Berserk (2016)

[MFauli]

Berserk Gets New Anime Project Featuring Guts as 'Black Swordsman'

The first 2016 issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine (cover shown right) is announcing on Friday that a new anime adaptation project of Kentarou Miura's Berserk manga has been green-lit. NBC Universal will unveil the anime's first promotional video at its winter Comiket booth, which will run from December 29-31. The announcement did not note the format of the anime (TV, film, OAV, etc.).

Miura comments in the magazine that the anime project will depict Guts in his "Black Swordsman" appearance, which is only revealed in parts of the manga that go beyond any previously animated Berserk story, and is only briefly hinted at in the first and last episode of the 1997 television anime series

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ordsman/.96773

On the bad news side: Only one more manga chapter, then hitaus until summer 2016 :|

[neflight86]

I understand why they aren't doing another reboot/retelling of the original story, but I absolutely hated the CG and truncated story from the latest movies. For that alone, I would wish for them to start over from the beginning. I feel that this story deserves a proper full series treatment ala HxH.

It's also hard to get excited for a story that will not likely end in my lifetime, going by the author's output.

[shinta|hikari]

Are you older than the author perhaps? Or did you mean "a story that will never end" period?

[neflight86]

I meant that he only appears to put out chapters about one every six months or so.

[DarthEnderX]

He means it in the George R.R. Martin sense of "Motherfucker is so slow, he's going to die of old age before he finishes this fucking story."

[Munsu]

Anime project will be a TV series beginning this July.

http://berserk-anime.com/news/index00060000.html
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...in-july/.98320

[MFauli]

Just stumbled over this song and thought it´d be perfect for later parts of the story when Guts travels with his group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao5lLdtDdrQ

Bah, July cannot come soon enough.

[Munsu]

Subbed extended trailer:




I managed to watch the movie trilogy and got used to the art there, but honestly this looks visually like crap to me as far as first impressions go. Disappointing.

[shinta|hikari]

Well, let's be fair. It's not crap. It's pretty close to it though.

Why didn't they just animate this properly? Everyone wants this adaptation. Why waste it on cheap 3D crap?

Whatever. I'm just in this for the ultra greatsword masturbation scene, then I'm done.

[MFauli]

It´s not good

And it´s not because of the design looking like a PS3-game with anti-aliasing. The whole episode felt so ... rushed. So fidgety. And not in a befitting way. There was zero downtime, even in-between the action-parts. The music transitioned terribly. Just when one track ended, the next started, without any sense for creating atmosphere. And the music they used for the big fight against the tree monster ... it´s as if this anime caters to 13-year old youtube-kiddies :/ Edgy heavy metal music, sigh.

I don´t know.
Ofc I´ll keep watching, it´s freaking BERSERK. But this first episode felt more like a summary, or an AMV, instead of a proper anime episode. Don´t think I can recommend this to any of my friends. Oh man ...

[Kraco]

or an AMV, instead of a proper anime episode.

I'd believe if I was told the director of this show has previously directed nothing but music videos. During the first minutes I was wondering if I could finish the episode, but it got easier towards the end. I'll keep watching for now. Fortunately I wasn't overly much disappointed since after the trailer and stuff, it would have been foolish to expect miracles.

[MFauli]

During the first minutes I was wondering if I could finish the episode, but it got easier towards the end.

I´m not being hyperbolic when I say: I agree. The beginning was super-shocking. I kept waiting thinking "when does it start properly, when does it start properly ...?!". It did get better but still nothing to write about.

[QUOTE Fortunately I wasn't overly much disappointed since after the trailer and stuff, it would have been foolish to expect miracles.[/QUOTE]

Disagree. Most of the complains prior to this release stem from the CG usage in and of itself. But I never had a problem with it. Would I prever a BERSERK-anime animated by Madhouse? Sure. But it is what it is. So fretting about that would have been idiotic. What, however, neither me nor anybody could have anticipated is the horrible pacing/sound design/directing. That´s what´s so disappointing.

Also was Puck always sex-less? I mean, the manga never showed us his penis, but it also never put that much emphasis on his crotch area. weird.

[KrayZ33]

It's always heartcrushing if you see such a poor work and know that you'll probably never get another one.
Either the industry blames the work itself (Berserk) and think that people are not interested in it, or they won't bother because "very recently, someone adapted this already" (-" and it failed")

What a piece of crap. Expected nothing after seing the trailers/PVs, got nothing. How can you produce something like this (with it's huge fanbase etc. and well known source material) in 2016.

Disagree. Most of the complains prior to this release stem from the CG usage in and of itself. But I never had a problem with it.

I wonder how you cannot have a problem with it. They could've voiced/add SFX to the manga pages and animate them similiar to one of these
http://content.madefire.com/s-298c57...dcb/index.html
and it would both look better and be more immersive. Aaaargh I'm about to cry, man.. I'm so disappointed (ever since they showed how it would look like).

[MFauli]

It's always heartcrushing if you see such a poor work and know that you'll probably never get another one.
Either the industry blames the work itself (Berserk) and think that people are not interested in it, or they won't bother because "very recently, someone adapted this already" (-" and it failed")

Same dilemma with videogames :/ Currently: Tokyo Mirage Sessions for Wii U. Heavily censored to hell and back again. I was hyped for the game, but decided not to support Nintendo´s ongoing censorship agenda. But how will they get the message? It´s a niche JRPG, it will sell average to poorly. Me not buying = "people in the West have no interest in this kind of game". :/

How can you produce something like this (with it's huge fanbase etc. and well known source material) in 2016.

THAT is the biggest riddle. I cannot comprehend that. BERSERK´s gotta be one of the most popular, famous manga out there. Yet, it gets this treatment when it comes to anime. At this point my theory is that none of the producers give a shit about a BERSERK anime and simply release a new anime from time to time to generate more manga sales. And that´s just crappy.

[KrayZ33]

That would be completely fine, because you'd have to advertise the product by doing decent animation/content/storytelling or work in general.
But what exaclty are you trying to boost with "this"....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaCyHxcZSxQ

only hope now... but it's not the same as anime

[Kraco]

Disagree. Most of the complains prior to this release stem from the CG usage in and of itself. But I never had a problem with it.

When one element obviously is going to have a problem, I rather expect the others have as well. This series seems to have a whole host of problems, some of which are related to the CGI based graphics, some not. The horrible directing/camerawork is obviously due to the CGI since they can do easily things that would have blown traditional animation budget to high heavens. Apparently the director then decided that these things that might (or might not) look cool in a fighting game are splendid for anime as well, instead of just sticking to the traditional anime form, which has been proven to work over the decades. If memory serves Arpeggio, for example, wasn't this annoying despite the even more rudimentary CGI.

[shinta|hikari]

Watched it. It was okay until the fighting started. Then I dropped the show.

[MFauli]

episode 2 is out
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first of all, it was a lot better than episode 1. But that´s mostly because of the specific contents taking place. Meanwhile, the terrible animation became a lot more apparent because of that. For christ´s sake, why can´t they at least properly animate the facial expressions? I have a feeling the upcoming Berserk Musou for PS4 might end up looking better ...

At least they nailed Serpico´s voice actor. Perfect. And the initial scene of Gut´s slashing 3 enemies at once gave me chills, despite the terrible animation.

[Kraco]

Two eps still isn't enough to get over the ugly graphics (especially the unstable striped shadows annoy me), but I found myself able to ignore it sooner than in the first ep. Perhaps it's because the camera work wasn't so insane this time. Naturally it does help the story is so good. But yeah, the facial expressions are as bad as in some decade old game.

[shinta|hikari]

Wow, that was shit.

I think this is the most brutalized anime adaptation ever. Art, direction, music, choreography, everything was shit.

And I'm not even a big fan of berserk.