I just wanted to say that the beginning of berserk is amazing and that when you start berserk you will see that the story is amazing (btw there is a lot of nudity and quite a lot of gory and very disturbing sexual scenes) and that the art is even more amazing, lacking in nothing and oozing the essence of detail and not sparing anytime on making this manga and that you can tell why it took the creator so long to produce this manga and that it is supposedly still going to this day even though it started in 1988.

This manga has a hooking beginning and that the beginning gets you reading this manga and not wanting to put it down and that I think that is primarily due to the amazing character of Guts who is a 6'8 guy who can't even be portrayed as the good guy, but he definitely isn't the bad guy. I say this because, he is an absolute killing machine and that he does all of this because of hatred and the his sought for revenge (spoilers from this point on so it isn't even my fault) on his former friend (this friend was a general of the army he was part of) who went on the rape Guts' lover and the person Guts loved deeply (this is pretty ironic cos he found this girl when she was being raped as a twelve year old, so there is definitely some meanings behind that). The only reason he did this was because, he wanted to achieve his dream of being at the top and that Guts was a big part of his journey cos Guts was an extremely strong member of his army and was crucial to his victory, so when Guts wanted to leave the army and pursue his own dreams this guy (btw this guy's name is Griffith and he's the guy that rapes the lover) believes that he can't let Guts go so he challenges him to a duel, as he won against Guts in a duel a few years ago and is pretty confident (Griffith has a more hasty approach to a fight with a normal sword, whilst Guts has a more brutal way in battle, since he has a sword that is maybe a foot taller than him and he is 6'8 so this sword makes broadswords look like kunai's, also that this sword isn't even sharps, so its like hitting someone with a sharp hammer and it literally rips his enemies to shreds) and when they get into this battle Griffith is completely serious and has a mentality that if he can't have Guts no one can so aims to kill him if he has too. Griffith is planning out every move in this battle, as this means so much too him and when Guts goes to strike Griffith goes to deflect it and Guts broad broadsword just shatters Griffith's sword and stops at Griffith's shoulder so Griffith is completely humiliated as the battle ends in mere seconds, but also that he has been set back drastically in his dream. This leads him to the princess of this kingdom that he has befriended and he can tell she has fallen for him and plans to use her as his pawn to the top, (remember at this point he is desperate for some openings in his dream) so he sleeps with her and the king finds out and this is the king's daughter Griffith is messing around with and his daughter was sixteen and was supposed to be pure and a virgin at this point.

The king sees this as unforgivable and Griffith is captured on his way out of the castle and is taken to the most abhorrent place of torture and has things like his muscles ripped out and his tongue cut out by some deformed midget. When his army finds out what has happened it is too late as they're being hunted down by the government just for being commanded by this guy. They manage to escape and end up going from being a band of prideful warriors too a band of thieves. Two years later Guts hears of what has happened to the Band of the Hawk (which was what the army was called after they got like hunted down and are now thieves), and Guts eventually finds them and some are ashamed of him and some are happy that he's returned. With the power of Guts its possible that they could break Griffith out of his torture and have him be the amazing leader that he once was. They find where he is being held and that when they get there and see what's happened (mainly Guts and keep in mind the absolute beast that Guts is) Guts breaks the like 12 inch door that they had been locked into the room by (the deformed guy that was torturing Griffith follows them to the cell and locks them in the decrepit place), he then explains what he's done to Griffith over the years. After, the deformed guy is done on his brutal rant Guts loses it and puts his sword through the like 12 inch door when the deformed guy is confident that his efforts are petty and worthless he ends up being stabbed along with the door. Guts is greeted by like 50 men that have crossbows pointed at him and he still goes insane and they are all consumed by the fear that Guts instilled in them and they lose the will and freeze up and don't fire their crossbows to just end up being obliterated by Guts. He clears the entire place for his fellow comrades and they get outside.

Go forward a bit they're on the move and are all of a sudden enveloped by like a demonic cloud and are trapped in there and that is where some important demons come out and offer Griffith a lot of power (this would be achieving his dreams) and as a sacrifice he offers up the entire army and they are all branded so that the monsters know who to kill, a bunch of monsters come out and just slaughter the entire army except for the important characters who die later on in the battle, but Guts with his outstanding fighting ability manages to keep himself alive. His lover is caught by the monsters and like stripped (I swear we get to see her naked like 8 times and I'm only like a third into the manga) and almost raped by the monsters, oh but don't worry we've got demon Griffith here to save her (this is what I was talking about at the beginning), oh wait he's pulling his pants down, what? This can't be Griffith - it is. As you can expect Guts isn't taking this and goes, not insane, but like fucking plus ultra out of bnha.

If u read all of that ur legend