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KENTARO
MIURA

DUANE JOHNSON
PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER
MIKE RICHARDSON
US EDITORS
CHRIS WARNER
FRED LUI
COLLECTION DESIGNER
DAVID NESTELLE
English-language version produced by
DARK HORSE COMICS and DIGITAL MANGA PUBLISHING.

© 1993 by Kentaro Miura. All rights reserved. First published in Japan in 1994 by HAKUSENSHA, INC.. Tokyo.
English-language translation rights in the United States of America and Canada arranged with HAKUSENSHA,
INC., Tokyo, through tohan CORPORATION, Tokyo. English-language translation © 2005 by Dark Horse Comics,
Inc. All other material © 2005 by Dark Horse Comics. Inc. Dark Horse Manga™ is a trademark of Dark Horse
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First edition: July 2005

ISBN 978-1-59307-329-9

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J BERSERK L
CONTENTS

THE BATTLE FOR DOLDREY, CHAPTER 5.5

THE BATTLE FOR DOLDREY, CHAPTER 6.31

TRIUMPHANT RETURN .56

MOMENT OF CLORY.75

TOMBSTONE OF FLAME, CHAPTER 1 .97

TOMBSTONE OF FLAME, CHAPTER 2.119

ONE SNOWY NICHT.141

THE MORNING DEPARTURE, CHAPTER 1 .165

THE MORNING DEPARTURE, CHAPTER 2.187

THE MORNING DEPARTURE, CHAPTER 3.209

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HIS POLE-MS
WITH A PUNY
KNIFE LIKE
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...NO
WAY?.'
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DAY.

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JUST A
SCRATCH.
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THE BATTLE FOR VOLVRBY C6>. ENP
IX
 HIS
AMBITION IS
OUTRAGBOUS!
heepless
OP HIS
OWN SOCIAL
STANPINS...
UblPARAU.BL.BP SRIFFITH
IMPUPBNCB! k HAS PONS
VBRY mu
FOR HIMSELF
THESE YEARS
SINCE HE
APFEAREP IN
MIPLANP.

THE WAR,
WHICH HAS
SONS ON
SO LONS,
WILL ENP
POR NOW.

IT'S CERTAIN
THAT HE WILL
TRY TO ASSBRT
HIMSELP EVEN
WITHIN OUR
BUT HIS
POPULARITY KINSPOM'S
AMONGST sovernment;
THE PEOPLE
THESE PAYS IS
TRBMBNPOUS!

EVEN HIS
MAJESTY
SEEMS TO f HOW
HAVE AN COULP SOME
EXTREME UPSTART
mourn of KNIGHT WHO
CONPIPENCE KNOWS NOTHINS
BUT COMSAT
BE ABLE TO
SOVERN
ANYTHINS?/
 EVEN IP
WHAT you
sussest
WERE- TO
HAPPEN,

WOULP
SEE IT
SETTUEP
PRIVATELY.

WITH AN
ASSURANCE
SUCH AS
THAT FROM
THE OUEEW,
WE HAVE
NOTHING
TO FEAR, J
 X AM NOT
ABOUT TO TAKE HEEP,
ALL OF YOU.
ALLOW THE
WHILE THIS PLOT
LONG ANP
WILL ENSURE
GLORIOUS
HISTORY OF HEREAFTER THAT
THE SECURITY OF
MIPLANP'S
YOUR SOCIAL
RULE TO BE STANPINSS
TRAMPLED
WILL NO LONGER
UPON BY
. BE THREATENED
THIS LOWLY ...IT ALSO \
i BY THIS MAN...
COMMONER EXISTS IN
FROM WHO ORPER TO PLUCK
\ KNOWS THIS PARASITE,
X WHERE.' WHO WOULP
EVENTUALLY
INFECT EVEN THE
RULE OF OUR
KINGPOM, FROM
THE LION'S BOPY,
BEFORE THE J
PISBASE A
SPREAPS-Ji

NATURALLY
YOU ARE
. CORRECT.
IT WAS WISE OF ME r WAS AWARE OF
TO PLANT THE IDEA THE CONFIDENTIAL
THAT GENERAL JULIUS' INFORMATION THAT
DEATH WAS A PLOT THE QUEEN ANP
DESIGNED BY GRIFFITH. ' GENERAL JULIUS
BUT TO THINK THAT .. WERE INVOLVED
SHE WOULP GO ■ f IN A LOVE AFFAIR
SO FAR AS TO g UNBEKNOWNST
VOLUNTEER TO I i . ... TO HIS
ISf MAJESTY. f WE TOO
LEAD THIS _’
PLAN... A 111 VALUE
PATRIOTISM
ABOVE ALL.
 JULIUS.

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THEREFORE-1 WBURPEN OF jt
AS ONE MAM ttRULING THE |
'HE HAP NO4 WM KINGPOM \
TIME TO GIVE] Wmust weigh
ij.- TO HISlm •HEAVILY UPON
js' FAMILY. \

mV his H\
{[majesty
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■-GOOP KING
| BUT NOT.
&A GOOPM
|ZHUSBANP.

I HAVE, IN THE SAME

/^AS ALL HAP HOPEP.^L YJAY PUBLICLY,
( UNPER THE GUISE OF A )) FAITHFULLY FULFILLEP
k POLITICAL MARRIAGE, I T MY ROLE AS HIS
CONVENIENTLY ENTEREP 5 MAJESTY'S QUEEN
THIS KINGPOM AS THE So THESE TEN-OPP
QUEEN OF MIPLANP RATHER SSL YEARS.
THAN THE KING'S WIFE. ~~
THAT HAS BEEN MY
PISPOSITION TOWARPS MY
WEAK-LOVING HuSBANP.

NO, PERHAPS THAT WAS

AN ESCAPE FROM SORROW
OVER THE PEATH OF THE
• FORMER QUEEN, SAIP TO
' BE THE ONE ANP ONLY
ni WOMAN HE LOVEP
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Mwiu'im
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W YOU, iW
Griffith.:
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 IT'S LIKE: I'M
PREAMINS OR
SOMETHING.
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TO SPEAK UP
FOR HIM.
EXCELLENT
FORESIGHT,
.SIR LABAN.
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 FATHZRH

el/se...
YOU'RF
HEHEH... SAFE!!
CALL. IT AN YOU pour
EMOTIONAL MEEP TO
REUNION, WORRY
. EH? MOW//
 HEHEH...
THAT
WAS
{SIMPLE.

NOT TO
MENTION
PROFIT¬
ABLE.

HOPE
HE
H\PES
US
AGAIN.

..WE'li. JUST
USE THIS
KIPNAPPING
AGAINST t

WHO THE
HELL ARE
J WH-
\ WHO'S i
you?/ THERE?!!
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TOMBSTONE OP FLAME CZ): END 140

Bgsat
 THE
TRUTH...

...VAN ISHEP
INTO THE
PARKNESS.
 X HAVEN'T LEARNEP WHEN 1 FIRST
ANYTHING OFF THE KILLEP A MAN,
EATTLEFIELP SINCE I WAS A KIP WHO
THEN--ANP I HAVEN'T STILL PIPNT KNOW
k TR/EP TO LEARN. . RIGHT FROM
l\ LEFT.

THERE WAS
NOTHING ELSE
X COULP PO.
THAT WAS
EVERYTH/NG.

RIGHT.
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GRIFFITH IS TRULY
SPSCWL. IT QOSS
&SYOHP AW FSSLINSS
FOR HIM... HS
RSSCUSP HSR FROM
PSSPAIR AW GAYS
HSR A NSW UPS."
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 IF I
CAN'T
HAVE
HIM...!/
 GUTS R&AU-y
UFT US..
WITH OUT
eve n
.LOOKING
f^BACK.

PAMMIT/f IT'S... A
I WON'T FL-UKS.-AT
Accevr hap to ee.
THIS'/
 ITS IIKS
IT'S STUMPING
so...tr's PSTTV... OMA ROCK (T'S All
All RIGHT. A SMAll OMTHS RIGHT.
you'll THING. ROAPSIPS.
STAMP UP.

THE MORNING- PEPARTURE C3): ENP

This is the bade of the book!
This manga collection is translated into English but oriented in right-
to-left reading format at the creator's request, maintaining the
artwork's visual orientation as originally published in Japan. If you've
never read manga in this way before, take a look at the diagram
below to give yourself an idea of how to go about it. Basically, you'll
be starting in the upper right corner and will read each balloon and
panel moving right to left, it may take some getting used to. but
you should get the hang of it very quickly. Have fun!
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ROR

The century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues

; unabated. The two warring kingdoms, vying for supremacy, launch
headfirst into what will become the final battle. Spearheading the
Midland forces are the Band of the Hawk, led by the charismatic

1 Griffith, with the fearless Guts as his trusted champion. Should the
Hawks triumph again on the battlefield, the war with Chuder may
end, but the secret war within Midland may begin as those who seek
to rise within the court see the ambitious Griffith as an obstacle
to obtaining power. And nothing is more formidable than an enemy
unseen!
I
Created by Kentaro Miura, Berserk is medieval manga mania at its
bloodstained best, a volatile concoction of raging action, abyssal
horror, and graveyard humor that has the initiates lining up for more
and the faint hearted heading for the hills. Thank you, sir, may I have
f another!

This collection is translated into English but oriented in right-to-left

reading format, as originally published.

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