Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition (Season 1)

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition (2022) is a dark fantasy anime series from director Yuta Sano, and you can watch online on iFILM. It re-cuts the acclaimed film trilogy drawn from Kentaro Miura's manga into a run of episodes. A lone mercenary named Guts loses a duel and is dragged into the army of the man who beat him.

That man is Griffith, the cold and magnetic captain of the Band of the Hawk, who dreams of carving out his own kingdom. Guts trusts no one at first, yet battle after battle he starts to belong — to Griffith, to the warrior Casca, to a ragtag company that swells into a real fighting force. Hiroaki Iwanaga and Takahiro Sakurai lead the voice cast. The higher the Hawks climb, the louder Guts wonders whether a life sworn to the blade is truly his.

The tagline says it plainly: all darkness eclipses light. The Golden Age is Berserk's most human and most devastating chapter, where loyalty and betrayal meet an ending fans still talk about in hushed tones. Not for the faint of heart: heavy violence, medieval cruelty, grim themes. Stream Berserk: The Golden Age Arc online on iFILM.