>>123345282>The comic also was LESS violent than the show is.I found berserk to be a weird inversion of that. At least the old 90s berserk. It's what kind of turned me off of the manga a little. I saw the 90s anime in the mid 2000s, found it amazing, then looked up the manga and it felt like excessive edginess. It jumped the shark for me when you had that gorilla looking dude hunting for Griffith and company post rescue and his men were carrying banners of naked dismembered women.
>>123351784It's a game example but there's too much focus on visual viscera and not enough on audio viscera. I don't mean squelching noises but more death rattles and anguish. No game's gore has ever really stuck with me, but I remember the screams of Red Orchestra 2, Rising Storm 1 and 2 vividly. Now having such anguished screams is sure to also be gratuitous, but until it's oversaturated people will be hit by it a lot more than the blood and guts we've been in up to our eyeballs with video games and movies and comics. Again, a game example, but my friends got legitimately unsettled by the shrieking baby omitted from the Dark souls 3 Oceiros fight. And even without it I remember Oceiros' anguished scream.
For me at least you can't really have great gore and great supernaturalism and expect it to really carry weight for me. If it's done in a misery porn way like Apokolips then sure it can, but Invincibles just feels comical. It's also the art style. While MK is gratituous the gore feels fitting. Invincibles is like suddenly slathering gore in a Simpsons or pokemon episode. The colors are too flat and cell shaded, details are too sparse so intestines are cartoonish.
