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Aug 28, 10:03 AM
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Would you say that Berserk is overrated?
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Aug 28, 10:12 AM
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It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.
Aug 28, 10:19 AM
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No, i don't get what makes it overated unless you personally didn't enjoy it
Aug 28, 10:24 AM
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no, its one of the best, sadly its 18+ with huge violance so thats not everyone that can read, but i hope more people start reading it.
Aug 28, 10:50 AM
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No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.
Aug 28, 11:04 AM
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Yes, it's great but the hype is too much
Aug 28, 11:08 AM
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It lives up to the hype unlike some other pieces of trash like jjk and sao
Aug 28, 11:10 AM
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It's easy to think things are overrated when they're literally ranked #1. Personally I wouldn't have Berserk, Frieren or Shawshank Redemption etc as my #1 so technically they're overrated to me but that doesn't mean i don't think they're all great.
Aug 28, 12:44 PM
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A slight amount in my opinion but it still good
Aug 28, 12:56 PM
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CheliosX said:
It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.

then It is not overrated...you just contradicted Your self in the same sentence 🥸
Aug 28, 1:00 PM
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Malware_NSG said:
CheliosX said:
It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.

then It is not overrated...you just contradicted Your self in the same sentence 🥸

I see. Well, my bad. If that's the case, it's not overrated. It's worth it.
Aug 28, 1:01 PM

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Berserk's the closest thing we're ever going to get to a literary classic in the anime medium. If anything it deserves more attention.
Aug 28, 1:13 PM
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Garyyyy1 said:
No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.

You can’t say this with a Berserk pfp you’re just biased.
Aug 28, 1:28 PM
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Yes but it's still very very high ranked. The people who claim it to be the greatest piece of fiction ever, splitting the skies itself are wrong though. Those people are fairly vocal so that makes it overrated in that sense.
Aug 28, 1:29 PM
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Musashi7818 said:
no, its one of the best, sadly its 18+ with huge violance so thats not everyone that can read, but i hope more people start reading it.

It's not the violence that makes it 18+ it's the heavy handed rape that appears consistently for the first 275 chapters.
Aug 28, 1:33 PM
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SimplyBrazen said:
Berserk's the closest thing we're ever going to get to a literary classic in the anime medium. If anything it deserves more attention.

It's manga, and that's not true. Maybe it's the only one with medieval/euro influence but there are plenty that will go down as classics.
It's also hard to judge, if we took aways all visuals would it still hold up as an all timer? That's a major key to the literary aspect of manga greatness.
Aug 28, 1:52 PM

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Attempting to judge mostly from watching anime adaptions and only having read a tiny amount, yes, But only because it's rated so highly. It's clearly high-quality, but it's rated as one of the best, and that requires a sense of purpose and meaning that I'm not seeing any signs of. It's very good at making plot happen, but plot happening is the full extent of its ambition.
Aug 28, 1:53 PM
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It’s absolutely overrated. The only arc worth mentioning is Golden age and anything past that has questionable representation of female characters and lots of gratuitous rape of women who happen to all look like Barbies.
Aug 28, 2:05 PM
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yes, and it's still the best manga ever made
Aug 28, 3:13 PM

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yeah it's good but still grossly overrated, and this is coming from someone who used to think it was one of the greatest things ever during a phase.
Aug 28, 4:54 PM
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it's honestly underrated the manga is fantastic and the 90s anime is very well done even if it doesn't have the best animation
Aug 28, 5:18 PM
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JayTCU said:
Garyyyy1 said:
No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.

You can’t say this with a Berserk pfp you’re just biased.

No, I am not. I love Berserk and I know that it gets a lot of attention. What I was trying to say that it’s still not ENOUGH.
Aug 28, 6:26 PM

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properly rated imo, the art, the life lessons, the scope of its world building. plus, I can use it to connect with randos and strangers throughout my ventures in my life.
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Aug 28, 8:15 PM
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SimplyBrazen said:
Berserk's the closest thing we're ever going to get to a literary classic in the anime medium. If anything it deserves more attention.

You're so right for that
Aug 28, 8:29 PM
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It's underrated actually
Aug 28, 8:51 PM
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Overrated, no. Despite its’ massive fan base, the “normies” haven’t polluted it to shoot its’ trajectory out the stratosphere.

“Overblown,” however? Yes.

At its’ current point, there is nothing within Berserk that remotely touches the Golden Age Arc and I feel that people will take this one successful arc and have it speak for the entirety of Berserk. I get it, the arc is good and the sheer fact of them doing that speaks volumes to just how good Golden Age is, but there’s not much beyond that worth talking about inside the manga. It’s quite repetitive.

Unfortunately Miura passed and now his authentic vision, or even changes to the story he might’ve made along the way will never be realized. So there’s no telling what Berserk would’ve looked like. Simultaneously, due to said passing, the work is now immortalized and can never be criticized according to the public consensus surrounding death. Hence, why it has become overblown.
Aug 28, 11:35 PM
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Garyyyy1 said:
No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.

YES, I totally agree with you.
Aug 28, 11:38 PM

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DayRivia said:
SimplyBrazen said:
Berserk's the closest thing we're ever going to get to a literary classic in the anime medium. If anything it deserves more attention.

It's manga, and that's not true. Maybe it's the only one with medieval/euro influence but there are plenty that will go down as classics.
It's also hard to judge, if we took aways all visuals would it still hold up as an all timer? That's a major key to the literary aspect of manga greatness.

I'm comparing it to literary works as a whole, not with other anime and manga. There's simply no other story in the medium that can offer what Berserk has offered for the dark fantasy genre. There's a reason why every dark fantasy storytelling work after it has taken many inspirations from it and it's the only series to have had an impact on the genre outside of its own medium.
Aug 29, 12:13 AM
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CheliosX said:
It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.

overrated means its not deserved
Aug 29, 12:17 AM
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Ankibank said:
CheliosX said:
It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.

overrated means its not deserved

Yes, someone already pointed that out. That was an error on my part. Nevertheless, whatever recognition and praise Berserk gets is well deserved.
Aug 29, 12:54 AM
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innahnet said:
Overrated, no. Despite its’ massive fan base, the “normies” haven’t polluted it to shoot its’ trajectory out the stratosphere.

“Overblown,” however? Yes.

At its’ current point, there is nothing within Berserk that remotely touches the Golden Age Arc and I feel that people will take this one successful arc and have it speak for the entirety of Berserk. I get it, the arc is good and the sheer fact of them doing that speaks volumes to just how good Golden Age is, but there’s not much beyond that worth talking about inside the manga. It’s quite repetitive.

Unfortunately Miura passed and now his authentic vision, or even changes to the story he might’ve made along the way will never be realized. So there’s no telling what Berserk would’ve looked like. Simultaneously, due to said passing, the work is now immortalized and can never be criticized according to the public consensus surrounding death. Hence, why it has become overblown.

Bad take. Golden age setup one of the greatest villains of all time. The group Guts runs with after the golden age is way better than the band he had before as well. Golden Age is what is overrated in the story, not everything else.
Aug 29, 1:20 AM
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Definitely not overrated
Aug 29, 2:15 AM
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It's overrated to the sense that there's a huge number of people who ignores any other manga since they think there's nothing better than Berserk in the manga world

Of course that comes to personal preferences, but if I had that same mentality, I wouldn't have discovered many of the gems I got to read besides Berserk
Aug 29, 2:59 AM
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grifin i love beserk babyyyyyy
Aug 29, 3:14 AM
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SimplyBrazen said:
DayRivia said:

It's manga, and that's not true. Maybe it's the only one with medieval/euro influence but there are plenty that will go down as classics.
It's also hard to judge, if we took aways all visuals would it still hold up as an all timer? That's a major key to the literary aspect of manga greatness.

I'm comparing it to literary works as a whole, not with other anime and manga. There's simply no other story in the medium that can offer what Berserk has offered for the dark fantasy genre. There's a reason why every dark fantasy storytelling work after it has taken many inspirations from it and it's the only series to have had an impact on the genre outside of its own medium.

If you want to stick with just the dark fantasy genre of manga, then I can't disagree. But there are other Mangas that are just as good and better. It's for sure a dark/medieval classic. Really wished early 2000s Hollywood would have got a hold it. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter Era.

Current Hollywood couldnt pull it off. Casca would be a black lady, Griffin would be trans and Puck would have clothes.
Aug 29, 3:40 AM
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Gruso said:
innahnet said:
Overrated, no. Despite its’ massive fan base, the “normies” haven’t polluted it to shoot its’ trajectory out the stratosphere.

“Overblown,” however? Yes.

At its’ current point, there is nothing within Berserk that remotely touches the Golden Age Arc and I feel that people will take this one successful arc and have it speak for the entirety of Berserk. I get it, the arc is good and the sheer fact of them doing that speaks volumes to just how good Golden Age is, but there’s not much beyond that worth talking about inside the manga. It’s quite repetitive.

Unfortunately Miura passed and now his authentic vision, or even changes to the story he might’ve made along the way will never be realized. So there’s no telling what Berserk would’ve looked like. Simultaneously, due to said passing, the work is now immortalized and can never be criticized according to the public consensus surrounding death. Hence, why it has become overblown.

Bad take. Golden age setup one of the greatest villains of all time. The group Guts runs with after the golden age is way better than the band he had before as well. Golden Age is what is overrated in the story, not everything else.

Well, of course the band after the Golden Age is better… considering the Band of Hawk had a lot of no-names who were sacrificed, but even then the current group is nothing to write home about.

And how can it be overrated if you just said it had the greatest villain setup of all time…? Which I don’t necessarily disagree with because when I read it for the first time it blew my mind— I still remember where I was, reading it for the first time.
Aug 29, 5:55 AM
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NAOO it is NOOTT ok
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Absolutely. Berserk is, at best, a mediocre dark fantasy manga praised more for the superficial presence of its inherent themes than how it executes them.


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Aug 29, 1:43 PM

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It’s perfectly rated. None of the “hype” things people say are untrue, it’s also not underrated as within the community is incredibly well known (which is insane considering is arguably only has one decent anime adaptation, which itself is very short and doesn’t do the source material justice).
Aug 29, 1:45 PM

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Garyyyy1 said:
No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.

Man I disagree, everyone knows Berserk within the community. It’s insane how well known and well loved it is considering it doesn’t have a decent anime adaptation (the 90s one is closest, I enjoy it but it’s short and doesn’t do the manga justice).

Like compare how successful it is to any other property without a decent anime adaptation, it’s crazy how much people still love and know it (totally deserved though)
Aug 29, 3:58 PM
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it's slightly overrated, like 🤏 much. but I definitely believe it deserves it. with all critically acclaimed series of any kind it can be hard to say that I personally see all that it's credited for, making it feel more overrated because what I hear is more than I myself caught. I've only read through berserk once, as a binge with no stop across a month or so, I'm waiting for the new English volume 42 to re read again. (ps: ik the volume is incomplete and has not set English release
Aug 29, 8:35 PM
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Lost_Hearts said:
Would you say that Berserk is overrated?

Hell no I don’t think it gets enough hype if the story had an ending by now I think it would definitely get its flowers. Game redo and anime redo would be great -manga messiah
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JayTCU said:
Garyyyy1 said:
No, it’s UNDERRATED. Berserk still didn’t get the love it deserved.

You can’t say this with a Berserk pfp you’re just biased.

I got an L pfp but I agree with him. 🤷‍♂️
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Not really, but it’s definitely over praised
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Aug 29, 11:20 PM
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tabbycatcircus said:
It’s absolutely overrated. The only arc worth mentioning is Golden age and anything past that has questionable representation of female characters and lots of gratuitous rape of women who happen to all look like Barbies.

Omg this is something I’d read on twitter
Aug 29, 11:47 PM

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NO, it's not overrated, you wannabe elitist
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no, it's really that good...
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Gantz-613 said:
tabbycatcircus said:
It’s absolutely overrated. The only arc worth mentioning is Golden age and anything past that has questionable representation of female characters and lots of gratuitous rape of women who happen to all look like Barbies.

Omg this is something I’d read on twitter

Sorry I don’t have the patience to jerk off media that fails its female characters anymore. Speaks volumes that you can’t even argue against that
Aug 30, 4:50 AM
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I think Beserk fnas can be overzealous, making it "overated" in some people's eyes. I can't blame anyone who thinks that, but I, personally, wouldn't say it is.
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CheliosX said:
It's overrated for sure but it's so totally 100% worth it and we'll deserved.

if its deserving of it then wouldnt that make it not overrated and instead just fairly rated..??
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