Berserk Deluxe Edition 1 Review

Long-time readers know I’m not usually much of a manga reader. I prefer to read prose. But I’ve been needing to expand my reading, so I jumped into the first deluxe edition of Berserk.

Berserk fans won’t be happy with me. I can summarize my reading of first volume in a word: meh.

It’s not a bad story for what it is, but I grew up on high-fantasy novels, so the beginning of the story feels pretty standard. Guts is a fairly standard unlikeable character: tormented by his inner demons, violently l...