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 No.1822[View All]

Let's see
>Guts is a low ass commoner bastard born from a corpse, meant to die, raised in a hellish world (that's literally just the same as our own before Guts encounters any actual demons) so harsh and cruel he likely has severe PTSD by the time he's 15
>Best friend Griffith is a social climbing piece of shit who has to murder and scheme to almost make it to the top, even then the ruling class tells him to go fuck himself and he has to sell his soul to the devil and murder all his friends to finally make it
>The ruling class are mostly monsters; the King is a pedophile nut that tries raping his own daughter, the "nicest" nobles were wrapped up in a brutal inquisition
>The whole world is ruled by an impersonal, most amoral entity created by human will but superseding all humans, controlling their lives based on it's own whims which are of course encouraged by the worst human impulses
>The thing everyone worships is literally evil itself
>Even the leaders of the apostles are pawns of the Market, err…."Idea of Evil"
Fuck it
The godhand are the bourgeoisie
The apostles are the petit bourgeois
Fuck yea
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 No.20766

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>>20753
Some of the biggest, but then again the artists were trained by Miura to do this kind of thing, including for the possibility that he couldn't finish it. And Mori was his close friend who he told his entire plans for Berserk over the years.

Also what a freak coincidence that Miura died while working on the chapter where Guts loses his grip on his sword because his body is deteriorating.

 No.20774

>>20766
It's the kind of symbolism that makes me think Miura knew he was gonna die soon, in the "I feel this in my bones and weary body" kind of way.

 No.21103

I wish I was in the eclipse so I could be fucked by griffith's stupid dick game. I want to be literally fucked until I'm retarded.

 No.21104

>>20750
>Mori doesn't want to take too many creative liberties beyond what Miura told him

I can respect that, but at the same time, the man is dead. I don't think it makes sense to try and speak for him. Yes, try and carry Berserk to the conclusion that he wanted, but make it a love letter to him also.

 No.21105

>>21103
Have you never heard the phrase "no loads refused" before

 No.21114

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>>21104
Yeah, no matter what happens we're not getting Miura's version of Berserk's ending. Might as well make the best version you can with what you got from him. If some essence of the story is lost because he didn't communicate it, that's still lost even if they try to preserve 1:1 what he did share.

 No.21115

>>21114
A little like Mozart's final piece that was finished by one of his colleagues.

 No.21116

>>21115
Yes, but only a little, because this is Miura's magnum opus.

 No.21169

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>>15838
>goblinfag derailing shit by trying to legitimize their shitty manga by comparing it to a GOAT manga
A year late to the party but that's not what it was at all. Goblin-Slayer poster mentioned that part of the appeal of the manga is the merciless slaughter of monstrous, iredeemable enemies in gory fashion. That is correct. They in no way stated that Goblin Slayer is the same as Berserk. They merely made an observation about Goblin Slayer being atypical in the focus on Goblins rather than comedic hijinks or 'epic monsters' as is the usual for many current anime/manga.

 No.21596

Is there a single person ITT who wouldn't fuck the living shit out of Griffith's tight bussy?

 No.21601


 No.21602

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>>21596
Yeah I'd fuck Guts instead.

 No.21603

>>21602
lol. that's pretty funny. someone get their grandma to post that on facebook

 No.21604

>>21603
>>21602
>>21596
Go to /siberia/ and stay go.

 No.21609

So now that Rickert and Silat have returned to the story it seems like things will really start moving. There was a reference to time working funny on the fairy island so I wonder if there's going to be some kind of time skip happening. The whole moon thing seems like it would conflict with that THOUGH.

 No.21610

>>21609
To be absolutely honest, I stopped following Berserk after Miura died.

 No.21613

>>21114
Am I the only one that gets Baki vibes from this particular pic? Like the over-tightened muscled look and the head being slightly disproportionate (too big for the body in this case). It's not quite at that level, but it was enough to remind me of it.

 No.21721

>>21602
Top or Bottom?

 No.21723

>>15833
>never seen one where Orcs are not treated like always bad tho.
Plenty actually, for example this one https://chapmanganato.com/manga-rh953142

The world goddess is a self absorbed cunt who likes pretty stuff. She basically enforced selection among humans ot be pretty and treats non-humans like trash. Orcs (well, they are more like japanese orcs, being pig-like) are among those races that are forced to inhospitable regions and barely survive, they are presented as pretty chill and hospitable people.

For an isekai this one has a pretty interesting setting surprisingly.

 No.21724

>>15836
Ends on the most interesting part, goddammit

 No.21785

They're in discussions to make a live action Berserk and people are hoping Henry Cavill plays him.

 No.21791

>>21785
>henry cavill as guts
same energy as One Piece fans wanting Jim Carrey to play Franky

 No.22976

Berserk just seems to keep getting more and more depressing. For every battle won there's a catastrophic loss. For every good thing, there is dozens of terrible ones. How is Guts going to stop Griffith? I can't believe it would end in some grim-dark way because for all the depressive shit there was always this feeling of a light ahead in the tunnel somewhere… but I can't think of how that would be either.

 No.23303

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How would Berserk go if the roles were reversed?

 No.23305

>>23303
Guts might be even more messed up than Casca was. Casca was never a beast like Guts, and more socially aware. She would probably not choose to run off to fight demons like Guts did. She'd probably stay with Guts, Rickert, Godot, and Erica. Apostles would probably keep showing up there, but all of them fighting together might be able to handle it.

The characters Guts meets and adds to his party would probably never enter the story. Without Puck, traveling to Elfhelm to heal Guts would be off the table. Without Schierke, they'd never meet Flora and find the Berserker armor. If you really wanted to force things to conform to the original story, you could just have Guts overpower any attempt to contain him and run off like Casca did in the Conviction arc, and have the plot be driven by Casca following Guts, who more or less follows the same path.

The biggest thing is probably the absence of moonboy unless Griffith is capable of impregnating Guts.

 No.23306

>>23305
Interesting analysis, far more detailed than I thought I'd get.
>The biggest thing is probably the absence of moonboy unless Griffith is capable of impregnating Guts.
Moonboy always felt out of place to me tbh but a violating MPreg aspect would be quite fitting for the bleakness of Berserk's setting.

 No.23971

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Basically, I think Berserk is a PUNK series, very anarchist in flavor! Let's see now!
>There are no good authority figures, every noble is a piece of shit, coward, or demon
>King is literally an incestuous pedo
>All religions are brutal hierarchies perpetuating fear and lies that only serve to intensify chaos by intensifying oppression and delusion
>The closest thing to God is the Idea that Evil is a real thing and not something humans made up
>Guts is in a revolution against God/the Idea of Evil
>Guts is happy to be a mercenary cuck following the system and killing for money until he gets faced with the nightmarish truth of reality and must face off against the horrible demons (forces of reaction irl) that spring up to annihilate any who remotely threaten the hierarchy
>There is no savior just as there is no Gods or Masters
>All astral shit was imagined into existence by humans
SLAM A RAW HEAP OF IRON IN THE FACE OF THE CAPITALIST

 No.23972

I don‘t see how Nietzsche and Anarchism are reconcilable. Nietzsche seemed very fond of hierarchies. He wasn‘t the kind of person who wanted the hierarchy flattened for everyone to be equal.

 No.23973

>>23972
Anarchism = Autonomy, not Equality
Nietzsche and Anarchism are compatible

 No.23974

The idea of evil existing as a positive aspecf of reality is directly schopenhauerian, where he reverses leibinz's concept of God making an inherently good world. Good is just the *absence* of evil and so on.
Also, Guts is not Nietzschean, since his stated mission is to bring men to death, and so his ethos js again, pessimistic, not vitalistic.
Griffith is the one with undying (literally) ambition, and Evil is just the spiritualising of Nature itself in all of its chaos, and so is dionysian.
>anarchy
As in kropotkin and bachunin? Absolutely not. But in the premodern way, meh, but i would rather say Guts is expressedly apolitical. He has no "polis" to have politics with.

 No.23975

>>23974
The IoE is not an expression of Nature itself, it is an expression of humanity’s rationalizing about Nature and the desires and actions of humans.
Evil is not an intrinsic factor of the Berserk universe, nor is good, these are human abstractions. Rather, enough humans believe in Evil and fate as the cause for their suffering rather than random chance and an indifferent universe, so as to give birth to an Entity whose only purpose is to give mankind what they most desired, Evil upon which good could then be transposed, and fate written over random chance. The IoE exists to give humans what they subconsciously want, a purpose. It is the Idea of Evil rather than good because humans conceptualized the notion of evil’s existence prior to good’s existence, as they found pain and suffering to be the exception, rather than pleasure and contentment.

Griffith is not a Nietzschean figure at all to me, he fully surrendered to his own ambition in the end and accepted being a pawn in the IoE’s plan to deliver Mankind its greatest desire beyond the existence of evil and fate, a Savior to save them from evil and lead them down a different fate.

 No.23976

>>23975
There is no difference between Nature and its abstract self-reinforcement. If Evil exists in the world, i literally cant ignore it, because its trying to kill me. I am part of its self-related Idea.
>a Savior to save them from evil and lead them down a different fate
But isnt he the ubermensch here by transcending limits? Guts is just a guy, but griffith is a god.

 No.23977

More importantly, is the series progressing after Miura's death? I remember it happened two or three years ago, but I've also read some of his collaborators may be carrying over Berserk.

 No.23978

>>23977
Yes. Some major supporting characters just came back into the story after having been absent for a long time.

The art is noticeably different but still high quality and stylistically very similar. The biggest complaint people have had is that the dialogue is pretty sparse and the pacing is pretty fast. It seems like they don't want to add anything to the story beyond what Miura told his friend Mori the plot was going to be.

 No.23979

>>23976
Actually the point is that Evil doesn't actually exist in the world. You don't get diseases and die because of evil, but because diseases happen to exist. People don't do violence because they're evil, but because they have s propensity toward aggression and a desire to commit harm. Attributing all this to evil is the problem, and that's what Berserk points to. Humans convinced themselves "Evil" exists before they conceptualized any god.

That's why the Entity isn't called "Evil Itself" it's called the Idea of Evil, or more accurately, doesn't actually have a name

 No.23980

>>23979
>>23976
You're speculating based on a chapter that was withdrawn and possibly no longer canon.

 No.23981

these fictionbrained threads remind me of "kimpossible anon" from last year or the year before

 No.23982

>>23980
I'm speculating based on a chapter that was removed for revealing too much to early that was proceeded by a chapter that ended by showing the IoE titled "God of the Abyss" and is thematically consistent with everything we've seen in the story thus far

 No.23983

>>1822765
In Berserk evil is real because humans willed it into existence.
The IoE was conjured by humans, the Apostles (demons) and Godhand are all former humans that chose to become what they are.

 No.23984

>>1822808
In Chapter 83 the IoE directly tells Griffith that it came about when humans cried out for reasons, reasons for why they suffered. Reasons for their pain. Reasons that they died random and absurd deaths. Humans decided that Evil is why. Evil curses them with sickness. Evil created predatory animals. Evil humans (also known as enemies) who live to spread wickedness brought more of this essence into the world. But this wasn't a thing before humans. The Universe doesn't care whether a tiger nurtures its young or devours them. The Universe doesn't care what happens to humans nor what we do to each other. Evil is not a reality external to humans. Hence why the IoE did not exist prior to humans. Because it's a personification…of an idea.

As for the Godhand and the Apostles, we're told and shown that apostles are all humans that made a deal with the Godhand, and we see from the Incarnation of Griffith into Femto that the Godhand also started out as humans.

 No.23985

>>1822765
kung
pow
penis

 No.23986

>>1822907
Kung. Pow. Penis.

Kung. Pow Penis.

 No.23987

>>1822907
You just explained why you would literally end up as one of Griffith's sheep ready to be served up when the time comes for the next big sacrifice
>Nature is fundamentally evil
Idealist nonsense and western life-denial
Nature is inherently amoral, morality is something created by humans, it's nonsensical to claim a virus is evil for infecting a cell or a tiger is evil for eating a gazelle.

There is no force called "Nature" that preordained reality, and stating that humans (that adhere to slave morality) get something psychologically and socially out of "pretending" evil exists isn't an argument that it actually does, it's more noble lie nonsense, like pretending God exists because people feel more fulfilled believing that it does

 No.23988

>>1822907
>>23984
The IoE is supposed to be that humans made evil a real thing because they couldn't accept the underlying nihilst reality, that bad things happen for no reason. They found the idea that some evil will made them happen was more comfortable. And then once you accept this, the power of evil becomes alluring since "evil" is the name you give the the source of all misery. Instead of merely being a victim you may seek to become a victimizer and have more control over your destiny. That's why people become apostles.

 No.23989

>>23988
Indeed, and it is also bound to fate.

The IoE represents three distinctly human desires, reason, purpose, and salvation; humans desire reasons for suffering and thus invent evil as an explanation, they desire a purpose for the outcome of their lives and thus decide events must have been fated to happen as they did, and now that they have invented evil and fate they cry out for a savior to save them from evil and to change fate. That is what Griffith's reincarnation at the Tower of Conviction represents. That is why the IoE is called the Desired God.
>>1822935
Lmao ngl I feel like you might have too many idealist natsoc spooks to understand the philosophy of Berserk
Amorality doesn't require good and evil existing anymore than atheism requires a god. Amorality is simply the state of things without humans assigning value judgments based on their own desire for pleasure and fear of pain.

 No.23990

>>1822987
Berserk is a work of fiction, you don't need to agree with Nietzschean philosophy, but Berserk is a Nietzschean story, there isn't a deeper level where actually it's hyper-moralist and promotes Uber slave morality

 No.23991

>>23972
Nietzsche was heavily inspired by Wagner who at one point was an anarchist who worked together with Bakunin. This had a profound influence on Nietzsche's political writing. When he talks of the free spirits, the followers of his philosophy enacting great influence and steering society, they don't do this by the rule of law. Nietzsche despised the rule of the state and saw it as a secular religion. Leaders in Nietzche's view were writers and artists influcing society through civil society. This is in line with Wagner's anarchist and may even be traced back to Bakunin's idea of the "invisible dictatorship", were a small group may inspire and steer the revolution through education and rhethoric rather than an offical position of power enforced by the monopoly of violence

 No.23992

>>1823215
Wagner was very expliclity an anarchist early on in his life and in his very early writing. He expliclity planned an uprising with Baknunin until it failed and he got banished. I wouldn't suggest Nietzsche is an anarchist per se, he obviously spoke negatively of them (although this was due to their tendency at the time to use enlightment secular religion schools of thought, this changed when Nietzsche got incorperated into the tradition. This is the same story as Stirner). I am however saying Nietzschian anarchism is possible, and the link is not as strange as it may appear with a superficial understanding of the "hierachy" in Nietzsche's work

 No.23993

>>23992
yes
but i think this has to do with the open signifier of what an anarchist (anti)politics can represent in itself. everyone is an anarchist in most things already.
in the end, in "antichrist" nietzsche seems to wish for a further impersonalising of the will by placing his faith in science, for the quality of post-humanity, which i also think is his cynicism; of the project of the ubermensch itself.
i think for example, a pagan hero like achilles was simply born as a higher type, the same way in the iliad the gods are called a "race" unto themselves. the act of willing ourselves to be greater can work, but only relative to our mere humanity.
i think being human is good enough in any case.
But i will def look more into wagners anarchism.

 No.24289

>>21791
>>21785
I can see Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura era) playing such an eccentric character. Cavill is going to be in a WH40K project too apparently.


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