He's spinning at Mach 4.
Episode 380
- Thread starter Aazealh
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Refering to the swirling pattern in this panel, and the urgent reaction from Silat and Daiba immediately following it as if something is wrong or that there's danger. I don't see any other reason Daiba would urgently want the Tapasa to get Silat away from him unless he sensed something.
Don't get me wrong, I get it, but it might just be a sceentone that they used to emphasize his feelings. I also think the (incredibly stupid) title hints at Rakshas being dead.
It's because the people writing the Continuation are doing a terrible job, nothing more. The scene artificially creates a sense of urgency (their goal), but Silat isn't at all concerned with what you're saying (Rakshas possessing Guts). He's just screaming at Guts to tell him why he accepted death instead of trying to fight back or cower or something. Of course, it's nonsensical, but beyond that it doesn't support your interpretation.
As for Daiba's reaction, my interpretation at first glance is that he's just afraid Silat might kill him. Is it stupid? Yes. Does it serve any purpose? No. But that's par for the course.
While I'm at it, this is wrong. The Beast of Darkness is related to Guts' fighting spirit, especially when it comes to Griffith, the God Hand and apostles. Guts having given up on life means the Beast of Darkness should be reduced to a field mouse.
Well, if what Guts is feeling extend to the whole continuation then i guess i'm onboard...
This feel like watching one of those new Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies where the director didnt know anything about the story and end up destroying the series and its characters...
That's it, im done, i have lost the last ember of hope i had for this continuation, Guys tell me to put my grasses on and that nothing will be wong
This feel like watching one of those new Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies where the director didnt know anything about the story and end up destroying the series and its characters...
That's it, im done, i have lost the last ember of hope i had for this continuation, Guys tell me to put my grasses on and that nothing will be wong
You could be right. But why would Silat care how Guts reacted to Rakshas? They barely have a relationship. And what would he expect him to do while unarmed and chained to a wall? And why would Rakshas make a random escape towards Guts in a cell, looking for darkness? Did he just decide out of the blue to escape the palace just to kill Guts, a foe he's never even seen before?
The added Daiba part still makes me suspicious that there's more to it, but you could be right and instead the situation really is that stupid.
Let me go beyond that: why does Silat have such enmity towards Rakshas? They're not arch enemies or anything of the sort. In Falconia, Rakshas was targeting Rickert. This entire scenario from its very inception is meaningless. Rakshas erupted from some random dude, didn't know why he was there, remembered dying and concluded he'd been mysteriously revived, then randomly attacked people by summoning monsters and mind-controlling elephants. Oh and he went to see Guts because he was seeking darkness, since the light outside was bothering him. None of it makes any sense.
I mean, whether there's more to this situation or not, it's 100% guaranteed to be stupid.
Beelzebud
[...] Into the abyss will I run [...]
While I really think that it's this, just stupid scenery all along the last 4 episodes since Rakshas first appeared, I don't think it's really over yet.
The black puddle that Rakshas become is all around Guts cell and I think it has a purpose for the next episode. That's not how apostles dying works, I know, but from this continuation perspective I think Rakshas will be in a lesser specter form around Guts with the purpose of it being a future "power-up" for Guts, everything from the last episodes leads me to think of this "team-up" happening, as dumb as it looks I think we'll see it soon, maybe even Guts carrying Rakshas mask with him? Who knows
It really hurts to read this continuation.
The episode starts in chaos and suddenly everything is "fine"?
What kind of bullshit narrative is this?
Did they forgot to show what was happening before giving a conclusion?
Why did Rakshas come back if he was going to die like this?
There's no conflict, no tension, nothing, it's just unnecessary padding to keep publishing this terrible continuation.
And Farnese smiling like what she did was nothing, and like there aren't any people dead around.
Look at how they massacred my boy, Guts...this is character assassination 101.
This is nothing like him at all. Tsug.
Kid Guts was more "ballsy" than this caricature done by Studio Gaga.
Damn, man.
What kind of bullshit narrative is this?
Did they forgot to show what was happening before giving a conclusion?
Why did Rakshas come back if he was going to die like this?
There's no conflict, no tension, nothing, it's just unnecessary padding to keep publishing this terrible continuation.
And Farnese smiling like what she did was nothing, and like there aren't any people dead around.
Look at how they massacred my boy, Guts...this is character assassination 101.
This is nothing like him at all. Tsug.
Kid Guts was more "ballsy" than this caricature done by Studio Gaga.
Damn, man.
Worst episode yet, a complete waste of time that barely advanced the plot at all, butchered Guts and Rakshas even more and couldn't even be bailed out by the art. Silat harassing Guts almost felt meta, same with Puck remembering that he even exists. I am legitimately speechless.
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Beelzebud
[...] Into the abyss will I run [...]
Just send the bar location and time Bro..Current mood:
I don't think Guts was even meant to be with the group at this present moment, hence the total developmental void. I think he would've gone off on his own after attempting to confront Griffith at Elfhelm. It would've gone horribly wrong, perhaps it's even because of his rampage that it falls, then leaves realizing he is dangerous and will stubbornly try to recover Casca on his own. Along the way finds "balance" with the armor, learns more about the current state of the world, kills the dragon from 306 to get his groove back, I don't know! Anything that isn't this. Throw in some Skull Knight and in-depth exposition of his backstory to Guts for good measure, and regroups for the final conflict.
What we have here makes no sense and is pointless. What's the point of hitting those bullet points for the sake of it if they don't show us anything new?
What we have here makes no sense and is pointless. What's the point of hitting those bullet points for the sake of it if they don't show us anything new?
Dear Mori Sama & Kurosaki San,
Thank you kindly for taking the chance to wreck and ruin your Master's lifetime masterpiece in every way possible, considering the fact that he had painstakingly built it with an unimaginable, heartfelt passion for more than 3 decades, sacrificing a lot in the process.
Your efforts are greatly unappreciated, disgraceful, not understandable, and unwelcomed.
Thank you kindly for taking the chance to wreck and ruin your Master's lifetime masterpiece in every way possible, considering the fact that he had painstakingly built it with an unimaginable, heartfelt passion for more than 3 decades, sacrificing a lot in the process.
Your efforts are greatly unappreciated, disgraceful, not understandable, and unwelcomed.
Beelzebud
[...] Into the abyss will I run [...]
Please, print and mail this to Hakusensha.
This whole scenario is very similar to one Aazealh and I were cooking up on the latest podcast, when we tried to resolve the question: If the Kushan capital feels off course, then where should things have gone?
Back to 380, I've been thinking today about how strange it was to introduce Rakshas only to unceremoniously kill him without a clear gain for the characters, story arc, or even the readers (was it even a good fight?). Maybe the purpose was this final moment with Rakshas and Guts, this fight-or-flight scenario. Sure he's mopey in a jail cell, but when faced with an opponent, particularly an apostle, Guts will fight, right? WRONG—this is Tsug. The result is Tsug at his most pathetic, craving death. I can't see how he would sink any deeper than this. So maybe they felt he had to hit the absolute bottom before he started the climb, and for that, they needed to test the limits of his depression, which required a real threat to be introduced.
Take that consideration or leave it, there was still no reason for the Rakshas card in particular to be played for that scenario. It could have just been a random troll that crept in to stab Guts, and then he's rescued at the last minute. Same result. What an absolute waste.
Atocas
Voice in the Void
I didn't think it could get much worse, but yeah, this is it. Rakshas' character assassination peaked with this episode. Same goes for Silat, he clearly didn't learn his lesson when he tried to go for the head last time, but I guess it works when the writers don't care about continuity. Maybe they'll remember and bring him back next episode.
So Guts is accepting death now?
You know what? This may be a call for help; they want someone to cancel this project and put them out of their misery.
This goes against everything the story stands for. It's always been a story of human endurance at its core - a modern day Odyssey as Guts is a modern day Odysseus, a man who never surrenders. Having him give up at any point is just spitting in the face of Berserk and its creator's legacy.
I rarely hate an artistic endeavor on the personal level, but this one fits the bill. They should be ashamed of themselves.
You know what? This may be a call for help; they want someone to cancel this project and put them out of their misery.
This goes against everything the story stands for. It's always been a story of human endurance at its core - a modern day Odyssey as Guts is a modern day Odysseus, a man who never surrenders. Having him give up at any point is just spitting in the face of Berserk and its creator's legacy.
I rarely hate an artistic endeavor on the personal level, but this one fits the bill. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I’ve been a long time lurker and I’ve enjoyed reading this forum’s posts over the years as a Berserk fan. However, I decided to register today. Why?
This episode was so awful that I simply cannot stay quiet any longer. Even relative to the previous episodes by Team Destroy Miura’s Legacy & co. it was insulting to read. Everything but the art was abysmal.
I don’t even know where to begin…
This necrotized, bloated, and revenant mockery of Miura’s masterpiece parading as “Berserk” possesses none of the original soul, grandeur, or narrative. The symphony of tragedy, will to life, and existential profundity is now a discordant and painful middle school recital where the poor performers, who have never even heard any form of music before, use a hornpipe made from a buffalo’s pelvic bone held together using Elmer’s Glue try to perform Beethoven’s Symphony 9. The storytelling is a cruel joke; a hollow pantomime of former brilliance, lurching forward with neither momentum nor meaning. The art, while vastly improved since they began this clown show, is still soulless, juvenile scribblings. It reminds me of the failed restorations of classical paintings that end up looking like a mocking spoof; the weight of its former magnificence crushing its pitifully inept successors beneath it.
The dialogue is either diarrhea or constipation- constantly oscillating between torpid meandering and vomit-inducing rushes.
Where do I start with our MC? Guts, who was the Nietzschean embodiment of struggle and suffering with the will to life, has been reduced to an empty worthless husk. He is no longer Guts. He might as well be an emo kid in high school. His character has been raped beyond recognition. Which, coincidentally, brings me to Casca whose suffering and resilience were sculpted with precisional grace and is now a mere plot device, an afterthought in the story. Then there’s background Griffith who has been stripped naked of any ethereal menace and reduced to a vacant mannequin of vague cartoonish villainy.
Emotionally, this continuation doesn’t just fail to actually continue Berserk, it desecrates it, like a random asshole scrawling crayon graffiti over the Sistine Chapel. Each new chapter is a test of patience to the audience where we have to endure artistic vandalism and crude defilements of Miura’s legacy. The sheer audacity of calling this Berserk should have been illegal. It’s so sad to see my favorite series defaced, contorted, and butchered into this crapfest of hideous, uninspired nonsense. This “continuation” is a corpse in marionette strings and its gruesome handlers are apparently oblivious to the fact that the soul has long since departed along with its creator’s soul which has left behind only a parody as we the audience dance in the ashes of its funeral pyre because we want to know where the corpse will finally be buried.
/rantover.
This episode was so awful that I simply cannot stay quiet any longer. Even relative to the previous episodes by Team Destroy Miura’s Legacy & co. it was insulting to read. Everything but the art was abysmal.
I don’t even know where to begin…
This necrotized, bloated, and revenant mockery of Miura’s masterpiece parading as “Berserk” possesses none of the original soul, grandeur, or narrative. The symphony of tragedy, will to life, and existential profundity is now a discordant and painful middle school recital where the poor performers, who have never even heard any form of music before, use a hornpipe made from a buffalo’s pelvic bone held together using Elmer’s Glue try to perform Beethoven’s Symphony 9. The storytelling is a cruel joke; a hollow pantomime of former brilliance, lurching forward with neither momentum nor meaning. The art, while vastly improved since they began this clown show, is still soulless, juvenile scribblings. It reminds me of the failed restorations of classical paintings that end up looking like a mocking spoof; the weight of its former magnificence crushing its pitifully inept successors beneath it.
The dialogue is either diarrhea or constipation- constantly oscillating between torpid meandering and vomit-inducing rushes.
Where do I start with our MC? Guts, who was the Nietzschean embodiment of struggle and suffering with the will to life, has been reduced to an empty worthless husk. He is no longer Guts. He might as well be an emo kid in high school. His character has been raped beyond recognition. Which, coincidentally, brings me to Casca whose suffering and resilience were sculpted with precisional grace and is now a mere plot device, an afterthought in the story. Then there’s background Griffith who has been stripped naked of any ethereal menace and reduced to a vacant mannequin of vague cartoonish villainy.
Emotionally, this continuation doesn’t just fail to actually continue Berserk, it desecrates it, like a random asshole scrawling crayon graffiti over the Sistine Chapel. Each new chapter is a test of patience to the audience where we have to endure artistic vandalism and crude defilements of Miura’s legacy. The sheer audacity of calling this Berserk should have been illegal. It’s so sad to see my favorite series defaced, contorted, and butchered into this crapfest of hideous, uninspired nonsense. This “continuation” is a corpse in marionette strings and its gruesome handlers are apparently oblivious to the fact that the soul has long since departed along with its creator’s soul which has left behind only a parody as we the audience dance in the ashes of its funeral pyre because we want to know where the corpse will finally be buried.
/rantover.
Because he dissolved into black goo this time. I'm not writing off him returning somehow tho
puella
Berserk forever
The continuation is a perpetual reminder that one shouldn't take on a task that is beyond one's ability.
Maybe the assistants have exerted themselves with "kamikaze" spirit, which brought out glory and disaster alike to Japanese people in the past. In this case it's definitely led to a disaster.
I also got to understand why Shigeru Mizuki, a legendary mangaka, said the story is more important than the artwork in a manga. He was totally right. In my opinion, the quality of the manga is really about how to depict the story.
They've made a lot of efforts to imitate Miura's drawing prowess while showing little care for his world building, character development and storytelling. They've really got it backwards, because they wouldn't be criticized for their inferior artwork if the story wasn't so lame. It goes without saying, but I think stopping the continuation immediately would be for the best.
I'm actually almost heart-broken that Rakshas was destroyed in such a ridiculous way. And shouldn't Rickert have been involved, given that Rakshas had been after him in Falconia?
I recently re-read the first volume of the manga and I was amazed more than ever because Miura's storyboards and storytelling were so great from the beginning, while he was just in his early twenties. There's really no comparison. It reminds me of an old saying: "If a sparrow tries to walk like a stork, it will break its legs." Some day, the team's legs will be broken.
I think the best way to protect Miura's legacy is to read his volumes of the manga and to learn as much as possible about his work philosophy.
Maybe the assistants have exerted themselves with "kamikaze" spirit, which brought out glory and disaster alike to Japanese people in the past. In this case it's definitely led to a disaster.
I also got to understand why Shigeru Mizuki, a legendary mangaka, said the story is more important than the artwork in a manga. He was totally right. In my opinion, the quality of the manga is really about how to depict the story.
They've made a lot of efforts to imitate Miura's drawing prowess while showing little care for his world building, character development and storytelling. They've really got it backwards, because they wouldn't be criticized for their inferior artwork if the story wasn't so lame. It goes without saying, but I think stopping the continuation immediately would be for the best.
I'm actually almost heart-broken that Rakshas was destroyed in such a ridiculous way. And shouldn't Rickert have been involved, given that Rakshas had been after him in Falconia?
I recently re-read the first volume of the manga and I was amazed more than ever because Miura's storyboards and storytelling were so great from the beginning, while he was just in his early twenties. There's really no comparison. It reminds me of an old saying: "If a sparrow tries to walk like a stork, it will break its legs." Some day, the team's legs will be broken.
I think the best way to protect Miura's legacy is to read his volumes of the manga and to learn as much as possible about his work philosophy.
Hey! I dont know if I will get another chance to say that, but thank you for your translations. Many times, I have preferred your translations over DH ones because they were much more helpful for me to understand the story.The continuation is a perpetual reminder that one shouldn't take on a task that is beyond one's ability.
Maybe the assistants have exerted themselves with "kamikaze" spirit, which brought out glory and disaster alike to Japanese people in the past. In this case it's definitely led to a disaster.
I also got to understand why Shigeru Mizuki, a legendary mangaka, said the story is more important than the artwork in a manga. He was totally right. In my opinion, the quality of the manga is really about how to depict the story.
They've made a lot of efforts to imitate Miura's drawing prowess while showing little care for his world building, character development and storytelling. They've really got it backwards, because they wouldn't be criticized for their inferior artwork if the story wasn't so lame. It goes without saying, but I think stopping the continuation immediately would be for the best.
I'm actually almost heart-broken that Rakshas was destroyed in such a ridiculous way. And shouldn't Rickert have been involved, given that Rakshas had been after him in Falconia?
I recently re-read the first volume of the manga and I was amazed more than ever because Miura's storyboards and storytelling were so great from the beginning, while he was just in his early twenties. There's really no comparison. It reminds me of an old saying: "If a sparrow tries to walk like a stork, it will break its legs." Some day, the team's legs will be broken.
I think the best way to protect Miura's legacy is to read his volumes of the manga and to learn as much as possible about his work philosophy.
I'm surprised Becchi isn't in the room at this point. It's almost like they are trying to force Guts to get to the point where he activates the beherit. Who knows... Puck is on his way...
Gobolatula
praise be to grail!
Tonight, I watched a documentary called The Wet House, which is about a hostel in England where they take in homeless folks and allow them to continue drinking, providing them with food, healthcare, and generally as much comfort as possible. These were people who were at the worst stages of addiction, with honestly little hope. People deteriorating, shaking, falling apart, and eventually dying. These people's only joy in their day-to-day life was alcohol, cigarettes, and each other's company. This really affected me, as I have alcoholic family members, who I've watched fall down similarly sad paths.
Anyway, I had a better time watching that than reading this Berserk Continuation episode.
Anyway, I had a better time watching that than reading this Berserk Continuation episode.