Berserk

Not compensating for anything.

Berserk is a manga written and illustrated by Miura Kentaro. It has seen two anime adaptations of the same name.

The series follows the adventures of the protagonist Guts, who does battle against the forces of darkness with a really, REALLY big sword. In fact, it's probably the only anime/manga in existence where the other characters actually notice that someone's sword is unrealistically large, often pointing out "Fuck me, that's a big swoOH GOD IT CUT ME IN HALF BLARGH". It is, in fact, so large that it cannot actually be used while mounted because swinging it makes the horse fall over. Guts himself can only use it by virtue of training with oversized swords since he was a small child, in combination with his titanic (and possibly supernatural) strength.

Chronologically, the story's beginnings are simple gritty medieval violence, following the exploits of a band of mercenaries as they make a name for themselves in the world and acquire power and glory. It swiftly descends into oh-god-what-the-fuck horror when evil deities and their monstrous "apostles" get in on the action, and via a roundabout series of events Guts ends up hunting down his old companion now ascended to godhood, determined to get revenge for his betrayal. It is all magnificently grimdark.

Just to add to the grimdarkness he has a waifu that got rhaped by his best friend that turned into a demon. His waifu then had a miscarriage from all the trauma and his kid's fetus comes back to haunt him every day. Later in the series his kid comes back looking about the age of 3-8 years old and saves him and his friends by using terrifyingly effective abilities on par with lofn. Then said kid disappears again leaving a puzzled Guts and a slightly distressed but still insane waifu

The series has a massive following both in Japan and in the west and has been running for almost two decades. The author, Miura, is well known for taking extended breaks from production, and given his advancing age and his recent statement that he considers the series about one-third complete, has led to fears by many that he will kick the bucket long before he actually finishes the series.

According to some fa/tg/uys Guts is one of the lost Primarchs. Some actually speculate that Guts is Angron's son. Or Even Angron himself back in the day,or some shit.

/tg/ greatly enjoys it because it's essentially a fucked-up mix of WARMACHINE and D&D 3.5.

trolling

The author,Kentarou Miura, after realize it is too boring to continue the story with only Gutts, his tinkle fairy and his mental retarded waifu, he decided to soften up the manga a little bit by introduce some a loli witch name Schierke and another tinkle fairy from peter pan. This is however causing rage among the fanbase, since they believe Berserk is no longer about a manly, badass mercenary with his vengeance against his homo looking former comrade. But instead adding side stories about the loli that suppose to make the manga humorous, even making Schierke naked in front of Gutts for some fan services. But since we have seen burning dead children shove eachother's assshole with their bee needle and a pyromaniac joah of arc wannabe who almost gets rape by a horse, we can say the author is just fucking with his fan.

See Also

-Dark Souls