Berserk Books in Order

Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, cuts through demons and men alike while the Brand of Sacrifice draws darkness to him. With only Puck at his side, he begins a revenge quest soaked in blood and fate.

Guts attacks the Count's castle to rescue Puck and finish a brutal fight. As the Count reveals his monstrous true form, the series leans hard into horror, cruelty, and Guts's refusal to back down.

The showdown with the Count brings Guts face to face with the God Hand and the larger horror behind his curse. Then the story swings into the past, tracing the brutal childhood that made him.

Guts survives a savage youth and wanders from battlefield to battlefield until Griffith notices him. Their first clash draws Guts into the Band of the Hawk and the story's defining partnership.

Now one of Griffith's top fighters, Guts helps the Hawks rise fast. But a terrifying encounter with Nosferatu Zodd hints that Griffith's dream, and the strange beherit at his throat, carry a darker fate.

With the Hawks winning fame, court politics turn poisonous. An assassination plot, royal attention, and Guts's loyalty to Griffith pull the band from open war into deadlier intrigue.

As Midland and Chuder hurtle toward a decisive battle, Guts and Casca are stranded together after a brutal fall. Casca's past with Griffith comes into focus, and her bond with Guts begins to change.

The century-long war nears its end, but peace does not mean safety. Griffith's success makes him powerful, admired, and increasingly dangerous to the nobles circling the Midland court.

Guts leaves the Hawks after defeating Griffith in a deeply personal duel. Griffith's reckless collapse, arrest, and torture shatter the band and send the story racing toward catastrophe.

Guts returns to help the battered Hawks rescue Griffith from Windham's dungeons. What they find below the castle is worse than defeat, and the long road to the Eclipse begins.

The remnants of the Hawks flee with the broken Griffith while the savage Wyald hunts them down. This is a relentless escape volume that shows just how ruined their world has become.

Griffith is alive, but barely a shadow of himself. As the Hawks start to splinter, the Crimson Beherit stirs and the doors to something far more terrible begin to open.

The Eclipse erupts in full, turning the Hawks from warriors into sacrifices. Guts fights through a nightmare of apostles to save Casca as Griffith chooses power at an unbearable cost.

In the aftermath of the Eclipse, Guts loses nearly everything except his rage. Armed with the massive Dragon Slayer, he sets out as the Black Swordsman again, and this volume also includes the Berserk prototype.

Haunted, branded, and alone, Guts enters the Lost Children chapter. A seemingly quiet village hides a twisted fairy-tale nightmare that shows how badly the Eclipse has scarred both him and the world.

Guts battles Rosine and the deadly mock-elf children of Misty Valley in one of the series' darkest arcs. It is a brutal fight that also shows how far his revenge has pushed him from ordinary mercy.

The Holy Iron Chain Knights capture Guts, hoping to force repentance from a man they barely understand. Farnese enters the story in force, and the horrors around Guts crack open her ordered world.

Midland is falling apart as invasion, cults, and church terror spread at once. Casca drifts into terrible danger, and the Brand of Sacrifice turns every bad situation into a magnet for monsters.

Casca is taken in by pagan cultists and hunted as a witch by the Holy Iron Chain Knights. When her Brand draws possession and chaos, Guts charges straight into the madness.

Casca is dragged toward the Tower of Conviction, where Mozgus and the Holy See plan a public execution. Guts races to reach her as the tower becomes the center of another demonic upheaval.

Guts storms the Tower of Conviction to stop Mozgus and save Casca. The battle turns apocalyptic as holy judgment, personal vengeance, and hell itself collide in collapsing stone.

After the Tower falls, peace never arrives. Griffith returns in human form and begins building a new Band of the Hawk, proving that the old dream of a kingdom is not dead at all.

Traveling with Casca should bring Guts closer to safety, but her presence and his own inner darkness make every mile harder. The road to Elfhelm becomes a test of protection, restraint, and trust.

Guts presses toward Elfhelm with a rough new party and fresh allies from a hidden woodland refuge. Troll attacks and witchcraft widen the world while showing how fragile any safe haven can be.

A village under siege by trolls pulls Guts and company into another desperate fight. With Schierke's help they push back, but Casca and Farnese are swept into the creatures' lair.

To rescue Casca and Farnese, Guts storms the trolls' breeding cave in a stretch of pure nightmare fuel. Even his rage is tested when Slan appears and the fight turns spiritual as well as physical.

Wearing the Berserker Armor, Guts faces Grunbeld and the cost of power in the most literal way yet. At the same time, Griffith and Ganishka drive Midland toward an even larger war.

At last the group reaches the sea, but rest does not last in Berserk. A mysterious child appears, old feelings surface, and Kushan sorcery turns the shoreline into another battlefield.

The port city of Vritannis offers ships, politics, and a different kind of danger. Schierke and Isidro tangle with slavers while Farnese is pulled back toward the family ambitions she wanted to escape.

Guts and his companions are close to leaving Vritannis, but Kushan forces descend before they can slip away. Loyalties are tested as the city tips toward chaos and open attack.

The battle for the docks becomes a fight against monsters, sorcery, and the limits of the Berserker Armor. Even if Guts survives, the Kushan emperor may have his own plans for him.

Guts joins forces with Nosferatu Zodd against Ganishka's astral power, a team-up that says everything about how strange the world has become. Griffith, meanwhile, moves pieces that could remake Midland itself.

The party heads across the sea toward Elfhelm, where Casca may finally be healed. But every step toward sanctuary also pulls Guts farther from his unfinished reckoning with Griffith.

Griffith's new Hawks reveal their monstrous true forms as they battle the transformed Kushan emperor. It is a huge war volume, but the real sting is watching Midland learn what kind of saviors it now serves.

After surviving sea monsters, Guts and company land on an island that should be a repair stop and nothing more. Instead they find a place soaked in old malice and watched by a vengeful power.

The island refuge turns out to be the Sea God's domain. To protect his friends, Guts must use the Berserker Armor again, even though every battle threatens to bury his mind a little deeper.

Guts takes the fight inside the Sea God itself, turning this volume into one long impossible assault. Winning means finding the creature's living core and somehow getting back out alive.

This companion volume maps the first 38 volumes of Berserk through character profiles, creature notes, setting details, and artwork. It is the handy lore book to pick up once the main series has its hooks in you.

Skellig finally comes into view, along with the possibility that magic can heal Casca. At the same time, Rickert's journey to Falconia shows just how dazzling and unsettling Griffith's new kingdom has become.

To reach Casca's damaged mind, Schierke and Farnese enter the Corridor of Dreams on Elfhelm. The closer they get to the truth, the more dangerous her inner world becomes.

Inside Casca's shattered dreamscape, Schierke and Farnese face layer after layer of fear and memory. Healing her means uncovering the buried center of the trauma that broke her.

Casca's mind is restored, but recovery brings its own pain when Guts reminds her of the Eclipse. A strange silent boy may hold the key, making Miura's final volume both tender and quietly devastating.

Griffith's arrival on Elf Island tears open the island itself and sends a corrosive horde swarming through the ruins. Escape becomes the only option, and not everyone will be able to leave together.