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EP. REVIEW: Berserk

I was not trying to show how bad the animation is (I'm a fan of the art style & direction). I am impressed with how well they were following parts of the manga. I really like this episode & believe the show is hitting its stride. Also I mostly like the rest of the series but this episode is one of my favorites in anime this season.
Btw I thought Jacob was holding out to do a two episode review, but I'm glad he went ahead and posted it. It is a very good review. The only thing I would've graded the episode a little higher, maybe a B+ or A-.
Btw when I see the LIDEN FILMS logo, I immediately think of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, which like Berserk is a show that I like but also suffers from the inconsistent blending of 2-D & 3-D & basically its overall animation.

Seems the only thing missing out of this developing misogynistic ecchi story is tenticles. Maybe in the next arc.

traffiktiger wrote:

I was not trying to show how bad the animation is (I'm a fan of the art style & direction). I am impressed with how well they were following parts of the manga. I really like this episode & believe the show is hitting its stride. Also I mostly like the rest of the series but this episode is one of my favorites in anime this season. Btw I thought Jacob was holding out to do a two episode review, but I'm glad he went ahead and posted it. It is a very good review. The only thing I would've graded the episode a little higher, maybe a B+ or A-. Btw when I see the LIDEN FILMS logo, I immediately think of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, which like Berserk is a show that I like but also suffers from the inconsistent blending of 2-D & 3-D & basically its overall animation.

I don't exactly hate the CGI artstyle completely (though the 2D shots in this anime are much cooler looking), in fact, Serpico and Farnese's designs are the best of the bunch and I'd probably like to see Shicerke.

The only thing that irks me about it is present Guts. For some reason younger Guts in the flashbacks looks amazing (it's 2D, but it looks even better than 2D adult Guts) whereas present Guts feels...uncanny to me, like, really uncanny. Even that well-directed scene falls flat for me because I can't help but think about it. I think it was in Episode three or four in which we see his bare body and nothing of that body looked good to me; in comparison Farnese, Luca or other people shown naked look much smoother. When I mention the cape is because the cape feels so wonky and flat at all times that it's irritating. The whole idea of having a cape is that it must make you look cool, and in this anime it doesn't help at all.
Casca feels somewhat unnatural too in CGI, but hardly comparable to Guts.

though one thought kept creeping at the back of my head,will these last 5 episodes be enough to finish this in time??!

ARC-1300 wrote:

though one thought kept creeping at the back of my head,will these last 5 episodes be enough to finish this in time??!

I've seen the episode title for the last episode on WOWOW, and they're gonna have to fit in like 5 chapters(manga episodes) just to finish it off, unless they do some of it in the 2nd-to-last ep. In general, I'm expecting some cuts/rushing in the following episodes.

EDIT: Actually, it's 7 chapters!

At the same time, the act of saving Casca from one horrible fate actually increases the likelihood of his original nightmare coming true, because Farnese's men might not have found the heretic camp and their newly adopted witch queen if they hadn't chased Guts there for killing their men in his blind rush!

When he tattles on the heretic cult to the Holy Knights, Farnese directs her forces to raid them not for any noble reasons, but out of a desire to bury her own closet skeletons by killing Guts, the only man who's seen the darkness in her heart and lived.

Forgive me if I'm already forgetting details on the episode, but these lines in EP.7's review stood out to me.

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At the same time, the act of saving Casca from one horrible fate actually increases the likelihood of his original nightmare coming true, because Farnese's men might not have found the heretic camp and their newly adopted witch queen if they hadn't chased Guts there for killing their men in his blind rush! When he tattles on the heretic cult to the Holy Knights, Farnese directs her forces to raid them not for any noble reasons, but out of a desire to bury her own closet skeletons by killing Guts, the only man who's seen the darkness in her heart and lived.

I'm not recalling any kind of connection between Guts and locating the heretic camp. Guts showed up in town, killed some knights, and Farnese heard the report. Then Joachim ratted out the heretics and the knights immediately headed for the heretics camp, seemingly putting the appearance of everybody's favorite Black Swordsman aside. I recall nothing to suggest Farnese expected him to be there, and she certainly wasn't following Guts, as he was the last one to show up, because he was still back in the refugee camp looking for Casca until Puck found him.

Unlike Judeau though, Serpico can easily match skill with Guts in a fight (even though physics alone dictates that his wee foil shouldn't be much use against Guts's big-ass blade, no matter how good his technique is).