A pretty boy with a dream and a sword the size of a doorframe. What could go wrong?
Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?
Direction
CGI that actually works for brutal, weighty combat.
Score
Susumu Hirasawa's haunting electronic-prog fusion.
Writing
Griffith's charisma makes you root for your own doom.
Director
Toshiyuki Kubooka
Hiroaki Iwanaga
Guts (voice)
Takahiro Sakurai
Griffith (voice)
Yuki Kaji
Judeau (voice)
Takahiro Fujiwara
Pippin (voice)
Toa Yukinari
Casca (voice)
Yoshiro Matsumoto
Corkus (voice)
Minako Kotobuki
Rickert (voice)
Kazuki Yao
Gaston (voice)
Aki Toyosaki
Charlotte (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Nosferatu Zodd (voice)
Nobuyuki Katsube
Midland King (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Adon Coborlwitz (voice)
Hiroshi Arikawa
Hassan (voice)
Hochu Otsuka
Laban (voice)
Kendo Kobayashi
Bazuso (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This trilogy compresses roughly 110 manga chapters into three films, cutting significant character development (poor Judeau).
Kentaro Miura cited 'Devilman' and European medieval art as key influences — the Behelit's design mirrors H.R. Giger's biomechanical horror.
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