Reviews for Berserk of Gluttony

This is an extremely generic power fantasy that, as others have mentioned, does nothing remarkable. While it does hit all of the cliches, the show stands to be entertaining if you are seeking a mindless show where an overpowered MC does overpowered MC things. Since this is my favorite genre, I thoroughly enjoyed the show since it has everything I want in a fantasy show. If something more complex and beautiful is sought, then this is certainly not the show. But like all shows of this genre, it has a specific audience that will love it. This is not to be watched for groundbreaking animationor storytelling, but generic action and magic that is done entertainingly.

Not Berserk. If you’ve ever felt slightly self-conscious about the name your parents gave you at birth, feel comfort in the fact that it will never be as hilariously stupid as “Fate Graphite”, the main protagonist of Berserk (not that one) of Gluttony, an anime 100% less generational manga than it’s promotional title font tries to emulate to trick weebs into watching it, and 100% more *sigh* light novel garbage. Fate is one of those born with a deadly sin. The sin of Gluttony leaves Fate in a constant state of hunger, always eating but never satiated. It's not until one night when his hunger takesover and he eats a man who tries to kill him that he suddenly feels full. After discovering this pleasure and satisfaction he goes out into the world, eating monsters and the corrupt holy knights who oppress the people, absorbing their powers after every meal. Nevertheless, he must live amongst the populous and alongside his childhood friend, Roxy, ever fearful that his hunger might take over and he’ll eat her.

What a cool premise for a story. Shame that I made 70% of it up and it is actually another *sigh* light novel medieval European fantasy anime with a world that operates on RPG video game logic with skills, levels and states none of which matter because the protagonist is always the strongest motherfucker in the room despite always being level 1. Fate may have the skill of Gluttony which leaves him in a state of hunger but he doesn’t satiate it by eating. He just has to kill monsters or the people who bully him. He then takes their states and abilities, some of which are super useful -like telepathy when touching someone- that the show will completely forget about.

The cast is just as vapid as the world-building. Greed the sword and Myne the carrier of the skill of Wrath are pretty much one-note for the entire season. The introduction of Eris the carrier of the skill of Lust could’ve made an interesting villain if the story knew what her motivations are.

His love interest Roxy is the only holy knight who isn’t corrupt, bullies Fate and the peasants in a cartoonishly evil manner and even has romantic feelings for Fate for some reason…

Despite this story possibly being an outlet for the author to get back at his past bullies whilst getting the girl, I will admit something is entertaining about this show that keeps you watching. The tension of Fate's Gluttony going berserk is there in the first couple of episodes, but if you’re looking for a show where consequences matter this won't be for you. It would be more accurate to call the show Mild of Gluttony. Honestly, I should've dropped the show around episode 7.

Berserk of Gluttony is not a good show. Mediocre art and animation, basic and braindead storytelling and characters, and a male power fantasy made to make you feel like you’re beating up your bullies. Whilst it is entertaining if you completely turn your brain off, this is the kind of show for that teenager in the trench coat who goes up to his crush and warns her not to come to school tomorrow.

3/10 Wasted Potential.

I think this has become an objectively bad anime, and that is really too bad. The story is pretty cool and has so much potential to be a great anime, but it’s just not. First 3 episodes were pretty good, but the 4th episode took a horrible turn and left almost no room to recover. Pacing, gone. Story, gone. Consistency, gone. Combat quality, gone. Decent dialogue, gone. Music, poor. Art was always meh. The first episode or two generally showed good effort in telling the story and putting life to the characters, after those episodes though there’s nothing to redeem the bad anime that thisbecomes. I have read the first couple volumes of the LN as well and I don’t believe I’ve seen another anime that strayed so far from the source material in such a short amount of time.

I want to like this anime, but I can’t. As I said, I think this is objectively bad. Bad as a portrayal of the source material, as a story, and as a culmination of video and audio art. None of the show fits together nicely with any other part of the show. You might be able to grab a scene or two and separate it from the rest of the anime to make it look good, but put together this might be the worst anime I’ve seen even though I really want to like it. The story is cool, there’s so much they could do, but this is just a bad anime.

This was a good watch for the season. Simple As. While this isn't a game-changer for all future anime to follow, it is a decent action anime with a respectable story. However, this is where the mixed feelings come in; it is a bit disappointing with how much potential this story has, and how little the anime seems to make use of it. This doesn’t make it a bad anime outright; it's just disappointing considering what it could've been with better production or a different approach to pacing. - Continue on for more reasoning - The most disappointing aspect of “Boushoku no Berserk” (shortened to “Berserk” from nowon) is its execution. It seems somewhat lacking in its exploration of the story's possibilities. For instance, the concept of the “gluttony skill” and the diplomacy and politics within the kingdoms are interesting, but never takes the full use out of what it can be for either.

“Berserk” rushes through the story very quickly, making it difficult to care about the side characters due to the fast pacing that glosses over their development. Examples include Myne and Eris, who receive around 20 minutes of characterization across 12 episodes. As a result, Myne and Eris come off as cardboard cutouts rather than fully fleshed-out characters. If the story had expanded on them and provided intriguing backstories, viewers would find them more compelling.

But that doesn't mean the producers can't create good characters—they did a great job with Aaron Barbatos in just two episodes. Without spoiling too much, Aaron's life is devastated by monsters that take over his home and his family. As such, the time dedicated to his backstory gives Aaron superior characterization compared to Myne and Eris, due to the amount of time they focused on him to give him a complete backstory.

I'm sure Myne and Eris are better developed in the light novel that this anime adapts (although I haven't read it, it feels that way). Nevertheless, a character seen for only two episodes has more depth than two characters who are meant to be recurring.

I understand that “Berserk” has a 12-episode constraint, but I believe they could've chosen an earlier stopping point for the season to better showcase each character. The series could have adopted a slow growth arc like “Spice & Wolf” or a multi-arc season like “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.” Slowing down the pacing would have allowed for more character development, rather than skipping months of adventuring to get to the action. This results in wasted potential for a well-constructed “zero-to-hero” arc.

The main draw of “Berserk” is Fate and Roxy, they both are moderately well constructed characters, albeit they do not get nearly the same amount of characterization after episode 3. They are generic to some degree in a typical sense, but definitely have a good basis to grow character off of. You can at least understand their grievances and beliefs, even if you do not agree with them. You know why Fate likes Roxy and why he has a dazzling prince on horseback behavior for her. But when all other characters do not live up to their amount of characterization, it drives the story down. Because when these are the most grounded characters, and nothing (besides Aaron Barbatos) even lives up to their development, it makes you look at every character more harshly since they get no time for growth and characterization.

Animation-wise, it is alright. Sometimes it feels like a PowerPoint presentation with panning screens, but other times there is decent animated weapon play that looks good. The character designs are basic but not poorly done, with room for improvement in potential sequels (If this gets one).

Story-wise, the characters are portrayed as the author intended, with the ones that are supposed to be disliked done quite well. The MC has plot armor, but not to a ridiculous extent; they have weaknesses and are not overpowered like One Punch Man. However, the ending is poor, and could've been ended at a better time. Despite the rushed story and weird pacing, it is good overall.

Give it a try at least, because I feel this has the ability to have a good second season that can bring some improvements to make this a better series, examples of this can be “Clannad” to “Clannad After Story” or “Tokyo Ghoul” season 1 to season 2.

7/10. This seems like a messy first season to me, and while a 7/10 might be a bit generous, the show has an unusual charm that is likable.

I hope for a second season that can iron out these issues because it really has some charm and potential.

🗿 Thanks for reading 🗿

Berserker of Gluttony is truly a good example. A good example of how to subvert the lowest of expectations, and then subvert them further by being even worse. I’ve seen people say the show had potential, ‘’’binge-worthy’’’ even. The only way this slop would be worth bingeing is if you’re an insomniac, because by episode three you’d be fast asleep. Most everything I’m going to say about this snore-fest is simply objective. Outside of the story and world, in short the character designs are either bad or uninspired, the animation is un-exciting, the music is there and voice acting is the normal affair for any slopanime. All is serviceable at best and dull at worst.

Though I haven’t and won’t look at the source material, I despise light-novels. I thoroughly believe that light-novel to anime adaptations are responsible for the degradation of the entire medium in the last decade or more. They have served to dumb down the fantasy genre among other things to where the most basic, un-interesting and lazy garbage storytelling is now accepted as good.

Premise -

Let's start from the top. The show makes a terrible first impression by using VIDyA’ GAME stats and skills in a fantasy setting, which is wholly unrelated to an actual video game context. This is a common crutch I’ve seen stories use to gloss over the non-existent character progression and growth with artificial stats in their place. When set in the context of a game world, I would take little issue, but this is clearly presented as a ‘living’ fantasy world and not a damn video game.

From here on, our MC is Jon Glutzerker, because I can’t remember anything about his name other than that it is very stupid sounding. Jon Glutzerker has no character flaw, weakness or any form of real arc as far as I have seen. His only technical ‘weakness’ is that his skill gives him a perpetual hunger, which cannot be quelled unless he kills monsters or people to absorb their literal souls. Jon Glutzerker’s video game ‘skill’ is first seen as useless, but of course turns out to be able to absorb other people's stats and skills, which allows him to become in-consistently over-powered as the series goes on.

Jon Glutzerker starts off working as a Gate Guard for the castle in this unnamed and uninteresting fantasy kingdom. Prior to the story's beginning he is the object of torment for the most comical, unapologetically evil ‘characters’ I’ve seen in a while. Right from the word go, we can tell that there will be absolutely no interesting world-building or original ideas outside of the MC’s main power, or really any form of logic that is applied to this world.

This conclusion can be made on this from the first, and most prime example: Our MC is the gate guard for a castle keep, the only one, mind you. The evil ‘Holy Knights’, which are mostly all of them, have him wearing rags as opposed to any kind of soldier attire, on-top of paying him like trash. What would be the in-universe point of having what is essentially a hobo guarding a castle keep, other than because three nit-wits use it as some archaic form of ‘abuse’? With no in-universe uniform and only a shoddy spear to ‘guard’ the gate, there are a dozen reasons this is massively stupid, and security risk would clearly be one of them since nobody likes the comically evil establishment. There’s allegedly a king, but he’s never visually shown so I guess these ‘Holy Knights’ can just do whatever they want, even though all they do is torment and harass the populace.

From the first episode alone, you can already tell from basic pattern recognition that this show will have no: Interesting worldbuilding, depth, logical consistencies, character development or anything that makes a real story worth its weight in the time it takes to consume. Of course, who am I to expect the bare-minimum in storytelling from a Light-Novel’s adaptation? Obviously the point is to hardly try, and make slop for all the little piggies to slurp up, and roll around in the mud afterwards. What's worse, is as this mid-drek goes on, no real plot or story takes place despite Jon Glutzerker being a proactive ‘character’. Speaking of which…

Characters -

As you’d expect, every single character in this generic fantasy hole of a story is either one dimensional or- actually no they’re all just one-dimensional.

Some might say a story is only as interesting as its villains. If that's the case, this story triples down on how dull and uninteresting it is as its villains are irredeemably, comically evil, having no motive or incentive to do or say anything, other than because they are evil. The main(?) bad guy has something going on where he is conspiring a plan to become inexplicably immortal. I can think of no incentive or cause for this to be on his bucket list, other than: he is evil, and therefore must seek power without cause. One of the Holy Knights is later shown to literally kidnap children for the explicit purpose of executing them with a bow and arrow; which does nothing but double down on his one and only character-trait - he is evil. If this was a character who presented himself as kind, or had some form of facade to cover what he really does, that would be partially interesting, even engaging. It may even be necessary to convey how evil a ‘character’ truly is if they present themselves as otherwise. But it isn’t necessary, it's just fluff because he already is blatantly evil. This is how children beneath the age of ten interpret and create villains. All of them have no motive for anything they do. No end goal in sight, no character motivation - no character at all other than their life-style as cartoon villains.

Love-Interest, as she is only to be called, is the best looking drawing in the entire show. She is also an air-head, who does not openly recognize how everyone in the Holy Knights besides her is evil. From her introduction, she already looks out for Jon Glutzerker, and there is no further relationship development as they are always both overly bashful with one another. This is also one of Jon Glutzerker’s only character traits, to be flustered and bashful whenever the Love-Interest so much as looks at him.

Returning to Jon Glutserker, things happen and upon activating his skill for the first time, he goes to find a proper weapon. He conveniently manages to find a sentient sword, which perfectly synergizes with his abilities in a bin full of ‘cheaper swords’ even though it is in pristine condition (visually).

I hate this damn sword. It only exists to tip-toe around world-building by narrating exposition whenever it's most convenient. It narrates constantly, to an unwelcome degree, allowing the creators of this show to tell instead of the show, just like alllllll good stories do. In addition, to avoid any form of thought provoking combat, stakes or tension in a fight scene, the sword tells him exactly what to do to win every single time, and has the random ability to transform from some contrived in-universe logic.

God forbid we ever have natural sounding dialogue or world-building play out through actual characters and significant events. That would require talent and effort, and this show wasn’t made with either in the budget, besides drawing the Love Interest.

This anime does not respect or anticipate viewer intelligence to the point where you would believe this is a kids cartoon. Yet, there is plenty of meaningless and stake-less gore and violence that is so dull it means nothing and bares no intrigue for anyone watching it.

The Rest of The Crap -

As the story goes on, (unfortunately), an obnoxious flaw in the story is intentionally brought to our primary attention, only to gloss over it every instance after.

Glutzerker's sword is sentient, and speaks to our MC telepathically. So of course our MC MUST talk back to it outloud for everyone to hear, which one would expect to make MC look like an idiot or a weirdo. The show acknowledges this, once, and then promptly ignores it for the rest of the story. Any real woman would lose all interest or believe someone to be creepy and weird if they saw them doing this. But of course Love-Interest is an air head and thus she must love our Gary Stu no matter how uninteresting, weird, and obnoxiously bashful he truly is.

After slogging through three episodes, I was ready to drop this thing before reading some other reviews. They told a tale of a drastic drop-off in quality from the fourth episode, so me and my fellow Slopaholic carried on in curious interest.

The consensus? It was hardly different from the rest of the garbage before-hand. Things happen and people do things, and that's about it.. What really woke us up was the beginning of the fifth episode.

This may be construed as a minor spoiler, but honestly this show has no plot or real intrigue that could classify as a spoiler anyways. But, here's your forewarning.

First, let's quickly go over the Bad Guy from before, the one who likes shooting children. We’ll call him Blue Hair. Don’t worry, this won't take long.

Blue Hair has helped his fellow Holy Knights (Purple Hair Twink and Evil Woman) bully and torment our MC, and he likes killing kids. He is the lackey of Purple Hair, who wants to become immortal, and I think he’s his brother or something.

There, done! And really, I made him sound more interesting than he is.

After some things happen, (a summary of most episodes), Jon Nutzerker faces down Blue Hair, dawned in his ‘cool’ and ‘badass’ school shooter outfit, and his Tokyo Ghoul mask. Despite at-least partially ‘struggling’ to beat lower-tier monsters previously, Glutzerker obliterates a Holy Knight, whomst are feared across the kingdom for their strength and callousness, near instantly. Big surprise, but it gets better. He transforms his sword into a BFG-9000, established in the episode prior. He uses his BFG to blast Blue Hair into orbit, beating him with no effort, struggle, tension or character developments. After literally falling back to earth, Blue Hair is still inexplicably alive and missing all of his limbs in a bleeding mess. Since Blue Hair is utterly spineless and evil, he spent most of his final moments as a snivelling coward, begging for his life, before the MC then kills him, epicly owning the bully, and fulfilling the power-fantasy to set the groundwork for… nothing of substance afterwards.

This ‘character’, like the other bad guys, was objectively evil, and mean to the main character with no other written purpose. Even in utterly deserving to be killed, there's just no substance, no stakes and no point in any victory Jon Glutzerker achieves. This killing is so brutal in concept, but everything that has led us to this moment is just contrived, and it amounts to nothing but senseless violence against a blank canvas, meant to represent the real-life bullies of the viewer or author. Again, no-one in this show has a character beyond one-dimension, and the piss-poor world building leaves you with no sympathy for anything that happens in it. The time wasted on Jon Glutzerker fighting un-inspired generic fantasy monsters while the sword explains everything and anything should have been used to develop the world and characters.

When someone says a story isn’t believable, the meaning is that you could not believe or relate to the story taking place even if its fantastical elements were grounded in reality. The primary cause for this is most often that the characters don’t act like REAL PEOPLE. The villains aren’t believable, the Love-Interest isn’t believable, and Jon Glutzerker is definitely not believable as a real character. The people of this entire world aren’t believable, and if the characters aren’t believable the world isn’t either.

From this point on, you can imagine anything that gets in MC’s way will only exist to make him look ‘cool’, despite how all the action scenes suffer from dullness, and an absence of psychology.

Conclusion/Short-Summary -

There's not really anything else worth saying, or thinking about Berserker of Gluttony. From the poster, I expected just the bare minimum. I at-least expected an edgy blood-fest for twelve episodes straight, but what this is is a boring, uninspired, and-then story in a dull and tired fantasy world with no creativity in sight.

The final breaking point was when the already string-thin world-building was left hanging by a thread, and then with-out any build-up or pretext we are inexplicably introduced to sci-fi-esque series of buildings, featuring bright lights and industrial pipes. On-top of that, this mediaeval fantasy world had introduced unnamed characters wearing modern lab-coats and using modern lab equipment. I would break down how this utterly destroys the world, creates more questions than will ever be answered and is just genuinely the sloppiest handling of a world I’ve seen, but honestly, I don’t care. This world and story were put together hap-hazardly without even the most basic semblance of structure or care. You would think the target audience would be people who have zero media-literacy, or poor pattern recognition - a story for children. That would explain the tolerance for it, but even children would deserve better than this. Yet still, this show features fluctuating levels of gore despite its lack of substance, a demographic mistake other forms of media would get dragged through the mud for. But it doesn't deserve to be a bloody mess at all, because there is no substance or nuance to any of the violence. It's only a sideshow for Jon Glutzerker to get more skills and become stronger, a means to a boring and predictable end.

Despite the show being at face value, not worth a damn - at the time of writing, the mean score for this slop is a resounding seven. Outstanding. Truly, the overall taste in anime has evolved. Backwards.

Unless you lose a bet, there is no good reason to watch this anime, as it will provide you with nothing in return. The only worthwhile thought Berserker of Gluttony could ever provoke, is “why does this crap sell?”

The answer, is that it's just another money laundering scheme.

The anime started fine at first but as it progressed it lost its charm. Moreover it was more there is food in front why not get em without struggle. Also the story doesn’t make any sense. It’s like the story doesn’t exist. I was excited after watching the trailer but it dissipated quickly after watching 5 episodes. I liked the opening and ending song by the way. Overall I won’t recommend someone to watch unless they want waste time. It could’ve been better if the author focused more on story instead of power. After watching the whole it felt like it was written on awhim. I don’t mean hurt the author but I was expecting a lot more. Character designs are the only thing that is good. I would rate character design 9/10.

you see, people tend to overthink stuff especially at enjoying anime. The purpose of this anime isn't about being good, but to be the most generic power fantasy out there and there's nothing wrong with that, I bet the author knows this too. Like I said the show is incrediby generic but that's what makes it good, it's like instant ramen on how its cheap and instant similar to how this type of show is mass produced and quite enjoyable at the get-go and similar to how you wouldn't expect some instant noodle to be gourmet you wouldn't expect some insane world building nor intricate characterwriting and plot to this kind of show

So in the end of the day all this anime has to offer is some generic fun simple story to pass time, its quite satisfying to not think to much while watching anime and I just appreciate how this show doesn't try to be good or unique like alot of other generic shows that tried to be unique but forgot the very essence of this type of show is just to be generic and to not try to hard to be good

In concusion I give this show a 6/10 just because I love me my generic shows, If you want a thought provoking show then don't watch this but if you want some instant fun then this show is for you

I would definitely recommend this if you are into op characters who starts as a weak but has a hidden power locked inside of him. Here we get to see some romance without having harem. Mc only likes one girl here. Only thing I don't like is there is no season 2. Here the story revolves around a boy who received a sin as a power which comes with huge advantage and also has big drawback. Mc doesn't know how to you his powers first and nobody has knowledge what his skill does other than giving him more hunger. So he has to work hard justto fill his stomach.

Story is somewhat predictable I guess but it definitely has its unique story which makes it a lot more enjoyable. Animation is good. There i lots action and adventure involved. FMC is very kind and strong here. She liked mc from the beginning even when he was weak. She been kind to him when all where strangers to him. Mc is smart and becomes somewhat cold as the story goes on.

I think you will definitely enjoy this if you have interest in such type of story.

The concept of strength is quite simple, namely that there are some humans who are endowed with certain skills that are different from each other. The main plot in this story is still ambiguous and focuses on the protagonist, who at first thought he had no skills. The treatment and status of each character here are also determined by skill. The main character faces many obstacles in his daily life until his life changes after meeting a magic sword that can talk. As time went by, he developed quite rapidly and tried not to show his strength by desperately trying to hold back the hunger hewas experiencing. The heroine character also experiences a fate that is almost the same as the main character; only she can overcome it. The two of them often interact, and it seems that certain special feelings will emerge in the future.

After everything presented by this anime, I'm not really sure what's in it, although I'm still giving it a chance. Normally this is the main character's situation, which I like, namely hiding his strength, but the plot feels lacking and quite slow.

Berserk of Gluttony is an anime that deserves to never be spoken of or discussed in any context. It is a complete nothing-burger of a show, that has left me feeling angry at myself for having wasted all this time watching a show that was so mid I can't even pick a specific point of contention to be angry about. Fate Graphite has as much personality as the graphite in a mechanical pencil. Actually, there is more nuance and complexity to a mechanical pencil, as they can come in different sizes or brands which unique uses. Roxy Whateverhernameis is a painfully generic blonde female waifubait.I cannot even muster up enough adjectives to describe her really, because none of the characters have any depth to them beyond just a single word like "nice" or "edgy" ect. Can't forget the necessary 4000 year old loli that existed during those bleak several episodes we would have otherwise been forced to sit through without having a female character to grace us with thigh shots or chest gazes. The antagonists of this show are beyond one dimensional, like there would have to be some sort of dimension below the 1st dimension to describe these goons. A horizontal line has more depth than these guys. Literally evil for no reason other than the fact that they enjoy to kidnap and shoot orphan children, as one does.

Sorry if this counts as a spoiler, but this entire show can be summarized in a sentence. Well, technically it can be described in a single word, and that word is mid. But the plot is basically "guy gets op skill, gets op sword, and defeats every enemy". That is typical for this type of low effort fantasy, but the worst part of this show is that they try to hype it up far more than it ever deserves, acting like christ is weeping for the protagonist who has to bear the weight of so much sin. It thinks it is some sort of edgy masterpiece but never once did anything to convince me that the main character was anything other than a pathetic wimpy simp who cowers in fear at the slightest touch of a woman. If you were to film my live reaction to this show, it would appear as if I have slipped into a coma and died. In fact, I think that would have been preferable than to have spent however many hours subjecting myself to this slop.

This anime has nothing going for it, it has no themes or message worth telling, it has no meaning nor value. There isn't enough substance in any aspect of this anime to discuss. It probably took more effort to write this review than it took to write this show. It isn't even worth hate-watching or making a "so bad its good" list because its just boring.

If you had to quantify how mid this show is, you would quickly find yourself entering the Domain of E

Rating: 1^E-15/10

It's clear where all the character designs and some ideas in the story are taken from, the list is long, however it still works well enough to have an engaging story that keeps moving forward. It has no harem and no resemblance of it. Both main characters and their interactions are fun enough to follow and overall I didn't feel bored or disappointed by watching it. In fact it's decent enough to check the next season when it comes out. Obviously it's lacking in art and animation quality, feels very budget, but it brought enough entertainment that was expected of a show of this caliber. Has nicecruel moments, doesn't have stupid "gotcha" moments that are tiresome when they happen in many stories, a straightforward and honest in this regard storytelling.

A good example that rehashed ideas can still be executed fairly well.

This anime has nothing to say. It has no point in existing other than being a power fantasy. It has no themes, no worldbuilding, the bare minimum of character development. All around just a waste of time. It only exists for lonely teenagers to self insert themselves into role of the MC and imagine they're the ones doing all the uber powerful stuff and getting a harem of girls that worship their every move. You will not gain anything from watching this. No greater understanding of life and purpose like you would from Berserk, nor the ability to accept yourself for who you are, faultsand all like you would with Inuyasha.

It fails as a fantasy show, it fails as an action show, it fails as a romance, it fails at EVERYTHING it tries to do, yet there are people in this world on the same internet as you and I who would say this was one of the best anime of 2023. Absolutely mental. You know I learned a few weeks ago that all of these types of shows are adapted from a Japanese website that is basically a merge between Webtoon and AO3. That makes sooo much more sense.

Best generic anime that i have saw, there's no exceptional thing in this history and the animation is not the best, but is a very enjoyable show. The dark fantasy scenery is very suitable for the feeling of the show, and the relationship betwen Fate and Roxy is funtional romance cliche of a impossible love facing the problems of a hard world. So if you like cliche dark fantasy animes this is for you. Regarding the production, the animation was very static, specialy during the fights, but earn some points with me for not use a bad 3D animation. About the soundtrack, for me is the bestof this anime, both the opening and the ending are amazing, I always watched both during the episode. The background soundtrack wasn't good as the op or the ed but was competent and suits well the anime.

7/10: a good cliche anime that a saw during my dinners.

Berserk of Gluttony is not particularly revolutionary, but it is a very enjoyably dark fantasy watch that motivated me to go out and purchase the LN after just a few episodes and one of my favourite shows of Fall 2023. What do I mean when I say something is not revolutionary, but still very enjoyable? In simple terms, generic≠bad. Berserk of Gluttony has a lot of the usual fantasy tropes that we see in modern light novels and anime, but those tropes exist for a reason. Because they’re entertaining and when done right, make for a great viewing experience. For me, that’s how I felt aboutthis show. Yea, there’s the rags to riches MC underdog story that we’re used to, the shitty nobles who make life for everyone around them miserable, the dark plot going on behind the scenes, etc. But, it just works well enough for me here. There’s enough of an interesting dynamic between the MC and his weapon, as well as the main female lead and the MC, that makes things pleasant.

What specifically interests me so much in this world is the relationship between weapon and user. In a similar vein as tenken from last year, Fay has a unique bond with his sword wherein by exchanging his stats/levels, he’s able to upgrade his weapon and unlock new forms for it. The sword is able to communicate with Fay and they have a really fun dynamic with a ton of banter. Additionally, as a result of using the sword, Fay becomes “hungry” for souls and has to constantly replenish it. It makes for a unique set up since he has to go out and kill people periodically or risk being consumed by his own skill.

Over time, we see that the skill also affects Fay’s personality. Making him more irritable, forceful, direct etc. I really enjoyed seeing him go from a broke homeless loser for lack of a better phrase, to someone with a purpose and the means to protect himself.

Now, like most fantasy LN adaptations, you can definitely tell quite a lot was cut from this. I mean at several points in the story we legitimately skip what seem to be logical next scenes. Particularly between episodes 10 and 11 where the opening of the episode makes you go “wtf did I miss?”. I also have concerns about potential power creep issues which we began to saw towards the end of this show. Fay gets some power ups seemingly out of nowhere that kind of broke my immersion because they don’t seem to be consistent with the pace we’d established. I’ve heard this is an issue in the LN too, so that might just be a critique of the overall writing.

Cast isn’t too big in this one, but the characters that we do have are all pretty great to me. As I touched on before I’m a big fan of Roxy and Fay’s relationship. To me it feels like what people think Kirito and Asuna’s relationship is. Not to mention the similar designs. Roxy doesn’t feel like a pretty girl who just needs saving either, she’s actually a bad ass character in her own right who stands up for her sense of justice. Unlike many anime, I can actually understand why Fay falls for her. She isn’t just gorgeous, but actually gives him ideals to strive towards and inspires him to be a better person, which was cool to see. If you don’t like cookie cutter fantasy romance stories, I think you’ll enjoy this one.

Now, power creep and cuts aside, my biggest critique of the series is the production. The animation is pretty bad in here which is a shame. I think if it had better animation, several fight scenes would’ve been downright epic. Instead, they ended up looking like PowerPoint presentations. Episode 11 has a really cool scene which is arguably the highlight of the story so far, and they did deliver on that one. So maybe they were saving time and staff for the most important stuff? Regardless, it’s noticeable.

All that aside, I still really liked this show. I’m a sucker for edgy dark fantasy stories and berserk of gluttony is definitely one of the most true to form dark fantasy stories out there. It’s not overwhelmingly edgy though. It’s a genuinely interesting world with some cool concepts and mechanics. I’m very much looking forward to reading it, I’ll miss it.

Berserk of Gluttony gets 8, out of 10

Boushoku no Berserk is an anime that leans heavily on familiar tropes, following the classic trajectory of a protagonist starting weak and swiftly gaining unparalleled power. The story orbits around a straightforward character, driven solely by the desire to safeguard his beloved, Roxy. Spanning 12 episodes, the narrative unfolds the protagonist's unique skill, one linked to the 7 deadly sins, compelling him to slay or risk succumbing to madness. His rapid growth, absorbing skills from vanquished foes, echoes the series' pace, albeit predictably. Notably, the weapon, Greed, adds a twist with its capacity to drain stats for augmented strength, and its unexpected ability to converse. Despite these elements,the anime falls short in delivering excitement, with battles that hover around average and character development that lacks depth. The promise of a potential continuation looms, but the overall impression feels akin to an 'isekai' one might casually peruse out of sheer boredom.

It's a series best approached with tempered expectations, offering a passable watch for those seeking casual entertainment without delving too deeply into intricate storytelling or robust character arcs.

What could have been a dark badass story about a guy cursed with the sin gluttony, who devours the souls of the wicked to quell his hunger, instead spends alot of its time on some lame cringe-worthy "love story" between two very dull uninteresting characters. In fact there are no interesting characters in this. People are either wayyyy too nice, or the bad guys are @ssholes just because we need a cliche group of characters who are jerks to the MC. Its really forced. I was hoping this would be like The Seven Deadly Sins only good...but nope, its not. They both suck. Plot: The main character FateGraphite is cursed with the useless skill of gluttony. Meaning he is always hungry. However turns out he isn't hungry for food, he is hungry for souls. One night he kills a criminal and absorbs his skills.

But now that Fate's skill of gluttony has been activated it cant stop. He needs to keep slaying foes to keep satisfying his hunger. If not his eyes will turn red and he will eventually go on a frenzy and kill indiscriminately until satisfied.

This is actually a great setup.

But instead the anime focuses on this boring romance with a Holy Knight (Lady Roxy) who's only personality is "i want to spread joy". Its just a boring surface level character like every other character in the anime. There is nothing deep about her, so you dont care.

Fate also happens to find an old talking sword in a bargain bin called "Greed"...wow what a contrived coincidence.

This anime doesn't do anything great. Fights are dull. The romance is dull. Characters are dull. Its not deep. Its not funny.

The second half of the season does get better. This is mainly because the two characters are off doing their own things and are separated for a while.

So if you can suffer through the first half you will be rewarded with something a bit better later on.

But not enough to save the anime.

I chose recommendation but don't really recommend it, this anime is still good enough to watch. Before the release I had a little hope for this anime, even though the score was still at 6, and I felt this anime was not worth watching, but after seeing the main character, I think this is still worth watching. Advantages: The main character starts from a humiliated status and is not wanted by many people, but slowly becomes strong with his sword partner, MC is not naive, doesn't think too much, there is no drama, if there is a problem it is immediately resolved without much unclear pleasantries. The storylinealso focuses on the main story, unlike anime which suddenly changes the story plot in the middle of the episode. The comedy is also good enough to make you laugh, it's not a comedy that makes you bored to watch.

Disadvantages:

There are no characters that can be made Waifu lol. The female characters aren't very cute, and the designs aren't that interesting, but they're still good story-wise.

Butchered. Violated. Soiled. Rarely do these words come to mind when I think about an anime adaptation, but this time is different. Before getting into the actual review I would like to say, if you are interested in the story, read the light novels. If you're reading this after watching for some reason, the novels are just better and may improve your opinion about the story. If you somehow enjoyed what you watched, definitely read the light novels! Berserk of Gluttony was never going to be anime of the year, I knew that and my expectations weren't very high going in, but holy shit thiswas worse than I could have imagined. I enjoyed the light novels quite a bit, and to see the story I had come to like be spit on, shredded, burned, then shaped into the most generic two-dimensional square I've ever seen was quite painful. I'm certain this is an exceedingly common opinion for light novel readers when anything they like gets animated, but hear me out.

Story - My biggest complaint. It was so rushed, and so much was changed. Some scenes were way shorter than they needed to be, and many things were sped through. I get it, there's a lot of content in each novel, and adapting three of them in one season is naturally difficult, but why in God's name was so much changed?! I can totally see leaving small things out, that's fine, but straight up changing said small things AND LEAVING THEM IN is unacceptable. The small things are part of what makes each character themselves, and by changing many small bits of the story, each character is both less whole and less who the author wrote them to be, and the story overall is worse for it.

***SMALL SPOILER FOR EPISODE 3 AND LIGHT NOVEL 1***

I will give an example of something that was changed that ultimately hurt multiple characters AND changes their dynamics with other characters. Roxy's inspection was, in the novel, meant to show Roxy's dedication to the common people of Seifort and let her and Fate grow a little closer, as well as revealing small parts about their characters. This was not the case in the anime.

First, it was rushed through. Half of this event was supposed to involve the lost boy you see being accosted by the Vlericks (WHO WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOW UP AT ALL BY THE WAY) but most of that was skipped.

Second, the involvement of the Vlericks in this part is problematic. They do not consider Fate someone of note at this point in the story, just another plebian they happened to employ and abuse, but their encounter with him in this part sets them up as if they know him almost intimately. When I read the first part of the first novel, I questioned if they even knew his name, which makes sense given that they are important holy knights and he's just some guy.

Third, changing the reason Roxy went out in the first place. The original reason she went out was to try and understand the common people, as well as taking a little break from her newfound responsibilities as head of her house. She supposedly does this with some regularity, which shows how much she cares about the commoners. Changing her reason for going out to "investigating the wandering monster" eliminates this AND involves her in an event she's not supposed to be involved in.

Fourth, the scene in the bar was originally charming and almost completely unrelated to the "wandering monster" and much more about Fate and Roxy's relationship and their casual interaction with the bartender, as well as Roxy getting more information about commoners. In the anime, it's an incredibly generic scene that I have seen as many times as I have strands of hair.

Fifth, Greed is not supposed to be present in this event! I love Greed, he's one of my favorite characters, but his involvement in this part makes zero sense due to how rushed Fate was in accompanying Roxy (he had no time to go inside and get Greed before leaving + bringing Greed on a pleasant afternoon in town with Roxy makes no sense) and his presence removes some intimacy between Roxy and Fate, as they are supposed to be alone.

Sixth, the gemstone salesman part. For some reason they changed them to be a man (which I don't understand considering he's supposed to be a woman but whatever) and they made the rock/gemstone lottery an actual thing instead of something impromptu and nice that the saleswoman did for Fate because he didn't have time to grab all his money before going out, so he only had a handful of copper. Here, Fate was supposed to choose a rock before thinking to use inspect, then the saleswoman asking if he was sure, which he isn't (which shows a bit of indecisiveness), then thinking of using inspect himself (not Greed's suggestion), then using it and finding out he chose well (which shows his luck). Roxy is then supposed to crush the rock with her bare hands which surprises the saleswoman (which shows a tendency toward not thinking when she's excited and happy, since she's supposed to be incognito at that time). This is a cute event that was trashed in the anime and personally I find that unforgivable.

Keep in mind, this is just ONE event that is ruined in the anime. These small changes add up and, due to how generic the replacements are, they generify the whole story.

***END SPOILER***

Some of the changes are not so small. Entire events are skipped in some cases. Many things stop making sense as the reasons characters do certain things are changed. The WHOLE TONE of certain arcs are altered. I find this inexcusable, as it tarnishes everything that made the story good in the first place.

Characters - 'Generic' summarizes my complaints here fairly well, though I wish it didn't. 2D, flat, and mostly uninteresting, the characters in the anime adaptation fall far short of their novel counterparts, which is upsetting.

Animation - Before watching this dumpster fire I didn't know what to expect from A.C.G.T. since I had never watched anything they worked on. Now I wish I had, if for no other reason than to set my expectations even lower. To be clear, it isn't the worst animation I have ever seen, but it's not great, especially in action scenes. Fight scenes were very jumpy and, to me, disorganized. Some parts almost felt like they began drawing a bigger picture but gave up halfway through and just zoomed in on what they had done already. This may be more of a complaint toward direction than anything else though.

Music - Generic. Almost feels like something you might have heard 10-15 years ago.

Voice Acting - I thought the VA choices were pretty good, and it turns out that was the only good part about this anime. Unfortunately, good performances by VAs cannot save an adaptation with so many issues.

Overall, disappointing in nearly every regard. I have no idea what the higher ups were thinking when they destroyed Berserk of Gluttony's story. It feels as if they had no respect for the author or their work. More than anything though, I'm sad, sad that most viewers' only experience with this story will be a bad one purely because those in charge feel it's necessary to change everything that's already good, only to make it worse. I'll be honest, Berserk of Gluttony was never a masterpiece, even as a novel, but it was a hell of a lot better than what we got with this anime adaptation.

This show is the definition of mid. There are a few things they really did very well but also many things that dont make it that enjoyable to watch. Overall the story is pretty okay, even good I would say, it is not too complexe but it is no way near to nonsense. However when you watch the anime episode after episode it just feels like progressing through the plot/everything is just for the plot, "every idea we have has to help progressing the plot or it gets thrown out and wont make it into the show". Animation and style are good and the animationeven pops off sometimes but rarely, special effects are really well made. The style they gave to the mc fits really well to everything. Character development exists, but it feels very clumsy like "we need this specific development for the plot so lets get this done now". The other characters are fine, nothing special, except his love Roxy. She only has the character traits "very friendly, loves mc, wants to help the people" and thats about it. So all in all the story is pretty good and the special effects aswell, I personally like the mc and I continue watching because I want to see how the plot will go on.

I think this is an alright show. However, there are some things that I dislike about this show. The setting is great, with the whole "Stat System" stuff since I do like isekai/fantasy anime and manga that have it. I just think that Fate as a character is kind of unlikeable. Funny to say that I like Greed(his sword) more as a character since the banter and chats he has with Fate are what kept me going for the story. Coming back to Fate, the person who wrote this story really could've done better with him. Fate just feels too edgy and that doesn't seemto keep me involved with him as a character. I usually dislike characters like that, but there are times where it works. Still, I liked Roxy and her benevolent attitude. She's definitely what people call "Waifu material". The combat scenes for this show were good. It's no Jujutsu Kaisen or Demon Slayer but it isn't too bad. If you're looking for a decent action fantasy anime, this isn't too bad of a watch. I only wish it was more to my taste but it might be for others.