berserk rerelease, full dub with all the outtakes and everything, newest remaster, all the works. march 2024!!!

  • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Great show. Loved the anime, but the gender politics are awful even considering its time of release.

    I tried picking up the manga but couldn’t get through it because there were women (and girls) being threatened with sexual assault on like every other page.

    I’m surprised it’s so well liked in lefty spaces. Maybe it eases up later, but the early chapters are really jesus-christ

    • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      I tried picking up the manga but couldn’t get through it because there were women (and girls) being threatened with sexual assault on like every other page.

      CW: SA

      It’s worse than that. At the point at which I stopped reading, there was an actual rape scene that went on for like four or five pages for some reason. I couldn’t bring myself to continue reading it after that.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe it eases up later

      Unfortunately, no, it gets worse. It’s only by the Fantasia Arc of 2010 (35 volumes into the series) that the series starts lightening up on the gruesome SA, and instead just has lots of ultraviolence and loli stuff.

      I do think Berserk is a legitimately great series with a lot of interesting things to say, but it’s very flawed and uncomfortable to read (in a bad way).