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12-02-2013, 04:26 PM | #361 (permalink) | |
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Just bought the new Berserk movie Golden Age Arc II. Aside from some dodgy CG animation that looked a bit video gamey at times it was pretty fantabulous. Supposedly the next installment, about the Eclipse, is even more disturbing than the manga. Stoked. The anime was great, but the manga was so much better, so if the new movie can top the manga version of the Eclipse I'll probably crap my pants. And then they claim that they're going to continue the movies to finally get into the rest of the series. Stoked, stoked, stoked. So am I the only Berserk fan here? Along with Hellsing and Evangelion it's pretty much the best anime since sliced bread though I still have yet to finish the manga series, which is pretty much Dragonball length.
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12-02-2013, 05:18 PM | #362 (permalink) |
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^ seeing as I'm still waiting for season 2 of Attack On Titan I'll peep it out
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What I like most about Berserk though is its a direct descendent (thematically atleast) of all that classic sword n' sorcery / dark fantasy pulp literature that guys like Robert E. Howard and Ashton Clark Smith wrote back in the 1920's through the 40's, not to mention the cosmic indifferentism that H.P. Lovecraft pioneered during that period in his own stories. There's a lot of other influences too of course - Miura is a huge heavy metal fan, so that bleeds through into the narrative and overall aesthetic. But yeah, you aren't alone in your Berserk fandom, lol.
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I love the Lovecraft influences too. I can't think of another anime/manga with the same kind of demon art design, or that has such a nihilistic view of it's "religion". As far as I'm concerned Berserk is one of the very best fantasy stories ever told in any format. Too bad a lot of the crazy fantasy nerds that make all the "Best of" lists seem to look down on anime in general so it never really gets it's due outside of anime circles.
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12-08-2013, 02:33 PM | #365 (permalink) | |
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These AoT mock twitter accounts kill me. (I made sure these were all spoiler free.)
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This is a response to a post in another thread that I'm trying not to derail.
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And I think a lot of the Western obsession comes from the fact that we probably don't see the hordes of duds that get buried in cancellation just like the hordes of terrible cop shows that get cancelled after a season over here. If all people had to go on were Lost, Heroes, Buffy...I'm having trouble thinking of any more, etc then they might actually think that American network television was absolutely fantastic. So really, the majority of anime is probably even more crap than any of us realize.
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03-12-2014, 12:11 PM | #369 (permalink) |
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^ I'm not anything close to an anime buff, I honestly don't know the first thing about Pokemon, for example, but from the first minutes of Attack on Titan I was totally spun out. I don't know if it's been done before or if it's formulaic, but it's good horror. I can't wait for season 2.
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