A live-action adaptation of Berserk is the logical next step for HBO if they want to keep riding that sweet sweet dark fantasy wave (though I know it'll never happen)
In broad strokes it's got everything that made GoT successful:
>fleshed-out, human characters with relateable backstories and great chemistry >le shocking everyone dies twists >horrific violence >literary depth (moreso than GoT which hovers around low to mid-tier)
imagine 12 hours of golden age buildup and then ending the first season on the eclipse. it'd be fucking massive
we fucking need some kind of universal justice for this abomination of a 3D animated shit series we got this summer, fuck me, sign me the fuck up HBO
Nathan Reyes
>jew guy plays gutss
Parker Flores
what is honestly wrong with the new anime? thought the first two episodes were great. the CGI is kinda funky but it's new and it's not like you can get enough of animated berserk
also, i forgot
>casca's rape
would be topical and great twitter fuel
Nicholas Ward
Its berserk. It´ll never ever get a good adaptation
Joshua Smith
> literary depth
William Gray
I have to enable TrueMotion (60 fps emulation) on my tv or I get an upset stomach from the jittery animation, I didn't watch Aijin or whatever the fuck it's called because it also had such shit animation, for Berserk, I'll suffer through it because I'd rather watch moving animation than read a shitty fanlated black & white manga. But it's fucking shit, it ruins the immersion. Berserk deserves better.
Xavier Smith
Take out the rape scene maybe. DESU it's a pretty shitty anime.
Ryan Bennett
fuck you, the anime is fucking amazing, best medieval show by far, nothing comes close, fucking baiter
Connor Diaz
>literary depth Are Berserk fans delusional, or simply unexposed to proper writing?
Gavin Myers
Every other edgy medieval anime comes close.
David Thompson
>hbo monster adaption with del taco is still shelved we had a perfect johan too
Noah Morris
Watch more anime.
Austin White
This won't get brought to live action because GoT had books so you could seem smart by reading. This you seem like a loser for watching anime
Jayden Morris
They're 15 year olds from Sup Forumseddit Why else do you think they always pick trash like HBO for their tasteless shit
Christian Peterson
lel, willing to bet money I'm more well-read than you, and I think berserk has some good depth to it. fucking skull knight references neoplatonic metaphysics for fuck's sakes. like it's not shakespeare but it's definitely not just blood and guts either
Jayden Martinez
it also turns into naruto after 3 seasons
Luis Miller
fuck off to Sup Forums with your homoerotic mess
Juan Martinez
>lel, willing to bet money I'm more well-read than you
Well seeing how you don't know what a reference is I doubt it.
Logan Martin
Who would you cast as Guts?
All anime is pure, unfiltered garbage with blended shit pulp.
Lucas Carter
There's a difference between having more depth than average MANIME BOOYAH garbage and actually being a product of good writing.
Berserk has an interesting setting, but the writing has become uninspired with no sense of direction, like any other eternally ongoing manga.
Aaron Campbell
that and you seem to think it's deep for having another world. Neoplatonic metaphysics, huh?
What are some of your favorite books, user?
Michael Wright
>Chris Hardwick as GATS
Logan Kelly
Nah. Golden Age is the only good part of the story and the 97 anime already adapted that flawlessly. No need for any more.
Blake Rodriguez
>le shocking everyone dies twists
Just that this never happens.
I can't think of a single main character who dies in the entire manga. Not even one.
Luis Jenkins
>if I include philosophical concepts, my writing must be great and deep
Cooper Green
They moved from HBO and started looking at other networks.
Austin Peterson
No. Stop. Berserk is bad.
Ethan Morales
I've read Plotinus, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Schelling, Cioran, and all the Stoics, among others. I can talk at length about their ideas.
Don't play this game with me ya insecure git
Aaron Clark
>1 frame per second: the anime
Joseph Cruz
Not even HBO would have the Guts to do a full-on faithful panel to frame adaptation of Berserk.
Zachary Rivera
What are some of your favorite books, user?
Isaiah Nguyen
Beats out the new skily smooth 30 fps CGI, with 7.1 Dolby CLANG
Isaiah Nelson
Fuck off
Jonathan Taylor
>I watch anime for the framerate This isn't Quake 3 Arena, faggot.
Gavin Richardson
Can you imagine the backlash when strong independent Casca gets raped into insanity
Carson Hill
The Enneads, Introduction to Magic, World as Will and Representation, Herodotus' Histories, Duino Elegies
John Morris
your bait is bad and you should feel bad
Robert Perez
Its actually Sup Forums and Sup Forums
Andrew Miller
my love for you is like a truck
Jacob Martinez
I know what you're saying, but anime on whole the whole is very cheap animation, with as little movement as possible. Wasn't till recently that new, better animation began to be added in BD releases.
Camden Turner
Why is Sup Forums always talking about Berserk or Dragonball?
Dominic Perry
HBO doesn't have the budget. They could probably do the golden age but the rest of berserk is way to fantastical for a tv budget.
Jose Foster
>underage berserk fan disregards dissenting opinions as bait What a surprise.
Watch more anime.
Logan Morgan
The CGI is very shit, why do they keep using it in anime of all places ?
Blake Sullivan
Because it's cheaper and that entire industry is all about cutting costs
Ethan Nguyen
top bait mate.
Blake Fisher
Good thing Golden Age arc is the only thing worth doing
Owen Morales
>I'd rather watch moving animation than read a shitty fanlated black & white manga >he doesn't prefer manga to anime adaptions >he doesn't have dark horse scans PLEB PLEB PLEB
Henry Hughes
>Wasn't till recently that new, better animation began to be added in BD releases. What? The most most famous examples of detailed and fluid animation in anime happened 15-25 years ago.
The only new thing happening is Korean CG garbage taking over the market.
Joshua Torres
Berserk would be too expensive to adapt for live action tv. The Golden Age has a shit ton of CG characters in it, as does the Black Swordsman arc. It would easily be more expensive than Game of Thrones. Not mention how violent it is, far more violent than GOT is. Even netflix wouldn't be able to afford it.
Because CG is the future. inb4 it's cheaper, it's not. People who say that don't know what they're talking about.
Connor Morris
Redline isn't 15-20 years old.
William Mitchell
I admit I haven't delved into philosophy as much as you, if you're telling the truth, but is berserk seriously that philosophical? Can you give me anything more than just "neoplatonic metaphysics"?
Do you also think the characters are fleshed-out and human, and the story is remotely literary?
How much fiction do you read?
Jeremiah Sanders
Is the '97 anime any good or should I just read the manga?
Tyler Brown
I'm not talking OVAs, go back and watch an anime with average budget from the 1980s/1990s and tell me just how many still images you see in one episode. Not everything is Space Adventure Cobra and Zeta Gundam.
Josiah Hill
It is when you consider how long it took to make >10 years >hand drawn >unce unce unce
Damn it now I'm going to watch it again when I get home
Hudson Rogers
No it's not, stop spreading this meme. go back to Sup Forums with your lies.
Alexander Gray
I don't know why anyone wanted to start adopting a manga whose story won't be finished within the next 10+ years.
We're at 5 chapters per year at the moment.
Hudson Rivera
Either the anime or the movies are a good first introduction to the series, but the Manga is the real deal.
Nicholas Robinson
Should i watch the 1997 show or the golden age arc?(2012) Never heard of berserk but ill check it out
Nathan Evans
It has pacing issues and cuts a lot out but it's worth a watch I think The outtakes are definitely worth watching
Colton Watson
read the manga
Jack Smith
I bet you watch that hamster shit
Kevin Mitchell
Impossible. There is literally noone that can portray Griffith.
Jose Davis
Just read the manga, it's really the only manga you need to read if you've never read any before.
Cooper Hall
read the manga
Michael Sanchez
Read manga. If not, watch the 1997 show.
Jace Gonzalez
>film If you really want to go there, the late 80s and 90s were still the golden age for high-budget anime films with quality animation.
I was talking about regular series.
Jack Morris
Both, they each cut different things, like the show goes more into Guts' past while the movie doesnt The manga obviously has it all and is great but I like the performances in the show
Wyatt Lewis
golden age is shorter but newer animation tv show is longer but older
both are good
Luis Russell
>berserk anime plebs Just read it you fucking plebeians.
Easton Flores
Actually the 1997 show cuts out the filler parts of the manga. inb4bagserk has no filler.
Gabriel Smith
I don't read fiction as much anymore. I love Steinbeck, have read some Joyce, DFW, loved the Illiad, fuck with Hemingway, Faulkner, Brodsky, a little Nabakov, and that's all I can remember.
So when the Skull Knight meets Guts he tells him the world of causality they inhabit is just a reflection on the water (the temporal) of the moon (the eternal). In other words, this world is just a paltry reflection of an eternal and immutable idea/archetype, just like in Neoplatonic metaphysics. What makes Berserk really fucking dark is that, as opposed to the Platonic Form of the Good, God is instead the Idea of Evil. So the truth of the entire world is not divine, but demonic.
Now I'm not saying Miura actually intended this, but it was a very cool connection and a nice twist on what I'm studying.
And yeah, the characters are great. You kind of need to bring something of your own life experience to feel what Griffith's feeling when he says he'd rather kill himself than live a life of empty routine. That's some real nigga shit, even if it's coming from an anime character.
Not saying Berserk is high fucking art but it did give me something to chew on besides the beautiful art.
Oliver Lopez
berserk is shit
it will never be finished
it will never be adapted by western media
grow up you manime babies
Jayden Gonzalez
Excessive stills with a single mouth moving on one of four characters is still common today, with lazy CG crowds and cars sprinkled on top.
Not to mention that this is AFTER they outsourced half their animation to South Korean wageslaves.
Asher Nguyen
Keep your filthy HBO hands out of Berserk.
Jonathan Peterson
IMO Gantz would make a way better TV show than Berserk. Berserk as a manga is better drawn and has a better story, but Gantz has so much potential to be fleshed out.
It has violence, sex, suspense, and the writers don't even have to follow the original storyline, they can just take the concept and make their own story
Ryder Gray
>God is instead the Idea of Evil
That chapter never was canon.
Jordan Lee
Are you saying it's going to stop again in a few months?
Connor Williams
I agree completely, the majority of shows have a shit budget and don't even correct it later on. Animation is a medium that inherently requires a lot of man hours for quality, so a lot of corners are cut. Even more these days.
Chase Hughes
>5 chapters a year You act like that's small, just thank fucking god the author isn't doing a side project again.
Christopher Jackson
Yes it was, he only retracted it after saying it gave to much away but never said it was no longer canon
Blake Moore
>berserk has some good depth to it >What makes Berserk really fucking dark murata is a hack
Sebastian Anderson
oh hey what's this
Oliver Reed
Gantz is babby's first manga, even more so than Berserk.
If you asked a 13 year old to come up with a 'mature' anime, he'd come up with Gantz.
Gabriel Brooks
Well shit, Steinbeck's one of my favs too. I'll defend him on /lit/ when most there view him as middlebrow for his time. Joyce, DFW, Hemingway, Homer, Faulkner, Nabakov, all good (not familiar with brodsky).
I'm glad you got something out of it. I go back to your first post and yeah, Berserk isn't Shakespeare, and it's not just blood and guts. For me personally I wouldn't put it on a tier with any of the authors you mentioned, but maybe I need to rewatch it. Also, I've only seen the three movies so maybe just then I've outed myself of not knowing anything about it.
I think with all the anime I try to watch the exposition kills it for me, leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
Juan White
Fucking this also the japanese live action movies were good
Justin Reyes
you can't base your experience with berserk from the terrible movies the manga is 1000000 times better than that shit
Jonathan King
DELETE THISSSSSSSSSS
Jose Taylor
I definitely don't think it touches anything of the authors/works I've mentioned, but for anime it's fucking Malick
Why would anyone want to play a garbage character like Guts?
Evan Roberts
flat chest is best chest
Luke White
2012 if you are not really into anime, its the best alternative for people used to western films
Gabriel Long
>2 homosexual white men who lust for each other while also trying to fuck a black woman >the evil guy is a blonde white man would fit well with the current narrative of media
Angel Ward
What are you, a fag?
Gavin Watson
I feel like Berserk is too dark to be popular in the West, especially if they ended it after the eclipse. Also, this goes without saying, but many parts of it would be a mess in terms of CGI.