There are quite a few over the years. A more comprehensive version of this is in my
20 years later retrospective. But here are a few of the ones I can immediately recall:
2001: I
related this story before, but a friend of mine had convinced his high school to use Guts as the design for their Knights mascot and had a t-shirt of it, which I ended up with (somehow!).
2002: I met up with Griffith (member here) in Georgia. We saw X-Men 2 together, went to a few parties, and I remember walking around a park and talking about the latest eps (around Flora's first apperance, Ep 200).
2005: Met up with Aazealh and Puella in France. Stayed at their place for a week and a few days while traveling after college. We hunted down another member from here, Olivier, and payed him a surprise visit, then went out drinking together. Amazing trip!
2011: At a grocery store I overheard two employees were talking about Berserk. I wasn't paying attention until one of them said something that indicated they had been talking about Casca the whole time. It wasn't a very profound statement, but my brain keyed in on one of them saying: "
That was before she went crazy after the eclipse." So, I knew it had to have been Casca. It struck me as surprising because the series still wasn't THAT popular at the time.
2012: Met with IncantatioN and DirectDK in New York City over pizza.
2016: Visited Boston and hung out with Aaz for an afternoon. We even recorded a tiny podcast about it.
2023: Went to the Big Berserk Exhibition in Sapporo with Aaz, Grail, and Gobolatula. Four nightly podcasts recount our crow-filled adventures there.
2024: Oh yeah, a month or so ago, I was walking into a local grocery store (another one) and saw a guy with his wife and kid, and he had a Berserk shirt on (unofficial, 2016 logo), and I just told him: "I love Berserk" and smiled and he was pretty jazzed about that.