Kentarō Miura

The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to combat Guts, the Black Swordsman. Puck, Guts' pint-sized fairy sidekick, is captured when he attempts to stop an old doctor's execution, and he is given as a gift to the count's daughter, a sweet girl in a gilded cage, imprisoned by her father in her own room. Guts, determined to make mincemeat of the Count, assaults the castle and carves a swath of...

Guts and Griffith confront Nosferatu Zodd, a superhuman beast who slaughters Guts' comrades as easily as a scythe cuts wheat. Even Guts and Griffith are no match for the abomination's power...but something Griffith wears around his neck may well be!

Guts, has left the Band, defeating Griffith in personal combat as his ticket out. With his judgment clouded by this unthinkable humiliation, Griffith eases his pain in the arms of the daughter of Midland's king. But the King doesn't take kindly to an employee picking the royal flowers, and the next stop for Griffith is the dungeon and the torture rack! Without Griffith and Guts, the Hawks become easy prey for Midland's army, and the AWOL Guts may...

Guts, having returned to save the weakend Band of the Hawk, puts thoughts of romance on hold as he sets out to brave the horrors of the king of Midlands' catacombs in an effort to free Griffith, the band's leader.

"The world of Guts, the Black Swordsman, is changing in a hurry. Though a demonic maelstrom has leveled the dreaded Tower of Conviction and ended the reign of terror of its grand inquisitor, Mozgus, peace has not returned to Midland. The Tower's fall has heralded the unexpected return of Griffith, Guts's former leader, last seen transformed from a shattered husk into one of the demon lords of the Godhand. But Griffith looks like his old self again-and...

The Black Swordsman Guts' former captain and lover, Casca, has been taken by the Holy Iron Chain Knights to the "Tower of Conviction" of the fanatic torturer of the Holy See, Mozgus, who plans to treat the rumored witch to the proper agonies of the damned, but Guts is on his way to rescue Casca and dish out some chastisement of his own to any who get in his way. But forces in the demonic realms are in motion and are being drawn to the torture tower...

Hell has broken loose in the kingdom of Midland. After the death of Midlands king, demonic forces and underground pagan cults are running wild. Guts is busy testing out his newly repaired sword on the invaders, while his former captain and lover has fallen in with a rough crowd.

Now equipped with the mystical Berserker Armor, Guts fights on against the dragon form of Grunbeld and his legion of fanatic apostle soldiers. But the very armor that holds Guts together, in a nightmarishly literal sense, might be the last straw that tears his tortured mind apart! While Guts struggles to hold his own against his inner demons, monsters of a very different sort rally in Windham as the Kushan Emperor, Ganishka, and the newly reborn Griffith...

Guts, the Black Swordsman, and his warrior band manage to save a village from a plague of deadly trolls, but a mystic flood that is created to rid the town of an ogre carries away his love, Casca, and the Lady Farnese into the den of the trolls, where they are held prisoner.

Guts the Black Swordsman and his companions are now free to continue their journey, thanks to Lady Farnese's sacrifice, but they find themselves torn between their mission and their loyalties.