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Berserk (TV 1997).

Craving more Berserk???? I know I was when I first finished the series, and still am after 4 years! Try getting the manga, its up to volume 30 in Japan now I believe. Not sure where they are at in America, but it is being released over here. Another season would be wonderful, but it definitly "probably" wont happen atleast until they finish the manga, which is gonna be a while.

[But you are right there wont be a 'sequel' untill the manga actually ends.. who knows when that will happen though

9 just hit the shelves here in the US. Dark Horse is releasing them 3 months a part, so it will take another year for them to surpass the events of the series. Still a good worthwhile purchase.

As for the schedule of Berserk, there are a lot of considerations we have to make when we're looking at a book program. Around the time we were gearing up for Berserk, our bookstore buyers gave us the consensus that they preferred that books in a series arrive about three months apart, giving the individual stores adequate time to sell through their orders. The other aspects to consider are factors that take into consideration when you'll either reach a manga series end or catch up with its Japanese release. If the series is close-ended (no more new material being published in Japan), you can pretty much choose whatever schedule you like; when the series is ongoing, however, the sooner you catch up, the sooner you foul up your release schedule--you go from a book every three months to suddenly having no books appear for up to a year. That's generally hurtful to backlist sales and the interest overall of the series. For you folks here, the real hardcore Berserk fans, I know that's frustrating, because you want to read those books NOW. Remember, though, that the majority of people who read Berserk are more casual about it, and increasing the release schedule means that they have to spend a lot more money on Berserk. Some will choose to bail, and we'll lose readers. Although we care a lot about what the hardcore think and want, we have to also "listen" to the readers who don't get involved heavily, and that's probably 97% of the audience. It's a balancing act. That said, market conditions have changed somewhat since we first published Berserk, and its success in America now looks pretty firm, and we've probably weeded out the most casual readers--if you're still on board after nine volumes, you're probably in it for the long haul, so we are considering moving to a bimonthly schedule; remember, though, that unlike most of our manga, we're co-publishing Berserk with Digital Manga, so this isn't solely a Dark Horse call. Also, we have to solicit material almost a year in advance, so if we do move the schedule up, you probably won't see it until Fall of 2006.

The anime perhaps, but the manga is still running hot. There's not a single doubt in my mind that a sequel will come out, or maybe just a complete reanimation of everything.

And the anime and manga are pretty much exactly the same imo, with a few distant changes.

Is there a second season of the Berserk anime? Will there be?

The short answer is NO. Studio VAP produced the 25-episode series Kenpyuu Denki: Berserk in 1998 in Japan and have announced no plans of producing further episodes. Media Blasters acquired the rights to Berserk in 2002 and published 6 DVDs (details here) in America. There are constant rumors of a second-season. However, these are likely based on wishful thinking alone, and have no basis in fact.
Why aren't Skull Knight/Silat/Wyald/Puck in the anime?

Several characters were omitted from the anime adaptation of BERSERK. These include the elf Puck, the apostle Wyald, Silatt, the Bakiraka and several others. Each of these character removals were done so the anime would be self-contained in 25 episodes.

According to the latest issue of Anime Insider, the Beserk Anime only covered 12 Volumes.

The Beserk Manga encompasses 28 Volumes. Something doesn't add up here.

FAQ from Skullknight.net

Abarenbo Shogun wrote:

According to the latest issue of Anime Insider, the Beserk Anime only covered 12 Volumes. The Beserk Manga encompasses 28 Volumes. Something doesn't add up here.

Well anime are not obligated to cover everything in the manga (see Gantz, fruit basket, kare kano and many more) The manga cover like vol. 4 to 13 I believe. They skip the first 3 volume of the manga so it was never animated, thus leaving out key characters like Puck, Silatt and others. They play a major roles later on, thus they probably need to redo the first season in order to produce a second season.

It's been almost 8 years since its original anime production.

SirWence wrote:

[But you are right there wont be a 'sequel' untill the manga actually ends.. who knows when that will happen though

I don't think they'll be a sequel at all. The anime is pretty outdated in japan. Anime companies don't usually run out and make sequel because the manga end.

Blue Submarine 06 was an original gonzo production, not based on a Manga.

Bloodlust is also not a sequal to the original, it is just an appending production (it doesnt follow the same plot as the first one nor does it continue, it also has a completely different production staff and writers and what not).

http://reviews.theotaku.com/view.php?action=retrieve&id=10:
Fans of the original Vampire Hunter D were given a collective shock when a sequel was announced sooo many years later. And what a sequel it has become!

http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?node_id=7805
That is why I'm certain the sequel to this film will be much better

http://animeworld.com/reviews/vampirehunterd.html
This movie has a sequel, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, that is loosely based on the third novel in the series

http://www.ybfree.com/2VAMPIRED1.html
If you liked the first film, you will love the sequel. The fans clapped for every big scene and went nuts just seeing the title screen come up. This movie by far blows the original out of the water. This time D is joined by other bounty hunters, each armed with cool weapons that totally kicked ass. Stealth arrows, twirling blades, and more make for a vampire's worst nightmare.