Berserk - Season One (The Complete Collection)
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Actor: BersekDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 623 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Anime Works
Movie Reviews of Berserk - Season One (The Complete Collection)
Movie Review: Another epic ruined by North American voice actors
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, first of all, this's undoubtedly a great story. On the whole, the original manga is classified as fantasy genre. And I love the original one, too. Since this anime version doesn't go beyond the first season, you don't get to see the world of swords, magic and monsters except for the first, and a couple of episodes in the end. So it is more like a period drama of the protagonist's golden era of youth with his best friend and downfall. And it still works! Maybe even better for some people.
My problem is the translation! I don't only mean the sub but also English dub. Some of the translation is utterly wrong and sometimes flip the meaning to complete opposite! For example, see the correct translation first, "My dream can only be realized by stepping over the bones of the dead. After all, it is a dream of blood shed. I don't regret or feel guilty for this. But my dream is not cheap enough to realize without myself getting dirty while risking hundreds of thousands of others' lives." Now see the line for English dub, "I can't just step over the bones of the dead in order to realize it. My dream, my dream is already smeared by blood. I don't regret. I don't feel guilty. But I'd rather sacrifice myself than watching any more innocent children die in the name of my dream."...it ruins everything.
Another problem is North American voice actors! When will they ever learn to act professionally. All those overacting with too much grunt, absurdly clear pronunciation with exaggerated stress on each sylable that make intonation weird! Sickening. And you know what, the story takes place in feudal era much like Dark Age. King and princess and knight and aristocrats! Please, speak British accent! In live films, even North American born actors speak British accent in period stories! That's the real professional actors.
Some of you who read my review might say, "Why don't you watch in Japanese, then, if you have problem with English dub and you can understand Japanese?" I'll say, "Does it look like Samurai story? Is there any Japanes in the story? Didn't you ever feel weird to watch blondies with fair face speak Japanese to each other in stories that obviously take place in countries other than Japan? That's my problem."
Summary of Berserk - Season One (The Complete Collection)
Based on a popular manga by Kentaro Muira, Berserk (1997) presents a dark, gritty vision of medieval warfare that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill chivalric tales. Guts is a brooding warrior, haunted by internal and external demons, who fights with an enormous two-handed sword. When he's defeated in hand-to-hand combat by the elegant Griffith, Guts joins The Band of the Hawk, his elite mercenary corps. Although he presents himself as a pure idealist, Griffith uses kidnapping, prostitution, and murder to advance his standing in the Kingdom of Midland during its protracted war with Chuder. But when Griffith rashly seduces Princess Charlotte of Midland, the King imprisons him and decimates the Hawks. After spending a year training with a master sword-smith, Guts rejoins the remaining White Hawks to rescue Griffith, but the torture master has mutilated him so horribly, he can no longer command his followers. When he finds the Egg of the King gem, all hell breaks loose--literally. Griffith chose a violent destiny that culminates in his transformation into a demon-prince, and the White Hawks are devoured by misshapen creatures from the nether world. The grisly ending doesn't fit the rest of the story: what began as a violent but powerful tale of loyalty and valor collapses into a bloody gore-fest that recalls Legend of the Overfiend. (Rated 16 and older, but unsuitable for viewers under 17: graphic violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, profanity, nudity, sexual situations, rape, torture) --Charles SolomonTelevision DVD Video
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