1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,280 Hello and welcome to this week's PCJ Pop. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,280 My name is Shauna and I'm Olivia. 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:21,640 And this week for my PCJ Pop, I am going to talk about what is widely considered one of 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:28,680 the greatest anime's of all time, even though it only lasted one season. 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:36,920 So yes, so Berserk is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series by Kentaro Miora. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,480 Sorry if I said that wrong. 7 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:50,000 It is an ongoing manga series, but it was adapted to an anime in 1997 and only ran for one 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,440 season. 9 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,080 This anime is so insane. 10 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,120 It follows guts. 11 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,840 He is known as the Black Swordsman and when we first see him, he is this disgruntled warrior 12 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,520 with this humongous oversized sword. 13 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,920 One eye is permanently closed. 14 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,880 He's been through some shit. 15 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,960 We don't know what. 16 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:20,240 Jump into the next episode and it tells the entire story of the ship that he went through. 17 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,760 So he was a lone... 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:31,320 No, he was a lone Swordsman who joined a band of mercenaries led by this... 19 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:33,560 A band of men. 20 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,560 Pretty much. 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:40,980 There is a lady in it, but it is a mercenary group led by a very charismatic leader named 22 00:01:40,980 --> 00:01:41,980 Griffith. 23 00:01:41,980 --> 00:01:48,880 Griffith is handsome and blonde and charming and rides on a white steed and all the women 24 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,440 love him, right? 25 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,360 And it follows the story of his relationship with Griffith and the rest of the band of Hawk 26 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:04,120 and ultimately what led him to be that disgruntled messed up warrior that we see in that future jump. 27 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:08,120 I won't spoil it even though it did come out in 1997. 28 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,000 Pair, we're recommending they watch it. 29 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I did randomly date a blonde man named Griffith. 30 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Oh, in real life. 31 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Was he a good person? 32 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 He was nice. 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 He's a true man. 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,120 I'm dating one, so I guess right. 35 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,800 I am trusting one. 36 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:26,800 Blake is the only... 37 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,800 He's the exception to the rule. 38 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,680 He's the one blonde man we can trust. 39 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,040 But yeah, this anime is extremely triggering. 40 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,920 It is very, very hyper-violent. 41 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:47,120 Blood and guts in limbs, in sex and sexual assault and demons. 42 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:53,000 It is really fucked up and depressing and I could not get enough of it, right? 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 It is... 44 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 It was so... 45 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,360 I don't know if you're telling me on that last couple of seconds. 46 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,360 Oh my gosh. 47 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:03,040 It's messed up and depressing and I loved it. 48 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,040 So fucked up. 49 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,040 And I loved it. 50 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,000 I couldn't stop watching it. 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,200 Every time we finished an episode, I was like, can we please watch the next episode of 52 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,200 The Zirk? 53 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,360 I need to see what leads him to be that... 54 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,440 Like that depressed monstrous guy that we see in that future jump. 55 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,200 Because when he starts at the band of the Hawk, they're going in adventures together, right? 56 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,960 They're defeating bad guys. 57 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,520 And we see him in the future jump and he's all alone. 58 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,600 So it was so difficult to... 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,600 Where were you watching? 60 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,320 You can watch it on Crunchyroll. 61 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,320 Fun fact though. 62 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,760 It was so difficult to adapt this into an anime. 63 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:47,080 They tried making it remaking in 2017 with plans to continue it and it was so horribly reviewed. 64 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,080 They did like a CG version of it. 65 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,400 It's widely thought that it's never going to get a season two and it will never be adapted 66 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,200 to anime ever again. 67 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,520 So if you want to know what happens after that first season, you have to read the manga. 68 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,640 That's too damn bad. 69 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,960 And there's a million volumes of this and each one is like that thick. 70 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:12,560 So I think I'm about to get in real deep into some reading here soon. 71 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:20,400 But my Pop for the week is going to be the 1997 Berserk anime adaptation. 72 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,800 And that is your PCJ Pop for the week. 73 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 [Music]