| IMO. let me just say, I'm new to berserk, I saw the movies first, loved them, love the character Guts, the story of friendship, finding meaning in life and carving out ones own destiny is incredible and so well written. So I decided to watch the series, am currently on episode 22 and I have to stay though I love the series as well, the movies were better. They were able to keep a more darker and serious tone through out, more fitting with the kind of mature story Berserk is. It also took out the meaningless dialogue of characters having to express their feelings or give detailed explanations of their "master plan", very typical of how most anime especially shounen tend to do, it didn't assume the viewer was dumb. They let you seek out answers and a characters reasoning through their facial expressions and body language, through understanding of a characters psychology and through common sense. It also rewrote parts, like certain action sequences or dialogue were changed and made more believable and less cheesy. I understand the story is compressed, but they hit all the important parts of the Berserk story, and they do it in less time and less filler, and also keep the focus on and the three big characters instead of focusing on the less interesting members of their group who don't even have stories that go past the Golden Age arc. Obviously everyone hates the 3D animation, as do I. This is coming from some one who loves 90's anime, to me that's the golden era. Berserk the series has good animation, but at times it just looks so bad, especially when it comes to motion and action sequences. A lot of the times the series cut corners by having blurred backgrounds, climaxes during action sequences would be still shots that looked like they were ripped straight out of the manga, and lack of detail among other problems with its animation. Unlike some some of the top anime from the 90's which had great fluid motion, amazing detail and awesome action sequences like Cowboy Bebop, YYH, 8th Mean Team, Evangelion etc etc. The movies were so much more detailed, backgrounds were animated so well, engrossing me more into the story feeling as if there was a huge world to explore past where the characters stood. Certain actions sequences were animated and directed better, offering more thrills and suspense like the 100 man slaughter or first meeting with Zodd. The entire last sequence with Griffith and the Godhand needs no explanation, just amazing. I just can't comprehend why people hate the movies and give the series so much praise. |
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| They skipped some really important moments though.I really don't care about the visuals,but they skipped the Bonfire of Dreams and the intrigue of Griffith and the Queen.These two are some of my favourite moments and I personally consider them really important for characterization and overall they are just memorable,so I was kinda sad when they were not shown and just left out. The tv series also had a better atmosphere imo,something the movies lacked completely except during the Eclipse. I think the movies are overhated though and it's kinda sad that most people only talk/complain about the CGI,because apparently Berserk has nothing else going for it lol. What do you mean by They let you seek out answers and a characters reasoning through their facial expressions and body language, through understanding of a characters psychology and through common sense. ? Got an example? |
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21 said: the movies were better. agree and i saw TV version first ;) |
| Only the 3rd movie was better The 1st two movies skipped a lot of good stuff that was in the TV series |
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| I disagree, while the last movie was good. The eclipse was handled better than in the T.V. series the rest of the movies where pretty bad in comparison. They skipped some crucial scenes from the manga and butchered the characterization of the main three characters. The t.v. series did a far better job of covering the Golden Age arc and slowly showing us Griffith's rise to power and his fall from grace. The art style, voice acting and music where also much better in the original T.V. series. There was also no god awful PS2 CGI in the original T.V. series. I rather watch still shots in the style of the manga then CGI. I will say this though, the opening and ending songs of the movie where a lot better than those of the t.v. series. |
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| I can't see how the eclipse was handled better, the original anime cut it short yes but other than that it was spot on The movie version fucked it up by messing around with the scene where casca is about to be impaled and guts gets pinned down and then griffith emerges, so much better in the original anime and manga, why mess which such a key scene. So in the movie you have guts standing there like a lemon while griffith fondles casca. Rubbish. All they did was remove all the tension and buildup from that scene. Basically every scene they changed from the manga was worse, it's really bad. |
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jedman said: I can't see how the eclipse was handled better, the original anime cut it short yes but other than that it was spot on The movie version fucked it up by messing around with the scene where casca is about to be impaled and guts gets pinned down and then griffith emerges, so much better in the original anime and manga, why mess which such a key scene. So in the movie you have guts standing there like a lemon while griffith fondles casca. Rubbish. All they did was remove all the tension and buildup from that scene. Basically every scene they changed from the manga was worse, it's really bad. Manga purist detected/10. I never can take people like this seriously |
Enishi- said: jedman said: I can't see how the eclipse was handled better, the original anime cut it short yes but other than that it was spot on The movie version fucked it up by messing around with the scene where casca is about to be impaled and guts gets pinned down and then griffith emerges, so much better in the original anime and manga, why mess which such a key scene. So in the movie you have guts standing there like a lemon while griffith fondles casca. Rubbish. All they did was remove all the tension and buildup from that scene. Basically every scene they changed from the manga was worse, it's really bad. Manga purist detected/10. I never can take people like this seriously There's nothing wrong with what he/she said, it's pretty much honest-to-god truth. But, if you wanna retort with ad hominems, here: Kek. Anime-only apologist/10. |
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| I strongly disagree. The movies are not only very ugly animated, they are shallow as well, not capturing the atmosphere or the depth of the manga at all. I literally skimmed through most of the second and third movie, because they were so cringey... The eclipse event looked like some crappy hentai sequence. It was painful to watch, and not in a good way. Guts was acting like a spastic and Casca was moaning like a typical hentai girl... so fucking cringe... Also: 1997 anime: 625 mins ( still with plently of characters and chapters cut out) Movie-trilogy combined: 266 mins How the f*ck can anyone think the movies are better...? |
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