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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Welp, the show is back although art style retains the same way it was done like the previous season. The new OP song is rather catchy though. Pretty tense episode. Guts still retains his vengeance against Griffith and we get to see an intense duel between him and Nosferatu Zodd. Not bad for a returning episode. |
TyrelJul 24, 2017 8:02 PM
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| Well if you can get over the CG, it still isn't half bad and it was actually a nice restart. The music is good and I'm glad that they're at least adapting the manga decently. The action was pretty tense and really cool, loved the part where Guts kicked the sword into Zodd's abdomen. Griffith gonna wreck these Kushan's now. Also troll mode Puck best puck. xD |
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| The sound effects in the Guts vs Zodd fight made my day. I couldn't stop laughing. |
| Well, it was an interesting start to the new season and a good continuation from where the previous one left off, and I'm already intrigued by how things are going to play out, especially with Griffith firmly back in the picture now. |
| Shitting on the first season drained all my energy, so I'll just sit back and enjoy the story while I continue to try to get used to this abysmal CGI, as well as laughing my ass off at the sound effects of the sword clashing. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| i'm already used to the animation, but I really hope they could make it looks high quality like in king's quest (steam) |
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| That jazzy BGM at 5 minutes in was sooooo bad, what were they thinking?! It sounded like some corny jazz bar music. |
| Griffith is here and he's looking f.a.b.u.l.o.u.s. |
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| What's hilarious is if they actually did the anime with the same style as the OP it would actually be decent. Not amazing, but at least not the pile of shit they've been putting out. |
| The CGI isn't great, we all know that. But the story, pacing and even the fight between Guts and Zodd were brilliant, in my opinion. |
| Siegwulf ジークウルフ |
| 3/5 Super awesome to see Griffith and Guts talking to each other after such a LONG time. Not a surprise but the CGI is still awful and seemingly worse. Right where Zodd makes his appearance and they pan the camera up and away to Griffith, it felt like I lost a lot of frame rate but for only that one instance. I didn't like that fight at all just because of the CGI, the Shaky Cam and awful sound effects. (CLANG CLANG CLANG) At this point, I'm pretty much here for the amazing story and I have completely given up on the animation. That's a shame too since the manga has one of the best, if not the best, artwork I've seen in manga. I like the opening song and video a lot. Seeing Guts in that Berserker armor in the opening made me lose my pants. Also seeing Zodd, Guts, Casca and Griffith together in one place can be contributed to me losing said pants...Seriously, I honestly have no idea when I took my pants off and I'm getting a little worried. |
TehSnawnApr 7, 2017 10:40 AM
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| CGI is better, still a bit weird, but better, any sound involved with fighting is still comically bad, and the directing is still god fucking awful. Still better than 2016 tho |
KingOriaxApr 7, 2017 10:46 AM
| http://i.imgur.com/di5B5hA.gifv Yep it's still the same. |
kill it with fire! i really hate watching berserk but i kinda have to. only way to see those parts animated. |
| As much as I want to say this looks like crap and that I'll be dropping it, I love berserk too much too do so. Also, I'm too lazy to read manga so I'll keep quiet and be happy wit what I get. |
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| a great way to start things back up been looking forward to this new season and its already starting off great |
| "one step at a time" |
| I would have liked seeing Guts telling Rickert the truth. |
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| Decided to give this one a watch to see if things improved from last season... oh boy have they not. The really strange camera movement, ugly characters and visuals and awful sound effects/music are all still present. I'm trying hard to look past the CG, but I just can't. Dropped. I suppose the one thing this episode gave me was more CLANG sounds to use in future videos. Yay? zumac said: This. Honestly couldn't take the fight seriously, it just cracks me up.The sound effects in the Guts vs Zodd fight made my day. I couldn't stop laughing. |
| As an old and big time fan of the manga, I'm still pissed beyond belief that they gave the adaption of this manga to mediocre and inexperienced studio. It deserves better. Having said that, the CGI and animation seem a biiiit better than last season. Which is not saying much. |
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| Hey does anyone know if this is the second season of Berserk or is a new re-vamped Berserk? I stopped after episode 7ish in season one because I couldn't bare the CGI anymore. I might give this a go again if it's a different plot. |
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| Thought the 2D animation was amazing, the 3D animation wasn't too shabby either. It isn't as terrible as people say it is, that's for sure. They'll see one smeared scene and over-analyze the shit out of it. Overall, great episode and I'm happy that it is back. |
| Well, it's back. Guess it wasn't a bad start to the new season. |
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| the first couple minutes of animation was really good! Such a shame they didn't go with that style throughout the series. |
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| CGI is still meh but I still really enjoyed Guts vs Zodd fight. |
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| Well, let's see if there will be some improvement over the first season. |
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| Nice to see Berserk back. OP & ED song are good. Guts vs Zodd. So close to Griffith, yet so far. |
"I’ve set myself to become the King of the Pirates…and if I die trying…then at least I tried!" Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) |
| Here we go again ladies and gents, let's see if this season is going to be as piss poor as the last (that's where the smart money is bet)! I will say that the music continues to be the high point of the show in this episode and that the direction of the Zodd fight is a marked improvement from most of the fights last season, but that both are nearly undermined by the comical [CLANG!] barrage that came from Guts and Zodd exchanging blows and the massively dropped frame rate in multiple scenes. Didn't like the new opening much either, in terms of song or animation. The one consistently good portion of this episode was how Griffith was portrayed. It's pretty obvious that the animators paid extra attention to making him appear as ethereal and eerie as possible and thankfully they succeeded. Hopefully this will remain a constant and also be passed onto other characters as well. Overall a mixed bag of an episode, 3/5. |
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| Mixed feelings as always. So nice to have a scene like the Hill of Swords finally animated, but...man, just imagine if they had a bigger budget and better animation. It is what it is I guess... I really really hate Shiro Sagisu's music for Berserk. He's a good composer, sure, but it doesn't work with Berserk. genk1sudo said: Arashi89 said: That jazzy BGM at 5 minutes in was sooooo bad, what were they thinking?! It sounded like some corny jazz bar music. Noticed that too, that music choice was really awful :) Yeah. This. |
| Such a great improvement since the 2016 "reboot". Still doesn't look 'great' but its following the Manga better so far and establishing shots are on point. |
| Lie until what you want to be true becomes truth. Lie until you can't remember what's a lie and what isn't. Lie until you aren't lying anymore! Figures  |
| This first episode was very intese, because we could watch Guts and Griffith, face to face, although in the middle was Zodd helping the ex hack lider!!! Nice battle, although the most brutal, and bloody was the scenes when takes the castle, but only 2 minutes. 7/10 for this starter!!! |
| so it's back and people are still hating on the CGI |
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| It's finally back! I sure have been waiting for this one. CGI is back as well... but oh well I had enough of complaining and reading complains about CGI so I long since... don't care any more, it's berserk after all. I still can't get over the sounds effects of sword clashing but enough about that as well. This is already second season that came out just few months after S1, no one expected any improvements. In any case it's back and I sure loved it. Other than King's avatar which is basically a dream coming true for that to be turned into anime, I sure looked forward to Berserk coming back the most. In comparison to the most hyped anime of this season which would be SNK and BNHA, even if those animes are made greatly and have little to no flaws, in the end it's the original story that matters the most. |
| Griffith's looking glorious. |
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| Yeah, the animation is still horrendous, but if you look past that, almost everything else was done well. My biggest complaints with the previous season was animation quality and the lack of proper flow between scenes. This season seems to fix the flowing issue (for now). 4/5 |
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| It was actually really good o.o I felt so many good tensions and hype :D |
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