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This was a great chapter. What an awesome setup to Griffith's stronghold. It definably has that final boss setting. Even more than the crazy shit that happens during Eclipse.
I wonder how many more arcs we have until Falconia.
Ad for OP and Berserk… I can't really choose one over the other. Both are epic under different setting and moods.
I just got back into this after stopping for 2 years
and now I can't put it down
I've read about 10 volumes in the past 2 weeks. going from vol 17 to 29
I didn't really like the hyper violence and gatts just wandering around killing people.(stopped during first 3 volumes, and again after flashback during demon fairy thing), but when he's with comrades I find him to be a really likeable character. Once Farneze and everyone joined him I couldn't put it down.
I just got back into this after stopping for 2 years
and now I can't put it down
I've read about 10 volumes in the past 2 weeks. going from vol 17 to 29
I didn't really like the hyper violence and gatts just wandering around killing people.(stopped during first 3 volumes, and again after flashback during demon fairy thing), but when he's with comrades I find him to be a really likeable character. Once Farneze and everyone joined him I couldn't put it down.
Yeah, Gatts current group is just damn awesome. Its even more intresting that Strawhats is for me.
I really enjoy every panel that is viewing them, and while these last chapters have had an amazing art they have been bit dissapointing.
Yeah Griffith is really shining and he is so powerful and messiah like and Ganeshas death was spectacular and forging of new world is great it still is not as intresting as following Gatts group.
I really hope that in next chapter we get back to that ship and its trip towards Elfheim…
Out of everyone in guts group serpicio (sp?) is the member I liked the most since he was able to out smart guts twice.
Plus, he has the power of wind. Which is awesome 
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@Kairouseki:
Plus, he has the power of wind. Which is awesome
Bet you like Naruto too.
And you'd lose that bet. Where's my hundred dollars?
So if I own a copy of a single volume of Berserk, am I allowed to complain about any chapter? Or just the volume? What if somebody else paid for it?
Anyone is allowed to complain about anything they want, to be critical and debate merits on something, as long as they have some valid reasoning behind them.
"Its been a while since the last chapter and I would have liked more dialouge, and for the story to get back to Guts, but at least the art is still the same high standard it has always been" is a legitimate critique.
"I feel the time I've invested already in Naruto has been wasted, as it is failing the earlier expectations it built on every level of storytelling, characterization, and art" is a legitimate complaint.
Anyone complaining "I waited all this time for a chapter and it was SILENT so it sucks!" when they neither put money into it, or waited solely for this one chapter to the neglect of everything else in their lives, while also overlooking all the storytelling and quality art that IS in the chapter, is annoying.
Or "Why did it take him this long to make? Why can't he do it FASTER?" coming from people who have never written or drawn a comic in their lives, let alone one at the long term calibre and quality of Berserk, are also being pissants.
Critique if you have something to say, make note of how the wait affects your overall enjoyment and the pace. Wish in a wistful manner "I wish it would come out faster, because I enjoy it so much." But whining about how it inconveniances you while you haven't contributed in any way to the product, when you have no concept of how much time and effort needs to go into that level of storytelling and art, is just arrogant, selfish, and bothersome.
I dont think it should take 3 months to draw a chapter. And even though I think he isnt as bad as Togashi (it should never take a year for one chapter) I still think he takes much longer than needed. What is that like a page a week? If thats his job and something he loves it just seems strange to me these last few chapters like its being forced or something. And another comparison id like to make is Takehiko from Vagabond. He seems to be releasing at a pretty regular basis and his art is amazing as well.
I dont think it should take 3 months to draw a chapter. And even though I think he isnt as bad as Togashi (it should never take a year for one chapter) I still think he takes much longer than needed. What is that like a page a week? If thats his job and something he loves it just seems strange to me these last few chapters like its being forced or something. And another comparison id like to make is Takehiko from Vagabond. He seems to be releasing at a pretty regular basis and his art is amazing as well.
Typically 4 or 5 chapters come out in a row. Rampant Idolmaster jokes aside, it seems unlikely that Muira spends 3 months drawing one chapter. Given the pace he has ALWAYS had, for the last 20 years, it probably takes him 3 weeks to draw an average chapter, 4 on the crazily detailed massive army sequences stuff. (Which is the normal pace for ANY artist that doesn't have assistants, a page a day, and is insane for his detail level.)
That isn't quite the pace of the bi-weekly Young ANimal magazine. So rather than have him on Hiatuses every other issue, a MAGAZINE break occurs every couple months, so he can work and get ahead. And while the new chapters are coming out every two weeks he keeps working, until the mag catches up again.
I would assume that over the last 3 months, he has been working on several chapters. 307 was the return chapter, 308 will be in the next issue. He's probably already/nearly done with 309 and working on 310.
Same with HxH. He's NOT taking 9 months to draw a chapter, he's taking 9 months to draw 10 chapters, which is the point the magazine releases it again. Building a buffer and guaranteeing sequential releases for a couple issues at a time.
Just because he isn't being printed doesn't mean the artist isn't working during the hiatuses. The entire point of skip months is to catch up/get ahead/safeguard the schedule.
@Kairouseki:
Plus, he has the power of wind. Which is awesome
if it wasn't for him some orange jumpsuit ninja would of made me dislike wind element powers.
@robbybevard:
Anyone is allowed to complain about anything they want, to be critical and debate merits on something, as long as they have some valid reasoning behind them.
"Its been a while since the last chapter and I would have liked more dialouge, and for the story to get back to Guts, but at least the art is still the same high standard it has always been" is a legitimate critique.
"I feel the time I've invested already in Naruto has been wasted, as it is failing the earlier expectations it built on every level of storytelling, characterization, and art" is a legitimate complaint.
Anyone complaining "I waited all this time for a chapter and it was SILENT so it sucks!" when they neither put money into it, or waited solely for this one chapter to the neglect of everything else in their lives, while also overlooking all the storytelling and quality art that IS in the chapter, is annoying.
Or "Why did it take him this long to make? Why can't he do it FASTER?" coming from people who have never written or drawn a comic in their lives, let alone one at the long term calibre and quality of Berserk, are also being pissants.
Critique if you have something to say, make note of how the wait affects your overall enjoyment and the pace. Wish in a wistful manner "I wish it would come out faster, because I enjoy it so much." But whining about how it inconveniances you while you haven't contributed in any way to the product, when you have no concept of how much time and effort needs to go into that level of storytelling and art, is just arrogant, selfish, and bothersome.
I draw a manga series weekly (used to scan it until my scanner broke) it's not great quality but I do it anyway so I have high respect for any artist that can maintain any type of schedule. Plus with the artwork we get from berserk muira needs those 3 months to put that much effort into each panel and page spread.
I dont think it should take 3 months to draw a chapter. And even though I think he isnt as bad as Togashi (it should never take a year for one chapter) I still think he takes much longer than needed. What is that like a page a week? If thats his job and something he loves it just seems strange to me these last few chapters like its being forced or something. And another comparison id like to make is Takehiko from Vagabond. He seems to be releasing at a pretty regular basis and his art is amazing as well.
Vagabond is amazing
@robbybevard:
Typically 4 or 5 chapters come out in a row. Rampant Idolmaster jokes aside, it seems unlikely that Muira spends 3 months drawing one chapter. Given the pace he has ALWAYS had, for the last 20 years, it probably takes him 3 weeks to draw an average chapter, 4 on the crazily detailed massive army sequences stuff. (Which is the normal pace for ANY artist that doesn't have assistants, a page a day, and is insane for his detail level.)
That isn't quite the pace of the bi-weekly Young ANimal magazine. So rather than have him on Hiatuses every other issue, a MAGAZINE break occurs every couple months, so he can work and get ahead. And while the new chapters are coming out every two weeks he keeps working, until the mag catches up again.
I would assume that over the last 3 months, he has been working on several chapters. 307 was the return chapter, 308 will be in the next issue. He's probably already/nearly done with 309 and working on 310.
Same with HxH. He's NOT taking 9 months to draw a chapter, he's taking 9 months to draw 10 chapters, which is the point the magazine releases it again. Building a buffer and guaranteeing sequential releases for a couple issues at a time.
Just because he isn't being printed doesn't mean the artist isn't working during the hiatuses. The entire point of skip months is to catch up/get ahead/safeguard the schedule.
I tried to explain this to people and they just don't seem to get it.
I dont think it should take 3 months to draw a chapter. And even though I think he isnt as bad as Togashi (it should never take a year for one chapter) I still think he takes much longer than needed. What is that like a page a week? If thats his job and something he loves it just seems strange to me these last few chapters like its being forced or something. And another comparison id like to make is Takehiko from Vagabond. He seems to be releasing at a pretty regular basis and his art is amazing as well.
His art is also simpler.
Miura draws extremely detailed straight up pen and ink.
Inoue draws in mostly sketchy brush strokes these days.
@robbybevard:
Typically 4 or 5 chapters come out in a row. Rampant Idolmaster jokes aside, it seems unlikely that Muira spends 3 months drawing one chapter. Given the pace he has ALWAYS had, for the last 20 years, it probably takes him 3 weeks to draw an average chapter, 4 on the crazily detailed massive army sequences stuff. (Which is the normal pace for ANY artist that doesn't have assistants, a page a day, and is insane for his detail level.)
That isn't quite the pace of the bi-weekly Young ANimal magazine. So rather than have him on Hiatuses every other issue, a MAGAZINE break occurs every couple months, so he can work and get ahead. And while the new chapters are coming out every two weeks he keeps working, until the mag catches up again.
I would assume that over the last 3 months, he has been working on several chapters. 307 was the return chapter, 308 will be in the next issue. He's probably already/nearly done with 309 and working on 310.
Same with HxH. He's NOT taking 9 months to draw a chapter, he's taking 9 months to draw 10 chapters, which is the point the magazine releases it again. Building a buffer and guaranteeing sequential releases for a couple issues at a time.
Just because he isn't being printed doesn't mean the artist isn't working during the hiatuses. The entire point of skip months is to catch up/get ahead/safeguard the schedule.
Well this makes alot of sense, I thought that Darkhorse was eagerly waiting for every of his chapters to publish it immideatly.
Perhaps I should be frustraded towards DarkHorse comics instead…
But ENOUGH with Griffits celebration, sure he is magnificent villain and art wise these last chapters have been nothing short of masterpiece, you really have to spend some quality time with each panel and enjoy every single detail of them.
But really its just that Gatts and his party is so amazingly intresting to me and while I liked Golden Age arc it has been nothing comperable of Gutts groups adventures since it was formed.
I just cant wait for Elfheim...well I can wait it for 10 years but I WANT them now! :w00t:
I started reading Berserk on late 2008 and I finished to latest chapters in couple of days, I readed series 3 times because its just that awesome. So really I am really newtimer of waiting Berserk chapters since I guess some of you guys have been waiting for latest chapters for years now...
Well this makes alot of sense, I thought that Darkhorse was eagerly waiting for every of his chapters to publish it immideatly.
Perhaps I should be frustraded towards DarkHorse comics instead…
Darkhorse has been on an INCREDIBLY fast release schedule. They've been putting out a volume every 2 months, when in Japan its only every 6, or even once a year. Naturally they caught up, and now they have to slow down and wait like the Japanese releases.
Same thing happened with Viz on Bleach, Naruto, and OP starting next year. . You can release it fast through the archives, but then you gotta slow it down when you catch up to the real release schedule.
I started reading Berserk on late 2008 and I finished to latest chapters in couple of days, I readed series 3 times because its just that awesome. So really I am really newtimer of waiting Berserk chapters since I guess some of you guys have been waiting for latest chapters for years now…
I started "reading" before there was an anime, and the Golden Age arc was still 90% of the series, just buying the volumes for the art. (Which I also did with Bastard and some other things) I think volume… 14 or 15 had just come out when I started getting it, but I went through start to finish. So going on... 12 years now?
There weren't scanlations at the time, so I mostly just bought the volumes and looked at the raw art and figured out most of the story details just from looking at it. . The anime adaptation got fandubbed and I got legitley caught up with the characterization and nuances in... 2000?
So to me, its bizarre, but everything post eclipse is still wierd and new and off to me, even though its been the status quo for like a decade. Because when I started the Golden Age story was the story. Judeu, Rickerts, Pippin, Corkus and Caska are still what I associate as my first mental image of the series. The new crew, interesting as they are, just isn't the same to me, even though they've been around longer now than the previous cast and it continues to feel like random monster of the week adventures.
I imagine its a VERY different experiance to someone coming in now, who can upfront get through Golden Age and see thats only about 1/3 of the series, instead of 9/10 of it.
Well this makes alot of sense, I thought that Darkhorse was eagerly waiting for every of his chapters to publish it immideatly.
Perhaps I should be frustraded towards DarkHorse comics instead…
But ENOUGH with Griffits celebration, sure he is magnificent villain and art wise these last chapters have been nothing short of masterpiece, you really have to spend some quality time with each panel and enjoy every single detail of them.
But really its just that Gatts and his party is so amazingly intresting to me and while I liked Golden Age arc it has been nothing comperable of Gutts groups adventures since it was formed.
I just cant wait for Elfheim...well I can wait it for 10 years but I WANT them now! :w00t:
I started reading Berserk on late 2008 and I finished to latest chapters in couple of days, I readed series 3 times because its just that awesome. So really I am really newtimer of waiting Berserk chapters since I guess some of you guys have been waiting for latest chapters for years now...
I started to read this series back in 2004 so i've been reading this for 5 years now but still robby's got me beaten on that.
I just realized after reading the chapter that it's been 20 years since the beginning
I am glad to have followed it and will continue to do so
I can only start to thinking how Elfheim will look like
Although I don't know why but I have an image in my head about the Elf King being a wrinkled old elf-man
Another 2 month wait is in order.
Another 2 month wait is in order.
Nope. next one is slated for October 9. So should probably be leaked a bit sooner than that.
I didn't start reading Berserk till 07 but I was following it through the anime since 2002 then later went back and read up till now. And Robby you outdid yourself with your avi, seeing that movement suddenly out the corner of your eye is freaky as shit.
I started reading Berserk last week. Which sucks, since I would have loved the wait for some chapters, it would have made them so much better.
@robbybevard:
…I hate you now.
I could easily see why.
I catch up to everything at the worst times.
Caught up in OP at the start of the Davy Back Fight.
Caught up in Naruto at the start of the Sasuke Chase arc.
Caught up in Berserk right at the start of the tedious night battles in vol.31.
night battles… it's been a while..
you mean the fights at the shipyard?
Can't believe nobody has posted this yet. 308 spoilers, back to Guts an co.!
So apparently they get attacked by pirates and have to fight them off. Awesome. And Silk looks pretty cool 
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that face paint looks cute on silk. Also didn't we see that pirate guy before? could of swore we have.
Yeah, we have. The group fought him in that one city where Silk kept seeing dead people.
I vaguely recall that…damn I seriously need to re-read this series once I get the time and day to just sit down and read it again.
Didn't the pirate captain get his ass handed to him before? Or will it turn out that he too, had eaten a df used a behelit?
I don't think he got beat. I think something happened and Guts and Co had to leave.
It's the Pirate Captain again, poor guy he gonna be kicked around again
Maybe the Behelit that Guts caries around will resonated to the Pirate Captain
Ah cool. It's that goofy pirate that seemed out of place in the series. How could something like that be easy to forget?
Dammit, spoilers for new chapter and still no scanlation of the last chapter?:/
try spectrum nexus
Dammit, spoilers for new chapter and still no scanlation of the last chapter?:/
http://www.evil-genius.us/ they have it
Seeing something so cute in Berserk just seems… wrong.
omg they copied crocodile's scar and usopp's eyebrows
Since when did Usopp have a unibrow?
eyelashes I meant*
FUCK YEAH!
We are back at Gatts group, damn I cant wait for chapter seriosly.
Berserk is godlike manga that only One Piece can rival. Seems like a lifetime since we have been with Gatts and his merry men, though its pretty damn difficult to give valid complain on last chapters because it has been such a marvelous and breathtaking art masterpieces.
But god damn that Griffith, he is perhaps most fearsome manga villain up to date… he is like an angel and he pretends being beacon of hope and everyone regards him as savior and hero, I fail to see how Gatts have any chances against him.
But god damn that Griffith, he is perhaps most fearsome manga villain up to date… he is like an angel and he pretends being beacon of hope and everyone regards him as savior and hero, I fail to see how Gatts have any chances against him.
That makes me feel even more for Gatts. When he should finally get his revenge against Griffith he'll become the most hated man alive. That guy is a living curse no matter what way you look at it. One of the best tragic characters I've ever seen.
Yeah, I can't wait 'till Guts kills Griffith. Hopefully it's epic beyond anything ever seen in a manga ever before .
A. Stop calling him "Gatts".
B. Stop calling her "Silke", "Silk" or any derivatives thereof.
Why, what's her name then?
And why the hell are you giving out orders?
Her name is Schierke.
Congrats on reading shitty scans.
And I'm giving orders because apparently a bunch of dongs around here can't get things right.
Hmm, looks like one of you needs to track down a site member who can read japanese for ya.
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