Berserk

One of the most successful adult manga ever, with over 29 million copies sold. Berserk is a dark fantasy manga by Kentaro Miura. The setting for the series was inspired by medieval Europe, with the story centering around the life of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior, and his relationship to Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the Band of the Hawk.

The Series premiered in Japan in 1988, it was translated and released in US in 2003 and made it's first appearance in Europe in 1996.

An 25 episode anime series first aired in 1997, the story taken largely intact, though some characters, and the most violent or brutal scenes, were modified or removed.

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