, covering the \'Falcon of the Millennium Empire\' arc, began on April 7, 2017. Music participated in the soundtracks for all adaptations of the manga, using an eclectic selection of instruments. He received the offer to compose music for the series due to Miura being a fan of his works and listening to them while he works on Berserk, that also led to Miura almost never requesting a specific composition to Hirasawa.

Hirasawa has said that Berserk does not feel like a self-restrained story, and that composing for the series is similar to the sensation of unlocking one of his inner restraints, leading to compositions on a \' Berserk style\'. Hirasawa has made five songs with lyrics for the series, the last two of them were written in a language Hirasawa created by mixing elements of, and together. Besides Hirasawa, the video games and film trilogy feature work by composers Masaya Imoto, Hiromi Murakami, Shinya Chikamori, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yasushi Hasegawa, Tomoyo Nishimoto and; the anime and the film trilogy feature theme songs by Penpals, Silver Fins, and.Video games Two video games based on Berserk have been developed. The first game, ( ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章, Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Lost Flowers), was released for the in Japan by in late 1999. It was localized in western regions early the following year. The second game, ( ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 聖魔戦記の章, Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Seima Senki no Shō, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Record of the Holy Demon War), was published by exclusively in Japan on the in 2004. A Berserk-themed spinoff of \'s series, titled ( ベルセルク無双, Berserk Musou) was released on October 27, 2016 in Japan, and later in the U.S.

On February 21, 2017 for, and PC via.Other merchandise In addition to video games and game guidebooks, Berserk has spurred on a range of different, from lighters to keyrings to. Statues and are produced by Art of War, Prime 1 Studio, and First4Figures. A Berserk trading card game was released by in Japan. A figure of Guts was released by Max Factory in its Figma line in January 2012. Several other Max Factory Figma figures have been released; Guts in his Band of the Hawk attire, Guts in his berserker armor as well as Griffith, Femto, Casca and the Godhand.Reception As of July 2015, the manga had over 27 million copies in print in Japan and 8 million overseas. As of January 2016, the manga had over 40 million copies in circulation.

In 2016, Berserk ranked 38th on the 17th \'Book of the Year\' list by Da Vinci magazine. Berserk volumes have topped Japanese manga charts, with volume 40 debuting as the best selling manga for the week of its release.In September 2018, it was reported that Berserk is publisher \'s best selling product of all-time with over 2 million copies sold. This means Berserk outsells all other Dark Horse comic and manga series, making it a huge success.The 1988 prototype chapter won a prize at the Comi Manga School Miura attended.

Berserk won the Tezuka Osamu Award for Excellence at the sixth installment of in 2002. Legacy Berserk has inspired a number of, notably the series and the series.Finnish heavy metal band have written songs about Berserk, including several on their 2013. When guitarist Anton Kabanen left Battle Beast in 2015, he formed and continues to write songs about the series.The deathcore band Brand of Sacrifice released the album God Hand in 2019. Both the band and album are hugely inspired by Berserk.See also.References.

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The chapters of the Berserk manga are written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura.In Japan, they have been published in Hakusensha\'s Young Animal since 1989. The plot follows the adventures of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior on his quest for revenge. Since Berserk \' s premiere, over three hundred and fifty chapters have been released in Japan. An anime adaptation, produced by OLM, premiered.

Or Our offical IRC channel can be found or via irc.snoonet.org/#VitaPiracy on any irc client. So, by all means, comeAll references to piracy in this subreddit should be translated to \'game backups\'.Post guidelines;.If creating a game download thread, please include the title gameID and Dump Tool Version.Be civil.Piracy is bad, we advocate only backing up games which are already owned by you, the user.The gerenal rules of reddit apply here but are not limited to; no doxxing, no threatening violence, etc. These actions will be met with an immediate ban.No selling links to game downloads. No asking people to pay for you to download and dump a game. No monetization links such as adfly or other revenue generating links. This will get you banned.Direct links to downloads located on private servers (anything but a public file host) require mod approval.

This includes sites which require a login and or password.Links that require a password, have click thru links or that require a special account to access require mod approval. These would include Password ZIP files, Baidu links and linking to a secondary site that uses any of the previously mentioned features. Failure to get approval will get the links removed and you may lose posting privileges.If you ask a question that is answered in the thread, it will get be deleted. Repeated infractions may result in a ban.Requests should be directed to the appropriate thread above.

All low level requests (can someone dump, can I have this save) will be removed if not posted to the Megathreads.Please try to keep posts Vita related please. There\'s no reason to be posting about 3DS or PS4 (unless it\'s somehow related to the Vita).English only please.

. Monthly Animal House. (1989–1992). (1992–present)Original runOctober 1989 – presentVolumes40 Anime television series. (1997–98).

(2016–17)Anime film series. (2012–13)Berserk (: ベルセルク,: Beruseruku) is a Japanese series written and illustrated.

Set in a -inspired world, the story centers on the characters of, a lone, and, the leader of a mercenary band called the \'Band of the Hawk\'. Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988.

The actual series began the following year in the now-defunct magazine Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1992 by the bimonthly magazine, where Berserk continues to be serialized intermittently.The manga has been adapted into a twenty-five episode covering the series\' Golden Age arc by, which aired from October 1997 to March 1998. A trilogy of films, was released beginning in 2012. A second was broadcast in 2016 and 2017 for a total of twenty-four episodes.As of January 2016, Berserk had over 40 million copies in circulation. See also:( ガッツ, Gattsu) is a wandering mercenary who has known war and death since he was born from a hanged corpse and saved by his adopted mother, who died from the plague when he was only three years old.

He was raised and trained as a mercenary by his adopted father, Gambino, but Gambino blamed Guts for his wife\'s death, selling access to the boy to a rapist amongst the mercenaries and later, attempts to murder Guts in a drunken rage. Guts flees after killing his adoptive father in self-defense, eventually growing into a young mercenary who earned a fearsome reputation while fighting.

Guts eventually catches the attention of Griffith, the angelically charismatic leader of the mercenary group, \'Band of the Hawk\' ( 鷹の団, Taka no Dan). Griffith forces Guts into joining his forces upon defeating him in battle.

Guts quickly rises through the ranks of the mercenary group, eventually becoming the Hawks\' renowned raid leader and Griffith\'s deadliest subordinate. They are hired by the kingdom of Midland to help win the Hundred Year War against the Tudor empire. During this time, Guts bonds with the Band of the Hawk and learns of Griffith\'s mysterious pendant, the Crimson Behelit, along with Griffith\'s dream to rule a kingdom of his own.

When the Hawks encounter a monstrous immortal being known as Nosferatu Zodd, it adds further mystery to the Behelit as Zodd spares Guts and Griffith upon seeing it, warning the former of his impending death should he be a true friend of Griffith\'s.In time, the Hawks play a vital role in ending Midland\'s Hundred Year War with the nation of Tudor, eventually becoming ordained knights by the king of Midland. Guts gradually develops a relationship with Griffith\'s unit commander, Casca, the Hawks\' only female member. Casca and Guts are initially hostile toward one another, but eventually start to fall in love after Guts saves Casca\'s life and successfully fights against one hundred men by himself to save her. After having overheard Griffith say that he can only consider someone a true friend if they have their own dream, Guts tries to leave the Hawks as the war ends and Griffith defeats his political enemies. Griffith refuses to let Guts leave the Band of the Hawk, claiming that he owns him. The two duel in single combat and Guts wins in a single blow. Unable to cope with losing to Guts, Griffith ruins his fortunes when found seducing the King\'s daughter, Charlotte.

He ends up imprisoned to be tortured endlessly while the Hawks are marked for death. During Griffith\'s captivity, his torturer throws his behelit away.

Guts spends the next year of his life training to become a better swordsman, but is warned on his first night by a mysterious, seemingly demonic being he calls \'The Skull Knight\', that his actions have set forth \'The Eclipse\', that will happen in one year\'s time.After hearing of the Hawks\' dire straights in a fighting tournament, he temporarily returns to the Hawks and learns of Griffith\'s fate and the rest of the story. He reunites and starts a romantic relationship with Casca and helps the outlawed remnants of the Hawks rescue Griffith, only to find him horribly mutilated and rendered a mute shadow of his former self.Though the group successfully escapes past the border with Griffith, it becomes clear that Griffith\'s injuries are too great and he would never again be able to physically move on his own or fulfill his dream of ruling a kingdom. Guts also soon plans to leave the Hawks again, bringing Casca with him, though she refuses to go, overwhelmed by guilt over Griffith\'s current state.Through preordained events, the despairing Griffith regains his behelit and unknowingly activates it during a solar eclipse. This transports the Hawks to another plane where they encounter archdemons collectively known as the God Hand in a ceremony known as \'the Eclipse\'. Urged onward by the eldritch beings to become one of them to realize his dream, Griffith sacrifices his soldiers to the God Hand\'s \'apostles\'—humans like Nosferatu Zodd who have become powerful demons by sacrificing their loved ones and humanity for power—each of the Hawks are \'branded\' with a symbol on their body identifying them as sacrifices. While Griffith has visions from the God Hand showing him that he was always destined to come to the Eclipse, Guts and Casca desperately fight for their lives while witnessing the brutal slaughter of their comrades.

Eventually all of the Band of the Hawk are slaughtered and devoured by the demons. However, with Casca being the only woman present, she is toyed with naked by the demons. Griffith finally emerges reborn as the God Hand\'s fifth and final member, \'Femto\'. Griffith\'s first act upon his ascension is to rape Casca in front of Guts.

Guts loses his right eye and cuts off his own left forearm to escape captivity in a rage-filled attempt to kill Griffith and save Casca before losing consciousness.Guts and Casca are saved from death and brought back into the physical world at the last minute through the intervention of the mysterious and powerful Skull Knight yet again. However, the damage is done, as Casca is rendered insane from her horrific experiences. Guts learns that the Brands of Sacrifice that he and Casca now bear leave him open to be preyed upon by specters and other evil supernatural creatures on a nightly basis. Casca is left in the care of the blacksmith Godo and Rickert, the only Band of the Hawk member who escaped sacrifice because he was not present at the Crimson Behelit\'s activation. Guts takes an enormous sword from Godo known as Dragonslayer, and a prosthetic left arm that contains a hidden cannon built by Rickert, and begins hunting down apostles in search of revenge against Griffith. During this time, Guts begins seeing an ethereal deformed infant that appears before him, what was his and Casca\'s unborn child tainted by Femto\'s rape.Two years later, Guts is joined by an elf named Puck and a young thief named Isidro. Casca eventually runs away from Rickert, sending Guts on a mad hunt to find her.

Guts is later reunited with Casca as she is about to be burned as a witch in the city of St. There, along with Puck and Isidro, they encounter Farnese and Serpico of the Holy See Church\'s Holy Iron Chain Knights.Guts endures a nightmarish ordeal that ends in Griffith being incarnated into a new physical form being restored through a misshapen Apostle whose dream was to \'hatch\' a new world. This Apostle also ingested the deformed infant after stumbling upon its weakened and dying body moments before the Incarnation ceremony, resulting in Griffith\'s new body bearing some sort of influence of the infant.Puck suggests that Casca\'s mind might be restored if they take her to the Elven realm of Elfhel. Guts, desperate to save his loved one, heads there for sanctuary with the help of his new companions.

They are soon joined by the witch Schierke who teaches Farnese magic and negates the effects of the brand on Guts and Casca. Griffith creates a second Band of the Hawk with Zodd and other demonic Apostles among its ranks to battle the invading Kushan army. The war between Griffith and the Kushan emperor, Ganishka, a rogue apostle, climaxes with the emperor\'s destruction and the overlapping of the mortal realm and the supernatural astral realm.Now unopposed, Griffith finally obtains his own kingdom by establishing 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 that their new ruler is actually one of them. At the same time, Guts and his party take a ship toward Elfhelm. Following a dramatic battle with the Sea God, Guts\'s party reaches Elfhelm, on the island of Skellig.

The elf ruler, Danann, helps Farnese and Schierke travel into Casca\'s mind and restore her to her former self. However, despite recovering her memories, Casca still has not overcome the trauma from the events of the eclipse completely, usually collapsing when she sees Guts or remembers her fallen comrades.At the same time, Griffith is shown leading his new armies of both humans and \'war demons\' against an army of giants that have emerged due to the effects of Griffith\'s and Ganishka\'s war. Griffith\'s army scores a swift victory with Griffith delivering the final blow against the giant leader in the climax of the battle.Production Miura first premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988, a 48-page work which won a prize at the Comi Manga School he was enrolled in at the time.In an interview with, Miura mentioned manga artists and as early influences to his art style, as well series like by and by for the story and atmosphere of Berserk. By and influenced Miura to develop his current art style. Ranpo by Masatoshi Uchizaki served him as a reference for his backgrounds. Pygmalio by and The Snow Queen ( Guin Saga ) inspired Guts\' sword size by mixing the characters\' swords of both series.Berserk is known for its frequent and often extended hiatuses, which date back to late 2006.

After a 10-month hiatus from September 2014, the manga came back in July 2015, and until December 2015, it was published monthly before returning to an irregular schedule. It was published monthly from June to September 2016, before entering another hiatus. The manga resumed from March to June 2017, and then from December 2017, it was published on a regular basis until May 2018, and nearly three months after, a new chapter was published in August before entering an 8-month hiatus.

Two new chapters were published in April and August 2019. Media Manga.

See also:The manga started its serialization in \'s Monthly Animal House in October 1989. On November 26, 1990, the first volume of the manga was published by Hakusensha in its collection.

In 1992, Monthly Animal House was renamed, and new chapters are still being irregularly released in the bimonthly magazine. Bound volumes are published in Japan by Hakusensha; as of September 2018, 40 volumes have been published.In North America and the United Kingdom, the manga is translated and co-published between and, which have released 40 volumes so far, the first on October 22, 2003. In September 2018, announced a \'deluxe edition\' of the Berserk manga, featuring hard covers and larger prints, with the first volume being released on February 27, 2019. Novel A novel adaptation, entitled Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight, written by Makoto Fukami with illustrations by Kentaro Miura, was released on June 23, 2017.

It is focused on the new Band of the Hawk\'s apostle Grunbeld. Anime First series (1997–1998). Main article:In September 2010, a wraparound jacket band on volume 35 of the Berserk manga announced a new anime project, which was later revealed to be a series of films.

The first two films, and, were released in Japan in February and June 2012. Was released on February 1, 2013 in Japan.The first two movies are substantially a retelling of the 1997 TV series. The third movie features new footage beyond the TV series storyline based on the manga. The movies are primarily animated using although rendered with a flat two-dimensional effect which matches the TV series visual style.The voice cast features as Guts (replacing from the original anime), as Griffith (replacing ), and Toa Yukinari as Casca (replacing ). The English voice cast features as Guts, Kevin T. Collins as Griffith, and as Casca, all reprising their roles from the original anime.Second series (2016–2017). Main article:The Japanese magazine announced on December 22, 2015 that a second televised anime adaptation of the Berserk manga would be produced and broadcast on Japanese television network and starting in July 2016.

The first promotional video for the new series was revealed at NBC\'s winter, which featured Guts in his Black Swordsmen attire fighting off dozens of demonic skeletons with his characteristic sword Dragon Slayer. The new series was controversially primarily animated using rather than the previous series\' traditional animated style. It commences with the \'Conviction\' story arc, starting around chapter 115 of the manga, and introduces Puck, Isidro, Farnese and Serpico as characters. The second season, covering the \'Falcon of the Millennium Empire\' arc, began on April 7, 2017. Music participated in the soundtracks for all adaptations of the manga, using an eclectic selection of instruments. He received the offer to compose music for the series due to Miura being a fan of his works and listening to them while he works on Berserk, that also led to Miura almost never requesting a specific composition to Hirasawa.

Hirasawa has said that Berserk does not feel like a self-restrained story, and that composing for the series is similar to the sensation of unlocking one of his inner restraints, leading to compositions on a \' Berserk style\'. Hirasawa has made five songs with lyrics for the series, the last two of them were written in a language Hirasawa created by mixing elements of, and together. Besides Hirasawa, the video games and film trilogy feature work by composers Masaya Imoto, Hiromi Murakami, Shinya Chikamori, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yasushi Hasegawa, Tomoyo Nishimoto and; the anime and the film trilogy feature theme songs by Penpals, Silver Fins, and.Video games Two video games based on Berserk have been developed. The first game, ( ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 喪失花の章, Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Wasurebana no Shō, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Lost Flowers), was released for the in Japan by in late 1999. It was localized in western regions early the following year. The second game, ( ベルセルク 千年帝国の鷹篇 聖魔戦記の章, Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Seima Senki no Shō, Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Record of the Holy Demon War), was published by exclusively in Japan on the in 2004. A Berserk-themed spinoff of \'s series, titled ( ベルセルク無双, Berserk Musou) was released on October 27, 2016 in Japan, and later in the U.S.

On February 21, 2017 for, and PC via.Other merchandise In addition to video games and game guidebooks, Berserk has spurred on a range of different, from lighters to keyrings to. Statues and are produced by Art of War, Prime 1 Studio, and First4Figures. A Berserk trading card game was released by in Japan. A figure of Guts was released by Max Factory in its Figma line in January 2012. Several other Max Factory Figma figures have been released; Guts in his Band of the Hawk attire, Guts in his berserker armor as well as Griffith, Femto, Casca and the Godhand.Reception As of July 2015, the manga had over 27 million copies in print in Japan and 8 million overseas. As of January 2016, the manga had over 40 million copies in circulation.

In 2016, Berserk ranked 38th on the 17th \'Book of the Year\' list by Da Vinci magazine. Berserk volumes have topped Japanese manga charts, with volume 40 debuting as the best selling manga for the week of its release.In September 2018, it was reported that Berserk is publisher \'s best selling product of all-time with over 2 million copies sold. This means Berserk outsells all other Dark Horse comic and manga series, making it a huge success.The 1988 prototype chapter won a prize at the Comi Manga School Miura attended.

Berserk won the Tezuka Osamu Award for Excellence at the sixth installment of in 2002. Legacy Berserk has inspired a number of, notably the series and the series.Finnish heavy metal band have written songs about Berserk, including several on their 2013. When guitarist Anton Kabanen left Battle Beast in 2015, he formed and continues to write songs about the series.The deathcore band Brand of Sacrifice released the album God Hand in 2019. Both the band and album are hugely inspired by Berserk.See also.References.

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