Well lads, we've had some good laughs together. However, I think it's finally time we stopped pretending Berserk 1997 was good.
"But PantsMan," you might say:
"It's a classic!"
"The art's great!"
"9/10 on MAL!"
"It's old!"
"Fuck you."
"MANime!"
"I put my grasses on!"
Ever wonder why people only talk about the Eclipse, the Cobraman scene or Griffith's Ken doll penis? Because the rest looks like ass.
Yeah, no shit the art's good, it's Miura's style. The animation itself however consists of zooming in and sliding across still frames. Might as well open the official colored manga and shake your computer screen to get the same effect. Except even that would still be better than the anime, since at least it doesn't butcher the story and remove fan-favorite characters like Puck and Donovan. Absolute garbage.
You don't like Berserk 1997, you just like the Golden Age arc and prefer this particular series over the sequels. Which fair enough, I don't think anybody asked for feature-length versions of that PS2 game where Guts is fighting demonic snowmen. Still doesn't make Berserk 97 good.
And while we're on the topic, let's talk about the OP. Imagine having Susumu Hirasawa on call and instead getting the Japanese equivalent of the guys you hire to sing Cha-Cha Slide at weddings. I refuse to believe it wasn't i r o n i c a l l y popular just because of the Engrish, then retards just mistook it being a meme for it being actually good.
Also, hair > tits >= ass > shit > those chicken thighs western artists put on every character