(L) Berserk [Manga]

[Kanon]

Guts has become the Yamcha of his own manga.

[Amarantine]

It's nice to see that Miura's assistants are good at drawing Griffith's gang as well. Sonia was more adorable than ever in this chapter! And I wonder how she will react to Casca's presence, seeing as she was already jealous enough of the attention Griffith gave Charlotte.

[Blaat]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Guts has become the Yamcha of his own manga.

I missed the Yamcha pose when read the chapter till someone pointed it out to me.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Blaat

I missed the Yamcha pose when read the chapter till someone pointed it out to me.

The best way to get across that a character has been soundly defeated is to make him do the Yamcha pose. Never fails.

... it's usually used for parodies though, I can't believe it was actually in a Berserk chapter

[Blaat]

New chapter is out.

Spoiler for 372:

We focus on Casca who is now trapped in the castle of Falconia and looks like her memory is erased or at least getting suppressed. At the end Griffith now wants to move east or at least there is something in the east which interests him.

I'm guessing east is where Rickert escape to?

[Kanon]

Spoiler for 372:

Casca regained her memories after like three decades and now she's lost them again...

[Magin]

Spoiler for 372 comments:

I'm starting to question if Miura's best friend really did know how Miura wanted to continue... heck, I can't even remember the guy's name.

From what I know, the last handful of chapters by Miura were about hope after years of suffering. Now that his friend has taken over, it feels like "Those things about hope? That was absolute trash. We're going back to the good stuff, the Pain and Suffering of Guts and Casca, where being a good guy is suffering and Evil Bastards are the best."

I know Berserk was never a happy manga in the first place, but now it feels like the guy just wants it to become Misery Porn again

... actually, I'm going to predict how the ending goes: The way Griffith gets FINALLY defeated is after Guts uses the power of the Berserker Armor, Casca sacrifices herself and the Moon Child in front of Guts, somehow killing the Bg Tree and Griffith, but Guts is left all alone, because he's a Struggler. Probably goes the route of the Skeleton Knight or something.

And here I was tempted to try Berserk again, but nope.

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[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Magin

Spoiler for 372 comments:

I'm starting to question if Miura's best friend really did know how Miura wanted to continue... heck, I can't even remember the guy's name.

From what I know, the last handful of chapters by Miura were about hope after years of suffering. Now that his friend has taken over, it feels like "Those things about hope? That was absolute trash. We're going back to the good stuff, the Pain and Suffering of Guts and Casca, where being a good guy is suffering and Evil Bastards are the best."

I know Berserk was never a happy manga in the first place, but now it feels like the guy just wants it to become Misery Porn again

... actually, I'm going to predict how the ending goes: The way Griffith gets FINALLY defeated is after Guts uses the power of the Berserker Armor, Casca sacrifices herself and the Moon Child in front of Guts, somehow killing the Bg Tree and Griffith, but Guts is left all alone, because he's a Struggler. Probably goes the route of the Skeleton Knight or something.

And here I was tempted to try Berserk again, but nope.

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The last few chapters Miura penned himself seemed hopeful because it was the calm before the storm. We knew this wasn't gonna last because the manga couldn't end before a final showdown between Guts and Griffith, and naturally that confrontation would pack a track lot of suffering and misery. The fact that Miura passed away before reaching that point in the story doesn't mean he wasn't gonna go there.

If anything, the latest chapters answered a question a lot of people had: what would make Guts go back to fight Griffith even though he seemed ready to give up his grudge on him? Now we know the reason. Guts will go back because Griffith took Casca. Makes total sense. So much so that I don't understand why I didn't see it coming.

[foxbox360]

Griffith can't leave him alone can he.

[Ligerleon89]

Originally Posted by foxbox360

Griffith can't leave him alone can he.

Griffith was always possessive and more. Emulates the people that has said or done things to him and he wants a hold of his dream and anything he feels has a place for it. The only reason he has anything against Guts is the fact that Guts decided to walk away and create his own path that his friend would truly respect when they met again. Griffith didn't allow himself to be vulnerable enough to even convince Guts to stay, when he was running his mouth off to a princess, never knowing Guts was within earshot. When it comes to Casca, she was one of the people willing to fight for Griffith and his dream and then she falls in love with Guts, while he was being tortured for his private time with the princess in discussion, not even knowing that her father was a twisted perverted person.

Griffith puts all his failures on Guts (at least that's what I think so far), not even considering that if he had just talked to Guts, things probably would have turned out differently, a possibility anyway. Being fair, those two had lived through the worst of what the times were in the era they lived in, so it left them to be people to not show vulnerability most times. Griffith put all his hopes into the Belhelit to reclaim what he had lost by his own hands the second he was unable to keep Guts at his side. Casca is one of them for reasons that I'm sure that has been worked in theory as to why he kidnapped Casca, and one reason I can come up that's not a theory is because Griffith knows Guts cares for her and wanted to rip any happy thing away from his life.

You can have all that power and still be insecure. And that's any person in history that has ever ruled like that elsewhere. He has to use a supernatural occurrence to get the best of the person you hurt, because you believed he hurt you by leaving him, when he was doing what he thought you wanted him to do to be a true equal. To quote a fictional character who became the evil who couldn't comprehend his actions in a certain RPG game "What an all-mighty idiot"!

Of course, the stooges surrounding him who follows him out of good deeds are unaware of his action that would make them say "F that S, I'm out" if they knew what he has done to get this far. Rickert was right to slap that guy.

[foxbox360]

Originally Posted by Ligerleon89

Griffith was always possessive and more. Emulates the people that has said or done things to him and he wants a hold of his dream and anything he feels has a place for it. The only reason he has anything against Guts is the fact that Guts decided to walk away and create his own path that his friend would truly respect when they met again. Griffith didn't allow himself to be vulnerable enough to even convince Guts to stay, when he was running his mouth off to a princess, never knowing Guts was within earshot. When it comes to Casca, she was one of the people willing to fight for Griffith and his dream and then she falls in love with Guts, while he was being tortured for his private time with the princess in discussion, not even knowing that her father was a twisted perverted person.

Griffith puts all his failures on Guts (at least that's what I think so far), not even considering that if he had just talked to Guts, things probably would have turned out differently, a possibility anyway. Being fair, those two had lived through the worst of what the times were in the era they lived in, so it left them to be people to not show vulnerability most times. Griffith put all his hopes into the Belhelit to reclaim what he had lost by his own hands the second he was unable to keep Guts at his side. Casca is one of them for reasons that I'm sure that has been worked in theory as to why he kidnapped Casca, and one reason I can come up that's not a theory is because Griffith knows Guts cares for her and wanted to rip any happy thing away from his life.

You can have all that power and still be insecure. And that's any person in history that has ever ruled like that elsewhere. He has to use a supernatural occurrence to get the best of the person you hurt, because you believed he hurt you by leaving him, when he was doing what he thought you wanted him to do to be a true equal. To quote a fictional character who became the evil who couldn't comprehend his actions in a certain RPG game "What an all-mighty idiot"!

Of course, the stooges surrounding him who follows him out of good deeds are unaware of his action that would make them say "F that S, I'm out" if they knew what he has done to get this far. Rickert was right to slap that guy.

SUMS UP everything, thank you.

[Blaat]

Spoiler for chapter 373:

Weird exposition dump in the beginning, despite all magical creatures disappearing Puck and Ivalera are still there.

Meanwhile Guts is still despairing and looks like he's going to cave in to that berserker beast. Also did Guts just lay there face down since his last appearance?

I kept wondering how Rickert's party will meet up with Guts but with the appearance of the Kushans at the end (did they randomly raid a ship middle in the ocean? ) answered that question.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Blaat

Spoiler for chapter 373:

Weird exposition dump in the beginning, despite all magical creatures disappearing Puck and Ivalera are still there.

I don't even get why magical creatures are disappearing and even witches are losing their powers when Griffith's actions were supposed to have allowed the supernatural to basically merge with the real world.

[Blaat]

I'm guessing there is some sort of rule that Berserk chapters on boats get slow releases:

Spoiler for 374:

I said in my previous post the Kushan appearance will make it easy for Guts to meet up with Rickert but I didn't expect Rickert to be part of the raiding party, that's very convenient. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Guts finally wakes up from his Yamcha depression and kills some Kushan before Rickert finally intervenes.

[Kanon]

I've forgotten why Rickert is even with the Kushans. I remember he rejected Griffith, but not how he was accepted by them. And it looks like he may even be in a position of power? They haven't killed anyone and they were clearly looking for Guts. I know Kushans and Guts have history, but it doesn't seem like they intend to hurt him.

[Blaat]

Originally Posted by Kanon

I've forgotten why Rickert is even with the Kushans. I remember he rejected Griffith, but not how he was accepted by them. And it looks like he may even be in a position of power? They haven't killed anyone and they were clearly looking for Guts. I know Kushans and Guts have history, but it doesn't seem like they intend to hurt him.

He escaped from Falconia (or whatever the name is of Griffith's city) with the help of the Kushans and if I remember correctly Elfheim's time moved differently from the rest of the world so I'm guessing Rickert befriended and was accepted by the Kushans off screen during the final portions of the Elfheim arc.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Blaat

He escaped from Falconia (or whatever the name is of Griffith's city) with the help of the Kushans and if I remember correctly Elfheim's time moved differently from the rest of the world so I'm guessing Rickert befriended and was accepted by the Kushans off screen during the final portions of the Elfheim arc.

Guess it makes sense I don't remember him befriending the Kushans if that happened off-panel.

[Blaat]

Spoiler for 375:

Well Guts is still depressed but at least Rickert met him and they've reached Kushan itself (temple looks like the Hagia Sophia) That ended up being a short boat journey.