Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is infamous not only for its content (the analogy with GoT is only up to a point: the manga is definitively worse when violence and bleakness of the worldbuilding are about) but also for the long periods of hiatus that made it a sort of neverending story. And when I say ‘long’, I mean it. Berserk started back in 1989 and there’s still no end in sight, even though Miura has recently declared in an interview ‘the final battle’ is coming.
In the meantime, what’s coming is a new chapter, which should be published tomorrow on the magazine Young Animal, and everybody is holding their breath because the story has just arrived at a critical point (if you need to catch up fast with the last volume, I recommend this resource). In other words, all bets are off now, and, as usual with Miura, the latest chapters of relative quiet are likely to be followed by a gruesome twist.
If, on another hand, you’re not in the mood for yet another bleak chunk of news (in these days, watching telly is enough) but still love Berserk, you may want to postpone keeping up with Miura’s original dystopia and lighten the atmosphere. In this case, the best you can do is treat yourself with Berserk Abridged, a hilarious parody of Berserk‘s Golden Arc. Here’s what you can expect: “The series chronicles Guts’ recruitment by Griffith on his way to Comic-Con and the resulting insanity up until the final episodes where the series goes in a drastically different direction than the original anime. The series was supposedly cancelled after Episode 17, but this was revealed to be a hoax, and, eventually, all 25 episodes of the anime received the abridged treatment (for more about the tropes in this parody, see this).
You have both the comic remake of 1997 anime and even of the first movie. You won’t regret it. Happy watching!