Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight Kindle Edition

Interesting, but some details need to be expanded a little more.

The criticism is overrated …..yes is true grammar errors and poor translation with a little bit of choppy writing and things like names mistakenly intertwined….etc, however the the flame dragon knight feels like it belongs in the Berserk universe is just a short story about a random man in This complex universe of Berserk ….I would give it a must read recommendation if it wasn’t for the poor translation but in overall if you like Berserk and read light novels from time to time give it a shot , is worth the money

Maybe you're a female.... And feminine Itch has got you down. Maybe you're a young man, and Impotence has you feeling emasculated. Maybe you're somewhere in between and just don't feel right about life. Well here's the solution. This book lifted not only lifted my spirits, it lifted my frown. Seriously, buy the book. Show Support so we see more Berserk stuff pop up. Don't be a hotdog and bootleg stuff.

Nothing wrong with the Condition of the product, but man it is not that well written. The translation itself is rudimentary. Still a fun enough read but it's not the best work out there.

Simple yet surprisingly emotionally deep. The translation makes the writing seem off sometimes, but just remember it's a translation and it's fine.I was like "Grunbeld? Oh all people to make a book about from Berserk?" Bu then you realize he's complex and you root for him, just like Guts, and it gives you a perspective that everyone from Berserk universe is like that, deep and rich. It's awesome. Thank you!

I thought this book was going to be tame on the content Miura gives Berserk but it did not disappoint. A story with real life lessons especially jealously. This is a great read and great format for true fans of Berserk who will read and support this.

This book is a good backstory for Grundbeld a character in the Berserk Manga. If your a fan of berserk this is a must read. Hope we see more back stories on apostle characters we see in Berserk. There's also some few pieces of art that is amazing at capturing what's described. As always the art is amazing when it's shown.

First, this is not manga, it is a light novel. It is a quick and easy read with a few illustrations by Kentaro Miura.This is somewhat entertaining, but light novels are not a good format for Berserk. As a light novel, with it's simplified writing style and brisk pace, Berserk is reduced to cheap entertainment. As a manga, Berserk is literature.I mean, maybe it's not. This light novel has me questioning my evaluation of the series.It's interesting, because the Berserk fandom has sort of propped the franchise up on a pedestal. Berserk is philosophy. Nietzsche, Freud, and Jung. Berserk is art. Berserk is the human condition as a manga. Berserk is powerful, deep, emotional storytelling. The graphic violence, sex, and horrifying imagery serve as means to those ends, stark reflections of our own selves and of society. The violence serves a literary purpose.This light novel challenges my conclusions about Berserk and makes me feel like a moron. The violence and sex in this novel are cheap and disgusting. It's used as a tool to make the story more "edgy" but not actually more mature. It comes off especially bad within text that can be easily understood by a 5th grader.Was I seeing the things that I wanted to see in Berserk? Is it actually really as meaningful as I thought it was, or does Kentaro Miura just simply enjoy grimdark violence?

Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight is a PROSE work on the story of Grunbeld's rise to the Apostle we know him as in the Manga. Included are ten full page illustrations from Miura that are what you expect, amazing. And what is winthin the book is what you would expect from any Berserk story. Brutal.I was excited for this novel when I first heard about it two years for if this was placed into the manga as a flashback it would only delay the main story-- and we know at what rate that is going, sadly. And Grunbeld has always been a character I wanted to explore more since he first made is amazing appearance and face off against Guts years ago. So if we can get backstory books on the likes of Skull Knight and Zodd I would be over the eclipse ... I just hope they are written better.This book is poorly written, sadly. And I think it comes down to the translation. Duane Johnson does a great job on the translation of the manga but he also has Miura's beautiful and majestic art to help as context. In a prose format HE has to create that immersion from the original himself, and well, it could of used some refining. The structure and flow is all off and typos are abundant.However I still enjoyed the story within regardless of its writing flaws. This is a book intended for Berserk fans so if you want to see more backstory novels like this, please support it and add it to your collection!

Good!

Excelentes condiciones y lo mejor es que en inglés

Excelente, me llegó sin problemas

As a fan of the manga, I was excited to read this light novel, but its bad reputation is warranted. It's not just about its content, but the way it's written, and answers very few questions while raising many more.The Flame Dragon Knight is effectively just an account of Grunbeld's origin story. It does help to fill out the world of Berserk a little more. The Tudor Empire features prominently, most of it in the one year gap between the end of the Hundred Years' War and the Eclipse that ended the Golden Age Arc. We see the world beyond Midland, in Berserk's rough equivalent to Scandinavia, glimpses of a culture never seen otherwise. Grunbeld himself, though, exists not to be his own character, but out of necessity for the story. The reader knows where he will eventually go and there is admittedly very little to flesh him out. He is a vehicle for violence and action scenes first and a character second.The violence and action is, by comparison to its father text, kind of juvenile. Some dedicated Berserk fans have criticised the amount of sexualised violence in the book, and I'm inclined to agree. While Miura's own work has an inconsistent record on how it's treated, there is usually some additional purpose to it, even if it sometimes pure shock. The sexual assault in The Flame Dragon Knight is edgy without being transgressive, the violence 'epic' without being grounded. There is an uncomfortable juxtaposition with this not feeling like Berserk: The Dark Fantasy Epic, but being wholly congruent with Berserk: The Edgy Schlock That Dark Horse Ad Copy Paints It As.Here I will readily admit that I do not read light novels outside of this one, and maybe reading more would clear my expectations, but Makoto Fukami's - or rather, how it is translated by Duane Johnson - prose feels awkward and stilted. This is not a pleasant book to read. I was surprised when I double-checked and realised that Johnson also translates the manga volumes. Maybe he's just better at translating speech - monologued or dialogue - than prose, or some agreement with Fukami lead him to translate it the way he did. There is a lot of insistent terminology, deathly afraid of using different terms of phrase. The young prisoners of war under Tudor are subjected to 'conversion education' and only ever 'conversion education'. Grunbeld's mother is introduced as an 'eccentric noblewoman' and then referred to as an 'eccentric noblewoman' a couple sentences later - as her assault is detailed - as if it were a singular noun. There is a regular impression that the book was translated strictly and the result is English prose that never maintains a flow. Point of view is chosen on a whim, sentence-by-sentence, for the benefit of the reader's knowledge rather than the reading as an experience. Little is given to any character's point of view or interiority (least of all Grunbeld's) when every paragraph exists to propel the story along no matter how disjointed it feels. It has, additionally, a terrible, clinical description of (consensual) sex, but at least it's mercifully short.I wanted to read this book to get some insight into the viewpoint of an Apostle, and nothing surfaced because the lives of individual characters simply do not matter to the book. It exists to give a blow by blow account of Grunbeld's life, not necessarily from his perspective, and it ultimately raises more questions than it answers. Chief among these is how much Miura was involved in its authorship. Some speculate that Miura provided the 10 illustrations and Fukami wrote around them, or that this book is Fukami's 'reward' for his work on the 2016/2017 anime adaptation. I understand where this perspective comes from, but I think that cutting Miura out of the picture is just a way to avoid interrogating the possibility that he was involved, and what the book says about the greater project of Grunbeld as a character.The novel was published the same day as Volume 39 of the manga, after Guts' party reaches Elfheim. Grunbeld had received some characterisation as had other members of the New Band of the Hawk, but was mostly remembered for featuring alongside the introduction of the Berserker Armour. This and his history detailed in the book suggests that he was being set up as a foil to Guts. Equivalent in strength through supernatural forces while themselves near-superhuman by default. While Guts' impossible strength is explained through his life story, wielding swords bigger than him since childhood, Grunbeld is simply an extraordinarily large man from a nation of large people. Grunbeld's hammer is explained to be, like Guts' Dragonslayer, an ornament, impractical to wield, repurposed as a weapon.It leaves the question hanging of if Fukami wrote Grunbeld the way he did to emulate Guts just to give the fans what he thought they would want, or if it's a part of Miura's larger design to set Guts up against Grunbeld. If the latter, we have to ask 'why?' What purpose does Grunbeld serve to Guts as a character after he's already been contrasted to Zodd - individuals initially fighting for the sake of fighting without direction - and Griffith - two men trying to chase their own dreams and ambitions? What more does Grunbeld have to offer, given that Guts seems to be managing the Berserker Armour and Beast of Darkness by himself? These are all questions that I would have loved to receive answers for, but I believe that, even with Studio Gaga's continuation, the real answers died with Miura.I can't even recommend The Flame Dragon Knight as a curiosity, or a piece of fanservice, let alone as a book. Avoid it.