Well, that was depressing. This podcast made me wish it had gone the way of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood movie which adapted the first part of JoJo. Rumors say it was so bad that Araki, the mangaka, asked for it to never come out on DVD, and it didn't. More truthfully, the fans boycotted the movie after hearing about the cuts to it, seeing the poorly done animation, and feeling betrayed, so the studio saw that a DVD release would just be more lost money. Instead of being "that shitty movie that ruined what I love" it's a sort of holy grail for the fanbase. For Berserk, we have not just this one embarrassing film, but two more coming after it and being hyped like crazy.

I'll still watch it, but I won't defend it any longer or recommend it to anybody. I feel bad for Miura, especially because he's not the type who would say he didn't want to see it released and the fanbase isn't niche or big enough to boycott it and affect that in any real way. It's right in the middleground where this type of half-assed effort is possible.

It almost feels like the flashback Miura is doing is a sort of "sorry you had to see that movie, here's some Guts as a child to make up for it."