- The Black Swordsman:
- At night besides a campfire, Guts is having sex with a beautiful woman who turns out to be an apostle, just as the woman prepares to devour Guts, Guts rams his prosthetic arm into her mouth then fires the arm cannon and burns the body of what little life remains of the apostle on the campfire and leaves the scene. Guts is next seen entering a castle town, he notices a carriage carrying a load of women. At a bar a band of robbers from Koka are having fun, throwing knives at a tied elf named Puck, Guts arrives, tells the bar owner that he'll mess up the place and proceeds to shoot a volley of bolts on the bandits using his repeater crossbow. He let an injured bandit live to relay a message for him to the bandit's master, when another remaining bandit sneaks up behind, Guts uses the Dragonslayer to cut the man in half. Read more
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- Episode 1: "Black Swordsman"
- The series begins with the forging of the Dragonslayer sword by the blacksmith, Godo, while a man dressed in all black sits in the darkness. After the opening sequence, Guts enters the town of Koka during a rain storm and is passed by a caravan full of prisoners. In a bar, a man asks the bartender if he has heard "any good news" to which the reply is none at all. The man at the bar goes onto the say that ever since Griffith has become King he's lost all hope, while the bartender tries to quiet the man, fearing snitches. Read more
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