Berserk

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Berserk (disambiguation) .

Berserk
Original title	ベ ル セ ル ク
transcription	Beruseruku
genre	Fantasy , his , action , drama , horror
Manga
country	Japan
author	Kentaro Miura
publishing company	Hakusensha
magazine	Young Animal
First publication	1989 - ...
expenditure	40
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	1997-1998
Studio	OLM
length	23 minutes
Episodes	25th
Director	Naohito Takahashi
music	Susumu Hirasawa
First broadcast	October 7, 1997 - March 31, 1998 on Nippon TV
Anime movie
title	Berserk - The Golden Age I / II / III
Original title	ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 I 覇王 の 卵 ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 II ド ル ド レ イ 攻略 ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 III 降臨
transcription	Beruseruku Ōgon Jidai-Hen I: Haō no Tamago Beruseruku Ōgon Jidai-Hen II: Dorudorei Kōryaku Beruseruku Ōgon Jidai-Hen III: Kōrin
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	2012-2013
Studio	Studio 4 ° C
length	80/96/107 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Director	Toshiyuki Kubooka
script	Ichirō Ōkouchi
music	Shirō Sagisu
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	2016-2017
Studio	Gemba, Millepensee
length	24 minutes
Episodes	24 in 2 seasons
Director	Shin Itagaki
music	Shirō Sagisu
First broadcast	July 1, 2016 - June 23, 2017 on WOWOW
First publication in German	July 1, 2016 - June 23, 2017 on Crunchyroll
synchronization

Berserk ( japanese ベルセルク , Beruseruku ) is a fantasy - Manga of Japanese illustrator Kentaro Miura , to be published since the 1989th The manga was implemented as an anime television series in 1997/1998 and as an anime film series in 2012/2013. In 2016 and 2017, another anime series was also broadcast over two seasons with 12 episodes each. The series can be assigned to the genre of his , which is aimed at adult readers with explicitly depicted battle scenes and a complex plot.

The manga tells the story of the mercenary estate. He lives in a world that is similar to the European Middle Ages , but has many fantastic elements. The plot is not presented chronologically and has not yet been completed. The claim alternates between pure pulp elements and metaphysical questions.

action

The Golden Age (End of Volume 3 to Beginning of Volume 14)

The orphan boy Guts spends a loveless childhood in the mercenary unit of his foster father Gambino. Out of frustration over his crippling, he attacks Guts one day, whereupon Gambino kills in self-defense. Guts joined various mercenary armies in the period that followed, without stopping him anywhere for long. Only with the falcons does he find camaraderie. These mercenaries are led by the charismatic and ambitious Griffith. While Guts wanders aimlessly through the world, he has an ambitious dream to which he subordinates everything: Griffith wants to become ruler of his own empire, although he comes from a humble background. One day the falcons meet the warrior Zodd in an old fortress, who shows animal behavior and kills numerous men. Guts rushes into the fight and can even parry some of Zodds' blows and inflict a small wound on him, which impresses him very much. Out of anger at the wound, however, he suddenly turns into a giant monster and almost kills Guts. None of the hawks has seen a beast like this before. Just before Guts dies, Griffith intervenes. But before he can fight Zodd, Zodd notices a small stone that Griffith is wearing around his neck. It is a behelit that the monster evidently fears. Zodd flees, but not without prophesying that death and annihilation will come upon the hawks.

Guts is the only person who is accepted by Griffith as an equal and in his logic as a friend. The second in the hierarchy of the hawks , the Amazon Kjaskar, secretly loves the leader, but in his eyes she is a person of no equal to him. For this, Guts, who has developed into the mightiest fighter of the hawks, develops feelings for Kjaskar, which results in a complex triangular relationship. In Griffith's example, Guts believes he realizes that he must find and pursue a dream too. That is why he leaves the falcons for a year, but without finding happiness in a foreign country. On his return, the Falcons are attacked by a mysterious foreign assassin named Silat, who, based on a prophecy of his family, sees Guts as a mortal enemy against his own life. Guts is able to put Silat to flight for the time being, but he swears revenge.

Griffith comes very close to fulfilling his plans after the Falcons settled a long military conflict in favor of the Kingdom of Midland. Griffith is raised to the nobility for his services and wins the affection of the Crown Princess. But this is where Griffith's rise to power ends. His affair with the king's daughter is revealed, whereupon his domestic political opponents, who see him as a dangerous upstart, lock him up and mutilate him. When Guts found out, he returned and freed Griffith, who was almost completely physically destroyed , with the falcons .

Now a turning point in the plot sets in: Griffith's will is unbroken and he cannot accept that his dream will never come true. Therefore Griffith conjures up the demon night by means of a royal treaty, in which the mysterious super-beings of the hand of God offer him to make him one of theirs if he gives up his human ties in return. The statement of the members of God's hand that despite their demonic properties they are God's emissaries, links the concepts of heaven and hell within the world of Berserk , so that it remains unclear whether the god worshiped in that world is good or evil. Void and Slan, the oldest members of the hand, advocate the beauty of causality and the inevitability of cause and effect. The meeting with Griffith was predetermined.

So Griffith becomes the fifth and last Archangel Femuth (English Femto). He receives a new body, which has little human about it. As a price, Femuth offers all members of the falcons as sacrifices for the demonic apostles . He himself raped Kjaskar, whose previous personality is now destroyed. Guts loses his right eye and left arm in the fight with the demons. Just before the two of them are killed by the beasts, a strange rider appears, saves Guts and Kjaskar and escapes from the impenetrable sphere in which the massacre took place. Guts wakes up with his friend Rickert's foster father, who takes care of him well. Rickert, although a member of the gang, was not present at the sacrifice and was therefore not branded. The shock that the experience wasn't a dream lets Guts flee into the night. On a hill, he meets the mysterious knight who, like his horse, consists only of bones. He informs him that Guts and Kjaskar will be hunted by the apostles from now on, as they are attracted to the survivors of the night of demons. That is the price for both of their lives. Who the skeleton knight is remains unknown for the time being. From now on, Guts feels torn between two tasks: on the one hand, he feels responsible for protecting Kjaskar, whose mind is confused, on the other hand, he is driven by an irrepressible thirst for revenge and hatred of Griffith / Femuth.

The Black Knight (Volume 1 to 3 and Volume 14 to 22)

Guts and Kjaskar both have a magical brand on their skin, which identifies them as victims of the demons. Because of this, they are constantly haunted by monstrous creatures. Guts decides that his revenge on Femuth is the top priority, which is why he gives the confused Kjaskar in a sacred place where the demons cannot harm her. From now on he wandered the country lonely as a black knight in order to trace the traces of God's hand and its numerous apostles. Like his antagonist Femuth, Guts also went through an external change. In the course of time he was given various weapons that put him in a demonic light in the fight against the creatures of darkness: an almost grotesquely large sword that no one else could wield; a steel hand prosthesis with a cannon in it. The only bright spot in his existence is the cheerful elf named Puck.

Guts' crusade against the Apostles of the Archangels finally calls for the ecclesiastical Inquisition, who sees the Black Knight as a harbinger of the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, he regrets that he has left his beloved Kjaskar behind. Since she has now left her sanctuary, Guts goes in search of her and arrives at Albion Monastery, the central prison of the Inquisition, where he suspects Kjaskar. The Kushane Silat and his powerful bodyguard Tapasa also come to Albion after learning of Guts' journey there. Silat still wants to kill Guts after failing to do so in the forest. In the monastery of Albion, the storylines are finally connected: Femuth appears and conjures up a second night of demons, because he again needs a human body to build an earthly kingdom. Guts defeats the inquisitors in battle, finds Kjaskar and is able to escape the visitation of the beings of darkness one more time. But he cannot get hold of Femuth, who has been reborn in his former body and can now be called Griffith again. The assassin Silat realizes that Griffith and not Guts is his enemy, apologizes and leaves Guts to hunt Griffith and his apostles from now on.

The Millennium Falcon (Vol. 22 to 34)

Midland has now been conquered by the Kushans, whose people include the outcast Silat. Griffith therefore gathers all of the archangels' apostles to defeat the Kushans and re-establish the Midland Empire. But he also wins tons of human followers who see in him the Messiah who is supposed to lead them into a golden age. Griffith frees the Crown Princess, kidnapped by the Kushans, to legitimize his future rule.

In the meantime, the former loner Guts has gained other companions in addition to Puck: the orphan boy Isidro, who accompanies him because he wants to become as strong as Guts himself. Farnese, a member of the influential Vandimion family, once on the hunt for the "unholy" estate, has joined him after a change of heart; likewise her bodyguard Serpico, who, unlike her, knows that they are siblings. The very young witch pupil Schielke and her own elf Evarella were instructed by their dying master to support the Black Knight in his fight. Before her death, her master Flora has a conversation with the mysterious skeleton knight whom she seems to know personally. With her telepathic and empathic abilities, Schielke prevents Guts from losing control of himself in combat. He now has magical armor that makes him feel no pain, so that he can plunge into a berserk madness until self-destruction. But the armor is ruled by an evil spirit. This feasts on Guts' hatred and sadness, and manifests itself in his soul as a hellhound. While Guts only wants to use the armor to defeat his enemies, the dog wants to completely corrupt the warrior and even almost brings Guts to kill Kjaskar. Although Guts can resist and the dog retreats into the depths of his mind for the time being, he swears that one day he will return all the more cruelly. Then, so the dog, there will be no more rescue for Guts and his friends. Bit by bit it turns out that the skeleton knight must have once used the armor.

The attack of the Kushans on Midland under their sadistic emperor Ganishka becomes more and more drastic and lossy. Ganishka has meanwhile conquered the capital Windham, slaughtered most of the civilians, and is raising an army of "Dakas", bloodthirsty demon warriors, with the help of captured women and the black magic that obeys him. Guts and his friends, who went ashore near Windham, decide to face Ganishka. But even his right hand, an old magician named Daiba, turns out to be an almost insurmountable opponent for Guts despite his armor. Daiba's magic rules the waters of the sea and its creatures, so that he summons several giant octopuses that almost cost Guts his life. Now, for the first time, Guts lets himself be completely influenced by the black power of armor, much to the delight of the patiently waiting hellhound. It is only thanks to Schielke that Guts maintains a small amount of contact with the outside world and his human self. As a furious berserker, he can finally defeat the Kraken, whereupon the magician Daiba flees to his emperor.

Soon afterwards there is the first confrontation with Ganishka: he unexpectedly turns out to be an incredibly powerful apostle. In a flashback, the reader learns that Ganishka, heir to the throne of the Kushans, was poisoned and stabbed in an assassination attempt by his son and mother. He was fatally injured, but survived because at the moment of his death he touched a stone in his pocket that his teacher Daiba had once slipped him - a behelit. Ganishka conjured up the hand of God, which promised him new life and the mighty power of an apostle. All he had to do was sacrifice his family to the hand; a price Ganishka was happy to pay after the devious assassination attempt. So he, now a demonic apostle, came to the throne of the Kushans. However, Ganishka had become so traumatized and paranoid by the assassination attempt on his life that he used his power as emperor not for the good, but for the diabolical. He even opposed the members of God's hand by only pursuing the "light" he strived for, a power similar to that of God's hand, although he was only allowed to remain an "ordinary" apostle.

In the fight with Guts, Ganishka shows his apostle form for the first time: He transforms into a huge, electrically charged storm cloud. Guts can withstand his electrical attacks for the time being, but cannot inflict any wounds on Ganishka. Even the Daiba present is shocked by the power of his emperor and is convinced that no one can defeat him. Suddenly, however, Nosferatu Zodd shows up, who is on his way to join Femuth / Griffith's army to fight the Kushans. He is surprised and pleased about Guts' presence - after all, Zodd still wants to fight Guts as the ultimate opponent one day. In a risky maneuver, Guts, who loses his composure at the arrival of Zodd, takes Zodd, who has been transformed into his apostolic form, hostage. With his sword at Zodd's throat, Guts resists the urge to kill Zodd and temporarily allies with him. Together with Schielke, who works from afar, Guts and Zodd can inflict a head injury on Ganishka in a powerful attack. The Kushan demon army then withdraws for the time being. Zodd and Guts split up, and Zodd swears again that one day they will compete again.

Puck is convinced that Guts and Kjaskar can find healing in Elfheim, the home of his people. Thus the companions go on the long (sea) journey there. In doing so, they come into conflict with Griffith's apostles and the Kushans. The latter lead the decisive attack on the city of Vultanis, where the remaining warriors of the Midlands and those of the neighboring countries have gathered. Griffith is in the pope's favor and has the princess by his side after the king's death, making him the most powerful man in Midland. The intervention of Griffith and his army of apostles drives the Kushans and their demonic emperor Ganishka to the brink of annihilation. In his desire for "light" - the absolute power of God's hand, which was never intended for him - Ganishka transforms into a colossal super being that can no longer stop. Griffith, however, can defeat him along with the arriving Zodd, whereupon Ganishka freezes into a gigantic tree that pierces the clouds. At the same moment the skeletal knight appears, who now senses his chance to kill the hated Griffith. His attack, which misses Griffith and hits the frozen Ganishka, opens a passage between the dimensions, and numerous mystical mythical creatures move from their world into that of history, including trolls, hydras, dragons and unicorns. Even the demonic apostles did not expect it. A new world emerges in which Griffith can seize power and eventually found his kingdom, Falconia.

Guts and his friends are meanwhile on their way to Elfheim. Various dangers, including pirates and an insane sea spirit, can be defeated with combined forces, the berserk armor and the help of a group of peaceful mermaids. Farnese is going through a change when she lets Schielke teach her the healing powers of white magic. This change is all the more astonishing since Farnese once hunted people like Schielke and put them at the stake. Finally the island of Elfheim comes into view in the distance.

Fantasia (from volume 35)

Step by step the reader learns more about the skeleton knight. Apparently he is the incarnation of Geiserich, a legendary king from the past who forcibly united the known world into one huge empire. He used a dark armor that looked like the black armor of Guts. According to legend, Giseric's kingdom prospered until one day he had a clergyman imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of Conviction (the place where Albion Monastery was later built). The clergyman complained to God so fervently that he was eventually granted an audience with members of God's hand. But since he did not have a Behelite stone, his sacrifice had to be bigger than usual. He willingly sacrificed the entire population of Geiseric's empire in exchange for new life and freedom. Geiserich himself merged with his new armor (a skeleton armor) and was banished to another dimension in order to wander around there forever. It turns out that Geiseric (insofar as the theory that he is the skeleton knight is correct) from then on looked for a way to track down and destroy the hand of God. Over the course of more than a thousand years, the skeleton knight even learned to travel between different dimensions - but the hated members of God's hand remained hidden from him, so that he had to wait for the rare demon nights during which the archangels showed themselves. Up to the present, however, despite his immense powers, he had not succeeded in attacking Void and the other archangels. The failed, cataclysmic attack on Griffith was only the latest in a series, including the attack in rescuing Guts and Kjaskar from their sacrifice.

Rickert, the only member of the original Falcon gang who was not present at the sacrifice and rebirth of Griffith as Femuth, had made his way to Falconia after Guts had left his foster father's home. Together with Erica, his stepsister and a few other travelers, they are finally greeted by soldiers near the new capital and accompanied to the city gates. Falconia was born out of nowhere, is home to hundreds of thousands of people and is the largest and most technologically advanced city you have ever seen. All original ruling families have submitted to Griffith, even the survivors of the defeated Kushans have allied themselves with Falconia and serve its citizens. Rickert is still plagued by memories of what Guts said: That Griffith sacrificed all his friends to hell for his tremendous power, mutilated Guts and drove Kjaskar insane. He suspects that the new empire Falconia was built by Griffith on millions of corpses and is nowhere near as divine as it is presented.

He asks for an audience with Griffith, which is granted to him. Before that, however, Locus, one of Griffith's bodyguards and himself one of the most powerful apostles, takes him for a walk. Locus shows him that beyond the insurmountable walls of Falconia, protected from the eyes of its human population, an arena was built that Locus calls the Pandemonium . Here Griffith's apostles fight in their true demonic form against captured monsters from the other dimensions. Locus explains to Rickert that this arena is a concession from Griffith to his apostles, as most of them could hardly hold back seeing so many people in Falconia and, according to their nature, would prefer to cause a bloodbath. Rickert almost collapses when he realizes how endangered the people in the divine Falconia actually are and calls the arena "a glimpse into hell", which Locus confirms with amusement.

The subsequent audience with Griffith is very brief. Rickert, infinitely horrified and angry about what he has just seen, slaps the leader of Falconias on the face and leaves the palace. Griffith does nothing, and even seems to understand Rickert's anger, but Locus is furious in the background at this unexpected act. Arbitrarily and without Griffith's knowledge, he suggests to Rakshas, ​​another member of the bodyguard, that Rickert "disappear". The Apostle Rakshas, ​​once a Kushane and master in underhand killing, enthusiastically agrees. He lies in wait near the house where Rickert is staying and wants to cut Rickert's throat. However, Rickert is saved by Silat, who suddenly appears, and his extremely strong four-man Tapasa bodyguard. The Tapasa warriors break the porcelain mask of Rakshas, ​​whereupon Rakshas almost bursts into tears and disappears. Silat offers Rickert to take care of him when Rickert tells him everything he knows about Griffith. Rickert agrees, but announces that he wants to leave the city as soon as possible. Silat tells him about a mountain village in the former kingdom of the Kushans, which is almost impregnable and they decide to go there.

Before they can leave the city, however, they are attacked again by the Rakshas. Again, Silat and two of the Tapasa warriors engage Rakshas in a fight, but this time Rakshas transforms into his apostle form, taking Rickert's stepsister Erica hostage and threatening to tear her to pieces. The other two Tapasa appear just in time and let the Rakshas, ​​wrapped in dark sheets, go up in flames with a self-made flamethrower, so that he drops Erica. Together with an old man, who turns out to be Ganishka's former court magician Daiba, they escape the city on large flying animals. Rakshas pursues them furiously, but Rickert, who learned the blacksmith's trade from his foster father, pulls out a small, bazooka-like weapon and shoots the approaching Rakshas in the face. Humiliated and injured, Rakshas falls to the ground and breaks off the pursuit.

Guts and the others have finally reached Elfheim. But there they await living scarecrows and a burning wicker man. In the background one can see figures that resemble the witch Schielke. They control the attacking scarecrows, but why is unclear. With the appearance of a witch named Morda flying on a broom, who controls the wicker man, the story ends with a cliffhanger for the time being .

The continuation of the series is announced for summer 2016.

Publications

Manga

In Japan, before the actual manga was released in 1988, a one shot chapter called "Berserk: The Prototype" appeared when the mangaka was still in college. Since 1989, Berserk has appeared in individual chapters in the Hakusensha publishing house's Young Animal manga magazine . These individual chapters are also regularly summarized in 40 anthologies so far. As of January 2006, Berserk had sold a total of 21 million anthologies in Japan. A chapter that was published in Young Animal, but not in the anthologies: In chapter 83 God in the Abyss (2) (to be incorporated into volume 13) Griffith is shown in dialogue with God.

Between May and September 2007, 12 volumes from the My Best Remix series were published , which summarize the first 26 volumes of the manga in a larger format (DIN A5).

To mark the start of the film series in 2012, six volumes from the Young Animal Remix series were published between January and February 2012 , summaries in a larger format (DIN A5) and around 500 pages.

The series has been published in German by Planet Manga since 2001 ; 40 volumes have been published so far. A new edition of Planet Manga with the title Berserk Max contains two mangas per volume and has so far been published up to volume 20.

Anime TV series

1st series (1997-1998)

The animation studio Oriental Light and Magic produced an anime series with 25 episodes based on the first 13 manga volumes under the title Kempū Denki Berserk ( 剣 風 伝 奇 ベ ル セ ル ク , Kempū Denki Beruseruku ) , which ran from October 7, 1997 to March 31 In 1998 it was broadcast by the Japanese television station Nippon TV .

Due to the success of the manga, the anime was released as a berserk from 2003 to 2004 by Panini Video in Germany on six DVDs. The DVDs do not contain any German synchronization, only a Japanese soundtrack with German subtitles.

2nd series (2016-2017)

A new anime series computer-animated by the studios Gemba and Millepensee with initially 12 episodes was broadcast from July 1 to September 16, 2016 on WOWOW , as well as on TBS , Mainichi Hōsō , CBC and BS-TBS with an offset of up to one and a half weeks . Directed by Shin Itagaki. The series will be offered as a simulcast with German subtitles on Crunchyroll at the same time as the Japanese broadcast . Universal Pictures has secured the rights for the publication on DVD and Blu-ray Disc and is planning the release for early 2017 with German synchronization.

A second season with a further 12 episodes was broadcast from April 7 to June 23, 2017 on WOWOW, as well as on TBS, Mainichi Hōsō and BS-TBS with an offset of up to two days.

Voice actor

role	Japanese voice
	1st series	2nd series
Guts	Nobutoshi Canna	Hiroaki Iwanaga
puck	Yuriko Fuchizaki	Kaoru Mizuhara
Farnese	Yūko Gotō	Yōko Hikasa
Serpico	Takahiro Mizushima	Kazuyuki Okitsu
Isidro	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Hiro Shimono
Azan		Hiroki Yasumoto
Casca	Yūko Miyamura	Toa Yukinari
Griffith	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Takahiro Sakurai
Skull Knight	Tsutomu Isobe	Akio Ōtsuka
teller		Unshō Ishizuka

Film series

In collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures , a number of films on Berserk were produced, which, in contrast to the anime series, should cover the entire plot of the manga. The films are produced by Studio 4 ° C under the direction of Toshiyuki Kubooka based on scripts by Ichirō Ōkouchi . The voice actors for the main roles changed compared to the anime series: Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts, Takahiro Sakurai as Griffith and Toa Yukinari as Casca.

The first three films will deal with "The Golden Age". The first film, Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen I: Haō no Tamago ( ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 I 覇王 の 卵 ) was released in Japanese cinemas on February 4, 2012 and has a running time of around 80 minutes. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 23, 2012.

The second film, Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen II: Doldrey Kōryaku ( ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 II ド ル ド レ イ 攻略 ), released on June 23, 2012 and has a length of 96 minutes. The DVD and Blu-Ray for this was released on December 5, 2012.

The third film, Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen III: Kōrin ( ベ ル セ ル ク 黄金時代 篇 III 降臨 ) with 107 minutes came in Japanese cinemas on February 1, 2013.

In Germany, the first part of the series with the title Berserk - Das Goldene Zeitalter I was released on October 26, 2012 and the second part of the series with the title Berserk - Das Goldene Zeitalter II on August 16, 2013 on Blu-ray and DVD. Both editions were published in a limited edition in a folding box. In contrast to the anime series, the films also contain a German soundtrack. The FSK was set at 16 years and older.

Berserk - The Golden Age III will be released on June 27, 2014, also in a limited folding box on DVD and Blu-ray. The film will be based on the uncensored version, which is released in Japan for ages 18+. As with its predecessors, the FSK issued a permit from the age of 16 in Germany. In Japan there is still a version of the film censored by alternative drawings and is released there from the age of 15. This censored version was originally submitted to the FSK in Germany, but its publication was discarded when the distributor received the uncensored version.

synchronization

role	Television series	Film series
	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	Japanese speaker	German speaker
Guts	Nobutoshi Hayashi	Hiroaki Iwanaga	Ozan Unal
Griffith	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Takahiro Sakurai	Nico Mamone
Casca	Yūko Miyamura	Toa Yukinari	Anja Stadlober
Charlotte	Yuri Shiratori	Aki Toyosaki	Jennifer White

Awards

In 2002, Kentaro Miura received the sixth Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in the Prize for Excellence category for Berserk , after he had been nominated for the prize from 1998 to 2001, but had to admit defeat to other mangas.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview on the official website ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Berserk - new TV anime starts in July. sumikai.com, February 5, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} German publication period of »Berserk« revealed. Anime2You, July 27, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Universal Pictures licenses new Berserk TV anime. sumikai.com, March 24, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Anime News Network: 1st Berserk Film's BD / DVD Slated for May 23 February 2012 (English).
6. ↑ Announcement on the official Facebook page of Universum Anime: Berserk - The Golden Age II & III licensed March 8, 2013.
7. ↑ Berserk - The Golden Age 3 is uncensored FSK 16

Web links

• Official homepage of Hakusensha for the manga series ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
• Official homepage of Planet Manga for the German Manga version
• Berserk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Content video of the 2004 PS2 game
• Official website for the film series