Frog said:Silat is agile almost to the point of being superhuman. While I admit that there are already other characters like this in Berserk, each time another is added, it feels a bit less 'real' to me.
Reality huh? Silat's abilities aren't "superhuman", but he does have skill. Reality isn't something you should hold on to with too much fervor in this story...
Frog said:Maybe I'm not in a good position to argue this, all I can do is give my opinion, explain how the scene makes me feel. While watching the anime, I was able to suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy it. It felt 'real' enough to me that I didn't question it. In the Guts/Silat fight, I just couldn't get into it.
Well, there really wasn't much of a fight in the anime... they kinda just cut to the victory.
Frog said:In any fiction, the words are the author's. The idea is to give each character personality, convince the reader that these are real people, that these words came from their own minds. In this case, he didn't quite sell it to me.
Well, considering Silat was a new character, it wasn't like we had anything to go on in terms of a determination of character. So its hard to say that what he was thinking or saying was out of character.
But after a certain point this debate is pointless, if you didn't like the fight, fine. Its not my favorite, but its good for an establishment of Guts' reemergence, plus the result of his being away training. Other than that, the fight doesn't have too much point in terms of character development or movement of the plot.
It might be worth noting that the anime has even less in that regard. Also, it was around this point that the anime and manga started to deviate from each other immensely. The anime tends to summarize the major points while the manga gives us greater depth. Comparing the two becomes pointless at this point since the anime leaves so much out.