Another worst way to watch Berserk. I don't get how hard is for animation houses and the ones holding the rights of Miura's work to do it as it should. An average cut-down adaptation for this generation sensibility standards which was already heavily censored and shortened, that trades some of the most iconic, meaningful momments and crudeness, for some generic gore, extra fan service and CGI + movement-sensor-ed scenes that look mostly decent, while also ruining a few important parts.
Reasons to not watch over the 1997 version:
You've read the manga already.
Cut content
A) Guts reaction when interacting with the general at the begining.
B) Guts past (just dialogue saved for the end).
C) The first time Griffith saves Guts (the full battle is pictured, literally in like 3 shots).
D) Revealing Zodd's ability after being further injured.
E) The lodestone knight gift from Charlotte to Griffith.
F) Foss, the queen, and everything that involved them.
G) Griffith's past related to Gennon.
H) Boscon vs Guts finale (sword break and Zodd's intervention got cut).
I) Griffith friction with a noble (commander/general?) which captures him after being with Charlotte.
J) Mention of previous queen (Charlotte's mother).
K) Guts participation in a tournament.
L) The year with Godo.
M) Griffith alternate future dream.
N) The cliffhanger of Rikert being before a couple apostles.
Ruined content
1) Gut's nightmare (a very, very short slide show).
2) Caska's past memmory (also a slide show).
3) Most of the tension between Guts and Corkus during all the episodes.
4) Corkus and Judeau table talk with Guts before leaving (Corkus got cut-off).
5) Guts and Griffith clash (no deep thoughts of the later, no forced stop the sword swing from the former).
Reason to watch over the 1997 version:
*Is shorter and you don't have that much free time.
*Some scenes from the manga that didn't made it into the 1997 like: griffith's torture, the assassin battle (only the 2nd one), the clash between skull knight & Zodd outside the eclipse and obviously everything that happen after the 1997 version ends.
Another reason to watch, is not "over" but as a complement for the 1997, and only if you don't feel like reading the manga.
