Is Berzerk the most normalfag manga of them all?

No Dragon Ball

>>145284782
One piece, Hunter x hunter, Bleach, Alll shonen jump manga + Fairy tail etc

Here is a better question: Is OP the greatest Retard you have met so far?

It's like Naruto doesn't even exist.

Beserk is the "I've just grown out of shonen and I need something mature to read" starter pack.

>>145284266
>normalfag
if you are not a normalfag
are you a defectivefag?
an abnormalfag?

>>145284920
This is pretty true. I wouldn't say it is normalfag tier desu as all my normalfag friends haven't read it despite recommendations.

If you ask the average Japanese whether or not they read manga and they say yes, 90% of the time they're going to say One Piece

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>normalfag
>manga

there's almost no such thing, because normies don't even read manga.

Hell, I would guess half of /a/ doesn't even read manga. For some reason people really don't like reading.

>>145285808
no, you're a newfag or an oldfag, you newfag

>>145284266
Considering that little people have actually read it I would say this question is pretty retarded. Not to mention it's not exactly a story that group flocks to

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>>145285808
You're an anon.
Just kidding, you're just a fag.

>>145287217
>normies
>>145286992
>normie
Fuck off /r9k/.

>>145287217
Too true. There is also an element to reading berserk that develops a certain mood and not everyone gets that or the story..

Considering manga are published for mainstream consumption ALL manga is for normals

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>>145287491
>only /r9k/ uses the term normies

first day online, kiddo?

>>145284266
I hate the pretentiousness of 4chan sometimes. It's so cringy to come on here because it always a bunch of losers bragging about who has been here the longest and how their tastes are so good with no discrepancy for aubjectiveness. It's quite pathetic.. read a book and enjoy it simple as that. The manga is incredibly good with amazing art and if you look up "best manga of all time" it's been coming up on Google for a while it being good or recomend is nothing new. Weather they grasp all the themes isn't soemthing I should care about

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>>145284266

The real question is, would you recommend Berserk to a normalfag?

>rape
>murder
>fucked up scenes

They'd drop it in a heartbeat.

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>>145285938
This is how you do it.

>>145288363
you guys are so out of touch with real life it's hilarious

>>145288363
>They'd drop it in a heartbeat.

Why? Game of Thrones is a thing, you know.

>>145288363
Do you know why GoT is so popular with normalfags?

>>145288363
>>145289913
>>145289989
>>145290017
can't be calling this popular when they wont even give us a good 12eps of proper animation. Also the creator don't even give a fuck about berserk.. nobody does. Maybe the journey wasn't about guts and griffith... maybe it was the friends we all made along the way

>>145290149
Even without the anime, Berserk is pretty popular.

>>145284266
>Disliking one of the best manga in the last half century because another group of people like it

This is what happens when contrarianism goes too far.

>>145287332
Then why would a sane person desire to be a oldfag. Who would that impress.

>>145290149
Well if it didnt have a mangaka taking breaks all the time it would be popluar. Anime are there to sell volumes. Why are you so ignorant.

>>145291547
It gets my dick hard when someone mentions that they're from 2006 or earlier. I have to jack off immediately. It is my curse but it's becoming much less likely to happen as the years roll by.

>>145290729
>in the last half century
What's even the fucking point of adding this? I'd say the vast majority of the best manga were written in the last half century. I also wouldn't say Berserk is one of them - it's just solid overall.

>>145285938
BAITS THE DUST

>>145288363
I'm almost impressed how little of a clue you have about what normalfags like.

>>145286992
>>145287811
>>145287217
Kill yourselves, /r9k/.

Also, I was absolutely a normalfag when I was reading Naruto and Berserk and shit for the first time, so I'm not sure what >>145287217 is on about.

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>>145284266

Normalfags don't read manga

Normalfags would be turned off by the imagery

You're probably thinking of Naruto or One Piece.

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>>145284266
>normalfag
Don't turn out like him OP.

>>145284266
If it was an American comic book it would be. However, being a manga makes it too foreign for most of the 'normalfags' who would otherwise jump on it.
The stuff that 'plebs' like is specifically liked by weirdos who think Japan itself is a magically wonderland and pick the popular kids ones because they want to be Japanese, so they don't quite qualify and Dragon Ball is just nostalgia for some people.

Berserk has all the ingredients for normie-bait, though. It's got a pretty vapid plot and relies heavily on overdone aestheticism. It has 'mature themes' that are 'not for kids' which tends to tickle the normie fancy, too. It's pretty much a bland fantasy story told in manga, but it uses a painterly, medieval style crossed with a 90s fantasy stylised illustration style that would automatically appeal to anyone who grew up in the mid-late 80s right into the mid-90s too. Plus, there story has nothing beneath it so it won't confuse anyone and it is Western influenced so it won't alienate them either.

It does show children naked, though, so that'd raise a red flag and it's a manga and there's a stigma about that still. Because of youtube sponsorships and internet culture bleeding into regular pop culture, there's a high chance of Berserk getting lots of main stream attention from Western normies, though. Especially with the game coming out too.

So, yeah OP... You could say so.

>>145287811
normies is a normalfag word. /r9k/ and reddit and other normalfags sites love using the word normie.

>>145295673
Honestly, comics are only normalfag since around 2007 when it became cool to like comics. Outside of a few select really popular stuff like watchmen or the killing joke, normalfags don't read any pre-2000 comics.

>>145292798
Why people gotta diss One Piece?

>>145295884
Yeah, ignoring the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s (with declining popularity all the way up due to the influence of television) when they were pretty popular as a children's past time, but even then that was regional and still not as big a thing as it's become with adult's trying to convince everyone they know about the Avengers movies by buying 10 euro chapters.

But Berserk has the potential to get into that market all the same. Also, by no means is this me ragging on Berserk - I do quite like it.

>>145296076
I dunno. One Piece does everything it means to and is great at it. Literally can't find a fault in One Piece outside of occasional pacing issues week-to-week, that are excusable anyway.

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No. Dragon ball Z, Yu Yu Hakisho, and Bleach are. All of them have the same plot mechanic that people like.

Actual Average Joe
>Doesn't care about Chinese Cartoons

"Nerd"
>Watched popular anime like DBZ and Naruto

Nerd
>Reads Mangoes about popular anime

4chan's definition of "Normie"
>Watches/Reads "entry" animangoes like Berserk and Eva

The typical /a/utist
>moeshit and haremshit

The "Contrarian" /a/utist
>Its n-not moeshit! I-its deep!

The "Patrician" /a/utist
>Legend of the Galactic Heroes is high art

>>145284266

babbys first seinen

>>145289989
One Piece is the most normalfag manga, nothing else even begins to come close.

>>145290017
Game of Thrones is rated G compared to the completely ridiculous scenes of rape and gore in Berserk. The average person isn't going to read shit like that.

>>145296997
That's Gantz.

>>145297027
>The average person isn't going to read shit like that
To certain extent, yeah.
Back in art college I had Shintaro Kago in my massive research files, because he was relevant, and my peers who were being educated in understanding stuff like that still didn't because some people are not able understand that ideas need to be conveyed through all sorts of means and that means can be gruesome because sometimes it needs to be.
The "listens to Kodaline and Mumfrod and Sons and says Oceans 11 is an excellent film" audience would never go near it, but there's a burgeoning, casual redditor audience on the horizon.
Oprah won't be recommending it and my Mom won't be reading it, but the guys who watch Big Bang Theory might make it there.
'Normalfag' is far too nothing a term to work with, though. It could catch on in pockets here and there, get more of a cult following than it had, get shit on by
>reeeeeee normies like it
guys here, get either tonnes of publicity because of it or get Nickelback'd into irrelevance and potentially be considered a classic by western media is Manga's become a thing over here 10 or so years in the future.

Something like that, maybe.
It has the most to latch on to for those guys out of all the big name ones anyway.

>>145297490
>It could catch on in pockets here and there, get more of a cult following than it had

It's going 30 years old. These days more people are "leaving" the fanbase (losing interest/dropping the manga) than becoming a part of it. It has already peaked and isn't likely to peak again.

In other words, if it had some mass normalfag appeal, then it would already have audiences like One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, etc. Berserk will never even come remotely close to having that kind of normalfag appeal. Most seinen never will, and it's not even the most popular or best selling seinen manga to begin with.

The "edgy" normalfag crowd that is gravitating towards Game of Thrones and such will much quicker flock to Attack on Titan before something like Berserk.

>>145296260
The plot's been moving slow since Miura slowed down his release schedule. Some fucked up shit needs to happen soon. I'm going to be sad when Roderick dies.