Damn! Reading all these posts shocks me. I wasn't up on the communities response to this anime at all, personally I love it!!!
I'm not new to the manga. Picked it up in 2007 and been running with it ever since. Watched the 1997 anime twice and the film trilogy.
I'm actually really really enjoying this season. Every time that music play and Guts swings his sword and carves up monsters I get goose pimples!!
I love the music, the SFX, the CGI, the character designs, the monsters. For sure, of course it could be better if a studio like Madhouse picked it up, but after having no anime for 20 years and dealing with numerous hiatuses, I'm just so pleased to be able to see my favourite characters animated, coloured and voiced!!
I don't know when this season will end, but I really hope they do Guts and Zodd vs Ganishka!! I'll admit they've taken liberties with the source material, omitting important scenes and changing the sequence of some events, but I can see their doing it to make it more coherent and comprehensible for casual viewers. I had to re-read some chapters, and ever entire volumes 3/4 times to actually understand what was going on.
By comparison the anime is very easy to follow.