Berserk may seem like a regular dungeons and dragons story where you go on wonderfull quest with friends.......Just that your friends get raped/killed, Guts losses his own arm (and sanity to some extent), and his soul mate gets impregnated by his emo leader Griffith.Guts in the meantime gets a new crew and upgrades his armor and weapons in order to kill every apostole live to get to the god hand and kill Griffith and his buddies.
Overall the story is very dark and fascinating, the characters are well written and their behaviour is changing throught the story (Guts is the primary exam of the psychological changes).The art is jaw droping in a lot of cases and Miura deserves praise for that.The only problem is the delaying of every chapter.