It's really hard to talk about Berserk 2016 witouth saying something bad about it. This anime could enter in the category ''Worst animes of these latest years''. In all these days, my frustation was bigger and bigger. Why I have to suffer watching 12 episodes of a beautiful story beign ruining by bad direction and animation?
History and development:
2 of 10.
If you are a fan of the manga, you will notice that the way they direct the anime was a SHIT. Even if you didn't read the manga and you've only watch the old anime or the movies, you will see that this anime looks like something directed by a 10 years old kid. Serie changes constantly of rithm and scenary very fast, given short time to the spectator to thinks with deteails what's happening. I'm not joking when I say that the first episode of the serie skips like 100 chapters of the manga.
Animation:
1 of 10.
Nothing good cames with this animation. Poorly use of CGI, that fails when it tries to express the faces of scared, sadness, and madness that the characters have. The angles and movements of the camera are pretty bad, so much that they can even annoy .
The drawings weren't really that bad, they respect the style of Miura and they put a detail on lines to make it looks more like a manga, The problem is that the animation a lot of money o have made, and this show didn't have it. Moves are really cuts, and that makes the only shorts moments where we can't see the awful CGI, a completely shit.
Characters:
5 of 10.
Not much to say here. The characters are the same as always, but their developemt in the serie is nule. This time was really hard for me to be in love with characters like Guts, because he has one of the best developent that I see on an manga, but here, that doesn't exist.
Music:
7 of 10.
To be honest, music isn't really that bad. I mean, the OST it's ok. It's not memorable, but nice to hear. Althought, the only really good song of the serie is ''Hai Yo'' of Susumu Hirasawa; the composer of the 1997 anime and the anime opening. Besides, the opening is a shit, that It tries too hard to make Berserk to look like a shonen anime, when it's a seinen serie, and the ending was really nice for my ears, it shows the melancholic side of Berserk.
Final score:
2 of 10.
It's not a memorable serie. It has nothing good, it's an insult to the original manga of Kentarou Miura and for the fans of Berserk. I don't recommend this to anyone. It was just a serie that we thought It would be great but It becomes to be a shit. Hope one day Japan brought a better adaptation of Berserk like the 1997 one.
