Just finished reading the entirety of Berserk for the first time.
All I have to say is wow.....
Is there anything that even comes close to this masterpiece?
It just saddens me looking back at how long you longtime fans have waited for the previous underwhelming chapters of the last decade. But it seems like the story is just picking up again and I can only imagine the suffering waiting years to see the outcome of these arcs.
It's my favorite book, but I don't like to oversell it. I've consistently enjoyed all of it so far.
Vinland saga is better
Looks pretty cool, Ill give it a read
i just rea dit again every 4-6 moths or so
>But it seems like the story is just picking up again
Why wouldn't it be? They have finally reached Elfhelm so there is going to be some changes and shit happening going forward.
Maybe like 5 years from now
>But it seems like the story is just picking up again
Heh. It will sink in soon. welcome to Berserk Hell.
attack on titan is better now. Berserk went dowhill during the boat. and Kingdom´s coalition arc makes golden age look like lil shit
Infinite Jest
Casca was retarded for 20 years, she's been cured for a full year now and we haven't seen her speak to Guts yet
Thats why its just getting good though, there is no where left to go other than what we've been waiting for
You don't understand, the focus could stay on Griffith and Rickert for more than a couple of years. We could die before seeing any closure
Guin Saga but its unfinished and is what Berserk is based on
Blade of the Immortal
Maybe the Battle Royale manga? It's a very different genre but it's well drawn and gritty. Pretty much like living through the Eclipse.
We should remove Idolm@ster so Moira can work on the return of Donovan again.
Not really. Now go read Kingdom.
yes
Rose of Versailles
Try Vagabond and Shigurui
Also these
Gay shit wow
After the farm saga no
Also check out Innocent
I don't like Guts since he's a cuck, so yeah, there are better manga than Berserk. Vagabond is one, but it's on hiatus since 2015.
Idolm@ster is better than Berserk at this point
at least they can create consistent content
Hiatus hahah more like droped
Guts isnt a cuck, its only cuckolding when the female enjoys it and Casca was raped and took no pleasure in it whatsoever.
>Berserk
>masterpiece
As much as I wanted to like Berserk, the story went downhill after Golden Age. Everything became stagnant and nothing interesting happens anymore. Guts and his crew just dont have the charisma to be entertaining and the story itself is stuck in endless filler. Not to mention Miura's artwork is slowly getting worse to the point that it's laughable, and he went digital which makes it look shittier. Togashi is improving with his art and is constantly shaking things up in his manga, unlike in Berserk.
Hunter x Hunter explores more mature and dark themes than Berserk despite the more childish visuals. I guess this is why I prefer HxH. I prefer classy intellect over edginess.
Casca was dripping wet and she was tongue kissing Griffith. Berserk is basically a cuck fantasy.
Had a good kek,you whispertards bring good entertainment to this board.
Griffith forced her mouth open and stuck his tongue in, she didnt tongue back at all and any woman will get wet when there is insertion to a degree, doesnt mean she enjoyed it.
Why didn't she bite his tongue off? Also, I remember the panel clearly showing that she was wet as fuck. Not just wet to a "degree". She clearly enjoyed it way more than when she had sex with Guts.
lmao, holy shit
She is in a shocked state and doesn't even move on her own. Considering she repressed her entire personality and identity to deal with the trauma, on top of that there are also multiple points in the manga where she flashes back to being raped and freaks.
Just read jousei or seinen written by women.
I came in late to berserk, so this is my first hiatus since last chapter and I'm already dead inside.
THE best fictional world imo.
Tolkien would like to have a word friend
I read those in high-school
kinda gay to me, sorry.
>More gay than fairy witch world with magic lolis and chestnut elves
Tom Bombadil is the gayest gaylord to ever skip and hop and sing merry-dong-dildo
>More gay than fairy witch world with magic lolis and chestnut elves
Are Berserkfags really this delusional? HxH is better than Berserk in most ways. The characters have actual depth beyond just "hurr me badass, me kill monster" and it has deep and meaningful things to say of the themes the series covers, unlike Berserk which is "hurr me angry, me want revenge!".
Moreover unlike Berserk, HxH is able to seamlessly weave in and out of genres, going from martial arts tournaments to mob wars to MMORPGs to the epic rise and fall of an entire civilization to politics and a new era of exploration and colonialism. Anyone who is a fan of manga owes it to themselves to read this masterpiece. 100 years from now Berserk will be just another obscure edgefest like Gantz or Tokyo Ghoul which are generic battle shonen at their core, while HxH will still be discusses in universities as one of the most ambitious undertakings in human storytelling.
This speaks to how dense Togashi's writing is with ideas, and HxH is at the moment at least three times as thick with plot and intrigue as Berserk was at its height. To give you a tangible example of this, currently in Hunter x Hunter we have a small conflict about the succession struggle of a single kingdom that is being represented by THIS graph. This is the level of storytelling that Hunter x Hunter is operating on. Berserk wouldn't look out of place in any shounen magazine serializing at the moment, while the absolutely ingenious narrative of HxH keeps reaching further heights in thrill and storytelling.
You guys get btfo in every thread,go back to recording ASMR,whisperchads.
welcome to the suffering, friend.
this took 20+ years to conclude a characters arc and then he jumped back on hiatus
Most rushed redemption arc ever
Based. Berserk fans won't like this post.
>Berserkbabby calling anything gay
>Guts = ass fucked by a black guy, cucked by his bestfriend, needs a Naruto power up to fight high tier apostles
>fairy islands
>mermaid islands
>JRPG party with elemental powers
>saturday morning cartoon pirates
>magical loli with fanservice scenes
Pirates are the bane of Hunterfaggots everywhere.
Is that Gon telling Hisoka he's already got someone he likes?
>Is there anything that even comes close to this masterpiece?
Vagabond.
I like Berserk more but Vagabond is pretty similar in that they both have breathtaking art and an epic story.
How is Vagabond an epic? It's a very deeply personal story about internal development.
But it doesn't have daddy D.
The berserkbabby is just regurgiting the few buzzword he knows, that's the level of intelligence these monkeys operate at.
I couldn't get into Vagabond at all, does it get better? I stopped when he was fighting that staff wielding guy at the beginning. The MC is an asshole
Jojo's bizarre adventure
Can't really blame, him.
Yes, he is an absolute asshole at the beginning. His growth isn't about becoming a better fighter but a better human being.
I'm going to miss HxH retards when their manga comes back from the hiatus, you always make me laugh with your "soft seinen" bullshit
>I read manga because of the mature and dark themes. You need high IQ to understand this masterpiece
Holy fuck, Imagine being this much of a pseud. Read some actual books if you want to act smart. Manga is purely for entertainment.
Based. Reminder that 80% of Berserk is just Guts killing monsters with his big sword.
Interesting, the little I've read just made me dislike the guy,he's like violence incarnate. I'll give it another try then.
I kinda enjoy people who's so stupid they think reading comics makes them smart. The scary thing is, it actually might...
To tell you the truth, I don’t buy manga, I buy books. I’m not saying that in a snobbish way. I buy classics - Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, Tennyson, Rilke, Goethe, William Gaddis, Julio Cortazar, Ford Madox Ford.
I put the HxH volumes on the same shelf as them. Proudly. There’s a feeling that resonates deeply with me - that the storming of the palace onward is capital-A ART. That the series’ main focus is to render humanity and nothing more or less. The way all the extremes of human nature are displayed in the Chimera Ant arc feels like reading a sort of contemporary Odyssey. It is epic in the original sense of the word -- something majestic that shines light on the nature of living.
Imagine if Innocent wasn't so gay
>he's like violence incarnate
This is the whole point of the arc you're reading. When he thinks the old man is about to attack him it's his own bloodlust being reflected back at him (the old master explains this to him in pretty much these words). Takezo's aggression is unwarranted and unneeded, and further emphasised when he spends a night trying to carve a Buddha statue but in the morning sees he has carved an asura instead. Overcoming this aggression, escaping the shadow of his father and finally struggling against the spiral of death (the more people he kills the more famous he becomes, the more famous he becomes the more people will come after him, the more people come after him the more people he kills, the more people he kills the more famous he becomes...) are what the series is about at the end of the day.
Of course he realizes this slowly and pursues pointless battles for a long time because of it.
>Joyce
You've been memed, my friend.
I remember a Whisperchad telling me about his love for Camus. When I asked him what does he like about his work, he told me a long story about Descartes shich can be briefly summed up in a sentence "I've learned what empiricism is".
Exquisite post fellow Hunterchad.
I imagine it would suck. The gayness is part of its charm, it's like jojo meets berserk meets rose of versailles
>Is there anything that even comes close to this masterpiece?
Yes anything that is actually finished, a work no matter how great is ultimately worthless garbage if it is not finished.
And considering his pace and age he'll probably die before it is finished.
>a work no matter how great is ultimately worthless garbage if it is not finished.
I disagree with this on a fundamental level.
Depends on what you didn't like about it. If you didn't like the protag then you might like later parts since he changes a lot over the course of the work, not to mention a second protag shows up who is very different from Musashi and gets almost as much panel time
If someone dislikes Takezo for being a violent asshole I fail to see how they'd like Kojiro more, he's even worse but never gains any awareness of it because nobody can explain such lofty concepts to him.
>just finished reading the entirety of beserk
Hello timetraveler. How are things in the year 2203?
What about his friend? He seems pathetic
He is and he spends his life being pathetic because he has delusions of grandeur but no willpower to put his shoulder to the wheel and accomplish anything.
In 2101, war was beginning.
>Implying producer isn't actually daddy D
I suppose, although some might prefer his innocence and purity, focusing on the fact that the intent behind his actions is not malevolent, even if the actions themselves are. Also I might be wrong about this since it has been a while since I read Vagabond but doesn't Kojiro only kill a bunch of people out in the woods after that one battle and then spend most of the rest of his time being a womanizer and playing with sticks?
All of these, and also:
>Blame!
>Samurai Executioner
>Dorohedoro
>Eden - it's and endless world
Yeah, he'll stick his dick in anything. But his obsession with fighting is beyond that of Musashi's.
Seconding Blame! and Dorohedoro
Dorohedoro is great.
Berserk is outdated now. It was even outdated when it was serialized in the early 90s. Sword and magic manga was at it's peak in the 80s. Berserks only saving grace now is the comic art style, which isn't that rare now, unlike in the 90s when he's one of the few fine arts program alumni that went straight into manga.
Gigantomakhia could have been his new genre breakthrough with the loli/wrestling manga but he still can't let go of BErserk.
>a work no matter how great is ultimately worthless garbage if it is not finished.
Phoenix would like to have a word.
user nobody in this thread has ever even heard of Osamu Tezuka.
I second this. But Togashi's art leaves a lot to be desired.
shingeki no kyojin
So is his story
Unironically this.
Read kaiji user.
Official English release soon.
Unlike Berserk which is one long story, Phoenix is a collection of several stories that are in themselves finished.
So no
>Phoenix would like to have a word.
It would not because it does not fall under my statement.
what was your favouirte arc?
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