>>176568641Berserk aged poorly in some areas but generally speaking at the time it brought to the mainstream manga scene the idea of a grimdark fantasy setting that was well developed and executed, with it's influences creating a ripple effect that we feel in various form of media to this day (most notably souls games, to name one).
It spent entire arcs just building up characters and making them interact with each other.
The very start of it is just like goblin slayer, and Guts can be just as edgy sometimes, but it feels more justified, fleshed out and has generally more depth than GS ever has even in it's best moments.
The biggest problem of GS is that at it's best it's only as good as Berserk is at it's worst, and GS has, in theory, the advantage of being more recent and thus it could, still in theory, learn from past mistakes, but it doesn't, at all.
And the biggest reason why it doesn't is that to please the average japanese audience these days you really don't have to try that much, they're easy to please and don't demand complex world building and character interactions, if it's there it's just treated as an extra thing that's nice to have but it doesn't really register with most of em.
The modern japanese audience is, for a lack of a better term, a bunch of plebs.
It happened during the last generational exchange, most people still can't come to terms with it because it has been the opposite for so many years.
