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Berserk

The Black Swordsman

Season 1, Episode 1, Aired Oct 08, 1997

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Cast & Crew

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Sean Schemmel

Gaston (Eng)
Akiko Yajima

Ricket
Akira Ishida

Judeau
Mark Sebastian

Corkus (Eng)
Yuri Shiratori

Charlotte
Michelle Newman

Ricket (Eng)

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Off to a good start!

9.0

"Superb"

By Kon-Kai, Apr 16, 2008

Berserk! Is off to a good start, we meet our main character doing exactly what we want to see kicking butt and spilling blood and guts all over the place! YEAH! This particular episode is a little bit cliche, the main character comes in and stops the would-be torture of an innocent girl, kills the bad guys and sends a message out to the chief. We don't learn much about him but that also creates interest - this episode grabs your attention because you start to wonder, Where did he get the big a$$ sword? What's that thing around his neck and why is his left eye always closed... This is a Great way to start any anime althought the whole savior of the day bit was a little played.moreless
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Theres not really much to say about this - big sword, big bloke, big baddy (literally) and lots of blood with plenty of violence to top it off - just all the normal things.moreless

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By rakshakeller, Feb 27, 2008

The first time that I ever saw this show, and i have to say it's a little disappointing. It didn't really entertain that well compared to other animas that I've watched in the past and it was slightly confusing at some parts. At least the ending was fairly good as a cliffhanger with the last minute flashback. The overall thoughts for this episode were that it's good as a cliffhanger leaving lots of questions unanswered, but the plot itself was rather boring and dissapointing, am hoping the next is going to get a little more exciting, lets hope. *fingers crossed* byemoreless
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Yet another badass character with a bigass sword.

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By ZaleIsBackAgain, Jan 25, 2006

A group of bandits have kidnapped a young girl, and are treating her like dirt. From purposely spilling their drinks, to making her clean it by drinking it off the table. Everyone within the bar couldn't do anything, because they were afraid of being killed. But there was one man who couldn't take it. He killed one of them, and slain the others with his bigass sword. This was later on reported to the master, who shown interest in this black swordsman. At the moment, the black swordsman was reflecting on himself with a piece of jewelry around his neck. He hears voices within himself, presumably a demons.

The master decided to burn the town and kill everyone within it, killing the miniser and only keeping with him the soldiers who were loyal to him. Those same loyal soldiers were killed by arrows, which came from the same black swordsman that killed the man earlier. The master turned into a snake like demon, who was later slain by the black swordsman. A weird way to start off a series if you ask me, though it is pretty interesting. For the first episodes after this one, it's all realistic and stuff, while this episode seems completely supernatural. Oh well, that just makes it more interesting.moreless
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- Lord: (to Minister about Gut) I love to hear humans scream, and the sound of cracking bones. I'd love to treat him with pleasures like those. Minister: Please wait! You promised me that you wouldn't do anything to my people! Lord: I don't know... Minister: You can't...! Lord: I don't care about your people. I don't care at all.
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- Void: (to Black Swordsman) We are always watching you. Your body is ours. You can't escape us. Your blood...flesh and bone. Everything is ours. That's right! Everything is ours!
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- Thug 1: (to Colette about the drinks) Opps! You finally spilled it! Thug 2: You'll have to be punished. (trys to force Colette's head down) Alright you're going to lick it all up now. Come on! It's gonna soak into the table if you don't hurry. Don't waste it.
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- The Black Swordsman: Didn't you say a human couldn't kill you?
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- Castle Guard: Even the horses are cut in half.
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- Innkeeper: What a mess! I'm getting too old for this kind of bullshit.
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- Romaji title: Kuroi senshi Translated title: black prehistory
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- The enormous sword is the Dragon Slayer.
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- The Blacksmith is Godo.
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- The 5 figures the Black Swordsman can see are the God Hand – Void, Ubik, Conrad, Slan and Femto.
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- The deep voice the Black Swordsman can hear is Void.
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- In the Manga, the Black Swordsman rescues a fairy called Puck instead of a girl. Puck does not appear in the anime.
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- The Master and the Giant Snake is the Snake Tyrant - an apostle.
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- The Black Swordsman and the Dark Man is Guts.
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- Chronologically, this episode happens after episode 25.
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