#the manga is gr8

[nururu]

oh btw I kept watching chainsaw man a lil bit last night and yeah sorry for being all skeptical at first about the animation bc... it's actually so good.... it was making me feel nostalgic feelings, feelings I haven't felt from an anime in forever.

[kolomo]

@animangacreators challenge 3: alphabet challenge ↳ f ⋆ fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood (2009)

"It's true, beyond this gateway lies everything about alchemy. However, I've been manipulated because of it. After having been shown the so-called truth, I was convinced that I could solve everything with alchemy. But I was wrong. That was just arrogance." "You would lower yourself to become just a normal person, unable to use alchemy?" "Lower myself nothing. I've been just a person from the start."

[mokuba]

good golly the man that you are…….

[soullistrations]

[zenosanalytic]

Can we talk about how handsome Senshi is, cuz Senshi's Pretty FUCKING Handsome u_u u_u u_u

[inkykeiji]

Yk what would be funny, reader having a crush on shigaraki while he was a twink with his short blue hair. A gamerboy who visited the arcade often. She's stealing glances at him while they play games there and time passes, canon stuff happens but shigaraki (long white hair in a suit, more mascular) does confront reader but reader is like (who are you... wheres the gamer twink at?)

HAHAHA omg anon i love this so much, that’s actually so cute ehehe (*/ω＼*) they really are two different evolutions of tomura like,, they both retain his core traits, but those traits manifest so differently between the two versions. i love muscular Daddy Bossman tomura but i do miss scrawny virgin gamer boy tomura quite a bit

[humanoidtyphoons]

my brother, like a fool: they could cut little garden

me, who has not even reached that part yet: no!!!! dorry and brogy!!!!! they're too important!!!!!

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i’m still reading trimax btw, i mostly have the anime pulled up so i can like. watch it and make sure I know For Sure what happened in the manga bc i’m notoriously terrible at reading manga

[bthump]

hello! i hope im not bothering you with this ask or anything, but i really love your blog and the thoughts you write, so i wanted to ask if you any other titles you would reccomend that are similar to berserk (not necessarily in terms of setting, but mostly the Vibe) and deal with similar themes (i watched and read devilman!). i would accept anything tbh, be it a book or movie or a series. thanks in advance, hope you have a good week! :)

Thank you very much, and yeah I'd be happy to rec a few other things I like that have some similarities! Some of these similarities are pretty thin lol, but tbf Berserk is pretty unique, at least in terms of media I'm into, and I've seen some good homoerotic movies recently.

Anime/Manga:

Claymore is compared to Berserk fairly regularly, and it's not just for the big swords. There's no griffguts equivalent, but it's got medieval fantasy monster hunting vibes, similar themes wrt human nature (though more shounen, power of love-esque lol), great action scenes and cool monster designs, and a lot of great female characters with interesting relationships, which isn't similar to Berserk but it's a bonus by itself.

I've also seen Vinland Saga compared to Berserk, and again there's no griffguts equivalent, but there's a very Griffith-esque character who has an AU where Griffith became king the old fashioned way vibe, and a central theme is revenge.

An anon a while ago made the point to me that Light from Death Note is similar to Griffith in a few ways, such as wanting to create a kind of ideal world, and being very charismatic and having culty followers who view him as a god.

Books:

tbh I have a bad memory for books I've read, but here are a couple I read specifically because of Berserk similarities:

I read As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann because I was told it had griffguts vibes, and it did. Medieval lone wolf is recruited by idealistic blond mercenary who wants to create a utopia, falls in love with him, and gets fucked over. It's very dark, darker in some ways than Berserk, but it was a good read imo. More in depth post on it with warnings here.

Captive Prince by CS Pacat is known for the author having based one of the characters partially on Griffith, and you can tell lol. It's a fun read if you don't mind or are into the tropey sex slave setting, with an engaging gay romance that has surface similarities to griffguts, though the vibe of the relationship was fairly different to me. But like, the political scheming felt like a Golden Age AU to me. It's been a while since I've read it but for warnings there's rape, csa, incest, and sex slavery not portrayed positively but like, used as erotic scene setting if that's a dealbreaker.

TV Shows:

Hannibal! It's got intense homoeroticism, it's got betrayal, it's got an operatic level of intensity, it's fun to dissect analytically, violence revenge and trauma are significant themes, one character tries to escape his life ruining feelings for the other by killing him, and it's just a great time.

Yellowjackets also has strong themes of violence and how it's a temptation, and though I wouldn't compare any of the relationships to griffguts exactly, there's an intense tragic homoerotic friendship that haunts one of the characters decades later.

Xena has a campy overpowered anti hero dressed in black leather wrestling with their inner darkness and in love with a blonde, also a flirty exes kind of relationship with a god (though that's hetero lol). Not really similar tonally and no griffguts equivalent, but it's got some similar themes wrt violence, revenge, human connection saving your soul from darkness, etc, and it's a gr8, fun show.

Black Sails has a kind of love vs revenge thing going on, as well as an attempt to overturn the social order and create a utopian kingdom. In some ways it's similar in tone as well, often pretty dark and violent, but with some very funny moments, and set in a fictionalized historical setting. No griffguts equivalent, but all these shows are extremely gay.

Movies:

Ladyhawke gets a lot of comparisons to Berserk, and may have been one of Miura's inspirations since he cited Rutger Hauer movies. Starcrossed wolf and hawk themed lovers, medieval setting, significant eclipse, it's got the vibes.

Hellraiser is one of Miura's stated inspirations iirc, and I mean yeah lol. It's the godhand as sadomasochists. Idk that there's that much in common in terms of theme, but the aesthetic is there.

Yk what? The Lost Boys. Homoerotic, campy fun, brooding teen is recruited into a gang and has sexual tension with the leader... that should count.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture starts with Spock trying to purge all his emotions after we can only assume breaking up with Kirk, and failing, and it's a parallel to a godlike being learning to love.

Okay hear me out on this one... Sweet Smell of Success is like if there was no Guts and instead the homoeroticism was between Griffith and the King, and it was set in the New York world of 50s gossip columnists, and look, I recently watched and adored this movie and I want to rec it. And hey, it's about doing fucked up shit to feed your ambition and being pretty and charming while you do it.

The Favourite is about a servant seducing and manipulating her way to power in a royal court, kind of an f!Griffith AU without a Guts if you look at it a certain way. But also it's another movie I love and want to rec based on at least one similarity lol.

Uh, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is about a dude wanting to fuck a hot charismatic and guilt-ridden blond guy but being too repressed to go for it? Great movie in general. Also Midnight Cowboy is about trauma induced gay repression while we're at it.

And finally, Paul Verhoeven's sci fi trifecta of Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers have virtually nothing in common with Berserk in terms of theme, character, relationships, etc. But the tone feels exactly like the Black Swordsman arc to me lol, to the point where I've always said that the only live action Hollywood adaption of Berserk I'd accept is the one Verhoeven directed in the 90s in an alternate universe. Miura was directly inspired by one of his 80s movies that I've never seen, Flesh and Blood, and yeah, I feel like you can kind of feel the inspiration.

I have other rec lists, as well as things people have recced to me often on the basis of similarities to Berserk/griffguts that I haven't checked out yet, in this tag, so I'd highly recommend browsing through it for more media suggestions. And if anyone wants to jump in with more recs for things that remind you of Berserk in some way, please do!

[zenosanalytic]

#this is the best manga in the whole world(via@roach-works)

Damn Straight it is ^w^

Source: Delicious in Dungeon Danjon Meshi ダンジョン飯

by Ryōko Kui

[joy-crimes]

Hi sorry if you've answered this before but I finished IFTV in one sitting and now I have too much yuri brainrot

What other yuri manga is your favorite/would you highly recommend?

i followed it up with gundam witch of mercury (not a manga but a good show)

then bloom into you which is a pretty quick read and an EXCELLENT romance

Uhhhh there’s uhhh executioner and her way of life (i think this one is a light novel series but i watched the anime and it was gr8)

im currently watching Revue Starlight and oh my god its incredible so far???????

also this isn’t technically yuri per se, but if you need a good wlw romance that will be the most beautiful and moving thing youve ever read, please check out This Is How You Lose the Time War

[skiptoyuri]

it’s so interesting to me how so many Skip and Loafer fans also read ASLFUA. So wild because, like, same. I binged S&L in one day and then the next week I discovered Unripe Apples. Now I’m desperately obsessed with both

YEAH i feel liek i have the biggest manga/manhwa overlap with my skiptuals its really fun!!! no home is another big one too, at least around these parts and despite the uh. general tonal differences 😁. i started skippy march of last year and didnt get around to aslfua until may but its been gr8

[regalvoid]

Welcome to another addition of my currently running Manga recommendations

MARRIAGETOXIN: awkward assassin Gero needs to find someone to marry and fast or else his family will force his older sister to break up with her girlfriend, and marry a man to become head of the family. With the help of marriage swindler Kinosaki, Gero pivots from killing to protecting in order to meet women.  Great comedy, art and characters. It can be goofy jokey one moment and jump to a deadly serious battle the next.

OSHI NO KO: A fantastic read, an amazing recent anime adaptation. A nuisance take on celebrity/idol culture in japan. I cannot possibly do it justice describing it anymore, just read it

The Ichinose Family’s Deadly Sins: The entire family has amnesia after a car crash. The family sets out to learn about themselves and uncover mysteries along the way. The art can be a barrier for some but it really elevates the frantic and uncertain feel of the story.  If you liked Taizan 5′s other work Takopi’s Original Sin, you’re gonna dig this too.

Me and my Gangster Neighbor: 10 year old Yuuhi lives alone most of the time since his Uncle is frequently away on business trips. One day his upstairs neighbor Mr. Aoi falls through the ceiling. An unlikely friendship forms and slice-of-life antics ensue. This manga is wholesome on wholesome.

There are plenty of other gr8 series running but these are some of my favs : )

[zenosanalytic]

I also love that an aspect of this is the Demon itself; that it is a being which is naturally complete and in need of nothing, which set the whole process off by accidentally learning Hunger(a hunger which can never be filled because, again, the Demon is complete; it doesn't need to eat to live or grow so it's hunger CANNOT fulfill the purpose hunger is meant to and cannot be sated), and stumbles into this by trying to help!

Like: whatever maliciousness there is in any of these characters is the result of being caught in circumstances beyond their control, ignorance, or the imperatives of survival, and the solution to every situation is Understanding and Compassion(and a good meal uwu)

the thing about dungeon meshi which i am always thinking about is that like. inherently desire is not bad. wanting something is not bad it does not make you a bad person it is instinct in all living things to want to fill our bellies, to find love, to experience happiness. it is a good thing to fulfill your needs as a person and as a being living among other beings on this earth! it is just that when desires are heightened, when they become wild and unchecked, when they turn into rampant greed and destruction and swallow without tasting-- that's when you start to have problems! when your desire becomes so focused that you stop listening to what other people say, even at the expense of their lives, when you become selfish and obsessed and unable to stop your own pursuit towards your unattainable desire... that's the demon's paradox. it feeds your desire without showing you how you can really quench it.

[zenosanalytic]

Just finished Dungeon Meshi; what a great story uwu uwu

[kinkandkreep]

welcome to the tokyo rev fandom!

my best piece of advice when diving into the TR tumblr world is be wary of spoilers! i was spoiled a few times with manga talk before i started reading it and i’d hate to see it happen to you!

i already love that you have Hanma on your future writing list (if you didn’t notice, he’s my fave hehehe~)

side note; i wouldn’t follow me back bc some of my writing and posts do contain things that are manga only, BUT you can PM me just to talk about the gang or bounce writing ideas!

i just wanted to formally welcome you and encourage this new journey 🤗 we need more TR writers!

can’t wait to see your work! have a gr8 day~

Hey hey hun!! 👋🏾😁

Thank you kindly for the incredibly warm welcome! 🥺

Initially, I thought I was trippin' seein' the lack of content for Tokyo Rev, and maybe some of that is me and how well I actually searched, but I'm glad I can now contribute to providing content for the people. 😤

Also, I appreciate your concern as it relates to me being spoiled, but honestly, and this always strikes people as strange when I tell them, I've never been the type to be bothered by spoilers. Even for series I'm actively keeping up with (which isn't many at all 🙃), I hate being kept in suspense so I don't ever really mind knowing what happens before I see it for myself.

That probably sounds real crazy, I'm sorry. 😂

But yes! Thank you again for sending this in and for your encouragement! Definitely be on the lookout for the good stuff I've got headed y'alls way!

Have a good one!👋🏾