Berserk

Editions and box sets

Compare the story coverage as well as the binding. Each edition has a page listing every book in it, with its ISBN and release date.

Which edition to buy

Start with standard Vol. 1 for one paperback, or Deluxe 1 for the opening three volumes in one hardcover. Buying both repeats Vol. 1. The paperback has 224 pages; Deluxe 1 has 696 pages and a 7 x 10 inch leatherette binding with a ribbon bookmark. Choose the paperback to try one book, or the hardcover for larger pages and three volumes together. Both begin with Guts as the Black Swordsman, accompanied by Puck; neither is a sequel to the other edition. These are adult horror books.

Dark Horse publishes both English editions. Deluxe books 1 to 13 collect three standard volumes each; Deluxe 14 holds Vols. 40 and 41 plus the Official Guidebook. Vol. 42 is available separately, and Vol. 43 is listed for November 24, 2026. The catalogue checked here has no Deluxe 15. Standard paperbacks list at $14.99; conflicting Deluxe prices are omitted, so no saving is claimed. Chapter ranges use magazine episode numbers: the unnumbered opening fills Vols. 1 to 4 and the beginning of Vol. 5, and episode 83 is omitted from collected editions.

What each edition costs

Collected list prices are divided by the standard volumes each edition holds. The singles row shows the most common single-book list price; its total sums each book’s price. Retailer offers can differ.

Volumes

Each linked volume has a page of its own: what the book holds and where to buy it. Chapter ranges and anime comparisons appear where verified.

Lines from this series

• “You're right, we are mortal and fragile. But even if we are tortured or wounded, we'll fight to survive.”

  Guts · Berserk What the story had to build→

• “You know, you talk too much. Let me tell you, in battle there is only one way you should be using your mouth!”

  Guts · Berserk Set against another series→

• “Do you really want to die in a place like this? Do you really want a meaningless place like this to be your grave? Is that dream in your head so dead?”

  Guts · Berserk Read against the character's own history→

• “Compared to the strength of that purpose, whether I face a hundred men in battle or even a thousand, seems like nothing but a random act.”

  Guts · Berserk The strongest objection, answered→

• “You do realize you're talking to the man who slaughtered a hundred men. I think it makes your question kind of pointless.”

  Guts · Berserk The contrarian read→

• “For all the places I have seen, and people I can never forget, I felt everything through the tip of my sword. This sword is the proof that I ever lived.”

  Guts · Berserk The case against this line→

Every Berserk quote

Guides for this series

• Berserk Manga Buying Guide: Paperbacks or Deluxe Hardcovers
• Berserk Watch Order: 1997, the Films, or 2016?
• Berserk's 1997 Ending, Explained: the Eclipse and What Comes After
• Berserk (1997): Sub or Dub?
• The Best Berserk Quotes, Every Line Checked
• Guts and Gambino: Why the Count Does Not Settle the Memory

All guides