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Berserk, Volume 18 by Kentaro Miura

14 reviews

roaming_enn's review against another edition

4.0

fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Pedophilia, Rape

bumblebeefarts's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, War

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture

searn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

shhsleepytime's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

fantasyalreader's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, War, Injury/Injury detail

action_bastard's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Berserk is challenging, horrifying, inspirational and at times hopeful. I have never read anything that matches the brutal fantasy world created by Kentaro Muira. This will be remembered for generations as the genre defining epic of Dark Fantasy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Abortion, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, Classism

rehashwithrae's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

stephanieluxton's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book is wild.

It's about a stone cold swordsman named Guts with a tragic backstory who is basically cursed to be hunted by demons? And he kills the demons and does badass shit. And there's a lil fairy that follows him around to be the voice of morality which he generally ignores. This is the first installment in a long series so that's just all I know so far.

I picked up this book because I saw the black cover with the red foil letters in plastic wrap at the bookstore and curiousity took over.

I must admit that I was nervous to read this because I'm not particularly interested in sexual violence, especially in graphic novel form. In fact, I've never encountered that topic in graphic novel form so this was new to me. Fortunately, there isn't much of that in this book. At the very very end, we get a glimpse of something bad that happened to our protagonist as a child and I didn't like that. Fortunately, so far, the sexual parts aren't disgustingly explicit. That being said, do not let a kid read this book, for the love of God.

This is a super violent book. We see a lot of demons and people being killed. There's many battle sequences. The body horror with the demonic possession is really cool and frightening.

Our main character is an asshole. He doesn't care about anyone or anything. I do suspect that he will have an epic character arc as the series progresses. He's a great anti-hero though. I found myself liking him regardless of his heartlessness because he is incredibly powerful but still struggles. Not everything is easy for him.

This book reminded me a lot of Between Two Fires by Christopher Buelman. Which is also a great book. Read that too!

I look forward to learning more about the world in which these characters exist. It's so unique and I think this series will be full of surprises. Also the artwork is fantastic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

lordofcinder21's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

duke_of_failure's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Very dark and not for everyone. Absolutely beautiful art, very gory and detailed yet beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Cannibalism

Minor: Confinement, Miscarriage, Suicide, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic