Berserk of Gluttony

Adventure / Drama / FantasyTV12 EP/5 Oct 2023

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Synopsis

Meet Fate Graphite, a gatekeeper who gets treated like garbage. In this world, you're born with a skill that basically determines your whole life, and Fate drew the short straw: his skill is called 'Gluttony,' and all it seems to do is make him constantly, painfully hungry. The holy knights who are supposed to protect people? They just use him as a punching bag. Then one day he kills a fleeing thief in self-defense, and Gluttony actually activates. Turns out the skill absorbs the stats and abilities of anything he kills. Suddenly the guy at the bottom of the food chain has a way to climb. He picks up a sentient talking sword named Greed, meets Roxy Hart, one of the few holy knights who actually has a conscience, and starts carving out a path no one thought someone like him could walk. The power system here is genuinely interesting because every fight is also a level-up, and there's a real tension around whether Gluttony will become more curse than gift as it grows. It's a 12-episode TV series from 2023 by studio A.C.G.T., based on a light novel. If you liked The Rising of the Shield Hero's underdog-fights-back energy or the power-absorption escalation in Arifureta, this scratches a similar itch. It's not reinventing the genre, but the progression from powerless to dangerous is handled well enough to keep you watching through the whole run.

Episode Guide

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Characters

Fate Graphite

Orphaned Fate, with black hair and brown eyes (red when using Gluttony), seeks work after village expulsion.

Storms Garret

Greed

Ancient, rusty sword; Galian, 1st-gen sin user; communicates with Fate telepathically.

Gardner Chris

MANGA BRIDGE

This season covers Volumes 1-25 of the manga. Continue reading from Volume 26.

Manga cover

Community Feed

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tairue★★★★★VerifiedEP 7

I really like the writing and the setting in this episode. The castle here is well designed, even the atmosphere here suits the episode perfectly. The action inside the castle feels rather restrained than flashy, which is good because the emotional impact felt more real. I like the dialogue here, it feels natural and the emotional impact is high in some scenes which had me glued to the screen. I also really like the music inside the castle, it really complements each scene.

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tairue★★★★☆VerifiedEP 6

I like the desert setting in this episode, it feels like a brand new atmosphere after those dark environments. The writing was well done, the information was not dumped in a single scene, instead it was narrated across multiple scenes. The pacing itself is not even dragging and the action is quick and gets to the point. The music also fits the desert setting but it wasn't really memorable. The second was a bit heavy on the dialogue but it was still entertaining.

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