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Mar 22, 2016 2:32 AM
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The seventh issue of Young Animal magazine of 2016, which will go on sale on March 25, has announced production details of the upcoming Berserk TV anime. The series will air from July 2016 on the Animeism programming block of MBS and its affiliated networks, as well as on the WOWOW network.

Staff
Director: Shin Itagaki (Teekyuu)
Series Composition: Makoto Fukami (Yuru Yuri San☆Hai!)
Series Composition Cooperation: Takashi Yamashita (Bloodlink Series)
Character Design: Hisashi Abe (Devil May Cry)
Music: Shiro Sagisu (Berserk: Ougon Jidaihen)
Inserted Song Performance: "Hai yo" by Susumu Hisarawa
Production: LIDENFILMS
Studio: GEMBA, Millepensee

Cast
Guts: Hiroaki Iwanaga (Berserk: Ougon Jidaihen)
Puck: Kaoru Mizuhara (Ga-Rei: Zero)
Farnese: Yoko Hikasa (Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito)
Serpico: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova)
Isidro: Hiro Shimono (Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai)
Azan: Hiroki Yasumoto (Hoozuki no Reitetsu)
Casca: Toa Yukinari (Berserk: Ougon Jidaihen)
Griffith: Takahiro Sakurai (Berserk: Ougon Jidaihen)
The Skull Knight: Akio Ootsuka (Fate/Zero)
Narrator: Unshou Ishizuka (Cowboy Bebop)

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Mar 22, 2016 2:38 AM
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Lmao such a weird staff.
Mar 22, 2016 2:38 AM
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The holy piece is going to be tainted.
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Mar 22, 2016 2:40 AM
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it will be 100% CG?

I hope not!!!
Mar 22, 2016 2:40 AM
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Staff and Cast is a Overkill D:

Wonder how many episodes it will have?

Mar 22, 2016 2:48 AM
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Lets see what happens, hope its good
"At some point, I stopped hoping."
Mar 22, 2016 2:53 AM
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meh, I've lost all hope after seeing that disgusting PV. Needs to die and be given to Madhouse for justice if you ask me.

ToMaS-The-CroW said:
it will be 100% CG?

I hope not!!!


GEMBA is a CG studio.......well fuck that! and that other studio, Millepensee.....good god.......
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Mar 22, 2016 3:02 AM
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This sounds like it'll be terrible, but I know I'm still going to watch it...
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Mar 22, 2016 3:03 AM
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Hoping this will be good
Mar 22, 2016 3:09 AM
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This already looks like a train wreck ;_;
Mar 22, 2016 3:13 AM

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please be good please be good
Natsu's Rage !!




Mar 22, 2016 3:15 AM

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Man that trailer did look weird....I guess its a matter of getting use to it... :P
Mar 22, 2016 3:23 AM

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25 eps or 50? there is news about that?
Mar 22, 2016 3:24 AM

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Hikasa Youko fits Farnese well, good choice. Not sure about Serpico's seiyuu though.
For the staff... This doesn't look that good...
Mar 22, 2016 3:27 AM

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I was really looking forward to this but from the looks of it... well wont be expecting much now I guess.
Mar 22, 2016 3:36 AM

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Kek. The only manga to legitimately deserve the acronym G.O.A.T. is going to be handled by the most incompetent hands.


P.S. I am really looking forward to Yoko Hikasa act that scene. (They fucking better animate it even if the entire screen is gonna be black for like three minutes.)

P.P.S. @Stark700 Akio Ootsuka was also in Ougon Jidaihen, so how come you used F/Z?
Mar 22, 2016 3:42 AM
*hug noises*

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I reeeaaaally don't know about this..
Mar 22, 2016 3:47 AM

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Weird staff list. I'm going to keep low expectations for this unless they convince me otherwise. Another PV to come later this week.
Mar 22, 2016 3:53 AM
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According to MAL all Millepensee works are mostly comedy and GEMBA what did they do?

Why didn't a better studio take this like Mad House ? WIT studio ? Production IG ? A-1 Pictures?
Mar 22, 2016 3:56 AM
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Most of these people seem like misfits. Watch Berserk be really quirky and they do chapters worth of content in each episode XD
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Mar 22, 2016 3:56 AM

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Very weird staff, expectations are really low going by it. They don't suit it at all, seems like a staff listing for some SoL short rather than a bloody action series with epic fights and amazing art (well at least it's meant to if they adapted the manga properly with a high budget). Previous PV looked like shit but still promotional pictures they've used look great.

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Mar 22, 2016 4:05 AM

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get ready for a fucking dissapointment
"Even villains have standards"
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Mar 22, 2016 4:10 AM

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The staff and studio ......... Goodbye Berserk's chances of being good. I reaaaallllllyyyyyy hope I'm proved wrong which doesn't seem like it'll happen.
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Mar 22, 2016 4:17 AM

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I think, Kamiya Hiroshi would be a great Serpico.
And Hiro Shimono as Isidro. I think about he'll be voiced by female seiyuu, but he is fine, i guess. Yoko Hikasa is the one who's great pick. Don't know much about Puck's seiyuu.
P.S. Anyway, it could be fun to watch to just see how bad it is. It is like "Serves you right, Miura". But i guess, he don't care.
Mar 22, 2016 4:18 AM

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Well some of the actors I agree with, but Guts needed someone like Hosoya Yoshimasa. Making someone new voice him, isn't a good idea. Lidenfilms is a good company, and hopefully it will not all be CG.
Mar 22, 2016 4:21 AM

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Into the trash it goes.

Well, not really but I'm going in with low expectations. Good thing it's a series this time instead of films though. Ugly CGI was never the worst part of the film trilogy, the fact that they were extremely superficial take on one of the best comic arcs ever was.
Mar 22, 2016 4:28 AM

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Hmm..... HHHHMMMMMM....
Mar 22, 2016 4:38 AM

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Mixed feelings for this information. Still going to watch it either way.
Mar 22, 2016 4:46 AM

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Well this is worrying...
Mar 22, 2016 5:06 AM

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Studio "Millepensee" seems to have a lot of experience with... Moe girls? Well this will be an interesting adaptation.
Mar 22, 2016 5:09 AM
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MOTHER-FUCKER!!

They hire a director that widely known for Teekyu?

Alright then....
He could at least follow up the manga, projecting from panel to panel!!!

But the worst is....
Script Writer of Yuri bullshit to write a script about Guts?
And for the record, Pscho-Pass was annoying!
I Swear should this be sucks, i can see it from here and now on...
Mar 22, 2016 5:18 AM

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Low expectation for this show, but at least the fucking Susumu Hirasawa is coming back!!
Mar 22, 2016 5:23 AM

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The chance of Berserk being bad is zero. CGI or animation is not what makes any good or bad. It is the story, characters, settings etc

Also, Berserk movies CGI never bothered me at all. The visuals looked fine to me
Mar 22, 2016 5:35 AM

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Is it going to be the Golden Age arc or are we finally getting actual sequel?
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30

It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist.
Mar 22, 2016 5:39 AM
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Zapredon said:
Is it going to be the Golden Age arc or are we finally getting actual sequel?


It's a sequel, although the staff don't bring a lot of hope
Mar 22, 2016 5:40 AM

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Guts in high school drinking tea all day? that might sell.

I don't watch as much anime as before...
Mar 22, 2016 6:00 AM

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emjay911 said:
According to MAL all Millepensee works are mostly comedy and GEMBA what did they do?

Why didn't a better studio take this like Mad House ? WIT studio ? Production IG ? A-1 Pictures?


Sometimes it's not up to the studio. One of the ones you listed could've very well offered, but the committee has final say on which studio they hire for it.
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Mar 22, 2016 6:03 AM

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LOL I probably won't even touch this just like I did with the movies. If they're really going for full CG, they should've picked Polygon Pictures instead of some not-really-well-known CG studio GEMBA. At least their adaptations of Sidonia and Ajin looked decent compared to other CG anime. Maybe I'll check it out, only if it does get quite a positive reviews from others, though I'm doubting that at this moment. Let's wait for the next PV then.

Mar 22, 2016 6:15 AM

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Haha, Teekyuu people and Yoko Hikasa. 105% confirmed to be shit.


Mar 22, 2016 7:21 AM

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Who needs Madhouse when you got the legendary studio that gave us Teekyuu, lmfao.
Mar 22, 2016 7:23 AM

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How I wish Berserk would get its own studio like Drifters and be an OVA series... but that's just a distant dream that will never come true. Maybe, in 2-3 more decades? LOL

Mar 22, 2016 7:26 AM

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Would be hilarious as fuck if Berserk had Tekyuu's kind of pacing.

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Mar 22, 2016 7:36 AM

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I can already see a river of salt flowing.
Mar 22, 2016 7:36 AM

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ginfoxface said:
Who needs Madhouse when you got the legendary studio that gave us Teekyuu, lmfao.

LOL, this is gonna be a true masterpiece.
Mar 22, 2016 7:43 AM

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Are these people mad? It'll be censored left and right.


Mar 22, 2016 7:48 AM

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Is this a joke? Tell me this is a joke...
Mar 22, 2016 7:50 AM
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Ooooooh wooooooow.
That was really unexpected.
*prepare his biggest bunch of pop-corn ever for this summer*
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Mar 22, 2016 7:56 AM

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Nice really happy to see Berserk be a comedy now.

Can't wait for July.
Mar 22, 2016 8:01 AM

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I don't care if this is gonna be a shit adaptation, since I'm only watching it to relive the forgotten events leading to Vol.37, instead of reading the manga from the beginning.
Just hurry up and give us Vol.38 already.
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thepath said:
The chance of Berserk being bad is zero. CGI or animation is not what makes any good or bad. It is the story, characters, settings etc

Also, Berserk movies CGI never bothered me at all. The visuals looked fine to me


....you clearly haven't seen the staff. The CGI isn't the biggest problem anymore. Its everything else! director, studio's are all noobs for this type of anime and what the fuck is GEMBA?

I've lost hope now, I know it'll fail but I'll still give it a go regardless but My expectations have plummeted to nothing.
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