Berserk Complete
by Michael Sinterniklaas
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Actor: Carolyn KeranenDirector: Michael Sinterniklaas
Brand: Media Blasters
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 625 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: ANIME WORKS
Movie Reviews of Berserk Complete
Movie Review: It is dark. It is Berserk.
Summary: 5 Stars
I came into this anime having owned it for years and never watching past the second episode. It takes a lot for me to actually sit down and watch them sometimes, and this poor collection is one such case.
So I watched it finally and I'm left with a pit in my stomach. There are not many things in entertainment media that have ever given me physical side effects, but Berserk is one such beast. This is not bad, but it is thought-provoking.
Berserk is set in a kind of norse-inspired dark ages, but in the classic anime style. This anime is far more "American" than most you would think of though. There is tons of blood, less waxing philosophical and more action, but there are well developed and thought out characters. The animation quality itself is typical 90's era type stuff. It is quite good, but it's not the more typically fluid, cg-infused stuff we're getting to see these days. It has a very particular style, as I said, less Japanese and more American, which is well designed.
The main thing I would say is that this series can be misleading at first. The beginning and the end feel congruent(you'll know what I mean once you watch it) and the entirety of the rest feels somewhat disjointed from those two points, if only because the middle serves the purposes of the alpha and omega of the plot. I know it sounds confusing, but I myself am about to go look up the Manga for this series and start devouring it immediatelly. I want to know more about Guts and his quest, I want to see where this story ends(which it hasn't yet), and I want to get my fill of an inspired invention.
Berserk is not for children. This needs to be said. No one under 16 should watch this, as listed on the dvd, 18 even for some households. There are things here that will disturb and did affect even me. Now while I've seen much worse(and more gortesque) anime, I suppose it's the fact I loved the characters so much that it tore at my heart where they go.
All in all, if you like viscous anime with lots of action, good characters and animation, and a world you will want to know more about after the credits roll, I recommend this. I personally loved it and, as I said, haven't seen an anime in recent history that affected me thus.
Summary of Berserk Complete
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