*Contains spoilers*
For those who don't know anything about Berserk the animation. Let me fill you in a little before. This is a Japanese anime that started in the 90's that targeted an older audience. Its very sexual and just not for kids or the faint of heart. There is a lot of criticism towards religion, Christianity to be a little more specific. There is sex and raping involved. Lots of blood and some seriously all too real situations. Now I will be particularly be talking about the newest development of this franchise and that is Berserk season 2. This anime is just down right amazing. The whole Berserk production has captured anyone who has seen any parts of it. From the old anime series to the 3 movies (wishing for 4 and 5) to this current anime series. Now I noticed most people on forms and on other blogs have watched this current series and was a little taken aback by the 3D shadowing. Some fans seeing this were just turned off completely by this anime and stopped watching it. Now I am here to tell you there is a reason for that. Most of the old die hard fans those which include the ones that grew up with it and read the manga understand and loved this anime. I was told personally by the creator himself at anime expo 2016 that they went the 3D route because they want to stay close to the manga. After hearing that and watching the 1st and 2nd episode, that made me fall in love with Berserk all over again. It brought on this level of nostalgia. Now if your still with me let's dig into the anime its self. We got to see a more level headed Gutts or as level headed as you can get in his messed up situation. They don't hold back on the action in the first episode he is already swinging the huge heap of metal at demons. As we follow Gutts on his journey they go into Catholicism. He is on the hunt for the "Apostles" so he can reach Griffith or also know as Femto now. All Gutts wants is his revenge on Griffith and/or Femto, get his woman Casca back to normal because she mentally reverted to being a baby because she was raped by Femto meaning his demon form. Haha, yes this series is deep and gritty. Season one is a definite watch before this. Gutts also wishes for peace, we think. He has shown moments that he loves the fight and other times where he just would like to sleep. Being hunted endlessly is a full time gig.
This season showed me the Dog in Gutts, which made me delighted because the Dog is a demon that attached its self to Gutts which he was in basically hell, the Eclipe. This demon comes out in facial features a lot though out the anime when Gutts shows any emotion to the extreme. Its so beautiful how they did that.
I will say Gutts is skilled but is also very lucky because there are times he and or Casca could have died but were saved, by their demon child or just dumb luck.
Now to touch a little on this child we want to assume is a good demon because Casca was pregnant before she was raped and because she got raped by a high ranking demon bam! Demon baby, simple enough I think. He shows himself through out the series as well but you must pay attention because he doesn't take his orignal manga form.
Progressing the story a bit he basically beats the apostles in his way the creators want to show us and after fighting to find Casca, oh yea did I mention she just walked off while he was off traveling beating apostles to find Femto. The whole show almost he is looking for her because a grown woman's body and mentally being 5 year old is dangerous. She actually almost gets raped again by some random guy. Thankfully Gutts actually gets to her but you can tell it's close to the end of the series because Gutts is gearing for a boss fight and we are seeing more of the Dog come out of him more.
Because I want you to watch and support this anime I won't dig into too many details but I will say that was a pure Gutts fight and it was amazing him fighting the priest.
When the priest became basically an unwilling sacrifice to the demons for the new Eclipse. Which confused me a little bit because I remember the sacrifices or better yet the Eclipse only happen once every 100 years or so. At this point from the last eclipse it's only been a few years. So I was scared for Gutts at this point because now the demons after him and Casca were more frequent and because those two gracefully missed being sacrificed the last time for the sake of Femto's demonic power I assume that's why the eclipse are happening more often because that's the only way to they are allowed to sacrifice Gutts and Casca. But that's just my opinion, back to my point at hand. After the priest is out of the picture we then see the infamous Zodd appear. At first I was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god its about to be some crazy fight between Zodd and The Skull Knight again and I prepared my self for that excitement. But something even better happened. We got to see Zodd act like a servant for about 5 minutes. To serve whom you ask, the one and only Femto but he is in his human form I guess he got tired of Gutts and Casca running so he came down, or up whatever works for you, to take care of the issue himself. As much as you would feel that being the case Berserk season 1 actually told us that Femto was just causing havoc for Gutts and seem to enjoy tormenting his former best friend.
All things aside this anime was amazing and really showed me a great representation of the Berserk as a whole from Gutts, to the fight science, to the gritty cringing sciences. It just made me love Berserk even more. I am sure I left out a lot of characters like Puck, Farnese de Vandimion accompanied by Serpico, Isidro and the witch, Schierke we see pieces off to name a few but what can I see I may have spoilers but I like leaving mystery too otherwise i feel like you wouldn't watch you would just read my summery of the anime. With that being said I hope reading this makes you want to watch and support it because we all know this anime and the team behind it need our love and support to continue and I wish to see more of it. Now I won't say I know all about it. I am so far behind the manga it's almost laughable so there are some details I'm sure that went over my head. Until next time Lexi out.
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