Berserk 16
July 31, 2008
This series really is just too good. I took too long a break between volumes, I forgot how good the art is and how much I liked the story. This volume isn’t even all that good compared to some of the other stuff that’s happened, but I still read the entire thing with my mouth hanging open in awe.
This wraps up the story about the valley of lost children… much how you would expect, actually. There’s lots of fighting, the main insect-elf morphs and has a showdown with Guts which is insane violent, and Puck and the little girl hang around and get in the way. I’m never quite sure how I feel about Puck, his gags often seem out of place, but sometimes he has some really good moments in the story, two in particular in this volume alone. But normally he’s just drawn as a caricature yelling at Guts or whatever.
The fight in this volume was great. It makes you realize just what a grueling trial Guts is going through. No sleep, no time to heal, just constant fighting, bloody, time and time again.
The Holy See catches up with him. I’m sort of glad I turned out to be wrong as far as why they were seeking him out, turns out he’s just being pursued since he leaves a trail of corpses wherever he goes. I can understand that. They catch him at his weakest moment, and he warns them that holding him hostage is not going to go well for them… and they’re right. Their leader is kind of annoying, which makes it feel good when Guts takes her down a couple notches as far as calling her a hypocrite, etc. I wanted to read the next volume RIGHT AWAY, but I thought it would be better if I wrote about this one first. So yes. I bought five volumes together this time, expect them all this weekend, because this series is FANTASTIC.
August 6, 2008 at 11:56 am
[...] vol. 5 of Wild Adapter, at Manga Jouhou. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie posts her take on vols. 16, 17, and 18 of Berserk, vol. 12 of Iron Wok Jan, vol. 35 of Dragon Ball, vol. 5 of Go Go Heaven, [...]