While recovering, Griffith starts getting closer to the King of Midland's daughter, Charlotte. Guts encounters Immortal Zodd, a fearsome giant warrior, who after nearly killing him and Griffith, spares their lives upon seeing Griffith's Behelit, warning Guts of an inescapable death when Griffith's dream dies. Three years later, the Band of the Hawk have grown in power and numbers, with Guts serving as a commander of the group. One day, Griffith shows Guts his Behelit, a mysterious demonic relic, and tells him about his dream to rule a kingdom of his own. Guts quickly rises through the ranks, becoming Griffith's best warrior. After being defeated by Griffith, the ambitious and charismatic leader of a fearsome mercenary group called the Band of the Hawk, Guts becomes a full member of the group. While the 2016-2017 series intro and credit music of both 9mm Parabellum Bullet and Nagi Yanagi are fine for what they are, they don’t have the same impact like how the PENPALS and Silver Fins did when this series came out.Guts is a lone mercenary warrior who wanders Midland looking for battles, driven solely by his will to survive.

Here are some of the lyrics that show why this was a beautifully haunting song:

The song has a very eerie, haunting melody with lyrics that goes hand in hand with the tone of the series, but sadly the group broke after this hit song. The credit song for Berserk is “Waiting so long” by the Silver Fins. I don’t know why, don’t know why, too late, it’s too late” – PENPALS Tell me what, tell me what, tell me what you say I don’t know why, don’t know why, don’t know why you afraid Tell me what, tell me what, tell me what you want Whatever hold you back I can, I can get it off It’s up to you the first words should be finded While the song sounds great and the song will be catchy to listen to as well, the lyrics do go hand in hand with the series tone, especially with Guts who we see going to hell and back: The intro for Berserk was the song “Tell me why” by the Japanese band PENPALS.

We will be talking about the 1997 series and the songs “Tell me why” by the PENPALS and “Waiting so long” by the Sliver Fins

While they are fine for what they are, they don’t get what makes this dark fantasy series so dark, overbearing and yet humble and with a tiny glimpse of hope to the characters. If you are wondering “Why the 2016-2017 series?” then you will be wrong. Today on Hidden Gems I’m going to talk about the intro and outro of an anime that is as dark as they come and it is Berserk.

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