Berserk (Season 1)

Berserk (1997) is a landmark dark fantasy anime series you can watch online on iFILM. Studio OLM produced 25 episodes adapting Kentaro Miura's manga, following mercenary Guts — voiced by Nobutoshi Kanna — across a brutal medieval world where power is carved out with steel, not words.

Guts is a lone swordsman with no allegiance and no past worth mentioning. Then Griffith recruits him into the Band of the Hawk, a mercenary company that tears through every battlefield it enters. The bond between the two men is real — and exactly that makes the betrayal to come so devastating. Casca, voiced by Yuko Miyamura, stands at the center of a triangle that slowly tilts toward catastrophe.

Directed across 25 episodes by a rotating team led by Yukio Okazaki, the series strips medieval warfare and court politics down to their cruelest elements. Its ending remains one of the most debated in anime history. Stream Berserk (1997) online on iFILM.