Berserk is so uncomfortably…human.
Berserk is one of my favorite mangas thus far, there’s just nothing really like it, and not to say that there isn’t any other good mangas or works of art or fiction out there, there definitely is but story’s like berserk are special in their own way.
Upon my second time reading the manga, appreciating the art and taking in every detail especially during the golden age arc since that’s the part I’m currently on, it think it’s heavily under appreciated how Kentaro Miura adds real life or real world elements into the story especially on the topic of human nature. It’s more than just extremely edgy or fucked up manga with a nihilistic undertone, it’s the dark of side of humanity that people are repulsed by or try to suppress or hide because it is ugly by our moralistic standards but the way Kentaro Miura draws and conveys it in his story is so ironically beautiful, and it’s so fucking layered especially with the symbolism aswell, like I have never read something so simple on the surface but so intricate deep down.