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Hello people of SkullKnight.net! For my first post, I want to show off something that I deem fairly interesting regarding Berserk. We all know that Guts is a very strong fellow, some may even deem his strength as monstrous but how strong exactly is he? This is what I will try to answer for you today.
First of all we should try to get a weight for Dragonslayer, unfortunately I have not really seen any statements regarding an official weight for the weapon (aside from the 500 pounds thing from the wiki which is not given a source ) so I will share a little calculation I know off which manages to get a weight for the weapon, this is the source http:// http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:LordXcano/Calc_Request_-_Dragonslayer_Weight_Revised#comm-323285 but I will still post it here for you lazy people the thickness will be 4cm btw
Density of Steel - 8050 kg/m^3 (Yeah steel is being used due to Godo remaking the weapon with presumably high quality materials, it will effect the final answer only by a minute amount)
Guts' Height - 1.9 meters
Guts' Height 2 - 633 px
Dragonslayer Total Length - 550.18 px
Dragonslayer Width - 100.57 px
Dragonslayer Tip Length - 50 px
Dragonslayer Tip Width - 68.01 px
1.9/633 = 0.003 meters per px
550.18-50 = 500.18 px
500.18*0.003 = 1.50054 meters
100.57*0.003 = 0.30171 meters
1.50054*0.30171 = 0.452728 meters^2
0.452728*0.07 = 0.031691 meters^3
0.031691*8050 = 255.11255 kg this is the total weight of Dragonslayer! Quite a bloody heavy weapon eh!
Now, for kinetic energy I will need more than just mass, I will need a velocity to acompany the weapon. You may be thinking to yourselves "Guts can swing his weapon at speeds the human eye cannot track" and you're right. However there is something which I deem much more impressive than this. Think back to the Ganishka fight back in chapter 274 specifically when Guts managed to stab Dragonslayer onto the ground whilst lightning was going to hit him. You may be thinking that Guts already had the weapon planted onto the ground but this panel showing Guts holding (in his left arm) proves he had to of stabbed it whilst the lightning came at him.
We can try to get an accurate distance from the lightning to Guts by angular scaling Serpico and Guts and taking away the highest distance with the lowest.
Serpico is the one being used for angsizing, we can have a rough estimate for his height being average males. 1.7 meters. Panel height is 350 pixels (line down the middle) https://gyazo.com/fb839284cc7f813c6843a7d596d2483d
Serpico is 120 pixels as shown here (line on Serpico) https://gyazo.com/01f17d6711074ef6b5350daa1cd7c22b
Guts is 38 pixels (line on Guts) as shown here https://gyazo.com/2045c56c869b707a32f0cc2259ae6f5d
The equation is basically 2*atan(height of object in pixels/(height of panel in pixels/tan(70/2)))
2*atan(120/(350/tan(70/2)))
2*atan(38/(350/tan(70/2)))
Plugging into angsize calculator I got 27 degrees for Serpico, and 13 degrees for Guts. Serpico is 1.7 meters tall (assuming he has height of normal man) and he has distance of 3.5406 meters, Guts has a height of 1.9 meters and therefore has distance of 13.586 meters. Subtraction equals 10.054 meters from lightning to Guts.
Guts manages to move a distance of about 1 meter if rising from a crouching position+stabbing Dragonslayer into the ground counts as movement (keep in mind Guts is 1.9 meters, so crouching would decrease height significantly)
Now according to these links, I would say that lightning travels about 4.4x10^5 m/s you can see them for yourselves here http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985JGR....90.8136T and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_cloud#Appearance
Now speed of lightning divided by of 10.054 meters = 43801m/s and we can account this for Guts reaction speed, and also the speed at which he can swing Dragonslayer as he managed to definately move it as the lightning came towards him. Time for kinetic energy
0.5 x 255 x 43801^2 = 244612269127.5 joules or.... 58 tons of tnt the power at which Guts can swing Dragonslayer is 1.3 x the power of a FOAB https://gyazo.com/7f3e0383950fd5d142db54c36a6798dc
Well, that should conclude everything. There may be a lot of grammatical errors but due to the amount of explanations/content present so thats my excuse but either way hope I managed to share something interesting for my first post!
PS. http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm < angsize calculator just in case you want it
First of all we should try to get a weight for Dragonslayer, unfortunately I have not really seen any statements regarding an official weight for the weapon (aside from the 500 pounds thing from the wiki which is not given a source ) so I will share a little calculation I know off which manages to get a weight for the weapon, this is the source http:// http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:LordXcano/Calc_Request_-_Dragonslayer_Weight_Revised#comm-323285 but I will still post it here for you lazy people the thickness will be 4cm btw
Density of Steel - 8050 kg/m^3 (Yeah steel is being used due to Godo remaking the weapon with presumably high quality materials, it will effect the final answer only by a minute amount)
Guts' Height - 1.9 meters
Guts' Height 2 - 633 px
Dragonslayer Total Length - 550.18 px
Dragonslayer Width - 100.57 px
Dragonslayer Tip Length - 50 px
Dragonslayer Tip Width - 68.01 px
1.9/633 = 0.003 meters per px
550.18-50 = 500.18 px
500.18*0.003 = 1.50054 meters
100.57*0.003 = 0.30171 meters
1.50054*0.30171 = 0.452728 meters^2
0.452728*0.07 = 0.031691 meters^3
0.031691*8050 = 255.11255 kg this is the total weight of Dragonslayer! Quite a bloody heavy weapon eh!
Now, for kinetic energy I will need more than just mass, I will need a velocity to acompany the weapon. You may be thinking to yourselves "Guts can swing his weapon at speeds the human eye cannot track" and you're right. However there is something which I deem much more impressive than this. Think back to the Ganishka fight back in chapter 274 specifically when Guts managed to stab Dragonslayer onto the ground whilst lightning was going to hit him. You may be thinking that Guts already had the weapon planted onto the ground but this panel showing Guts holding (in his left arm) proves he had to of stabbed it whilst the lightning came at him.
We can try to get an accurate distance from the lightning to Guts by angular scaling Serpico and Guts and taking away the highest distance with the lowest.
Serpico is the one being used for angsizing, we can have a rough estimate for his height being average males. 1.7 meters. Panel height is 350 pixels (line down the middle) https://gyazo.com/fb839284cc7f813c6843a7d596d2483d
Serpico is 120 pixels as shown here (line on Serpico) https://gyazo.com/01f17d6711074ef6b5350daa1cd7c22b
Guts is 38 pixels (line on Guts) as shown here https://gyazo.com/2045c56c869b707a32f0cc2259ae6f5d
The equation is basically 2*atan(height of object in pixels/(height of panel in pixels/tan(70/2)))
2*atan(120/(350/tan(70/2)))
2*atan(38/(350/tan(70/2)))
Plugging into angsize calculator I got 27 degrees for Serpico, and 13 degrees for Guts. Serpico is 1.7 meters tall (assuming he has height of normal man) and he has distance of 3.5406 meters, Guts has a height of 1.9 meters and therefore has distance of 13.586 meters. Subtraction equals 10.054 meters from lightning to Guts.
Guts manages to move a distance of about 1 meter if rising from a crouching position+stabbing Dragonslayer into the ground counts as movement (keep in mind Guts is 1.9 meters, so crouching would decrease height significantly)
Now according to these links, I would say that lightning travels about 4.4x10^5 m/s you can see them for yourselves here http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985JGR....90.8136T and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_cloud#Appearance
Now speed of lightning divided by of 10.054 meters = 43801m/s and we can account this for Guts reaction speed, and also the speed at which he can swing Dragonslayer as he managed to definately move it as the lightning came towards him. Time for kinetic energy
0.5 x 255 x 43801^2 = 244612269127.5 joules or.... 58 tons of tnt the power at which Guts can swing Dragonslayer is 1.3 x the power of a FOAB https://gyazo.com/7f3e0383950fd5d142db54c36a6798dc
Well, that should conclude everything. There may be a lot of grammatical errors but due to the amount of explanations/content present so thats my excuse but either way hope I managed to share something interesting for my first post!
PS. http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm < angsize calculator just in case you want it