Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum and it will probably be long, sorry about that. English is not my main language, there might be mistakes or grammatical errors in what I write, I am sorry about this too and feel free to point out any errors I can edit out (at least you know it's an original post and not AI generated).
Thank you for your understanding.
Prelude
I am a man that has been reading Berserk now for at least 25 years, it's been a long time and even tho I have read only a few more mangas along side Berserk, I have always stated that it is one of the biggest and incredible works of art humanity has ever created. I would like to focus more on Berserk in my post, rather than myself or my story.
Berserk has been a part of my life, because of the slow progress that has been slowing down even more in certain years (I was interested as to WHY this was happening and have been hearing stories along the years), I found myself reading again and again all the old volumes, I think berserk is the "paper format" I have read the most times in my life, very rarely I have read the same book 2 times or more.
Because Berserk has influenced me for the most part of my life and I have enjoyed each single moment I spent reading it or thiking about it, what happened in 2021 really depressed me. It was already a few bad years for almost everyone since 2020, I don't know about you all, but I rarely or basically never believe what I see on the TV or newspapers so all in all, I felt like I was living in a giant eclipse event in real life, if you catch my drift. I will not comment further on this because I know this topic has created division and hate among people and that is not my goal here, everyone is free to believe what they want.
The Berserk Experience
What capturated me the first time I started reading berserk was the beautiful naked woman...that turned into a disgusting monster that needed to be put down. These initial pages, it might seem like nothing to the common person, there is so much meaning, so much to analyze and way more than most people can realize. I was hooked right away even tho I was too young to grasp all the meanings and depth of Berserk. I could realize I was in front of a master piece, I just could not understand it fully at that time. It's like watching an incredible work from Van Gogh or Rembrandt, you might like it a lot, but do you understand it?
The idea of living through the "future" story of Guts before going back to his origins was in my opinion a genius idea too, it created a lot of questions and mystery that kept me hooked for all the next several years.
I have a lot more to write about this of course but maybe that's something for another time in the future.
The End
When Kentaro Miura, the mastercrafting creator of Berserk passed away I felt a lot of grief in me. I never met him, I never wrote to him, in my opinion whatever I could have come up with would have been a distraction at best and annoying at worst, I wanted him to write Berserk and not use a single second of his time distracted by me, also I'm not Japanese and I live far away from Japan anyway. I think the master already knew from all his loyal fans and sales, that his work was appreciated and immensely loved by so many around the world. In retrospect, I wish I had the chance of meeting him or send him a message, I also did not expect him to pass away so young and so suddenly.
After weeks of grief and...desolation, I asked myself what would happen to Berserk, but I already knew the answer since the moment I saw the news of Miura's passing, Berserk was over. It was destined to be an incomplete piece of art, another suffering burden in my life to deal with (spoiler alert, I have had enough already), I would never see the end of Berserk, nobody ever will. This was my idea before the last number came out, there I remember I read about them thinking about continuing Berserk. I thought to myself, is money and attention so important in life? Sure for most people it is, some people only live for those. In my opinion money is important but not worth losing yourself or being corrupted for it, attention was never important to me to be honest.
So they wanted to continue Berserk without Miura, my initial reaction was disbelief, from what I had learned in the last 25 years, Miura was the only one producing the story, the plot, the characters and everything else. The moments where he received help from others, or pressure from others, were the moments he would give up and slow down to get back on track by himself, I have heard those things in the past. To me, if you bring any master artist from the past, from different disciplines and you tell me "I can continue his art" I will call you crazy. You might want to inspire yourself with that art and you might want to do your own thing, but not pretend you are continuing the art piece somebody else crafted.
I spent a few years just ignoring the whole situation, but then the new numbers started coming out, I dind't buy any, but driven by curiosity I actually saw some online. I had this reaction after watching pages after pages, this is not Berserk, this is not Miura, I don't think this is what he would have wanted to happen. I am quite sad that there are people out there buying these new volumes thinking they are buying and reading Berserk, they are not. All the volumes Miura created, those are Berserk.
I wanted to share this with all of you, I have been reading posts on the forum and I see many Berserk fans here are also having similar feelings and thoughts. Well, I will probably write more, but for now this is enough....again sorry if this was longer than it could have been.
Thank you for your understanding.
Prelude
I am a man that has been reading Berserk now for at least 25 years, it's been a long time and even tho I have read only a few more mangas along side Berserk, I have always stated that it is one of the biggest and incredible works of art humanity has ever created. I would like to focus more on Berserk in my post, rather than myself or my story.
Berserk has been a part of my life, because of the slow progress that has been slowing down even more in certain years (I was interested as to WHY this was happening and have been hearing stories along the years), I found myself reading again and again all the old volumes, I think berserk is the "paper format" I have read the most times in my life, very rarely I have read the same book 2 times or more.
Because Berserk has influenced me for the most part of my life and I have enjoyed each single moment I spent reading it or thiking about it, what happened in 2021 really depressed me. It was already a few bad years for almost everyone since 2020, I don't know about you all, but I rarely or basically never believe what I see on the TV or newspapers so all in all, I felt like I was living in a giant eclipse event in real life, if you catch my drift. I will not comment further on this because I know this topic has created division and hate among people and that is not my goal here, everyone is free to believe what they want.
The Berserk Experience
What capturated me the first time I started reading berserk was the beautiful naked woman...that turned into a disgusting monster that needed to be put down. These initial pages, it might seem like nothing to the common person, there is so much meaning, so much to analyze and way more than most people can realize. I was hooked right away even tho I was too young to grasp all the meanings and depth of Berserk. I could realize I was in front of a master piece, I just could not understand it fully at that time. It's like watching an incredible work from Van Gogh or Rembrandt, you might like it a lot, but do you understand it?
The idea of living through the "future" story of Guts before going back to his origins was in my opinion a genius idea too, it created a lot of questions and mystery that kept me hooked for all the next several years.
I have a lot more to write about this of course but maybe that's something for another time in the future.
The End
When Kentaro Miura, the mastercrafting creator of Berserk passed away I felt a lot of grief in me. I never met him, I never wrote to him, in my opinion whatever I could have come up with would have been a distraction at best and annoying at worst, I wanted him to write Berserk and not use a single second of his time distracted by me, also I'm not Japanese and I live far away from Japan anyway. I think the master already knew from all his loyal fans and sales, that his work was appreciated and immensely loved by so many around the world. In retrospect, I wish I had the chance of meeting him or send him a message, I also did not expect him to pass away so young and so suddenly.
After weeks of grief and...desolation, I asked myself what would happen to Berserk, but I already knew the answer since the moment I saw the news of Miura's passing, Berserk was over. It was destined to be an incomplete piece of art, another suffering burden in my life to deal with (spoiler alert, I have had enough already), I would never see the end of Berserk, nobody ever will. This was my idea before the last number came out, there I remember I read about them thinking about continuing Berserk. I thought to myself, is money and attention so important in life? Sure for most people it is, some people only live for those. In my opinion money is important but not worth losing yourself or being corrupted for it, attention was never important to me to be honest.
So they wanted to continue Berserk without Miura, my initial reaction was disbelief, from what I had learned in the last 25 years, Miura was the only one producing the story, the plot, the characters and everything else. The moments where he received help from others, or pressure from others, were the moments he would give up and slow down to get back on track by himself, I have heard those things in the past. To me, if you bring any master artist from the past, from different disciplines and you tell me "I can continue his art" I will call you crazy. You might want to inspire yourself with that art and you might want to do your own thing, but not pretend you are continuing the art piece somebody else crafted.
I spent a few years just ignoring the whole situation, but then the new numbers started coming out, I dind't buy any, but driven by curiosity I actually saw some online. I had this reaction after watching pages after pages, this is not Berserk, this is not Miura, I don't think this is what he would have wanted to happen. I am quite sad that there are people out there buying these new volumes thinking they are buying and reading Berserk, they are not. All the volumes Miura created, those are Berserk.
I wanted to share this with all of you, I have been reading posts on the forum and I see many Berserk fans here are also having similar feelings and thoughts. Well, I will probably write more, but for now this is enough....again sorry if this was longer than it could have been.
