Funimation has the first season of Berserk out earlier this year on January 16th, 2018 in both regular and limited edition form and now they’re doing some promotion for the second season. The second season came out this past week with a June 12th, 2018 debut as a bilingual DVD/BD combo priced at $64.98. While most ending sequences are a bit lighter in terms of music, more moody than anything else, this one has a bit of intensity to it that works well with a great looking series of visuals as it plays the song “Issai wa Monogatari” by Yoshino Nanjō, Nagi Yanagi. The set has twelve episodes and twenty-eight minutes of extras that includes episode 12.5, some commercials, and the clean opening and closing sequences.
Check out our review of the first season.
The series was directed by Shin Itagaki based on the series composition from Makoto Fukami and Takashi Yamashita. Hisashi Abe worked on the character designs while LIDENFILMS handled production with studios GEMBA nad Millepensee. The cast has the main characters largely returning from the theatrical films and includes Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts, Kaoru Mizuhara as Puck, Yoko Hikasa as Farnese, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Serpico, Hiro Shimono as Isidro, Hiroki Yasumoto as Azan, Toa Yukinari as Casca, Takahiro Sakurai as Griffith, Akio Ootsuka as The Skull Knight and Unshou Ishizuka as the Narrator.
The English cast includes Kaiji Tang as Guts, Steve Cannon as Griffith, Max Mittelman as Serpico, Erik Scott Kimerer as Isidro, Doug Stone as Adolf, Erica Mendez as Rickert, G.K. Bowes as Collette, Jake Eberle as Narrator, Abbot Kefford as Godo, Kyle McCarley as Judeau, Mela Lee as Schierke, Ray Chase as Mozgus, Wendee Lee as Luca, Brianna Knickerbocker as Erica and Chris Smith as King of Midland.
A TV series was produced back in 1997, which was released by Media Blasters in North America, and a trilogy of films recounting much of the material from that arrived in the last few years as released by Viz Media.
Property Concept: A brave young warrior named Guts fights for his fortune as a mercenary on the front lines. A fated encounter unites Guts with the charismatic and deadly young man named Griffith. Leading the rogue soldiers known as the Band of the Hawk, Griffith wields his formidable force like no other. Driven by a quest for status, the Hawks exert military and social prowess the likes of which have never been seen before. The armies of Midland will quake with fear as Griffith and Guts set off on a path that will bring the world to its knees.
