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Griffith, charismatic leader of the elite mercenary Band of the Hawk, has seen better days. His fearless champion, Guts, has left the Band, defeating Griffith in personal combat as his ticket out. With his judgment clouded by this unthinkable humiliation, Griffith eases his pain in the arms of the daughter of Midland’s king. But the King doesn’t take kindly to an employee picking the royal flowers, and the next stop for Griffith is the dungeon and the torture rack! Without Griffith and Guts, the Hawks become easy prey for Midland’s army, and the AWOL Guts may be the only answer to the Hawks'' — and Griffith’s — lethal problems. FOR MATURE READERS.

After a hellish battle against ravenous sea monsters, Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions are forced to seek refuge on a small island so that their ship can be repaired. But this island is not the safe haven they’d hoped for — it’s a sinister place rife with dark energy, watched over by an ancient, vengeful god. And with a full moon on the rise, that god’s power is about to be unleashed... FOR MATURE READERS.

Thanks to Lady Farnese''s selfless sacrifice, Guts, the Black Swordsman, and the rest of his companions are free to carry on their journey aboard the ship of Farnese''s brother, Magnifico — that is, if they''re willing to leave Farnese behind. But having to choose between their mission and their loyalties might not be a problem for long if the Kushan emperor and his legion of monstrous minions have their way. With a host of Kushan forces descending on Vritannis, there might not be much left of Farnese''s family — or any of the citizenry — to worry about! FOR MATURE READERS.

Two feudal kingdoms, Midland and Chuder, battle for supremacy in what will become the final clash in a century-long struggle. Spearheading the Midland forces is the Band of the Hawk, a legendary cadre of elite mercenaries led by the charismatic Griffith and with the fearless Guts as its berserker champion. The Hawks'' ferocity, courage, and fearsome skills - not to mention Guts'' enormous broadsword - are just what Midland needs to turn the bloody tide, but during the fray, Guts and Griffith''s most trusted lieutenant, Casca, fall together from a cliff into a raging river. Miraculously, both barely survive, and Guts tends to Casca''s wounds as she tells of having her life saved by Griffith, her induction into the Band of the Hawk, and her deep feelings toward Griffith. She even seems to finally be warming up to the grim Guts. But this greeting-card moment won''t last long, for Chuder warriors are on the prowl, and the only greetings they carry are on the points of their spears! FOR MATURE READERS.

Guts the Black Swordsman has again donned the accursed Berserker armor, and he’ll need all its unholy power to battle the titanic Sea God — from the inside! As the creature takes on an army of beautiful merrow, Guts plunges deep within the God to find its sole vulnerability and pierce its living heart. But even if he can manage this impossible task deep within the leviathan, how will Guts get back out? FOR MATURE READERS.

Warrior supreme Guts has been marked for sacrifice to the armies of the damned, and now he has the blood of a village of possessed children on his hands — a horde of elf-demons straight out of a fairy-tale fever dream. But now Guts must deal with the Queen of the Elves herself, and though she may be cute as a button, she has hideous power and lethal intent, and in her wake, no one lives happily ever after! FOR MATURE READERS.

The Band of the Hawk may have been the most formidable band of fighters around, but when matched up against an army of abyssal monstrosities, earthly fighting skills don’t amount to a hill of beans. The Hawks’ tortured and mutilated former leader, Griffith, has used the accursed Crimson Behelit to open the gates to a shadowy realm of unspeakable horrors, the realm of the demon lords of the Godhand, who are willing to transform Griffith into a being of terrible power and majesty as long as Griffith is willing to give up his former command as sacrifices in the Invocation of Doom. But nobody takes down the Hawks without a fight, and their berserker champion, Guts, will take on anything Hell can throw at him in order to save his lover, Casca, from the sordid violations that only Hell can offer. FOR MATURE READERS.

Hell has broken loose in the kingdom of Midland. On the death of Midland''s king comes invasion, demonic forces seem to be on the rise, underground pagan cults are running wild, and the church is busily rounding up and teaching heretics the errors of their ways. While, Guts is busy testing out his newly repaired sword on the invaders, his former captain and lover, Casca, her mind wrecked by her unholy tryst with the demon lord, has fallen in with a rough crowd who don''t exactly wish her well. But she, like Guts, is marked with the Brand of Sacrifice, and her abusers may soon find themselves face-to-face with the unholy abominations that are inexorably drawn to the Brand! FOR MATURE READERS.

He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess — relentless, fearless, merciless. As cold and brutal as the iron of the massive sword he wields. Bent on revenge against the unholy forces that have branded him for sacrifice, but especially on Griffith, one of the demon lords of the Godhand. But Griffith was once a man, the leader of the Hawks, a renowned cadre of elite fighters with a young Guts as its fiercest champion. Though forged in a crucible of cruelty and violence, nothing could prepare Guts for a confrontation with Nosferatu Zodd, a superhuman beast who slaughters Guts’ comrades as easily as a scythe cuts wheat. Even Guts and Griffith are no match for the abomination’s power...but something Griffith wears around his neck may well be! FOR MATURE READERS.

The bewildered and near-mad Casca, former captain of the Band of the Hawk — and former lover of Guts, the Black Swordsman — has been adopted by Midland’s pagan cults as a witch, due to her demonic Mark of Sacrifice. But the Holy Iron Chain Knights campaign to rid the kingdom of heretics by any means necessary puts Casca in mortal danger, and Guts is having none of it, But all parties involved may end up with more than they bargained for as demonic spirits, drawn to Casca’s brand, begin to possess the heretics and unleash the forces of hell. But hell hath no fury like the Black Swordsman! FOR MATURE READERS.

Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary unit led by Griffith, whose calm demeanor and callow beauty belied his fighting prowess and steel will. While in a king’s employ, the attraction between the king’s daughter and Griffith and the growing favor of the king towards the Hawk leader raises the hackles of the king’s jealous son, who plots to have Griffith summarily assassinated. But if the plot fails, the king’s son will likely have to deal with Guts and his titanic broadsword, and the results of such confrontations are rarely pretty... or easy to clean up. FOR MATURE READERS.

Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, is on the rampage — and it''s personal. Mozgus, the malefic master Inquisitor of the Holy See, in his murderous campaign against heretics, has captured Guts'' former lover Casca and has her at the ready to be burned at the stake in the Tower of Conviction, little knowing that Casca''s demonic Mark of Sacrifice is drawing hideous dark powers to the Tower. It''ll take everything Guts has and more to defeat Mozgus — who is much, much more than a man — and even if he can, will he be able to save Casca from the hordes of Hell amidst the inquisitor''s disintegrating citadel? FOR MATURE READERS.

Guts, the Black Swordsman, and his companions have finally broken free of the monster-infested wilderness and arrived at the port city of Vritannis. But the band finds out all too quickly that humans can be just as monstrous as the nightmarish creatures and apostles they battled in the forest. As Schierke and Isidro face off against pirate slavers, Farnese''s power-hungry family tries to force her once again under the yoke of their political ambitions. The group''s only hope is to find a ship out of the city, but even if they manage to secure a vessel, will everyone be free to leave? FOR MATURE READERS.

Escaping the port city of Vritannis is no easy task, for even the finest ship is useless if it can''t be reached, and a horde of Kushan monsters stalks the city''s docks. Led by a powerful necromancer who has mastered both the elements and the monsters of the deep, this hideous brigade may be too much for Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions to handle, even if Guts and Schierke are able to join forces and control the awful wrath of the Berserker armor. And will it even matter, if the Kushan emperor makes Guts an offer he can''t refuse? FOR MATURE READERS.

The Band of the Hawk — what''s left of them — are on the run, Guts and Casca having rescued the Hawks'' leader, Griffith, from the horrors of the King of Midland''s dungeons. Starved, tortured mercilessly and imprisoned in an iron mask, Griffith hangs to life and sanity by a thread… and he''ll be no help against the King''s latest charges sent to bring him back to pay for his dalliance with the King''s daughter. Now the depleted Hawks will have to face the Knights of the Black Dog, led by the merciless, bestial Wyald… one bad dog who''s even worse when he unleashes the beast within! FOR MATURE READERS.

Warrior supreme Guts, the Black Swordsman, has seen better days — and more popular — in the kingdom of Midland, a land he once defended as captain of the Band of the Hawk. But the Hawks were betrayed and slaughtered, and now the hyolier-than-thou Holy Iron Chain Knights have captured Guts and plan to whip some repentance into him — literally. But Guts isn’t so easily held at bay, at when he manages to escape with the Holy Knights’ leader, Farnese, as his hostage, the demons that are drawn to Guts’ Brand of Sacrifice are all too willing to show her the teeming darkness in her own soul! FOR MATURE READERS.

The Band of the Hawks’ rescue of their leader, Griffith, has brought them no ease. Broken beyond healing, a frail ghost of his former glory, Griffith is now more an object of pity than a man, and the Hawks, who’ve grimly hung together under duress and death during his absence, are now on the verge of splintering to the winds. But Griffith’s dreams and ambitions, built on the bodies of his troops and the countless enemies they have slain, have not gone unnoticed in the spirit realm, and though Griffith has nowhere to go as a man, he may yet have a future . . . a future borne on jet-black wings in the company of the demon lords of the Godhand! FOR MATURE READERS.

Desperate to find a sanctuary where his lover, Casca, will be safe from the demons drawn to her Brand of Sacrifice, Guts the Black Swordsman pushes his motley band of followers onward towards fairy Puck’s homeland, Elfhelm. With new allies who make their home in a mystically guarded woodland paradise, Guts’ goal seems within reach, but danger lurks in the shadows of even the most dazzling utopias, and even fairy witchery may not protect the wondrous kingdom from an army of marauding, murderous trolls! Created by Kentaro Miura, Berserk is a runaway manga locomotive, a crashing colossus of teeth-rattling action, spine-chilling horror, and taboo-breaking humor that fires the boilers of its devoted devotees and burns the rest. Ashes to ashes! FOR MATURE READERS.

Guts the Black Swordsman just can''t seem to find a little peace. On his way to the idyllic tranquility of his miniature pal Puck''s homeland of Elfhelm, Guts and his companions, at the behest of a local witch, assist a village beset by a plague of hideous and deadly trolls. Assisted by the witch''s disciple, Schierke, the warrior band manages to turn the tide against the beasts, but when a monstrous ogre hits town, a tide of another kind is needed, a mystic flood to wash the town clean. But when Casca and Farnese are carried away by the flood, they become prisoners in the troll''s den, where a fate far worse than any imaginable death awaits! FOR MATURE READERS.

What Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions had seen as an island refuge for monstrous sea creatures and the ghost ship of the demonic Bonebeard is, in fact, the very lair of the malefic sea god that controls them. With no avenue of escape, Guts must once again don the Berserker armor to give his company any chance of survival. But without the protective influence of the sorceress Schierke, Guts risks being forever lost within the cursed armor and becoming an even greater threat to his comrades! FOR MATURE READERS.

Faced with the Kushan emperor''s horrific new form and the bloody swath of destruction and spawning demons he leaves in his wake with every step, the soldiers in Griffith''s new Band of the Hawk must assume their true unholy forms to battle the emperor, revealing their true faces to the citizens of Midland. How will these tormented refugees react when they discover that their would-be rescuers are as monstrous as their enemies? And could this titanic confrontation threaten to unleash even greater horrors upon the human world? FOR MATURE READERS.

Now equipped with the mystical Berserker Armor, Guts fights on against the dragon-form of Grunbeld and his legion of fanatic apostle soldiers. But the very armor that holds Guts together — in a nightmarishly literal sense — might be the last straw that tears his tortured mind apart! While Guts struggles to hold his own against his inner demons, monsters of a very different sort rally in Windham as the Kushan Emperor, Ganishka, and the newly reborn Griffith rally their forces in a head-to-head struggle for control of all of Midland. But when the dust finally settles, there may be little left of the kingdom to claim! FOR MATURE READERS.

From his days as a young mercenary to his time as captain of the Band of the Hawks’ Raiders, Guts’s life has been defined by his ability to fight and his will to win. Now cursed with the Brand of Sacrifice — a sigil that will forever mark him as prey for the damned — and with his companions dead, his lover’s mind destroyed and his one-time commander and friend reborn as a malevolent demon lord, it seems that more than ever Guts must rely upon his instinct to survive. But Hell has many faces, and when what appears to be an innocent country village proves to be a den of tragic secrets, the horror of a fairy tale perverted by pain and hate may prove to be more than Guts can handle! FOR MATURE READERS.

Guts, le guerrier noir, promène son imposante silhouette de routes en villages. Sur son passage, les cadavres s''amoncellent et il laisse derrière lui des torrents de sang. Le corps vêtu de noir, il porte sur son dos une épée aussi haute qu''un homme. Sur son cou, une marque mystérieuse le condamne à être poursuivi jour et nuit par des démons. Puck, l''elfe facétieux, croise un jour le chemin de cette machine à tuer. Quelles horreurs a-t-il pu connaître pour être animé d''une telle soif de vengeance ? Alors que le monde sombre inextricablement dans le chaos, Guts règle ses comptes avec les forces démoniaques qui resserrent leur emprise sur la destinée des hommes. Une époque s''achève Au fil des années, « Berserk » est devenu au Japon un classique de l''heroic fantasy, une référence pour les amoureux de Tolkien et de jeux de rôles. En France, la série a déjà ses fans, qui voient leur attente récompensée : la série est publiée en sens de lecture et format original, et les 7 premiers volumes sont prévus pour paraître mensuellement. L''un des mangas les plus attendus de l''année !

Guts, le guerrier noir, promène son imposante silhouette de routes en villages. Sur son passage, les cadavres s''amoncellent et il laisse derrière lui des torrents de sang. Le corps vêtu de noir, il porte sur son dos une épée aussi haute qu''un homme. Sur son cou, une marque mystérieuse le condamne à être poursuivi jour et nuit par des démons. Puck, l''elfe facétieux, croise un jour le chemin de cette machine à tuer. Quelles horreurs a-t-il pu connaître pour être animé d''une telle soif de vengeance ? Alors que le monde sombre inextricablement dans le chaos, Guts règle ses comptes avec les forces démoniaques qui resserrent leur emprise sur la destinée des hommes. Une époque s''achève Au fil des années, « Berserk » est devenu au Japon un classique de l''heroic fantasy, une référence pour les amoureux de Tolkien et de jeux de rôles. En France, la série a déjà ses fans, qui voient leur attente récompensée : la série est publiée en sens de lecture et format original, et les 7 premiers volumes sont prévus pour paraître mensuellement. L''un des mangas les plus attendus de l''année !

Guts, le guerrier noir, promène son imposante silhouette de routes en villages. Sur son passage, les cadavres s''amoncellent et il laisse derrière lui des torrents de sang. Le corps vêtu de noir, il porte sur son dos une épée aussi haute qu''un homme. Sur son cou, une marque mystérieuse le condamne à être poursuivi jour et nuit par des démons. Puck, l''elfe facétieux, croise un jour le chemin de cette machine à tuer. Quelles horreurs a-t-il pu connaître pour être animé d''une telle soif de vengeance ? Alors que le monde sombre inextricablement dans le chaos, Guts règle ses comptes avec les forces démoniaques qui resserrent leur emprise sur la destinée des hommes. Une époque s''achève Au fil des années, « Berserk » est devenu au Japon un classique de l''heroic fantasy, une référence pour les amoureux de Tolkien et de jeux de rôles. En France, la série a déjà ses fans, qui voient leur attente récompensée : la série est publiée en sens de lecture et format original, et les 7 premiers volumes sont prévus pour paraître mensuellement. L''un des mangas les plus attendus de l''année !

Guts, le guerrier noir, promène son imposante silhouette de routes en villages. Sur son passage, les cadavres s''amoncellent et il laisse derrière lui des torrents de sang. Le corps vêtu de noir, il porte sur son dos une épée aussi haute qu''un homme. Sur son cou, une marque mystérieuse le condamne à être poursuivi jour et nuit par des démons. Puck, l''elfe facétieux, croise un jour le chemin de cette machine à tuer. Quelles horreurs a-t-il pu connaître pour être animé d''une telle soif de vengeance ? Alors que le monde sombre inextricablement dans le chaos, Guts règle ses comptes avec les forces démoniaques qui resserrent leur emprise sur la destinée des hommes. Une époque s''achève Au fil des années, « Berserk » est devenu au Japon un classique de l''heroic fantasy, une référence pour les amoureux de Tolkien et de jeux de rôles. En France, la série a déjà ses fans, qui voient leur attente récompensée : la série est publiée en sens de lecture et format original, et les 7 premiers volumes sont prévus pour paraître mensuellement. L''un des mangas les plus attendus de l''année !

Guts, le guerrier noir, promène son imposante silhouette de routes en villages. Sur son passage, les cadavres s''amoncellent et il laisse derrière lui des torrents de sang. Le corps vêtu de noir, il porte sur son dos une épée aussi haute qu''un homme. Sur son cou, une marque mystérieuse le condamne à être poursuivi jour et nuit par des démons. Puck, l''elfe facétieux, croise un jour le chemin de cette machine à tuer. Quelles horreurs a-t-il pu connaître pour être animé d''une telle soif de vengeance ? Alors que le monde sombre inextricablement dans le chaos, Guts règle ses comptes avec les forces démoniaques qui resserrent leur emprise sur la destinée des hommes. Une époque s''achève Au fil des années, « Berserk » est devenu au Japon un classique de l''heroic fantasy, une référence pour les amoureux de Tolkien et de jeux de rôles. En France, la série a déjà ses fans, qui voient leur attente récompensée : la série est publiée en sens de lecture et format original, et les 7 premiers volumes sont prévus pour paraître mensuellement. L''un des mangas les plus attendus de l''année !

Auch nach den verstörenden Ereignissen im "Tal des Nebels", wo Guts in einem furchtbaren Kampf den Apostel Rosine vernichtet hat, ist dem Recken keine Ruhepause gegönnt: Sein neuer Gegner, die päpstlichen "Ritter von der Heiligen Kette", sind zwar kaum mehr als ein Haufen von Wochenendrittern, aber der fanatischen Anführerin Farnese gelingt es, den schwer verwundeten Guts zu überwältigen. Der Recke findet sich nackt und gefesselt in einem Käfig wieder, eine scheinbar völlig aussichtslose Lage.

Kentaro Miuras mit unglaublicher Akribie gezeichnetes und mit viel Liebe erzähltes Fantasy-Epos hat in den letzten Jahren Millionen treuer Anhänger weltweit gewonnen. In über 30 Einzelbänden ist mittlerweile ein grandioser Kosmos rund um die Abenteuer des mittelalterlichen Recken Guts entstanden. Für alle Fans, die erst später zu dieser Serie gestoßen sind, fasst BERSERK MAX die bisher erschienenen und zum Teil vergriffenen Ausgaben in Doppelbänden mit jeweils mehr als 400 Seiten zusammen.