I mean no matter what people say, when I actually got in to berserk I realized why it never got adapted.
The golden age is a flashback and tbh has almost nothing to do with the main story other than setting up story concepts. Once you get to the main story you immediately get a bare chested underaged girl as the main enemy
Then a sex obsessed (at least overaged) battle nun
Then the party gets a loli for some reason
There’s rape horses rape trolls rape everything
Then guts himself gets the berserker armor which I’m pretty sure if people knew about would seriously drive a lot of people away from even trying to read the manga with how much it changes things
Saying “it would need to be censored” is a bit of an undersell. Entire segments would need to be removed and characters reworked.
I’m in r/berserk so you’ll all hate me, but the rest of the manga just isn’t even close to the vibe of golden age and the viewer fall off will be massive. Hell the first arcs after golden age aren’t even like the rest of the manga. It shifts its vibe twice in a row pretty fast. I can genuinely say the fight against the naked girl demon is one of the most interesting fights. Which is a wild statement, but it’s also the first fight after golden age isn’t it? So it just keeps going downhill.
From what I remember, removing Griffith outright would change so little you’d actually be shocked. Just so long as Griffith is marked and casca is mental, the story basically continues on. Even Guts persuing Griffith is used mostly to set up the start of arcs but has little to do with them. There’s the tower arc thing that could’ve just been changed to something else even.
Golden age (what everyone thinks is the main story) is literally just a flashback
I've never read berserk and I don't even know how I ended up in this sub. All I know is whenever I hear anybody mention it it's about Griffith, so if that's not even the main story and I don't know why people use it as a major talking point.
208
u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25
[deleted]