I hope i'm not being way too negative, i'm always happy to see new Berserk, especially something that brings new blood into the fandom. because its the first time seeing it all. I mean of course you can still just show Guts easing up to puck throughout this movie a little faster than usual, and the end is emotional regardless of whether or not there was any 'predecessor', but it just makes those soft moments a little less soft. And the fact that Jill emerges out the end of the story stronger than she was before stands out so much brighter compared to what we had seen happen to Collette and Theresia (also no crying guts ). The way Guts treated puck when he first met him compared to after he had survived the count and the Godhand is just that little bit softer. This also means Godot as a character will not have been introduced, meaning Guts's return to the cabin and chastisement for leaving Casca will be redone.īlack Swordsman may not have been the best written arc but i love it for the comparison we get when we finish the Golden Age and go back into Lost Children.

Obviously things like Guts acquiring a behelit are easy to work in, but assuming we're not starting back at Godot's mine the incident with the demon fetus and Gut's acquiring his gear will need to be shown in another one of those stylised 'flashback' sequences, which frankly would be a disservice to the moment. But without the Black Swordsman arc we have a lot of plot points that need to be squashed and fitted into what was already a tightly packed, neat story.

My initial gut reaction was pretty excited to at least see Black Swordsman Guts running around in one of my favourite chapters.

Berserk anime tell me why