Coffee and chocolate, ass and shirt, Domenico Guastafierro (@cavernadiplatone) and Berserk. With the release of 376, we couldn’t stop ourselves from asking Domenico a few words. Let’s start by asking him why the long wait, as if he were the one responsible. The problem is simply the production. The artists who work on Berserk are already busy with other series, maybe one day they will be great mangaca but for now they are and remain assistants. Of course, the lack of experience is a dominant factor.
The version of Berserk by the team led by Mori lacks coherence with the narrative structure that Miura led. There are missing pieces, or rather, there is a sort of re-writing of things. It is a bit as if Mori knew what had to happen but without those nuances, those additions that Miura had put in place over time and made Berserk much more stratified. Mori is stuck 30 years in the past, holding onto the memories of what the two friends said to each other. If we want to see the good in it, it’s a bit like we’re watching the original version of the story.
So now it’s war? Miura had already understood many years ago that they (the falcon and consequently Falconia) would move east and there would be a clash with the Kushian empire. Enemies turn into friends and vice versa. The forces of good and the forces of evil clash ; it reminds us of the apocalypse of Devilman, where the grotesque beings that seem like the bad guys are the good guys, and the white falcon that seems to have come out of a fairytale is not… (at least if you don’t think Grifith didn’t do anything wrong).
