Talk:Berserk (manga)/Archive 1

Updated Casca's profile
After personally beating the Berserk game for the DC, I felt there was a very important event that happened with Casca to be left out of her main bio. I added this in, and I noted the problems if the DC game can be considered canon or not.

What we need on this page
First of all, I'm sorry for having edited this page so radically, but it was useless the way it was. Take a look at the Robotech article; that's the quality this page should aspire to!
 * I find this hard to belive, consitering a search for "mangled" or "butchered" found no results on that page. ;P  --Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Robotech biases aside, it's a very informative and thoroughly researched article. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Kenpû Denki Berserk: Literally translated, "剣風伝奇ベルセルク" means "swordwind transmit odd Berserk."
 * The Japanese publisher of the manga books.
 * Jets Comics --Aknorals 11:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I found it just before I saw your entry :) Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The time-slots and the TV-channel where they aired at first in Japan and in the States.
 * It never aired in the U.S., as far as I know... the JPN air time was... very late, predawn even.... I'll provide more info when I find it. --Aknorals 11:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Awards the manga or anime has won.
 * Separate pages for particular characters, even secondary ones
 * A page dedicated to the unique and perhaps not so unique weaponry in the Miuraverse.
 * Other merchandising than the video-games (card games, miniatures, action figures, the like)
 * Something I've been thinking about is a list of the manga chapters. The Dark Horse editions I have list them as following:


 * Volume 1 :
 * The Black Swordsman
 * The Brand
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 1
 * Volume 2 :
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 2
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 3
 * Volume 3 :
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 4
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 5
 * The Guardians of Desire, Chapter 6
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 1
 * Volume 4 :
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 2
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 3
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 4
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 5
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 6
 * Volume 5 :
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 7
 * The Golden Age, Chapter 8
 * A Wind of Swords
 * Nosferatu Zodd, Chapter 1
 * Nosferatu Zodd, Chapter 2
 * Nosferatu Zodd, Chapter 3
 * Nosferatu Zodd, Chapter 4
 * Master of the Sword, Chapter 1
 * Volume 6 :
 * Master of the Sword, Chapter 2
 * Assassin, Chapter 1
 * Assassin, Chapter 2
 * Assassin, Chapter 3
 * Assassin, Chapter 4
 * Precious Thing
 * Departure for the Front
 * Engagement
 * Casca, Chapter 1
 * Casca, Chapter 2

If someone can go through the Hawks's scanlations and do a similar list, it would be very helpful. Maybe we can exclude the individual chapters under each header. Still, I think it would be a somewhat worthy addition. I'm not really sure if it belongs here or not though. Harp Heaven 12:38, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * True, we should also get the origional japanese name of the chapters. -- Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this would be really helpful. If we want to be comprehensive, this is the way to go. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Just added a link to the list I created. --DragonKore 00:28, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

What we don't need

 * Berserk glorification. I like this series as much as you do, but please, try to have a neutral POV. In case you're wondering, writing "some fans believe", or "fans really like" before your opinion does not constitute having a NPOV. Cut it out.
 * Well, I think an important part of an article about a modern work of fiction is to express why it has fans. But it certianly should only be used when nessecary... although it does give more insight.  --Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really give more insight if it's just one person writing on behalf of him and his anime messageboard. A proper way to emphasize the popularity or explain why it has fans would be to cite a professional reviewer or a professional survey. Having sentences like "Berserk is popular with a lot of anime fans and is really bloody and gory but also has a lot of psychological insight too" just undermines the credibility of the article and makes us look like a bunch of fourteen-year-old fanboys without a clue. If you could dig up a professional review from someone with clout in the business (not a website or anything similar), feel free to add a quote from it. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Story summaries, plot spoilers and the like, basically anything that has to do with what happens in the manga and anime. This is an encyclopedia article, and it's supposed to be informative. It isn't a fanpage. Take a look at the page for Full Metal Alchemist; it's nearly 46 kb big, and 95% of the content is about events in the anime. This is exactly what we should try to avoid. What should be in the wikipedia article are things relating to the publishing and writing of the manga.
 * Much of that appears to be copyright vio from here. Regardless, if the character section gets too big, we can allways move it to Characters of Berserk. Lets worry about having enough info on the characters first. --Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Ideally, if we are to have a large section devoted to character descriptions, we should make a separate Wikipedia entry on them, like you said. Also, how much is enough info? I would say that giving their background and general role is enough for the article. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Spoilers are very important. As are plot summaries.  And any article about a modern work of fiction that doesn't have "basically anything that has to do with what happens" in the story is quite pointless. --Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Alright, I give in. I've started writing summaries of each of the manga chapters, this time without bad fanboy writing and spelling mistakes. Stay tuned. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you've decided to write something afterall, as I think cutting the entire plot summary was a bit hasty, and I do think it's an appropriate section to have. Of course, I'm biased, because currently, with the plot summary cut, there is no logical reason to link "Behelit" which I had originally written, and which, I think, makes sense as its own entry being an (admittedly fictional) object that people might want to look up information on. --Lord Shitzu 03:03, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Opinions about Miura's storytelling technique, like the deus ex machina element of the skull knight or the excessive comic relief of having Puck and Ishidoro at the same time.


 * That all sounds very resonable, but I nonetheless think a short summary of the events in the manga is necessary to understand the appeal of this story and the character descriptions below.
 * E.g.: For the character description of Guts to be useful, it needs to explain his motivations: to protect Caska and to get revenge on Griffith; same for the other main characters Caska and Griffith. But the explanation of their motivations only makes sense in the context of the story.
 * So a short (no longer than 2/3 sentences for each) description of the main events/story arcs may be in order, namely the Golden Age, the Eclipse and Guts time as the black swordsman. Another option would be a short timeline of events, for which this is a good ressource:  -- Xorx77 13:22, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The timeline does not sound like a good idea, but I agree that a short summary of the three major story arcs could be a potentially good option. What irks me with all these Wiki articles on anime is that they are so damn long, and there's very little information on them that I couldn't gather from just reading the manga or watching the anime in question. What is the use of having a story summary? Who reads them except for the person who writes them? I'm not asking rhetorical questions here, I'm genuinely curious as to what their value actually is. Those of us who have seen the anime/read the manga already know what happen. Those who haven't will get the entire plot spoiled. It seems like a pretty useless addition, if you ask me. Harp Heaven 15:38, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Who died?? Seriously. Did this cease to become a Wiki? While I do agree about Opinionated glorification - you do have to realise that Wikipedia is not quite your average encyclopedia and quite often, even in some of the best articles, uses more colourful emotive and descriptive language, while still remaining NPOV (One might even suggest they are great articles due to good usage of this). Mentioning roles, and perceived roles of characters - such as hero, anti-hero, yayoi love interest, comic relief and deus ex etc., are important factors in any story. No less here.
 * Wikipedia is not Animenfo. People may have conflicting opinions about things; e.g., I have a very negative relationship to Neon Genesis Evangelion, a series that I know is very popular with a lot of people, and thus I would have reacted very strongly if someone added "NGE is considered to be one of the finest examples of anime" in the main article. Who considers it to be so? Who are the "some fans", "many fans", "many" and all the other pseudonyms the authors of Wikipedia articles embrace for their edits? It's completely unnecessary. If you want to highlight the quality of the series, add entries for the awards it has won. If it hasn't won any, then post your reviews on Animenfo or any similar site. We all agree that Puck is there for comic relief (in Volume 14, I think, Puck even says this himself, "without me the manga would be too dark"). That Skull Knight is a deus ex machina, however, is not something we universally agree upon (I don't think he is), and should not be included. We could add that Griffith eventually becomes the main villain in the story. I agree that it's an important factor, though. Let's try sticking to the accepted. Harp Heaven 15:38, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The main role of the Skull Knight seems to be act mysterous and save people who Miura doesn't want to die yet. If that isn't a deus ex machina, then I'm not sure what is.  --Aknorals 09:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * As I stated before, understanding how the majority and minority of fans persive a series is important to understanding the series itself. I also don't belive that everyone who uses "many fans" is speaking about themeselves. --Aknorals
 * Your Skull Knight comments are sound, but I'm still not sure whether we should leave it in the article. Since we don't know how it all ends, we really don't have any business adding our opinions about it. NPOV, people, NPOV. Harp Heaven 18:03, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Take a gander at Hamlet: "(Polonius) is a fatuous bore".

Plot spoilers, in terms of a general sense of the action involved, are also encyclopedia norms. We are trying to be comprehensive. This does not mean linking somewhere and saying go here. It means a summary, citing the resource(s) used.--ZayZayEM 14:07, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Plot spoilers are indeed unavoidable with entries about characters that appear late in the story (Femto being a prime example), but that doesn't mean that we need a large section of this article devoted to a plot summary like Hamlet has, since Berserk and Hamlet are miles apart in terms of cultural and historical relevance. If we are to have a plot summary, I suggest it be done in the way that Xorx77 suggested. No need for vivid descriptions and fanboyisms, keep it short and simple. Harp Heaven 15:38, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Berserk is long. It will get much longer.  As it does, it may become difficult for people to rember what happened 10 volumes ago.  "Spoilers" can also remind people of what happened.  Dismissing spoilers completly seems foolish --Aknorals 11:50, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Another thing we don't are bios for characters who aren't really essential to the storyline. Deceased/inactive characters who bear no personal connection the the group that Guts and Griffith are traveling with have no place in the character page. Or least the main one. What I suggest is Creating a new Berserk page dedicated to the characters who fell by the wayside (Theresia for example), so the main players in the story so far take more prominence in the main Berserk page. Though a "main characters of Berserk" is also a welcome alternative. Martisty 22:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Kentarou Miura interviews, and things
I'll try collecting a nice list of articles/interviews with Kentarou Miura/about Berserk for both this article and the Kentaro Miura article. -- Philip Nilsson 22:18, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) -- Please add anything you find here!


 * A nice Kentarou Miura biography.
 * The same interview that is linked in the article.
 * An interview with the anime series producer, Toshio Nakatani.

Taka (鷹) Translation
I've been thinking about translation "鷹 (Taka)" to Falcon instead of Hawk in the Berserk sections on Wikipedia. I came to this idea from seeing Miura romanize that Kanji to Falcon ("Millennium Falcon: Falconia" in the Katakana about the Kanji in each bi-weekly issue of Berserk in Young Animal) rather then Hawk,(which never appears in the manga). This may be a big deal, as it's commonly accepted that "鷹の団" is translated as "Band of the Hawk" (as opposed to "Falcon's Band/Band of the Falcon") but I think it's worth a discussion since it's a more faithful English translation to what Miura wanted Griffith to be referred to. EnthusiastFRANCE 23:58, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * yeah you're right the CORRECT translation is actually "Falcon" not "Hawk". You're right about "Millenium Falcon" as it's clearly written in small katakana "千年帝国の鷹(ミレニアム・ファルコン)" on top of (or beside written in the same size but between parenthesis) of it's kanji form as a pronunciation hint for Japanese readers (seen on the japanese games covers, OST covers and official sites). "ミレニアム・ファルコン" are only English words written in Japanese for those who don't know katakana. It clearly says "Millenium Falcon" (MILENIAMU-FALUCON), remember Kentaro Miura's an old Star Wars fan right? If you know what i mean! ^^
 * In France, a friend told me they have kept "La Bande des Faucons" (Band of Falcons) instead of "La Bande des Aigles" (Band of Hawks) in the fansub, I'm not sure about the official edition though.
 * They're other mistranslations i think as "Chudder" for "Tudor" (both テューダー/チューダー forms are used in Japan), "Locus" for "Rox", "Rackshas" for "Laxas", "Vandimion" for "Van Dimion" (with the "Van" noble prefix apart), "Irvine" for "Erwin" ("Erving" is another form of Erwin, Erving Goffman for the students outhere) "Behelit" instead of "Beherit" (Hebrew name), "Isidro" instead of "Isidoro" (correct Spanish name), "God Hand" instead of "Hand of God" has translated in the anime's prologue with Void speaking about the "hand of God hovering above" and Void's hand holding a Beherit as still background. I've even noticed some cast name changes in the anime ending credits from an episode to another... "Judeau" could also be "Judeaux" (french name) or "Judeo" ("Judaeo") as they're are many Judaism references and names (Samson, Joachim, Erwin, etc.) in Berserk...
 * "Isidro" is just another derivitation of "Isidoro," of which, both are acceptable. The "Isidro" English spelling for the character is the legitimate translation, according to the character biographies in the Japanese manga. I agree that "Beherit" is a more faithful translation instead of "Behelit" (which has no pre-existing meaning prior to Berserk) & needs to be changed in the main Berserk artile and it's own seperate page (which still needs to be Wikified properly). Martisty 22:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You're probably right for Isidro (there's a city called "san isidro"), however "BEHELIT" (alphabet) is used on the soundtrack CD's backcover. The CD is an offcial product relased by Vap the published of the anime series. So maybe it's "BEHELIT" after all. EnthusiastFRANCE 16:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The other names such as "Locus," "Judeau" & "Irvine" can be debated, though it's unlikely "Rakshas" has any other alternative spelling, as it's a reference to a type of Hindu demon & Miura likes to make references to these sort of things in Berserk. Martisty 22:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I used "Laxias" because it is a latin name (while rakshas mean nothing) and Miura also likes them e.g. "adonis", "yurius" or "adon." i don't known which one is the right translation. EnthusiastFRANCE 15:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * They have even officialy used "Ogle" (in English) instead of "Ogre" in the PS2 game, so i guess Berserk's real name (mis)translation is an endless debate my friend! I guess our sons will continue to debate it after us!! ^^ I know it by experience... (talking about Fist of the North Star article) EnthusiastFRANCE 00:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That translation was of the world "Ogre" was from the JPN PS2 Berserk game, which isn't considered cannon with the manga story (Guts finishing Grunberd off, inclusion of other non-manga characters, zero sexually explicit scenes, etc.). Art of War's no better either, (Zoddo, etc.). In essense, I don't trust anything except for what Miura puts down in his Berserk tankōbon. One last thing I forgot to mention: "Vandimion" is an accurate translation. Thereis no break between "Van" & "Dimion". Farnese's family already has a middle intial: "de" (it's sounds like "Do(h)" because of the difference between Japanese and English phonetic structure, but it might not be if Miura ever confirms otherwise). The middle initial can be found in volume 29/30 whenever a Vandimion's full name is being spoken. Martisty 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've just cited "ogle" as an exemple of "official" katakana mistranslation, not considering the game's plot which is another debate. Miura had an overciew of the game since it's a licensed product. What i mean is Miura has possibly made katakana mistranslations himself. Katakana mistranslation are usual in japan and overseas. EnthusiastFRANCE 16:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You are refering to vol.29 chapter 6 page 12 according to skullknight.net however i can't find it in the french fan translate. It seems the circulating scans are based on a japanese translation and that the others are translations of the translation (as red on the french scan credit telling "the front cover cannot be found anywhere..."). It's like the volume is translated from Japanese to Italian than from Itlaian to French than from French to English or whatever order, which ends on a not reliable source at all (without even mentioning fan translaters can make mistakes as well), since i can read "vendemion" on the french translate and "magnifico" which is french common (french -magnifique- and spanish adjective -magnifico- biased) mistranslation from the spanish/italian name "manifico". "magnifico" would be a different katakana with the spelled "G" as in "gamble". Can someone with the japanese original manga could post the URL (you can use the free service www.imageshack.us) of a low-res scan page part bearing the "do vandimion" as a proof please? ^^ (posting a partial screenshot is legal) EnthusiastFRANCE 16:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * About "Farnese de Vandimion" ("de" is the middle word for both french and spanish noblemen, "van" is used in belgium so "de" sounds more possible), however it is curious there is not a single google occurence of "ド•ヴァンティミイン" except in the japanese wikipedia (it could have been written by a non-japanese person so it prouves nothing), i'll try to found more about this on the japanese site of berserk or ask a japanese about this, just to be sure. BTW "farnese" seems to be an italian name, (there's also an italian wine). The japanese Wikipedia refers to "vandimion" as vandimion (in katakana) without the "de", it is surprising that an otaku has not corrected it yet. EnthusiastFRANCE 16:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * About ミュール "Mule" i've used intentionally used "Muhl" which is a france/belgium used name. The french city "Mulhouse" (mhuelouze, not mu-house) near the german border is derivated from "Muhl". The city's german name is "Mülhausen". Mule is an unimaginative (and english biaised) translation of ミュール, Muhl is based on context and seems far more appropriate for a knight than "mule"... There is alos the "Mühl" german variation, which could be the original form of the one used in france and belgium. i'm seeking for romaji evidence in japanese official sites right now. EnthusiastFRANCE 14:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it's better to use the US Anime/Comic version's terms (wikipedia uniformization) though, because newcomers won't get it. You could create a "Trivia" section and add your info in maybe. The main article definitely needs a trivia section anyway. Just look at the Fist of the North Star article as a reference, i'm sure we still can upgrade the Berserk article! EnthusiastFRANCE 04:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Based on a global scale, I believe it's better to be as accurate as possible to the original Japanese (Falcon, not Hawk, Causality, not Fate, etc.) as the American version has taken liberties with Miura's work. It's because of weak translations from scanlators like the Hawks and Evil-Genius that faulty information/stupid theories spread across the internet and that's not what Wikipedia's about. Martisty 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I see no objection to use a more accurate independant (neutral) translation rather than the one used by Anime Works on the US edition though. What will be difficult is to agree on the translations which is long and uneasier thing to do. EnthusiastFRANCE 15:38, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Things are not easy because of the various official licensed products bearing romaji mistakes like "Ogle" for "Ogre" (PS2 Japanese game, just an exemple) or variations like "Gats" for "Guts" (Berserk Japanese OST CD). Official Berserk action figures maker (Yamato) Art Of War uses "Hawk Soldiers" just like in the American anime (cf. ending credits) for the Band of the Hawk characters (inc. Griffith). So maybe it's not "falcon" after all, even if this term is used in the European versions. I've noticed different translators in the American Anime, and they seems to have made erroneous translations like "Sulan" for "Slan" and "Yubikku" for "Ubik". The problem is even the Japanese persons under license from Miura don't exactly knows, it would have been a lot easier if Miura has used alphabet as the official names not the katakana which is already an awkward variation of the original names. EnthusiastFRANCE 16:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The spellings on the various merchandise outside of the Japanese manga are irrevelent, on account that Miura didn't have complete control over that aspect of his Berserk license. Just because Young Animal/Hakusensha licenses it out for distrubution doesn't mean it got Miura's stamp of approval and be considered official canon in Miura's work. The only thing garenteed to be official are what's in the manga volumes. And why would Miura use anything else but Hiragana in naming his characters? This is a fictional work for a Japanese audiance and doing so would just be out of the question. Martisty 07:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * "Miura didn't have complete control over that aspect of his Berserk license" i completely disagree with this, since the license is based on the use of trademarks and that trademarks are made after the original spelling for the character (Miura's). Using different names than the ones of Miura himself would make the trademarks useless and illigitimate. Try to have a look on Miura's interview about the Anime conversion from his manga and how Miura had control on the plot. It's like George Lucas's control over the merchandise, he (or actually his representatives) can check things. "why would Miura use anything else but Hiragana in naming his characters?" why? because "Charlotte", "Colette", "Gaston" etc are existing european names, so he must have them wrote in alphabet somewhere (in his character/location studies) as they are not familiar with Japanese persons. He could share them with license clients. What i think is Miura has made katakana-to-alphabet translation mistakes himself. "This is a fictional work for a Japanese audiance" yes but the Japanese often uses english "in the text" words just because english writing/sounding is "cool" for the japanese. Exemple, Susumu Hirasawa use the english word "FORCES" as the gimmick for his japanese songs and these songs are made for a japanese audience, therefore according to you it should have been the japanese word. Other exemples are alphabet is used for "Berserk" (while BERUSERUKU katakana is used for the manga) on the video release for Japan, the japanese-only video games use english (alphabet), and japanese market licensed products uses english (alphabet) as well (ART OF WAR figures have the character name written in english). EnthusiastFRANCE 16:45, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, if you want to be independant to the English version, there are some changes to be made. From what we hear in the Japanese anime, using "Doldorey" would be more accurate than using "Doldrey", same for "Rickeruto" not "Ricket" and we also should use "Gatsu" instead of "Guts". In Italy they use "Pack" not the English "Puck". It's quite puzzling and almost unsolvable. EnthusiastFRANCE 04:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Basing official Berserk info on the anime is a mistake, as it's not official part of Miura's original work, but an adaptation of it. The way "Doldrey" is pronounced in Japanese ("Dorudorei/ドルドレイ") is because of the way the Japanese language is structured. Ditto for every else you mentioned about the names. And "Gatsu" is the wrong spelling for "Guts" name: Miura officially stated how to spell Guts' name in Western alphabet at the beginning of each tankoubun starting with # 27. It's not unsolvable at all. Martisty 07:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks but i'm not new with katakana (got my first katakana chart back in 1990), the truth is "ドルドレイ" can be "Dordoray", "Dolldolei", "Dordolet" w/mute "T" according to the french spelling since katakana are not only english words but all non-japanese including Okinawa dialect and a same katakana can refer to many words. Only the official romanized spelling used by Miura or a licensor can define the exact spelling for some katakana words (including fictional/proper nouns).
 * good! can you post a partial scan of the japanese original page (too many fanscans are circulating) you mentioned please? (you can use the free www.imageshack.us service). I'm like Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, i like to see with my own eyes instead of trusting speeches. I'd like to be sure that's all. EnthusiastFRANCE 16:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * It's true that Berserk needs a trivia section (for references mostly and influences), but I still vote a more faithful translation of what the 鷹 Kanji. Plus, I don't the way Dark Horse/Media Blasters translates certain elements in the Berserk manga/anime. When viewing the original manga/anime and comparing the translations Dark Horse/Media Blasters have used, there are consistent errors (besides the sporadic misspellings, there are the noun translations of "Beherit" "Casca" and so forth); most notable in the manga, the lack of a reference to Causality; Inga ritsu (Causality Law/因果律) is a hinderance. Causality, not Fate, is the main principle Miura plays with in Berserk and there is an inherent difference between the two. Causality has an ideology of "cause and effect", while Fate is more an end result regardless. In other words, Causality in principle has a projected path to arranging things (such as Guts encountering Isidro, Farnese and Serpico right after he tried to rape Casca under the Beast's influence) to happen in a certain way. There's an implied choice in the matter, whereas Fate is in itself, inevitable and static. Martisty 22:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Now that you mentioned First of the North Star", why does that link (and now the one to "Bastard!") keep popping up in the Berserk section? I know Miura was exposed to "FotNS" in the 1980s, but I can't say there's any other connection between the two other then they're violent nature and romanticized independent ideals. "Bastard!" is even more confusing as, besides the medieval background and violence, there's not much relating it to Berserk either. I propose having thoese references removed, as they don't add anything in explaining Berserk. You might as well throw in "Record of Lodoss War" or "Lord of the Rings" into the "Similarities" subcatory too. There are non-anime works which at least are worth mentioning (in a future Trivia section), such as Flesh and Blood; it has a stronger association with Berserk then the other titles I mentioned, as Miura stated it at least influenced his work. Martisty 22:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * How can we have both the official US names, katakana, and REAL translation names together without messing the characters section? Do you have any technical idea on how to do that? Maybe a separated article.
 * the way things are set up now (Official name, Katakana & pronounciation) work fine. Martisty 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Look at the character section... now look at WP:MOS-JA See something wrong?  It's been bothering me for a while, but I never got around to it... I'll fix it in a little bit if someone else doesn't get to it first... (making the names conform to how the naming conventions for Japanese language are supposed to look, for those that don't get at what I'm talking about) - Aknorals 12:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Good to read your note about Causality and Fate. Maybe the Fatum (actually "God hovering above") aspect is traditionally within European (American) culture and is part of the Greek tragedy tradition. Maybe this is one of the reason why the American publisher has adapted (localized) the Berserk overview with the religious (fate) aspect in mind, if you ask me. Beside there's this old European saying "translating is betraying"...
 * No, it is a translation error (calling it Fate), and it looks like it may be fixed in future releases.   -Aknorals 11:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I was sure you will talk to me about Lodoss War! ^^ Ok man you're probably right, i'll remove it until the Trivia section is started. I still think Bastard!! is closer to Berserk than ROLW, to me Record of Lodoss War is more in the LOTR classic tradition and rather different in term of graphic style and mature elements and violence. There is really nothing more than the "Pippin" and the "Ant" (animated tree) references in Berserk explicitely inherited from LOTR. But all right.
 * I always figured that Bastard!! was a game of D&D gone horribly horribly wrong... of course, the same may be said of Slayers so... -Aknorals 11:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Also: Bastard's take on realism as it relates to fantasy is nearly opposite how berserk deals with realsim... I mean really, spells per day? Same goes with historical references here... -Aknorals 12:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Berserk nor Bastard!! have nothing to do with Slayers's graphical style! nor Vaelber Saga (nor Clamp's work) if you've in mind to quote all classic HF manga... Noboteru Yuki's character design is more kawai style oriented and is far less "noir" than Berserk/Bastard!!. Talking about "elves", "trolls" and "undead" et caetera in Berserk is true to historical fact, "realism" speaking... Berserk is Heroic Fantasy work as well as Bastard!! this is not History Miura himself has stated there were a lot of anachronisms and he only likes and uses what looks cool! EnthusiastFRANCE 20:37, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The reason i would like "Hokuto No Ken" to be mentioned here is to introduce the series to newcomers searchin' for something in the vein of Berserk. Even if Miura doesn't talk about it, it's pretty obvious Hokuto No Ken's "ultraviolent" style has inspired Berserk, not talking about the Guts/Ken physical ressemblance. But you're right, there are many others references worthy to be mentioned in the fututre Trivia section including "Conan The Barbarian" and Rudger Hauer.
 * About "Falcon" i've checked a few international official sites for the US Berserk article update i've made today and it seems "Hawks" is only used in America. The German uses "Falken" and the Spanish "Halcon" both are meaning "Falcon". Maybe George "TM" Lucas doesn't wanna hear about Millenium Falcon!! ^^

24.155.106.103 reverted vandalism (removed manga gallery)
Don't you have better things to do than mess in the article? The manga gallery is here to show the title's graphism variation. It has been inspired by the Star Wars bonus dvd's international promo gallery. As an encyclopedia, this brief international gallery is legitimated here, the article is not about "Berserk in America" but a neutral Berserk (in the world) article written in English. EnthusiastFRANCE 01:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * OK i've just watched your 24.155.106.103 history log... so you're just a vulgar vandal, words are useless, go get a life kid!! How a such useless a****** can even exists?! People like you are the Wikipedia plague. It kills me. EnthusiastFRANCE 01:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

For the curious
(aka: "page move fun") -Aknorals 21:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC) note: Please keep this section here, and keep it on the top of the page for historical reasons.

For the curious... the article on Berserk is now here instead of at Berserk (anime) because the manga came first and is still ongoing. -Sean Curtin 07:50, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Unfortuantly, he doesn't note here that berserk (anime) and berserk (manga) used to be in seperate articles, and for some reason (possibly because the anime was more well known at the time(?), or perhaps because berserk (anime) was more detailed), it was decided to merege into berserk (anime) instead of berserk (manga). -Aknorals 21:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Berserk is now about the Berserk anime and manga. The old article no longer exsists... I think... it was mainly an article that started out about berserker but, as that aricle already exsisted, was redirected to that aricle, then later to berserker (disambiguation) then later to berserk (manga) .... I thought it would be good just to cut the garbage and have the berserk article be about the berserk anime and manga. This page contains a link to the disambiguation page, besides, berserk is not commonly used in english as a noun. -Aknorals 00:43, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Funny nobody had a problem with it from january 12, 2005 to may 2006.... Not one person nominated it for a move.... I'd also like to add a reason for moving that I didn't list back then: quite frankly, I was sick of reverting anon-IP vandals that kept on turning it into a redirect to berserker -Aknorals 21:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

WOW!! First off, I'd like to say I i'm sad I didn't get to post this summary sooner, as things have already changed. I'll explain that part later. I'm going to seperate my summary and my comments on that, so here goes -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC) Summary: And then, for a time, there was piece. I didn't have to worry about vandals changing my disambiguation into a redirect, or the article itself moving around at all. There was no complaints about the name durring this time. None at all. If there was, they would have been added to the talk page. But on May 8th, 2006, an admin moved the article which had been at Berserk sense January 2006 to Berserk (manga). He then make Berserk into a redirect for berserker He did this without (presumably) looking through the talk page's history for this note, without making sure the concenus would agree with the move, (presumably) without checking to see why the editors got it moved to [Berserk]] to begin with, without checking to see "what links here" (or he wouldn't have broken every single link designated for the anime/manga/game article), without talking about it on the talk page, without allowing any debate, or the propper Wikipedia process to go through at WP:RM, (presumably, without also looking at the article, or he would have noticed that only a section of the article is about the manga itself; the rest is about the anime and the games) and without even listing a reason for the move. I was at/recovering from Anime Central at the time, but the day after I immediatly fixed it to make it a redirect to berserk (manga). I figured this would be a good interm solution, as it would fix the problem of the numerous broken links this admin had created (not to mention the fact that it made going to the manga/anime/game article a 4-step pain in the ass). My edit note stated that I would go to his talk page to explain how that was an un-adminlike move when I had the time, but I didn't have the time for several weeks....
 *  -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

In the meantime, there were no complaints from people looking for information about berserkers at all for several weeks  -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 *  -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I was going to make a big prediction here about how this was a very bad move, and will lead to great page instability, vandalism, and edit/revert/move wars, and that Berserk will never be a stable place untill this article (manga, anime, games etc), but it appears I have been beaten to the punch on this one -- not by an anon IP, but by the same admin from before!! He must not have read our discussion, or the fact that only 2 people who voted "oppose" actually wanted it to be a redirect to berserker, and that I'm sure I speak the majority of the supporters when I say that haveing berserk be it's own redirect page is a non-crazy 2nd best option (though it's amazingly silly, for reasons that will be listed above).  -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

 -Aknorals 13:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Important Announcment
 -Aknorals 21:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Berserk infobox template request
I tried to make an infobox as seen in the Naruto thing footpage. Thought it was an auto process gathering all links in a special layout, but it didn't worked out. Seems like it is necessary to create a specific template... EnthusiastFRANCE 16:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've created a template at Template:Berserk_info. If you want to see how the Naruto template was implemented go to Template:Naruto_info.  To append it to the end of the article, put in  . I didn't populate it cause I don't really know what you have in mind for it. --Miss Ethereal 17:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Merci lady! ^^ i'll figure it out. What i have in mind is simple, to replace the "World of Berserk" section by a similar template. EnthusiastFRANCE 18:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've seen you've made it today Lady! Well done (merci) ^^. EnthusiastFRANCE 17:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * De rien. :P --Miss Ethereal 17:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Berserk Article Getting Way Too Cluttered
This article has improved a lot since I last saw it, but it's getting way too cluttered. Things need to be split up and removed (including some of the stuff in the infoboxes). Soundtracks don't need to be placed in the infobox (there's a section devoted to that already in the "World of Berserk" section and the links in the infobox are generally reserved for links to wikipedia articles (at least that's my understanding). There is also a size warning on this article. --Miss Ethereal 17:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * too long? yeah, maybe a little bit (all good articles are too long anyway). BTW the 138KB Japanese article is way longer! LOL (and there's not a single picture there because of a specific legal issue). "cluttered"? Ok i'll remove the soundtrack in the infobox and replace the trading card game URL. I've used the URL instead of a blank wikilink because of the article not being created yet (it definitely needs to be made). In other hand, there should be some grammar mistakes here and there and some approximative ("Frenglish") phrases must be rewritten in a proper English, as this is not my language (i also use the French punctuation which is probably slightly different than the English one). The article will be splitted up for sure, the recent extensions were made for it (World of Berserk gives the direction). EnthusiastFRANCE 18:32, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Lighter infobox. EnthusiastFRANCE 18:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * By leaps and bounds the English Berserk Wikipedia article has improved substantially (inclusion of Berserk globally instead of just in Japan and America). Just fix up the infobox at the end and the article can look truly professional. However, it is indeed very cluttered and needs to be broken down. But it's definitely getting there. Martisty 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Seconded. The character section needs to move to it's own page, ASAP.  A shorter summary of some of the more important characters (guts, griffith, casca, and some of the newer "family" members such as Isidro and whonot) should be kept on the main page, for reasons of nessity, etc.  The "world of berserk" part looks like it might make a good template... (‽)  Eventually we can do all sorts of other stuff with the characters, such as lists by faction, cronological introduction, or some of the main characters could get their own article e.g. Guts (Berserk), but for now, we should move the character section to it's own article....   Aknorals 11:56, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * So I did some changes and think it looks better. If not, you can always revert my edits.  I moved the character section onto it's own page, leaving the main characters on the main article (Guts, Griffith, and Casca ... I moved Puck into the "Secondary Character" section).  I've also populated the Template:Berserk info with the "World of Berserk" section and replaced the section with the template.  The external links still need to be cleaned up and lots of disambiguation needs to be done on some of the items on the template.  --Miss Ethereal 17:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * good for me. EnthusiastFRANCE 21:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I think there are too many images. Shawnc 02:50, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

undefined   Delta9-4hc (talk) 02:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it shouldve been two articles (anime + Manga) and had central links to characters, images, objects and other things. That wouldve made more sense and kept it shorter. That maybe too much to ask though so I thrid (two years later) that the plot be hacked down a bit... its more of a transcript right now

The difficulty in summarizing Berserk's plot is that it is very long, 30+ volumes and 300+ chapters. The Golden Age Arc section at least seems long to me, but when I look for something to cut I come up with very little. Too many cuts could render the plot incoherent. It comes out to something like one paragraph per volume, which can hardly be considered to be a "transcript", which would contain all dialogue. I gave the Black Swordsman Arc + the Rosine section short shrift because not much of long term significance happens during them. You could give the arcs their own pages but it might be difficult to establish notability. Plus, I don't think forcing people to read four pages to get the complete plot is a good idea. The notion of moving the plot to a separate article seems bizarre to me: Is there any precedent? For this option, you could leave behind a shortened plot and lengthen the separated plot.

I am a bit perplexed as to why some wikipedia editors think the problem with the article is that it is too informative. I think fans of Berserk, particularly those who have only seen the anime, want to find out what they have missed and judge whether to buy the manga separately. A separate section could do this, but all the information would be out of context without the plot summary. Many of the anime-only fans are confused about the anime's ending and can't understand where the author was going. The plot summary is the best way I know to explain the purpose of the Eclipse incident without resorting to opinion.

I don't know how relevant the "The plot summary in this article is too long or detailed compared to the rest of the content. Please edit the article to focus on discussing the work rather than merely reiterating the plot." note is. I created a Themes section to "discuss the work" and balance the article, but other editors axed it. You can't have it both ways. I had hoped that other people would add themes instead. Perhaps the problem with the Themes section is that it needed outside sources. I suspect that most such sources are in Japanese, which I can't read.

I'm not crazy about the idea of having two articles for anime and manga because the anime is too close to being merely a shortened form of the manga. I think that battle has been fought already, and I'm not eager to restart it.

There were images in the characters' page a while back, but somebody axed them because they were not properly justified. If they were brought back with justification, they'd put the page out of balance because there are so many more characters now. Billebrooks (talk) 04:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


 * There is precedent with regard to splitting out plot summaries, and that precedent is that it's a bad idea. However, what you can do (and should do) is give a general summary here (Very general. Should be open ended and require only rare updates.), and a summary of each volume at List of Berserk chapters. For an example of how it's supposed to be done, see List of Bleach chapters, a featured list. --erachima talk 06:46, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Individual character profile ?
I think we could split the characters section into several articles, using the Initial D CHR article as a basic reference. The main/secondary characters short bio could be enhanced with a picture (anime/manga) per character, an alternative name (ex:"Irvind"/"Erwin", "Chuder"/"Tudor"), weapon, status (general/noble/mercenary/elf), possible/known reference for the name ("Pippin" LOFTR, "God Hand CHR" from novels, Balzac from the French author, Minister Voss is appearing in a popular 60's SF BBC series) and CHR inspiration (Guts/Rudger Hauer) from Miura's statements (or argumented highly possible). Also, some special morphing CHR could have their two appearances (GutsTeen/BlackSwordsman,Puck/ChibiPuck, NosferatuZodd/ApostleZod, etc.).

The actual article could be split up as following (inspired from the japanese article):


 * Main CHR (profile): Guts (Black Swordsman), Griffith (reborn), Casca (amnesic)


 * Secondary CHR: those not going in any of the following subsections (appearing in the anime/manga, ex: Gambino)


 * Manga CHR (profile): Puck, Evarella, Schierke, etc (those not appearing in the anime)
 * Secondary Manga CHR (profile): Skull Knight, Flora, etc (the "lesser" importance characters, not the minor -like "Colette" in the anime-, they're too much of them)


 * Original CHR (profile): Balzac, Rita, Charles

GROUPS (profile)
 * God Hand CHR: you know who
 * Band of the Hawk: Corcus, Pippin, Judeau, Rickert, Guts (teen), Casca (teen), Griffith (teen)
 * New Band of the Hawk: Zodd, Grunbeld, etc.
 * House Vandimion: Farnese, Federico, Serpico, etc

MIDLAND NOBLE (profile)
 * Charlotte, the king, the queen, yurius, adonis, etc
 * minister Foss, Raban, etc

TUDOR MAIN CHR (profile)
 * Baron Adon, Shogun Boscon, Gouvernor Guenon, Samson

KUSHAN MAIN CHR (profile)
 * Ganishka, Thapasa, etc

Let me know what do you think of it. EnthusiastFRANCE 08:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * All that is too much to do right now: start off small & leave out the immense content, (nations, classes, etc.) for later. Focus on just creating a seperate page for the significant characters of Berserk before branching off. I also fixed a few misspellings (Kushans, not Khusians, etc.) Martisty 22:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I mostly agree with you people, i know it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta to do it.
 * Actually it's not "Kushan" but "Khushian", Kushan is the English pronunciation (this is your own katakana form ^^), i used the original tadjik word as found on the japanese google. I also found "Kusyan" on the japanese official site of Berserk, BUT ^^ even the Japanese uses different romanizations of their katakana, as described in the Hepburn romanization article. Using Kushan for Khushian is like using "Italy" for "Italia", katakana words doesn't have english origins (even if it's probably the majority in the modern Japanese) exemple "Pan" for bread which is the Spanish word. Same thing for "Gilles" (french name) or "Jill" (english name) or "Volkoff" or "Borkov", the translation of the Russian "off" or "ov" or "ev" or "eff" is not same in all countries. For exemple we (French) use "Gorbatchiov" (or "Gorbatchev") when you (English) use "Gorbachev", or "Oussama Ben Laden" when you use "Usama Bin Laden", what i mean, is we both have to take care of this matter of fact and try to be neutral, as the Japanese katakana is independant from both the French and the English or the Italian or whatsever pronunciation. EnthusiastFRANCE 04:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I type it in that spelling to conform to the English standards on the English Wikipedia page (Kushans links to the article on the empire, whereas Khushian goes nowhere). By the way パン/Pan is taken from the Cantonese word "Pão," the bun. Martisty 07:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * i see your practical use but you can use the write right word and link to another wikilink as ((Kushan|Khushian)) (replacing the parenthesis by brackets). We have to define which word has to be used between the English (true/highly possible) translation, English (comic/anime) official translation or the (thought) original word (talking about the katakana form refers to), this is just like character names. "Khushan" leads to nothing on google, but "khushian" leads to many things including www.khushian.com and in the japanese wikipedia it leads to クシャーナ朝 in the India/Iran/Pakistan area. Khushian is a popular indian name, there are artist and author named khushian (as pointed by google). Here's the "Kusyan" image i mentioned before "Kusyan" on the japanese official site. "Kusyan" is a possible romanization of "Kushian" not "Kushan". The "Kushan" referred sites are english speaking (australia, canada etc.) or french speaking. The Khushian era is designate in Japan as "クシャーン時" with the "シャーン meaning "shian" or shan because of the "シャ" (sya, shia or sha).
 * パン pan is portugese (and spanish) for "bread", french is "pain" . The cantonese simply use the portugese word as well. "Pão" is the portugese word for bread (with the portuguese accent)... Pan and Pao were both introduced in Asia by the portuguese. As you probably know, the portuguese sailors did trade with Taiwan ("Formose" in europe) and the island was known as "Ilha Formosa" which is the portugese word for beautiful... and the portuguese were trading with the japanese as well, in the kyushu area, and then introduced the "pan" there. EnthusiastFRANCE 13:42, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Berserk in Sweden
Sorry Wakuran, you're right the edition available in Sweden is actually the US import (just like in the UK). My source was Berserk in Sweden, it's only available in the Sverige section. They used either "Haftad", either "Pocket" which latter is a book format. Thanks for correcting! ^^ I've also removed the line refering to it in the paragraph. It's pretty bizarre they don't publish Berserk in Scandinavia since berserk is a norsk word. Is there anyone from UK out there? I'm still surprised Berserk is not published locally by Penguin Books ^^ or by one of its alike. EnthusiastFRANCE 03:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

World of Berserk

 * i've added the "100 Years War" reference (historical notion) which is mentioned in the japanese article and has been pointed and kind of studied a while ago in the french article.
 * I found another Biblic reference "Baptism" in the anime so i've added it, and i've splitted the dictionnary into history/religion/philosophy/geography. I think i've heard "koroshi" (murder) which is closer to "sacrifice" than baptism, but someone pointed before me, the US publisher has taken some liberties with the original work. I'll watch the episode again tomorrow to be sure (i have the US edition w/english sub not the french one). If it's koroshi, it doesn't matter, the theology term will be "sacrifice" instead. In Italia the episode is named "Il Sacrifico" (the sacrifice) i don't remember about the English one, i don't think it's "sacrifice" though. Using "baptism" for "murder" is a vivid exemple of what i've pointed (on a previous topic) as a cultural adaptation (localization) due to religion. I mean it's not a mistranlation... there are japanese (by their name!) pro translators, i mean they know the difference between "koroshi" and "jossen" or "senren" (japanese words for baptism) right? or maybe changing a "violent" word by another one "softer" is part of a mild censorship. I let you make your mind by yourself.
 * Actually i've used "theology" instead of "religion" (the biblic references i have pointed on a previous topic) mainly because i like "y" ending words ^^ (so there are all sounding the same it's pretty cool!) but also because it's a wider concept allowing us to host not properly "religious" notions such as beherit (look for its hebrew meaning). I repeat i've created the World of Berserk section a few days ago as a stub, i made it quickly, with rough wikilinks etc. It's up to us, to add terms and refine it all together. So don't be shy, you can add your own notions, we'll setting up things later. Splitting up the dictionary will make easier searches. EnthusiastFRANCE 04:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images
There are, by my count, 19 fair use images in the article. The article is about a series of copyrighted visual artworks so some fair use images are to be expected but I'd try to get them down to maybe five or six. See Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for an example of a featured article with only FU images. Haukur 13:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I've been wanting to remove some of the unneeded images for a while (why are we making "galleries"?), though I fear the second I start doing so, their uploader will just put them back on the page (he's kinda a "trawl", and I scared him off the talk page already, though not before he scared several off whatever editors these articles had left I fear... check out the second archive for that mess...)... some of the more usefull ones would be better off if I made a page on that specific topic, such as the TCG and whatnot...  I think the overview section on the games itself should use only one or two pictures (like maybe just the ps2 one, because it looks cool). I've been spending more time removing whatever horrible innacuracies have accumliated over time/were added by enthusiastFRANCE, and trying to make the article make some ammount of sense... I'm also thinking about changing the layout slightly, like maybe bumping the list of berserk tv episodes subsection into List of Berserk anime episodes or something like that, and putting a section about music in there somwhere, that should help the fact that the the links to the soundtracks are spread throughout the page a bit... I may also want to explain the bit about why the aricle uses the terms "episode", "chapter", and "arc" a certian way, and where those terms come from..... sorry, just thinking outloud.   -Aknorals 20:25, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, and as far as copylefted images go, there's this one that is a "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0" creative commons one, but I don't feel like explaining that one now... -Aknorals 20:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The Attemps at a sequel
The article makes mention that there is no sequel in production and that many still incorrectly believe there to be a sequel in the works….. but it dose not mention that the shows director (whose name I forget) said that he hoped to continue it, perhaps misinterpretations of that statement lead to much of the confusion regarding the alleged sequel.

Also according to the magazine anime insider a considerable amount of effort from many producers and other people involved had been put in to getting a sequel made. And that Kentaro Miura had allegedly said that he felt that there was not enough of the story left to adapt, leading some to assume he simply was making excuses as to why he did not want it continued Leon Evelake 18:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

More U.S. Releases
Dark Horse Comic's website confirms that Volume 14 is about to be unleashed to the public December 6th of this year. This mean that Dark Horse Comics is producing beyond the original scope of the first 13 manga. However, this does not mean that they will go as far as the 31st volume, the most recent issue.--MrDopple 18:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Volume 16 seems to be aviable for pre-order with a release date Mar 28, 2007 Fornadan (t) 23:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Berserk the anime series is going to be broadcasted at 11:00 pm starting 4/26/07 on animax!
hum...are there going to be any cut? I wonder...--Wxyrty 01:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Reply : hey what aru u talking about, I can't find berserk anime in animax!! and its already may I wonder which animax did you mean? is it on japan? or a cable operator?

But it said so right here... http://groups.msn.com/BerserkManga/chapter280281.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=6697--Wxyrty 21:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Technicality
I was looking at the section on Götz von Berlichingen and I find it fascinating. However, the article explicitly mentions that it was his left hand that was blown off. The picture of the prosthetic is right handed. I don't believe the caption is correct, something needs specification or that picture is incorrect. --MrDopple 19:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Anime Title Translation
Does anyone have any sources on the translation for the full anime title? Here, "kenpu denki" is translated as "The Strangeness of War." After checking in several kanji dictionaries and speaking with native Japanese speakers, all of them say the title is actually translated as "Romance of the Sword," or something very similar. Are there any sources for the original translation of "The Strangeness of War?" I'm curious :) -- Divineline 14:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Episode 83
I added a little section on the mysterious Episode 83 in the trivia section, as a "missing episode" seemed notable for inclusion. I've read the series through the tankobon for many years and only recently heard about this episode ... it took some time to track it down and read it too! I do not read the English translations of Berserk ... was it removed from them too? If published, it would appear in the 13th volume. CES 14:12, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


 * It is not in the English Volume in NA either. ryne11 21:04, 03 August 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.2.120.178 (talk)

Genre
Isn't Berserk more of a dark fantasy title than a low fantasy? --Mika1h (talk) 19:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. While sections of the story would fit into dark fantasy, other sections don't fit in to an enormous degree with that genre, given the large number of apostles and other supernatural things. Dark fantasy would be much more fitting.--SalamandraNinja (talk) 22:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

semi-monthy is wrong
"and new episodes are still being released in the semi-monthly (every second and fourth Friday of the month) magazine." Shouldn't this be bi-weekly? The young animal article says biweekly, and I'm not even sure what semi-monthly even means, sounds like every other month. Jopojelly (talk) 01:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * looked it up, semimonthly can be either interpreted as every 2 months or twice a month. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jopojelly (talk • contribs) 02:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Nope. Biweekly only means twice a week, semiweekly only means once every two weeks. It's not ambiguous, just commonly misunderstood. --erachima formerly tjstrf 01:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Not that it matters but is Caska black(african)
Its sort of like the women from Bleach. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Merc88 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Uhg, not this argument again. Look, a dark skin tone doesn't automatically make someone "black."  There are many alternatives that people prefer not to consider because they're desperate to find black characters in anime and manga.


 * In the case of Bleach's Yoruichi, she's more likely to be Southeast Asian, such as the Filipino or Malay peoples that are darker-skinned than the more homogenous and fair-skinned ethnic groups of China and Japan. Bleach features characters of ethnicity more varied than most anime or manga.  There are a number of Caucasians among the Shinigami, Vizard, and Arrancar, as well as several characters who are more definitively Negroid.


 * If you wish to argue that particular point further, please take it here.


 * On the subject of Casca, however, the world of Berserk is greatly like that of medieval Europe; predominantly Caucasian with some contact with the Middle East. Both the Midland and Tudor nations, including the smaller ones around them, appear ethnically homogeneous.  The only non-Caucasian ethnic group to appear in Berserk with any prominence or regularity are the Kushans, who are patterned after the historical Kushans of the Middle East and Central Asia.  Taking this into account, along with our limited view of Casca's personal history, it is more likely that her heritage is mixed, with Kushan blood being the only available source for her dark coloration.  Saying that she's black makes no sense when you consider that there are no black people in the world of Berserk.


 * Ultimately, all this is speculation. Until such time that Casca's ethnicity is officially revealed, no mention need be made of her race, other than perhaps making a small note of her unique appearance compared with the rest of Berserk's limited female cast. -- Son Goharotto (talk) 19:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

"there are no black people in the world of Berserk" Well i hope someone who isn't fan of Berserk would not dare appear on a Berserk wiki. Tome 3, the guy who raped Guts is black. His name is Donovan. Casca is black too no doubt about it.BehelitSkull (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Donovan might be black. He might also be Kushan.  It's never explicitly stated and isn't important.  The same goes for Casca.  Go back to the manga and look at every unnamed member in the Band of the Hawk and you'll find a couple more faces of debatable ethnicity.  Casca's skin tone is irrelevant to the character or this article.  In fact, the only thing that is relevant is the fact that she's the only woman in the Band of the Hawk, which is explicitly stated and also happens to be a key plot point.  Leave your personal opinions out of this. Son Goharotto (talk) 21:21, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

We don't know, it's never been a plot point, and Wikipedia articles cannot include speculation. End of discussion. --erachima talk 00:02, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

I've added the dark skin specifity (not black). It's a notable caracteristic of Casca. And Goharotto please stop with your "personal opinions" thing you're completely wrong. Caska may not be black but she has a dark skin and that makes here immediately recognizable, so it must be in a description of a character. You can't dismissed this just by your side we're on wikipedia here, adding suspicions on someone is just stupid. Oh and erachima excuse me but just who do you think you are to say "end of discussion" ? Please shut the fuck up and i say this to someone jumping on a discussion and thinking his opinion is the final word. No. Also i checked you talk page and found this : "I hope you're not still involved in that Negroid debate - I expect that's still going on" You seem very obsessed with "Negroid"(what an idiotic -racist- word) debates please treat yourself.BehelitSkull (talk) 20:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Negroid is simply scientific adressing of races from african descent. Just like Caucasian and Mongloid. These words are not meant to be racist, though are commonly mistaken for it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.53.150.58 (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * That's right, Casca has dark skin and it is notable. That is an objective description.  But she's not "black" or "African" or whatever, which is what I object to, because those are judgments based on personal opinion, not canonical information.
 * And I don't know what you mean by "adding suspicions on someone." The only thing I can be accused of is nitpicking and since when was that a crime?  Maybe you're the one who should chill out with the insults and aggression. -- Son Goharotto (talk) 14:48, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Plot solution?
I have switched over the chapter list to the graphic novel format used by featured list of manga chapters pages. This format includes a summery section, and I think that much of the plot could be moved there. AndrewTJ31 (talk) 18:57, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Several attempts have been made to replace the overlong plot with a reasonable summary, but it seems that registered users are stalling any improvement by reverting back to the overlong version, while simultaneously asking contributors to solve the length issue. Can someone manage this properly?
 * Since some seem to be particularly attached to this piece of literature, a solution could be to move this overlong summary to its own dedicated page, with a direct link to it. Apparently moving it to the manga chapter summary side is not working either. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.153.100.100 (talk) 23:44, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Gottfried von Berlichingen
Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe not - I don't have any sources to back it up. It's interesting that the main character is a one-handed swordsman with an intricate metallic prosthetic named "Guts," and Gottfried von Beerlichingen is also known as "Götz of the Iron Hand", a nickname derived from his remarkable steel prosthesis -- which actually resembles Guts' hand. Atypicaloracle (talk) 00:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Berserk Saga Project
Some of you might be aware of that already, an official project to create animation films of all the chapters of Berserk has been revealed. The first film will be released in Japan within 2011 reportedly. I could confirm the date of 2 articles reporting this news (http://anime.about.com/b/2011/01/05/new-berserk-series-a-feature-film-project.htm, http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0029442, Japanese website) as 2011 January 5 and 7, but maybe official announcement were made earlier than that. You can watch commercial films at the Berserk official (http://www.younganimal.com/berserk/cm/index.html). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shigerello (talk • contribs) 06:40, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm wondering if there's a source for "Music by Susumu Hirasawa" in the film info box. It was added in this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berserk_%28manga%29&diff=439802786&oldid=439767884. The other info there is all quite well known, but I haven't seen any official source for who's doing the music. I know we'd all hope for it to be Hirasawa though :> . Also "Released" should be changed to "Release Date", though I can't figure out how to edit that. — DrPepperPro (talk) 07:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Music credit is on the film's ANN page; you are welcome to find any other available sources. Tried editing proper released date tag, but this only seems to work for general film infoboxes. Ode2joy (talk) 16:36, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Review(s)
Mania.com vol. 33 --KrebMarkt (talk) 15:10, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

New Pages
I added "new page" boxes for the sections "Belheit" (which is very detailed for something not directly related to the setup of the series) and "Anime" (there are too many subsections and it is so long it deserves its own page). Is there anyone who has objections? Ode2joy (talk) 16:36, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Historical References removed.
I removed this because it's all unsourced original research. Leaving it here in case you want to incorporate sections of this somewhere else. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 07:17, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Historical references
Götz von Berlichingen: A German knight and leader of a band of mercenary soldiers, with a reputation as a Robin Hood figure. In 1504, his right arm was struck off by enemy cannon fire and a prosthetic iron arm was developed to replace it. Guts' iron arm, in his original character concept, is very similar to Götz's iron arm kept in the Nürnberg Museum. Miura stated in an interview that he created Guts independently and did not learn about von Berlichingen until after several volumes of the manga had been published.

Emperor Gaiseric: The Emperor Gaiseric alluded to in volume 10 is based on the actual King Genseric, who ruled the Vandals' kingdom in Europe in the 5th century. He was famed as a brilliant general who was seen as a threat even to the Roman Empire. In the manga, Gaiseric is said to have created a vast empire, similar to the Romans, that was destroyed by God's wrath. He banded together his small tribe and brought them great fame as a kingdom that exercised its authority in the Mediterranean region. It is hinted that Emperor Gaiseric survived his fallen empire in the form of the Skull Knight, a recurring character who aids Guts and stands in opposition to the God Hand.

Emperor Ganishka: The Emperor Ganishka, working as Griffith's enemy in Berserk, was based on King Kanishka, who ruled over the actual Kushan Empire, a vast empire in India and Central Asia during the 2nd century. He was also a profound Buddhist and adorned his empire with its respective figures and promoted it vigorously. Like his real-life counterpart, Ganishka also decorates his palace with famous Buddhist and Hindu figures, but has demonized them to suit his nature.

What's with the "citation needed" next to the genres?
What counts as appropriate citation for a work's genre? Isn't reading the damn thing enough to tell? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.98.170.17 (talk) 11:36, 9 March 2013 (UTC)