Crimson Blade
Burns eternally hot
Hi, everyone! I got into Berserk from a recommendation from a now ex-friend way back in 2010.
He recommended it, to which I scoffed at its length, thinking it more as another example of never-ending shonen scholock, like the big 3. When you hear "The anime only covers a flashback" you begin to think such things.
I checked out both the first anime episode and manga chapter and it was clear the manga was superior in almost every way. By the time I got to volume 5, I was simply addicted. I think I read volumes 5-14 all in one day my very first time. It's become one of my absolute favorite things since; if not my favorite IP of anything.
And it wasn't long (volume 25 or so) when I got sick of the lousy fan translations I was reading and instead picked up the official releases instead. So much better, apart from volume 13's+ SFX boxes.
And I've been going through it slowly since then, with long hiatuses myself. When I love something, I don't like to rush through it. I like to read it only when I'm feeling it to really get engrossed.
So far I'm only up to volume 30, even though I have bought them all so far. But slowly working my way up.
I got into it again after a really tragic breakup happened to me about 2 months ago and I felt getting back into the series would help. Guts himself is very inspirational as a character for me, and the manga hurts because I get the same feeling of my own lost relationship whenever I view Guts and Casca. We were both interracial as well.
But more of an inspiration that Guts continues to be. I hope to be an active member here, make new friends, and talk, talk, talk about Berserk until we're all blue in the face!
I would've actually posted sooner if my hotmail account wasn't such junk. I always get worried when it comes to forums that require approval first, since I've dealt with a few that never progress, so I lost hope when I didn't get any confirmation from this site after awhile too.
Turns out hotmail just tossed it into spam and I didn't know until like 2 full weeks later. And by that point I had even forgotten my password and.... yeah. Well, better late than never.
Edit: I keep trying to add my own avatar link and it won't show up. It keeps defaulting to no avatar. Is that a newbie restriction or something?
He recommended it, to which I scoffed at its length, thinking it more as another example of never-ending shonen scholock, like the big 3. When you hear "The anime only covers a flashback" you begin to think such things.
I checked out both the first anime episode and manga chapter and it was clear the manga was superior in almost every way. By the time I got to volume 5, I was simply addicted. I think I read volumes 5-14 all in one day my very first time. It's become one of my absolute favorite things since; if not my favorite IP of anything.
And it wasn't long (volume 25 or so) when I got sick of the lousy fan translations I was reading and instead picked up the official releases instead. So much better, apart from volume 13's+ SFX boxes.
And I've been going through it slowly since then, with long hiatuses myself. When I love something, I don't like to rush through it. I like to read it only when I'm feeling it to really get engrossed.
So far I'm only up to volume 30, even though I have bought them all so far. But slowly working my way up.
I got into it again after a really tragic breakup happened to me about 2 months ago and I felt getting back into the series would help. Guts himself is very inspirational as a character for me, and the manga hurts because I get the same feeling of my own lost relationship whenever I view Guts and Casca. We were both interracial as well.
But more of an inspiration that Guts continues to be. I hope to be an active member here, make new friends, and talk, talk, talk about Berserk until we're all blue in the face!
I would've actually posted sooner if my hotmail account wasn't such junk. I always get worried when it comes to forums that require approval first, since I've dealt with a few that never progress, so I lost hope when I didn't get any confirmation from this site after awhile too.
Turns out hotmail just tossed it into spam and I didn't know until like 2 full weeks later. And by that point I had even forgotten my password and.... yeah. Well, better late than never.
Edit: I keep trying to add my own avatar link and it won't show up. It keeps defaulting to no avatar. Is that a newbie restriction or something?