Anyone seen this anime series before? It's awesome. The series is basically about a mercenary named Guts, who ends up joining a highly recognized mercenary group called The Band of the Hawk.

The first episode starts off at the beginning of his quest as the revered Black Swordsman, which is set after his quests with the Band of the Hawk, but then quickly turns back to years before, and so the series shows all the events that lead up to the first episode.

Guts is quickly recognized for his mighty strength, which has pretty much been forged by the fact that he was born into having to fight to survive, and also because he was forced to fight in battle using a sword ridiculously too big for him from a very young age, thus Guts ends up getting use to using an overly large blade, and then continues only using a sword that is twice his size.