Tv ad for Berserk 2017, aaaand it still looks shit

InsaneLeader13 said:
Everyone still seems to forget that the studio doesn't have the money for a normal adaption, and most of the major people on the team don't have the needed experience.

joe_g7 said:
Then how about NOT making an adaptation at all?

Shocking as it might be, this series has been relatively noteworthy for introducing more casual anime viewers into the Berserk Manga. Since the 2016 series aired, I've had plenty of 'friends' who only watch a handful of shows suddenly raving about the series, and have since gone back to pick up the source material. And that's what these types of anime are designed to do anyway, introduce people to the source material.

thepath said:
Don't care. It looks fine and I will enjoy it. Berserk is good regardless of animation they use

I hope the haters don't spam the forums just like they did in season1. You don't like it don't watch it.

InsaneLeader13 said:
Everyone still seems to forget that the studio doesn't have the money for a normal adaption, and most of the major people on the team don't have the needed experience.

But whatever, gotta keep those fanboy tears flowing. You guys really don't know what you've got, do you?

InsaneLeader13 said:
Everyone still seems to forget that the studio doesn't have the money for a normal adaption, and most of the major people on the team don't have the needed experience.

Lord_Nutella said:
Awwwww...
Did they ruin your anime adaptation, again?

Honestly though, the directors and the staff said that they will take the responses from fans into consideration when making this season, and who knows, maybe the studio will use conventional animation for most scenes(remember kingdom 2)

Valduran said:
For all of the complaints I don't really see many people asking the obvious questions.. that is, why Berserk being as legendary as it is can't seem to secure a decent quality adaptation.

Is it not considered suitable content for a profitable anime?

Or is it that everyone in Japan already knows about Berserk and thus they can't expect a sharp increase of manga sales by advertising it with an anime?

Clearly with this level of shoddiness there is a real financial interest issue going on. To the point that a studio like this was actually able to secure the contract Berserk must not really be considered a high value franchise outside of its manga.

littlegiant9330 said:
Does Cgi cost less money to make?Or is it much easier than the regular 2D animation we see in all the other anime? 1st season was bearable but this... i really don't know what to say... will watch this once it's done airing...

Mixernix said:
So what is it that u drop anime because of? Animation? Sound quality? Voice actors? Regardless I will watch it. As a casual I wont understand all the complaints.

Mixernix said:

I don't rlly care about the quality, that opinion might change when I get chance to experience something like this.

Still tho animation style is better than that from 1997.

thepath said:
I won't go hating other people for liking it.

-Terpsichore- said:


There's one very simple reason, there's no money for that.

Most anime shows do not work like Western TV, they do not exist to make money themselves because almost none of them can, they instead exist to promote things that do make money like a manga series.

It just happens to be that the Berserk manga is published in a shitty magazine that doesn't move too many numbers and they are the ones paying for this adaptation as an advertisement for the manga, if it's so shitty it's quite simply because they can't afford anything better.

So basically think of the Berserk manga as a store you own and the anime adaptation as advertisement you pay for it, it just happens to be that all you could afford was paying a local hobo to carry a sign with your store's name in it.

genk1sudo said:
How can they release such horribly drawn ad?

Japanese don't give a shit?
Sabotage?

I am out of ideas.

'It's not the way I want it, so don't make it. Screw any reasoning or results.'

Slim1795 said:
CGI is not so easy to watch. During Berserk 2016, still watching, it's difficult to understand the fight. In fact since first epidose, I said: "the hell is this?". But the plot of the series is good, so it captures you and it brings you to continue to watch it. This is what happen to me.
In any case I hope is the same thing in 2017, that the plot is so strong to chain up you. When you like something and you like what it says, the means doesn't care. In this case is the graphics. It's Berserk, c'mon!

MysteriousBanana said:
Have to keep in mind that the studio spent a considerable amount of time and resources in redrawing a ton of scenes for the BD release of S1 due to the poor reception in Japan; the 2D staff is probably going into S2 feeling a bit overworked and relying on the 3D team to pick up the slack.

joe_g7 said:
That's the fault of bad directing, there are a bunch of videos on youtube analyzing that.

If I'm not mistaken almost every BD release get "upgraded" animation, and no, drawing up a few scenes is hardly over working when they've barely done any of that in the anime, so I doubt they're exhausted or some other bull. It's the leastest of the least anyone buying those BD's deserves.

Jaa81102423 said:


Actually maybe just the 2% of the anime in a season have in their BDs redrawn scenes, excluding ecchi anime of course.

Like other people pointed out, the one you should blame are not the collab of studios that are animating this but Hakusensha for paying them very very little.

Ever wondered why nobody did a Berserk anime adaptation since now? That's because nobody could meet the budget Hakusensha was willingly to cough up.

Now there's a joint who's willingly to, so either watch this and cry blood like any other Miura fan or avoid it like ebola.

Jaa81102423 said:


I felt the same when I had approached s1, but in the end this is possibly the only adaptation of the manga we will ever get so I embraced the CGI, plus Iwanaga Hiroaki is doing one hell of a job as Guts.

joe_g7 said:
I'm highly doubting that number, do you have a source or something that I could read?

joe_g7 said:
If I'm not mistaken almost every BD release get "upgraded" animation, and no, drawing up a few scenes is hardly over working when they've barely done any of that in the anime, so I doubt they're exhausted or some other bull. It's the leastest of the least anyone buying those BD's deserves.

MysteriousBanana said:

Yes, that's true, but if those BD sneak peeks are any indicator, it looks like they're completely redoing every non-action scene in 2D. I've never seen a BD release have that extensive a touch-up, at most they redo frames that had production errors or remove censorship (which are really a post-production edits they just undo).

Reason I said they might be going in exhausted is because of the timing. If you'll suffer an analogy, it's like procrastinating on a term project until the week before finals, just because you didn't do anything for most of the semester doesn't mean you won't be going into the finals haggard; similarly the 2D team didn't do much for the S1 TV release, but they're definitely putting in a lot of effort into the BD release, and now they have to work on S2 after what must be a much shorter break than usual).

joe_g7 said:
Still the 2D that they did for the first season was probably not even half of what other anime normally get. They have to do less drawings but with a faster pace. Sounds pretty normal to me.