re: Anime Fans - Recommendations in OP **Awesomeness Edition**

That's the main thing I hate about the movies. They just bust that wild left turn on you with the eclipse in movie 3. The only bit of supernatural you get is the meeting with Zodd in the first movie.

I think the 97 series and the manga start it much better. You start with Guts missing his left arm and right eye, all in black on a path of vengeance. You get glimpses of the supernatural with Guts beating great odds through his determination and will. You don't really know why he is the way he is at the beginning, then it jumps to his childhood and you follow his life all the way to the eclipse with only a handful of moments of supernatural through meetings with Skull Knight, Zodd, and Wyald. Then at the end of the eclipse it's more of a "Ok I get it now" as opposed to a "WTF just happened"

ETA-The music in the original 97 series is so much better than any of the other music