Anime & Manga
- After the Rain (2014) features a panel where some boys are talking in class. One of them says, "I'm tellin' ya, Griffith was the man..." while the other says "I kinda like Pippin..."
- Black Clover: Yūki Tabata has spoken about being inspired by Berserk:
- Asta's Demon-Slayer Sword is one to Gut's Dragon Slayer. Both are giant black swords that are very similar in appearance.
- Like Serpico, Yuno is a pretty boy with the power of the wind spirit who serves as a rival to a more physically strong, large sword-wielder.
- Vangeance's mask looks a lot like Griffith's while he's in the Band of Hawk and as Femto. It helps that both are mysterious white-haired men who lead a group of loyal followers.
- Sol highly resembles pre-eclipse Casta in appearance. She even says she likes women with guts.
- In Chapter 223, Gordon's sister gives Grey what looks like a Behelit.
- In Chu-Bra!! Chapter 29 when the president of the Comic Culture Research Society is describing the character they're making a cosplay for—a busty meido wielding a dragon slayer lookalike BFS— the narration says "That maid's sword is too huge to even be called a sword", and a caption says "BGM: Susumu Hirasawa".
- In Fly Me to the Moon Chapter 14, when Nasa wanders into the room of the Kaginoji mansion where Tsukasa's moonstone is kept, Charlotte the maid bursts down the door wielding the Dragon Slayer. This manga's a Shout-Out bonanza in general.Charlotte: Ahh, that's a no-no! ♥ See, all the suuuper important stuff for a suuuper important person are kept in this room. ♥ Which is why all those who enter... must face The Shinsengumi's wrath. ♥
Nasa: Wait, wait, Shinsengumi? That's not the right weapon though!?
Charlotte: Oh, it's fine! We can just start a new manga again, WOOHOOOO! - Gintama: In chapter 426, there's a scene in which Gintoki cosplays while wearing the Dragon Slayer, which he calls his "Alien Slayer", and tries to claim that it was the one he had shoved up his ass. When he's called out for lying, he thinks "It was far too large to say it was stabbed in my ass. Too big, too thick, and too heavy. My lie was far too suspicious." The response he gets is "Quit regretting it in that Berserk-style narration!" Then he changes his outfit to Cloud, to which they say, "You just switched out Berserk for Final Fantasy!"
- Hen Zemi: In episode 11 of the anime, Kenji Meshiya imagines himself as Guts while wearing black swordsman armor and the Dragon Slayer, with the Beast of Darkness in the background. "Berserker!"
- Holyland: In chapter 65, Izawa's cigarette lighter has the Band of the Hawk symbol on it. A fitting reference, since Kentaro Miura was author Kouji Mori's best friend.
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: When Ryuu shows Bell the grave of her ex-counterparts, a sword that looks suspiciously like the Dragon Slayer is stuck in the ground.
- On page 13, chapter 2 of the KonoSuba spin-off manga Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo!, Megumin and Yunyun go to a blacksmith who's set up an accessory shop. He recommends them some of his huge weapons, quipping that "There's something amazing about little girls swinging around huge swords, right?" His thought bubble shows a waifish girl wielding a BFS that's a dead ringer for the Dragonslayer.
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: In volume 7, the team puts the corpse of a hardcore video game fan in a robotic exoskeleton they got from some scientists to help them deliver tombstones, replacing his brain with a SNES console so they can control him. Unfortunately he goes rogue while they're in a shopping center by smashing a plastic replica of the Dragon Slayer our of a display case and whacking people with it, necessitating that he be subdued through a judicious application of professional wrestling and exorcism.
- Lucky Star: In episode 21 of the anime, when the girls try to lift a huge metal staff at one of the temples during their trip to Kyoto, Konata remarks that it's heavier than the Dragon Slayer.
- Monster Musume: Centorea is confronted by her mother about why she hasn't found a suitable mate since she sent her away, to which Centorea says she already told her she would do no such thing, and instead wanted to find a master. Her mother says that is no excuse, "though I may have excused such pretentiousness if thy master were winsome." This winsome master she's picturing is a silhouette with the famous hair, armor, and cape of Griffith from the Golden Age.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: Episode 7 part 2, "The Stripping", opens with Garterbelt chewing out Panty and Stocking for wasting huge sums of money on their hobbies, including $300,000 worth of rare delicacies among which a strange fruit with the face of a Behelit
◊ can be seen. - Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time: Peter's younger sister Lucy is essentially Guts as a cute young girl with pigtails; she's a fearsome warrior who wears an outfit that's very similar to Guts', and she carries a BFS that looks very much like the Dragonslayer.
- Pop Team Epic: Included in an extremely rapid -fire series of video game, anime, and manga shout outs in episode 1 is a shot of Pipimi, dressed as Guts, offering her soul to a behelit that has Popuko's face.
- Thermae Romae sneaks Guts into a background shot, with his left hand somehow restored.
- Yakitate!! Japan: When Monica Adenauer is recalling what she used to imagine Japan was like when she lived in Germany, a samurai in the picture appears to be wielding the Dragon Slayer.
Comic Books
- Freaks' Squeele: In chapter 9, Xiong Mao conjures the Dragon Slayer to use in the fight against the Animated Armor Halifax: "Flamendo also applies to giant sword fencing!"
Fan Works
- Vow of the King: Tirana wears armor that makes her look like Skull Knight.
Music
- Finnish Power Metal songwriter Anton Kabanen has written around two dozen songs about Berserk: "Band of the Hawk", "Golden Age", "Kingdom", "Fight, Kill, Die", "Iron Hand", "Victory", "Touch in the Night", "Black Swordsman", "Madness", "The Eclipse", and possibly "I Want the World... And Everything in It" for Battle Beast, and "Berserker", "Zodd the Immortal", "The Fifth Angel", "Crazy, Mad, Insane", "Hell for All Eternity", "Go to Hell", "Repentless", "Die By the Blade", and "Broken Survivors" for Beast in Black. Beast in Black's 2021 album Dark Connection, released after Kentaro Miura's death, is dedicated to him.
- Chicago deathcore band Brand of Sacrifice is named for the Mark of the Supernatural that gets applied to Guts and Casca.
Video Games
- Blasphemous: The Wounds of Eventide DLC features a rosary bead called the Crimson Heart of a Miura, found inside the corpse of the fiercest of bulls. It resembles a crimson Behelit. It's also called the "Egg of the Sovereign", referencing how a behelit is also known as the "Egg of the Kings". Like the artifact from the manga, it activates when the owner is under heavy suffering i.e almost dying. The name is a double reference: to both Kentaro Miura and to the Miura bulls, known for their ferocity.
- Devil May Cry has the various colored Orbs which serves as the series' currency, health, upgrades, etc and also bear more than a passing resemblance to the Behelits.
- In Doom Eternal, there's a poster that says "Lost Dog: Last seen with a branded swordsman. Goes by, "Gryffin".
- Dragon's Dogma features Guts and Griffith's armor sets as wearable equipment in the console version, although they sadly weren't in the PC version because of licensing issues.
- Tekken 7 features a sword resembling the Dragonslayer as an equippable prop.
- The Dragonslayer and Berserk Armor are featured in DRL.
- MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 has the Dragonslayer appear as a weapon. True to form, it's way too big and heavy to use as a sword. It also makes the infamous *CLANG* sound instead, as a jab towards the infamous 2016 anime that had the sword make that sound.
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite: The Dragon Slayer appears hanging on a Wall of Weapons.
- The protagonist of Small Saga, Verm, is a clear expy of Guts. He's a talking mouse and so doesn't tower over most of the other rodents in the cast and is of course dwarfed by the gods he seeks to kill, but just at a glance he's got a dark cloak, bandaged hands, and a BFS (in his case, a human's pocketknife) that makes other characters wonder how he can even lift it. His personality and storyline have their similarities as well, though ultimately Small Saga's world is just Lighter and Softer enough that moving on from Revenge is more plausible.
- Verm: "As long as I was swinging my sword at a foe, I didn't have to think."
- The Wind Road has a reference to Berserk's infamous ending, where after you escape the Spirit Realm you then wake up in a shallow pool of water in the middle of total darkness, a gigantic moon bearing upon you.
Visual Novels
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc features the Berserker Armor as one of the presents that can be obtained from the school store.
Webcomics
- What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?:
- Tanjiro has Guts' black clothing, huge sword, and muscular build.
- Haganezuka names Tanjiro's sword the Demonslayer.
- Chapter 5 has Tanjiro escape the Lotus-Eater Machine by quoting Guts to his past self.
- The Red Light District arc has Tanjiro say he's to sell himself for three silver coins, the same price as when Gambino pimped Guts as a child.
