the manga i read to fill the hole Berserk left was VAGABOND. and man... it is as good as berserk for me. People also say the "big 3" mangas are Berserk Vagabond and Vinland Saga. and all of them are good but i think Vagabond and Berserk are a step higher from anything else

1:31 when you get to the end of gunnm don't be sad, remember there is a sequel and a prequel ;^)

​@@SimonLab What about Kingdom? I haven't read it yet but it have quite a reputation too

@@Noctowll Yeah it has and it it's still running. Its really long as well some 700+ chapters. And it is supposed to be really "smart" and top tier depicting battles, but.. I havent found the motivation to commit to it yet since its soo long, but i m gonna read for sure in the near future.

Dude wanna read anything close to Berserk? Read Vagabond by Inoue Takehiko. Wanna see the best mystery manga of all time? Read Monster by Urasawa Naoki. He also wrote 20th century boys which is also a banger.

it was my first manga too lol

It's the perfect slice of life manga to start off.

great shoujo manga

When does it get good? Cause I’m in chapter 20 and it’s boring me to death. I might just drop it tbh

@@awesomesause1116 What ever you do, don’t drop it, it’s a slow and masterful burn.

✌🏻✌🏻🤭

@@mugenbop having seen almost every berserk video on youtube, I think this review is one of my favorites. It's so candid and conversational without the typical overload of editing and fluff that so many other video styles have. Really great work man I look forward to watching more of what you do

You sir are far too kind 😭

bruh cloudbloom u are everywhere berserk related. respec

@@guilhermemaximo9337 I am berk man 😎

It’s actually one of the worst fanbases I’ve seen

@@Wezlii530 Ironic

The fanbase is both great and full of arrogant dickheads. What’s sad is that Berserk fandom, overall, is still better than other certain fandoms I’ve come across like AoT or HxH. Anime fans get very terrible if you don’t worship their shit

@@amuroray9115 personally I think it’s almost as bad as AOT but AOT is still worse imo

@@Wezlii530 yeah. True. You know what makes me also sad? Your pfp reminded me of Jojo’s fanbase also has a very arrogant side. Luckily, most Jojo fans are chill and just meme. But there’s a sizable group that terrorize others over it since it is pretty unique. Also, Part 7 is considered one of the greatest mangas ever written (just like Berserk) so you know how it goes from there when fans start joining……

100% agree, I think most genre stories of all media types forget that it’s the characters we want to understand in unique circumstances. LOTR isn’t cool cuz of the unique name ‘Middle Earth’ but the characters that inhabit it. IMO

Haha “struggle”

Oldboy profile picture? Respect my man.

@@pepehands2735 Respect to all my oldboys out there.

I didn’t think so

Yes

Who was guts reffering to?

@@arcticwolfclapsyou1242 guts was referring to the priests son that died in battle as a mercenary i believe, the priest mentions how his son was a full then guts pulls the "died doing what he loved" quote

@@arcticwolfclapsyou1242 priests son that died being a mercenary, the priest said he shouldnt have been a mercenary and he could be happy and alive, and guts says that he was happy, he was doing what he wanted

Thank you fellow struggler! Hopefully I can talk about more for ya’ll soon :)

Worst introduction 😢nothing after it comes close to it 😭

Yeah, idk if it's a good introduction, everything will feel bland after that

@@MrKylljoy I agree lol, was just going to say that. I'm an experienced manga reader and my manga intake dwindled after I experienced Berserk. You can't just read Berserk and then go back to "I spent 300 years killing slimes and now I'm max level"

This was not my first by a long shot. But first seeing the anime, simply because I was working at a Blockbuster in the early 2000s got me to read it. And holy shit. Over 18 years. I am both pissed at and relieved for Miura, but my god, I never thought I'd ever see or read a perfect piece. Music has Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky... manga has THIS. There are other greats, but only Berserk and GUNNM are worthy to span centuries.

Well said

Thanks very much! Proud to be one :)

Finding new videos is getting tougher and tougher. This makes me sad.

@@rupinderjeetsinghhans Ok I'm on it, I'll make more ;)

@@mugenbop Your review was really enjoyable and perfect. I think the same of Berserk. I wish more people to subscribe to you out of those 60k+ viewers. Thank you for this video as well.

@@rupinderjeetsinghhans Hey all in all in time :)

Agreed

I wanted Griffith to die too. But after reading the last few chapters revenge isn't the answer for Guts. He has people to protect now.

'Revenge' goes hand-in-hand with salvation. It's the ugliest truth of the world, whether or not you take pleasure in the act. Mad dogs can't be allowed to roam unchecked, never mind rule the farm. Guts will ruin Griffith's new life, kill or 'cripple' his improved body and leave him in an impotent, imprisoned existence, again. Not to spite him but, just like last time, in spite of him. There are simply more important things than Griffith, especially now.

Not to say Guts won't 'pay' in some Sisyphean way for that ultimate blasphemy, but he's long accepted the inevitability. He just needed a nobler reason to, like everyone does. The only way to 'avenge' our families' inevitable deaths is to give them possibilities for peace and power, within our lifetimes.

Griffith isn’t a mad dog. Guts is. Griffith is just cold reality. And by embracing it, he saved the world. And all it cost was Guts’ suffering. It would absolutely be about revenge over salvation at this point. It wouldn’t even be about Justice, as Griffith hasn’t been repeating his mistakes yet. So it would be 100% be “I know what you did, and I’m going to kill you out of spite”. Reality won.

Vagabond?

@@redhairedshanksfanboy5695 I had the pleasure of reading Berserk first but Vagabond is definitely up there.

@@pravum3150 I read vagabond first I’m still not done with berserk I’m at the beach right now and I think the character of musashi is more relatable and I personally like him more than guts but besides the protagonists I think berserk has a slight edge in other categories

Blade of the Immortal?

The sheer detail alone is leagues beyond anything else

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The eclipse is the most broken I've ever been by a piece of fiction. It weighed on me for weeks.

you say that as if it is a good thing

It was the same for me but with Goodnight Pun Pun

@@someguyy194_2 i’ll check that out

You said it well.

Incredible, so new and fresh :)

@@mugenbop And it's never going to be finished.

Ah well I would rather an unfinished masterpiece than something finished and unsatisfying in my opinion :)

​@@mugenbop Well if you were reading Berserk years ago like poor me over here Mr. Miura (RIP) would leave the story in hiatus for years and years to the point where you just accept the story might not having an ending and have to be content with what you got lol. Like Beethoven releasing a final album called unfinished.

@@mugenbop better to have an option to read the continuation or not rather than not :))))

It’s the classic Miura-Farnese jebait, never been so happy to be fooled ;) I’ll add it to the list thanks so much!

@@mugenbop I would reccomend Vagabond and Kingdom too

you mean farmland saga lol

I know of this meme but not there yet :3

You mean Timeskip the interesting part saga lol

Put the filet Mignon between two buns. Boom… I want to get into Hajime. Art style interests me

I loooooove berserk and to a degree I agree with you, there are a lot of mediocre/bad manga out there same with any media really, but I think It gets a generally bad wrap just like comics cause for a long time the main market for it has been teenagers, and people think that they'll eat up any garbage, which is true to a degree. But there are a lot of great manga out there to check, Vagabond, 21st century boys, Monster, Vinland Saga, anything by Inio Asano or Junji Ito, Blame!, Hiromu Arakawa does quality stuff tho she goes more for the teenage demographic, CLAMP too and Great Teacher Onizuka, just to name a few, all those have really distinct style, some are really surreal experimental works, and have lot of interesting stuff to say. It's kind of a shame that most of the time what gets the most attention in this community is "Thing for horny teenagers that you have seen before, now with a new gimmick" or "Dragon Ball, AGAIN!"

I agree although I would replace filet mignon with the umami filled fatty tuna you would find in a quaint Japanese port town. On the surface its fatty and flavoursome, however when you read into it and understand its origin and the work and passion put into it, the tuna becomes something beautiful. Also its A5 Wagyu idiot.

I love all these possibilities especially when anything could have happened :)

i know it s a matter of povs but how is sun ken rock included in this list except for the good art u may encounter in some panels

I'd also recommend Blade of The Immortal. It's amazing and has become criminally underrated.

“As good as berserk” 💀

Sun Ken Rock is the most trashy, generic, shonen story ever told. Only reedeming quality of it is the art. Which is a huge shame since the art is awesome.

@@Pmirum the art and fight scenes are sick it’s like watching a raid movie

I did read the first volume of Blame! And I was enjoying it despite being really confused of what was happening haha

Blame! Is really good!!!

Monster is phenomenal, a true hidden gem.

@@RobRJW I wouldn't says it a hidden gem, a lots of know about it but it sure as hell still deserve more attention.

@@mugenbop BLAME! Is one of my favorite. I read the whole thing in a single day lol

Anytime :)

@@mugenbop also quick question, what music did you use in the video besides Gut's Theme? I love the songs you used!

Thanks :) I used the fire link shrine song from dark souls 1, and the behelit theme from the 1997 anime

That’s really cool! I didn’t know about the Hollow Knight reference :)

Chainsaw man

100% agree :)

I shall :)

You have me convinced Juan; I’ll add to the list :)

@@mugenbop YES, i Promise you´ll like it just as much as berserk, maybe even more(?)

Ooooh 😏

I can say the same for all of you! :)

Oh yep you know

Chitch😭

Can't remember but it has to be the Berserker armor part right?

@@touchingisjustthefirststep Yep

Thanks so much!

Finish it for Miura ❤️

Well yeah you used the whole fist. Good time :)

@@mugenbop lmao, and what a fist 'twas

I didn’t mention it in the video but after I watched the movies years ago I thought the same thing even though I didn’t mind the movies, I really thought the hype was purely edgy vibe based

29 here. Just lifting weights, training Martial Arts, supporting my mom and keep moving forward for me. “ He died doing what he wanted no matter what right? I bet he died happy” - Guts

Do you recommend manga or should I wait for anime Cuz right now I am reading bleach so not much time

The manga isn't finished yet and the wait between chapters is painfully long. The anime is the better version, with the soundtrack composed by god himself, and there's a new season coming soon wich will get the anime really close to the current events of the manga.

@@gabrielmartins-xt6rx I’m waiting for the anime of S2 of Made in the Abyss. I need to watch the movie. I watched all of S1.

That’s because the 1997 soundtrack is pretty good. It’s like reading an old story forgotten, ancient, magical yet while also showing new things we never knew.

I think if you don’t it’s illegal??

then i have commited a war crime

@@cycy8699 :O

Pandora hearts?

@@bullymaguire5838 Never heard if it

Golden Kamuy is one of my favorites.