One thing I noticed that highlights the difference between the two sides of the Berserk fandom: one side loves Judeau for pushing Guts and Casca together and hates Corkus for being “mean” to Guts; the other is more critical of Judeau’s manipulative ways and often bad advice (especially of him deciding what’s best for Casca on her behalf), and appreciates Corkus for being a pretty well-written secondary character who dished some hard truths. Just an observation.

I’m not really familiar enough w/ fandom in general to agree or disagree lol but I could believe this as a broad trend. I mean like tbf there are good reasons to dislike Corkus, he’s definitely a shithead and the jokey homophobia bugs me and is unnecessary. But Judeau is also a shithead in many ways like you describe, and imo overall they’re both good side characters who both make good and bad points at different times. And I’d say sometimes Corkus is absolutely right.

So I guess I kind of fit into this observation at least lol.