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Apr 21, 2017 6:51 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Oh man, I forget how funny Isidro can be in this show. I mean, Berserk doesn't have a whole lot of comedy but this guy always expresses humor in it.

Nice to see Schierke appear but Isidro really made the mistake of groping her this episode LOL (even if it wasn't entirely intentionally). I'm glad to see Casca doing a lot better now that she's calmed down though. Guts is still kicking ass as usual even against some pretty strange creatures in that forest. I like how he just doesn't give a shit what he's facing against.
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Apr 21, 2017 8:48 AM
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This season might turn out to be actually decent, the animation has improved a tad bit, still wish madhouse would animate the whole thing from the beginning :/
Apr 21, 2017 8:49 AM
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Good episode.

Isidoro and Puck always make for an amusing duo.

We finally get to see Schierke, the magic effects were pretty good. Isidoro and his groping .:3
The old witch of the forest meet with our group. Looking forward to what's coming next.
Apr 21, 2017 9:02 AM
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I sorta forgot as well but it made me laugh quite a bit

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Apr 21, 2017 10:00 AM
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trolls??? a Golen Demon? a strange witch with a female elf!!! Great episode with surprises ;)
Apr 21, 2017 11:25 AM
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great ep good to see more of Schierke and next ep looks like she'll be joining the group each ep things gets better also looking forward to when he gets that transformation thats in the op
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Apr 21, 2017 12:16 PM
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I'm starting to savor the opening now. It was hard to do it right away after the strong opening of the previous season.
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Apr 21, 2017 12:53 PM
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What is with this cancer CGI ;_; even games have better graphics than this...
Apr 21, 2017 12:59 PM
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I'm so glad they improved things since last season! Things are starting to get more interesting with the introduction of the witches and I have a feeling things are just ramping up for the fireworks at the end of the season! Plus I really like the OP it's up there with the OP from last season which is one of my favorite of all time!!!
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Apr 21, 2017 1:05 PM

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Schierke is kawaii.
Apr 21, 2017 1:24 PM
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I must confess that when Shierke first appeared in the manga back in the day, I was pissed as hell. I felt Berserk had gone down the toilet with loli witches. Now the years have passed and I'm more mellow and open to different tropes and genres and I've made my peace with her. Specially considering the role she now plays in the manga too. I'f not mistaken it's none other than my beloved Chiwa Saito voicing her, right?
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Apr 21, 2017 2:09 PM

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Did they just skip about 50 episodes worth of material with this episode or did that happen after the castle part with that priest wanna-be?
I really love that they are animating good parts of the manga but they are jumping a little bit TOO much
Apr 21, 2017 2:47 PM

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the circle magic LMAO hahahahha
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Apr 21, 2017 3:13 PM

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DarkWish said:
Did they just skip about 50 episodes worth of material with this episode or did that happen after the castle part with that priest wanna-be?
I really love that they are animating good parts of the manga but they are jumping a little bit TOO much


No, they're following right the events, there were some changes in order of some in the past episodes but everything is alright so far
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Apr 21, 2017 4:12 PM

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Isidro is so funny
Apr 21, 2017 6:28 PM

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I love Guts as a mentor.

Schierke has arrived! I'm looking forward to seeing more of her.
Apr 21, 2017 6:54 PM

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Good episode.

Nice to see Guts train Ishidoro. LOL getting hit in the head. Still got a long way to go.

Finally Schierke makes her appearance.
Those trolls are ugly.

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Apr 21, 2017 6:55 PM
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Loved the episode. It makes me want to re-read the manga, because it's much better in many ways. But still I'm liking this adaptation and hoping the next episodes will be better.

Nice to see how Farnese starts to change and Schierke is finally here!
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Apr 21, 2017 7:38 PM

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Isidora and Puck lol
I ship him and Scherke
Apr 21, 2017 8:02 PM

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It'll take some getting used to Schierke's and Ivalera's voice. They sound totally different from what I'd been imagning all these years (as opposed to Farnese's and Serpico's, which are on point).

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Like how they didnt explain that puck's wing dust heals wounds. Or skipping Roshine, dam unforgivable. Or outright skipping explaining the apostoles who and what they are.

These aren't spoiler at all, they're from past seasons. Rosine should've been last season, before the tower of conviction arc, but they skipped it (a shame). The apostles are explained in the golden age movies, which are sort of a prequel to this series. And Puck's healing power was also explained last season, wasn't it?
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Apr 21, 2017 9:37 PM

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Ohh I like the new possible addition in the show. I hope she will join Gut's party!


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Apr 21, 2017 10:12 PM
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oh boy it's Friday already. Can't wait for Berserk new episode, and I'm not meaning this anime but an episode of Mangastorian on youtube.

Regarding the anime this week; it felt too rushed and lackluster. Bad transition of events, like in a recap episode or a bad fan made abridge.
Apr 21, 2017 11:07 PM

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Considering they did show the Rape Horse last season, I wonder if they're gonna show the troll scenes in full.

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What is with this cancer CGI ;_; even games have better graphics than this...


Games tend to have much higher budgets. Game studios are also used to working with CGI while anime studios still seem to be trying to figure out how to properly use it.
Apr 22, 2017 1:03 AM

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So, we have trolls and witches now, huh? I mean, it's not really surprising, but it will take some getting used to. At any rate, I'm curious to see why the witch wanted to meet Guts and Casca next week.
Apr 22, 2017 1:22 AM

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AnotherGuy said:
It'll take some getting used to Schierke's and Ivalera's voice. They sound totally different from what I'd been imagning all these years (as opposed to Farnese's and Serpico's, which are on point).

DarkWish said:
Like how they didnt explain that puck's wing dust heals wounds. Or skipping Roshine, dam unforgivable. Or outright skipping explaining the apostoles who and what they are.

These aren't spoiler at all, they're from past seasons. Rosine should've been last season, before the tower of conviction arc, but they skipped it (a shame). The apostles are explained in the golden age movies, which are sort of a prequel to this series. And Puck's healing power was also explained last season, wasn't it?

As far as i know puck healing was not explained at all, if you read the manga he even puts his dust in pouches for guts to use
Yea but the movies had early encounters with apostoles not explaining they become that because of the egg things
Apr 22, 2017 2:49 AM
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hithummah said:
oh boy it's Friday already. Can't wait for Berserk new episode, and I'm not meaning this anime but an episode of Mangastorian on youtube.

Regarding the anime this week; it felt too rushed and lackluster. Bad transition of events, like in a recap episode or a bad fan made abridge.


Wow, what a cringefest.. I prefer the series.. It's not ideal in many aspects but still better than listening to some youtube goof.. Do you know, that you can read it by yourself too?

Everything is as usual, melodramatic reactions all over the place..
Apr 22, 2017 2:53 AM
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I expected more fighting in this episode, was bit disappointed :)

Maybe the next one? I don't remember the manga well, but I have a feeling it could be really good, next one.

I enjoyed it though, comedy moments were surprisingly funny..

Apr 22, 2017 3:55 AM

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I expected more fighting in this episode, was bit disappointed :)

Maybe the next one? I don't remember the manga well, but I have a feeling it could be really good, next one.

I enjoyed it though, comedy moments were surprisingly funny..



Next one shouldn't have much fighting. Gonna put it in a spoiler, just in case:
Apr 22, 2017 7:53 AM
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genk1sudo said:
I expected more fighting in this episode, was bit disappointed :)

Maybe the next one? I don't remember the manga well, but I have a feeling it could be really good, next one.

I enjoyed it though, comedy moments were surprisingly funny..



Next one shouldn't have much fighting. Gonna put it in a spoiler, just in case:



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Apr 22, 2017 7:59 AM

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Good episode. I liked the new char (Schierke). Only Casca is getting boring a bit ... I hope she'll get "healed" soon. (Would be bad if they kept her mentally broken until the plot ended. Hopefully in the manga it won't stay for too much longer like that.)
Apr 22, 2017 8:16 AM

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Quite the boring episode in my opinion.


Apr 22, 2017 9:17 AM

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Gotta say, I love the Chiwa Saito + Satomi Arai combo, sasuga 10/10 casting
Apr 22, 2017 9:25 AM
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Why would puck healing power need explanation? Isn't the animation quite self-explanatory??
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Apr 22, 2017 8:28 PM

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Very nice episode!
Isidro training with Guts was nice because he also want to be useful.
Farnese being useless and she's very vulnerable. Serpico was right, Guts changed her.
Alright! Schierke has appeared and seems a very capable witch for the team! and also a rival friction to Isidro! lolz
Looks like Puck also has another companion of her own elf race: Evarella
5/5.


Apr 22, 2017 10:15 PM

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Stick with what you're good at Isidro and throw them rocks!

A bit of development for each of the characters which is nice.

Yay Schierke! We needed some magic.

Next episode: Into the Shadow Realm!
Apr 23, 2017 1:34 AM

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Welp, the adaptation's back to being complete shit once again. Wish this anime's director would learn how to pace a series/transition from scene to scene smoothly on a consistent basis. Hopefully all of the cut animation and frames will be fixed in the upcoming fights (although given how things have gone up until this point I doubt it). At very least I'm glad Schierke's magic turned out at a passable level.

2/5
Apr 23, 2017 7:04 AM

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Finally more Schierke!
Apr 23, 2017 9:00 AM

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Guts is in the tree house! Even if the series is flawed I'm still excited to see him finally there.

Another great episode. I found some of Isidro and Puck's antics annoying when I read the manga years ago, I dunno if it's age or just seeing them animated but either way I really like how they've turned out.

Surprised by some of the complaints about pacing, I thought it was spot on just like last episode. Great music in the "slower" moments, too. Not a fan of this composer's work overall and especially his more action-y themes, but occasionally he comes up with something I really enjoy.

I find the voice for the female elf annoying, but that's about my only criticism of the episode.
Apr 23, 2017 4:16 PM
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DarkWish said:
Did they just skip about 50 episodes worth of material with this episode or did that happen after the castle part with that priest wanna-be?
I really love that they are animating good parts of the manga but they are jumping a little bit TOO much


As far as I can remember (and I think I remember well), they are covering mostly everything from the Millenium Falcon chapter/arc. A couple changes in the sequence order of related events here and there (like putting the assault on the Midland fortress and other related developments of Griffith's new band all on the 3rd episode).

Biggest offender to me is that the pace while covering all this is being a bit too fast, and a lot of nuance, detail and scene effect is being lost. They skipped the comic relief scene between Grunbeld, Sonia and that apostle on the 3rd episode, and omitted Sonia's telepathic message to Mule as they were entering the shortcut in the forest to meet Griffith, which is insightful to Sonia's character.

In the episode today the sequence of events that show how helpless Farnese is, and her final realization of it in Serpico's presence, had so much more effect in the manga.

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It's been romoured at some point the Berserk committee plans to make a movie or series/OVA exclusively covering the Black Swordsman years, and that should include Rosine.
Apr 23, 2017 9:01 PM
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What is with this cancer CGI ;_; even games have better graphics than this...
Well duh, do you think tv series are supposed to have better animation? Games don't have to deal with the intense deadlines and honestly the cgi is pretty good now.
Apr 23, 2017 9:04 PM
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Really like the new season so far. Only disappointment was how rushed Farnese's backstory was. It made her seem a bit less empathetic, but that was episode 2. This episode was great. Wonder why Valera has her midriff completely exposed though. It's not like that in the manga.
Apr 24, 2017 3:19 AM

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Well duh, do you think tv series are supposed to have better animation? Games don't have to deal with the intense deadlines and honestly the cgi is pretty good now.

Hahahahahahahaha, amazing! Games don't have intense deadlines? Oh the excuses. You ever watch anything except anime? There is CGI is hundreds of tv shows. Even in anime, but it's not as noticeable as this show cause it's done with taste. This is just abuse of CGI. For one of best manga out there, this deserves quality and hard work. For those that say "oh they don't have the money", well that goes for any show out there. Stop excusing the un-excusable. They're being lazy, abusing the CGI, we must no support this but shame it.
They had enough money for the movies, and even though CGI was noticeable there, it wasn't as prominent as in these adaptations.

P.s. If you can't remember any tv show with CGI, then try to explain to yourself how special effects were done in Agents of Shield, Game of Thrones, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The Flash, Daredevil...
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Apr 24, 2017 10:07 AM

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At times I think that the studio decided to invest more into the openings rather than the show itself, I have ignored the bad cgi moments for awhile but now? I feel like I'm watching a cut scene from a low budget game and not Berserk...
Apr 24, 2017 11:13 AM
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I fastforwarded the whole episode I thought it was terrible not even hyped to continue watching
Apr 24, 2017 11:49 AM
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x3mslayer said:
Jason_Funderberk said:
Well duh, do you think tv series are supposed to have better animation? Games don't have to deal with the intense deadlines and honestly the cgi is pretty good now.

Hahahahahahahaha, amazing! Games don't have intense deadlines? Oh the excuses. You ever watch anything except anime? There is CGI is hundreds of tv shows. Even in anime, but it's not as noticeable as this show cause it's done with taste. This is just abuse of CGI. For one of best manga out there, this deserves quality and hard work. For those that say "oh they don't have the money", well that goes for any show out there. Stop excusing the un-excusable. They're being lazy, abusing the CGI, we must no support this but shame it.
They had enough money for the movies, and even though CGI was noticeable there, it wasn't as prominent as in these adaptations.

P.s. If you can't remember any tv show with CGI, then try to explain to yourself how special effects were done in Agents of Shield, Game of Thrones, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, The Flash, Daredevil...
Don't waste my time with replies.
Oh, I've seen several shows that either use heavy cgi or full cgi that have released episodes on a weekly basis in high quality, but that costs upwards of a million dollars per episode. Each episode for most anime have about a week to be created in its entirety, and without a huge budget, they have to cut corners. Western cartoons have long hiatuses in between seasons where they animate everything, so shows like Miraculous Ladybug are incomparable to anime. Game of Thrones and other shows like that have huge budgets, and also are mostly live action as well, which is one of the easiest ways to create a media form.
Apr 24, 2017 2:32 PM

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17 episodes in and people are just realizing the show is CG, Millepensee/GEMBA must be doing impeccable work! Hope the rest of the industry is taking notes.
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Apr 25, 2017 7:06 AM

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So Schierke's name is pronounced as "Shee-Roo-Keh", I've reading it as "Sheer-Kee" all this while. =(

God awful CG for Flora when she got that zoom in while talking....


Apr 26, 2017 6:19 AM

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Schielke, finally, I think we got all members of Team Gats now.
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Apr 30, 2017 12:17 AM

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And at last we have our witch.
May 12, 2017 9:34 PM
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Those Elementals looked quite cuddly. I guess they were Schierke's experiments.
Isidro teasing Schierke got on Guts' nerves. He was quite funny this episode.

The Witch seems like a nice lady. Her words to Farnese were a surprise. I knew she killed heretics but she never killed a Witch.

The Witch was waiting for Guts and Casca. They could use a little help.
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