Kenji
@darkpanel_devotee✦Founder
Manga first, everything else second. Berserk changed my life. Currently tracking 23 ongoing series. Art > words.
Top Shelf
Berserk, Vol. 1
“Miura was a god. The Golden Age arc is the greatest story ever drawn.”
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
“Where it all began. The Elric brothers' journey is the perfect shonen.”
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 15
“Briggs arc is peak FMA. Olivier Armstrong supremacy.”
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 27
“The ending FMA deserved. Arakawa stuck the landing perfectly.”
Reviews
All 3 reviews →Berserk, Vol. 1
Kentaro Miura
Miura's artwork in this first volume already shows flashes of the genius that would define the medium. The Black Swordsman arc is raw, violent, and uncompromising — but it's the humanity underneath that makes it art.
Guts isn't just angry. He's broken in a way that makes his violence feel like the only language he was ever taught. This is manga at its most ambitious.
The Nina chapter. I knew it was coming and it still destroyed me. Arakawa doesn't flinch.
This is where FMA stops being great and becomes all-time. The Briggs fortress isn't just a setting — it's a statement about what leadership looks like when there's no room for sentiment. Olivier Armstrong walks in and immediately becomes the most competent person in the manga. The political intrigue deepens in ways I didn't expect from a shonen. The military conspiracy, the homunculi pulling strings, the Ishvalan war's long shadow — Arakawa is juggling a dozen threads and none of...
