I'll start by saying that i have no idea how i missed the title, i only found it a few days ago randomly.
Saying that berserk is being published at a slow rate would be an understatement , its ridiculous at this point so I’ve never expected Miura to be working on something else simultaneously…. But hey even if its not berserk at least we are getting something. (Note: I’ll be using berserk a lot as a reference)
Art: I’ll start with this one , the art is amazing , perfect , very detailed I expected nothing less from the man behind berserk , the art of both titles is very similar and I am a big fan of this style I have nothing to complain about , the only noticeable difference is that Berserk had a dark theme , but Duranki seems to be light hearted and you can tell the world is colourful , similar to Elfhelm in berserk.
Story/World: here as well we are introduced to this fantasy world that’s similar to berserk where you can find different races , species , spirits and most likely magic since we haven’t seen it yet. One thing added to the mix was the introduction of Gods , River Gods , Forest Gods , and so on … the first two presented to us are both Gods of wisdom and they were responsible of giving birth or as they said creating a child who’s “ not divine , nor human , not man , not woman ….” And was given the name “Usumgallu”. The child was given to another God with an appearance similar to Hermes from the Greek myth and was tasked with taking the child to the real/physical world or whatever you call it.
Finally the Child was found by an old couple living near the mountain and they took him and raised him as their own for several years , the story jumps years ahead and the child is already a young kid and the story goes from there.
The child is clearly not normal , not in a bad way , and also not the sex part , but it was how cleaver and talented he was and talented ,as shown when he made several tools , weapons and even structures , ones never seen in his world.
Another thing about him is his appearance, if you have read berserk remember how people looked at Griffith in the latest chapters of the story (as of this review), it the same exact thing and after encounter people become more and more found of him.
Characters : it’s too early to discuss the characters in the story , there isn’t much development the few information we got was from chapter 5 where it talked abit more about the side characters but nothing too noticeable to talk about , any reader will get the same idea when they get that far.
Everything special about the MC iv already talked about at the end of the Story/World part, thought it would be better if I mentioned it there.
Enjoyment: Hm I don’t what to say here , if I didn’t enjoy this title I wouldn’t be writing all this , but apart from that I did enjoy Duranki so far , again the story is still young and there’s a lot of potential here, I wouldn’t call myself a Miura fanboy but I really like his work , I only read berserk after all and if theres anything close to it I’m sure ill enjoy it and I’m sure berserk fans would agree here.
Overall: Duranki seems to be a very promising title , it’s too soon to talk in details about or to even criticize it , I’m not even sure if this is a real project I thought this is just a way for Miura to try and forget that he has a more important title to finish , and I don’t wanna get my hopes up looking at the Berserk release schedule…. But hey im just here for the ride.
Finally , ill just end by saying that if you liked berserk and are a fan of Miura’s works in general you should give this a shot , as of this review ( and probably for the next 10 years) I don’t think theres going be that many updates , so theres no harm trying for yourself.
