ive read before that miura cited Kaze to Ki no Uta as one of his inspirations which was high key questionable given the whole point of KtKnU apparently being overt homosexual themes / gay protagonists, and i get that this is just a fan translation, but like this wording just.., feels… so… explicit
“a different weapon”???? a different weapon
ya its super cool tht cascas entire point for still being alive is to keep guts connected to his anger and tied to his trauma when we’ve seen him growing distant from it in recent chapters. ya theres been plenty of hypothesizing about what will happen after this save casca expedition, and this like, leaves me w a worse feeling abt it than ever
these two things had me thinking, like, damn, miura not just accidentally a shitty writer, he’s actually TRYING to be. at leas t hes self-aware about it?
but then. then this
lmao fuck. fuuuuuuuuck.
i mean yeah i def got the impression that this sums up guts’ relationship to casca rn (like the hound directly says it) but fuuuuuuuuuck i had hope that she could move on from that role and do something better when she comes back. but ofc miura doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing with her unless it’s in relation to guts, ofc.
i mean idk this isn’t the be all end all i guess, I can still have hope for what Casca could be in the future when she gets her brain back, but this is a real bad sign scoob, and lbr berserk is a sea of bad signs for casca already.
like shit is she going to get her mind back and immediately die to motivate guts? bc i feel like if you’re giving this little of a shit about casca as a character compared to her role as guts’ revenge motivation, then there’s not a whole lot else to hope for :////
(also lmfao @ the 2nd bit. god miura, why are u like this. i guess assigning a dedicated servile doormat as a woman’s dream is slightly better than assigning like, an abuser as a dream dude, but like, why is any of this necessary at all. @miura plz stop talking)
ive read before that miura cited Kaze to Ki no Uta as one of his inspirations which was high key questionable given the whole point of KtKnU apparently being overt homosexual themes / gay protagonists, and i get that this is just a fan translation, but like this wording just.., feels… so… explicit
lol i didn’t notice before how griffith immediately leaves to check “losses” (ie did guts survive) surprising casca and the dude he’s talking to with his abruptness. i love the little details that really show how unprecedented guts is and how quickly he effects griffith.
yeahhh, especially when translating japanese into english. happy to heeeeeeelp? but i wish we had an actual translator in the griffith apologist subfandom, that’d be rad since SO much is lost in translation no matter how hard you try to stay true to the original
yeah tbh I think DH did a good job in general in balancing accuracy w/ tone/character voices/flow/general readability/etc but i’d love to see more translations of scenes with notations and explanations and stuff that just can’t be conveyed otherwise. especially griffguts and griffith related bc yeah, the people who do generally do this in berserk fandom tend to be pretty biased against certain readings lol.
unfortunately i dont have a serp is gay masterpost or anything :”) this is what i pulled together in literally 5 mins tho so like. it MUST be out there if i could skip to two chapters and grab hot panels. this chapter( 275) is the one i grabbed the last two from and all the framing of serpico os Really. Questionable. i mean yeah hes off standing by himself so he cant get a group reaction shot, but. it just feels. More Significant.
plus he’s clearly gay even before he starts crushing on guts
i will take good care of you, i will take good care of you. everything you feel is good, if you would only let you. so by the time you wake, i’ll be brave, i’ll be brave.
farnese/casca commission! i’ll be opening up slots next week please ask me to draw more farnese and more femslash
sorry i keep going on about this but, although i’m not sure, i think there’s kind of a difference between just ‘sonna’ and ‘sonna koto nai’. ‘sonna’ leaves the main objection unsaid, and is often used as a reaction to hearing something upsetting. i’ve seen it translated as “why would you/don’t say (something like) that!” i’ve also seen it translated as just “that…!” or “that’s…!” and so on, it’s really hard to translate accurately now, in the 1997 anime she says
“sonna…!!” in that ‘reaction to upsetting thing’ tone, but in the
original manga it’s just “so–!!” and that, i feel, could be pretty much
anything starting with ‘sonna’ or ‘sore’ or w/e. one thing is for sure,
it’s not full on denial, since she cuts herself off. but yeah
i love your translation explanations and stuff, it’s rly interesting to me. I guess translations are never that straightforward, there’s so much to consider, but I love having all the additional info I can lol, so ty for going on about it!
also i love how in the arrangement of this page femto is to griffith what griffith/femto is to guts
it’s not like it’s news that guts’ dark side is made up of rage and revenge and feelings of betrayal with a solid dose of longing but it’s a nice illustration of it
i love these moments because they all seem inspiring and badass but they all have those ominous undertones – guts’ rage stemming from fear that he is just like the ghosts who want revenge, the shot of the behelit, guts’ inability to let go of the prospect of revenge, and the way his “war declaration” puts him a step closer to being griffith’s equal.
it’s guts repeatedly refusing to acknowledge how very thin the line that divides him from ghosts and monsters and evil gods is imo
so this is p much guts being terrified that he’s going to die because his ambition of getting revenge is too great, but i kind of also want to choose to read it as a behelit/griffith reference, calling the sacrifice a form of self destruction too. he did pick up the behelit before this and knowing his other major frame of reference for great ambition I feel like it works as at least an accidental reference to the Eclipse.
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