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| You guys overreacted too much into this, yeahh I get it you all are hardcore berserk fans and want a good adaptation, but dude y'all are just looking for flaws to point instead of praising something good. CGI is really bad but its bearable, and story-wise after episode 2-3 this anime followed almost faithfully the manga which is what everyone been asking for Solid 8/10 for me |
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BeYourself said: You guys overreacted too much into this, yeahh I get it you all are hardcore berserk fans and want a good adaptation, but dude y'all are just looking for flaws to point instead of praising something good. CGI is really bad but its bearable, and story-wise after episode 2-3 this anime followed almost faithfully the manga which is what everyone been asking for Solid 8/10 for me Something good? People would be pissed if this was just a bad anime... but it's not just bad, it's a disaster beyond belief. It looks like it has been animated by a bunch of 13 year olds kids sitting in a basement somewhere on their Windows XP computer from 2003, and that's almost what actually happened too. |
| the '16 season was decent, not too many questionable things. '17 was jumbled. |
| anime/manga version of steam would be awesome - https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1625396 |
| And Casca's still being drawn into Griffith.... Anyways, I hated the adaptation initially, but ended up liking it somewhat. |
TogameCheerioFeb 13, 2018 8:51 AM
| The CGI isn't as bad as i think but the story need to be more in depth, or perhaps just because i didn't watch the original series from the late 90's i feel like i'm missing something, but still quiet nice afterall. That Griffith dude is so "Utsukushi". Overall score 5/10 |
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| I enjoyed this series, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the next season, too. It seems most people just want to bash on this as much as possible for it being CGI, and how much it disgraces the manga. It's fucking annoying. Either way, the music that played on Griffiths appearance? Hell yeah, dude. 8/10 for this. |
| No doubt, it's simply 10/10. As the whole serial. (zZz manga) |
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| Im just glad to see our Griffith is back, I feel bad for Guts no one understands him. Casca still has not recovered, and Griffith looks more powerful now and unapproachable. And of course, the egg is back again. |
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| The story was good, like always, the animation was trash, the sound was pretty bad too. Overall 3/10 |
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| Okay, so Griffith's returned |
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| Alright. So Farnese just goes from hating Guts' guts (haha, punny joke) to straight up adoring him. What a sudden 180, going from worshipping Mozgus to worshipping Guts. I feel like they (the writer(s)) didn't know where to go with her. Weak "character development" on her end, I would say. Lol, the part where Luca put Nina into a barrel was pretty funny. But I felt like "infinite slime" was kind of an "easy threat" to make up. It was pretty cool when it first appeared, but after (what was it?) 3 episodes, it felt a bit cliché. Using flesh-eating slime as the main threat. First of all, Berserk 2016 is a great series. All those FPS and anti-CGI elitists can go suck a fat one. If you are someone who read the manga first and then thinks this anime is shit: I can see where you're coming from. That's why I watch the anime first and then go read the manga. If you do it the other way around, you're bound to get disappointed. The music was better and there was plenty of action. Even though this was about half the size of season 1, I get the feeling that a lot happened over a shorter amount of time. I loved a lot of the episodes and liked most of the other ones. But the ending was kind of disappointing. Again, the series answers none of the questions you might have and creates even more: What's up with the talking egg? What was up with Mozgus and his cronies? Where they really angels? What was up with the weird deformed baby? What's up with the Skull Knight? Where did Guts get the idea or order to go kill the apostles? How did Rickert get out of that nasty situation in season 1? Why did only Guts get haunted by demons for years on end, while they left Casca alone? Where did Griffith go after raping Casca? Did he fly off back into his egg? Why doesn't he have his black "suit" on this time? How did Guts escape from there with Casca? Why did Zodd just break through the wall and fly off with Griffith? Where did Griffith exactly come from? What was the point of him even being there, if it wasn't for Guts or Casca? I could forgive the anime the first time, for leaving on a cliffhanger. But this doesn't even feel like a cliffhanger to me. Those Kuzran motherfuckers or whatever the hell their name was, they just popped up there for no apparent reason. How could they have gotten so close when everything was just "lethal demongoop" a few hours earlier? I just don't buy it. In conclusion: Berserk 2016 is great and I totally recommend it. But the ending was a wet fart. And I'm sick of the "more questions than answers" approach. Fine, I get it. I'll go read the manga. Zoldra0 said: BeYourself said: You guys overreacted too much into this, yeahh I get it you all are hardcore berserk fans and want a good adaptation, but dude y'all are just looking for flaws to point instead of praising something good. CGI is really bad but its bearable, and story-wise after episode 2-3 this anime followed almost faithfully the manga which is what everyone been asking for Solid 8/10 for me Something good? People would be pissed if this was just a bad anime... but it's not just bad, it's a disaster beyond belief. It looks like it has been animated by a bunch of 13 year olds kids sitting in a basement somewhere on their Windows XP computer from 2003, and that's almost what actually happened too. If this was made by a bunch of 13 year olds, those kids have more talent than you. You don't even know half of the effort that went into making this. Berserk 2016 is even better than the original series, in my opinion. Or at least, just as good. |
JezzmanApr 8, 2021 6:06 AM
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Jezzman said: If this was made by a bunch of 13 year olds, those kids have more talent than you. I'm not trying to make a Berserk adaptation. Jezzman said: You don't even know half of the effort that went into making this. Most of the effort was put into trying to figure out what the hell they were doing. Berserk started production in the spring of 2015, but it took them until December just to decide how the series should look. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2017-07-07/what-the-heck-happened-to-berserk/.117834 |
| Decent closure: knight goes off in the sunrise with his damsel, Farnese grew and eh, even Nina. Wonder what will happen to saint Luka. Mixed feeling about Griffith's reincarnation: on one hand it ruins all the fallen angel/daimaou imagery, along with the inner blackness/ugliness becoming the outter appearance symbolic (but narratively that would have led to something like an evil castle à la Dracula and Miura probably didn't want to go there). On the other hand it replicates the golden age positions, adding the good yin/bad yang structure on top of it. While it sounds interesting in terms of Griffith interacting with the mundane world, why would a daimaou even care about such trifle? |
EratiKJun 19, 2021 1:26 AM
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| quality was shit all around, but i still do like the characters and setting, i wish the plot was a little more thoroughly explained, anime only fans like myself are likely confused as to specifics. could use further exposition. could have been a gem but was sloppily done. |
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| Season's finale had really nice looking depiction of Griffith's return. This anime wasn't perfect, wasn't even good, but it was enjoyable. CGI was bad, but bearable. Too bad that many things from the manga were either rushed or omitted, but oh well. Anyway, it wasn't as awful, at least in my opinion, as many people had described it to be. Berserk surely deserves better adaptation, of course; but this show was not that terrible. |
| Had this dropped for about 5 years but finally managed to get through it and honestly, the second half was much better. Maybe I just got used to it or something and the plot definitely picked up too to help that cause. Farnese's 180-degree character change was kind of hilarious but interesting to see whereas the focus on Nina just felt pointless, it's not like she managed to learn anything in the end xD. I thought it was a bit unlike Berserk to leave most of the prominent characters alive, I was expecting Luca-san on at least two occasions and Nina too of course to bite the dust but they somehow made it out alive. Isidro and Puck's comedic moments at times didn't really fit but I think in general they're good additions to the cast. And hey, was that Griffith actually? Casca's reaction seems to suggest so. Looked as if he just came back to life. What exactly happened to him after the Golden Age arc's finale, I wonder. Definitely feel that the hate for this show because of its animation is a little too much but then again, I was a part of that group for a while so I can't exactly start criticising people for it already, lmao. I guess a 6/10 from me. |
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| This adaptation brought forth a disappointing blend of horrendous visuals, inconsistent pacing, change of events and grating clang sound effects. Yet, despite its flaws, the second half was better than the first and I found some enjoyment in the essence of Berserk's epic story. |
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| Nina's conclusion and resolve were interesting. She may be right, and I think her decision is wise. However, what she did was an act of courage in the end, and I tend to believe she changed under the influence of Luca's selfless behavior. I'm convinced that people learn from one another primarily by witnessing each other's behavior. However, since people are different, when they learn something, they adapt it to their own way of being. Because of that, sometimes it may feel they act differently from the person they learned from, but they don't. I also admire Luca. Her spirit seems to glow like a powerful light in the darkness, keeping alive other souls, strengthening them, nourishing them, and sometimes even making them glow like her. I cannot help comparing her to Guts, only that they manifest differently. She has a feminine way of spreading the light of hope, while Guts has a masculine way of doing it. |
| "The me today will not ever make the future me to regret!" (Emily Adachi from Air Gear: Kuro no Hane to Nemuri no Mori - Break on the Sky)  |
| It was OK. Lacked the Lost Children Arc though. |
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