This is where the climax of the current story arch begins. Are you ready for the most amazing battle scenes ever to exist in manga? Volume six was a quiet read, but this one is a total and awesome mayhem. And to add even more to the winning formula, volume 8 is pretty much the same. This is Berserk at maximum. I must make some spoilers for this volume, I just cant help myself not to. I will just skip to the content for now, as I am eager to reach a certain point in the story. Guts and Caska…

You know, THOSE things. The small, little and numerous things that separate anime from other forms of animation… or popular culture thingies. And THOSE little things, all got a perverted side, sex connotations and specific Japanese phobias, taboos, or beliefs. I don’t think I can talk about all of them, simply because I don’t know all of them. But lets start talking about these little things, as you probably wonder what the heck I’m talking about. I’m in the dark myself about many of these things, so bare with me. …

It is pretty important to say that volume six is a game changer. Everything changes. The story gets complicated as it starts to evolve around the royal court, there is more intrigue now, lots of new characters appear, and finally things start to evolve between Guts and Caska. Great stuff!
Also, there is not much fighting in the first seven chapters of this book, if you do not count two murders and one attempt of murder. But do not think a Berserk volume is boring because there are less battles in …

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