Here's my take after reading 352 chapters of the phenomenon known as Berserk Kentarou Miura.

Nowadays, when we look at the different media of Anime, Manga, Movie, Gaming etc. we can say that it had come a long way to this point. A lot of innovations had been done, but there are more recycled ideas and concepts that are reused over and over again.

When I ask most people around me what do they think of when I say a Man wielding a gigantic sword they quickly refer to Cloud from final fantasy VII, the monster hunter's great sword, Kisame's Samehada from Naruto etc. However, most of the are not family of the origin of who started it all an made it popular: Guts!

Most innovations in terms of story telling and character development had been done first by Berserk, if not, Berserk created the most memorable and most amazing plot twist of all with Guts and Griffith which I will not spoil here. They are two of the most well developed and fleshed out characters that you would see and read out there.

Speaking of the characters, I would also mention that in every story, the supporting cast is vital to lift the main characters up to their zenith, and Berserk does not lack in this part from the likes of Casca, Farneze, Serpico, Zodd, Schierke, and the Skull Knight.

Every arc of Berserk can stand out on its own as they are masterfully written and no page of serves as a filler; every panel of every page of every chapter of every volume is a great read. It is action packed to the very essence of the word "Action".

The art of Berserk is like fine wine, it just get better with age especially now that it is serialized monthly. Kentarou Miura produces some of the greatest manga panel in all of manga and it just grow more with age.

If there is one downside to Berserk for most readers it is the fact that Kentarou Miura have a sickness called the Togashi Syndrome which is the sickness of taking frequent haitus. Although this is a great thing for me since it keeps the quality of the manga which is worth the wait in the end.

All in all,. if you want a great action manga full of blood, gore and pure unadulterated batttles I would suggest you give Berserk a read.

I'm giving Berserk 10 perfect Schierke Spells out of 10.