it feels so much like a very long form hack and slash "Hellraiser" story.
(Thanks Internet Archive for having 40 volumes of this slop available for free)
it feels so much like a very long form hack and slash "Hellraiser" story.
(Thanks Internet Archive for having 40 volumes of this slop available for free)
Dude, named Guts, has a pretty rough life from birth onward.
Guts becomes little more than a mercenary killing machine using a huge sword.
Guts falls in with a band of mercs lead by a dude, Griffith, who has a grand dream. The leader's charm and dream attract lots of disaffected people as he wins battle after battle getting ever closer to achieving his dream. Griffith is portrayed as kinda having a thing for Guts, less sexual and more "dude's rock" vibes.
Guts tries to go out and find himself outside of Griffith's dream, which is the instigating factor in turning the darkness of this story up to 11. A slow rolling hell on earth begins after Griffith succeeds in his dream.
The rest of the story, so far (I'm just now starting on volume 18) is a grimdark gruesome "monster of the week" where we watch Guts murder his way through baby demons until getting to the big demon of the volume and murdering them. Bits of backstory are dropped throughout.