I totally agree with you Walter, but I don’t think I’m correct in my assumption. Ultimately, I think Guts eye represents alienation and loss of innocence. Before he could judge his world through both eyes, but now, his misplaced eye can only see the past, it is now the eye of his memory, his mind’s eye. While his left, or sinister, eye is all that remains to him, forcing him to look at his vision of the present through this dark and twisted perspective. He can’t recognize the deeper meaning of his situation or that of others because without his right eye he’s lost his “depth perception”. Before he lived in a world of color but now he only sees in black and white with everything else grayed out, the very story of Guts itself is told in black in white, because that’s the limit of Guts’ own understanding.I think the eye represents Guts blindness. He lost the eye when he lost his family: his vision.
Guts adopted Veangeance as his new "eye" and "vision". In the Lost Children arc it is very apparent that Guts is acting blindly without real direction. Guts would have continued to wander about if it werent for Godo's speech to Guts, which has helped him regain some of his blindness.
This is just my thoughts....
Ok now thats just a straight rip-off of Cowboy Bebop. Cool idea though.I totally agree with you Walter, but I don’t think I’m correct in my assumption. Ultimately, I think Guts eye represents alienation and loss of innocence. Before he could judge his world through both eyes, but now, his misplaced eye can only see the past, it is now the eye of his memory, his mind’s eye. While his left, or sinister, eye is all that remains to him, forcing him to look at his vision of the present through this dark and twisted perspective. He can’t recognize the deeper meaning of his situation or that of others because without his right eye he’s lost his “depth perception”. Before he lived in a world of color but now he only sees in black and white with everything else grayed out, the very story of Guts itself is told in black in white, because that’s the limit of Guts’ own understanding.
I only hope that one day Guts can live in a colorized future.
-Griffith
what is Corum? ???Corum anyone? ;)
Fascinating, though on the actual topic, personally I don't see what difference it has made to the man himself.. yes, we would all be gutted if we lost part of a vital sense, but it still doesn't really make his performance or determination decrease.. if the worst comes to worst, he should lose the other one and record Motown songs with Stevie Wonder.. two teenage idols together.. Winning combination me thinks