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official website for the upcoming Berserk anime has revealed a new promo video and key visual ahead of the show's upcoming July 1 premiere. 9mm Parabellum Bullet will sing the opening theme song "Inferno." A new key visual for the show can be seen below. The voice cast features Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts, Kaoru Mizuhara as Puck, Hiro Shimono as Isidro, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Serpico and Yōko Hikasa as Farnese. Manga creator Kentarou Miura is serving as executive producer of the anime. Nagi Yanagi will perform the anime's ending theme song "Meimoku no Kanata" (Beyond Closed Eyes). Crunchyroll has secured rights for a simulcast.
Berserk is a Japanese, fantasy manga series from celebrated mangaka Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world, the story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the Band of the Hawk. Oriental Light and Magic produced a 25-episode anime adaptation that aired from 1997-98. A three-part animated film series was released in 2012 which retold the Golden Age arc, which was previously depicted in the '98 anime.
BERSERK MANGA ARCS
Black Swordsman Arc - Vol. 1 -Vol.3 (partial)
Golden Age Arc - Vol. 3 (partial) - Vol. 14
Conviction Arc - Vol. 14 (partial) - Vol. 21
Falcon of the Millenium Empire Arc - Vol. 22 - Vol. 35 (partial)
Fantasia Arc - Vol. 35 (partial) - ongoing
The 1997 anime featured a heavily condensced adaptation of the Black Swordsman arc for the first episode before tackling the Gold Age arc for the remaining 24 episodes. In 2012, a three-part film series was released, which retold the Golden Age arc using cgi animation and adhered to the manga more closely. It should be noted that despite being published first, the events of the Black Swordsman arc occur AFTER the Golden Age arc. In short, the Golden Age arc is a flashback. With it being the earliest chronological point in the series, it stands to reason that's why both the anime series and films started with the Golden Age arc.
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