I was looking at the youtube video of the trailer for the 3rd Berserk movie and I had a quick look at some of the comments, and contrary to what me and everyone I've talked to there were a lot of people complaining about the movies and that they were almost ready to give up on them. There were several reasons but one of the main ones and most interesting to me, was the thought that there was way to much censorship in the movies. In case you didn't know, Berserk is a VERY graphic manga, with regards to blood, gore, and *ahem* certain body parts. It never shys away from anything. And in my opinion the movies didn't really do anything to change that, there are several parts where they go "Look Boobies!" and we're all like "cool story bro" and there is more than enough blood and guts to satisfy the biggest sadist. I personally very much like how they handled it, for the most part. Because like the manga they never shy away from being up front about life in the middle ages, (even though it isn't technically in the middle ages it's is very much based in them) so the fact that when Casca is caught by the soldiers while running through the forest and they promptly tear open her shirt, that is just gritty reality of the time. It is never really used in a way that is truly distracting and rather is part of reading/watching Berserk. (this is outside of the scene between Griffith and Charlotte at the end of the 2nd movie, which I'll get to later) And I think that really the only things that they censored were the spots where it was distracting, for instance at the end of the first movie when Griffith is talking to Charlotte by the fountain, in the manga that fountain is a whole bunch of naked mermaids making out with each other. It's kind of like, "Hey yo, Griffith is making an important speech here that highly effects how the story turns out." and you think, "cool fountain" in the manga it's more along the lines of "Hey yo, Griffith is BOOBIES! making an im-BOOBIES-portant speech here that BOOBIES highly effects how the BOOBIES will turn out" it is just distracting, stuff like that I really dislike anyways, so cutting that is fine with me. However the end of the 2nd movie with Griffith and Charlotte has to be addressed, first off, that was straight up hentai, and whats even more frustrating to me is that it isn't anything like that in the manga! If it had been that long and drawn out in the manga I would have a much less valid argument, but in the manga all it shows is a shot of the maid looking through the keyhole and seeing some serious love making going on. Not a page, not several panels, One. Single. Panel. But in the movie they decide to make it like 3 minutes long and it is super graphic, it is just bad all around. I am really not in favor of stuff like that. However looking forward, SPOILER ALERT!!!! (and I'm going to delve a little bit into the manga here too) in the next movie, I hope that the scene during the eclipse concerning Griffith and Casca, I hope is not censored at all, that is a good example of a time where it is well used. Because in the manga all of this is a flashback and you know that Guts hates Griffith. You as the reader see it the same way you would with most manga/anime rivalries, and to contrast, in One Piece when someone pisses Luffy off it's like "Ok he is really angry" But in Berserk, because you didn't just hear about what Griffith did, you had to watch it, endure it, the same way Guts does. Guts can do nothing but scream while hopelessly watching, just as you the reader can do nothing but helplessly turn the page. It isn't enjoyable at all. It makes you angry, it makes you hate Griffith. So then when Gut's is going after Griffith you don't get the Luffy "Oh he bout to open a can of whoop-ass. Caus he pissed" you see Guts going insane trying to get Griffith and go "Wow, I want him to open a can of whoop-ass because I'm pissed." it's the difference between how much Guts hates Griffith and you being an observer of it, and you yourself sharing in his hatred. It just in general gives everything a lot of extra "umph" That is all.
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