If I've learnt anything while rereading Berserk its that I love the Conviction arc.
In November I'm going to see the new Berserk films at the Leed's Film Festival. Hopefully these will be successful enough to warrant a movie adaption of this stunning storyline. Its so relentlessly dark, so utterly macabre and is totally compelling.
Thorough out the last two volumes the heroes of the story have been watched by an unseen menace. In this book we finally come face to face with this watcher and personally I loved it. Its a dark and depressing story which fits perfectly into the plot of this arc and is probably my favourite back story for an apostle yet. What I found most poignant is that this beast never gets a name.
The chaos continues as Guts climbs the tower and faces off against Mozgus' goons who have been powered up with a little help from the unnamed apostle. I thought their monster designs where stunning, there really wasn't any other way that they could have been done. I thought the fights in this volume were great. This book is magnificent, the huge and frequent reference to the eclipse are brilliant and the fact that Zodd and the Skull Knight are in it was just the icing on the cake for me.
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