Editing Berserk (section)

== Grievances ==
[[File:Haters_gonna_hate_berserk.jpeg‎|200px|thumb|left|Haters gonna hate]]
The author, having realized it's too boring to continue the story with only Guts, his tinkle fairy and his mentally ill waifu, decided to "soften" up the manga a little bit by introducing a loli witch name Schierke and another tinkle fairy from Peter Pan. This causes rage among the fanbase, since they believe Berserk is no longer about [[Awesome|a manly, badass mercenary with his vengeance against his former comrade]], but instead adding side stories about the loli and the shota, even making Schierke naked in front of Guts for some fan service. But since we have seen mutated children rape each other to death with wasp stingers <!-- Was that supposed to be English? --> and countless instances of rape and Casca tentacle porn, we can say the author is also a rule 34 fanboy. Besides, it's not like Guts lost his manliness anyway, since he's still the only one who gets shit done most of the time. And it's not like Schierke isn't a help, given she can stop Guts from losing his mind when using the Berserk armor.

The manga is shifting its tone from low fantasy grim dark to high fantasy Nobledark over time. This is made obvious by the tone shift after Puck reintroduction, Peekaf shit, Tower of Doom and culminating in him acquiring the broken-as-shit Chaos-tainted Power Armor. He slowly opens his heart to his new comrades, possibly ending the story in DBZesque 6-volume fighting scene. Basically Miura is moving up from Riddle of Steel, to oWoD, DnD 3.5 and finally finished in Exalted (presumably so Guts can stand a chance in the penultimate fight against the Godhand). Please remember, of course, that in Berserk, just because things are Nobledark doesn't mean things still aren't screwed for everyone, as now the world is populated by magical monsters like giants who will destroy/rape everything in their path. Mainly humans. (Anyway, remember what happened when we got attached to guts's friends, only to see them being horribly teared apart. Never get attach on berserk, is the first rule.)

It should be noted that Miura is a long time fan of shoujo genre (manga and anime aimed for girls) and his writing and art often uses the shoujo style so this really isn't a surprise to anyone.

Of course, none of these other grievances even compare with the biggest one: The long hiatuses or otherwise long periods of time between chapters.  As it turns out, this is because Miura was training an entire studio of artists to take over production for him and compiling the series end notes, as Miura had a rare heart condition so he was making contingency plans in case he didn't live to finish his work.