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We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counterattacks with power and with confidence. on. My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to Bonfireside

chat, a branded favorite. And this week, and for the next couple weeks, we're going to be talking about the origins of the Dark Souls series starting out right now with the manga version of berserk which is a

berserk which is a long-running manga series that is written and drawn by

kantaro meura mhm yeah and yeah you can definitely mean, they will make sense if you will

that the reason why we're covering the things we're covering for the next.

The reason why two people who do not like anime and have said so very many times.

Yeah, are covering this and they're doing it in a podcast dedicated to the Souls series of games.

So this series has these elements of dark fantasy and horror.

Kind of starting with dark fantasy and leaning really heavily towards horror in the second half.

And follows the journey of guts, the black swordsman,

as he battles the demons of the God hand.

Yes. So the first entry of the God hand.

Yes.

So the first entry of the series was created in 1988,

which makes this series about as old as me.

But the run as we know it, kind of the volumes of the manga started coming out in November of 1990.

And it's still running today, although it's been kind of on an infrequent schedule since 2006.

Yeah, which is frustrating because I wanted to have an end so bad.

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