Why Berserk is the Best Manga of All Time 

Everybody knows that the real best part of Berserk is when Skull Knight shows up, spouts a bunch of cryptic shit, and then just bounces like the goddamn Batman

RIP Kentaro Miura.

berserk is greatest rom com of all time

A worthy anime with a serious budget that covers every arc is needed. Please! Some studio make it happen!

I know people toss around the term "legend" loosely, but seriously no - Miura was a legend. It seriously stunned me how I could just take a look at a single panel of the manga and just spend minutes looking at every tiny detail like it was a painting.

Look, I'm going to lay it out for you. I've seen a lot. Fiction. Books, film, television, video games, performing arts. Not enough; not enough to be a judge on all things narrative and artistic. But, *a lot.* Objectively, Berserk is the peak of seinen, the peak of manga, and while I am consistently met to this day with the goliath that is Japanese artistry, in all its many forms, new and archaic... Subjectively, Berserk is the greatest story ever told on its side of the hemisphere. That's certainly an opinion, but you can't argue it's a controversial one.

One direction they can take is to make Berserk anime movies that adapts say, one arc per movie. That way, not only they'll have more time/budget to make it look good, they can also get away with showing stuff that they would otherwise had to censor for TV broadcast.

People might not really think of this, but Berserk has such good storyboarding, that I can say that Berserk is very "show, don't tell". Something that makes reading it so much cathartic compared to watching its anime adaptation Edit: Just to add, with streaming services like Netflix ruining dialogue with too much exposition, its nice to see a good "show, dont tell" product like the Berserk Manga with its amazing manga panels

Berserk got me into reading manga. Watched the 97 anime and heard the manga is better every where. So I bought the first deluxe edition and proceeded to love it and get the next 13 books in less than a month.

Berserk is best manga in the world because with facade of adventure and horror, hidden main theme of manga is Love Story. There is nothing powerful than this feeling. And if it is wrapped up in interesting plot and art? Cheff Kiss

NEW chapter on the 26th baby 😩😩. Also we gotta get a petition going on to get the anime remade by an actual competent studio. Beserk deserves nothing but the best, but the source material is beyond underrated by studios do to its mature themes.

13:48 The Souls Games including Elden Ring actually do have quite a few enemies and NPCs based on Berserk ones.Miyazaki said and comfirmed it many times that he was inspired a lot from the Berserk Manga.

Nice, you guys should talk about visual novels next!

Berserk is the best manga because it doesn't feel like a manga to the average reader. It goes outside the spectrum of "manga as a medium" to tell a story the way Kentaro Miura does. The guy broke boundaries both on a visual aspect and on a Shakespeare level of tragedy storytelling. It will probably never get a page by page proper adaptation in our generation, but there will always be someone that Berserk will inspire to be better after reading it. That's how I truly feel about it to me as the best manga.

I'll patiently wait forever for an anime remake that covers everything fr 😌 I wanna seee every panels of the manga be made into an anime and watch everything plssss take our moneyyyy

I want to make the jump and finally begin picking up the series. I know what happens throughout arcs, but i feel the experience reading everything will be an experience like no other.

You guys should watch the Berserk Motion Comic!

After listenign to these guys for years, I dont trust their opinion on this since they dont see to read a of of manga. Or even watch anime for that matter.

I just finished reading berserk for the first time and damn chapter 364 was sad rip the legend

If we include the chinese side of thing, for me the Best would be a manhua calles the ravages of times. It has amazing artwork, great characters, epic battles and a really complex story. And is as old as Berserk and is still ongoing which is really impresive

I mean, you guys are surprised that MAL is still a thing, but tell me - I'm serious - where else can I find comparable amount of people with BETTER features than MAL? Because if there are pages like that (I only know Anilist), hit me up. I'd be willing to check them out too.

Joey needs to keep this haircut it looks the best by far, he’s always had the drip tho

Who up berserking they shii right bow 😛

1:00 the fact that you guys made mal video for the 3rd time and sometimes even go to mal to check opinions or rating, already says a lot. Even though there are other better tracking sites. So yeah, at the end of the day mal is still the goat.

I want a great Berserk video game, not strictly following the story from the beginning but something vaguely approximating fighting Griffith as the last boss. Something Fromsoft can only pull off.

Never read the manga or watched the anime, but I like some pieces from the soundtrack.

they didnt really say why

I'd be happy if berserk got Vinland saga level animation Or early AOT level animation

Been a fan of Berserk since the 90s. Incredible story but, sadly it was not finished. I have no doubts that Kentaru would've sealed it perfectly but we will never know.

I’m someone who tends to keep my emotions pretty bottled and in the background, both while enjoying media and in irl. If I even think about Casca in general, I feel empathy and sadness just wash over me

First manga i ever read and still the best.

When I first read the manga I would have said it was impossible to adapt. I would argue now that after seeing the talent of people like Denis Villeneuve. All it takes is the right person with resources and respect for the source material. Every scene from Dune 2 was "wallpaper material", which is what I would say the impossible panels of Berserk could be interpreted.

ANOTHER MANGA EPISODE!!!! YUEEEEEEEEEEAEAEAHEAHEAHE

Never seen it or read it but I respect how much its regarded by people

Somehow I feel like Berserk is easier to adapt to live action than anime. It's a very big, show don't tell, show with a lot of visuals that would look much better in live action effects, you've seen what's possible in Dune 2 with the visual effects, they can make a really good rom-com horror movie/show out of this

To summarise, the quality reuired to make a good adaptation of Berserk has a higher floor then the the highest ceiling current anime producers are capable of making. I think AI has some potential here tbh, its the only way to produce enough frames per second for something with the insane eye for detail that the maker of Berserk put in to every singel panel.

It's more of an opinion for me berserk is the first manga I got into and watched the og anime, loved both. For me currently csm is my top. Ppl having giving up on part 2 but it's cooking right now

It might be a hot take, but berserk after tome 24 fall off, from the greatest manga of all time it becomes a mostly regular adventurer party fantasy... It has highs beyond measure though

Everyone hated Berserk anime and mangas. Everyone hated One Piece anime and mangas. Times have change very very recently and I’m looking forward to the new Berserk fan made anime I recently found out about during this year 2024. And the live adaptation One Piece which has the actors especially the main being extremely passionate about the project. This is exactly what we need right now for better change in a lot of things that was great in the 80’s and 90’s.

You can’t call something the Goat when it has not had an ending. I love Game of Thrones (books and show) and AOT. But for the GOT show and the AOT manga, their endings did take away from the rest that came before. I don’t think anyone can deny that. For those is us who have been in the Berserk world for literal decades, a subpar ending could be catastrophic! A lot of people have fallen into Berserk since the re telling of the golden age ark in 2012, and then there are those who have been reading since the 90s! Imagine all of that time spent for the ending to not be as good as the rest! You just can’t call it this early.

It do be like that sometimes, the best stays the best. To me Berserk makes Miura on par with Cormac McCarthy or Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Just give me berserk lord of the rings style live action

One thing that irks me about Berserk is that it is the only manga that is considered unanimously in the west as the best manga of all time. Now it definitely deserves to be in the conversation, but are you telling me that an entire medium is not even good enough to argue being the best manga of all time? It just isn’t natural for mediums, as film, novels or even anime don’t have a consensus about what the best work in that medium is. I honestly think this is shown with polls in Japan which have completely different rankings. And I think it comes to this: manga readers aren’t a diverse group of people and they just have the same taste as each other, at least the majority of them. There’s no way that if every person on Earth read manga would be anywhere close to what it is on MAL. Honestly people, just read more manga.

the relearning to read is true, i can't handle reading any comic left to right anymore it just feels wrong

'Berserk is the story not the world' i kinda agree with that take

What about Vagabond though ?

Just look at the anime Pluto, masterpiece, we just need one guy with talent that wants to do it.

theres a berserk adapatation annouced that looks promising

Beserk game made by software would be 🔥, The creator of solo lvl anime could take a crack at it.

Berserk is absolutely masterful in storytelling and art wise.

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Berserk was made in the right place and the right time. Because of this it has become the main source of inspiration for Video Games , Movies , and other Manga. And so Berserk will in my Opinion and Heart be the greatest Manga created. R.I.P- Kentaro Miura

We would need what happened with Mushoku Tensei, to happen for Berserk for a truly great adaptation to happen. We need a bunch of inspired animators and creators coming together to form a new studio for the sole purpose putting all of that inspiration (and a shit load of money from somewhere) into one great adaptation.

I only watched the first three CGI Berserk movies on Netflix.

Mappa adaptation of Berserk would be the only studio i think would be able to do it justice although with alot of the stuff they would have a hard time getting to be able to air but i can dream one day

Whoah whoah, the 90s animation is crap? I think it was amazing! Would love to see the whole story told in that style....

I'd read it but i feel like I've already been spoiled on all the major stuff in it

Studio Eclypse is making an adaptation right now, check out the trailer! I need more berserk content

I always thought it had more to do with the all the rape and sexual violence. I'm guessing it'd have to either be censored heavily or low budget because of the smaller audience. Think about the Eclipse scene. How exactly are they going to censor that without fundamentally changing the story? Or the scenes with Wylde or the Trolls or the Horse scene. Granted, there are some pretty borderline anime out there with decent budgets so who knows.

Big up studio eclipse !!!

Everytime a new Kyoto Animation show airs I get like: Why aren't these guys making a bersek adaptation? They're literally the only ones capable of achieving that

Connor going full monke trying to sus out that formula.

The people who animated Castlevania I think could do a good job animating it

It's really good because of the Golden Age arc. Nothing else in the manga even comes close.

12:00 fun fact: The berserk markwting team are probably the pnes to blame for the lack of money the berserk movies and merch uas made. On japanese tv it shiwrd that the berk movies where meant to go to blacksowrdsman but failed because of the marketing. Pretty recently after the resurgence if the berserks popularity becaus of the death of the creator, they opened a berserk cafe and most of the merchandise they where selling where stuff you would buy for you kids, like a shitty looking offbrand plastic plate made for a kid.

I personally prefer vagabond to Berserk but that's just cause i dislike how brutal it is both visually and with the plot but that's just me

11:36 Berserk fans are like Game of Thrones fans. At this point, they just want the story to be completed so they can enjoy the original works in its entirety.

7:30 or you can read western comics that do have color. Man I will never be fine with Garnt trash talking manga.

Just ending the manga is enough we dont need no more adaptation

Imagine an open world berserk game 😮

the guys doing uzumaki might be able to adapt Berzerk into a decent anime

The hard truth is that "the best manga" is too much abroad concept. Like, it has the best story a manga could have? The best drawing? The best characters? The best beginning? The best ending? The best theme? I think there are too many boxes to check and individually it is easier to say this manga has the better worldbuilding, the better draws, better ending, but THE BEST manga it's complicated. Maybe the best manga would be just a mediocre that can check the majority of these boxes but excels at none of them.

it is easily and maybe the best book ever

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my first manga was berserk and vinland saga

it's actually crazy that Berserk hasn't gotten a worthy anime adaptation. get whoever is working on Frieren to do it when Frieren season 2 is finished lol

Unadaptable is just untrue. Allinall/MarkReymer/StudioTaka These are all RU-vidr channels that made berserk animated content and all of if worked marvelously. Berserk CAN be adapted it just needs love.

Also Studio Eclipse too

U need guts in anything berserk

I think the adaptation of berserk is WAY doable, look at something like Elden ring .... I think it can be captured in epic fashion but it will obviously take an extreme amount of time and resources. But its worth it

Ero Manga Sensei stomps

🤧 (KINGDOM) hatchiii !!!

The west should adapt berserk, get thr arcane treatment

I remember i read a comment a while ago that said "In the Game "Fear and Hunger" it feels like youre in the world of Berserk but youre just a side character." And idk, i really like that idea :D

Fear and Hunger is kind of adjacent to a berserk adaptation.

hxh is my fav. i like berserk too but its cast of characters is very small and theres like only 4 characters that are all that interesting in the whole story. i also think the worldbuilding is not as polished or fleshed out and detailed as other fantasy series such as LoTr or GoT. I make that comparison to GoT cause that's what Dark Horse is saying, calling it " the GoT of Manga."

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'How about a Berserk game like a Dark Souls?' You mean Dark Souls, DS already is a Berserk-esque game. 'I want Berserk in Elden Ring' like the one-eyed wolf man who carries a bigass sword? Like the sword cementery??

Seriously, my guys!? I have SEEN Puck plushies. I have seen weebs PURCHASE Puck plushies. You cannot tell me Puck is unmarketable. We've just spent five years being inundated with Baby Yoda merch - Puck is marketable! End of story! ... I'm pretty sure I've seen Puck body pillows... But I'm not going to confirm that. 😅

Well, they gotta have opinions that aren't total trash sometimes. What's next? JJK animations look cool?

Why do people shit on the Golden Age Arc OVA? That was a good adaptation. Not perfect by any means, but it's good enough to recommend for someone to watch.

I have an idea a live action film adaptation of Berserk but done by the same crew behind Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Pre-Season 8 Game of Thrones also Guillermo Del Toro should be involved.

I don't think Berserk is the best manga of all time, and it's kind of weird to act like it's an actual fact that everyone share 🤷. But it's clearly in the TOP 10 for me I guess

my favourite part is when Guts says "it's Berserkin Time"

i will never watch jojo again i watched all of part one and didnt like it al all yet everyone keeps saying "you need to watch to ____ part or ___ part" why should i waste my time watching a show i already dont like and the art style is ugly as hell for me

I thought they be doing the trash taste awardw they usually do it every 50th episode

I am evil now cdawg is blackthorn now 😂😂😂

Pretty sure like 30% of the monsters in the dark souls series is just straight up taken from berserk.

just imagine the money a good berserk anime would bring