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Hakkesshu posted:Berserk is so unique in that the general message seems to be "the world is hosed and everything is horrible forever, your worst nightmares are true and no one is ever going to live a happy life or afterlife, but hey you shouldn't give up!" There's a really good post in the five-plus year old thread in ADTRW that goes into it, but the biggest theme in Berserk is fate and destiny vs humanistic free will. The fact that this is expressed via a monster of a man (who actually gets weaker as a result of making friends!) with a six foot sword murdering the living gently caress out of demons is just icing on the cake.
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Next-Jin Engine posted:I don't know if it's due to everyone already knowing the author's work by heart or anything, but I feel like Naoki Urasawa at least deserves a mention or footnote. I feel that his works are incredibly accessible to western audiences: Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto (especially Pluto), and Billy Bat. It's because only two of those were licensed in English until recently, or were out of print, and the ones you couldn't get were the easiest sells. Monster and Master Keaton are fantastically easy sells ("a doctor saves the life of a boy who grows up to be a serial killer and hunts him down while being pursued by the police" and "it's like Indiana Jones but if he was an insurance investigator and also MacGuyver" are pretty easy elevator pitches). Not that Pluto and 2*CB aren't great books but they're a little harder to convince people to read than the other two.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:47
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I just read all of Hideout in one poop. Good rear end comic.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:01
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Captain Invictus posted:Then recommend it. Actually Akumetsu is stupid and good all the way through the series and I'm glad I finally made the push to finish it a year or so ago.
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