in the first orgy scene there’s a few women topping. maybe the 2nd too, but i’m too lazy to check rn lol. and tbf there are only 3 consensual sex scenes in berserk other than background orgies (more or less) and two of those involve awkward virgins so it’s not like a huge sample size.
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People in the Berserk Fandom need to get a grip, liking Griffith doesn’t mean we accept what he did with the Band of the Hawk. Grffijth is more of a tragic character that fell from grace because his life was manipulated by higher beings aka demons. Gutsca fandom with their “fuck Griffith ” like stfu their ship sink before it started lmao, and Guts is looking for a reason to forgive Griffith. They even hate on Farnese and other females cause she’s not Casca wtf, and Casca woke up <3 Babe is back
Ok there’s a lot of opinions here coming at me so I’ll do this one at a time.
- Personally I accept him sacrificing the band lol, that’s just another reason I love him.
- I wouldn’t say he fell from grace because his life was manipulated by god, like tbf that’s technically true but part of what I like about how fate works in Berserk is that everyone still has free will. God created a set of circumstances that would inevitably lead Griffith to making the sacrifice, but Griffith is still the kind of dude who would sacrifice his friends under those specific circumstances. And again, I love that about him.
- Yeah I sure hope it’s sunk.
- Enh I don’t begrudge anyone hating any fictional character for any reason as long as they’re not offensive reasons or offensive about expressing it. Then again these are Berserk fans we’re talking about so it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a lot of sexist shit there lol. But I don’t rly pay attention though so I haven’t seen any of this personally and can’t judge for myself.
- Yay Casca’s back!
don’t you think the crucified white bird is some kind of foreshadowing ?
tbh I’ve been looking at it as a reference to Griffith’s torture (in addition to the obvious christianity ref). Nails in wings and tail = cut wrists and ankle tendons, and nail thru throat = loss of voice.
It’d be interesting if it was foreshadowing though.
Honestly Griffith deep down feels like he can’t relate to anyone, of course Guts was an exception, but he didn’t outright said it. Griffith is an ENTJ? He’s introverted and social, and people love his charisma, but don’t see him and maybe that bothers him he has to meet their expectations which is depressing tbh. I feel bad for Griffith, he’s a beautiful tragedy a bouquet of roses so beautiful but go down it’s rotten and sharp thorns. I feel for him, unpopular op tbh, I love him lol.
lol well if you love Griffith and sympathize with him you came to the right place. tbh i’ve never been into the whole personality type thing so all I can do is nod along with your assessment lol, but yeah I definitely think Griffith feels removed from everyone except Guts.
Not so serious question. After the copious amounts of bathing scenes with the girls, do you think we might get one with the guys in the future?
i wish, guts and serpico having a naked water fight would fit right in like i was just saying in that last post lol, but miura is a coward
like i’m js the golden age was significantly more popular than everything after for a reason, miura needs to stop being stubborn and return to his homoerotic roots
Casca’s dress has wings and feathers that looks like Griffith. They pair of wings in the middle looks like the white hawk. She is dressed in White. I don’t think it means anything, but still…
tbh I think it might be a visual nod to how Casca was the leader of the Hawks. There was a strong emphasis on her role as the leader during the Eclipse, when Judeau was determined to save her, and to Guts she largely represents his three years of happiness with the Hawks now. She’s kind of set up as the representative of the Band 1.0, and the dress fits that.
This is a thread I like so maybe I’m overemphasizing it, but imo it would be nice if it was picked up again, and now’s the time to do it.
(or yk maybe it’s bc Danann genuinely wants to set her and Guts up and she knows Guts has a thing for ethereal figures dressed in white with wing motifs lmao.)
Don’t you think SkullKnight is a fishy fella, I mean his rivalry with Void is the same as Griffith and Guts. Who knows maybe in the past SkullKnight was the one who wronged Void and he used the Behelit, Miura does things differently.
I’d love to see their history tbh, and yeah I hope it’s not just Void = Griffith, SK = Guts because that sounds boring af. Plus Skull Knight has strong parallels to both Griffith and Guts, so if his history with Void is in any way similar it would be cool if it was a remix rather than a repetition, where they both have aspects of both.
I mean there’s a theory of mine where Skull Knight was an earlier incarnated Godhand 1000 years ago, like Griffith, since Gaiseric was the previous ruler of what is now Falconia and has been compared to Griffith bc of it, and tbqh if Void sacrificed him along with the rest of his city to become the first of the next batch of Godhand members that would be like, rly interesting to me.
But that’s just a pipe dream lol. Not something I have evidence for other than Godhands incarnating once every thousand years, and Gaiseric appearing out of nowhere and building an empire with Falconia 1.0 as his central hub a thousand years ago, and Void looking shifty when Slan or Ubik talks about how unprecedented a sacrifice surviving is.
And yeah like I’m over here theorizing that he’s using Guts to get to the Godhand, like I definitely don’t think he’s just a chill friendly ally of Guts, helping him out of the goodness of his heart. He has an agenda. Tho as per Flora (”Old friend, I want to believe you still have the heart of a man” or whatever the line was) if he’s using Guts and co now and fucking them over he might end up making up for it later.
Sorry about my last question it was all over the place, but I guess what I was trying to say is it will be nice to see what Casca Dream or agenda will be something that doesn’t involve Guts. I don’t understand the fetus than the egg said, let’s die together was that hung already dead and it surprisingly saved it the egg? Anyways, here’s hoping Casca turns evil I mean she looked pissed off when Griffith sacrificed them, unlike Guts who was like “is this what you wanted”.
Oh yeah I see what you mean, and totally agree. Sorry if I misinterpreted your last ask. But yeah my real hope for Casca is to see her with her own goal that’s totally separate from Guts. I still haven’t given up on my dreams of Casca getting angry and fucking shit up.
I don’t get the fetus thing either tbh, everything about it is a hot mess. I don’t think it saved the egg in any way, Eggman was giving up his life to basically hatch NeoGriffith, who grew out of the fetus, but Eggman didn’t know that so he just ate the thing for no reason. lol idk.
War Of Hearts by Ruelle is a griffguts song in my book
I’m definitely feeling it, ty anon!
Casca will once again ruin things, anyone saying her and Farnese will be friends have it wrong! The explosive personality that Casca has and her reaction seeing strangers except Guts will be excited to see, she will go all out maybe it’s time she held back, Casca seeing Charlotte that slept with Griffith she was holding back, Casca being frustrated that Guts meant more to Griffith than she did, Casca feeling worthless that she had to be saved by Guts once again ! Casca will blame GUTS again !
This is hard to respond to because I feel like for some reason you don’t want any of this to happen and this is coming from a place of disliking these aspects of Casca’s character, whereas I’m reading this ask and (aside from definitely wanting her and Farnese to be friends or at least have a strong connection and definitely not wanting Casca to return to basic jealousy of Guts and Griffith’s relationship for what should be obvious reasons) going “god I hope so.”
Please let Miura remember how angry Casca could be, how volatile she is, how righteously angry and pettily angry and resentful she could be. I’d love to see her blame Guts for everything he’s responsible for and even things he’s not responsible for. I’d love her to remember how Guts “rescued” her and instead of feeling like she owes him yet again, to hate him for it and to take her 3 years of forced passivity out on him.
Also Casca was right to blame Guts the first time so I can’t like, relate to your vehemence here. Her reasons might’ve been petty and her murderous tirade might’ve been unwarranted, but she was still spot on when she said his decision to leave the Hawks destroyed Griffith. She even told him outright that Griffith needs him beforehand too, he just refused to believe her.
Guts needed to be told how important he is to Griffith and the major tragedy of the Golden Age is that he still didn’t fucking accept that information until it was too late because Casca backed off after stabbing him and then they had sex, letting Guts avoid realizing how incredibly wrong he was about his relationship with Griffith for a few more days.
what would you think if berserk ended like devilman did ?
cutting for devilman spoilers just in case, i know it’s 40 yrs old but the anime is still relatively new and ppl are still getting into it so
Depends which aspect. I don’t think a full on everyone dies apocalypse would suit Berserk, and if Casca wakes up only to die horribly to piss Guts off again a la Miki I would absolutely hate it.
But ngl the ryokira ending would be perfect for me. Griffith killing Guts and then having a breakdown is one of my ideal endings lol. Especially if, like Ryo, he acknowledges he’s in love with Guts first and doesn’t want to kill him. And that aspect is probably what you meant, so yeah, I’m all for that ending.
A boy who wanted to be a soldier had a toy knight with him reminds me of Princess Charlotte giving Griffith a pendant that looked like a knight. When the boy died, Griffith was talking about the death of his dream. After Griffith made love to Charlotte, she saw the pendant in her bed. Soon after we see Griffith captured and his own dream is soon destroyed.
Hmm, like if the toy soldier was a symbol of the boy’s dream, the magnetic knight that goes with the female figure is a symbol of Griffith’s, and leaving it with Charlotte is symbolic of the immediate loss of his dream?
Bc I could definitely see it. I actually rly like the idea of that pendant being a symbol of Griffith’s dream bc it’s another way it’s intrinsically tied to heterosexuality in opposition to his feelings for Guts, a theme I both enjoy and am depressed by.
Plus it’s fitting since after he leaves the pendant with Charlotte and gets caught he’s able to acknowledge his feelings for Guts.
ty for sharing this 🙂
DO YOU THINK CASCA IS GOING TO BLAME GUTS FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND GO FIND GRIFFITH OR DO YOU THINK SHE KNOWS THAT ITS NOT GUTS’ FAULT AND STAY BY HIS SIDE???
I don’t really think this is an either/or option and tbh I really really hope neither of these things happen. Unless you mean find Griffith to kill him, that would be great.
“Knows that it’s not Guts’ fault” that what isn’t Guts’ fault? The Eclipse? Sure, I feel like the ship of Casca blaming Guts for Griffith’s breakdown has pretty much sailed and we’re probably not returning to that so I don’t think she’s going to be blaming Guts for Griffith sacrificing the Hawks. Though tbh I’d love to see her angry with him for fucking off up on the giant hand and not being there with her and Judeau and everyone else, whether that’s blame-worthy or not, but I doubt very much we’ll see that.
And even if she did blame him for something Eclipse related she’s still presumably about to remember Griffith and Femto’s actions which, if Miura has even the tiniest shred of decency, will mean she’s not going to go join NeoGriffith. She was a lot more pissed off than Guts was about Griffith sacrificing them before Femto even made an appearance too, on the off-chance people might think NeoGriffith not looking like Femto or maybe being distinct from Femto makes a difference. Like while Guts is just kinda sad and guilty Casca expresses some rage and betrayal while fleeing with Judeau.
On the other hand, there are plenty of things that she should by rights blame Guts for, like sexually assaulting her, like abandoning her for two years, like treating her as a symbol of his lost past with the Hawks rather than a person in her own right, like “forcing” her sanity back rather letting her deal with the trauma in her own time, so there are lots of good reasons she wouldn’t want to stay by his side either.
Whether Miura remembers those reasons or thinks they’re valid is up in the air but personally I’ve got my fingers crossed so hard in the hopes that we’re not heading towards romance that it’s gonna give me arthritis in a few decades.
during griffith’s monologue in the dungeon he listed jealousy as one of the feelings he had for guts.. what did u think of that? what was he jealous of?
I’ve assumed that it referred to wanting guts’ attention and regard, wanting guts to be focused on him, jealously guarding his relationship with guts, essentially.
but jealousy is kind of a weird word bc yk it can be synonymous with envy but also not necessarily, it can also be more possessive (like quickly double checking tells me that jealousy is more desiring to keep what you already have whereas envy is wanting what you don’t have, when they’re not used as synonyms), and context doesn’t really help here, so idk.
cause like if it is meant here as synonymous with envy then that could be interesting – he might be jealous of the way guts isn’t tied to a dream, ironically. the lack of guilt and the weight of death on his shoulders, etc.
but I guess without any additional information about the original japanese I’d still err on the side of jealous as in possessive of his relationship with guts and insecure about it, particularly considering guts and casca’s fling soon becomes an issue.
Griffith is asexual?
No, he’s gay and wants to fuck Guts.
Also if this is a response to the last thing I posted, please don’t take me saying “griffith has a fucked up attitude towards sex due to trauma” as “griffith is asexual” because those are absolutely not equivalent statements.
Who were griffith parents?
No idea, and tbh I kind of like the fact that we never see them. It gives Griffith kind of a force of nature feel, where his actions and personality are based more in themes than in like, a more down to earth kind of characterization – all we really know is that he’s a street kid with a childish dream who never let that dream go.
I know I’ve had some fun conversations about who Griffith’s parents might’ve been and how they might’ve affected him for whatever amount of his childhood they were there for, and I think there are a lot of great headcanons and stuff. The one I generally default to is that he never knew his dad and his mother was a prostitute, because I feel like that kind of backstory could inform how he feels about sex as a transaction and bodies/lives being bought and sold, which is something his dream is kind of based on changing.
But ultimately I’m glad that canon never gives us an answer lol.
If you wrote griffguts / farnesca fic or drabble it would be a blessing <3 (I really appreciate your dedication in this blog and love your metas sooooo much!)
Thank you so much! never say never lol, it’s entirely possible I might post some fic at some point, but I can’t promise anything either because like, ngl I am way more insecure about fiction writing than meta. like I have a ton of respect and admiration for people who write fic and headcanons and stuff like that because that is what I find super nervewracking lol.
anyway thanks again and i’m glad you’re enjoying my blog 🙂
Does griffith have albinism?I know that his eyes sometimes look purpleish? I mean he is the only human character with pure white hair
if he does he pencils in his eyebrows and wears mascara
dreamscape kid griffith also has darker eyebrows and eyelashes.
I don’t think there’s any explanation beyond white haired anime dudes being a thing tbh, and it’s a character design that helps him stand out from the rest of the cast. also makes a great contrast to guts and femto.
i was reading your part 3 meta and i just reached the point where you’re basically saying that griffith thought that guts rejected him and that in all the fond memories he had like their first meeting guts was just forced to stay in his group and this makes so much sense but i am also in an emotional freefall!! anyway i will read part four now but what i want to say is that you’ve done a great job!
Thank you so much! I’m both sorry and glad it made you emotional lol, Griffith’s narrative is just the saddest thing to me ngl and I’m glad other people can see it too.
i miss when griffith had sharp features and looked more masculine now he looks like a botox barbie :/
i’m not defending the newer art lol i don’t like it either but i mean
when was griffith ever masculine looking
What I personally don t understand is that Casca was the reason for Guts to “hate” Griffith, so she should be an important irreplaceable person to him. On the other hand he abandoned her for 3 years and sexually assaulted her….How do this things fit together?
hahahaha… ha
true answer: miura is a misogynist hack who doesn’t really gaf about casca, and needed to get rid of her for a while because he hadn’t invented her yet while writing the black swordsman arc, and is less than concerned about whether guts even comes across as someone who genuinely cares for her.
meta answer:
whyever Miura decided to go that route, Guts’ actions after the Eclipse seem like a pretty strong indication that he wasn’t as angry on behalf of Casca as he was about Griffith transforming into a monster and destroying everything he values. Casca became a symbol of everything he lost – the good old days with the Hawks and Griffith – rather than seeing her as a person in her own right.
And to take that a step further, remember, Guts’ pre-Eclipse revelation was that he broke Griffith’s heart when he left, and therefore he already had what he tried attaining by leaving. The Eclipse wipes that away. Whatever Griffith has become does not (apparently) love or value Guts, and is not Guts’ equal or friend.
and this fucks Guts up
Femto raping Casca was proof that he has fundamentally changed into a monster who looks down on Guts, and Guts does drastic things when someone he loves looks down on him, thanks to his giant collection of daddy issues. Like leaving the woman he supposedly cares for in a cave and going on a self-destructive monster hunting spree.
I think on the whole, this last chapter was just…. underwhelming. It’s a rrleif to see people on here who agree and post good meta and rants.
Thank you, it’s also nice for me to get messages like this and know people agree ngl.
I just wanted to say that your content regarding the new Berserk chapter was like a ray of light, after diving into the shit pile that is the general Berserk fandom. I started reading Berserk over 10 years ago and I cannot say how excited I was over restoration of Casca as a character and now I´m just tired…
Thank you, and yeah lol I know how you feel. I avoid the general Berserk fandom as much as I can but man the occasional times I do check it out are just painful.
I don’t think that was the real guts tho, reasons why: 1) we didn’t see his reaction to danann’s message and his facial expression while approaching them was obscured 2) he came alone 3) danann made sure that casca was comfortable for the dream journey having guts stay behind since she sensed her fear of him. for her to just go “well you’re all better now go see ya man” without any kind of psych/emotional evaluation seems so out of left field
Yk I thought the scene where Guts walks up was weird, and it seemed really out of left field that the last time we saw him he was drinking with Serpico and Roderick and now we’re just casually informed that he got a psychic message and he’s here to meet her, (good point about Danann’s sudden 180 too) but I didn’t really consider it to be anything more than kind of rushed writing. But it is pretty suspicious when you put it all together like that.
Do you think it’s still a dream, maybe? Or is something else going on?
Why are you guys so pessimistic? I hope I am not offending you i just dunno why our impressions are vastly different. 355 completely subverted the expectations of g/tsca fans. Casca is gonna be angry, and I am sure she won’t get fair treatment by Miura but at least it will not be lovey dovey.. there are multiple ominous warnings and Casca was cheerful so far bc she didn’t remember. Also Guts is off revenge rn so the narrative *must* push him back to it. Which means g*tsca is cancelled imo
Nah, you’re right I am typically kind of a pessimistic person when it comes to continuations of things I’m into lol.
And actually thank you for this because it’s a good reminder that there are multiple reasons why g*tsca is not as sure a thing as lots of other fans think it is.
I have a lot more to say on this topic/the new chapter/etc lol, some hopeful and some still pessimistic, and today is going to be a day for it so I’ll probably answer your “why our impressions are vastly different” question soon (though idk if I’d say they’re “vastly” different), but I don’t want to here because this positivity is a good way to start the day lol.
Hey this is pretty random but have you ever read the poem Richard Cory? When I first read it it reminded me of Griffith with how everyone in his life in this image, whether they loved him or hated him, they were all the same, never seeing the person he truly was. And in the end he ended up suffering for it.
I hadn’t but I have now, and yeah, I definitely see the similarities there. The perfect image vs something very different going on inside. Also ouch, what a depressing poem, ty for mentioning it!
For a start I am actually sorry to use the ask option so many times, there is a thing I want to get rid of: Somehow it seems that Casca is back at the start. At the beginning, before she met Griffith the length of her hair must have been around the same. She felt weak and used the sword as a form of empowerment going so far as wishing to become a sword for Griffith. Then Griffith” destroyed that by the rape. Casca somehow regressed to the state of a child until she regained her sanity again.
Asks are great, no worries!
And yeah ia the long hair does seem like a good visual indication of her regression to a point in her life before she was empowered.
I wonder if/how this will figure into things now that she has her sanity back.
I also think Griffith raped Casca, because he was angry at Casca, when she overheard her telling Guts to LEAVE Griffith to accomplish his own dreams and live his own life. Casca was Griffith’s most loyal follower and she knew Griffith wanted Guts back, yet she prioritized Guts’ dreams over Griffith’s feelings. There were times during the rape Griffith gave Casca the same look he was giving Guts. He was angry at her.
This seems like it’s a response to something I’ve said, but I’m not sure what. But yeah I don’t really disagree I guess, I think that could definitely be part of it, at least in theory.
In practice tbh I have my doubts that Miura put any more thought into it than symbol of humanity’s evil + jealousy + emasculating Guts, based on the actual depiction of the scene. Femto does give Casca the evil stare, but to me that seemed like an echo of those jealous looks we saw him shooting Casca and Guts at times pre-Eclipse.
But yeah this is a perfectly reasonable idea imo. If Femto is a monstrous expression of Griffith’s negative feelings it stands to reason that anger over Casca urging Guts to leave might be part of it.
One thing I noticed about the scene where Griffith gives Casca the sword is that he tells her “If you have something to protect, pick up that sword.” It makes me sad that he feels guilt about the way that his dream has to be accomplished then because he’s already laid out that this is a real matter of life and death/basic autonomy for him in that sentence. Just a thought.
ngl while my “official” take is that the dream started out as a stupid kid’s fantasy and snowballed horrifically and gained deeper significance as a coping mechanism/escape after the kid’s death and gennon (i’m pretty sure we’ve had some conversations about this ages ago lol), every time I read the scene where he saves Casca I’m like, nope there’s gotta be something else going on there.
He just lays everything out so plainly (”does being born of the nobility mean you’ve been chosen by god?” “if you have something to protect, take up that sword,” “you know how to fight already, don’t you?” “you might die you know,”) that it’s like, there’s no way the kid’s death and gennon was his wake-up call to how shitty the world is, everything’s already in place right here.
Like I guess it can’t be more than headcanon because if there was more to his story I’m sure Ubik would’ve said something while he was fucking with him to make the sacrifice, but chapter 16 like, establishes all of Griffith’s motivations/attitude towards nobility/making sure everyone follows him of their own choice/etc, which really seems to indicate that the kid’s death and gennon wasn’t the beginning of his bitterness re: people’s lives being bought and sold by nobles and his guilt re: ppl dying for his dream. It’s just like, an example.
lol in short, ia!
I hope that Casca feels next to the pain she had suffered also the warmth of the people surrounding here. Escpecially Farnese. At least I thought that when people wondered, why she didn t freak out right away…Maybe because since she still remembers the events after the eclipse, she is also able to integrate her “nightmarish memories” in the whole picture? Though there is a high chance that she still has to figure out, what she wishes to do with the resto f her life.
cut for leaked 355 page spoilers tho yk, beware the ask too, hope you have these tags blacklisted, etc
Honestly I’m not sure what to think based on that leaked page. Since last chapter had the ominous heart covered in thorns going on and now we’ve got Casca thanking Farnese and Schierke for taking care of her I’m feeling like yeah maybe you’ve got the right idea and maybe thanks to Farnese being awesome and caring for her Casca is already well on the road to dealing with everything?
tbh I am absolutely full of mixed feelings about this potential outcome lol, so I guess I’ll just wait til we have the whole chapter before I make any judgement calls. If the focus stays on Farnese helping Casca and Guts gets nothing this could be good. But I mean, just based on one page it’s impossible to tell whether those thorns are going to make themselves known in some other way. Guess we’ll wait and see.
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