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Alright... of course most people agree that Berserk is a great manga... but with sometimes months on end inbetween a single 20-ish page installment, what's the point? At this rate, Miura will die before finishing Berserk. Perpetually being on a cliffhanger is really annoying. Don't know about everyone else, but it really kills the story for me.

Any thoughts? Is it still worth reading consistently despite the long waits?

well maybe it's jus because you don't like berserk all that much. Yeah, the waits are long and the reading is short,but that's missing the point. I'd read a single page of Berserk over 20 mangas of naruto anytime. The level of quality Miura delivers is far beyond anything else you'd see from other artists (speaking of "graphically" wise and of the story's plot). If you think Berserk is not worth reading anymore, then too bad for you, I don't think anyone's gonna cry about it. The point here is, Berserk is far above the mere term of epicness and I think a little patience (and 13 bucks every time a manga comes out =P ) is not too much a big price for it. So yeah, long live Miura ^.^

Patience is one thing, waiting decades for a proper end to the story is another. I like the manga, but I don't think any manga would work as a never-ending story.

Its said to draw to a close around volume 50, that is if miura wasnt taken down by idolmaster....

LIES! Berserk will never end! Miura has already trolled us from way back when. here's the evidence:

Just wait a couple of years and reread it again. Repeat it until its done.

To see a new berserk chapter come out and then just ignore it and say: "no I'm going to wait one more year until i read this", is beyond hard. It's almost impossible. And at the same time how can you risk doing so? If you live your life without berserk for a couple of years you'll loose your attachment to it, and you will slowly forget about it.

So imo that suggestion wasn't very good, but people are different and so are their opinions

Dildom@ster has made Miura soft anyway.

I don't think I'll bother until it's finished.... Hopefully Miura won't do anything awful to the series by then.

Why should one stop a story that brings him so much money? It's not going to end very soon. It will just get bigger and bigger in power like Dragon Ball series.

You are completly right about your point of view on berserk. It does kill the story and the good aspects of it. But i am too obsessed with knowing the end, i will just continue reading every chapter whenever it comes out until i get tired of it and drop it maybe for good.

Until next chapter comes out i will fill my free time with reading and watching random stuff and also watching other on-going mangas and anime series and TV series.

Know that TV show that started quite well, then it got retarded over the years ... it's called LOST, i am still wasting time watching it when it comes out although the quality clearly drop, but not from the waiting alone. I just want to see the damn ending and the answers to the mysteries in their dumbass dragged out overrated and probably very simplistic idea.


I wouldn't call that trolling, rather a warning. :D

wtf ?
it was just the last 2 chapters...

just to introduce the ''new world''
fantasia..

thats all, not like it will be forever like this..

:o)

I'm only up to volume 5 . I don't care

I see a lot of discussion about how annoying the chapter breaks are, but there are always defensive voices almost saying "it'll be good once you read it in one go."

I'm sorry guys, but I'm pretty sure reading this in one go isnt going to make any difference. You'll enjoy the story for about 10 volumes or something, then you're going to realise the plot is slowing down, then it's stopped, then a stupid witch girl has appeared, then people arent talking anymore...and....wait, WTF is a 'femto' again?

I mean it's one thing for an author to worry about how current readers are perceiving his work, and another to think about future readers, but at this point in time it looks like Miura is going to lose in both categories. Sure the art is fantastic, the plot hasnt been flushed down the toilet, but after 300 chapters who can honestly say they've been satisfied with how things have turned out?

When you were reading Berserk back in the good old days with demonic rape occuring, you were relishing the idea of Guts getting his revenge. Guys, we were in diapers when that infamous rape scene occured in the manga. I dont even remember how or why the fucking rape even happened, how can I relish a revenge for something I can barely remember? Why's Guts only got one eye open? I CANT FUCKING REMEMBER ANYMORE. Even if I marathoned the manga in a week, I still wouldnt remember, there's just too much lapse in storytelling.

People who happen to have marathoned this up to chapter 300-ish, please chime in with your thoughts. Have you noticed degenerating quality in the story? Or has Berserk been consistently entertaining? I just cant see myself re-reading this manga in the future, or if I do I'm sure the drop in quality will hit me like a slap in the face. (I'm talking about story, the art is perfectly fine)

/end rant

Naa... Berserk always has been slow paced. And the golden age arc and the revenge arc where both finished with several chapters of full page spreads. The only difference this time where some stupid idolmaster rumors started in some website.

yes i noticed :(((

but hey, from chapter 308 the storyline seems to moving well)
i mean we are back to guts)

I as well. Finally reading through Berserk was awesome... for the first 15 volumes. After that, it started to feel almost shoneny in terms of the pacing, sidetracks, and focus on fights versus some relatively unimportant people. I'll probably still follow it, since I don't have any of the pent-up fatigue that long time fans have right now, but I wasn't really awed by it the way I expected.

It wasn't bad at any point, just that the quality in the post-eclipse world feels like something I could get from a lot of other currently running (and more frequently serialized) manga.

I just read it all and yes, it's been entertaining consistently, but that comes with not having to wait for the pace to pick up. If it was getting slower with no action, I just calmly kept reading and wasn't bothered by it at all.
But when I realize I just read almost 20 years of work in 3 days, it puts things into perspective.
Also, any kind of conclusion seems to be drifting away - Guts is leaving to the faraway land and instead of getting closer to the end, a new and probably long arc begins. Which really sucks now.

And I love the witch btw.

This was my experience as well. I enjoyed the entire thing, immensely; when it slowed down, or focused on other people, it felt like a refreshing break to me. I just liked the whole thing, I guess.

I have been reading Berserk for ages now.. The point in reading it anymore you ask? Simple.. I enjoy it.. I do not think it will 'go on forever' either some very key events have occured things are moving along.. SO honestly its a simple answer for me at least.

About 99% of the mal user has marathon-ed about 150 chapters of the story, at least, the tempo has always been slow for berserk ever since Miura got so burnt out after mass publishing the story a couple of years back.

As for the story, i don't see any drop in quality, just a change of perceptive, that's all thanks to the fact that guts now has companions again, and can't go from boss fight to boss fight solo, and i like that, my favorite arc in berserk is in-fact the arc about the trolls, followed by the lost children, why? Because i wouldn't like the manga as much a i do if it was only hack-and-slash after the eclipse.

Tl;dr The quality is the same, with a different perspective.