Berserk of Gluttony
暴食のベルセルク (Boushoku no Berserk)
- Action
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 5, 2023 to Dec 21, 2023
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Fate Graphite scrapes by as a lowly gatekeeper in a world where the skill bestowed at birth dictates a person’s place in life. Cursed with “Gluttony,” a trait that leaves him constantly hungry, he’s treated as disposable—especially by the holy knights who are meant to safeguard the city. Everything shifts when Fate kills a wounded thief trying to flee, only to discover Gluttony can awaken and feed on what he takes, boosting his stats and even granting him new abilities.
Offered work by Roxy Hart, a rare kind-hearted holy knight, Fate steps into a new role while quietly chasing the truth behind his power. Guided by a mysterious talking sword called Greed, he learns Gluttony is a forbidden skill that defies the world’s rules. By day he keeps up appearances; by night he hunts monsters to sate a growing hunger for souls, knowing that if he lets it go unchecked, he risks losing himself entirely.
Otaku Consensus
Berserk of Gluttony lands as a solid but visibly modest dark-fantasy power-progression adaptation: Tetsuya Yanagisawa’s direction and Mariko Kunisawa’s series composition keep the single-cour season moving through skill mechanics, swordplay, and class resentment without much narrative sprawl. Its strongest hook is the Gluttony-and-Greed combat loop, while the most common limitation is that A.C.G.T.’s production and familiar underdog fantasy framework rarely push it into the prestige tier suggested by its much heavier title.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Berserk of Gluttony if you want a dark RPG-stat fantasy about power, hunger, and social rank without an isekai reincarnation setup. It scratches some of the same itch as Arifureta or The Rising of the Shield Hero in its resentful underclass energy, but its appeal is more compact: a 12-episode run, a cursed skill that functions like a predatory leveling system, and a talking weapon that turns battles into negotiations with temptation. Viewers who enjoy fantasy worlds where “skills” are not just menu text but a caste system will get the most from it. It is less about epic world-saving grandeur and more about the dangerous thrill of watching a supposedly useless ability rewrite the rules of combat.
Key Characters
- FFate Graphite
Fate stands out as a power-fantasy lead whose strength is tied to appetite and restraint, making his victories feel less like clean empowerment and more like a debt coming due.
- RRoxy Hart
Roxy functions as the rare holy knight defined by decency rather than status, giving the series a moral counterweight to its corrupt hierarchy.
- GGreed
Greed is memorable because the weapon is not passive equipment but a talking presence that reframes swordplay as a partnership with something openly dangerous.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
A.C.G.T. produced the anime as a 12-episode Fall 2023 TV series, airing from October 5 to December 21, which gives the adaptation a compressed single-cour structure rather than a long-running fantasy format.
- 2
The series’ identity is unusually clear in its AniList tag profile: Magic at 94%, Male Protagonist at 93%, Swordplay at 80%, and Travel at 72%, while Female Harem sits much lower at 20%, signaling that the adaptation leans more into combat progression than romantic collection dynamics.
- 3
Its class system is not just background lore: the Bullying tag at 52% and Class Struggle at 50% reflect how the show uses birth-granted skills as a social sorting mechanism, turning RPG logic into institutional discrimination.
- 4
The production credits separate action direction, character design, prop design, art direction, and art design, with Shigeyuki Suga credited specifically as action director and Hidefumi Kimura as prop designer, a useful clue to how much of the show’s fantasy identity is built around weapons, gear, and combat staging.
- 5
The Greed sword setup gives the series a built-in two-hander dynamic during fights, distinguishing it from fantasy anime where the protagonist’s weapon is only a stat stick or visual signature.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Berserk of Gluttony is based on an original story by Ichika Isshiki, with Fame credited for the original character designs and Takafumi Furusawa adapting those designs for animation.
- Fun fact 2
- The anime’s core script structure was handled by Mariko Kunisawa as series composition, while Tetsuya Yanagisawa directed the adaptation for studio A.C.G.T.
- Fun fact 3
- The art side lists both Eiji Iwase and Maika Hosoda as art directors, with Maho Takahashi credited for art design, indicating a divided background-and-worldbuilding pipeline rather than a single art lead credit.
- Fun fact 4
- Despite the English word “Berserk” in the title, Berserk of Gluttony is unrelated to Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, the dark fantasy series associated with Guts, Griffith, the Band of the Hawk, and the 1997 TV adaptation.
- Fun fact 5
- Its reception profile is consistent across major anime databases: MAL lists a 6.72 score from 133,512 votes with popularity at #1077, while AniList records a 67/100 score and 2,025 favourites.
Studios
- A.C.G.T.
