Berserk: The influential US anime serie is not available on Netflix in North America

As Piu­nikaWeb and view­ers point out, the series, which is based on the 1997 man­ga, has long since been released on Decem­ber 1st, and is still avail­able on the ser­vice in major mar­kets such as the US, UK, and Canada.

In places like Por­tu­gal, you can see this series, but not where you would expect it. For now, if you want to watch a 25-episode show, you’ll prob­a­bly have to rely on a VPN with decent local servers.

We reached out to Net­flix for feed­back. On the offi­cial Berserk web­site in Japan, there is a count­down that some­thing will come in about 5 days, but this is not an orig­i­nal ani­me work, but a “Memo­r­i­al Edi­tion” cut from the 2012 TV movie trilogy.

It seems to be refer­ring to Con­sid­er­ing the pros and cons of the 10-year-old work, it may be best to wait for a well-received predecessor.

The clas­sic Berserk is a dark, cold-heart­ed fan­ta­sy sto­ry that spans the Gold­en Age of comics, in which Guts teams up with key char­ac­ters like Cas­ca and Griffith.

The work is said to be the mas­ter­piece of man­ga adap­ta­tion, and is said to have influ­enced leg­endary ani­me such as “Attack on Titan” and “Full­met­al Alchemist”.

Region­al releas­es are noth­ing new to Net­flix. The com­pa­ny has a his­to­ry of inter­na­tion­al­ly dis­trib­ut­ing pro­grams that are only avail­able on rival ser­vices in the Unit­ed States.

How­ev­er, Net­flix has pur­chased the world­wide dis­tri­b­u­tion rights to pop­u­lar ani­me series such as Berserk through a deal with Nip­pon Television.

In the­o­ry, noth­ing pre­vents a wider launch. But if you want to watch Japan­ese ani­me this win­ter, you may have no choice but to make do with Net­flix’s many alter­na­tives and series.