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Miura admitted in an interview that he came up with the surfboard-sized sword as a gimmick to attract viewers. Any explanation of its properties probably came after the fact.
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Of course it's a gimmick, it's completely impractical from any standpoint, not to mention the fact that even if you build a machine that could handle it like Guts does, the handle would snap off basically immediately.
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Jul 13, 2013 01:47
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Nuh-uh, it's totally magic.
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Jul 13, 2013 01:53
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Wikipedia called it a Zanbato, which is of course a fictional sword. Zodd's sword on the other hand is a Heavy Ram-Dao, designed to behead sacrificial animals with one blow. I guess that's why Zodd refers to it as a 'horse sword'.   He's gone through a few different ones during the series. 
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Jul 13, 2013 05:34
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Berserk is, if nothing else, a really cool resource of bizarre medieval weapons. Like all those crazy swords and spears used by the Indian type empire a few volumes back.
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Jul 13, 2013 07:07
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I so want to see more of those dudes. It also spurred one of Guts' coolest/dumbest moves: getting struck by lightning on purpose
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Jul 13, 2013 09:27
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I was surprised to find out that all the weapons Silat used were in fact real. Those Urumi look real nasty to fight with.
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Jul 13, 2013 10:10
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Soulcleaver posted:Dave Sim did his own comic for almost 30 years without having a mental breakdown. Then again, Sim is a paranoid schizophrenic and the writing (but not art) in Cerebus went to poo poo about 2/3 of the way through. I have more faith in Miura though; he's actually a sane and reasonable person despite his totally insane art. I'd say Sim ran out ideas after church and state then just complete snapped early into the 200s of Cerebus.
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Jul 14, 2013 00:53
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side_burned posted:I'd say Sim ran out ideas after church and state then just complete snapped early into the 200s of Cerebus. 
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Jul 14, 2013 00:58
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DamnGlitch posted:It probably has to do with working on the same piece of fiction for 20 years. That's some serious poo poo. It wouldn't be so bad if there was more of a clear direction than the really not terribly compelling 'lets get to elf island!" (never get to elf island) thing. I think this rarely turns out well; no matter how obsessive, you'd just get bored of thinking about your awesome story after about 15 years, wouldn't you? The Lord of the Rings doesn't count, because Tolkien spent like 20 years creating his own imaginary world as a way to stay sane after world war 1, and then wrote stories in that world. Also, Cerebus! Haven't heard that mentioned in like a decade (in high school a cousin of mine was into comics and had some 300 page Cerebus arc in his collection.) How good is good/ how crazy is Sim?
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Nebakenezzer posted:How good is good/ how crazy is Sim? You'll be wanting to read this: http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/sim.html quote:"Emotion, whatever the Female Void would have you believe, is not a more Exalted State than is Thought. In point of fact, I think Emotion is animalistic, serpent-brain stuff. Animals do not Think, but I am reasonably certain that they have Emotions. 'Eating this makes me Happy.' 'When my fur is all wet and I am cold, it makes me Sad." "Ooo! Puppies!' 'It makes me Excited to Chase the Ball!' Reason, as any husband can tell you, doesn't stand a chance in an argument with Emotion... this was the fundamental reason, I believe, that women were denied the vote for so long." The man is out of his loving gourd.
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Autonomous Monster posted:You'll be wanting to read this: http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/sim.html He kinda busted his brain on LSD a little bit and his drama with wives /girlfriends morphed into a very bizarre personal philosophy. If anything i'd say his weird misogyny and cosmology of thought add some strange sad pathos to his epic, it comes off as vividly delirious and crazy.
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Jul 16, 2013 22:25
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PLEASE, someone make a separate thread for just the actual manga. I'm tired of visiting this sub-forum for info on future Berserk releases, only to find 2+ pages of lovely opinions on the size and shape of the sword in the latest movie.
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Just get an email notification. It will let you know when a new chapter is ready. And then you check back here for the cool discussion!
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Jul 17, 2013 03:05
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Back on the lovely discussion on the size and shape of the sword, a professional blacksmith made a copy of the six-foot Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII out of aluminum and steel. It is of course so unwieldy that it's difficult to hold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogheZdAO18 An all-iron Dragonslayer would be impossible to move.
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Jul 17, 2013 09:40
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I saw a similar video like that. But I still couldn't remember if anyone messed with the Dragonslayer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejveUjpw8U
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Jul 17, 2013 10:01
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Dragonslayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR1gCSO9NB0
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Jul 17, 2013 10:18
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Interesting. The Ram Dao swords used by Zodd are in real life 20-30" long, not very big for a 10' tall guy. I guess they exaggerated the size in the manga so they wouldn't look tiny compared to the 70" Dragonslayer. They are impressive looking weapons, though.   
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Jul 17, 2013 11:33
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also, Cerebus! Haven't heard that mentioned in like a decade (in high school a cousin of mine was into comics and had some 300 page Cerebus arc in his collection.) How good is good/ how crazy is Sim? Anymore Cerebus chat should go into the indie comics thread in BSS.
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I just had a semi decent plausible thought about how Miura could end this. Not sure if we're supposed to spoiler completely random speculation, someone pm me angrily if I don't need to. So after 5 years they finally make it to elf island. The Godhand are supernatural demonic entities with so far seemingly no balance check, there is only super evil. The elf king is the supernatural good, and the Godhand threw a big log of poo poo into the balance of the world. Elf King gets empowered by all the poo poo they threw out, and super juices Guts ala apostles, just in the opposite way with nature magic. It balances out and suddenly Guts has a plausible chance of fighting Griffith, atleast to kill his rear end out of the regular world. Albeit its still a hosed suicide mission. Seems somewhat plausible to me, if a little cliche.
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Jul 22, 2013 02:14
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A real mercenary from the middle ages, with an iron hand, named Götz?
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Jul 22, 2013 02:39
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Supposedly Muira had no idea about this historical figure, and it's just an incredible coincidence. It's hard to believe, but that's what he has claimed in interviews.
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:I just had a semi decent plausible thought about how Miura could end this. Not sure if we're supposed to spoiler completely random speculation, someone pm me angrily if I don't need to.
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Jul 22, 2013 05:04
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How long has the break been at this point? I wonder if he's going for a full year. 
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Jul 22, 2013 08:31
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Hmm, the last one came out right after christmas, so it's been about seven months now.
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Jul 22, 2013 13:24
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I'm amazed he kept going after so many years. I thought he would just drop it eventually like the Priest manga author did. Actually, speaking of Priest whatever happened to the author? Did he really just stop or was there something else going on?
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Red Mundus posted:I'm amazed he kept going after so many years. I thought he would just drop it eventually like the Priest manga author did. Hahaha, I'd love to read peoples reactions if he just quit. Sad as it would be to see Berserk go away, it would be just as entertaining reading all the forums seething with impotent rage.
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I don't think he'd get away with quitting, but if there's no chapter by the end of next month I'm just going to assume he went out like Clyde Templeton from American Dad and his body has yet to be found.
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Jimmybob posted:Hahaha, I'd love to read peoples reactions if he just quit. Sad as it would be to see Berserk go away, it would be just as entertaining reading all the forums seething with impotent rage. It would be kind of a lovely thing for him to do if he just quit and never said anything about it. I'd be alright with it if he revealed where he wanted to take the story.
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Oh don't mistake my words, I have no assumptions that he's quitting. I was merely fantasizing about nerd rage, that's all. I wanna see Guts chop Griffith up someday, myself.
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Jul 23, 2013 02:11
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Maybe he'll eventually pull a Dark Tower and just poo poo out a terrible ending to be done with things. Also, is there any way of actually getting to read a professional translation of the manga without paying ridiculous amounts of money? I was hoping Dark Horse would have the manga available for purchase in electronic form, but no dice. And the fan translations are really, really bad sometimes.
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Aug 6, 2013 10:22
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The worst part is it would take 1-2 years to figure out he did in fact quit.
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http://blog.livedoor.jp/shonenmanga/archives/30868454.html Miura has been told by his doctor to go into long-term rest and recovery. Berserk on indefinite Hiatus.
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Popehoist posted:http://blog.livedoor.jp/shonenmanga/archives/30868454.html I knew Guts would never get to Elf Island.
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Aug 23, 2013 13:17
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I hope he'll be okay. I wouldn't be surprised if he worked himself ragged. Berserk always was one of the most impressively drawn comics I've ever seen.
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notZaar posted:I hope he'll be okay. I wouldn't be surprised if he worked himself ragged. Berserk always was one of the most impressively drawn comics I've ever seen. According to commenters on that post, it's apparently fake, so 
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Whether it's real or not, he deserves a break. We may rag on him for taking 6 months to put out a chapter, but he's still the hardest-working man in the industry and everything he puts out is utterly gorgeous. I better see the dragon slayer cutting Griffith into bloody chunks by 2020, though, or I might go on a berserker rage myself.
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Soulcleaver posted:Whether it's real or not, he deserves a break. We may rag on him for taking 6 months to put out a chapter, but he's still the hardest-working man in the industry and everything he puts out is utterly gorgeous. Why would you say that? Because his art is good and very detailed? He only puts out a half dozen chapters a year if we're lucky, there are dozens of people that pump out 20 pages a week with fantastic art. If hes legitimately ill/hurt then he should take the time off and heal, but saying hes the hardest working person in the industry is laughable.
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Aug 23, 2013 22:20
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Despite the insane detail of his art, it's hard to call Miura the hardest working guy when you have people like Murata Yuusuke running around.
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Given Miura's glacial pace and detail creep, would anyone really object to Berserk becoming a light novel series at this point? I'm sure he has the story laid out in his head, writing it out with a ghostwriter would give us the entire story in a fraction of the time. And Miura could still do 5 or 10 illustrations per book of key points. At this point, where drawing the story has threatened his very health, I'd rather get Berserk in prose than no Berserk at all.
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