The Horror, Science-Fiction and Fantasy Thread

07-10-2018, 05:51 PM

Re-watched the original anime last year. Sure, it's an incomplete story, but it's still awesome.

The Batlord · 07-10-2018, 05:52 PM

Have you read the manga? The show had the best part of the series but was a relatively small slice of the original comic. Kinda tempted to rewatch the series myself tbh. I finally reread past the Dark Eclipse so it's about time.

07-10-2018, 05:55 PM

No, but I've heard that it's pretty big. Haven't ever read that much manga at all tbh. I followed Dragon Ball for a number of books many, many years ago and read something silly like Oh My Godess, plus the first few Akira books. That's all. It's been all about anime otherwise, which I've got a moderate amount of experience with.

The Batlord · 07-10-2018, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

No, but I've heard that it's pretty big. Haven't ever read that much manga at all tbh. I followed Dragon Ball for a number of books many, many years ago and read something silly like Oh My Godess, plus the first few Akira books. That's all. It's been all about anime otherwise, which I've got a moderate amount of experience with.

I think the storyline from the anime was about ten volumes of the manga and about a volume was cut from the anime for... reasons, and the manga is now at 38 volumes with #39 coming this August and no end in sight as far as I know.

07-10-2018, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I think the storyline from the anime was about ten volumes of the manga and about a volume was cut from the anime for... reasons, and the manga is now at 38 volumes with #39 coming this August and no end in sight as far as I know.

Yikes. It's probably good, but I kinda like stories to not get super long like that. It's really nice when an anime series wraps itself up in 1-2 seasons. When they run on forever there tends to be a lot of filler and repetition.

The Batlord · 07-10-2018, 06:11 PM

Repetition certainly isn't a problem and the quality has always been pretty high but I'd say after the anime storyline that the manga was never quite as dramatically compelling as a whole, though individual storylines were always strong. If I had one real criticism of the writing it's that as Berserk went along it started taking in more and more elements of "normal" fantasy that felt a bit generic.

The Batlord · 07-11-2018, 06:52 AM

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Trollheart · 07-11-2018, 10:09 AM

Just finished watching (a year late) the final (?) season of Game Of Thrones.
Jesus
****ing
Christ!

07-11-2018, 11:58 AM

I managed to sit through the entire first season. That's 10 hours I'll never get back.

The Batlord · 07-11-2018, 12:09 PM

Whenever MicShazam says he doesn't like something awesome I find myself wondering which neurotic obsession caused by a repressed childhood trauma that is going unmedicated is causing him to think so wrongly this time.

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07-10-2018, 05:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
MicShazam Guest Posts: n/a	Re-watched the original anime last year. Sure, it's an incomplete story, but it's still awesome.

07-10-2018, 05:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
MicShazam Guest Posts: n/a	No, but I've heard that it's pretty big. Haven't ever read that much manga at all tbh. I followed Dragon Ball for a number of books many, many years ago and read something silly like Oh My Godess, plus the first few Akira books. That's all. It's been all about anime otherwise, which I've got a moderate amount of experience with.

07-11-2018, 11:58 AM	#9 (permalink)
MicShazam Guest Posts: n/a	I managed to sit through the entire first season. That's 10 hours I'll never get back.