Why is?

Why is IST so obsessed with this manga?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He is like me

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >buff guy against impossible odds
    >just him and a big ass sword (until he gets his party)
    >killing demons and destroying evil

    What is there not to like?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you forgot the best parts
      >moronic brown tomboy gf
      >troony nemesis

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kid molested by giant Black person, and has a totally not gay relationship with a manipulative narcissistic twink and grows up to be a giant angry rageaholic who does nothing but train as his quest for revenge consumes his body and aging him faster (cough cough steroids cough)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can see why IST really loves this comic then.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Except his entire party gets killed in like a 5 minute scene.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine speaking with confidence about a story you haven't finished

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's where it ends. Period.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >not reading lost children and conviction arcs
            Literally the peak of the series you moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's where it ends. Period.

        you obviously havent read the manga
        >thats where it ends
        actually it gets worse

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because they want to fantasize about having a life with problems that aren't just their crippling vanity and sexual insecurity.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    everyone here’s been raped by a black man at least once

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's up to your father.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Inuyasha mogs berserk into oblivion

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i used to watch this as a teen. saw it until Inuyasha got his sword upgraded the first time into cutting barriers (i think).
        does it hold up? Is there a no filler playlist?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i totally forgot about koga, what a chad. love the part where he cucks inuyasha and takes kagome for himself.

        but i always thought naraku was the real chad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Silence woman

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      inuyasha is the source of modern femdom fetishes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because it's a fricking masterpiece. But to add:
      >Chad main protagonist with perfect genetics (effortlessly muscular, chad jawline and facial structure)
      >Qt 3.14 dark skin tomboy gf
      >Twink femboy antagonist
      >Cool dark fantasy themes that don't come across as tryhard
      >Compelling, well-written, and tragic characters who you can't help but root for and want to succeed
      >Incredibly interesting story that never fails to intrigue
      >Cool demon stuff
      >MOTHERFRICKIN' ZOOOOODD!!!!!
      >Cool fights
      It's basically everything that appeals to men in general.

      No. Not even close. Objectively wrong.

      https://i.imgur.com/4TyylQI.jpg

      i used to watch this as a teen. saw it until Inuyasha got his sword upgraded the first time into cutting barriers (i think).
      does it hold up? Is there a no filler playlist?

      It holds up, but it goes on for way longer than it needs to. And that's not even including filler, which less than 10% of Inuyasha is actrually filler, but it honestly feels like 50%, since so many canon episodes feel like they're filler. It could have been 50 episodes shorter and nothing would be different. The Sesshomaru episodes are the best and it's worth it for those alone, though.

      Anyone else feel like Berserk is getting too popular? So many normies like it now I see berserk shirts on DYELs and goobers all the time at the gym now it's embarrassing.

      Yeah, same thing happened with Baki and JoJo's, they became mainstream. At the end of the day, you just gotta learn to enjoy them while ignoring the new fans who are there just because it's trendy.

      >NOOOO!!! YOU CAN'T JUST LIKE THE THING THAT I LIKE!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!! I HAVE TO STOP LIKING THINGS IF THEY BECOME TO POPULAR!!
      God, I fricking hate you homosexuals who have this dumb, hipster mindset and see nothing wrong with it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Effortlessly muscular
        >effortlessly
        Lol, lmao

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          muscular
          Holy shit, they really did post that. What a fricking moron.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOO!!! YOU CAN'T JUST LIKE THE THING THAT I LIKE!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!! I HAVE TO STOP LIKING THINGS IF THEY BECOME TO POPULAR!!
        I didn't say this moron. I don't care that it's becoming more popular, I just think it's new fans are annoying.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You must be 14 year old girl from 2007 that got time traveled there is no other explanation for this taste

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Manga is gay

    /thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      so are u

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because this is an anime forum. here's my question: why are there people that don't like anime/manga but decide to browse an anime forum?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Because its not a tranigay forum. And tranigay is for children and groomers

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's not a forum homosexual and it's not anime related unless you're in IST

        Yeah man definitely an anime forum where the title is health & fitness and 99% of threads and posts have nothing to do with it
        Fricking weebs

        The IST mascot is literally an anime girl. Have you never seen a 404 or been banned?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I have been here since 2006 I am well aware
          It doesn't change that the non-anime topic boards are overwhelmingly not used to discuss anime and threads like this end up being off-topic because they have nothing to do with the actual board discussion. IST isn't titled "health & fitness in anime" it's titled "health & fitness" and if people want to discuss anime/manga there are specific boards to do so in

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            post hand with timestamp you dirty subhuman paki

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Janny-mentality. What a homosexual

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Go back to pleddit nonce

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Have you never seen a 404 or been banned?
          no I'm a good goy

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I hate tourists.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's not a forum homosexual and it's not anime related unless you're in IST

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah man definitely an anime forum where the title is health & fitness and 99% of threads and posts have nothing to do with it
      Fricking weebs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's 2023, not 2003, IST isn't some holy ground

      I love berserk too but moot has been gone for 8 years, I wouldn't get so bent out of shape over anime dislike or criticism like I'm still an autistic teen
      >verification not required

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it’s like this man
    >life starts fricking this man over form the day he’s born, literally born from a hookers corpse after she’s been hung and he should have died but didn’t
    >his own father isn’t even sure he’s his father because his mom was a literal prostitute and therefor isn’t super close with him, is fairly avoidant and hard on him, mean at times, sells him to a pedophile so he gets ass raped before he’s even 5
    >has to kill his rapist, kills first man before he’s even 10
    >own father tries to kill him, kills father before age of 10 and entire group thinks he did it in cold blood so chases him away, escapes but wait it’s not over, he’s getting attacked by some fricking wolves now
    >winds up in mercenary groups fighting wars as a teen
    >joins a stronger merc group, develops true friendships, best friend is leader, even has petite tomboy gf
    >goes out of his way to rescue the leader who in the same day sacrifices all his new friends, rapes tomboy gf, and tries to kill him too
    The man gets repeatedly fricked by life’s bullshit and is simply too hellbent on winning to die. It’s about fate and will and in a raw description handling your shit. He’s trying to find the meaning to it all which for a while he thinks is satisfying his bloodlust/getting revenge on Griffith but I think in newest chapters is starting to realize that’s not gonna bring him happiness.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You mix some things up. We don't know anything about Guts' mother. He was born from a corpse hung on tree and was saved by a crazed woman Shisu from mercenary band. Guts' was saved only because Gambino had very deep affection to Shisu.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can't imagine being a new fan of Berserk. I've been reading this stuff since 2005 when I was 15. I still haven't read any of the post-Miura stuff. I guess I'll wait until there's a solid chapter's worth out, but I don't know if I feel like waiting another 15 years to find out how it ends.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The new stuff is still good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I started reading it after Miura died but before his assistants continued his work. My enjoyment dropped to zero idealizing everything Miura could've done after that last chapter, ending it there would've probably better

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Anyone else feel like Berserk is getting too popular? So many normies like it now I see berserk shirts on DYELs and goobers all the time at the gym now it's embarrassing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, same thing happened with Baki and JoJo's, they became mainstream. At the end of the day, you just gotta learn to enjoy them while ignoring the new fans who are there just because it's trendy.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Was about to say JoJos too. I liked the community better before Part 4 and beyond got animated.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I really like the Baki anime but i can’t bring myself to read the manga even if the art is god tier. is way too many chapters. I wantes to start since the pickle arc but i think i will wait the anime adaptation.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Baki more or less quits with the pretense of being anything but fantasy at the end of the Chinese Tournament arc. From Kidnapping GW Bush Jr onward it's just quack fantasy shit. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what you're there for.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Set aside some time and read the manga, it's amazing and way better than the anime IMO. Start from the beginning

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >even if the art is god tier
            BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Who the frick thinks Baki's art is "god-tier"? Are you fricking moronic? The number 1 criticism that Baki gets is that its art is fricking shit. Literally no one thinks it's good, you moron, even Baki fans acknowledge that it isn't good. What are you talking about?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              NTA but there's something deeply appealing about a manga that doesn't try to look good that ends up making the art...look good. Kinda like One's OPM.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Speak for yourself, Itagaki's art is cool as frick.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              t. uninitiated
              I'm a huge Baki fan and I will tell anyone that the art is god tier.
              The unique skin textures, muscle formations, proportions, the way the artist shows movement and impact, it's all exceptional.
              But it's an acquired taste, you learn to appreciate it more over time, to the point where it makes other stuff look dull in comparison.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah there's a lot of chapters but you should try to just start it, honestly it just flows, it's a page-turner there's not that much text to read. I just did that every evening and feel like the volumes flew

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        All because of troony youtubers milking money by doing clickbait >EXPLAINED< videos summarizing Berserk wiki. Manga should be gatekept, maybe then there would be better discussion about it here. Now we have containment board full of attention-starved manchildren who will make any contrarian moronic statement just to get any (you)s.
        Becoming mainstream is unironically death to a work of art

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, same thing happened with Baki and JoJo's, they became mainstream. At the end of the day, you just gotta learn to enjoy them while ignoring the new fans who are there just because it's trendy.

        god damn it you gay ass gaijin gays, shut the frick up you pieces of b***h ass little shit, you're not obscure for reading manga you fricking wannabe hipster incel motherfrickers. frick you. I am a japanese, god damn it, if gaijin have heard of something? IT ISN'T OBSCURE. Now FRICK OFF, before you fricking DIE. でぶでぶやかましいクソ外人野郎、消えろボケ!!今すぐやってやがろうこの糞たれや!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I havent read it for more than a decade. And considering how many pseuds are into it i dont think ill pick it up again.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Read Berserk after Miura died
      >Realize it's shounenshit only edgy and with rape scenes
      >Drop it

      https://i.imgur.com/nKFrp4H.jpg

      Peak (Literally)

      Is a much better manga, instead of watching a guy solve every problem with plot armour and getting angry and using his sword, you're watching an autistic man devote his life to mountain climbing at the cost of his social life, physical and mental health.

      https://i.imgur.com/8Jy8aMJ.png

      Based The Climber-poster
      There should be a chart of IST certified manga.

      I can't find a decent way to read manga online anymore since all the shit I used to use got taken down, but do you have the image of him climing K2 and the author showing the size of the falling ice using cars, storage containers, etc. That and the image of him hanging in a void with just the rope are probably my favourite pannels outside of some of the stnning landscapes. Kokou no Hito was atmospheric as frick.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's shounenshit only edgy and with rape scenes
        this
        Guts is every shounen protagonist ever, just more serious, and the fights are classic battle shounen shit. I still like it but its overrated because of midwits thinking it's special because it's edgy.

        I've considered making a ISTm/a/nga chart but I can't think of a lot of entries
        >berserk
        >kokou no hito
        >shamo
        >holyland
        >rookies
        >crows

        Muscle has references to muscles (duh), but it's a gag manga.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    big strong buff and badass dude who struggles with shit all of his life but still manages to go forward and never give up.
    What is there not to like

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Idk berserk is pretty trash though

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For anyone who loves Berserk, start reading Vagabond.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      on a similar note, read gamaran

      it sometimes veers into the improbable but for the most part its a compelling reading experience

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I tried getting into it and stopped when it started becoming the POV of the deaf guy. I could care less about that dude and really only care about Musashi

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like Baki is more degenerately meatheaded

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Only acceptable IST manga is Otokojuku, reading should be mandatory.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I prefer otokonoko

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Otokojuku
      I gave it one chapter cuz I was bored, that fricking scene where the old dude gets revived by the straight march....

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't read, books or mangas. should i watch the anime? (there's an anime of this, right?)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Watch the 1997 original series, it's great.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's pretty shit quality wise imo

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Peak (Literally)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Based The Climber-poster
      There should be a chart of IST certified manga.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No manga will ever come close to the original run of Alita

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          DON'T READ LAST ORDER!! I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU LOVED ALITA DO *NOT* READ LAST ORDER. JUST PRETEND IT ENDED WITH ALITA

          one of the greatest nosedives in tone and quality in history of media

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Few stories ever capture the feel of doing something quite as well as the Climber.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've considered making a ISTm/a/nga chart but I can't think of a lot of entries
        >berserk
        >kokou no hito
        >shamo
        >holyland
        >rookies
        >crows

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          My man, checked, you forgot Sun-Ken Rock and Vagabond

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          HnK needs to be on there.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ippo is great

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It gets boring after a while though

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Here, to add some
          >Sun Ken Rock
          >Crying Freeman
          >Bouncer (Mizuta Makoto) (This one is a MUST READ for you guys)
          >Out (also by Mizuta Makoto)
          >Dorohedoro and Dai Dark
          >Great Teacher Onisuka
          >Most of delinquent manga (except Tokio Revengers because is dogshit): Clover, A-Bout, Rokudenashi Blues
          >Jank Runk Family

          Add Worst and Crows Zero 2 manga to the Crows part of the chart, also

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's the best manga ever!
    >2nd best manga ever: Alita
    >3rd: Nausicaa

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >just ordered the 3 first volumes
    >never read weebshit before
    what am i in for

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The beginning is quite strange, I guess, but it's good and it gets ten times better with time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's going to be weird because it's not chronological.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because IST is the gayest board here.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Without Guts, I wouldn't be lifting at all.
    Thanks for the inspo king!

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    eh im more of a fan of yuyu hakusho, berserk was top tier the first time anyone watches it. and subsequently rewatching it after a long ass time for nostalgia but it just feels hollow and like theres something missing.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Picrel - because it captures the current state of things and also becazse the gates to hell may literally open in any given second

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >manga
    its actually the case that, just like most zoomers obsessed about it, they only saw the anime and didn't realize how shit it became after conviction

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most western media is fake and gay in modern days.
    Berserk shines in current times. if this were the 80s it would be just another manga.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >guy who trains 24/7 but gets cuckolded by gigachad aryan
    sums up this pajeet board

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Have you read any recent Western comics?

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was tired of anime protagonists being either tiny or medium sized midwits, I'm pretty tall myself, so I found it more entertaining to follow Guts.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    real homies and intellectuals read real shit not your gay sword fantasies

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think Berserk went to shit after the Tower of Conviction arc, I mean, when he teamed up with a shounen-tier pack of characters. This part when they fought trolls and other abominations in the village felt incredibly artificial and really shounen-like, it was genuinely one of the most soulless parts of this manga. I suspect Miura knew he fricked up with this direction and got really lazy after that. I think this manga needs a total redo starting from the end of the ToC arc.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yea same. I stopped caring right around the thunder pajeet arc too. When guts got his gay fairy jrpg party, thats when it became apparent miura liked his idolmaster a little too much

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Shouldn't be. Pic related has more SOVL and I think is more relatable for majority of IST

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I used to like berserk but then I realized it's just misery porn that ruins your social and emotional gains.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what was that picture son?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >ruins your social and emotional gains
      cucked mindset, it's about perspective
      I view it as finding the strength to persevere in the face of even the worst adversities

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Schizo mindset
        The average normie doesn't have to use misery porn to "believe it will shape him up"
        The most banal and easy going fantasies of striving forward are enough for him.
        You're just excusing abusive behavior

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          what the frick kind of projection are you on right now?
          who correlates a comic book to abusive behavior?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You see what you want to see, and since you're a cuck, you can only see Berserk as "misery porn" while other will se it as uplifting story about overcoming your own flaws and fighting back against them. Black folk like you will never understand Berserk

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hope you guys muster the strength to fight your demons (talk to girls)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      nah, bro, i'm good

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I heard guts was raped by a Black person and his gf was raped by a femboy. I'm not reading it

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Berserk is a case study on how to fight so fricking hard that even literal demons have no idea how you're still alive.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it shows a boy getting raped but not turning out gay, by the slimmest of margins.

    a true fantasy.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >homosexual OP doesn't get how based it is to tell fate and the powers that be, to go and royally frick themselves.
    >something, something, something, existential existence
    >something, something, something, free will
    >something, something, something, survival of the ISTtest.
    Why is OP such a contrarian homosexual? Have they even read the manga?

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Frick, i slid an edit error
    Fixed. There guys, 5 thousand years in paint.net
    Feel free to add some more if you like

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's that good shit, king.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    really wanted to like the manga but I couldnt stand the homosexual fairy Puck. At some point I got so pissed of him I stop.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >entry level but people pretend it's underground
    >buff guy
    >literally me so sad shit
    >just alternative enough so you're not a Goku inspo mexican
    It's the perfect fit for IST

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Main character's entire life is his suffering for an autistic brown girl who fricks his best friend.
    Total ISTcore

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I only watched the anime

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >punished Gatsu goes on self destructive, obsessive, insane revenge plan against the gods that have wronged him using his his muscles and sheer will
    Yeah Im thinking its IST related. Post-Conviction Guts is where he realizes theres more to life and learns to stop browsing basketweaving forums, which is where it really gets based

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm hopping to hit that chapter, but so far I'm still stuck in the post eclipse part.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >BLACKED
    >cucked by femboy
    >ended prematurely
    it's basically the zoomer handbook

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm checking out manga and going to read Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
    It's kind of refreshing that most manga isn't based on characters that were made more than 60 years ago.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Akira is unironically the best manga ever written

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >IST
    almost everybody likes berserk because it has different factors for every type of person to enjoy
    i personally enjoy it because i'm edgy and enjoy violence, also the art is cool

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That seems like it would take forever to draw.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        oh it absolutely did, lol
        was well worth it though, very enjoyable series

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The love of my life brutally cucked me, so I can really relate to the final scene of the original PowerPoint series. I started lifting to avoid ever getting my heart broken again.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >original PowerPoint series.
      the frick is that? google doesn’t show me shit

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I believe he's talking about the 1997 anime

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          oooh the berserk anime, yeah that makes more sense lol

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Stop reading after lost children arc, that's when it gets shit

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because guts is me and I am guts

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