Berserk, Vol. 6
Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary unit led by Griffith, whose calm demeanor and callow beauty belied his fighting prowess and steel will. While in a king's employ, the attraction between the king's daughter and Griffith and the...
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Back in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary unit led by Griffith, whose calm demeanor and callow beauty belied his fighting prowess and steel will. While in a king's employ, the attraction between the king's daughter and Griffith and the growing favor of the king towards the Hawk leader raises the hackles of the king's jealous son, who plots to have Griffith summarily assassinated. But if the plot fails, the king's son will likely have to deal with Guts and his titanic broadsword, and the results of such confrontations are rarely pretty... or easy to clean up.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781593072520 (159307252X)
Publish date: in Japan in 1998
Publisher: Kodansha, Tokyo.nn
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Drama,
Asian Literature,
Horror,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Manga,
Japanese Literature,
Dark Fantasy,
Comics Manga,
Seinen
Series: Berserk (#6)
Flashback story takes a remarkable twist as Griffith is suddenly given a whole lot more depth and his relationship not only to Guts, but the rest of the Hawks is explored much more thoroughly. The volume ends with the beginning of Caska's tale, which I'm definitely looking forward to. This series is...
The phallic imagery in this one is killing me.