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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King (2012)

Directed by Toshiyuki Kubooka

Overview

Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?

Rated NC-17 | Length 76 minutes

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Viewing History (seen 1 time)


Date Viewed	Device	Format	Source	Rating
04/08/2015	TV	Streaming	Video on Demand	4.5 stars
				(Average) 4.5 stars

Viewing Notes

via Netflix

Loner Guts is recruited by Griffith and his band of mercenaries, but their ensuing success as a full-fledged army could lead to a horrible fate. Based off the manga and assembled from footage in the anime series, this is the first of three films that set out to tell the story of the manga and complete where the tv series left off. Even though this is assembled from the anime, where a lot of shows that do this kind of fall apart, they made a god choice to make this into three films as they still have time to tell the story while keeping the plot to a bit less than sedate pace. It’s still as amazing to watch as I remember and while we get a bit less time with the mercenaries, the core story between Guts and Griffith remains intact. Definitely hoping Netflix ends up getting the other two parts or at the very least I’ll end up hunting the films down to buy on my own.

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