Due to a disagreement with one of the editors, the manga was stalled and eventually dropped altogether. We see him grow up to fight in every battlefields and then meet the Band of Hawks with Griffith as the leader, a prominent character that i have heard a lot. For example in this volume you find out why Guts doesn’t like to be touched and you understand why in the future he gets so violently angry when people touch him, you see why Guts has such a hatred for weak people and the world and why he is so untrusting of people and prefers to keep to himself.

Amazing volume as the mangaka fleshes out the history of Guts and how he came to be and its bold, tragic and some elements are disturbing and we meet two important people in his life here and the art is just next level good, each panel so detailed and then we have some epic moment for guts when he fights or takes down his opponents and his persistence to never give up is inspiring!To cure the afflicted Casca, Guts and company battle Elf Island's magical defenses and finally reach Elfhelm, where the elven ruler opens the Corridor of Dreams, projecting Schierke and Farnese into the forbidding wasteland of Casca's mind. In 1990, a sequel is made to Ourou entitled Ourou Den (王狼伝 ōrō den, The Legend of the Wolf King) that was published as a prequel to the original in Young Animal Magazine. I like how instead of the typical gore, demons and monster kinda horror (which don’t get me wrong, that stuff is still really good and is the kind of thing this series often includes) it actually makes horror out of character PTSD which is unique and super well done. Guts, the Black Swordsman, has saved the Band of the Hawk from the Midland army, but he must liberate Griffith, the Hawks’ leader.

KENTARO MIURA (W/A) Now that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts, the Black Swordsman, hooks up with his former benefactor, the mercenary Gambino. Mozgus, the malefic master Inquisitor of the Holy See, in his murderous campaign against heretics, has captured Guts' former lover Casca and has her at the ready to be burned at the stake in the Tower of Conviction. Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, has saved the Band of the Hawk mercenaries from annihilation at the hands of the army of Midland, but he must now descend into the dungeons of Windham Castle to liberate Griffith, the Hawks’ charismatic leader. In 1988, Miura bounced back with a 48-page manga known as Berserk Prototype, as an introduction to the current Berserk fantasy world.Don’t get me wrong, readers will still most likely be excited to see Guts dismember the enemy but it touches on how the big, tough, bad-a** who mercilessly kills the enemy is affected by it.