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Average rating4.2
The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to combat Guts, the Black Swordsman. Puck, Guts’ pint-sized fairy sidekick, is captured when he attempts to stop an old doctor’s execution, and he is given as a gift to the count’s daughter, a sweet girl in a gilded cage, imprisoned by her father in her own room. Guts, determined to make mincemeat of the Count, assaults the castle and carves a swath of blood-soaked destruction through the Count’s minions. Face-to-face with the Black Swordsman at last, the Count reveals his true form, and even Guts’ super-sized sword may not be big enough to contend with this demonic monstrosity!
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Here the manga gets a little more serialized, and drops the “Demon Of The Chapter” aspect of the story. For that matter, it also fleshes out the characters a little more - so while the villain of this volume, The Count, is certainly monstrous, he does have his humanizing elements.
I discovered Berserk very late. Read all that was possible to read during several frenetic nights and weekends. Epic in all sense. The art, the story, the character arcs. 5/5. One detail though, it's not finished yet and doesn't seem even close to completion.
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40 primary booksBerserk is a 40-book series with 40 primary works first released in 1990 with contributions by Kentaro Miura, Jason DeAngelis, and 5 others.