Episodes

The opening chapter of the Black Swordsman arc, this installment introduces Guts as a grim, one-armed wanderer hunting apostles. He arrives in the town of Koka to slay its demonic ruler, the Snake Lord, in a brutal confrontation that sets…

Amid the war between Midland and Tudor, a lone swordsman shatters an enemy cavalry charge single-handed and clears the way for the Band of the Falcon. The victory earns Griffith noble rank, while Guts and Casca clash over his reckless…

Now a raid captain in the Band of the Falcon, Guts storms a Tudor stronghold where fifty of his men vanished. Deep in the keep he finds the source: a monstrous, ageless warrior called Nosferatu Zodd, whose single blow proves he is nothing…

Bleeding from an earlier fight, the Black Swordsman is hunted through the dark by vengeful spirits drawn to the mark on his neck. A priest's wagon offers shelter, but the Brand of Sacrifice turns that kindness into a slaughter when the…

A heretic's public beheading turns into a silent declaration of war when the Black Swordsman hurls the severed head at the demon Count and marks his own throat in blood. Chased through the streets and cornered by an armored captain, Guts…

The duel between Guts and Nosferatu Zodd reaches its peak. Guts shears the top from Zodd's blade with one desperate all-out swing, drawing the first deep wound anyone has ever landed on the warrior, and in answer Zodd begins to shift into…

Vargas reveals how the Count stripped away his face, his legs, and his family before he fled with the stolen Beherit. As the possessed captain returns for a final duel and the disfigured physician is dragged to the gallows, Guts resolves…

The transformed Zodd overwhelms Guts, batting him through pillars while goading him to fight on. Just before the deathblow, Griffith and the Band of the Falcon storm in with arrows, though the enraged apostle blocks their retreat, bent on…

Deep inside the castle the Black Swordsman carves through the Count's monstrous servant and climbs toward the throne, while a caged Puck befriends the ruler's imprisoned daughter. When the Count sheds his human shape for a regenerating…

Nosferatu Zodd (4), the fifth chapter of Berserk's Golden Age Arc, finishes the clash with the demon Zodd. After Zodd spots the crimson Beherit at Griffith's throat, he delivers a chilling prophecy to Guts before flying off into the night.

Still injured from Zodd's attack, Guts fights his way toward the recovering Griffith and clashes with a furious Casca. Later, training alone on a terrace, he and Griffith trade quiet words about gods, demons, and why Griffith keeps coming…

Beaten and cornered, Guts turns the Count's own daughter into a living shield to sever the demon's head, then unleashes a brutal, mocking assault. As the dying Count's blood reaches the Beherit, the relic weeps and drags them all into an…

Face to face with the God Hand, Guts recognizes one demon as Griffith and hurls himself up an endless staircase to reach him, only to be flung back by an effortless will. As the Count is pressed to sacrifice his own daughter, the truth of…

A royal audience lifts the low-born Griffith into court favor, catching the eye of Princess Charlotte and the jealousy of her uncle Julius. Minister Foss quietly stokes that resentment into a murder plot, while atop a tower Guts commits…

During the royal autumn hunt, the Band of the Falcon guards the King while Griffith charms Princess Charlotte. A boar spooks her horse into a ravine, and after Griffith rescues her, a hidden crossbowman hired by Julius drives a bolt into…

A battlefield memory finally shows the young Griffith who once pulled Guts from the dead. In the present the Count refuses to sacrifice his daughter and is swallowed by Hell, leaving Guts to test whether Theresia truly wishes to die, or to…

The 9th chapter of the Golden Age Arc resolves the attempt on Griffith's life, revealing that his Beherit shielded his heart and setting the stage for the counterplot he proposes to Guts.

The Golden Age Arc begins with the strange arrival of Guts, drawn alive from beneath his dead mother among a field of hanged corpses. Taken in by a hardened mercenary company, the boy is molded into a child soldier through years of harsh…

Acting on Griffith's deductions, Guts slips into Julius' estate to eliminate the noble behind a failed assassination. The clean strike goes horribly wrong when a shadow in the doorway turns out to be Julius' young son, Adonis.

A dark chapter of the Golden Age flashback tracing Guts' brutal childhood among Gambino's mercenaries. It follows his suffering at the hands of the soldier Donovan and builds to the violent rupture between Guts and his foster father.

The assassination sequence closes as Guts flees the aftermath of Julius's murder. Haunted by the boy he was forced to kill, he escapes through a sewer, endures a nightmare that fuses his own face with Zodd's, and drags himself back to the…

This Golden Age flashback chapter follows the young Guts in the aftermath of Gambino's death, driven from his mercenary band and left to survive alone. A four-year leap then shows the teenager coming into his own as a fearsome…

Fresh from killing Bazuso, Guts collects his pay and walks away from an offered squire's post, only to be ambushed by jealous mercenaries. His defense draws the attention of a mysterious commander and a fierce female fighter, and ends with…

A quiet Golden Age Arc chapter set after the celebration. Away from the crowd, Griffith opens up to Charlotte about dreams, purpose, and what a true friend means, while Guts eavesdrops and Casca watches his reaction. News of Julius' death…

As a decisive battle of the Hundred-Year War looms, Griffith rides for the front. Foss probes him over the deaths of Julius and Adonis and fails to trap him, Charlotte gives him a lodestone knight, and Guts departs still weighed down by…

Trapped in a nightmare of the men he has killed, Guts wakes inside the Band of the Falcon's camp with no memory of how he arrived. Griffith returns his sword and his freedom, then wagers his own body on a duel when Guts vows to run him…

Chapter 14 throws the Band of the Falcon against the Tudor army in a storm-lit clash. Weakened by pain, Casca is beaten from her horse by the brutish Adon and left facing death, until Guts arrives to turn the fight.

The duel ends with a dislocated shoulder and a claim on Guts' life, binding him to Griffith against his will. On his first mission with the Band of the Falcon, a daring night raid, Guts is handed the deadliest post and left to hold the…

After Guts routs Adon, an arrow sends him and a feverish Casca plunging off a cliff into the river below. Stranded and hunted, Guts shelters her in a cave and discovers the very human reason behind her sudden weakness.

Left behind to hold off the enemy alone, Guts is run down until Griffith himself rides back to save him. Safe within the fort, the Band of the Falcon celebrates its newest fighter, while Casca watches the growing bond between Guts and…

Sheltering in a cave after their fall, a bristling Casca finally tells Guts her past: a starving village girl sold to a nobleman, then rescued by Griffith, who handed her a sword and let her choose the life that made her a warrior.

A quiet morning brings talk of what binds the Band of the Falcon together and the strange pull Griffith holds over everyone near him. Then Griffith shows Guts the Egg of the King and speaks of a kingdom, hinting at the price such a dream…

Casca recounts how her worship of Griffith curdled into something deeper after a fallen recruit shakes him, and after he sells himself to a lecherous noble for gold to fund the Band of the Falcon. Finding him carving his own arms, she…

A Golden Age flashback finds Casca confessing her resentment of Guts before Adon's bounty hunters corner the pair in a riverside cave. Wounded and feverish, Casca must stand back to back with Guts against a swarm of soldiers.

Cornered by Adon's soldiers, Guts and Casca fight back to back until Guts shatters the giant Samson's flail and kills him. Guts then takes crossbow bolts meant for Casca, ordering her to flee back to Griffith while he holds the line alone.

Guts holds off Adon's soldiers so a fevered Casca can flee for help, and both are pushed to the edge of death. Cornered and stripped by her pursuers, Casca claws back her will to fight moments before the Band of the Falcon arrives to save…

With Casca out of danger, Guts fights on alone against Adon's endless soldiers until dawn. Reunited and carried back to camp, he learns Griffith moved to find them at any cost, and Casca is quietly touched by the gesture.

While Casca tends his wounds, Guts confesses that he has no dream of his own within the Band of the Falcon, planting the first hint that he intends to leave. Elsewhere, Midland lays siege to the fortress of Doldrey as Tudor sends its elite…

With Tudor weakened by an internal power struggle, Griffith stuns Midland's war council by vowing to seize the border fortress of Doldrey using only his mercenaries, setting the stage for a defining campaign.

With Doldrey's fortress looming ahead, the Band of the Falcon braces for a charge against a far larger royal force. Guts, healed and uneasy, wonders whether this will be his last fight beside Griffith as the order to attack finally comes.

The third stage of the Doldrey offensive wins ground through cunning rather than raw force. Guts and Boscogn trade a bruising opening charge, yet Griffith's ordered pull-back conceals a trap, and while the Purple Rhino Knights chase the…

The fight for Doldrey splits into two brutal duels. Inside the fortress Casca faces a vengeful Adon, while on the field Guts alone holds the line against Boscogn, and Griffith pauses to watch a clash that stirs Guts' memories of Zodd.…

Guts, disarmed and unhorsed before Boscogn, is saved when a distant swordsman hurls a giant blade to his feet. Meanwhile Casca outmaneuvers Adon and slays him, turning the fight for Doldrey.

The Band of the Falcon seals its victory at Doldrey as Griffith coldly executes the fallen noble Gennon, revealing their past night together was only a means to fund his dream. Guts carries the wounded Casca out to watch Griffith…

As the Band of the Falcon is feted for its victory at Doldrey, Minister Foss and the Queen of Midland hatch a poisoning plot against the rising Griffith, only for a mysterious letter to shatter Foss's nerve.

On the night before the Band of the Falcon rides into Wyndham, a grand banquet honors them. Griffith shines among the nobles while Guts and Casca escape the crowd to the terrace. The king then ends the war, ennobles the whole band as the…

Manga episode 31 of Berserk springs the Queen of Midland's plot against Griffith at a royal banquet, only for the scheme to unravel in fire. Guts silences the assassin, and Griffith answers the conspirators with a burning tower.

Berserk chapter 32 caps Griffith's political gambit as he burns away his enemies in Wyndham. Revealing that his death was a ruse, the White Falcon dismantles the conspirators, secures Foss' loyalty, and leaves the killing to Guts.

Back in Wyndham after his rescue, Guts quietly resolves to leave the Band of the Falcon, slipping away one snowy night despite Casca's pleas, having decided he must forge his own dream rather than live in Griffith's shadow.

In a Wyndham tavern, Corkus and Judeau weigh the worth of dreams as Guts prepares to leave the Falcons. Judeau reads the truth of Casca, Griffith, and Charlotte, and urges Guts toward her, but at the gate the whole band stands ready to…