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A review by vimcenzo
Berserk Deluxe Volume 1 by Kentaro Miura
4.0
Coming off of the 1997 animé and a vague handful of memes and knowledge that this was peak edge fiction, I was actually seriously worried I wouldn’t enjoy this, and I figured any criticism wouldn’t be well received. Not only that, but my biggest concern with the animé was the sharp pivot to magic, where the series had been strictly realistic beforehand.
Honestly, those concerns were completely unfounded and I ended up taking this series for what it was. No one ever talked about Puck (which I suspect is a side effect of needing to tout this as peak edge fiction) but he was a fantastic comic relief character and really offset a lot of Guts’s immense darkness and uncaring attitude. Guts is hard to like here, plain and simple. He does good things and he is a fascinating character to follow; you know what he’s after is a greater evil, but the obsession with doing so has made him callous and hostile. Puck softens the blow and honestly was my favorite character, though as we near the story the 1997 animé was set in, that will likely change.
Honestly, those concerns were completely unfounded and I ended up taking this series for what it was. No one ever talked about Puck (which I suspect is a side effect of needing to tout this as peak edge fiction) but he was a fantastic comic relief character and really offset a lot of Guts’s immense darkness and uncaring attitude. Guts is hard to like here, plain and simple. He does good things and he is a fascinating character to follow; you know what he’s after is a greater evil, but the obsession with doing so has made him callous and hostile. Puck softens the blow and honestly was my favorite character, though as we near the story the 1997 animé was set in, that will likely change.