This is a tale of friendship, betrayal and lots of bloodshed, a tale of a young mercenary named Guts...
From the moment he was brought into this world from his dead mother's womb, he has constantly been forced to fight, never owning a single friend in his life.
That's until the day we see him fighting a huge armored clad warrior, barely surviving the battle himself.
After recieving his reward he leaves and finds himself ambushed by a bunch of mercenaries belonging
to the "Band of the Hawks", little did he know that after battling it out with their skillful leader, Griffith, that
he would serve under the very man that would one day become his most trusted friend.
The tale of Guts has just begun...

The manga presents itself in a future time first, then slowly works it's way back to the originating scheme of things. It's an original story with slight humor, but lacks a happy atmosphere. Berserk is certainly for those that enjoy a dark manga, a change from a happy ending esque pace most stories tell. As for originality, the protagonist is a sword wielding, straight forward human, along with fairies, witches, and demons mixed in a bag of nuts, called people that have more baggage than they can carry. Life, in all walks, is portrayed in the darkest of ages when people succumb to immoral and infernal deed amongst others.

I couldn’t stop reading the manga once picked up and I usually don’t read like a maniac all that much anyway.