Are there any boomers on /a/ who read the eclipse as it released? They'd probably have to be japanese since berserk didn't have much of a western audience until the 1997 anime.
Ironically Miura made a similarly faustian bargain to come up with a plot twist so traumatizing to the general public that it would enshrine his work forever but the catch was that it would largely be famous for that sole twist and he would never see his work properly finished. Really makes you think
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He couldn't admit to himself that he loved Guts, not because of internalized homophobia or anything but because he was afraid of being vulnerable. Hence why he sacrificed everyone who had just saved him in exchange for wings and limitless Godhood.