Berserk – 01 – O Espadachim Negro (1997)

Berserk (ベルセルク Beruseruku?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a dark fantasy world inspired by medieval Europe, the story revolves around Guts, a lone mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a band of mercenaries called the "Band of the Falcon". Miura published a Berserk one-shot in 1988. The series began serializing the following year in the now-defunct Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1992 by the bimonthly Young Animal, where Berserk continues to be serialized intermittently. Miura passed away in May 2021, leaving the manga's publication fate undecided.

Berserk was adapted into a 25-episode anime television series by Oriental Light and Magic, which adapted the Golden Age arc and ran from October 7, 1997 to March 31, 1998. The Golden Age was again adapted in a film trilogy; the first two films premiered in 2012, and the third film premiered in 2013. A second 24-episode television anime adaptation was broadcast for two seasons between 2016 and 2017.

As of May 2021, the Berserk manga has over 50 million copies in circulation, including digital versions, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. The manga received the Excellence Award at the sixth edition of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in 2002. Berserk was widely acclaimed by critics, who stood out for its dark universe, quality in the development of the narrative and characters, and especially for the detailed art of the drawings. in