great! thank you for merging actually, i was looking on the merch subforum searching "deluxe" but found nothing lol
who on earth penned that text.....................my god. it also looks like it was either AI generated or translated by chatgpt/deepl, to make it worse...........It's too bad the official guidebook has many inaccuracies and tasteless stuff in it, though. Almost feels disrespectful to append Miura's final chapter with a quickly put together "guidebook" with tactless stuff like this in it: If they include all the color pages + Miura's interview + Miura's character designs; correct or exclude erroneous stats; and remove the silly character profile parameter graphs, cutie collection (still can't believe they had the gall to include that), and silly romance puzzles, then that would be so much better.
On another note - NPD Bookscan released 2022 USA sales figures of graphic novels the other day.
According to this article, Berserk sold about 799k copies in USA last year (Deluxe & softcover combined)!
Notably, the Volume 1 Deluxe edition sold 146k copies in 2022 vs. 57k in 2021. That's over 2.5 times more than in 2021!
Wish they could've included a breakdown of top manga titles sold to see where Berserk falls. But in any case, really happy more people have been getting into Berserk
Berserk was always on a bit of a slow burn into mainstream pop culture, but I think when Miura passed there was such an outpouring of praise, news, grief, etc... from fans across the internet and IRL that a glass ceiling of sorts was suddenly broken, and the deluxe editions made jumping in easier and more immersive than ever for new people as well. Lots of youtubers started picking the deluxes in the last couple years and doing read throughs-reviews too, which has exposed the series to probably tens of thousands of new people.It's too bad the official guidebook has many inaccuracies and tasteless stuff in it, though. Almost feels disrespectful to append Miura's final chapter with a quickly put together "guidebook" with tactless stuff like this in it
On another note - NPD Bookscan released 2022 USA sales figures of graphic novels the other day.
According to this article, Berserk sold about 799k copies in USA last year (Deluxe & softcover combined)!
Notably, the Volume 1 Deluxe edition sold 146k copies in 2022 vs. 57k in 2021. That's over 2.5 times more than in 2021!
Wish they could've included a breakdown of top manga titles sold to see where Berserk falls. But in any case, really happy more people have been getting into Berserk
Regarding readthroughs (and audiobooks), I find it pretty disappointing that there’s such a market/audience for them: a demographic of grown adults who need to have things dictated to them like they’re still receiving their mother’s bedtime stories. There’s almost no way one can really understand a story by having someone else read it to them. In Berserk’s case, if one doesn’t want to buy the work themselves, it’s fairly easy to find it through other means, so needing to be introduced the story through a readthrough shows that said people are likely just lazy and even more unlikely to even finish reading the series.
It’s the same way in volume 41, so it was either intentional or negligent to leave it that way for this release.
I can't read Japanese fluently either, so when I need to crack open a volume simply to read it, I turn to Dark Horse. But the Japanese editions are beautiful, if you care about such things. It's the best print quality you can get for Berserk. So to me it's not a matter of choice, it's simply "why not both?" It's also nice to have the official edition, and not a translation of the thing you love, you know?
If you're asking which officially licensed localization of Berserk (Spanish, French, German, etc.) is the best translation of the material, I don't think there would be an easy way to get a consensus of that. If you mean fan translations, Puella's are the closest to authoritative by a large margin. Hers are the only ones that seem to care about conveying the original meaning instead of scenarios like: "well it'd be more convenient in English if they said this."
Scan quality and print defects are two different buckets. The first 4 volumes of Dark Horse have numerous instances of badly scanned pages, leading to overexposed images that lose finer lines and details. I've shown this image quality comparison from Volume 3 off a number of times, but it's one example in a dozen that one could make (like the moon in the scene with the wolves in Volume 4). This exact problem was carried into the Deluxe Editions. They didn't bother re-scanning the material. I haven't seen anything like that in Volume 5 and onward, though.
Since they're making these changes progressively, no I doubt anyone has done that. It wouldn't amount to much though, because the changes that I've seen posted have been very slight corrections. For example, "Knight of Skeleton" changed to "Skull Knight" starting in Deluxe Vol 3. King Hanafubuku was changed to "Flower Storm Monarch" in Deluxe Vol 10. It's that kind of thing, from what I've seen.
There's actually still an instance of this in Deluxe vol. 10 the very first time it's brought up, though it gets corrected every episode after.
That is totally fair. I guess personally, because imports are so expensive, I haven't taken the plunge, since I usually go to imports for things that aren't available in English at all. (likeee, I've been collecting the storyboard books for Miyazaki's and Satoshi Kon's films) So next on my list for Berserk would probably be the art-of book for the Dreamcast game.
That’s a great one! Second only to the Illustrations File and maybe that Artwork of Berserk catalog as well.
Yeah it can be quite expensive however I got my 1-41 Berserk Japanese singles set for only 120 euros on Ebay, sometimes u can find good deals like this
