So basically Miura's having a midlife crisis, right...

So basically Miura's having a midlife crisis, right? It seems pretty clear the he's regretting all the edgy rape and gore he started out with and wants a do-over, but isn't confident enough to abandon his golden goose. The constant hiatuses and trend towards cutesier chapters give the impression that his heart hasn't been in it for a long time, he keeps trying to focus on things like wacky pirates or witches instead.

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I don't think so. Things will get dark again once the focus returns to Griffith.Besides, if a writer keeps increasing the edge and gore,eventually the series will become a joke.

ever since the chapter where the party got their special items berserk has been pretty much Lord of the Rings. It all went downhill from there. This shit is irredeemable and i weep for the once great series.

He just wants to play his idol games

I disagree. Everything about Griffith is still gold.

The biggest problem now is why he switched to digital, he was mastering traditional art

the edginess will return in a few chapters, i guess that a grown up rickert and kushan assassins will come to skellig island and guts will lead an army of elfs, witches and kushans against griffiths empire.

the last few arcs were mostly just a build up for that, and hell even the golden age arc was mostly a not so egy/grimdark build up for the eclipse.

>wrong eye color
He doesn't care anymore.

I'm pretty sure thats not the style the new chapters are going to be in, he was just trying his hand at a different field.

Berserk is shit as soon as we get the JRPG party.

I missed when he was in a competent group like Band of Hawks.

That's not the first time, he made digital colored art for the cover of Gigantomakia (less shitty though)

So he basically hasn't made any traditional colored art since 2013

Berserk before moeshit
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Berserk after moeshit
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You guys have been saying this ever since they got off the boat, it's not gonna happen. Guts will defeat Griffith with the power of friendship and Casca will get un-veggied and live happily ever after.

>ever since they got off the boat
It hasn't exactly been that long in terms of chapters.

>You guys have been saying this ever since they got off the boat
That was 3 chapters ago

wtf are you guys talking about? miura was on hiatus because he was supervising the berserk 2016 anime

you are retarded if you genuinely believe that

I haven't kept up since the mermaid arc. Has anyone even gotten raped since the troll arc? What's happening to my Berserk?

Fear not, user. Once we go back to Griffith, and we'll finally see all those fool humans getting raped to death (literally) by apostles, we'll see the old Miura we all know and love once again. Oh, I really want to see the humans of Falconia getting their shit done in for that "fighting along with monsters" bullshit.

It is Moeserk now.

What if the cute witch girls is just a ruse to get the readers to grow attached to them only to brutally kill them off later?

Why is this faggot always winking?

He's a very jovial and flirtatious man

>What's happening to my Berserk?

We Little Witch Academia now

Other than Conviction (best arc) there hasn't been any non-stop edginess since before the Golden Age. And after Conviction it was a long while till we got back some rape and then Troll Cave happened.

Fucking pathetic all the newfriends who seem to expect graphic rape every chapter. I swear some fags talk about Berserk like it's never had worlbuilding chapters in between macabre shit

I'm not too sure about that. Schierke has been in the manga since 2001, and nothing has happened to her yet

MIURRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So how do you expect

Is comic relief still comic relief if there's nothing to comically give relief from?

I'm sick of this argument coming up, read his old and current interviews, look at what he cites as his inspiration, look at his older work, he's always been into Moe shit.

Fucking hell Puck has been there since the beginning, he's always been the cutesy comic relief to counterbalance the bleak world of Berserk. The trip to Elfhelm was foreshadowed since 2000, Miura's been planning the trip to Pucks homeland for years, he didn't just make it up out of the blue because he's tired of blood and gore.

The next several chapters are probably going to be about expanding on the Berserk universe, and healing Cascas mind, don't expect the return of Rape Horse any time soon.

I expect Griffith to be on his way there.

What a damn shame. Oh well. At least he gets something done, right?

How will he fight through the main apostles and Griffith without the armour?

Puck wasn't all moe and silly back then.

Don't get me wrong I like the current puck but he's fundamentally different and if you don't realise that you're retarded/delusional.

JUST

Fucking this. I especially want to see that annoying loli-clairvoyant autist getting raped to death and beyond, despairing her life choices once she realizes the true nature of those monsters.

no

I don't think that'll happen. I can't see the apostles harm her.

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What the fuck did he do to puck?

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We must ask the man with the death note to give some tips to him.
He is the true master of killing and rape.

One of his first panels. He's always been silly.

This isn't moeblob, this is someone talking shit when they are in danger.

Like a puppy barking really loud.

not really feeling the new cover designs either desu

Alot of people were attracted to Berserk because of the edge but ignore all the other aspects of the story.

For the cycle that Schierke's teacher and the Skull Knight talked about to be completed, Falconia as a whole and all of Guts' friends have to be killed.

This is just a rest before that.

You mean his Chesnut form? he didn't have that until the lost children arc I think.

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he looks like a bimbo

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REEEEEEEEEE

he's becoming generic desu

>ever since the chapter where the party got their special items berserk has been pretty much Lord of the Rings. It all went downhill from there.

Berserk began to go downhill after Chapter 118.

EVERYTHING from Chapter 126 - Chapter 307 was just "Griffith comes back and gets everything he ever wanted". Was this really needed? Hell no. Griffith should have stayed in the Astral World with the other Godhands.

Some fans say that the Black Swordsman / Lost Children story arcs were "too repetitive" or "too much like Fist Of The North Star" but so what. These story arcs were good. It was the only logical thing for Guts to do after the Eclipse.

The other big problem in Berserk after chapter 118 are all these child characters. NOBODY wants to see annoying kids in a story for adults.

Isidro is an annoying little shit who is not funny or interesting.
Schierke, a loli witch who has a crush on Guts, was a dumb idea from the start.
This new girl Isma is about as interesting as a cardboard cutout.

Berserk has turned into a goddamn shonen after the Conviction arc and the new chapter that was just released a day ago is a perfect example.

>miura just wants to do a fun fantasy adventure story with no gore or rape
>none of the fans want that and scream for more violence and rape
being miura must be suffering

>since 2001
Jesus christ has it really been that long

Youre being delusional.

Not sure if this is pasta, but I wholeheartedly agree.

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Miura should have Hamada help him get better at digital

digital

this one is not digital though

loli witch butts arc is best

Why doesn't Puck have a dick?

DRAWING USING TABLETS STILL REQUIRES HUMAN HANDS YOU FUCKING TRADITIONAL MORONS.

>fun fantasy adventure
Yeah too bad its fucking garbage. Farnese and Serpico are the only good additions he's made in nearly 20 years.
The war, Mozgus and Griffith/Fauconia are the only worthwhile chapters in a long while.
If the next chapter is some pirate/Isidro/Witch academy chapter I'm going to puke

I'd say Griffith coming back was necessary to the plot. But Griffith getting everything he wants being the focus of like 50 chapters isn't

I think that direction Berserk goes makes sense but there are too many useless characters 24/7 and there is no build up.

Guts has been hammered with "either Casca or revenge, choose" since Eclipse by Skull Knight and he seems to mellow oit to choose Casca and just forget Griffith.

But...the tonal shit is way too jarring, people don't even die anymore.

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good digital

I really hope that Behelit is going to be used by either Serpico or Ishidoro.

There has to be a pay off with it.

I picked up Berserk about a year ago, and have grown incredibly attached to it, but I have to agree- the last chapter, the character designs felt a bit off, like the author's investment dropped heavily...

Miura has pulled a Simpsons on us, its been bad longer than its been good

I feel that Miura had Eclipse 2.0 in mind when Guts got his JRPG party but now he just wants fun stuff and end this shit.

Guts heals Casca.
They stay in elfland.
Griffith unites whole world as best king ever.
Fin.

>the character designs felt a bit off

Miura is a little like Araki, he never really mastered drawing people to be quite frank. He still assembles them like doll joints.

I absolutely love how Guts was drawn from his duel with Serpico to the Sea god, I don't understand why the sudden downgrade in details and expressions... Even when Guts gave an apathetic vibe, I felt something. Now it just seems lazy.

I think that Guts will live in peace for a while but then Griffith is going to come back and screw him over.

I've been enjoying the lighter tone but I know that things will take a turn for the worse eventually.

Guts is just mature now that's all. He's basically a family man now, fighting fate and his inner rage.

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he didn't reach this level yet.

He's just been on a boring mission for 180 chapters. Escort the bitch from point A to point B.
It's not really more "mature" than what he did during, say, Lost Children, hunting Apostles was actually better for the greater good than focusing on Casca.

There's plenty of battle shonen manga to entertain you then.

Basically like the new God of War game

this, i think its pretty much impossible to discuss berserk on Sup Forums

Honestly, would hunting apostles one by one even make sense at this point?

No, it would be pretty worthless since Griffith's got an army of them.

YEAH! GO EDGELORDS!

What are you implying?

While I don't agree with most of what you said, I completely agree about Griffith. I think that him coming back was necessary to the plot, since without that he wouldn't achieve what he wanted (Falconia), despite being a part of the God Hand. What definitely was NOT needed is countless chapters of "look how cool griffith is he did all this by himself". Especially introducing Sonia which is by far the worst child character introduced, even worse than Narut- Isidro.

I'd also add that for all the mysticism with the God Hand, them just fucking disappearing forever since black swordsman doesn't make much sense for me. You'd think they would do more but they have not impacted anything at all, with the most they did after that being Slan materializing out of troll guts to troll Guts.

I'm sure when the current arc is done we'll go back to Conviction tier plot but for now all we can do is wait, at least they're explaining the lore instead of just cool doublepage illustrations showing off how pretty and cool Griffith and his minions are.

I think it annoys him too much.

>Berserk
>gets the literal berserker armor hundreds of chapters in

Leaves a bad taste afterwards. Pic related is why the manga is called that. The armor also takes away the tension, as he was visibly always on the physical edge in his battles. You cringed with every hit he took, but it felt even more earned when he overcame it.

It only made sense from the perspective that Guts was absolutely mad and was trying to take out his frustrations. Then it blew back when he realized that he abandoned Caska and she was wondering all alone.

Not that the right one have anything for it as a color work anyway, it looks good because of the lines.Miura is just generally bad at coloring.

>I'm sure when the current arc is done we'll go back to Conviction tier plot but for now all we can do is wait, at least they're explaining the lore instead of just cool doublepage illustrations showing off how pretty and cool Griffith and his minions are.

Honestly, I expected Elfheim to be some peaceful place according to how Puck described it after the Conviction arc.

Well, on the other hand, he was knocked out of commission after a fight due to the injuries it inflicted. So far it's still Guts saves the day, but I think I see the other characters have to do more and more as Guts is left incapacitated by the armor.

A-user?

I think there's some real shit coming soon. There was a prophecy about Puck leaving Elfheim that the old mage guy mentioned, I think it's likely that Griffith will find Elfheim.

The only thing I'm hoping is that Griffith fucks up Elfheim for the same reason he fucked up the old witch's place.
We get to see some good ol rape n gore, Guts goes in rage again, Caska is forever doomed being a retard (or heals with the help of the mysterious kid/other Deus Ex Machina), Guts starts fucking shit up again and plot actually advances.

If this or something similar doesn't happen, I will keep reading while still being dead inside

This manga sounds like I cut my self everytime I turn the page. It has too many edges

Battle shonen aren't the only stories where other stuff happen than "escort someone during 60% of the story". Golden Age isn't a battle shonen, but it's almost unanimously praised for great character development, engaging plot, bloody battles with awesome art, and of course the 12/10 conclusion. Lost Children and Conviction convey all these qualities into a new, much darker setting, so even if the mood isn't exactly the same as in the Golden Age, it's still Berserk.
But after the troll arc? Witches pop up (it can work storywise, okay), with tons and tons of exposition, Guts' quest become stale, he develops a bit here and there but mostly stop doing relevant things (other than kill monster X). Even when he kill a monster, he mostly uses the armor so it doesn't mean anything, he just ... kills stuff, it's not like, say, when he tanked Rosine's spear piercing his mouth or sent Mozgus to heaven.
There are still a few highs, like Guts vs Kushan commander because he got to trashtalk people (one of his finest skills to be fair), but most of the time he's just like "gotta go there" "gonna destroy those monsters" "having comrades again is nice" (something he found out in a couple of volumes in Golden Age/Lost Children isn't enough to justify 10 volumes of group shenanigans)

tl;dr : Berserk lost a lot of its charm after Conviction.

Well you're correct, because that is exactly what Puck said. They were on a trip to a paradise, and right now people are complaining that they're in a paradise. It's utterly stupid.
A lot of people complain that Berserk isn't edgy anymore, and "wahhh wheres my rape", but seem to be incapable of understanding that right now we're on a healing arc, with Guts finally being more comfortable around people and the crew finally being able to catch a break from nonstop apostle hunting. Hell if we go back around 10 chapters or so we see it's still as brutal everywhere else, the only reason it's not brutal right now is because it's fucking Elfhelm, considered a goddamn paradise island, at one point referred to as an utopia, and the biggest proof being that it's unmapped and can only be visited by someone who's already been there.

When Griffith wasn't on Earth, it made sense. Guts easily saved hundreds of lives just by killing Rosine.
Now that they're all gathered in an army, it's kinda pointless, only the Godhands matter in the long run.

I hope they skip the rape scene in the anime. I don't want to see that gay shit