Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Berserk, Volume 18 by Kentaro Miura

45 reviews

vemilla's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Blood

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

diamon57's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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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The beginning of one of the best mangas out there. If you can handle the trigger warnings I encourage you to read the incredible story Miura-sensei was able to give us in his life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, War

Moderate: Grief, Suicide attempt

Minor: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage

grabcard's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I love this world and the little droplets of information it gives us. Puck is the audience surrogate to help us understand the world and Guts as a character. At first, we are just shown how bleak the world is from Guts' prespective and

as soon as you meet someone knew, they quickly die a gruesome death.

It isn't until volume 3 (within this Deluxe volume) where we get a deeper look into some other characters and how Guts interacts with them, Puck being our moral compass throughout it. I absolutely love how the relationship between Guts and

Griffith

gets delivered, only leaving more questions behind. I can't wait to keep reading.

My only critisim is over Puck. The only reason he exists is to be the audience surrogate and comedic relief, otherwise it feels like watching an abusive relationship where Puck can't bring himself to leave after constantly being upset over Guts' actions. I suspect Puck will eventually get a bigger part later in the series.
The women are also drawn to all look 12 lmao

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

I would not reccomend this to anyone who has a sensitivity to gore and violence. It's basically on every page of this manga in graphic detail.

souponthebarby's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This is a brutal series, there is no getting around that. No one in this is happy, and everything's awful. Horrid violence is the norm, and war is always going on in a fantasy setting. But it is CAPTIVATING. There's a glint of something more under the surface with Guts, even as he goes to act like he's nothing more than a violent dog off his leash, willing to bite at anything that moves. He and his massive sword are on the hunt for evil, and plans to stomp and slice it out, consequences be damned. Near the end of this collection, in what would be the third volume, we get the beginning of his story, from just after his birth to a child, and it's just as grueling as his adulthood. It doesn't excuse all he does, nor does the story seem to be trying to do that with the backstory. They just try to show why he's the near monster he is now, and we only see the beginning steps of it at that. 

I've considered reading this for years and years and kept away because of the violence, but while that is brutal and crushing and disgusting, it at least feels like it does that in service of showing this awful world that they exist in. But if you feel like it would be a no go for you on that front, absolutely skip out. I think watching more horror movies over the years kinda made me ready for a story with this presentation. Now I finally did and I'm absolutely glad I did. This feels like if it's more than just the violence, it could be an incredible story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

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

whynterdesaina's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

aayan_farooqui's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

abbyynormal's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

sparksthemage's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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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While often dark and mysterious, there is a bit of humor that keeps it a little light hearted and I think that's what makes it shine. It leaves a lot of questions and leaves you really wanting to know what comes next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder