Welcome Necron, you joined at a right time! Hope you have fun reading Berserk and without a doubt notice the increasing quality of art, but you will also notice as you join on the side of the Berserk fans that we are keen on waiting for our favorite manga as well.
What parts of the story interested you the most?
Thanks for the nice welcome!
Yes, I've heard you folks wait a while for the chapters, but considering the quality I think it's a reasonable price to pay.
There are many things that are interesting to me in the story of Berserk.
The entire idea behind the Behelit is a great concept and gives food for thought.
When it comes to the fighting, I have to admit that Zodd is my favourite character to see on a panel (especially because of how amazing he is portrayed).
I also love the interaction between the characters, and currently Schierke is my favourite when it comes to this. I find it interesting to see her, being brought up in a safe environement, come into a world where there aren't just many dangers, but also humans with all their problematic traits. And even though a romantic relationship between her and Gatts is moraly and ethicly wrong and not happening, her affection towards him is still kind of heartwarming, because it is pure in a sense. Now that might of course be because she never had a father figure, so her "love" towards him is just a somewhat missdiracted search for the love she never got as a child from a father, but it's that exact search that is so fascinating to me.
But when it comes to the story as a whole, there are two things in particular that I'm extremely intrigued by.
The first is the Skeletton Knight. Despite being just a plain badass, I really want to know what his story is.
And the second thing is the question of how Griffith is going to be defeated eventually, if he is going to be defeated at all. Because (even though I'm still 30 chapters behind) I have a theory, that Gatts in the end might just let go of Griffith, becuase of the decision he has to make between revenge and saving casca.
I could honestly write for hours about this piece of writing, and I think this alone is enough to show how great it is. My manga background isn't nearly as big as that of a "average" manga reader. I'm following the big three and a slect few other shounen, I've dropped Fairy Tail and I've read Gantz when it comes to seinen. And even though Death Note and One Piece are still above Berserk for me, the gap is not that wide.
To be honest, I thought that Berserk was overhyped before I started reading it, and I just had to see it for myself. But now, if I take my personnal reasons for loving Death Note and One Piece out of the equation, I can definately see why some people praise this to be the best manga ever created.
(Sorry for that huge text wall)