ANIME CRUSH / CLASSICS1997 · DARK FANTASY

Berserk

Limited animation used honestly: strong silhouettes, heavy ink shadows, and background paintings carrying the gaps.

1997 · 25 episodes · Nippon Television Network

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02  -  The world

The world

A television budget, spent on silhouette

Twenty-five episodes in 1997, adapted from Kentaro Miura’s manga. The animation is limited and the series never pretends otherwise: it spends what it has on held compositions, heavy ink shadow and painted backgrounds, and lets a still frame carry a scene that a richer production would have moved through.

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Year
1997
Format
25 episodes
Episodes
25
Studio
Nippon Television Network
04  -  From the newsroom

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Where to start, and what changes

The 1997 series, the films and the manga cover the same arc and do not agree on it. Our watch order lays out the routes; the comparison piece says what each one leaves behind.

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