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50 free Berserk trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Berserk began in 1989 as the story of a lone swordsman with an impossible sword and a grudge, and grew into one of the most admired manga ever drawn. Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy follows Guts from a childhood among mercenaries to his years beside the brilliant, ambitious Griffith, and then through the betrayal that turns two friends into hunter and prey. This quiz is built around the characters. It covers Guts, Griffith and Casca, their comrades in the Band of the Hawk, the companions who join the journey later, and the Apostles and inquisitors who stand in the way. Other questions go behind the page: Miura's influences, the anime series and films, the video games, the awards, and how the manga carried on after its creator's death. It suits readers of the manga and viewers who know the story from the anime alike. The opening questions are ones most fans can answer, and the deeper cuts on side characters and lore come later.
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Q 01Critics say Guts's oversized sword in Berserk started a trend that reached which Final Fantasy hero?
Cloud Strife
Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII is the best-known heir to the giant blade, a trend critics also trace to Dante of Devil May Cry and Ichigo of Bleach.
Q 02Which film antihero did Kentaro Miura cite as an inspiration for the rage-driven Guts in Berserk?
Mad Max
Mad Max gave Guts his rage, and Miura said a dark hero burning for revenge is what made Berserk feel like the right title.
Q 03Which action role-playing game series is said to borrow its monsters and bleak world from Berserk?
Dark Souls
Dark Souls owes its monsters and world to the Berserk aesthetic, and the debt carries into the same studio's later games Bloodborne and Elden Ring.
Q 04Which film did Berserk creator Kentaro Miura name as his favorite, saying it taught him how to tell stories?
Star Wars
Star Wars, the 1977 original, was his favorite film, and Miura said George Lucas taught him the fundamentals of storytelling.
Q 05What is the name of the enormous sword Guts wields as the Black Swordsman in Berserk?
Dragon Slayer
The Dragon Slayer got its size from two things Miura combined: the hero's blade in the manga Pygmalio and a drawing of a giant with a sword in a Guin Saga spin-off.
Q 06What does Guts lose during the Eclipse in Berserk while trying to save Casca from Griffith?
An arm and an eye
An arm and an eye are the price of that failed rescue: his left forearm and his right eye. The Skull Knight then carries Guts and Casca back to the mortal world.
Q 07Under what new name is Griffith reborn as the fifth member of the God Hand in Berserk?
Femto
Femto is the name Griffith takes after sacrificing the Band of the Hawk, a transformation that also earns him the title of the wings of darkness.
Q 08Which Blizzard game series ran a 2025 crossover event that let players wear the Berserker Armor from Berserk?
Diablo
Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal both joined the event, which also offered the Skull Knight's mount armor as a reward.
Q 09Which animated series based on a video game did its assistant director say was inspired by Berserk?
Castlevania
Castlevania took its cues from Berserk, said assistant director Adam Deats, while producer Adi Shankar called Miura's artwork a true masterpiece he would like to adapt.
Q 10Which animation studio, best known for the Pokémon anime, produced the 1997 Berserk television series?
OLM
OLM, then called Oriental Light and Magic, animated all 25 episodes, an unlikely job for the studio behind Pokémon and Yo-kai Watch.
Q 11Which elf, the first companion to join Guts in Berserk, heals wounds with powder from his wings?
Puck
Puck is a wind spirit from Elfhelm whose role drifts from cheerful counterweight to comic relief, pelting enemies with chestnuts in an attack he calls Bloody Needle.
Q 12By what epithet is Griffith known in Berserk as his mercenaries win battle after battle for Midland?
The White Hawk
The White Hawk is how Midland comes to know Griffith, whose rise in its long war against Tudor is tied to the Crimson Behelit he carries.
Q 13What childhood dream drives Griffith, once a street urchin, to every choice he makes in Berserk?
Ruling his own kingdom
Q 21Which forest witch gives Guts the Berserker Armor in Berserk after his party saves a village from trolls?
Flora
Flora had long been an ally of the Skull Knight, who wore the armor before Guts, and her spirit shields the party with flames as she dies.
Q 22Which noblewoman commands the Holy Iron Chain Knights in Berserk before abandoning her post to follow Guts?
Farnese
Farnese starts out burning accused witches and ends up studying witchcraft herself, while serving as Casca's main caretaker.
Q 23Which herald of the Holy Iron Chain Knights in Berserk is secretly his commander's half-brother?
Serpico
Serpico stays devoted to his commander even though she once forced him to execute his own mother, and he later fights with a rapier and cloak blessed by wind spirits.
Ruling his own kingdom has been Griffith's ambition since childhood, and he says he counts as equals only those who chase a dream of their own.
Q 14Which actor's 1980s film roles helped inspire the personality and design of Guts in Berserk?
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer's turns in Flesh and Blood, Blade Runner and The Hitcher fed into Guts, alongside the personality of one of Miura's own high school friends.
Q 15Which princess of Midland does Griffith seduce in Berserk, an act that gets him imprisoned and tortured?
Charlotte
Charlotte later helps free Griffith, supplying the intelligence that lets his old comrades reach the dungeon where he has spent a year.
Q 16Which mercenary captain raises Guts in Berserk and leaves him with the scar across his nose?
Gambino
Gambino adopts and trains Guts, then turns on him after losing a leg to cannon fire, and dies in a drunken attempt to kill the boy.
Q 17Which mark, placed on Guts during the Eclipse, draws evil creatures to him every night in Berserk?
The Brand of Sacrifice
The Brand of Sacrifice marks Guts and Casca as offerings who got away, and a witch later seals Guts's brand with a talisman to dampen its pull.
Q 18Which centuries-old Apostle spares Guts and Griffith in Berserk after spotting Griffith's Crimson Behelit?
Zodd
Zodd, known as Nosferatu Zodd or Zodd the Immortal, warns Guts that Griffith will be his doom, then later serves Griffith as his foremost lieutenant.
Q 19Which manga artist, Kentaro Miura's friend since high school, took over supervising Berserk after his death?
Kouji Mori
Kouji Mori heard the whole story from Miura decades earlier and vowed to write only what his friend had told him, adding nothing of his own.
Q 20Which hit 1980s manga did Kentaro Miura call the biggest influence on Berserk and on his own art style?
Fist of the North Star
Fist of the North Star, by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, shaped him most, and Miura went on to draw manga that Buronson wrote.
Q 24Which runaway thief trails Guts in Berserk hoping to become a swordsman, though his real gift is throwing?
Isidro
Isidro starts following Guts after being saved from Kushan fighters, and a witch later arms him with a dagger imbued with fire.
Q 25Which young witch joins Guts during a troll attack on Enoch Village and steadies him inside his cursed armor?
Schierke
Schierke uses her magic to pull Guts back when the Berserker Armor overwhelms him, and what begins as dislike turns into an almost filial bond.
Q 26Which former circus performer in the Band of the Hawk is famed for his knife-throwing in Berserk?
Judeau
Judeau is also the most perceptive of the Hawks, spotting the bond between Guts and Casca before either admits it, and he dies shielding her during the Eclipse.
Q 27Which young apprentice blacksmith forges the memorial blades that form the Hill of Swords in Berserk?
Rickert
Rickert escaped the Eclipse only by being absent, and he later refuses to rejoin Griffith, declaring that the leader he once followed is dead.
Q 28Which blacksmith shelters Casca after the Eclipse and spends his last strength repairing Guts's sword?
Godo
Godo also gives Guts a hard truth from his sickbed: that leaving Casca behind to drown his sorrow in revenge was a grave mistake.
Q 29What is the name of the utopian capital Griffith establishes as humanity's last refuge in Berserk?
Falconia
Falconia rises on the petrified remains of a defeated Kushan emperor, after his death merges the physical and astral worlds.
Q 30Which Kushan emperor, a rogue Apostle, wages war on Griffith's reborn Band of the Hawk in Berserk?
Ganishka
Ganishka became an Apostle by sacrificing the son who tried to kill him, and in his last battle he swells into a colossal form named after the god Shiva.