Berserk" unveils new commercial "The Birth of the Black Swordsman!　A new morphing animation depicts the story of Guts up to the present.

A commercial for the manga "Berserk" was broadcast within the TV anime "Berserk" starting in July.



The new "Berserk" TV series is an anime work based on the manga "Berserk" serialized in Young Animal by Kentaro Miura since 1989. It is a dark fantasy with a profound storyline, appealing characters, and overwhelmingly detailed drawings, and depicts the hero Guts' fierce way of life with flashy action and passionate human drama. The series has been animated twice before, once in 1997 with the TV anime "Kenpu Denki Berserk" (25 episodes) and again in 2012 with the anime film trilogy "Berserk Golden Age Arc I: The High King's Egg," "Berserk Golden Age Arc II: Doldrey Attack," and "Berserk Golden Age Arc III: The Descent.The new series iswritten and supervised by Kentaro Miura, directed by Shin Itagaki of "Teikyu" fame, with series composition by Makoto Fukami of "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass" fame, produced by Leiden Film, and animated by GEMBA and Mill Panse.

The new "Birth of the Black Swordsman" commercial for the "Berserk" manga released this time uses a digital morphing technique to express the story of the Black Swordsman Guts as depicted in the TV anime. First, a large number of manga pages were photographed one at a time, and a special program was used to extract the frames in which Guts appears. The size and orientation of the face in relation to the frames were manually selected frame by frame and assembled into a series of movements, and then morphing was applied. Surprisingly, about 100 frames were condensed into about 15 seconds.

The "Everybody's Fighting" episode, featuring three works including "March Lion" and "Nobunaga's Ninja," both of which are serialized in Young Animal and are scheduled to be adapted into anime, was also released.