Berserk followers trying to rewatch one of many extra notorious variations of the manga can quickly make area on their Blu-ray shelf for a brand new Golden Age launch. Particularly, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc Memorial Version, a brand new assortment of the 2012-2013 movies. Accessible to preorder now at Amazon and Crunchyroll Retailer, this movie trilogy will likely be launched within the coming months.
Amazon lists the discharge date as June 18 with free launch-day supply for Prime members. In the meantime, Crunchyroll marks the date as August 27. So until Amazon actually is getting the Blu-ray so much sooner than Crunchyroll for some unknown cause, considered one of these dates must be unsuitable. Preorders at Amazon at present price $70, and you will not be charged till your order ships. You may get the set for the bottom value supplied between the time you order and launch, so there’s nonetheless an opportunity that Amazon will wind up matching Crunchyroll’s beneficiant low cost that drops the value to $52.49.
The movies on this launch will characteristic each English and Japanese dubs, and for extras, you will get textless opening and ending songs within the two-disc set. Whereas the duvet artwork says it isn’t remaining, it seems to be like this launch will characteristic gorgeous artwork of Guts in a berserker rage.
The Golden Age arc of Berserk was an attention-grabbing experiment to revisit the manga. An anime adaptation initially aired in 1997, however made a number of main deviations from the supply materials, one thing the Golden Age movies tried to keep away from. Much more devoted to the manga, the movies blended stunning animation with CGI to blended outcomes, however general, that is nonetheless a unbelievable retelling of Berserk’s first main arc and it ends through the notorious Eclipse sequence. Whereas the 1997 anime’s tackle that brutal occasion remains to be horrifying, the Golden Age model is pure nightmare gas as compared. Some may say it is nearly as terrifying to look at as Berserk 2016.
After all, should you’re a agency believer in Berserk 1997, you may get the present in its greatest format proper now at Amazon. The Blu-ray launch has repeatedly offered out a number of occasions since its preliminary launch in March, however recent inventory of the 25-episode sequence is on the market once more at Amazon and Crunchyroll:
Lastly, you may by no means go unsuitable with the manga. The late Kentaro Miura’s darkish fantasy sequence has been collected in a number of editions through the years, however the fantastically outsized hardcover volumes are one of the best of the lot.
