I've made this review when I was on chapter 361, so please take it in your consideration.

-- This review may contain a little bit of spoilers.

Many people are bashing on Berserk lately. That it's boring after the Golden Age Arc, that the story was off ー well.. It's your opinion, not mine, and I don't agree on that, AND I will concentrate this review around the opinion of mine. Just mine.

-- Story (10/10) --

Berserk is an ultimate story. It presents us a cruel, but rather fascinating story of the main character - Guts, and keeps it pace around him while presenting us the chronicles of his journey.

The story is beautiful. Everything around it is fascinating. Characters and their development through it, their stories, why have they joined Griffith's group in the first place, how did they manage to survive many struggles on their path. Everything is just top notch. The story literally sucks you in, and it's because every chapter is just fascinating at it's own. Every chapter makes you read more, and more. Once you're into the story, you're just curious what will happen next. The story hides many mysteries in it, it makes the newly met characters mysterious, and that's why you just keep reading it. To reveal the new secrets. You want to know who's that that the band just met. You want to know more about the enemy that they are currently facing. You want to know why some part of a story has been just introduced to you. You literally feel like you would be inside the story. I would say - you're becoming an ultimate form of the spectator. It's just golden. And the emotions around this story and it's progression - it makes you depressed, it makes you happy, it makes you sigh in a relief, it makes you cry. It has everything.

-- Art (10/10) --

I don't think I will write a lot about this manga's art here. It's just immaculate. It's beautiful. Miura made this story gory, but at the same time he has proven, that gory can be beautiful. Some of the apostles that Guts is meeting at his path are scary, they look disturbing. But at the same time you can't stop looking at them. You're interested in their powers, you're interested how will they act and what kind of terror will they seed. Due to their earlier depiction and scariness.

The gore reaches it's absurdity level out of the scale, but it doesn't matter. Because Miura knows how to picture it to look great, to look huge compared to the viewer. Whenever you meet the absurd, not only the character is moved by it - you're moved by it too. You can't take your eyes off the absurd, of the horror that the character is facing. That's why the art in this manga is just, simply put - immaculate.

-- Character (9/10) --

Characters through the series are just awesome. They lack some parts, and you can see that Miura keeps adding them while he can't really explain their stories through the main story at all, or sometimes even introducing them and then leaving some part mysterious for a longer period of time. I mean, that's my only problem with this manga, that Miura has made so many plot twists with the new characters, that I will take a lot of time to explain their stories at least partly. There is just so much to explain, that it'd take another 100-200 chapters to just try to explain the other, side characters' stories.

But let's move to the point.

Not including what I've said previously - the characters of this manga are awesome too. You can see their development through the series, you can see how they progress. You are just hooked to them. You are curious how they'll develop a certain skill, how will they path end. You feel bad (or not) when something happens to them. You just see them in the story. They develop, they change. Just like humans do. They are scared, they will brave. The emotions are on point too. Miura brilliantly shows how their emotions develop too. Not only by art, but by their point of view and experience too.

-- Enjoyment (10/10) --

What to add here? It was (and at this point of time - still is) a beautiful story. No wonder people say that once you read berserk you just read it by volumes (well, at least if you start it now, not back then when there were ship chapters), not by chapters. And that's true. The first time I've read it, it was a few chapters, then after a while I've come back to it and in a single night a few chapters became a few volumes. Then they've became arcs, and in no matter of time I was at the latest chapter released.

OVERALL (10/10)

I mean, I think that this mark would be a no surprise to anyone. That's the mean from the previous scores, and it's just so obvious. My only problem with it is that, that Miura is not releasing many chapters every day. As far as I've read facts about him - he wants it to be so perfect, and it's so hard to meet his, and his viewers expectations. I hope one day the full story will be finished and we will know everything that we wanted to know about characters in this manga. That all of these secrets will be revealed. Anyways - this manga deserves 10/10. The story was awesome, the art was immaculate, and characters were making me sit and read in tears many times. Whether these were tears of sadness or joy. Their cruel past, their development. It's a story where you're in it. I mean, there are many stories like that, but I can promise you. This one is something different. This is a story where you really feel, like you were a friend of Guts and Griffith. This is a story where you often don't know what to feel according to what happened with their friendship. This is a story where you admire even the smallest things that appear in the manga. This is the story of Berserk.