Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen I – Haou no Tamago (2012)
Director:
Toshiyuki Kubooka
Actors:
Guts
Griffith
Casca
Judeau
Corkus
Rating:
(16’146 votes)
(16’146 votes)
Quote:
« Griffith: Why do men like to shed blood, you asked. You are right in saying that it is one of the facets we, men, possess. However, it is but a tool to obtain what our heart desires and keep it from harm's way. I believe it to be a double-edged blade.
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« Charlotte: What your heart desires… a lover? A knight's honor?
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« Griffith: Both are important, aren't they? Fighting and dying for love and honor is what a knight desires above all else. But for men there exists something even more important than that. You know of it, I believe.
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« Charlotte: More important?
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« Griffith: It is a dream formulated and fostered for your own sake. Men are entranced by their dreams regardless of birth, rank or social standing. The dream supports them. It makes them suffer and it breathes new life into them. And it kills them. Even after they've given up on it, it continues to smolder in their hearts. All men have a dream at least once in their lives. They imagine themselves being martyrs to the God their dream has become. Others live on powerlessly, birthed into the world. I could not endure such a life.
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:76 minutes
Plots:
A lone sellsword named Guts gets recruited into a mercenary band and attempts to help the Band’s leader, Griffith, on his rise to power.
This arc is a flashback showing Guts’ youth and what led him to become the “Black Swordsman”. Guts grows up as a young mercenary until his enrollment in the Band of the Hawk. He develops complex relationships with Casca and Griffith, the Band’s charismatic leader and holder of the mystical artifact known as the Crimson Behelit, who leads the Band to its rise to prominence within the Midland army.
Mercenary Guts, infamously known as The Black Swordsman, is defeated in combat by the skilled and charismatic Griffith. Afterwards, he’s forced to join Griffith’s group, The Band of the Hawk, and undertake many dangerous missions that soon turn bizarre.
