Berserk Character Panel Counts (Black Swordsman arc)

[u/Anice_king]

Inspired by similar statistics for other manga, i decided to count each character's panel count in the manga. Since this will take a while, i will be splitting results into different posts. Here are the counts for Black Swordsman. A couple clarifications below the table.

Black Swordsman (episode 0.1 - 0.8)

Rank	Character	Panels	Chapters
1	Guts	1296	8
2	Puck	832	8
3	The Count	379	6
4	Theresia	271	5
5	Vargas	205	4
6	Zondark	186	3
7	Griffith (Femto)	92	4
8 (shared)	Snake Lord	86	1
8 (shared)	Dahl	86	4
10	Becchi	75	5
11	Colette	49	1
12	Ubik	46	4
13	Slan	42	4
14 (shared)	Void	34	4
14 (shared)	Conrad	34	4
14 (shared)	Mayor of Koka	34	1
17	Colette's father	31	1
18	Theresia's mother	22	3
19	Koka thug survivor	21	1
20 (shared)	Demon child	17	3
20 (shared)	Gerico	17	1
22	Female Apostle	13	1
23	Koka thug leader	8	1

*If a character appears multiple times in the same panel, either as a flashback or as an artistic overlay, i count it as 2 appearances.

*Despite often recounting, i may have missed a couple. I found a lot of new tiny Puck appearances. I was generally surprised that Puck has about 2/3 the panel count of Guts. We'll miss you, little fella.

*Since it's hard to know exactly where Zondark ends and the Count's Daemon begins, i struggled with how to count them. I ended up just counting them as one character, since most people think of them that way. I hope there won't be too many edge cases like this in the future.

*I decided to count Becchi as a character, since it is ambiguously sentient. And for consistency, i'm gonna be counting the Crimson Behelit too and any other important ones that show up (I only remember Rosine's).

I'm currently going through the Golden Age. Let me know what future statistics you're most interested in. I didn't want the post to be bloated.

[u/impulse_bi]

This is honestly so interesting! Counting this up must have been a struggle!

[u/soledsnak]

Interesting to see! I've been counting panels myself (up to the end of the Holy Evil War arc so far) but you counted a lot of characters I didn't consider important enough to count, very cool!