Boushoku no Berserk

I think this has become an objectively bad anime, and that is really too bad. The story is pretty cool and has so much potential to be a great anime, but it’s just not. First 3 episodes were pretty good, but the 4th episode took a horrible turn and left almost no room to recover. Pacing, gone. Story, gone. Consistency, gone. Combat quality, gone. Decent dialogue, gone. Music, poor. Art was always meh.
The first episode or two generally showed good effort in telling the story and putting life to the characters, after those episodes though there’s nothing to redeem the bad anime that this ... becomes. I have read the first couple volumes of the LN as well and I don’t believe I’ve seen another anime that strayed so far from the source material in such a short amount of time.
I want to like this anime, but I can’t. As I said, I think this is objectively bad. Bad as a portrayal of the source material, as a story, and as a culmination of video and audio art. None of the show fits together nicely with any other part of the show. You might be able to grab a scene or two and separate it from the rest of the anime to make it look good, but put together this might be the worst anime I’ve seen even though I really want to like it. The story is cool, there’s so much they could do, but this is just a bad anime.

Not Berserk.

If you’ve ever felt slightly self-conscious about the name your parents gave you at birth, feel comfort in the fact that it will never be as hilariously stupid as “Fate Graphite”, the main protagonist of Berserk (not that one) of Gluttony, an anime 100% less generational manga than it’s promotional title font tries to emulate to trick weebs into watching it, and 100% more *sigh* light novel garbage.

Fate is one of those born with a deadly sin. The sin of Gluttony leaves Fate in a constant state of hunger, always eating but never satiated. It's not until one night when his hunger takes ... over and he eats a man who tries to kill him that he suddenly feels full. After discovering this pleasure and satisfaction he goes out into the world, eating monsters and the corrupt holy knights who oppress the people, absorbing their powers after every meal. Nevertheless, he must live amongst the populous and alongside his childhood friend, Roxy, ever fearful that his hunger might take over and he’ll eat her.

What a cool premise for a story. Shame that I made 70% of it up and it is actually another *sigh* light novel medieval European fantasy anime with a world that operates on RPG video game logic with skills, levels and states none of which matter because the protagonist is always the strongest motherfucker in the room despite always being level 1. Fate may have the skill of Gluttony which leaves him in a state of hunger but he doesn’t satiate it by eating. He just has to kill monsters or the people who bully him. He then takes their states and abilities, some of which are super useful -like telepathy when touching someone- that the show will completely forget about.

The cast is just as vapid as the world-building. Greed the sword and Myne the carrier of the skill of Wrath are pretty much one-note for the entire season. The introduction of Eris the carrier of the skill of Lust could’ve made an interesting villain if the story knew what her motivations are.
His love interest Roxy is the only holy knight who isn’t corrupt, bullies Fate and the peasants in a cartoonishly evil manner and even has romantic feelings for Fate for some reason…

Despite this story possibly being an outlet for the author to get back at his past bullies whilst getting the girl, I will admit something is entertaining about this show that keeps you watching. The tension of Fate's Gluttony going berserk is there in the first couple of episodes, but if you’re looking for a show where consequences matter this won't be for you. It would be more accurate to call the show Mild of Gluttony. Honestly, I should've dropped the show around episode 7.

Berserk of Gluttony is not a good show. Mediocre art and animation, basic and braindead storytelling and characters, and a male power fantasy made to make you feel like you’re beating up your bullies. Whilst it is entertaining if you completely turn your brain off, this is the kind of show for that teenager in the trench coat who goes up to his crush and warns her not to come to school tomorrow.

3/10 Wasted Potential.

Berserker of Gluttony is truly a good example. A good example of how to subvert the lowest of expectations, and then subvert them further by being even worse. I’ve seen people say the show had potential, ‘’’binge-worthy’’’ even. The only way this slop would be worth bingeing is if you’re an insomniac, because by episode three you’d be fast asleep. Most everything I’m going to say about this snore-fest is simply objective.

Outside of the story and world, in short the character designs are either bad or uninspired, the animation is un-exciting, the music is there and voice acting is the normal affair for any slop ... anime. All is serviceable at best and dull at worst.

Though I haven’t and won’t look at the source material, I despise light-novels. I thoroughly believe that light-novel to anime adaptations are responsible for the degradation of the entire medium in the last decade or more. They have served to dumb down the fantasy genre among other things to where the most basic, un-interesting and lazy garbage storytelling is now accepted as good.

Premise -
Let's start from the top. The show makes a terrible first impression by using VIDyA’ GAME stats and skills in a fantasy setting, which is wholly unrelated to an actual video game context. This is a common crutch I’ve seen stories use to gloss over the non-existent character progression and growth with artificial stats in their place. When set in the context of a game world, I would take little issue, but this is clearly presented as a ‘living’ fantasy world and not a damn video game.

From here on, our MC is Jon Glutzerker, because I can’t remember anything about his name other than that it is very stupid sounding. Jon Glutzerker has no character flaw, weakness or any form of real arc as far as I have seen. His only technical ‘weakness’ is that his skill gives him a perpetual hunger, which cannot be quelled unless he kills monsters or people to absorb their literal souls. Jon Glutzerker’s video game ‘skill’ is first seen as useless, but of course turns out to be able to absorb other people's stats and skills, which allows him to become in-consistently over-powered as the series goes on.

Jon Glutzerker starts off working as a Gate Guard for the castle in this unnamed and uninteresting fantasy kingdom. Prior to the story's beginning he is the object of torment for the most comical, unapologetically evil ‘characters’ I’ve seen in a while. Right from the word go, we can tell that there will be absolutely no interesting world-building or original ideas outside of the MC’s main power, or really any form of logic that is applied to this world.
This conclusion can be made on this from the first, and most prime example: Our MC is the gate guard for a castle keep, the only one, mind you. The evil ‘Holy Knights’, which are mostly all of them, have him wearing rags as opposed to any kind of soldier attire, on-top of paying him like trash. What would be the in-universe point of having what is essentially a hobo guarding a castle keep, other than because three nit-wits use it as some archaic form of ‘abuse’? With no in-universe uniform and only a shoddy spear to ‘guard’ the gate, there are a dozen reasons this is massively stupid, and security risk would clearly be one of them since nobody likes the comically evil establishment. There’s allegedly a king, but he’s never visually shown so I guess these ‘Holy Knights’ can just do whatever they want, even though all they do is torment and harass the populace.

From the first episode alone, you can already tell from basic pattern recognition that this show will have no: Interesting worldbuilding, depth, logical consistencies, character development or anything that makes a real story worth its weight in the time it takes to consume. Of course, who am I to expect the bare-minimum in storytelling from a Light-Novel’s adaptation? Obviously the point is to hardly try, and make slop for all the little piggies to slurp up, and roll around in the mud afterwards. What's worse, is as this mid-drek goes on, no real plot or story takes place despite Jon Glutzerker being a proactive ‘character’. Speaking of which…

Characters -

As you’d expect, every single character in this generic fantasy hole of a story is either one dimensional or- actually no they’re all just one-dimensional.

Some might say a story is only as interesting as its villains. If that's the case, this story triples down on how dull and uninteresting it is as its villains are irredeemably, comically evil, having no motive or incentive to do or say anything, other than because they are evil. The main(?) bad guy has something going on where he is conspiring a plan to become inexplicably immortal. I can think of no incentive or cause for this to be on his bucket list, other than: he is evil, and therefore must seek power without cause. One of the Holy Knights is later shown to literally kidnap children for the explicit purpose of executing them with a bow and arrow; which does nothing but double down on his one and only character-trait - he is evil. If this was a character who presented himself as kind, or had some form of facade to cover what he really does, that would be partially interesting, even engaging. It may even be necessary to convey how evil a ‘character’ truly is if they present themselves as otherwise. But it isn’t necessary, it's just fluff because he already is blatantly evil. This is how children beneath the age of ten interpret and create villains. All of them have no motive for anything they do. No end goal in sight, no character motivation - no character at all other than their life-style as cartoon villains.


Love-Interest, as she is only to be called, is the best looking drawing in the entire show. She is also an air-head, who does not openly recognize how everyone in the Holy Knights besides her is evil. From her introduction, she already looks out for Jon Glutzerker, and there is no further relationship development as they are always both overly bashful with one another. This is also one of Jon Glutzerker’s only character traits, to be flustered and bashful whenever the Love-Interest so much as looks at him.

Returning to Jon Glutserker, things happen and upon activating his skill for the first time, he goes to find a proper weapon. He conveniently manages to find a sentient sword, which perfectly synergizes with his abilities in a bin full of ‘cheaper swords’ even though it is in pristine condition (visually).
I hate this damn sword. It only exists to tip-toe around world-building by narrating exposition whenever it's most convenient. It narrates constantly, to an unwelcome degree, allowing the creators of this show to tell instead of the show, just like alllllll good stories do. In addition, to avoid any form of thought provoking combat, stakes or tension in a fight scene, the sword tells him exactly what to do to win every single time, and has the random ability to transform from some contrived in-universe logic.
God forbid we ever have natural sounding dialogue or world-building play out through actual characters and significant events. That would require talent and effort, and this show wasn’t made with either in the budget, besides drawing the Love Interest.

This anime does not respect or anticipate viewer intelligence to the point where you would believe this is a kids cartoon. Yet, there is plenty of meaningless and stake-less gore and violence that is so dull it means nothing and bares no intrigue for anyone watching it.


The Rest of The Crap -

As the story goes on, (unfortunately), an obnoxious flaw in the story is intentionally brought to our primary attention, only to gloss over it every instance after.
Glutzerker's sword is sentient, and speaks to our MC telepathically. So of course our MC MUST talk back to it outloud for everyone to hear, which one would expect to make MC look like an idiot or a weirdo. The show acknowledges this, once, and then promptly ignores it for the rest of the story. Any real woman would lose all interest or believe someone to be creepy and weird if they saw them doing this. But of course Love-Interest is an air head and thus she must love our Gary Stu no matter how uninteresting, weird, and obnoxiously bashful he truly is.

After slogging through three episodes, I was ready to drop this thing before reading some other reviews. They told a tale of a drastic drop-off in quality from the fourth episode, so me and my fellow Slopaholic carried on in curious interest.
The consensus? It was hardly different from the rest of the garbage before-hand. Things happen and people do things, and that's about it.. What really woke us up was the beginning of the fifth episode.

This may be construed as a minor spoiler, but honestly this show has no plot or real intrigue that could classify as a spoiler anyways. But, here's your forewarning.

First, let's quickly go over the Bad Guy from before, the one who likes shooting children. We’ll call him Blue Hair. Don’t worry, this won't take long.

Blue Hair has helped his fellow Holy Knights (Purple Hair Twink and Evil Woman) bully and torment our MC, and he likes killing kids. He is the lackey of Purple Hair, who wants to become immortal, and I think he’s his brother or something.

There, done! And really, I made him sound more interesting than he is.

After some things happen, (a summary of most episodes), Jon Nutzerker faces down Blue Hair, dawned in his ‘cool’ and ‘badass’ school shooter outfit, and his Tokyo Ghoul mask. Despite at-least partially ‘struggling’ to beat lower-tier monsters previously, Glutzerker obliterates a Holy Knight, whomst are feared across the kingdom for their strength and callousness, near instantly. Big surprise, but it gets better. He transforms his sword into a BFG-9000, established in the episode prior. He uses his BFG to blast Blue Hair into orbit, beating him with no effort, struggle, tension or character developments. After literally falling back to earth, Blue Hair is still inexplicably alive and missing all of his limbs in a bleeding mess. Since Blue Hair is utterly spineless and evil, he spent most of his final moments as a snivelling coward, begging for his life, before the MC then kills him, epicly owning the bully, and fulfilling the power-fantasy to set the groundwork for… nothing of substance afterwards.

This ‘character’, like the other bad guys, was objectively evil, and mean to the main character with no other written purpose. Even in utterly deserving to be killed, there's just no substance, no stakes and no point in any victory Jon Glutzerker achieves. This killing is so brutal in concept, but everything that has led us to this moment is just contrived, and it amounts to nothing but senseless violence against a blank canvas, meant to represent the real-life bullies of the viewer or author. Again, no-one in this show has a character beyond one-dimension, and the piss-poor world building leaves you with no sympathy for anything that happens in it. The time wasted on Jon Glutzerker fighting un-inspired generic fantasy monsters while the sword explains everything and anything should have been used to develop the world and characters.

When someone says a story isn’t believable, the meaning is that you could not believe or relate to the story taking place even if its fantastical elements were grounded in reality. The primary cause for this is most often that the characters don’t act like REAL PEOPLE. The villains aren’t believable, the Love-Interest isn’t believable, and Jon Glutzerker is definitely not believable as a real character. The people of this entire world aren’t believable, and if the characters aren’t believable the world isn’t either.

From this point on, you can imagine anything that gets in MC’s way will only exist to make him look ‘cool’, despite how all the action scenes suffer from dullness, and an absence of psychology.

Conclusion/Short-Summary -

There's not really anything else worth saying, or thinking about Berserker of Gluttony. From the poster, I expected just the bare minimum. I at-least expected an edgy blood-fest for twelve episodes straight, but what this is is a boring, uninspired, and-then story in a dull and tired fantasy world with no creativity in sight.

The final breaking point was when the already string-thin world-building was left hanging by a thread, and then with-out any build-up or pretext we are inexplicably introduced to sci-fi-esque series of buildings, featuring bright lights and industrial pipes. On-top of that, this mediaeval fantasy world had introduced unnamed characters wearing modern lab-coats and using modern lab equipment. I would break down how this utterly destroys the world, creates more questions than will ever be answered and is just genuinely the sloppiest handling of a world I’ve seen, but honestly, I don’t care. This world and story were put together hap-hazardly without even the most basic semblance of structure or care. You would think the target audience would be people who have zero media-literacy, or poor pattern recognition - a story for children. That would explain the tolerance for it, but even children would deserve better than this. Yet still, this show features fluctuating levels of gore despite its lack of substance, a demographic mistake other forms of media would get dragged through the mud for. But it doesn't deserve to be a bloody mess at all, because there is no substance or nuance to any of the violence. It's only a sideshow for Jon Glutzerker to get more skills and become stronger, a means to a boring and predictable end.

Despite the show being at face value, not worth a damn - at the time of writing, the mean score for this slop is a resounding seven. Outstanding. Truly, the overall taste in anime has evolved. Backwards.

Unless you lose a bet, there is no good reason to watch this anime, as it will provide you with nothing in return. The only worthwhile thought Berserker of Gluttony could ever provoke, is “why does this crap sell?”

The answer, is that it's just another money laundering scheme.

The anime started fine at first but as it progressed it lost its charm. Moreover it was more there is food in front why not get em without struggle. Also the story doesn’t make any sense. It’s like the story doesn’t exist. I was excited after watching the trailer but it dissipated quickly after watching 5 episodes. I liked the opening and ending song by the way. Overall I won’t recommend someone to watch unless they want waste time. It could’ve been better if the author focused more on story instead of power. After watching the whole it felt like it was written on a ... whim. I don’t mean hurt the author but I was expecting a lot more. Character designs are the only thing that is good. I would rate character design 9/10.

This anime has nothing to say. It has no point in existing other than being a power fantasy. It has no themes, no worldbuilding, the bare minimum of character development. All around just a waste of time. It only exists for lonely teenagers to self insert themselves into role of the MC and imagine they're the ones doing all the uber powerful stuff and getting a harem of girls that worship their every move. You will not gain anything from watching this. No greater understanding of life and purpose like you would from Berserk, nor the ability to accept yourself for who you are, faults ... and all like you would with Inuyasha.

It fails as a fantasy show, it fails as an action show, it fails as a romance, it fails at EVERYTHING it tries to do, yet there are people in this world on the same internet as you and I who would say this was one of the best anime of 2023. Absolutely mental. You know I learned a few weeks ago that all of these types of shows are adapted from a Japanese website that is basically a merge between Webtoon and AO3. That makes sooo much more sense.

Berserk of Gluttony tries incredibly hard to be cool. This is supposed to be your edgy power fantasy that lets you see your worst enemies suffer hell ten times over. And what do you get? Hell, ten times over.

Fate, the main character, is able to communicate with his sword by exchanging thoughts with it. The author thought it would be a silly little joke to write a scene where Fate accidentally replies by speaking out loud instead of using telepathy. Wouldn't that be funny and embarrassing with other people around wondering why he is talking to a sword? No. This joke however is part of ... the Berserk of Gluttony routine. You get this joke regularly and it baffles me. Repeating the exact same gag, with no twists or changes, again and again is nothing short of insanity.

The main issue however is that the series tries to sell itself as an action packed epic adventure, yet you don't get to see any of it. Some of the monsters that Fate has to battle don't receive more than. One. Singular. Frame. Afterward, they disappear in a large cloud of smoke or some mediocre animated explosion. At this point, you could just show the manga panels and play music. This show calls itself an Anime, but you are a fool if you think it contains animation. I have seen my fair share of low quality Anime, but this one takes the cake and then some. Nothing but pain. The episodes felt like dentist appointments. I never want to hear from this show again.

Berserk of Gluttony or Boushoku no Berserk, man, what a total hot garbage of an anime. I mean, at first, it doesn't seem all that terrible, but the more you stick with it, the more you realize it's just a forced mess, rushing through everything like it's on steroids. "Oh, a monster! Kill it, join the team, monster's done, gluttony skill levels up, and now I'm saving the queen." What the heck? Okay, what I said here might not make that much sense, and you might wonder "what part of it is fast-paced?" If you've been watching anime for a while, you'd know this thing's ... pacing is so off the charts that the story ends up making zero sense, covid weeb might not be able to realize this tho (lol). Seriously, who thought this pacing was a good idea? It's like, why the sudden rush? Okay, sure, they had a limited budget and only had 12 episodes, but if you're trying to make a decent adventure type of anime, at least stretch it to 21 or 24 episodes, adventure anime with only 12 episodes is just asking to get roasted by the viewers at this point.

And don't even get me started on the cringe-level system in anime. So cliché. I was half expecting it to be another isekai, but nope which was actually a surprise, you'd see this type of anime as an isekai type, but apparently not for this one, so that's a point I guess.. OP and ED are alright, but everything else? Trash.

Artstyle gets a generous 7/10.
Animation a shaky 6.5/10 – pretty wack and stiff, there was a scene where one of the characters moved 2 frames in 2 seconds.
Plot? Super generic 5/10, "ohhhh I have a useless but actually an OP skill" so original.
Pacing? A solid 1/10, first the MC was visiting a village to take a rest, and 10 minutes later they suddenly defeated a lich, wow.

Overall, Berserk of Gluttony is just a hot mess that disappoints on so many levels, making you wonder who greenlit this disaster. Not that it's a surprise since there is literally an anime about ASMR and isekai vending machine lmao.

Biggest switch up of the century.

I was loving this anime when I started it,
The pacing was good, the animation was pretty good, and the concept was cool, but then after the 4th episode or so everything just collapsed. It went from a good anime to the pacing getting thrown way out of line and the animation dropping like crazy.
It started to feel like they were trying to fit a 18-24ish episode plot line into a 12 episode anime which made it appear extremely rushed. Major plot points would be introduced, just for him to defeat/reach said plot point 5 minutes later in the episode. It ... honestly hurt to see this show spiral so quickly out of seemingly nowhere, wish they took their time and properly worked on each episode without rushing it.

I liked the world, and world building. Particularly the concept of forbidden skills and the persecution that comes with it. I can relate to that as a POC who follows non traditional religious beliefs, and persecuted for it. The big issue is Fate is the most over powered MC I have ever seen. Not just his gluttony skill, that's cool, I meant Greed's various forms and powers. It's so ridiculous that I had to check to see if this was based on a video game. None of the characters are likable or memorable save Fate. There isn't much of a story, the action becomes ... pointless when Greed is just a transformation from victory and the lore behind the deadly skills is ignored. The worst part is the end because nothing is presented that even suggests it could end any other way. Watch Redo of Healer instead.

This is fantasy anime with a stat system like a JRPG game, replete with inflated levels and bloated attributes, as well as a skill system which everyone in the setting gets a random roll from at birth.

Erratic pacing, lackluster action sequences, cartoonishly evil characters, MacGuffins, a main character that has a gateway power to become more powerful than anyone else in the setting--all this and time is still made for an awkward romance subplot among all of the other tropes bundled into this. The animation is unremarkable; the show is not visually impressive in any way, shape, or form, nor is it carboard cutouts on ... strings. The animation is simply serviceable, much like everything else in this show.

The writing is a collection of popular ideas that have been floating around in the fantasy/isekai genre for the past decade now, with no special attentions paid to any one of them. The execution of plot and story is dry, rushed, and boring. The main character is ironically empty--empty in the sense that there is not a single outstanding quality in his writing that makes him unique or interesting in the sea of other lead characters in the fantasy genre.

I cannot recommend this anime to anyone who values their time.

You know when something's so bad, it becomes kinda good?

This is THE worst anime I've seen in a long time. Absolutely nothing about is worth praising. Still, I can't look away.

The story is low-mid. Not good or original, but not completely hopeless. Any hope it might've had was wasted tho.

I suspect the writing was done by a middle-schooler. It ticks all the cliche trope boxes it can, from character relationships to plot ''twists''. the dialogues have no pacing, the scenes themselves have no pacing to speak of and you can always guess the next thing that is going to happen. Also, the dialogues ... are redundant and corny.

The characters... oh boy. The MC is THE edgelord, THE edgy emokid. He is infuriatingly naive, so fucking dumb, slow etc. He doesn't realize to do anything by himself. The most useless character ever. BUT every character in this show is childish, naive and stupid and useless. Everyone is so clueless about the most obvious things and it is so infuriating to watch. Although, it is quite funny at the same time.

the animation is bad, but that was to be expected.

Like I said, this show is the peek of the ''It's so bad it's good'' type of things.

Edgy Show #2

There was a weak-ass MC in a world where skills are as essential as your life and has a weak-ass skill, only to be discovered through killing. Yep, this man didn't kill a single being since he got that. Afterward, he immediately got OP--I mean, he got to train with his sword to get OP.

Add a black sword and outfit with an Alice-look-a-like, and we get an official Kirito 2.0. And by Alice, I mean Roxy, who was just as oblivious as her when they were high-ranking knights.

The problems in the show were obvious:
- The MC was retarded and dumb
- Villians are ... obnoxiously awful
- World building was crap
- Animation/Action was crap
- I hate Eris/Envy

The only savior in this show was Myne, the only character to demonstrate how retarded the MC was.

Berserk of Gluttony — this ain't your usual late Kentaro Miura's Berserk levels of violence and gore. It's just another one of those LN titles that just screams generic edgelord levels of "zero to hero" predictable redemption arcs for the oppressed.

Written by novelist Ichika Isshiki, Boushoku no Berserk a.k.a Berserk of Gluttony is yet another dark fantasy Syosetu-turned-LN series that you've most likely caught by perchance of something interesting, but what it (and now the anime adaptation) amounts to is basically a revenge story in the sea of yet another similar one this season (see Hametsu no Oukoku a.k.a The Kingdoms of Ruin) that likes ... to take the idea of revenge and glorify it for the weak MC who has yet to reach their redemption arc to save those that brought him to where they are now.

In this fantasy world, people are born with skills that will prove their worth to the people around them. But for one MC by the name of Fate Graphite, his skill is rather useless: Gluttony, one of the Seven Deadly Sins skills. Working as a poor gatekeeper for the rather malicious Vlerick family of holy knights of children Hado, Memil, and Rafale, Fate always finds himself starving for no reason at all, always being bullied by the children with no end of salvation in sight. Fortunately, Fate's one glimmer of hope is with another holy knight: Roxy Hart, who is benevolently kind to him, and he would do anything to make sure that he would work under her and reap her kindness in return in the hope that he could protect her one day. Soon, Fate wants to make a name for himself and purchases a rusty black sword for almost literally nothing, only to learn that the sword he got was the living magic sword Greed, teaching Fate that his Gluttony skill is a forbidden one that defies Divine Law since it can absorb other skills and must be kept a tight-lipped secret.

I don't know about you, but Fate Graphite as a character, I get that he has the "zero to hero" MC tropey treatment that is the usual typical cliché, but the way that the author pits his character to be, it just feels uncooked at best. Maybe that's the stereotypical thing of pacing that affects the anime, but even the manga adaptation of the LN is rather similar as well, so in the context of the anime, it chocks up to just being that Fate is a good-nurtured individual who wants to correct the perverse of justice (just like in Tate no Yuusha a.k.a Shield Hero) and fight for what's right. It's clear that we'll need to see more of Fate's development rather than being just a typical powerless-to-powerful MC who has a dream to protect Roxy and the people he cares about in return, other than meeting others with their Seven Deadly Sins skills and figuring out what their intentions are as well. Speaking of Roxy, she's like an angel to Fate: the Holy Knight, adored by the people for her kindness, is a victim of her nurtured personality, thus looking like they had crushes on each other. For now, Fate's self-absorbed responsibility to protect her is the sole reason why he still stands tall and righteous. Everybody else, forget it, as the world itself is smudged in fearmongering and terror of people abusing their power, just like the Vlericks.

Even the production values don't give much hope that this'll preserve for the ages, coming from a studio whose track record is all the wonkier with a rather disappointing (but expected) return. Directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa, who's responsible for High School DxD and Orient, A.C.G.T. may not be the studio that comes to mind these days, but still, they have to rely on shows like this to keep the 3rd-rate studio's business running, even if it means that the show will not look as good from a production standpoint. The anime just felt mostly mediocre on its animation, though it's better than some studio having to push an obscene 3 shows this season (I'm looking at you, Project No. 9) and isn't as bad as you think it is.

Needless to say, the OST is not that memorable either, though for up-and-coming Seiyuu group EverdreaM, while Spring's Rokudou no Onna-tachi OP song is just not for me, both OP and ED songs here are a much better effort, and I've come to like them both over time, especially the latter.

But in an overall sense, Boushoku no Berserk is just not the show that I can recommend if you're expecting something unique to come out of the dark fantasy genre that most LN authors have stuck to the same old bread-and-butter trick for years now, with nothing new to offer. You simply watch this show for its own "unique" entertainment, which is rather methodical yet underwhelming and slow.

Just pass on; there're other shows that do the dark fantasy genre better justice.