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seisans
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no yeah i was talking about just casca, i know in my heart guts cannot and will not move on. at least any time soon. but i can’t seem to predict which way casca’s arc will go because miura writes women so incomprehensibly

oh yeah i see what you mean. and yeaaaaah casca is seriously an enormous blank spot because who knows wtf miura is going to do with her, i can really only begin to theorize about how she’s going to support guts’ story lol. tho imagine if she actually got her own motivations and narrative.

gutsbaratiddies
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i agree that the moment she wakes up is rushed, things are too cordial and NICE. Tbh I almost expected her to wake up screaming. but the last few panels of the update suggest some dark shit is coming?? So maybe something is UP

@seisans said:
yeah i thought he was like fake, maybe danann knows more than she lets on and is trying to get casca to realise some things? idk

here’s hoping. i mean when you put it that way with danann pushing the romance but it turns out this is just like, magical therapy part 2, maybe the point is that g*tsca is a terrible idea and casca has to realize that lol

seisans
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yeah, it’s just like. regressed casca even had that moment when she was trying to touch neo griff but couldn’t, plus like the stupid fetus, and idk how the gremlin man (miura) thinks so i’m assuming the worst. but yeah you’re probably right

there is a shit ton of stuff that can and should be taken into account tbh, and that post was rly just a v distant overview. i think… idk there’s probably enough evidence to make a case for either scenario happening – guts moving on vs guts failing to move on. and like the fetus eg could figure into either of those scenarios, by maybe being a source of conflict between casca and guts, or maybe uniting them.

i think there’s also enough evidence to argue that guts failing to move on isn’t necessarily a negative/tragic thing either, tho i kind of framed it as one. like there’s a scenario where guts trying to “let go of his obsession” is essentially guts kidding himself and just burying and refusing to acknowledge his mixed feelings instead of confronting them, using casca as an escape

that’s my #1 hope rly.

but yeah at the end of the day this all kind of rests on the premise that when berserk is over it will overall be a good solid comprehensive story lol, and that’s based on what I’m picking up on as important themes, which is kind of itself a distant hope.

seisans
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i haven’t looked at the new chapter, just the pics y’all posted & linked to, but with the feathers and casca wanting to see someone and “your wish may not be her wish” like i could see her using the behelit and joining neo-griff ….. but ………….. idk, has she remembered the eclipse yet? if not she’s bound to and that’s not gonna be pretty. also idk what the point of her joining griffith would be wrt guts ……
like i hate the idea of his own desire
to see griffith getting mixed with his “feelings” for casca you know
what i mean?

anyway if i remember
correctly i think your “casca uses the behelit” theory involved her
having her own revenge journey or something like that but yeah what if
this instead. i’m thinking no thank you mr miura

haha i would straight up murder miura if casca joined neogriffith. my, like, unlikely ideal is the three of them with their own individual power ups (incarnated god, apostle mb along the lines of ganeshka wrt power, berserk armour) all kind of opposing each other to some degree. eg ngriff wants his empire and also wants guts in some capacity that he doesn’t understand so maybe tries to kill him, casca wants to kill ngriff but guts wants to be the one to kill ngriff but also he doesn’t want to kill ngriff, etc

I think the feathers are probably more a reminder of her past as a Hawk than necessarily to do with NGriff. That’s what I was thinking anyway, but like, with the addition that that past is traumatic and they’re a reminder of Griffith who is the source of her trauma and therefore it’s ~ominous~

seisans
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i hate it so much, it’s like, “a BUNCH of people liked your post!” like, i’m sure they did!!! tell me WHO, and no i do not recognise them by their icons

right?? it doesn’t help that the lists of notes on the actual post itself is truncated now too. like tumblr really doesn’t want me to know who actually enjoys the shit i post apparently. and sometimes i want to go to someone’s reblog and check the tags or smthn and now that’s extra hard. i hope xkit fixes this soon.

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my feelings on his art is basically that it progressively got worse, so the mf arc is like. still pretty ok near the beginning and then slowly gets worse. griffith is mostly still very pretty, but i feel like he still cannot compare to ga griffith. farnese is cute, no one looks like a wooden doll. wbu?

hmm yeah i kind of agree. I have mixed feelings on it because I think it’s like, genuinely pretty impressive and totally gorgeous at times, but it feels a little too polished almost, and not as visceral/raw as it could during the golden age

but then again i’m more emotionally attached to the golden age so it’s not like i’m objective, and despite that a few of my favourite panels are from the millenium falcon arc, so idk really

seisans
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ia yeah like he overheard it, idek if he made the connection but if he did then the only powerlessness he could have felt imo is the inability to stop guts from leaving again. obviously not in a controlling way, but in like a sad, gay way

yeah like, based on when we see his eyes open he may have overheard casca mention promrose but we don’t know for sure, we know he overheard her say ‘if you’re griffith’s friend and equal‘ so theoretically he could’ve made the connection, but regardless it doesn’t really matter from a narrative perspective because there’s no indication that griffith knows what they’re talking about

like from a character perspective i think it can work – i remember you had a good explanation actually for what he’d be thinking, how it would just remind him of how fucked up his body is now, etc. but the narrative just completely ignoring the possibility of griffith putting two and two together works so much better for my point lol

and thinking about them objectively when all you wanna do is cry 

mteeeeeee

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yeah though he’s clearly way more emotional than neo griff? neo griff is very poker face while femto is over there handing out glares and saying petty hurtful shit as often as possible

you’re right. tbh it could make sense with the fact that femto is just plain made out of negative emotion and so lets his asshole flag fly, while neogriffith being corporeal probably doubled down on his emotional repression

but the fact that neogriffith figured he had to test his capacity for emotion just seems weird with that explanation since yeah he obviously had the capacity for it as femto. i guess ‘griffith lives in denial and this is true of every incarnation’ could kinda work as an explanation for that inconsistency tho.

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to be fair femto vs neo griff is still unclear

true

but you’d think femto would be even less capable of emotion than neogriff since he got the whole frozen blood crystalization of your last tear shed thing, while neogriff had to test himself now that he’s in a flesh and blood body, and then failed the test

but yeah it is still like ambiguous and up in the air so i guess we can’t do more than throw educated guesses at the wall lol

@phydia63 said:
People conveniently forget about that moment too. It’s propaganda I say xD 

yeah it gets ignored way too often when it’s like the high point of the post-sacrifice eclipse stuff.

seisans

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he’s padding it out so they can sell more volumes is my guess. same thing happened with naruto. but yeah when it starts being like this, hiatus after hiatus, the author’s usually bored. which makes me really sad because i’m still attached to this story and its characters. but yeah tbh nothing would make me happier than learning that miura also pretty much only cares about griffguts (would be nice if he cared about casca too but that’s clearly asking too much)

damn that makes me sad too, bc yeah i love most of these characters and i need to see what happens. i guess i’ll hope that the fantasia arc is getting the half assed treatment bc it’s just set up for the eventual good stuff and he’ll switch on when he needs to, and he isn’t just sick of berserk in general.

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“I originally had this as a second part of my last response but tbh…”

like miura’s story choices genuinely baffle me sometimes … i guess he’s been writing this manga for like 20 years, he must have changed as a person or the editors are pressuring him to make Fun Relatable Content but like genuinely what the fuck happened to his ability to write interesting, compelling, grimy and realistic stories with appropriately timed humour … wtf is this whole dream sequence … i don’t know i’m tired
like it all feels very shallow. not
counting falconia & neo griffith bc i think that’s on purpose.
half-assed is a good word, and it’s too idk literal? i can’t put it into
words but it does not compare to the masterpiece that was the golden
age on ANY level lol

yeaaaaaah, just yeah. it kinda feels like he’s bored of the story right now and going through the motions. though if that’s the case i can’t begin to guess why he’s also padding it tf out so much. i can only hope the quality goes back up when the narrative brings griffith and guts back together bc lbr that’s what we’re all waiting for, hopefully including miura.

and yeah i’m finding the current fix casca dream sequence really disappointing? like it’s a re-tread of the golden age, we’re not really learning anything new about casca at all, what could’ve been a thoughtful take on how casca has dealt with misogyny her whole life is instead a hoarde of dick monsters… like again, thank god for farnese bc her reactions and interactions with stick figure casca are the only parts i’m really enjoying. (tbf i haven’t read the latest chapter yet, so this doesn’t take that into account if something happens in it)

@kissing-monsters said: My friend who was reading Berserk and I
basically agree most strongly on Casca, we have been shouting about her
narrative being an awful waste of a potentially amazing character since
he started reading it because ugh it’s so true. She’s ruined by the
narrative choices.

yeah it’s so unfortunate because imo as a character she had so much potential to grow in interesting ways, and she was often so awesome and fun despite the narrative shorting her even in the golden age, and then boom, disintegrated for 20 literal years of writing time.

seisans
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imo if confronted about his feelings for guts in some way, much like femto, he would probably try to give a Logical Explanation that has Nothing To Do With Him Being Gay, but first he would absolutely have to pause or flinch or something like that and we’d Know

lmao yes this is exactly what he would do and i would love it.

also

oh my god ppl take griffith saying that and are like “see he knew the eclipse was coming” like ……… what kind of reach

thinking griffith planned the eclipse sacrifice in advanced is the most baffling reading of all.

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TRUE! Griff is Gut’s light. Honestly, what I want more than a final battle is Griff bringing Guts back from BM, or Guts going into Griffith’s mind like Casca = ensuing emotional breakdown/unfrozen heart. (& Guts meeting child Griff in his mind this I need) Griffith doesn’t need to die, he needs to become a sobbing mess of feelings.

I second this so hard, I would absolutely love if either of these things happened. And hey there’s been a lot of mind exploration with Schierke around, so again, totally possible.

seisans said: IM SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED THAT RYOUAKIRA MOMENT YES

it’s such a good moment omg

(lmao totally ot but i was browsing the devilman tv tropes page the other day for some stupid reason and there was literally an entry where someone mentioned that akira mysteriously regained his human heart with no explanation and it’s like !!! why are people like this. we literally see it happen on the page omg. i can get homophobes denying gay overtones but seeing them completely blocking climactic plot-relevant scenes out of their head because they’re gay is incredible to me.)

seisans
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i’ve seen ppl speculate that he Let rickert slap him which …. hmm i don’t know about that. he certainly was surprised by it, tho ig he could let his “guard” down unintentionally

I could maybe see Griffith letting Rickert slap him because it doesn’t really matter and he’s letting Rickert give him an honest answer or w/e.

But what really gets me is Griffith’s silence in response to Rickert’s speech about how he’s loyal to his Griffith, not this Griffith. There’s no way that’s calculated, he just had nothing to say. All he’s got is “so it is,” in response to Rickert saying the insignias are different. Idk I love it, I can’t help but read that ambiguous silence as inner conflict and self doubt.

seisans
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me too god it’s getting to the point where guts’ parts of the story actually annoy me

yeaaaah. i mean for the last million chapters guts’ story has been fighting boring seaweed looking monsters in the middle of the ocean, annoying pirates, round like 3 of using the armour but not quite falling under its influence thanks to schierke yadda yadda yadda, then elfhelm which i find cloyingly wholesome, and now we’re in casca’s mind about to revisit the eclipse which isn’t something i’m particularly looking forward to either

so far the highlights have been farnese and p much only farnese imo

seisans
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this is absolutely on purpose, miura can be a great writer when he wants to

Yeah ia. There are a lot of rly ambiguous NGriff moments that seemed designed to make the reader go “ooooh what is he thinking,” so I can’t believe he’s annoyingly serene and inscruitable by accident.

like these days I prefer his narrative to Guts’ just bc I find the secondary characters more interesting, the themes/philosophy more interesting, and I love those little hinting moments, like the way we don’t get to see his expression when Rickert shoots him down and takes off, but I’m getting impatient for the reveal of what’s actually going on in his head lol.