Is berserk not popular? The movies failed in the box office.

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I think it's sort of a product of a bygone era. When Berserk first came out violent gory stories about muscle-bound badasses were huge in manga and anime (Fist of the North Star, Jojo, Violence Jack, etc), but lately that genre has fallen by the wayside in favor of more light-hearted shonen fare and CGDCT slice of life series. Just look at how out of place Guts looks next to the art styles of the other manga being run in the same magazine.
Berserk still has its fans and probably always will, but I doubt it'll ever again enjoy the popularity it once had.

>>155996869
except people eat up shit like attack on titan and tokyo ghoul they should have not fucked over the newest series with cgi and it would have had a chance

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>>155996556
the hype was dead
Maybe it work if it was made 20 years ago

More less like this >>155996869 said

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Can she save the anime?

The berserk anime is pretty popular for how shitty it was and is. On most anime sites it is in the top 10 sometimes even top 5 most popular anime for a certain period.

Berserk is in sales tier equal to bleach. It has 50% as much chapters and also sold 50% as much. So wether bleach is/was popular is up to you. I think berserk is also more popular in the west than in the east. The problem is where I live (Netherlands) you don't got stores to just walk to and buy a berserk volume or manga magazine is so most berserk readers here do not buy volumes. I only got 1 at the moment. I think Miura is doing fine with finances and that berserk is really popular as well although some good 12/24 episodic anime series of some berserk arcs would certainly have made it more popular

>>155997052
tokyo ghoul is popular because it's about gay bishonens fighting and being edgy. Fujos are the ones that buy TG and SnK

Berserk is about a muscular dude

>>155999052
Clearly couldn't handle all that masculinity. Made them feel inadequate.

But regardless, Berserk mellowed the fuck out.

>>155998907
>Berserk is in sales tier equal to bleach
No it's not, Berserk at it's best sells 200k a volume, Bleach with the decline was over 400k.

Bleach has 90 million copies in 15 years, had a long running anime that at it's lowest point was making 140 million dollars only in Japan and then retarded merch sales + anime discs and licenses from all over the world, Berserk has been running for 30 years and it has 40 million copies which mostly come from it's early days. It never had a popular anime or a game or merch or home video sales.


You're talking about two different scales, only a retard would compare them.

>>155996556
In terms of total revenue, Berserk is totally fine, but Berserk itself and the topics it deal with/display with no censors (rape, gore, fetuses falling out of a still-living moth-monster) DEFINITELY does not appeal to the general public. That's fine, though- Berserk has a dedicated audience that will keep it relevant-but-still-not-mainstream for years to come.

>>155997052
Yeah but AoT and Tokyo Ghoul still have pretty boy main characters

If everyone liked it it wouldn't be patrician anymore