TASK 4 |
GENRE CRITICISM: BERSERK (1997) & ATTACK ON TITAN (2013)
BERSERK (1997)
ATTACK ON TITAN (2013)
Berserk
(1997) and Attack on Titan (2013) both are animated television series and aired
on several countries’ television station. Berserk (1997) was aired from 1997
and 1998. It is an adaptation from manga Berserk. However, Attack on Titan (2013)
or also known as Shingeki no Kyojin in Japanese was aired on 2013 and up
until now. Both have dark humour story telling and not suitable for audience
age under 18 without parental guidance. The reason is because both series have
included scary death moment such as being eaten by the giants (from Attack on Titan)
and many more. To analyse genre of the series, it must be including three types
of approaches that we can used which is Aesthetic approaches, Ritual approaches
and Ideological approaches.
Both
Berserk (1997) and Attack on Titan (2013) have shared the same Aesthetic
Characteristics. In term of Aesthetic, it can be defined as a combination of
several types of genre into one story. It means that in 1 series or movie there
are few genres that been use to make the content more interesting. In this case
both series have shared at least 3 same genres which are Action Fiction, Dark
Fantasy and Anime. However, in Attack on Titan, there are some addition genre
which is Doomsday to make to make the audience feels more into the series. In Attack
on Titan, it is shown that the main character’s mother, Carla Yeager have been
eaten alive by the titan in front of his son, Eren Yeager. Their city has been
attacked by numerous titans and that is why the series have been put under the Doomsday
genre. For Berserk, even though it has the same genre with Attack on Titan
which is Dark Fantasy, the story line is completely different from Attack on
Titan. Berserk is about a group of demon hunter attacked the demon lair and
without they know, they have step into the trap that the demons have prepared
for them. The whole group have been killed, eaten, and raped by the demons, but
only Guts (the main character) who have successfully escaped from the lair but
he lost his right eyeball and right arm.
Besides
that, ritual mean the element that need to portray in some story to ensure a story
become a story. For example, in Berserk the director and writer portray the story
a bit of dark which is a group of demon hunters that have been ambushed. But in
Attack on Titan, the director and writer portray the story to be a little bit
doomsday alike because of the set in a fantasy world where humanity lives
within territories surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from
gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as Titans.
Lastly,
the ideological for these two animated series is a bit different. Even though
Berserk and Attack on Titan shares at least three identical genres, the story
is different. For Berserk, Guts is a skilled swordsman who joins forces with a
mercenary group named 'The Band of the Hawk', led by the charismatic Griffith,
and fights with them as they battle their way into the royal court. After that,
The Band of Hawk have been slaughtered by the demons and Guts have to face the
demons alone because of the curse mark that have been given by one of the superior
demons. While Attack on Titans is about teenage boy Eren and his foster sister
Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal
titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the
two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will
murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
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