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I've got all the dark horse paperbacks and have been slowly replacing them with the omnibuses as they are coming out and they are pretty cool. I was pretty excited because a lot of the cropping of the pages in the paperbacks seemed pretty jacked up with word bubbles and stuff being cut off, but it still seems pretty bad in the omnis too. Is this just a manga thing, or is it a Berserk thing?
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 It gets better later on, at least on the digital version, but this is from vol2 on Comixology just now, which I doubt is any different from the print version. I can't recall where it gets better, but a sort of unacceptably large amount of the early volumes have huge white spaces between splash page halves and noticeable typos.
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While we are ranting about existing Berserk publications... Berserk MAX 18 is poo poo. Just outright leaving English sentences in, then putting the translation in another speechbubble on the same page. What the gently caress. I really like the Ocean God arc (minus mermaid teenager), but that one causes me unreasonable anger /weirdlySpecificRantEnd
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:I've got all the dark horse paperbacks and have been slowly replacing them with the omnibuses as they are coming out and they are pretty cool. I was pretty excited because a lot of the cropping of the pages in the paperbacks seemed pretty jacked up with word bubbles and stuff being cut off, but it still seems pretty bad in the omnis too. Is this just a manga thing, or is it a Berserk thing? It has some cutting off, but it's infrequent. I think it's probably just the raw files they use for their Berserk prints so replicated across all copies/formats.
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EDIT: Disregard. I mistakenly posted something that was supposed to go into the Vinland Saga thread. That said, I recently obtained omnibus volumes 2 and 3! Two more to go! ETURNA fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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ETURNA posted:EDIT: Disregard. I mistakenly posted something that was supposed to go into the Vinland Saga thread. It’s going to be 3 more on Tuesday. Don’t know what I’m going to do when I run out of bookshelf space. Though at least they fit on the book shelf. I also have the Akira anniversary box that won’t fit on any shelf. I guess I could take the books out of the box, but the box is too nice to just throw out...
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Okay yeah my sister gifted me one of these volumes as a christmas gift, and yeah after getting one in my hands went ahead and locked down Vol 1-5 for the Golden Age arc and black swordsman prologue. I don't think I have enough attachment to the stories after the golden age to feel compelled to own them in print, but the quality is so high on that piece of publication I was just wowed.
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I think my favourite volumes are like 24 to 32. Makes me really sad the newer anime butchered part of it
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i never watched the berserk anime, but i definitely have a bunch of susumu hirasawa tracks in my playlists. great music
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Well, we got 3 whole chapters this year...could have been worse
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lezard_valeth posted:Well, we got 3 whole chapters this year...could have been worse If you live on the west coast there's still a whole 3 hours left in this year, there's still time!
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Three chapters in 2020 is unironically really good imho. Like I guess this poo poo is technically a monthly but this is a labor of love and also this is the year Hunter x Hunter broke its last hiatus streak so I’m just happy that this comic hasn’t ducked up its author permanently at this point given its thirty-one years old (older than me!)
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It's technically a biweekly! Which seems like intense hubris from the start, considering the sheer density of even Berserk's earliest artwork.
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I felt like we were expecting one more chapter before the year was out but alas. Given the increasing complexity of what he's presenting, I am okay with the reality it takes months to produce 10 pages. I really just wished we could have gotten to see Guts & Casca properly reunited this year. I just reread the Golden Age arc and his art kind of explodes right around the eclipse into the start of his more current style and it is v good. e: I burned through this again thanks to those deluxe editions and I ended up with a few thoughts. 1) The pacing of the more recent arcs, really isn't bad, but the release schedule made it painful. In hindsight nothing really drags for too long (although I genuinely could have done without much of the sea god arc, beyond the additional party member it just feels kinda like filler on the way to Elf Island). I felt like the elf island arc took forever, but its really that it just took forever to be released. 2) Miura did a great job of foreshadowing and character tidbits even from the very start. All the apostles that Guts chases in the Black Swordswman Arc at the start are all the nasties that did in his best buds in the Band of the Hawk and I didn't really remember that until you line it up all in a go. It really gives me a lot of hope for whatever he has in plan for the finish because it's clear he's had this thing road mapped for a long while. 3) I still have no clue what actually Femto's end goal is as Griffith the Hawk of Light. Whatever that is, his desire for more, probably won't end with the securing of Falconia (which is just about where he's at). 4) As I made my way through this whole thing again, the more convinced I am that the finish won't really be some epic sword battle. Maybe a small bit of one because, but I just don't think at the end of the story between Guts/Casca/Griffith that actually a sword fight will resolve it. His reincarnation was impacted by having the tainted child of Guts/Casca integrated into the reincarnation behelit, and the full moons seem to manifest him as their proper child now that the child was reborn through reincarnation as well (Schierke suggests the spirit is the Elf King, but I think it's p clear the spirit that helps him in the armor is the luminous body of his child). I really wonder if the resolution to this is Griffith choosing again to look away from his longing to be king of everything to realize that he really was longing for true family, which he could have if he gives all this up and becomes his moon child incarnation. Just like Guts, he had what he wanted, but couldn't see it until it was far too late looking beyond the horizion vs what was already there. I wonder if Griffith getting a parallel realization as Guts has is the key to the resolution to the story. I'm not sure what/how he could give up the godhand, but I think before the story is over they have to undo his merging of the worlds. The Godhand explain p clearly that the stronger your bonds, and the stronger your emotional connection to the one who sacrifices you the better a sacrifice you are (greater power etc) which makes me wonder if Guts/Casca resolving their hurt from Griffith and letting him go is actually the key to undoing the power of their brands/weakening Griffith. It always struck me that while he was "completed" as Femto, his ritual wasn't completed, all the sacrifices weren't given as power to his rebirth which somehow makes me think he is not as complete as the other god hand leaving him vulnerable in some way (as Skully Knight has said before, only those that are outside of the current of causality could touch the god hand now. Which I take to mean himself, Guts/Casca). I think I get the feeling that the vulnerability isn't actually physical given Griffiths presentation in the real world post his resurrection. The Notorious ZSB fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Happy New Year http://twitter.com/MangaMogura/status/1346385848720216064
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Trying to contain my joy
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Oh thank goodness, I'd love to hope it'll be a long chapter, but we all know that is a foolish wish at this point in his career.
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If Miura continues the entire rest of Berserk finishing only 3-4 chapters a year, I'm sure the story will finish in a spectacular manner, with every plot thread accounted for I just hope I will be still alive then
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Torquemadras posted:If Miura continues the entire rest of Berserk finishing only 3-4 chapters a year, I'm sure the story will finish in a spectacular manner, with every plot thread accounted for I hope he will be alive then
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Burkion posted:I hope he will be alive then I just kinda assumed he's immortal
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Random thought on who Berserk should end Guts and Griffith settle the differences with a yodeling contest. Somehow this ends up killing Rickert.
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Puck becomes an Apostle and usurps Griffiths kingdom so he can enact a full on Puckocracy.
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Archer666 posted:Puck becomes an Apostle and usurps Griffiths kingdom so he can enact a full on Puckocracy.
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Puck and Guts will do the fusion dance and become Putz
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Not Important posted:Puck and Guts will do the fusion dance and become Putz This is way, way funnier than it has any right to be. Mostly because I can actually imagine it in my head, and it begs for death.
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David D. Davidson posted:Random thought on who Berserk should end Bollywood-style dance and song battle, IMO. Speaking of Rickert, I hope we get a chapter to update us on his situation.
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The Guts Group and the New Band of the Falcon put on competing productions of Oklahoma.
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I don't know, I feel like we're overlooking the fact that Griffith was rejected. That means either a rampage or he's gonna sulk and "let them suffer the result of their decision without his assistance" (which means the apostles run free). Has Griffith grown at all since the eclipse or is he a static character? Earlier claims of indifference to Guts were relative lies (hill of swords), so indifference to Rickert's reaction may well be the same. Based on his past solutions, he seems poised to attempt the next elevation of power at great cost, perhaps resulting in expulsion from the Godhand. It may well be a downfall that results in permanent transformation to the child.
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:I don't know, I feel like we're overlooking the fact that Griffith was rejected. That means either a rampage or he's gonna sulk and "let them suffer the result of their decision without his assistance" (which means the apostles run free). I think the fact that an apostle went to kill Rickert really loving quickly answers this question handily Griffith talks a big game about not caring anymore, but he super does
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Burkion posted:I think the fact that an apostle went to kill Rickert really loving quickly answers this question handily
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Hmm, I didn't interpret that as an order from Griffith, but Grundb... whoever was watching got pissed off and decided that "the blasphemer must be cleansed". I doubt Griffith ordered it personally but he also allowed it to go on
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Berserk #363 — Leaping Monkey is here. Torrent first (magnet link only) this time, for good reason I assure you EDIT: now on an online reader LordMune fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jan 21, 2021 |
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Burkion posted:I doubt Griffith ordered it personally but he also allowed it to go on This. The dude is basically an omniscient being that exists outside the scope of actual reality. If he didn't want it to happen he would/could have stopped it. Griffiths fatal flaw is his inability to sever the ties he has truly, he sacrificed the Band, but couldn't just let the apostles eat Guts/Casca. They meant too much and he had to rub it in their face preventing his complete ascension imo.
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Dang a lot of stuff happened in that chapter
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Not a lot of new material in the chapter, mostly a fun one
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Just waiting for the crap to hit the fan.
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Art was again super lovely and the translation and typesetting was great cheers lord mune et al. Softer cartoonier Guts is growing on me.
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Oh, finally some story progress! Since moonlight child is Griffith, maybe we'll finally have some kind of showdown or something. Interested to see if Caska meets the child this time now that she's in her right mind.
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