Berserk 381 - A Crescent Moon Shines on the Exile's Back

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kek someone make a template for high Guts pls

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>>279612156
Silat is so good man. I never liked Daiba btw.

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>>279612228
What will Daiba do now that Guts is drugged up? pervy old man

Why won't Mori just fucking end it already? Let me guess, Young Animal is paying him to keep it going?

>>279611782
>that blush.
Aw shit boys, she's starting to fall for him.

>>279612282
you guys can drop it you know? thanks

>>279611782
Fuck, I wanted Serpico/Farny.

>>279612490
Out of all shock and gore Berserk has, it has never portrayed incest in a good light, Farnese and Serpico would never happen.

>>279611853
Jesus what is this anatomy

So does Daiba want to transform Guts using one of Ganishka's demon wombs?

So are they going to do some pajeet ritual to finally make Guts lucid? Three years of Gaga's mopey Guts, I'm tired of this shit.

>>279612490
Roderick is her husband after all. And he's a chad.

Guts and Casca in chains/in a trance is the new fucking boat arc.....

Bro am I retarded? What’s the fuzzy shit on the side of some of the panels supposed to be?

>>279611782
>Stand tall, Farnese. You are Strong

>>279612156
Is that the thing Ganishka fed pregnant women to? why is Silat thinking about that?

>>279612957
maybe Daiba wants to make another behelit again

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Daiba is going to try to remove the brand by putting Guts into the man-made beherit?

>>279613263
nobody can remove that shit dude, is literally made by a Demon God

>>279613332
Ganishka reincarnated a second time thanks to the womb, even though only the God Hand are supposed to be able to do that.

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uguuu

Guts is finally out of the cell bros

It has never been more happening

Where the fuck are they keeping his gear tho

>>279613865
I miss the old farnese

>>279611694 (OP)
Miura, your work changed...
It´s almost like a different person is drawing Berserk now.

Gotta say, Studio Gaga have really perfected Farnese

I swear to fucking god they DONT know what to do with Guts thats why hes been practically comatose ever since Gaga took over.

Art looks very good in this chappy

>>279614075
This is definitely a transition chapter but hey at least he's out of the fucking cell. Hopefully we're moving to the next major part of the arc given they're transporting Guts and the Manmade Behelit made an appearence, even in a flashback. Guts is at the final dip in the hero's journey so the redemption is coming soon.

>>279614018
I miss HORSED Farmese.

>>279611782
Farnese, my love.

>22 page chapter
>Man Made Behelit referred to
>Check ins with Farnese, Schierke and Isidro
>Guts removed from the cell
>Silat getting sneaky again
The pace is literally blistering compared to Miura Berserk. All the above would have been handled over 2-3 chapters by Miura. Hell there would have been a half chapter dedicated to Silat shouting at Guts before taking him out of the cell.

>>279614075
Griffith stole his waifu, and he couldn't do anything he's pretty depressed.

>>279612957
I think it's hinting at how Daiba always has a fucked up scheme, dunno what that means for Guts but he's definitely up to something

>>279612228
They really need that many sorcerers to keep Guts' mind contained?

>>279614268
You only use one or two sorcerers to contain guts and see what happens.

>>279614387
he seems pretty apathetic right now it probably wouldn't take much

>>279612125
Its been awhile since ive read the story but is it really true he never knew Guts was branded?
Feels like he should be well aware by now.

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They clearly have no idea what the old ones were supposed to do.

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Boobies, Berserk is back!!!

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Yeah...

>>279611694 (OP)
Great chapter, Miura would be proud

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>Imagine supporting an IP after it´s author dies and it becomes nothing but corporate slop just because you can´t let go

How embarrassing.

>>279611782
cute

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>It's been 3 years already
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>>279612053
he's not wrong

>>279614202
but why can't they make the series consistently monthly?

>>279615745
Unironically it is probably the trying to figure out the story that takes them the longest now.
FYI next chapter comes out end of the month. They seem to prefer getting a few chapters done and releasing them closely than trying to evenly space them out.

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SEXO Molda!

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>DAS IT MANE

>>279614268
Probably the smartest anyone has ever been around guts, to be honest.

Still not enough probably, I fully expect everyone in that caravan to end up dead one way or another.

>>279612377
Would you avert your eyes from a train wreck? I'm still morbidly curious about this horrible fan fiction

>>279615884
I assume the hard part is to remember all the miura ramblings in between idolmaster sessions.
"Oh yeah and guts gets depressed and goes to jail, you know?" and then like an hour later "oh, and silat is there too or something, I don't know..."

>>279616832
Well, Daiba knows for a fact what Guts is capable of when cornered.

>>279611782
Am I remembering correctly or was Farnese not really supposed to reciprocate Roderick's feelings? It seemed her blushing was more polite with how Miura wrote it, but here she's actually blushing from what he said.

>>279615616
what the fuck is this?

>>279614268
Seemingly. They don't know his current state. Just the Black Swordsman stories. They don't know he's Berked without the armour and basically blind/deaf/atrophied

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>corporate slop
My dude no one is making much money out of Berserk. It's basically a passion project. Berserk in its entire lifetime hasn't made more than mangas like DB, OP and other Shonen shit makes in a year. Their merchandising deals are basically non existent. There's no anime in syndication to sell adds. There's no video games being worked on. No apparel deals. They release a new figure every 6 months through a third party and only in tiny tiny numbers.

If you think they're making Berserk to make money then you are uniliterally fucking delusion to how niche Berserk is

>>279615745
I think because Mori is only meeting the team once a month, so they only get notes once a month. In their defence they seem to be working on 4 chapters at any given time, but it's a small team working on a handful of chapters at a time by a guy that's only around to supervise once at the end of the month.

>>279614202
>All the above would have been handled over 2-3 chapters by Miura.
early Miura sure

I need Skully

>>279618610
He only turns up when there's an opportunity to pass on knowledge or fuck with his yandere boyfriend zoddy

>>279618610
Fingers Crossed they know how his story ends and his past as well.
Between all the side stories I will be really sad not seeing his conclusion.

Why's Silat pissed at Guts for not resisting death? I can't remember if they had any real interactions beyond a fight Guts won.

>>279618767
Silat was stalking guts in conviction for a while

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That does not connect the dots in the aforementioned drama.

>>279611756
she looks like a fucking Ayylmao.

>>279618648
reminder that Zodd is a pussy, fight the strongest? my ass
>>279618649
we already know his backstory, now I hope we see how it's ends and how his story with Void will end

I was a defend of the art for a while at first but it's actually gotten worse not better.
At this point Id just prefer if they traced 3d models.

Ugh... Guts is really becoming an object/mcguffin instead of being the main character. This started in Vitranis when Miura starts focusing a bit on Schierke, but yeah this is how things are leading up too.

>>279618805
I think he seen Guts as fearless and determined for so long that he's surprised at him losing his will to fight. Guts is the one that humbled Silat twice after all

I feel so dejected every time I read a new chapter of this shit.

It would be easy for Guts to give up here. He lost Casca and his mortal enemy is having the time of his life with her while she wouldn’t even look at him. Being chased by demons and imprisoned forever is only secondary to being cucked for the second time.

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There's blushing out of pride too

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>Indians spotting a white woman

>>279611694 (OP)
Looks like Guts is about to overcome and master his negative emotions that have been burdening him ever since Donovan's rape(or maybe even earlier). Too bad it will probably take another 1-2 years to reach that point at this pace.

One thing that I think they overlooked in Berserk 1997 and in the Golden Age Trilogy was Guts' basically symbiotic relationship with his sword - it's all he really trusted in and it never let him down. He's rarely if ever seen without it. Homie even sleeps with it. In Berserk 1997 he just leaves his sword in a tent and in Golden Age Trilogy it's just not there for some reason. The issue with not including Wyald is that he damages his sword fighting him, which explains why he doesn't have it in the Eclipse in the first place.

Seeing the latest volume and catching up with these chapters makes me realise that the whole Guts and his Sword thing was literally playing in to the endgame in such a way that the anime not alluding to it makes it seem weird.

Then again Berserk 1997 was made right after Golden Age ended and it didn't include Puck, Skull Knight, Wyald, Silat or the Bakiraka and they're all massive deals but I guess hindsight is a bitch.

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Farnese and Roderick have had one(1) full conversation together following the Vritannis attack, and that was on the ship where he simply thanks her for taking care of Casca. She's shown zero interest in him following the boat arc and beyond, and Roderick has also pretty much ignored the arranged marriage after that, he just wanted to lead the life of a heroic explorer.

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IIRC he accepted that it was just a political marriage and that they may not like each other, and despite saying he was interested in her hasn't really made any moves.
He has supported her and recognized her accomplishments, which feeds into her character arc where she feels she's doing something important and not being a caged bird or figurehead.

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Molda is still hot I see

>>279615616
unironically this should be the end game

>>279611853
How the hell is everyone drawn anatomy fine besides GUTS????

>>279618949
Ain't no way were gonna get a proper Silverage arc with King Gaiseric with this current team.

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The brand isn't really common knowledge. Skull Knight had to explain it to Guts, and Guts always talk vaguely about why following him is a bad idea. Schrieke's teacher was the one that explained how it worked and how to manage it. Most sacrifice victims DON'T survive being a sacrifice after all, so they can't really speak on behalf how it works. So it makes sense Silat is so late to the punch, who would even know it existed?

>>279618767
He wanted to use guts as a weapon against Griffith. He literally says so this very chapter.

>>279621278
Yeah everyone is better than what Miura would have drawn except guts. I think guts fucks with the new guys' heads or something. Like they're so concerned with living up to Miura that they fuck it up.

>>279614024
it's like you never had wings

>>279615616
>griffith will end up like that old king
duuno how a super dimensional being could be emotionally depressed like that. But if there's anything Griffith is depressed about, it could be Rickert's slap.

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nta but Grittih is already like a shell, he's just coping with muh dream

>>279621278
Guts is unwell as you know.

>>279624143
I think it is more like they can't draw big,muscular characters like Guts

>>279611853
Is it just me or does it look like Rakshas is the shirt he's wearing?
It looks "slimy"

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I think Miura spent so long drawing Guts in the Berserker armor that the people who studied under him never learned how to draw Guts without it on.

>>279620105
I'm watching '97 for the first time, and that's generally my take as well.
It's great, except for the stuff it's leaving out.
The only thing that struck me as absolutely bizarre was at the very beginning of the first episode, when the bartender namedropped Griffith like he was a tyrant king.

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I've thought about this. I think Miura was okay with that because he wanted to leave the door open to the possibility that there is a secret resistance. I've always thought Guts would eventually gain a large following made up of guys that had their family members tortured and killed by apostles and view the black swordsman as a kind of savior even though guts didn't give a shit at the time.

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It's just a problem with Gaga, they get proportions wrong on a few characters every so often.

>>279619027
Casca was a mindbroken mcguffin for over 20 years, so I think it's just Guts's turn now.
He'll be back to normal in 2045.

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Kek

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no wonder midland hates them so much

>>279611694 (OP)
A new chapter without warning?

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Me in the bottom right, trying to focus on my sutra and checking out Lady Farnese at the same time

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ICONOCALSTIRO

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SAAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE BRAND

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So this is why it's called "Eastern Exile", Guts is the one who gets exiled?

I still love my wife

I miss Chestnut Puck.

>>279629400
No more chestnuts. No more Star Wars references. We are free of that curse at last.

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Farnese and the monks are doinge jutsu signs but different

Why is Studio Gaga's Berserk so...shiny?
I can't tell if they're using multiple effects on every single layer, or if they use such high resolution for panels that all the shading seems pixelated.

>>279629553
Mirua used black and white, it looks like the pen the use is silver/grey.

>>279629435
>No more Star Wars references.
Berserk is ruined

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>Seeing the latest volume and catching up with these chapters makes me realise that the whole Guts and his Sword thing was literally playing in to the endgame in such a way that the anime not alluding to it makes it seem weird.

It was playing to the endgame in the 90s when Miura wrote the eclipse. Without Casca (whom he planned to die in the eclipse originally) and all his friends, Guts going insane about the dragonslayer failing him might make sense. But the story moved in a different direction, so it just feels really fucking stupid and dissonant when Mori is bringing back these plot points they talked about way back then. But it's the only stuff he knows.

It's also likely Casca won't play a significant role in the ending, nor will most of his new friends. Silatt and Rickert might have something to do, and I think I read somewhere that Farnese was envisioned to be the main magic girl, meaning she will completely replace Schierke. Pretty much has already.

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>nor will most of his new friends
Do people even really care about the new friends?
The Band of the Hawk had real character and flaws, with dreams and hopes, everyone in the new group is just a Guts fanboy.
>Although you could say everyone in the BOH was a Griffith fanboy, but they still had their own goals.

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>The Band of the Hawk had real character and flaws, with dreams and hopes
Tell me about Pippin's character flaws, dreams and hopes

>>279630590
>He put his hands on Guts without his consent
>He dreamed of eating and fighting
>He hoped Casca would make it out alive

>>279630615
I kneel.

>>279612053
Guts? More like Cucs! lmao.

>>279612053
This is what happens to a motherfucker who puts his grasses on

>>279612053
I wish we got to see Guts' internal thoughts during this
Him walking like a zombie is stupid

>>279612228
>Continues next issue
How often does Young Animal come out again?

>>279630866
He doesn't have any internat thoughts, the sorcerers are keeping him mindless with their chanting

>>279611694 (OP)
Berserk ended in 2021.

>>279611694 (OP)
Honestly Berserkbros, I don't have a good feeling about this writing. I feel like even with all this time and effort made by Miura's team there's too many gaps in character and plot development. I don't even have total faith that Miura actually revealed his outlines for the rest of the story and ending.

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Imo they don't know how to draw "haggard" without going "skinny"

>>279630989
Did Miura know he was going to die soon?
If so he should have just done the Fuji route of bare minimum art to finish the story and then when he dies just have his studio do the art

>>279631056
His death was sudden and unexpected.

>>279618610
There's no way skullknight doesn't show up and fuck shit up, he's not gonna let his bff behind

Or that mask monster will show up again

Or both

>>279631056
No, Miura is one of many middle-aged Japanese men that died from the bad batch of covid vaccines that were administered in Japan.
Not even being a tinfoil hatter here, Japans covid shot has been well documented to contain contaminents that shred the inside of blood vessels. Younger people have the vigor to heal it off, but the older men are very prone to dying from it.
It is why we have lost so many middle aged Japanese men the past 4 years like Miura, Kazuki Takahashi (Yugioh), Akira Toriyama, etc. etc.
They all had underlying issues that the shot complicated.

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And yet God cursed us by letting Boggie2988 and GRRM live.
What a fucked up day.

>>279615274
I doubt Miura ever mentioned it to anyone.

>He Mirua what are the old guys going to do?

>Don't worry I've got it planned now anyway here is more Shireke

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>Hey Miura, what are the old guys going to do?
>Have lunch

People somehow forget Miura wrote the fucking boat. The board has suddenly turned on the manga for no real reason after Miura's death, as if it had been the black swordsman arc for the past 10 years and not exactly the type of story we're reading now.

Remember when Berserk was set in medieval Europe and not medieval India? Good times

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Remember when Guts hunted a new Apostle each week? I miss when Berserk was actually good

>Daiba recognizes that Guts is the only one who might be able to harm Griffith
>Daiba suggests putting Guts and the Dragonslayer into the Man-Made Beherit to transform him into a godlike being
>Guts' friends reject this idea; it's not clear if it'll work, or just kill Guts
>Guts surprises everyone by speaking up and saying that he consents to Daiba's plan
>He's so fucking dejected that either outcome is fine with him: Either dying, or trading his humanity for the power to kill Griffith
>Guts enters the MMB
>As predicted, Guts' Brand of Sacrifice causes a strange reaction within the MMB, infusing him with enormous amounts of energy from the Astral World
>It's like the "Great Wave of the Astral World" but in reverse
>Guts is reborn as something monstrous and inhuman
>Guts' humanity is lost forever, but in the process, he has been transformed into something like an Anti-Godhand
>Guts' personality, memories and ability to speak are completely gone, but he knows one thing: He wants to hunt and kill someone named Griffith

>Guts arrives at Falconia, starts fucking shit up
>Griffith shows up to stop him
>Guts' Beherit ends up in the hands of Princess Charlotte
"I sacrifice"
>God Hand spawn in
>Skull Knight swoops in, kills most of them, sacrifices himself to kill Void
>Only Griffith, Guts, and a handful of main characters are left standing
>Guts kills Griffith
>Now he's just a wild beast who is going to cause more destruction than Griffith ever did
>Casca kills him
>The end

>>279630868
Every 2 weeks.

>>279631639
Nice desu, this means we're hitting at least 4 chapters this year

>>279631549
How is skully even able to kill all the god hands now?
And casca's still disabled.

>>279621278
I don't see what's wrong

>>279629224
I hope it's a callback to his year with Godo and he needs to find his passion again but can see it being a lot more depressing

>>279630184
The BotH were nothing but people that needed to die. Guys like Pippin and Corkus were one note and Judeau is over hyped. I mean who really died in the Eclipse? 50 background characters and 3 characters that kind of had a background?

>>279630590
Literally only Judeau was fleshed out and even then it was a single conversation with Guts and a secondary conversation before he died. He wasn't much more than someone that had to die and I'm interested in how they bring him back via Casca's trauma.

>>279631549
I think this is going against the themes of the manga 2bh. But the Man Made Behelit is probably going to play a part, assuming it wasn't destroyed by Ganishka's Shiva form. I assume that Daiba has some sort of plan but it doesn't necessarily need to be the actual contraption - I took the flashback to the Man Made Behelit to be more like a reminder that Daiba is like a hidden hand that's always planning something

>>279631549
Very unsatisfying ngl. Also the moonlight boy will kill Griffith, or at least play a big part. I do think guts will die though. But there will be a consolation prize. Like he will lord over the astral realm and perform the duties of the godhand since he killed them all. I also think there will also be a way for him to see caska and his boy - Miura said it would have a happy ending. Maybe some magic allows him to trade places with his son where his son becomes mortal and guts is incarnated every full moon.

>>279632973
The ending has been choreographed right before the Eclipse.
>Griffith has a dream about a quiet life with Casca where he's being cared for and has a dog companion and child which he rejects
>Guts wants Griffith to see him as an equal so he'll take the life Griffith thought he could have but rejected
>Guts has acquired a magic power up that is draining his senses to save Casca
>Casca has been cared for by Guts for most of the manga and sees him as an attack dog
Guts will get that quiet life but will be basically crippled, with the role reversal of Casca caring for him not because she has to but because she wants to, again an inversion of her conversation with Guts about how she feels burdened to look after Griffith. Like this will literally be the last chapter. How we get there I don't know.

>>279631549
Nice fanfic.

>>279631426
>People somehow forget Miura wrote the fucking boat
Miura wrote the sea god arc, which was nothing but Guts slashing tentacles and other seafood.

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>>279631426
>suddenly turned on the manga for no real reason after Miura's death
it's almost as if a bunch of talentless hacks who have no idea what they're doing took over after the actual mangaka died

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I wish we could see something about medieval Russia but watching how Mori is rushing things I seriously doubt it. Also what did Griffith said a couple of chapters ago? did he wanted to go to Not India too?

Yes

Guts has barely spoken a full line of dialogue since 364.
I don't get Mori's autism about not including dialogue and character development because he thinks that'd be disrespectful to Miura.
You're already apeing the manga, just go all out.

>>279615385
Only when we get a naked loli will it truly be back

>>279611782
Based Broderick.

>>279635128
they don't know how to draw guts what makes you think they know how to write him?

>>279635128
It'll probably be even worse once he actually starts talking. These guys aren't good at storytelling. Guts went from the biggest willpower monster in anime to a gormless wreck in a hilariously quick fashion. It's a good example of how important the HOW is, as opposed to just WHAT happens. Because I'm sure Miura intended this to be a very low moment for him, but if it were the real Guts it would feel earned, instead of him just looking like a child whose toy got taken.

>>279635128
There's plenty of flavour text etc but for the big arcs I'm assuming he's trying to build around some key lines.

Guts' "Angel of Death" speech in his head sounded very Miura, like it was exactly what Miura would have written in my IMO

>>279611938
kys

>>279633546
Yeah it's also Guts slowly killing himself with the berserker armor which is what culminated in what we're reading now.
Muh revenge has been finally revealed as the cope it always has been throughout the entire story, and the result is that Guts is an emaciated suicidal husk. Guts hasn't been the shonen MC determinationfag fans still make him out to be since the conviction arc ended.
Mori already had Silat confront Guts and Isidoro is probably gonna be next in 382. My only real gripe is that Puck still hasn't said something yet, I wish he would be treated as a real character again and not a chibi mascot.

>>279635128
he's depressed and drugged up right now desu

>>279636759
it's not like guts has been wearing it for fun, he's been in mortal danger being chased by things he can't kill without it by no choice of his own

>>279636759
>Guts hasn't been the shonen MC determinationfag fans still make him out to be
That should have been obvious ever since he tried to rape casca.

>>279637366
it's funny how that was memoryholed

>>279636998
You're right but it means the conviction arc moment where he screams he's a real human bean and not like the apostles means that the armor getting taken away from him and the mental breakdown is the only way for him to come through this arc as himself, and not lose his humanity and go insane like skully, ganishka, etc etc
I trust the plan

>>279630116
>Casca (whom he planned to die in the eclipse originally)
Source?

>>279635874
He peaked in vol 27

The assistants have become considerably more skilled art-wise. Even the paneling is pretty good if rather conventional.

Also is it still digital? It feels like they went back to traditional.

>>279633054
Where does Isidro fit into this?

>>279637741
https://berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Berserk_Official_Guidebook_Interview

I think it was this interview from 2017. Really illuminative interview in general.

>And to everyone who's been reading along since the old days, Berserk is still moving ahead as it always has. I suspect you drift away at times when gaps open up in the serialization schedule, but please come back when you get curious. I'm still here working on Berserk. And I want to maintain my health as I somehow make it to the conclusion. As ever, here's to the future!

Sad...

>>279638366
>The point I had to pay attention to was making sure the flow of the story wasn't completely severed with the Eclipse. That's why I spared Casca. If she had died and the serialization had continued for a long time, I feared the reason for revenge would become something of the past; and if Guts were to establish new relationships, then his incentive would waver. It may seem calculating and unpleasant, but it's because Casca's by his side that he can never forget the Eclipse.
How does this imply that Casca was originally meant to die? If anything it's the opposite. Here's a different (I assume older) translation I found:
>The only point I was cautious about was not to completely stop the story's flow with the Eclipse. I kept Casca alive precisely for that reason. That's because even if she died, and if the series continued for a long time, Guts' reason the seek revenge would become a thing of the past and if Guts formed new relationships with people, his motivation would weaken. It's a cold, calculating move and it might feel unpleasant, but it's exactly because Guts has Casca at his side that he can never forget about the Eclipse.

I haven't kept up since Miura passed, how has the continuation been received so far? Writing specifically. Does it look like they'll be able to give Berserk a worthy ending?

>>279638646
Some things feel off and clumsy, but others are obvious improvements, specifically Puck, who has not turned into a chestnut even once under Studio Gaga.

>>279638235
>The assistants have become considerably more skilled art-wise. Even the paneling is pretty good if rather conventional.
I find their stuff to be vastly inconsistent. On chapter they're able to do amazing things and the next it gets rather bland. One thing's for sure, they are not slacking off, panels are usually very busy.

Shoujoserk is real...

I'd say Guts and his crew of warriors (along with a newly re badassed Casca) lead an army of good spiris from Elfheim and EVERYONE GUTS HAS EVER HELPED take the fight to Falconia.

As the humans and Spirits kill their way to Griffith's throne room, the Godhand feel fear for the first time EVER. The Band of the Wolf (my nickname for Guts and co) take on the Neo Hawks. Guts fights Zodd, Azan fights Grunbeld, Irvine goes up against Isidro and Schierke. Locus fights Serpico. While fighting Zodd, Guts nearly gives in to The Beast, but finds a balance in it, the middle ground between righteous fury and blind rage. Now, he can fight at full strength without....well going nuts. After handily defeating their foes, Skull Knight and Guts' Band take on the Godhand.

Guts fights Griffith, Farnese and Casca fight Slan, The kids team up to fight Ubik, Skull Knight goes Immediately after Void, leaving Conrad for Sepico and Azan.

The Battle begins, and The IOE starts to interfere to make sure his Godhand win. But suddenly, his powers are blocked by something. A new force appears before the IOE, A being of brilliant light and darkest shadow. It explains itself. "If there is an Idea of Evil, would there not be an Idea of Good as well, a spirit of hope that no matter what, if we can live for the next day, things can improve?" He then forces the IOE to sit the match out, to see if "Man or monster is stronger."

The heroes kill the Godhand, but Guts stays his final attack, instead allowing Casca to kill Griffith. As the battle ends, humans have won. The IOG smiles, then turns to the IOE. "And now we know. Hope beats despair." The IOE snarls that "Evil will never die" only for the Idea of Good to reply "But it will fall. Time and time again."

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>>279640034
Timeskip to 9 years later. A village is celebrating their heroes saving them from an attack by monsters. The two who saved them? A man, dual wielding a Cutlass and Lava dagger, with orange hair and a woman, a sorceress with bright green hair. The two walk away, wonfering what the others are doing.

Cut to Roderick and Farnese arguing with some nobles about how to spread the power of the new "Council of Midland". One makes a threatening move, and Serpico takes his hand.....at the wrist.

Cut to Puck and Everella flying with other fairies.

Final cut, to someone we DON'T know. A young boy, training with a sword all alone. Long dark hair, pointed ears, wearing black and brown clothing. Small monsters swarm him as the sun sets, and he gives them a VERY familiar smile. He mows them down, only for a huge Ogre to block his path. The boy doesn't even look afraid. The Ogre roars.....and gets bisected and his head cut off. Standing there in the dying light, capes floating in the breeze, The boys parents. Guts and Casca. The boy smiles, then runs in to hug them.

The Final page is blank, except for the closing narration: In this world, man is destined to struggle. He will be beaten, tried, and broken. But, those who struggle and fight, those who never give up, will find happiness in a world gone Berserk.

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The ending

>>279612053
>>279616702
>>279612158

>>279612023
>zawa

>>279611782
SERPICO BROS WE'RE SO IN

>>279640131
I am not a funny man

>>279612188
shierke > molda

>>279640034
I don't think they'll fight every single Godhand member. Griffith for sure and maybe Slan but I imagine the most we'll see is a glimpse of the Skull Knight charging towards Void and the others to buy Guts time to do his thing.

>>279631125
>Kazuki Takahashi (Yugioh), Akira Toriyama
>middle aged
Kinda stretching "middle aged" there. Not trying to diminish the rest of your point to be clear.

>>279638288
I don't know but at this point I'm convinced that will be the epilogue chapter

>>279640298
People in these threads are too young to remember bagposting anyway

>>279630881
This. Fuckin this. This looks beyond horrible. Let manga one,its author died. Its ended with him.

Fuck this. Fuck.

>>279641296
And yet you're still here, like a hawk, every time a new chapter comes out.
Why is that?

>>279640034
>>279640057
nobody asked

>>279629435
nah, we need him now more than ever

>>279641546
These are the jokes you will get and you will be happy>>279612208

>>279611694 (OP)
LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>279641563
>people ACTUALLY dislike this
he's the ultimate pleb filter

>>279633980
Genuinely zero reading comprehension in this post. Impressive.

>>279638366
Is the Official Guidebook a good read?

this is so fucking bad. Mori you fucking hack and liar.

>>279642867
Could you elaborate on that?

>>279641326
Fuck u little piece of shit

>>279643058
Just look at fucking art u stupid fuck,also story goes nowhere. Go kill yourself little bitch

>>279642645
It's bad, it has a lot of fan speculation and those stat charts like they have for shonen manga.
Aside from a few jokes and Miura's interview, it's not worth it.

Please let it die already

>>279640131
Here's a version without ellipses.

>>279641326
>>279642252
>>279643058
why is this shill in every thread? did the redditors migrate or something?

>>279617992
That makes it even worse, you idiot. They stand to gain nothing in any real sense from continuing this rotting corpse of a manga and yet they still drag it and drag it, making it decompose further and further. Either Mori is in denial and doesn't want to let it go because it connects him to Miura or he's being paid by the magazine to keep it going artificially which is just as bad.

>>279637366
>>279637447
I mean, after all the shit that's happened to him he only had 1 bad moment, and after all the shit he did for her I don't think Casca cares about it that much.

>>279645592
These people forget that he literally choked her and she forgave him instantly. I think her dream makes it obvious that she forgave him for the tit bite (though it did disturb her which is why she feared him after that). She even saw herself as a burden on him.

>>279641326
Chestnut Puck deprivation.

Surely Berserk will end in my lifetime right?
I wont be a grandad when it happens right?

>>279611694 (OP)
Am I stupid or did they completely skip over what happened to Rakshas? Last I remember we left off with Silat approaching Rakshas and Guts in the cell, and then ending on a cliffhanger. And now it just skips to the city being safe...

I thought the post-Miura continuation was meant to tell the story in extremely broad strokes. This pacing is slow as fuck.

>>279645819
She's been afraid of him since the Eclipse.
Every time she see's his face she thinks about him screaming while his eye is being gouged while Griffith rapes her

>>279646525
Rakshas melted after Silat shanked him. Might not be the end of him, Apostles usually revert to their human forms when they die but only time will tell.

>>279646864
If it was Mirua we'd still be on the island trying to get everyone on a boat to safety.

>>279615616
>Hag Casca

>>279646987
Oh I didn't realize that he was supposed to be defeated, I thought it was more of a first strike kind of thing
he's definitely coming back, if the fire didn't kill him that won't

>>279646987
>Apostles usually revert to their human forms when they die
Besides Wylad and Slug, when does this happen?
I don't remember thing happening to the Pig dude, or the Snake guy, or Roasine.
Also when Guts put on the Berserker armor for the first time and killed 20 of them, we didn't see all their souls be dragged down.
I think it happens, we just don't see it since it would be annoying to draw every time.

>>279615573
>reddit spacing
>using the term slop
Go back to twitter

>>279631426
We were all so excited to get off of Namek, that we forgot Namek existed when they stepped foot off of the boat. There was so much hype when we finally got to Elfhelm. It was like reaching the end of the rainbow

>>279643353
I'll tell you what Anon, I'm gonna give you another shot at that, and maybe this time you can type it without crying.

>>279645055
>Either Mori is in denial and doesn't want to let it go because it connects him to Miura or he's being paid by the magazine to keep it going artificially which is just as bad.
I wonder what's the "climax that can only be told in manga form" that he keeps talking about. Is it a second eclipse?
Because the continuation was initially just going to be some sort of novelization with illustrations.

>>279647048
Pig dude got turned into gore for Rickert to clean up, Snake Count got burned after having his head blown away, and we never saw Rosine actually die, she flew away before Jill could see it happen.

>>279643473
Surely you mean release faster.

>>279640131
Nice

>>279612188
sad flapjack tits

>>279612228
Thank you for posting.

>>279646987
Doesn't mean anything, these continuation guys don't know the rules.

>>279633054
I agree with this, but to add on, I think the Moonlight boy will be permanent and I think Griffith's spirit/soul will remain in the moonlight boy, so he can see the world through his eyes and be close to Guts and Casca still.

>>279635874
I think Vol 3 and 4 are the best
Vol 9+ the art style is too clean/detailed

>>279638646
Felt amateurish at first but it’s slowly getting there. On the plus side the pacing is much better

>>279646465
I'm sorry Desha, but this series won't be ending for at least 10 more years.

>>279611728
so why is it that costantinople is still standing, when they just lost a large invasion force and a single apostle can fuck them up like that?

>>279611701
>hagia sophia
So not-Byzantines existed?

How come no other apostle reawakens their Behelit like Slug Count did?
Seems like it would be pretty handy, although they weren't near anyone they could sacrifice so I guess that could be explained.

>>279643353
I'll give you the art but the story is progressing more under Studio Gaga than it did for 15 years under Miura, what are you smoking?

Motherfucker, why the fuck did you have to die, Miura you faggot?

>>279654466
Who's that in the middle? She smol

>>279654335
They have no need to? You need a very strong desire to call them and as long as they're not about to die I doubt they see any point in calling them.

>>279611694 (OP)
Repeat after me: There are only 41 berserk volumes

>>279618949
This panel fills me despair and rage.

>>279637447
It wasn't really, it's the whole reason that Casca goes 150 chapters being terrified of him. She probably remembers it which is partly why she freaks out when she sees Guts.

>>279645055
>They stand to gain nothing in any real sense from continuing
They were good friends with Miura and want to see his work completed. Not having any friends I can see why you'd have a hard time understanding.

>>279646987
Like 2 times in the history of the manga has this happened. Guts killed off literal scores of them before fighting Grunbeld and not a single one reverted to their human form.

>>279638646
The writing is breakneck compared to Miura. If Miura were still writing it we'd still be on the boat with the Kushans. There would be a planned 3 chapter arc of world building in the Kushan Capitol

>>279654335
I'm not sure of the answer but Slug Count wanted to keep a hold of his, maybe the other Apostles simply didn't have theirs and fate didn't want them to have it.

I think there's something to the Slug Count being offered to ascend again. I think the Godhand always planned for a twice reincarnated Apostle to bridge the gap between the real world and the astral world - like if it could have been done back with the Slug Count we could have seen Fantasia happen long before Shiva.

>>279646987
>>279656269

He literally said he died when he ate the cannon shot but somehow survived in chapter 387

>>279645055
Mori is the Japanese version of Brian Herbert, son of Dune creator, Frank Herbert, who has been grifting Dune fans for 61 years over the existence or non-existence of his father's Dune notes that he uses as a basis to justify his own Dune novels as canon yet he refuses to publish or share his father's Dune notes to the public. Brian Herbert even refuses to take a photograph of his father's Dune notes.

>>279638646
The pacing is much faster and while plot is moving it doesn't really give us those quiet, reflective moments with the characters. Art is on par or better than Elfhelm. No chestnut Puck, no gags. Guts has been very different than we've ever seen him since he's been completely devastated post Elfhelm, which I respect Studio Gaga for as they took a risk with that characterization less confident writers wouldn't do. It's just missing that special something

>>279656404
Probably hinting at Godhand shenanigans now the astral world is in the real world

>>279656404
I wonder what death looks like from an Apostles point of view. Like does he have memories of being in the Abyss? That would surely pinpoint whether or not he actually died I suppose

>>279656729
It looks liked the vortex of souls in the sky when Rakshas first appeared, but that seems to have went nowhere.

>>279656437
>No chestnut Puck, no gags.
This is a bad thing.

>>279635874
Tower of Conviction was peak Berserk

>>279635874
Berserk went directionless ever since the Falconia arc.