Hello and welcome to this week's PCJ Pop.
My name is Shauna and I'm Olivia.
And this week for my PCJ Pop, I am going to talk about what is widely considered one of
the greatest anime's of all time, even though it only lasted one season.
So yes, so Berserk is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series by Kentaro Miora.
Sorry if I said that wrong.
It is an ongoing manga series, but it was adapted to an anime in 1997 and only ran for one
season.
This anime is so insane.
It follows guts.
He is known as the Black Swordsman and when we first see him, he is this disgruntled warrior
with this humongous oversized sword.
One eye is permanently closed.
He's been through some shit.
We don't know what.
Jump into the next episode and it tells the entire story of the ship that he went through.
So he was a lone...
No, he was a lone Swordsman who joined a band of mercenaries led by this...
A band of men.
Pretty much.
There is a lady in it, but it is a mercenary group led by a very charismatic leader named
Griffith.
Griffith is handsome and blonde and charming and rides on a white steed and all the women
love him, right?
And it follows the story of his relationship with Griffith and the rest of the band of Hawk
and ultimately what led him to be that disgruntled messed up warrior that we see in that future jump.
I won't spoil it even though it did come out in 1997.
Pair, we're recommending they watch it.
I did randomly date a blonde man named Griffith.
Oh, in real life.
Was he a good person?
He was nice.
He's a true man.
I'm dating one, so I guess right.
I am trusting one.
Blake is the only...
He's the exception to the rule.
He's the one blonde man we can trust.
But yeah, this anime is extremely triggering.
It is very, very hyper-violent.
Blood and guts in limbs, in sex and sexual assault and demons.
It is really fucked up and depressing and I could not get enough of it, right?
It is...
It was so...
I don't know if you're telling me on that last couple of seconds.
Oh my gosh.
It's messed up and depressing and I loved it.
So fucked up.
And I loved it.
I couldn't stop watching it.
Every time we finished an episode, I was like, can we please watch the next episode of
The Zirk?
I need to see what leads him to be that...
Like that depressed monstrous guy that we see in that future jump.
Because when he starts at the band of the Hawk, they're going in adventures together, right?
They're defeating bad guys.
And we see him in the future jump and he's all alone.
So it was so difficult to...
Where were you watching?
You can watch it on Crunchyroll.
Fun fact though.
It was so difficult to adapt this into an anime.
They tried making it remaking in 2017 with plans to continue it and it was so horribly reviewed.
They did like a CG version of it.
It's widely thought that it's never going to get a season two and it will never be adapted
to anime ever again.
So if you want to know what happens after that first season, you have to read the manga.
That's too damn bad.
And there's a million volumes of this and each one is like that thick.
So I think I'm about to get in real deep into some reading here soon.
But my Pop for the week is going to be the 1997 Berserk anime adaptation.
And that is your PCJ Pop for the week.
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