Idea of Evil: Black Swordsman

The Superculture Review

Gareth Damian Martin and Reid McCarter begin a look at the entirety of Kentaro Miura's Berserk with a discussion of its first two chapters, "Black Swordsman" and "The Brand" from Volume 1. In our debut episode, we discuss how we first encountered Berserk, the influences it draws from (and the work it's influenced in turn), and the joy of looking at all the ways Miura creates compositions based around Guts' absurdly giant sword.

Next time: the remainder of the Black Swordsman Arc, "Guardian Angels of Desire," covering the rest of Volume 1, the entirety of Volume 2, and Volume 3 up to the beginning of "Golden Age."

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The Idea of Evil intro/outro theme was written and performed by Blake Hester (@MetallicaIsRad). Our show art and logo is by Artyom Trakhanov (@Vor_Bokor).

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