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Really makes me think about the first ep of Ash vs Evil Dead. Ash is totally just the modern Guts.
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Zerilan posted:Really makes me think about the first ep of Ash vs Evil Dead. Ash is totally just the modern Guts. I...never made that connection, haha.
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Apr 7, 2019 14:48
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I just noticed that Guts' hips are way too high up relative to hers, it looks like he's penetrating her belly button.
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Apr 7, 2019 15:07
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Carpator Diei posted:I just noticed that Guts' hips are way too high up relative to hers, it looks like he's penetrating her belly button. This too also tracks
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Apr 7, 2019 15:51
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Out of character since Guts never fucks
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Apr 7, 2019 16:39
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He and Casca got down. Guts fucks, deal with it.
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Apr 7, 2019 16:48
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Where are those colorized pages from?
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Apr 7, 2019 16:56
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Zerilan posted:Really makes me think about the first ep of Ash vs Evil Dead. Ash is totally just the modern Guts.
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Apr 8, 2019 01:36
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lezard_valeth posted:does the manga really start with this or am I missing something Was this in color? I don't remember this being in color and the rereleased deluxe edition I just got is in black and white.
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Apr 8, 2019 01:47
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Imma go ahead and guess that back in the day this was a very popular forum shitpost reaction meme
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Apr 8, 2019 04:13
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Looking back at that image, it looks so weird the way its shaded and angled. Like he has 2 upper lips, but that's supposed to be teeth.
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Apr 8, 2019 05:15
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Crabtree posted:Looking back at that image, it looks so weird the way its shaded and angled. Like he has 2 upper lips, but that's supposed to be teeth. To be fair, looking back at that image it looks like somebody's poorly traced fanart so it's not surprising the shading is a bit wonky
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Apr 8, 2019 09:53
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lezard_valeth posted:Imma go ahead and guess that back in the day this was a very popular forum shitpost reaction meme Oh, sweet, I love first time reader commentary. Please keep posting and enjoy the wild ride that is Berserk! I'm jealous you get to read it for the first time. Berserk is real good.
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Apr 8, 2019 09:58
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I have a question. Yes, I know they're not the same thing (other than I guess having a very frustrating anime ending), but it's something that I need a mini-census because of a talk I was having with a friend. How many of you folks read Claymore and what did you think about it?
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Apr 8, 2019 12:23
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I stopped reading it somewhere around the time where the big centaur dude gets killed I remember that I had a rather bad impression. Everyone had the same loving face, even the dudes. (That old hood-wearing guy had the worst case of babyface, seriously.) I was annoyed how many monsters came down to just a mess of tentacles doing incomprehensible stuff at incredible speed. (Now there's a selling point.) And the sword techniques were kinda lame. So, basically... Very samey, hard to tell characters apart, some of the monster designs were the only real highlight. To be fair, I never bothered going back to it after that, so who knows how accurate that is 
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Apr 8, 2019 12:28
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Elentor posted:I have a question. Yes, I know they're not the same thing (other than I guess having a very frustrating anime ending), but it's something that I need a mini-census because of a talk I was having with a friend. I think that manga ka has a serious thing for amputation.
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Apr 8, 2019 12:49
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Elentor posted:I have a question. Yes, I know they're not the same thing (other than I guess having a very frustrating anime ending), but it's something that I need a mini-census because of a talk I was having with a friend. It starts out interesting but not really all that special before super ramping up into a series of pretty great/rad arcs, peters out for a while, and then comes back to finish pretty strong. I liked it quite a bit even if it didn't exactly win any all-time-great shounen awards. It did what it set out to do and did so well enough by the end which is a lot more than some manga series can say.
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Apr 8, 2019 13:02
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Yeah when I said "not the same thing" I was thinking about the fact that Claymore is a very shounen shounen half disguised as a seinen but that goes away very fast. Still we were talking and got curious to see how much of the "dark fantasy" vibe would cross over between two very different stories from the pov of Berserk readers.
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Apr 8, 2019 13:11
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I read and enjoyed Claymore; I think it's fair to say that superficially it has a similar tone, but I think it lacks the sense of overarching design which makes Berserk feel so interesting. It's good and worth reading IMO, but not the sort of classic that I'd go out of my way to recommend.
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Apr 8, 2019 14:40
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GoldenNugget posted:Was this in color? I don't remember this being in color and the rereleased deluxe edition I just got is in black and white. those first few pages were originally in color and you can tell because of how different they look in black and white. I'm not aware of any English release that actually retained the color though
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Apr 8, 2019 14:55
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Elentor posted:I have a question. Yes, I know they're not the same thing (other than I guess having a very frustrating anime ending), but it's something that I need a mini-census because of a talk I was having with a friend. I'll echo what most people have said, I really liked it (and read it about the same time I got into Berserk) but they're tonally quite different. I would recommend it though.
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Apr 8, 2019 18:36
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Elentor posted:I have a question. Yes, I know they're not the same thing (other than I guess having a very frustrating anime ending), but it's something that I need a mini-census because of a talk I was having with a friend. I liked the first half of Claymore, then after the timeskip it kind of started feeling like the author was trying to rush though their planned plot points and just get the manga done with. The second half came off as a jumbled mess where poo poo happens non-stop with zero downtime to give the events any sense of weight. So overall mixed feelings. Would have liked it a lot more if it were paced better
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I remember not liking the Claymore anime, just lots of power up sound effects before an attack happened.
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I read Claymore a few months ago when Shonen Jump did their digital format change. It started out really badass, then it hit a rhythm where it kept repeating the same plot beats for the last 50+ chapters and I only finished it because I'd started it. Not because it was still fun to read. Pretty sure the final arc tumbled down the stairs in a pile of cartoon limbs and power level spikes.
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Apr 8, 2019 21:28
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Claymore actually ended pretty well. After the main character completed her journey to do what she set out to do from the outset, the story was done and it didn't need to go off to the other area with even bigger villains.
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Apr 8, 2019 21:39
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Radish posted:Claymore actually ended pretty well. I liked claymore a lot and I recognize that ending as one of the best parts.
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Apr 8, 2019 21:41
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The final battle is legit one of the best parts of the whole manga, there was a whole lot of nothing leading up to it but it was worth the wait IMO.
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Apr 8, 2019 22:31
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 Knowing what will eventually happen, going through Guts childhood trauma and his meeting with the band of the hawks is a really  experience
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Apr 8, 2019 22:36
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Elentor posted:How many of you folks read Claymore and what did you think about it? Really enjoyed until the timeskip where it started to get a bit confused. Some of the monster designs were amazing. Helen is #1 champion and for a "Really 700 years old" cliche Riful was pretty cool.
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Pewdiepie posted:I think that manga ka has a serious thing for amputation. There's a reason the old thread was named "A farewell to arms"
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Apr 8, 2019 23:17
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I think if Miura had time travel to change how he did things, the opening of Berserk would be wildly different to the point of it sharing basically no panels.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:26
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Guts has a lot of issues around sex given what he’s witnessed and experienced. Using sex to trap an apostle, as well as making him super vulnerable, seems wildly out of character.
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Apr 9, 2019 01:49
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 This was one of my favorite parts in the anime and it looks even more sick in the manga due to the shading. I love you Guts, you crazy rear end maniac
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Ccs posted:Guts has a lot of issues around sex given what he’s witnessed and experienced. Using sex to trap an apostle, as well as making him super vulnerable, seems wildly out of character. I imagine if Miura could redo it, he'd have some other normal guy having sex, the apostle transforms and almost eats him, and then Guts suddenly appears when he shoves his arm into the apostle's mouth and blows it up, and the normal guy is freaking out.
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I can see it as Guts hunting her, she senses him and she proposes sex in some isolated place or wherever it was like most of her prey. Gut either accepts an easy way to kill her without involving anyone else or probably trying to attack some sort of bordello and whatever guards they could involve to kill one apostle. His hatred probably overtook any issues he should have had with this kind of scenario.
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Apr 9, 2019 02:53
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the opening few pages makes no sense to me in terns of guts' character but it does a great job telling the reader what they're in for in conclusion, guts loving the demon that murdered corkus is a land of contrasts
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Apr 9, 2019 03:12
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Corkus being the first to be avenged is fair.
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Apr 9, 2019 03:49
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If he didn't have the mark there would probably be a lot of dead prostitutes until he found her. But then again, sex workers were gonna die in Berserk in a lot of other bad ways too.
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Apr 9, 2019 04:10
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sex workers have a better life expectancy in berserk than any other demographic
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I am almost done with the Golden Age arc and so far the only prostitute that has died is Shisu, who died writhing in pain due to the plague, holding the hand of her adoptive son. Which I consider a peaceful death in comparison considering everyone else so far has died by massive blood loss due to limb severing, skull crushed by BFS or just outright cut in half.
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