Berserk

Kentaro Miura's manga is the heart here, and the CrossBinge entry surrounds it with adaptations: the 1997 anime, the Golden Age Arc film trilogy, the 2016 CG series, the Memorial Edition recut, and the Musou-style game Band of the Hawk. Several manga volumes sit alongside them.

Few dark-fantasy works hit this hard. Guts, a mercenary swinging a sword the size of a door, and Griffith, the beautiful, ruinous leader of the Band of the Hawk, drive a story that builds toward the Eclipse, one of the genre's most infamous turns. Miura's art is obsessively detailed and unrelentingly grim, and the franchise's reputation is inseparable from his death in 2021, which left the manga unfinished.

It crosses books, TV, film, and game, but every adaptation chases the manga rather than surpassing it.

The Berserk franchise spans 3 series, 7 books, 1 games, 3 films in the CrossBinge catalog.