Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King poster

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King

ベルセルク 黄金時代篇I 覇王の卵

2012 ·1h 16m · ★ 7.2 (535)

Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?

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Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
85
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
33
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
86
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
60
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
18
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
67
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
17
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
71
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
66
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Body HorrorDehumanization
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adventureanimebased on mangadark fantasydemongoremercenaryseinensorcerysword fight

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