Since the quarantine is trending in 2020, I decided to read the entire Berserk manga at once and finally see what is so impressive about the work, that puts him at the top of any best mangas lists.



Berserk, is phenomenal in reproducing in a brutal and obscure way, a plot of 3 authentic and essential characters. Gats, Grifth and Casca.

Gats is the man at the bottom of the well, climbing the well desperately, with his brute strength to reach the top of it and fall even deeper from where he started.

Casca is the water in the well which, although small, is sweet and refreshing enough to bring man bread and shine the sun while it is evaporated by its heat and needs to be preserved by man before it dries out completely.

Grifth is the light that shines in the day on the man's head, warming his body, offering through his illumination a possible hope, but that later with the arrival of the night, it goes out, leaving the man in absolute darkness. Even more desperate than before.

The developments of these 3 are intense paths of ups and downs, full of traumas, twists and sentimental catastrophes that turn the narrative in blood, violence, politics, religion and fantasy that are the main reason to keep reading.



It is paradoxical how in the pages of Berserk a sword goes through the guts of an opponent in the best samurai style mortal kombat and soon fairies and radiant flowers are transiting the scene.
The contract between violence and fairytale, bring an ambiguity of comic and dramatic reliefs covering an unparalleled versatility. Even more being designed with such mastery.

When art needs to be brutal and monstrous in the moments of action, sadness and hatred of the narrative, it becomes a hellish, diabolical, trevorous, perverse and perverted drawing. When art needs to be fanciful, it is forested, elven, radiant and even angelic.



But you can't make a 30-year-old manga with 360 chapters and 40 volumes focusing only on 3 characters in a world of darkness. And this is where Berserk commits his greatest sin.
The characters adjacent to the main trio are even charismatic. Are even interesting. And thye do have a good development that is by no means loose in the main plot, but who are they close to the great Gats, Griffth and Casca?

Sagas that focus on the history of these companions, despite being well developed and intertwined in one way or another in the main story, do not reach the same level. They are fillers of the best quality, but in the end, they are still fillers. Deep down in the background, you know that they, in the final stretch of the manga that still has no end, will be left aside, so that the protagonists of the work can continue to achieve their so acclaimed end.