Berserk, Volume 16

Battle with the elf queen in the swamp escalates. As Guts fights his way though hordes of elves Holy Knight order appears and witnesses the results from previous issue - villagers and village itself destroyed. In their eyes this only confirms that Black Swordsman (how they name Guts) is evil incarnate.

After putting Berserk on hiatus for almost two years I decided to continue with the series, and I have to say that author managed to capture that atmospheric level of evil. It is almost warhammer-ish nightmare level. Art is so oozing with mixes of innocence and lethality that despair and fear just emanate from the pages.

This is the 16th volume in the Berserk series and finishes the story arc involving The Misty Valley, Jill, and the Queen of Elves. The Queen of Elves’ true background is also revealed.

Guts gets beat up pretty bad during his battle with the Queen of Elves and is immediately set upon by the Holy Iron Chain Knights lead by Lady Farnese. After winning a duel with one of their knights, Guts is beset upon by multiple knights and ends up captured.

The illustration continues to be very well done. This volume was very violent and gory, just like previous volumes. There were some awesome fight scenes between both Guts and the Queen of Elves and Guts and the Holy Iron Chain Knights. There was tons of action in this volume but not as much story show more development.

Overall this was a great continuation of this series. I prefer a little more story development than was here, but there were a lot of great action scenes. I would recommend to mature readers who enjoy fantasy horror manga. show less

With Berserk, because I read it so infrequently, I'm going to rate each volume, unless I don't feel it necessary.