The upcoming movie adaptation of ultimate dark fantasy manga Berserk was recently confirmed as being comprised of a trilogy covering the manga’s “golden age” section, and the first trailer has also been released.
The trailer:
The first movie is to be released to cinemas in January of 2012.
Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura even tore himself away from his Xbox 360 for long enough to comment:
I never expected to be blessed with another chance at a video adaptation. The old anime version of Berserk was where we received our first widespread recognition. 14 years on, I think the new movie will be greeted as a perfection of that vision by fans and movie watchers alike.
14 years ago my skills were crude, and I was franticly working to keep the serialisation going (don’t say anything!). Added to that, back then Japan had no Amazon and hardly any Internet – for a rookie mangaka there was virtually no way to get details on medieval armour and history. I used my “Excalibur” movie pamphlet until it was ragged.
Times have moved on – now we are in the information age, and we have CG as well! I’m confident that this time around the movie will attain levels of visual accomplishment I could never have achieved back then.
Expect a quality Hollywood remake sometime in the next decade…
Gave me the fucking chills.
am a bit more afraid that it comes out in 2012
Wonder if we’ll get to see the berzerk armor animated at some point… more epic than epic itself, that.
Sadly, it looks like shit. Poor manga, it will never get the anime it deserves.
Way too much computer if you ask me… why do even the movies with high budgets nowadays tend to have that many CG-effects built in? The manga is of such high quality and detailed like hell but this is just cheap like the Fate/Stay Night movie that came out this year.
Even the regular movements of the characters seem way too fluctional and thus reek of heavy computer usage,too. Where are the 80’s and 90’s where the animation was good enough while mainly painted by hand?
it’s fate/stay night. What would you expect on that garbage.
This is bagserk and hell would they pour time on this.
Wow… they’ve turned Caska white…
>The first movie is to be released to cinemas in January of 2012.
HELL YEAH!!
>Expect a quality Hollywood remake sometime in the next decade…
HEAVENS NO!!!!!
This looks amazing but whats with all the CG? Kind of hoping it won’t kill it.
While I’m looking forward to it, I’m still kind of “urked” at how far back it’s going.
Guess we won’t have to worry about the god damn boat or the god damn witch and her magic gear though..
Still, does anyone actually expect the troll rape, church torture, or explicit goat orgy? Much less the horse rape, heh..
Adult attack! Adult attack! …will it get animated!?
I seriously seriously have just shitted all over myself, and drenched my entire room. INCREDIBLE
Also I too hope whilst I am struggling in this ocean of poo caused by explosion of awesomeness that Hirasawa Susumu is doin the sound track again 😛
it looks like shit. damned CG ruined it.
I AM SO HAPPY ^__^
Ya I agree leave berserk for us grown ups haters gonna hate
Wait, so they are finally animating… the arc that they ALREADY animated?…
yay…
14 years ago the story was interesting.
call me crazy, but i don’t think hollywood could fuck up a live action version.
all they need is over the top violence, a non whiny main character (he is wielding a claymore i believe, you cant wield that without looking like you you aren’t whinny) and depending on what they put in the movie, taking a more first anime approach, or a more manga based, they may not even have to deal with the over the top monsters.
here picture this, a 3 hour movie, the first 5 minutes of it is like a fast paced episode 1, really only there to show you where he came from and what hes capable of. it cuts away to show his past. the first anime was able to show every major point, take out its filler and make it a bit faster paced, and you got a good 3-4 hour movie, with the last 30 minutes being that eclipse shit.
from there on, you have movies that span every major part of the manga.
i think it would be hard to fuck the adaptation up.
Thanks anon, Berserk to me is the one manga that surpassed the genre and reaches out to the non-manga reading public. Berserk is manga’s answer to the Super Bowl. Looking forward to the Hollywood remake.
It’s gonna be hot! Berserk FTW motherfuckers!
I will admit right now. Tears of joy began welling up when I started watching the trailer. Jesus, Budda, Zeus! I beseech you! Do not let this end badly. I want to the this succeed.
That is all. Now let the powers that be work their magic.
I hope the third movie starts no earlier than the original animation ended. I waited for the whole series to see it get there, and just as it picked up, it ended.
I’d love to see this animated, but all this cg doesn’t sit well with me. It seems like the exact opposite of Miura’s fantasically gritty inking style. = \
“14 years ago my skills were crude”
Lol, especially if you count that 14 years ago that manga was EPIC FUCKING WIN and now it rolled down to wet stinky shit with lolis…. yeah, his skill was “crude”
To me, the “Golden age” ark is one of the best written stories in the whole world, while the following arks are so shitty I can’t even read them (some are decent, but rarely)
Just animate the whole god damn thing………gosh.
Please don’t fuck this up.
Please don’t fuck this up.
Please don’t fuck this up.
Please don’t fuck this up.
Berserk in the one show that annoys the fuck out of me, because it’s such a mega fantastic show, but it ended precisely when the true revenge story that carries it was beginning!!!
I simply have no interest in manga, so i never knew what happened afterwards.
Lets see if these movies will correct such a ridiculous ending, or start depending on the point of view.
A remake is all well and good, but will we ever see the Conviction arc animated? I want to see the battle with Rosine in motion.
As for everyone bitching about the CG, how else are they supposed to animate the intricate details in Miura’s art? If they did it by hand, we’d end up with inconsistent quality, or loads of dutched still frames the previous anime loved using so much.
Not really. There’s detailed (hand-drawn) anime out there that looks amazing – much better than this cg crap. It’s rare, because it’s expensive, but it can be done.
I really hope that this time they will not change anything I watch for the first time Berserk many years ago and became in an instant one of my favorite anime and now for the first time I read the manga (Ch.22 atm)and although back then the anime look awesome I am disappointed with all the changes they make, they change so many things even remove whole characters and scenes that it’s very important for example at the end we never learn how Guts survive…
This time I hope they will do it right and original with no cut scenes of gore/violence/sex that’s what Berserk is all about if u remove this things then it’s just another generic dark-fantasy anime.
man i really hope we get the whole manga animated
fucking terrible CG 🙁
what happend to a pen and paper…..
good way to spit on your own creation.
Manly tears are being shed in anticipation.
I hope this is one of many movies covering all the arcs.
Kentaro Miura might have even completed the manga by the time they catch up. (we hope!).
it looks like a retelling of the first berserk story, condensed into a movie. i heard it’s supposed to follow the manga better and include the things the anime left out. i think the first will be a bust, but if they do the second and third, it’ll be good.
I sincere hope it won’t turn out to be a disappointment like last time, and stick to the manga version as close as possible.
omg omg omg omg i can’t wait to watch!
Can’t wait for Caska raep.
hope all seiyu remained =/
I’m still waiting for the manga to finish – not going to even touch this shit before that.
OH FUCK man… lol author gonna die before he finishes at the rate he is going… then the rest of us will be fucked.
can’t wait for the first movie to come out!: > <
I patiently await the fall of Falcon army *Cough* tentacle rape *cough* scene.
finally some manly animation
Griffith looks like a fricking girl. He was only fabulous in the manga.
HER SKIN IS LIGHT NOW! WTF JAPAN!
Fuck Berserk. Make her dark skin again dammit
WTF are you talking about? She’s olive skinned as always.
would so get this on blu-ray if it has english subs
In youtube there one video with subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p286WtHoK2g i dont found any fullHD
Yes yes, it looks like they’ve done a good job on the animation… but aren’t trailers there to show us the ‘exciting’ parts of something?
Well, if so, then the big question here is: Is it going to be executed well?
I don’t want to bring up my hopes only to have it crushed. ;w;
it looks awesome, a really good job, who knows maybe the burst of the moe bubble has been good, because i have started to see interesting anime again, not to mention great animation.
Don’t be so quick to dis the Hollywood remake yet. Consider the fact grimedark massive scale medival battle is one of few things Hollywood’s actually good at doing (Two Towers, etc). It might actually turn out decent.
Hollywood didn’t do Lord of the Rings, as far as I know.
LotR also had an insane budget.
I hope I wasn’t the only one who feared this would be Live Action, right? Now seeing the trailer, I am very relieved this is not the case. Looks good so far.
Haven’t you read the news before?
It was said to be a new anime project NOT Live Action Movie.
Some don’t leave outside Sankaku for their news, so no I imagine he hasn’t read the news before.
Wait, just the Golden Age section? What about all of the things that happen after that? Will we never see an animated version of all the aftermath, when the story dives nose-first into insanity?
The golden Age is only the beginning.
Of course they will animate the other orcs.
I mean arcs not orcs lol
in the trailer, you can see griffith in the armor that he had only after he was reincarnated into his current body. So one can only assume that they will go beyond the golden age.
I wish celshading would be used more often. I can never understand an anime using 3-d type models when creating an animation. It just makes more sense to use a concept that imitates the idea of a visual drawing then a realistic image.
It does look good, though I wonder if the “Color” is suppose to represent the bright outlook of Guts during this time. The color to me does seem a bit to bright I kinda wonder what if they are able to do movies past the Golden Age if it’ll be done with darker colors.
I just wish they had plans to animate it all though, such a pity these 3 movies are just covering the golden age but at the same time at least it should be safe to say that nothing will be left out.
maybe I should start on this series.It seems good.
I don’t know anything about berserk.So I take it that the author is addicted to the Xbox360?
He is addicted to IdolM@ster. Its all he ever talks about. He even neglects working on his manga just to play it.
Sooo funneh.
they’re gonna screw it up, we all know it.
Shitty CGI: the animation
I hope somehow Hirasawa Susumu does the music for the movies as well. The original Berserk soundtrack was fantastic.
Which chapter is on manga when anime ended?
The anime ended on book 13… they are about to release book 35. So there is a lot of the story u are missin
I have to agree, despite the characters and the story being really good, the soundtrack made it perfect, lets hope they don’t screw it up.
They will. Who needs a good soundtrack when you have CG now..
with how slow the manga is progressing, this seems like their only option. 6 years and they still won’t hit the stuff where they are looking for pucks homeland.
Good day to you, anon. It seems to me that your wish has been granted.
I have just looked at ANN for this, but I have no other sources to confirm with you yet, unfortunately.
Anyhow, here it is: http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12397
Wait, the fuck? WB? LOL
Delayed because the author is playing idolmaster bwahahahaha…
Now he’s watching Idolmaster, the Anime, he’ll never get thing done at this rate…
Can someone kidnap Kentaro Miura and fly him to a German castle, one with preferably a large collection of swords, maces, hammers and polearms, with armor for a few months???
Guts: GRIFFITH!!!!
will it keep all the rape intact? its pivotal to the story.
it’s WB, the only things that are going to get raped are the movies themselves
Ewww… cel shading.
I just can’t get used to seeing the WB in front of an anime trailer and not immediately go “aww, shit :[“
BERSERK HELLL YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My question is, will the story go beond where the anime stopped. I want to know the rest of the story in anime form.
I want sabers and cutlasses and broadswords oh my!!
lots and lots of sabers
naked sabers gleaming in the sunlight
raindrops tracing its delicate features
Those Sabers could meet my Dragon slayer…
This will rock so hard mountains will move. Will be interesting to see how they will end it.
The manga is still on going and it would be awsome to se how it would be with the battle between guts and griffith but its going soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow I dont think he will finish it before he dies or ill die before that.
Great more moe loli crap.
Looks good visually, but too bad the story sucks shit through a crazy straw. I’ll never understand why Berserk is so popular.
You’ll never understand because you lack a brain!
Go read gayruto, u stupid retard!!!
Go back to reading Naruto and leave Berserk to the grown ups.
I don’t read manga and I’ve never seen Naruto. Try again.
Berserk is not for grown-ups just because it has epic amounts of tits, gore and general depravity. In fact, Berserk obviously appeals to teenagers.
The inclusion of violence and nudity does not mean it’s for teenagers at all. It’s how it’s handled. Would you say Spartacus Blood and Sand is made to appeal to teens too because it has the same things in it.
You have to admit Berserk is just a battle-manga full of gore, blood, nudity, violence and other shock values.
I dare say Naruto actually has a stronger plot then Berserk.
I know I’ll get downvoted for saying this, but I’m unbiased, I do like Berserk more then the Naruto manga though.
I agree the art is fantastic, guarantee orgasm for dark fantasy lovers, the action is so great you can’t look away. Sadly I haven’t been feeling this since those pirates keep showing up as of late. I think I liked the story better when Guts was alone.
I think Miura-sans artwork transcends the manga. I’ve spent hours examining some of his panels (battle scenes and landscapes) always amazed at the detail and finding new things.
A lot of his work is reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch the 14th century Dutch artist.
I just wish he’d get back to a less erratic pace. Guess after 20+ years he’s getting burned out.