(CR) Berserk

[Ryuga]

Originally Posted by Semblance_of_Power

It's been too long for me to remember if Isidoro was this obnoxious in the manga as well but holy hell I can't stand him.

Every time he says something I feel like I'm watching Naruto and all the random comedic moments with the changes in animation style also don't help, it breaks the tone too harshly and constantly.

He's like this in the manga, though I actually love the guy lol. Him and Puck provide some welcome comic relief in a dark story.

Honestly, this was a damn good episode! Aside from some iffy animation, I have no complaints. They didn't rush things either.

[Guy Incognito]

Originally Posted by Semblance_of_Power

It's been too long for me to remember if Isidoro was this obnoxious in the manga as well but holy hell I can't stand him.

Every time he says something I feel like I'm watching Naruto and all the random comedic moments with the changes in animation style also don't help, it breaks the tone too harshly and constantly.

Yeah he's aways bein annoying, even in the manga

[HayashiTakara]

ARG! I'm so sick of cliff hangers lol

[ninjastarforcex]

isidro actually my favorite character, and luca is sexier here

[Ryuga]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention this, NOW they wanna show Puck's healing ability? Better late than never yeah lol?

[erdii]

this episode was better than expected. I wasn't sure how they were going to anime the Guts entrance and suprisingly it was good they should just give up CGI in normal scenes at least. at the scene with knight I think Luca was in CGI but the other girls were in CGI. I am starting like the animation or just getting used to it :S

[Casshern]

The animation is fine imo and even the lipsync has improved a lot. This is the only animation style that can do the fight scenes justice, although they skimped a little bit this ep. Guts' charging in scene was epic.

[Friday]

episode seven

AWESOME

oh hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

10/10

[foxbox360]

Is the animation getting better or the same.

[Maxulous]

Originally Posted by Semblance_of_Power

It's been too long for me to remember if Isidoro was this obnoxious in the manga as well but holy hell I can't stand him.

Every time he says something I feel like I'm watching Naruto and all the random comedic moments with the changes in animation style also don't help, it breaks the tone too harshly and constantly.

I know Puck and Isidoro are a minefield of face faults in the manga, but anime always manages to exacerbate that shit.

Don't see how this episode was any better than previous weeks, however now they really are abusing the Susumu track; like a desperate nostalgic wink to better times.

[Kyero Fox]

Is Casca dark skin yet? lol

[Kuroageha]

You must have 4missed the last episodes.

[ninjastarforcex]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

Is Casca dark skin yet? lol

who cares man. why are people so triggered over skin color, I noticed this a lot more recently.
if there is something to complain about casca, it's that she is so annoying now that she become literally insane without able to speak any word

[Tetsu Aero]

Originally Posted by ninjastarforcex

who cares man. why are people so triggered over skin color, I noticed this a lot more recently.
if there is something to complain about casca, it's that she is so annoying now that she become literally insane without able to speak any word

Trolling much?

[Guido]

They really call it a holy land with all the mountains of rotten, burnt corpses festering underground, across the riverbanks, and buried in the wells!

From what I interperted the Skull Knights' words, the land around the Tower of Conviction is but a shrine or altar dedicated to the God Hand, and the levels of vileness and depravity have been building-up for the last thousand years.
The major contamination is already peaking the dangerous climax and almost at the verge short of a little trigger to unleash the gates of hell once the next Eclipse happens.

Those ominous eyes pretty much are observing in place of the God Hand making sure that the needed pieces and players are gathered according to the wheel of fate in order to begin the next banquet of blood and flesh, since humanity after wills it to be.

[DemonneoPT]

Originally Posted by Casshern

The animation is fine imo and even the lipsync has improved a lot. This is the only animation style that can do the fight scenes justice, although they skimped a little bit this ep. Guts' charging in scene was epic.

Lol.. just no!!!! You may like it, but that does not make the bold statement true! Not at all!
But i do agree that the Guts entrance was quite nice tho! The reactions to it by the folks there was also on point. But everything else is just weird with that fail animation! The only reason i still watch this is because it's Berserk and even tho the visuals and directing suck for the most time, the story, the badass Guts, the dark atmosphere and the cool medieval fantasy setting are still present and amazing as always!

[Ryuga]

Well, the Tower's become more like a symbol of God's judgment, though there's a lot of speculation by readers that a God Hand member emerged from there. Though yeah, a lot of evil's been building up for a very long time, making it a suitable place for the mock Eclipse.

The heretics do unwittingly worship one of the God Hand, Slan, who they call the Goddess of Flames, and you see her in the fumes in episode 6. Slan's also doing her part in building up the evil in Albion by being the heretics' deity and pitting them against the Holy See.

[Stark700]

The scenes with Nina got me the most this week.

Guts did a decent job at fighting off those monsters, especially the Goat. I'm not bothered by the CGI anymore, got pretty much used to it by now.

[Ryuga]

Spoiler for Episode 8:

Episode was actually pretty faithful. They added a good detail that wasn't in the manga; the fact that Guts's palms were rough and more difficult for Serpico to slash, that was cool. Though, they also added Farnese beating the absolute piss out of her men for ages, whereas she just slapped them originally, which was pretty excessive. Goat fight was nice, Serpico fight suffered from jerky animation though.

Serpico's absolutely incredible, he lured Guts to a location that sealed a vast majority of his tools, and though Guts still came out on top, he pulled off a nifty escape with his life Had to laugh at the way Guts didn't waste any time just firing at Serpico and trying to blow him up.

Really great moment when Guts got angry at Isidro, and you can see the poor kid in tears, but Guts relaxed and forgave him. Isidro's not one to dwell on his failures either, he's immediately trying to make up for it. That's cool. And no matter what, I feel sorry for Nina. She's a frail who's dying of a venereal disease, and you're trying to survive in the craphole that's Albion. She knows she's being awful, but she can't help herself.

Ultimately, Nina's the representative of the average person in Albion. Consumed by fear, struggling to survive in extreme circumstances and wanting an escape from it all. I don't think she's a bad person. Gotta laugh at the torturer berating her for cowardice though.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally Posted by Semblance_of_Power

Solid episode, at no point did the CGI nor the directing made me want to knife my own eyes out which is certainly progress.

And this part of the story really captures that long running theme in Berserk of the dark side of humanity just being natural result of desperation, helplessness, horror and overwhelming fear.

I dunno. The times when they throw in regular animation make it worse, like they're teasing us how the animation could be x10 better than it is. I'm going to watch it because Berserk is easily my favorite seinen manga OF ALL TIME, but I'm not happy about the studio they chose to do it.

It make me die inside a little bit every time I think about how good the animation would be if ufotable had been doing it instead.