BlackSwordsman
I MUST BREAK YOU!
From looking around the net I notice that a lot of Berserk fans (especially ones who never read the manga) hate the ending to the anime because it is just ends with a huge cliff hanger (when Guts eye gets gouged and the screen goes black.) Well I heard that the usual seasons in Japan last 26 episodes. I guess that the Japanese producers couldn't summon the funds to make an extra episode or couldn't find something that could fit in an extra episode. I think if they made a 26th episode it could of brought the series to a full circle. I know they didn't introduce the Skull Knight but they could've introduced him in the beginning of 26. Here's how it could've gone...
Episode One Starts: Shows the lookback at episode 25 shows Guts blackout and then plays theme song. Episode starts, Skull Knight is fighting Zodd and severes his arm. Then he goes into the eclipse and attacks Void, but it's useless so he kills some demons and then rescues Guts and Caska, then he breaks out of the eclipse with them. Zodd and him have their little talk about Guts and Caska surviving.
Commercial Break
Second Half Starts: Guts has is dreaming about the hawks then he wakes up. He finds out Caskas crazy and then he runs into the woods, meeting Skull Knight and he is told about the brand etc. Guts fights the spirits and then him and the Skull Knight ride off on their horses. Caska has the demon baby and the deformed dwarf demon looking guy shows up and Guts kills him with the dragon slayer and he gets the Black Swordsman armor. He then heads out.
End.
I think that ending would've brought the whole story arc to a closure and in the upcoming episode preview it could show him walking into the town/bar in episode one.
Episode One Starts: Shows the lookback at episode 25 shows Guts blackout and then plays theme song. Episode starts, Skull Knight is fighting Zodd and severes his arm. Then he goes into the eclipse and attacks Void, but it's useless so he kills some demons and then rescues Guts and Caska, then he breaks out of the eclipse with them. Zodd and him have their little talk about Guts and Caska surviving.
Commercial Break
Second Half Starts: Guts has is dreaming about the hawks then he wakes up. He finds out Caskas crazy and then he runs into the woods, meeting Skull Knight and he is told about the brand etc. Guts fights the spirits and then him and the Skull Knight ride off on their horses. Caska has the demon baby and the deformed dwarf demon looking guy shows up and Guts kills him with the dragon slayer and he gets the Black Swordsman armor. He then heads out.
End.
I think that ending would've brought the whole story arc to a closure and in the upcoming episode preview it could show him walking into the town/bar in episode one.