No no no, you see they had to show (again) that the sword worked in the past and now Guts is (still) very very sad. Veeery important stuff!One thing that's starting to stick out to me is how often they're flashing back to old events. We've had like four or five full pages of such panels so far. It's not like it's unwarranted in the scenes I suppose, and Miura would do it occasionally, but it's starting to feel like they're clinging to familiar imagery to remind the audience that "this is totally the same story we promise".
I know, and I agree that's how it should work; I was trying to be cheeky. But it's such a common misconception, I think Studio Gaga could be thinking like that. Guts's consciousness recedes -> Beast is free to take over and go on a rampage.The Beast of Darkness isn't a demon that lives inside the armor. It's a narrative device that personifies Guts' darkest side. His hatred for his enemies, his deepest fears, his guilt and resentment, his self-destructive tendencies... It's a purely psychological construct. Something that only exists in his mind, not an external entity. So if "his mind disappeared", then so would the Beast. Anyway, as I said in my post just above, given Guts' current state, it makes no sense for the Beast of Darkness to surge forward. If anything it should be at its weakest.
He didEdit: I just remembered something: Didn't Guts try to attack Femto and failed in a very early episode?? Not during the Eclipse but later in the timeline. And now he acts like it's totally shocking that he failed again. Jesus what is Mori doing to this character?
Edit: I just remembered something: Didn't Guts try to attack Femto and failed in a very early episode?? Not during the Eclipse but later in the timeline. And now he acts like it's totally shocking and unexpected that he couldn't hit Griffith. Jesus what is Mori doing to this character? Nothing makes any sense.
I know, and I agree that's how it should work; I was trying to be cheeky.But it's such a common misconception, I think Studio Gaga could be thinking like that. Guts's consciousness recedes -> Beast is free to take over and go on a rampage.
I'm really starting to fear that they didn't let the armor activate during the duel with Griffith because they may be using it as a power up to kill him in the end.
Still not sure if that's a new power or the new, poor way of depicting Griffith being untouchable, like the volley of arrows mysteriously all missing him in War Cry Of The Wind.
There's another thing I noticed.No no no, you see they had to show (again) that the sword worked in the past and now Guts is (still) very very sad. Veeery important stuff!
Sure, you could ask why Guts doesn't come to the conclusion that Griffith isn't like the Apostles or monsters he fought in the past (he should already know that tho) and that he should have expected that killing him with the dragonslayer won't be that easy...but he is so very very very sad that he can't think about that...or Casca.
Edit: I just remembered something: Didn't Guts try to attack Femto and failed in a very early episode?? Not during the Eclipse but later in the timeline. And now he acts like it's totally shocking and unexpected that he couldn't hit Griffith. Jesus what is Mori doing to this character? Nothing makes any sense.
There's another thing I noticed.
It seems that Mori it's completely ignoring the fact that Guts son and Griffith share the same flesh (and I hope I'm wrong).
I don't know when or how Miura would have addressed this, but Guts hasn't made that connection at all in the last episodes.
Yes, this is at least a reason to re-introduce Skull Knight into the story. He will probably come back and do some explanation about it ("As dictated by Causality" ).
Right now Guts is at his lowest.
Can the Behelit that he's carrying activate?
Would that be reasonable at this point in the story?
the God Hand members always appears when a Behelit is activated.
Could this be used as an opportunity to strike them?
This is why I was thinking about this, but with the possibility of Skully intervening.I don't think it would make sense.
Nope. He asked Flora that question in volume 24. It doesn't work like that. Besides, a similar situation already happened in volume 3.
As far as I'm concerned, nothing after 364 is canon. I don't care if the continuation is legally recognized as official Berserk material. It already contradicts too much from Miura's original run to be compatible with it. For Godhand's sake, they turned the capital of Midland into a coastal city.until 364 we were witnessing actual history, after that it was written down by historians. kinda like GRRM did in that one book, so don’t take anything as fact, and even if the historian says guts didn’t think about casca, thats still only the historians guess. (my cope). I’m pretty sure guts thought about casca here, the historian simply didnt know.
I don’t really see how you thought dragon slayer had memories; didn’t get that impression. But yeah i agree i wish there was more inner dialogue it seems like guts has reverted alot but at the same time slan did mention in fotme that guts’ fear is as strong as his rage and the worst case scenario did happen so maybe he’s just completely defeated . Would make sense as well as even back then he rejected that magic axe when the rest of the party was accepting their gifts because he was that confident about his sword and ability; now connecting to 371 where he says it was all for nothing perhaps that is the connection studio gaga is tryna make. Hard to really knowThe Dragon Slayer has memories now? I know it's imbued with astral power, but it's not sentient right? That's the impression I got from the latest episode.
Sadly, this continuation only compounds the absence of Miura with each instalment. Guts having an emotional nadir after the loss of Casca, those feelings of powerlessness, and the revelation of his son, would have been an extremely profound moment in the hands of its creator. Instead, it's all too simplistic and lacking in nuance. And unfortunately that's the state of play going forward with the series.
I don’t really see how you thought dragon slayer had memories; didn’t get that impression.
the worst case scenario did happen
Would make sense as well as even back then he rejected that magic axe when the rest of the party was accepting their gifts because he was that confident about his sword and ability; now connecting to 371 where he says it was all for nothing perhaps that is the connection studio gaga is tryna make. Hard to really know
With stuff like Sega recently hiring for what basically amounts to a "Sonic lore advisor" position, it feels like Studio Gaga dearly needed something similar to help keep concepts consistent with Miura's work.
It's been a minute since episode 371 has been released but I've just randomly thought about this whilst re-reading Berserk.Misconstruing Schierke's body of light
The most egregious problem with episode 371 is something I don't expect many people will pick up on. It's the fact whoever wrote this doesn't understand what Schierke does when she intervenes to help Guts control the Berserk's armor. You see, Schierke has never gone inside Guts' mind. What she does, as a witch, is go inside the armor, which is a magical device. That's how she can "wake him up", by basically shielding him from or pulling him out of the flow of Od that distorts his perception.
But she doesn't have the ability to just go into people's minds and see what's in there. If she did, the group would have had no need to travel all the way to Skellig. She could have ventured inside Casca's mind all by herself. Note that we don't even see her even go inside him here anyway, she just hovers around in her body of light and somehow sees what's in his head. That actually makes even less sense, especially since she's eventually "repelled" back to her body because of what she sees or feels.
Is this situation different since the Kushans are already dead and are now, I would presume, living in the interstice, unable to move on which enables Shierke to experience past memories that cause their demise?
So it does have to do with the fact that it is a spirit?In that case, she's able to commune with the dead spirit by touching the rope to which it is still tied in death. That is what leads her to hypnotize the soldiers and make them burn the bodies, freeing the spirits.
So it does have to do with the fact that it is a spirit?