Anime · Nippon TV
Berserk
This sword is the proof that I have lived.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Nobutoshi Canna
Guts (voice)
25 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Griffith (voice)
25 eps
Yuko Miyamura
Casca (voice)
25 eps
Tomohiro Nishimura
Corkus (voice)
25 eps
Unsho Ishizuka
Narrator (voice)
25 eps
Akira Ishida
Judeau (voice)
25 eps
Akiko Yajima
Rickert (voice)
25 eps
Masuo Amada
Pippin (voice)
2 eps
Tomoe Hanba
Collette (voice)
1 eps
Ryuji Mizuno
Julius (voice)
6 eps
Toshiko Sawada
Queen (voice)
5 eps
Shouto Kashii
Soldier B (voice)
9 eps
Kazuhiro Nakata
General A (voice)
3 eps
Kan Tokumaru
Snake Baron (voice)
1 eps
Eken Mine
Collette's Grandfather (voice)
1 eps
Ikuo Nishikawa
Minister (voice)
1 eps
Takashi Irie
Aide (voice)
1 eps
Masashi Sugawara
Dean (voice)
1 eps
Kenji Nomura
Black Ram Lieutenant (voice)
3 eps
Ikuya Sawaki
Bazuso (voice)
4 eps
Masaaki Tsukada
Minister A (voice)
3 eps
Atsushi Ii
Minister B (voice)
1 eps
Norio Wakamoto
Gambino (voice)
2 eps
Hideki Ogihara
Messenger (voice)
2 eps
Masahito Kawanago
Soldier (voice)
9 eps
Orine Fukushima
Young Guts (voice)
2 eps
Fumihiko Tachiki
Black Ram Commander (voice)
1 eps
Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi
Aide (voice)
2 eps
Shōji Ōki
Gennon (voice)
1 eps
Kenji Utsumi
Zodd (voice)
1 eps
Hiroshi Naka
Merchant (voice)
2 eps
Masayuki Nakata
Soldier B (voice)
3 eps
Hideto Ebihara
Soldier C (voice)
4 eps
Yasuyuki Kase
Band Member B (voice)
4 eps
Toru Okawa
Laban (voice)
2 eps
Eiji Maruyama
Minister A (voice)
1 eps
Eiji Sekiguchi
Band Member A (voice)
6 eps
Yuji Fujishiro
Minister B (voice)
1 eps
Tessyo Genda
Adon (voice)
3 eps
Hiroyuki Yokoo
Raider A (voice)
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Berserk actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Berserk reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E10
Nobleman
Guts, sent by Griffith, assassinates Yurius and his son Adonis. Griffith gets closer to Charlotte. The Hawks depart for yet another mission.
S01E22
Infiltration
With Guts help, Casca and the Hawks hope to rescue Griffith.
S01E19
Separation
Griffith will not let Guts simply leave. He says that Guts belongs to him.
S01E13
Prepared for Death
Guts and Casca try to fight their way back to the Hawks while the enemy army they were fighting from before try to stop them.
S01E21
Confession
Guts returns in time to save the remaining Hawks from annihilation.
S01E14
Bonfire of Dreams
Casca finds Judeau's division of Hawks and leads them back to where Guts was fighting alone. Although injured, he defeated all the enemy soldiers by himself. They return to the Hawks' camp and Casca tends to Guts' wounds.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E25
Time of Eternity
S01E24
The Great Eclipse
S01E23
Eve of the Feast
S01E22
Infiltration
S01E21
Confession
S01E20
Sparks
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Makoto ItakuraWriter
- Atsuhiro TomiokaWriter
- Shouji YonemuraWriter
- Shikichi OhashiWriter
- Shinzo FujitaWriter
Direction
- Yasuhiro GeshiDirector
- Kazuya TsurumakiDirector
- Mihiro YamaguchiDirector
- Yasuhiro MatsumuraDirector
- Naohito TakahashiDirector
- Koji FukasawaDirector
Cinematography
- Mitsunobu YoshidaDirector of Photography
Music
- Susumu HirasawaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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