Comments on: Berserk end: fell on black days

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:15:51 +0000

Interesting. I always heard that bit from The Wall as very distinctly declarative: “This is where …” / “… we came in.”

I’m a bit of a sucker for this sort of circularity; the three Floyd albums that display it are among my favorites, and I just reread and greatly enjoyed Dhalgren.

By: Xerox

Xerox — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:51 +0000

When I watched Berserk, it was all shock and awe for me. I barely remember anything from that experience except the ending. The ending was terrible. It was unsatisfying, it was abrupt, it was ridiculous and it was the most epic thing, ever. I know I say that a lot, but god, those last few episodes just blew me away. The roller coast reference pretty much sums it up. I’m always wondering what the heck just happened after a ride, even if I was scared to no end during the loops and the dips and the dives.

And, of course, I’ll be lurking around the blogosphere. How can I ever give you guys up? ;)

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By: coburn

coburn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:08:16 +0000

Well I’ve only read the manga, and not seen the series, but from what I can see the tightness of the story is more an anime thing. It’s the kind of story that probably benefits from being cut down a bit. There’s one particularly pointless segment after the Griffin rescue which I gather was mercifully deleted.

My experience definitely also followed the pattern of initial distaste with a slow growth in admiration. And I guess because the development is so subtle it’s necessary to have that mass of critical opinion to urge you on with the story, even if it can lead to excessive expectations.

I think ‘abridged version’ doesn’t really capture the, er, unique properties of those youtube videos.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:40:57 +0000

@gaguri: sadly I haven’t seen Trust and Betrayal but I don’t feel an abrupt ending harmed Berserk much as a whole. It wasn’t a Gainax ending at least…

Kaiji is another one where it wraps up the current arc but is crying out for a continuation. The pixellating and artefacting of Youtube annoys me so I’ve been following Berserk on DVD. I wonder how much was cut in the ‘abridged’ version.

By: gaguri

gaguri — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:53:05 +0000

I personally thought the ending was very appropriate. Like Trust & Betrayal OVA (I’m assuing you’ve watched that masterpiece…), there is more to the story, but it does tell a story on its own, and a good one at that. The problem wasn’t with where it ended at, because I honestly thought that was a perfect point to close, but how they ended it. It felt way too sudden, as if the production team literally ran out of time and had to finish right then and there. I guess this is my problem with Akagi’s ending as well. Kaiji had a perfect way of closing its own story, but Akagi…-__-

And have you watched Abridged series of Berserk on youtube by any chance? First episode is bit silly, but the rest is hilarious. Or, so I thought.