No analysis of is complete without bowing to Susumu Hirasawa. His electronic, world-music-infused score is ironically "wrong" for a medieval fantasy on paper, yet it is the soul of the show.
Berserk author Kentaro Miura (who sadly passed away in 2021) famously had a complicated relationship with adaptations. He once noted that the 1997 anime captured the "temperature" of the manga better than he expected. He approved of the ending because, in his words, "The story of the Golden Age is a tragedy that doesn't need a happy resolution." berserk -1997-
: Produced by OLM (formerly Oriental Light and Magic), the series ran for 25 episodes. No analysis of is complete without bowing to Susumu Hirasawa