Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka
Production: Studio 4°C
Writer: Ichirō Ōkouchi
Music: Shirō Sagisu and Susumu Hirasawa
Release date: June 23, 2012
An action horror manga spanning decades of serialization; Berserk stars Guts, a man cursed since birth to live only a life of war and battle, and focuses on his life through the years he was a member of an elite mercenary group. Started in 1990, and still running, the manga has been reworked into several other forms: novelization, several video games, and an anime. To this day, the biggest complaint fans have had regarding the games and anime was that there wasn't enough of it; these additions to Berserk’s main story only follow one arc from the story, and that there hasn't been any new material to keep their fancy since the PS2 game released in 2004. Well, the long wait is almost over, and it was totally worth it.
In September of 2010, it was announced that a new movie project, titled "Berserk: Golden Age Arc" would be released as a trilogy, covering the back story of Guts in glorious high definition and superior movie production quality. On February 4th 2012, Part 1 was released, and many a fan watched in euphoric bloody joy at the cinematic opening to Guts' life. Many others who didn't know what "all the hoo-haa" was all about suddenly found themselves clearing the manga stores out of their back issues to catch up on all that they missed. The real wait, however, is for the 23rd of June when Part 2 is released in Japanese theaters. While Part 1 served as a nice opening and introduction to the characters and back story, Part 2 is the heart and crux of the legend, where the plots of the future are established and the points of notoriety are made. The release date for the conclusive Part 3 has yet to be announced, aside from "later in 2012", but suffice to say that after the record-breaking sales in movie theater tickets expected this summer, that everyone will be on the watch-list for the fall showings.
Coming soon to Japanese theaters: Berserk: Golden Age Arc 2
Berserk: Golden Age Arc 2 trailer
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