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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition
All darkness… eclipses light.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Hiroaki Iwanaga
Guts (voice)
13 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Griffith (voice)
13 eps
Toa Yukinari
Casca (voice)
13 eps
Kendo Kobayashi
Bazuso (voice)
13 eps
Minako Kotobuki
Rickert (voice)
13 eps
Takahiro Fujiwara
Pippin (voice)
13 eps
Yoshiro Matsumoto
Corkus (voice)
13 eps
Yuki Kaji
Judeau (voice)
13 eps
Kazuki Yao
Gaston (voice)
13 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
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
When lone swordsman Guts is defeated in a duel by Griffith, ambitious leader of the Band of the Hawk mercenaries, he now must fight for him. Distrustful of all at first, through hard-fought battles, he soon begins to bond with his new comrades and their leader. As they rise in rank to a full-fledged army, he begins to harbor doubts about a life lived by the blade, unaware a dreadful fate that awaits.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
Campfire of Dreams
Guts begins to question his place in the Band of the Hawk, while Griffith puts the band in play for his riskiest gambit yet.
- Written by Ichiro Okouchi
S01E03
Master of the Sword
Griffith has Guts carry out a high-risk mission for him, while he himself grows better acquainted with Princess Charlotte.
- Written by Ichiro Okouchi
S01E04
Prepared for Death
After being separated from the Band of the Hawk during a battle, Guts and Casca must fight for their lives against hostile Tudor forces.
- Written by Ichiro Okouchi
S01E01
The Golden Age
A young mercenary loner named Guts distinguishes himself in battle during a siege. As fate would have it, he also happens to catch the eye of Griffith, the charismatic young leader of the Band of the Hawk.
- Written by Ichiro Okouchi
S01E02
Nosferatu Zodd
Griffith and the Band of the Hawk are rapidly gaining favor in the eyes of the king of Midland, but not everyone is pleased. During a battle, Guts and Griffith encounter an enemy like none they've ever faced.
- Written by Ichiro Okouchi
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
- Ichiro OkouchiWriter
Direction
- Yuta SanoDirector
- Toshiyuki KubookaDirector
Music
- Shiro SagisuOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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