Berserk 25
Posted: February 17, 2009 Filed under: Berserk 5 Comments »Guts seems to have derailed the nice classic shoujo manga marathon I had going on. That’s okay, because I’m pretty sure Guts can derail whatever he wants.
Lots of magic in this volume. I’m not too sure if I like the mix of magic and Serpico, only because there’s something I vaguely dislike about him anyway. Schierke doing what she does is pretty awesome though, and when she finally pulls off all her amazing feats, seeing everyone in awe of her is pretty great. Even Guts is impressed, and it seems like nothing could impress Guts anymore. He actually calls her “boss” at one point, which I thought was interesting, but may only be referencing the fact that she’s head of this particular troll slaying operation, or maybe he was being a bit of a jerk about her giving him orders after he’d been singlehandedly killing all the trolls up to that point.
Isidro’s role is also an interesting one. He really, really wants to be the hero, but he’s just too young. He worships Guts and seems to take pride in everything awesome that he does. In a fight, Isidro himself does little more than divert attention since he’s too young or small to swing a sword effectively. It hurts his feelings to see everyone from Guts to Schierke to Serpico help the fight and be of so little use himself. While the comic relief between him, Puck, and Ivarella is a little much at this point, I like Isidro a lot and I’m looking forward to him being a hero.
And just in case you had missed it after all this talk of magic, next volume looks like it will feature some massive troll slaying in a monster den. Not that Guts didn’t cut an Ogre in half and do all sorts of slicing and dicing in town in this volume. Serpico actually got one of the best jabs in. He was fighting a kelpie, and after piercing upward through its head, it fights him for a little while longer with its eye hanging out of its socket. It’s kind of gross, but it’s also the ugliest kelpie I’ve ever seen. Usually they’re a little cuter.
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congrats on 1500 reviews :)
Damn, I’m behing schedule in buying Berserk. I’ve already read this series 2 times around up to volume 32 but naturally I want to have this on paper, too.. And I really like all the characters in our “little party”.. I hope you will start to feel at least a little affection for our poor Farnese.. she had a difficult childhood, you know.. ;-))
^_^ Thanks so much!
I don’t know. She set people on fire in her childhood as well as her house. It seems like she could put those skills to use in her present situation. XD
I think this is up to volume 27 in the US? I usually buy it in 5-volume bursts when I see the Dark Horse sale at Right Stuf. Hopefully it’ll be up to volume 30 by the time the sale rolls around again.