Regrets of a Foolish King (Berserk)
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The latest chapter of Berserk marks a monumental milestone in the series in getting glimpses of the Skull Knights mysterious past. In this video, I would like to discuss how what we see of Skull Knights journey mirrors what Guts has experienced thus far on his quest. In exploring Skull Knights past, all we are left with is a hollow feeling.. of regrets of a Foolish King.
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A moment of silence to all the strugglers who didn't make it to this chapter
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Really just continues the parallels between SK and Guts. They're both going down in history as horrible men whilst their hated enemies get treated as saints.
I'll never consider griffith 9r any of the godhand as saints, guts and SK went down a dark path all for the sake of revenge, but what the godhand do is just barbaric
I think he meant saint because they treated the godhands like a savior or a god.
Well guts is known as the black swordsman and I'm sure some people just see him as the black demon or a monster.
Oh it ain't over yet my man. We'll see who's the monster and who's the hero by the end of this story...
But us people over the 4th wall know these 2 are the good guys
Hey everyone. Apologies for the 7 month Hiatus. Combined with Lockdown, getting a new job, mental health struggles and just general life stuff I found it really difficult to actually make a video. I had around 2-3 scripts that I canned because I thought they weren't good enough for release. I'm feeling better now and want to make this a lot more frequent. I want to say how much I appreciate everyone sticking around. My videos still have a lot of engagement despite me being inactive and it amazes me the amount of support I've been getting. I may be a bit rusty after this long hiatus but hope you enjoy the video regardless!"
No problem man. We, Berserk fans, are used to waiting ;3
Hang in there!
Even if you don't upload ever again, you will always be the goat in my heart
Thank you for the great video. Glad to see you back.
Also Berserk = Struggle = Waiting is a linked cycle so take as much time as you need, when doing your scripts.
Hope you find better time for the rest of 2020 and find yourself rejuvenated in 2021.
Thank you for your videos
I’m surprised you didn’t touch on how similar Skull Knights girl looks looks to Danann. She even has “elven” imagery all over her jewelry.
I actually did notice that on my first read but had a complete brain fart during the scripting process and forgot to mention it. Shes also got the same jewel on her forehead like Dannan. Puck said that SK had an elven aura to him when they first met so this connects the dots even more
Yeah, SK lover could be related to Danaan for all we know from the looks alone. But her ears is not long Danaan so maybe not elven race monarch?? her jewelry had fairy antenna lady instead & her upper head wasn't shown, including crescent moon symbol. maybe Fairy moon goddess Selene/Luna??
@@crozraven maybe similar to how apostles are “reincarnated” during the ceremony into their demonic form, maybe SK’s lover underwent a “good” type of ceremony, maybe something of ancient elven magic, and she was “reincarnated” into the form of Danann. Maybe SK found some magical ritual after this event and used it to try and bring his girl back to life?
@@Etticos. apostles didn't reincarnated, they were corrupted into a demonic beings. People who made an evil pact & called via behelits weren't dead, just in the moment of great desperation or maybe on the brink of death. Only god hand like Femto/Griffith is so far have a direct case of rebirth/reincarnation. So I doubt this is a similar case, more about being related to astral race with Danann (like elfs, fairies, dragons, trolls, etc)
She also looks like Griffith
You said the woman Skull Knight is holding can’t be related to Void becoming a god hand because she is still alive with the brand, but I thinks that’s exactly what it is. Remember Casca and guts are branded and yet Griffith became Femto without them being sacrificed. Also the backdrop of the landscape being one massive brand is the kingdom becoming THE sacrifice that made Void. So I believe this event is indeed the moment that created Void. You see Void is in the centre as the main Godhand, like Femto in his eclipse, perhaps another indication. It’s strongly indicated that Skull Knights demise was in line with Voids creation, just like Guts and Griffith becoming Femto.
This is what I thought as well. I just want to add that Judeau and Casca not being sure whether there were 4 or 5 angels lends further credence to this theory. It could be that 4 members of the God Hand arrived but after the ceremony there were 5 as Void had just joined them.
I think it's Slan.
Look at the hair.
It's Lust. I made another post about it in more detail but.... look.
@@BigMac8000 I don't think it's Slan because
1). She's been branded
2). She would have been dead for 200+ years before sacrificing something
Yet instead of a dark sun...
A hall of horrors it all was.
Daaaumm
it all looks like a Ceremony for Void. remember, femto was transformed without guts and Casca being sacrificed
I think so too. Void is the 5th
Precisely
I Love how skull knight and Guts are humans that Just refuse to surrender on a fight that they can(not) win (yet?)
Skull knight is so badass he's zodds nemesis.
@@Ropewatch Skull Knight is so badass he doesn't even acknowledge Zodd as his nemesis
Plot Twist: Void is the main villain and consumed/killed the other godhand members over hundreds of years, explaining why Gaiseric has been unable to kill him after such a long time, and why Void is the only member still present from what seems to be the original godhand. After all his brain's big enough he probably has some sort of master plan tbh
I feel the same way.
Or he could potentially be the Wise Sage that was imprisoned, similar to how Griffith sacrificed the band of the hawk only leaving Casca and Guts, Void could have sacrificed the whole kingdom that Skullknight used to have, only difference here is that this time, Skullknight and his lady both died.
One thing I tend to think about is the fact that there is an abyss you cannot return from meaning that perhaps god hand members decide to/ are pulled into the abyss and they can only alter the flow of causality for so long until the are pulled by it themselves. Kinda like a singularity.
My theory is that Skull Knight aka Gaiseric's Kingdom was the eclipse's first sacrifice and he wore the Berserker armor after his lover died and allowed him to survive the eclipse.
Which is also why he saved Guts and Casca because he couldn't save his lover in the past and didn't want Guts to feel how he felt
What would've happened in the eclipse, for sure, guts would've died, there was no way around it until SK saved his and casca, but casca being raped by femto, could've meant he had plans for her in the long run, that moment could've also been meant to rub salt on guts wounds
ITS A MOUTH I REALISE THE ERROR OF MY WAYS LET ME BE A BIG DUMB IN PEACE
You know it's a good chapter when Spired returns!
+ Void was seemed to be the new leader of an era, just like Femto as the last member & the leader of Fantasia era.
+ SK is King Gaiseric is pretty much confirmed imo.
+ Now my there is a high possibility that the Holy See/White Falcon (pseudo christian) religion is very much Void's creation as he was the mysterious sage/prophet, sacrificing a whole kingdom to be godhand member.
+ SK lover that being branded/sacrificed is likely a princess/queen of elven or fairy or even an extinct race. That's my best guess. her jewelry also have crescent moon symbol, akin to the symbol of moon goddess Selene/Luna.
+ MAYBE, this SK memories depicted a PROTO GODHAND era, where the ultimate force/magic of evil yet being established clearly. It's when we finally get the births of behelits & apostles for the age of dwindling magics (gone into rigid system beliefs like white hawk religion).
Here is a possible comparison between god hands:
1. Void/Femto: themes about faith, religions, & messiah complex
2. grape-like female god hand/slan: themes about sexual desires, between fertility/motherhood & sadomasochism
3. O face lion/Ubik: themes about manipulation, deception, hungry for control??
4. Crystal Zeus- Ganishka/Conrad: Stoistic, wrath, natural disasters, plagues & diseases??
5. Mouth head & skeleton body: empty, braindead, undead, famine, desperation?? (also, kinda remind me the state of Griffith after being tortured for years/before his eclipse. No face, just dried mouth & broken body)
@Nikzedik Slan & SK interactions were far too distant to be called past lovers. Also Slan was very like a human in the past & SK called her the Whore Princess of Uterine Sea (likely alluded to the IRL mythos of whore of babylon)
@Nikzedik Also, SK lover was "branded" aka being sacrificed. A branded person can't be a god hand (& so far none).
The fact that, sk lover died aparently without fear tells me that sur may have sacrificed herself to allow gaiserick to become thé Undead skullknight. Unlike post people branded she doesn't appear to be injured. And she dies without being devoured. At here death, thé apearance of thé brand to me signifies the fulfilment of thé sacrifice. But if it IS Indeed a sacrifice, who sacrificed who? I dont think gaiseric sacrificed the girl. For more power.i think she may have given here life so SK would survive
@@monovengbitegheclaudearmel1441 hmm ...that could be very interesting theory. A possible deal was made between SK lover & VOID of which one should be given the brand of sacrifice as she chose herself to save Gaiseric/SK, even though in the end he became a dead man stalking the endless night ...
@@crozraven i believe void may have mislead her into believing to would end both suffering. as we all know that void seem to understand causality to a point where he could predict the actions of sk would lead to SK crushing ganishka.thus allowing Femto to be reborn. It seem like all of them are being manipulated.
My theory is that these four God Hand members are the originals, and unlike the current reincarnates, may have always existed, like the Four Kings. My reasoning is that they lack the human/demon fusion designs of the current God Hand, they look too abstract. Also one of them looks an awful lot like the Venus of Willendorf, a goddess statue dating back to the stone age, which would imply that these entities have been around for most of human history. It also hints at why, despite weaving mans destiny, the God Hand began only 1000 years ago.
If i remember correctly, there IS a new God Hans Every 250 years.
@@monovengbitegheclaudearmel1441 *every 216 years
That one God Hand also has a design that resembles Artemis of Ephesus
I have a similar theory, they lack human resemblance they could be possibly astral entities that chose the idea of evil and became godhand members since this happened a thousand years ago humanity was still young more innocent and i believe i may be wrong that Flora or Shierke mentioned long ago humanity and astral spirits lived in harmony and the elements were respected i think there a was also mention that the old kingdom or Gaseric joined the spiriutal and human live together something like that.
What if these 4 godband were the angels sent to destroy Gaiseric's Kingdom
Something to take note of is the amount of angels that came down that erased SK's kingdom in a single night. One said 5 angels, but another corrected and said 4 angels. This was likely Void's ascend to Godhood.
The brand is on the foreheads of all the skulls in the tower of conviction, which is strange... unless it was possibly another artificial ritual like the previous arc. Maybe the previous Godhands were incarnated one at a time then replaced
To be honest I pretty notice that when we see the ceremonial from skull nights past, it said 5 angels came and smite the city.
If we go back when guts went to save casca the same thing happened, the big brand of sacrifice looming the night and the "5 Angels" appear. I forgot the guy with the square head and his followers but I just want to point that out how its almost similar.
A fallen city, the brand of sacrifice appears as a standing point, the 5 angel's appear as the 5th member of the God hand is reborn
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I agree. Also note:
The skull knight told Guts multiple times: "You have to choose to either fight or protect her", and he was referring to the incarnation of Griffith where he had to either protect Casca or fight. With help of his friends he did both. If that memory was Void's incarnation ceremony, and skull knight chose to "fight", it's how his woman died, it's why he kept warning Guts.
People are not pointing that out, but it's a pretty clear correlation, on top of the giant mark, and the same location/angel numbers. I have no idea why people insist that's an eclipse... literally nothing points out to it being an eclipse??
@@sebaba001 one more important thing is the lack of an actual you know.. Eclipse
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Right? What eclipse there's none in that flashback.
The jokes in this video were lackluster, but it's okay Spired, you will get points for effort.
Wouldn't be a spired video without some bad jokes!
@@spired8890 I've got a joke, what did my friend lie to me about to make me sad?
@@natesavage3576 I don't know. What did the friend lie about?
@@spired8890 He lied that you made a video and I cried, then I punched my friend because your uploads aren't something to joke about.
@@natesavage3576 that was cringe and bad and you should be ashamed of yourself
One thing I noticed is that the "female" Godhand has fins/tentacles around her neck exactly like the ones Ubik has.
The left most Godhand is probably a giant like Grunbeld, the one next to him doesn't look like the horse's armor motif to me but looks like an ancient fish/dinosaur thing, the "female" Godhand is most likely based on the Artemis of Ephesus and is a "goddess" of fertility
I also think that Gaiseric's "queen" looks a lot like an elf, maybe like Danann
Nietzsche's philosophy has been very influential in Berserk and I think we are now seeing the Eternal Return (which actually is much older than Nietzsche).
Looks to me as if the world of Berserk is caught in a Ouroboros spiral, a gnostic world.
Berserk is evolving to become more influenced by Jung IMO. I believe the Nietzsche influence is fading or possibly a red herring
@@NobleBruv definitely, strong Jungian themes are getting prevalent. Indeed Jung was himself heavily influenced by the gnostics and Nietzsche. We are probably seeing Miura's own worldview develop in the years.
@@NobleBruv there's a UA-cam channel called Mercurial Man which goes quite deep in the Jungian reading of Berserk
@@HeloIV The way I've personally seen it, Guts character resemblance of Nietzsche started after the Eclipse, plateaued during the conviction arc, and ended the moment the berserker armor was put on. The Jungian plateau I think is a matter of whether or not Guts can conquer and tame his inner demon as a force for good.
very very gnostic on the shell and lovecraftian yet there is still an undertone of good like the elementals and good spirits Flora was all about even the Elves being benevolent in nature even the dark ones. Berserk seems to be a mix of many things.
In retrospect i have to go with Void = the Sage and what Guts sees in Ch 361 being the eclipse right after Void had become the 5th "angel"
"The year is 1995, I had not yet been born into this world"
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Came for Berserk, left feeling mad old...
this is actually the only video about this chapter that wasnt producte in high speed to be the first one reporting about it with spoilers in title etc to gain as many views as possible
this is just amazing to watch
As i mentioned somewhere on this thread, the other( you onow which ones) are not the greatest of critics
Elfish woman blackout begs the question of what happened right after SK died. Did the consumed armour destroy the elf? Could be an important hint with respect to armoured Guts and Casca's fear.
Also the final SK quote is a nice literal callback to how SK could only materialize during the full moon night until a year before the eclipse. I think the Tower of Death, the astronomic tie to the moon, and the tie between the armour and the idea are the main missing pieces left to solving the mystery element of Berserk.
Good use of ico sound track. Collapse is one of my favorite songs from it, recognized it immediately.
Feels sort of simple, it mirror's Guts'/Casca's Story but isn't anything we've seen, it showcases where Guts will inevitably find himself next time he sees all 5 God Hand. King Gaiseric's kingdom was destroyed by the 4 god hand in an eclipse ceremony where the sage(void?) became the fifth member. Both Gaiseric and his beloved managed to escape the sacrifice with brands after-which SK commissioned Hanarr to make him a suit of enchanted plate armour so that he could challenge the god hand/void. While combatting them in the midst of some kind of ceremony he loses the woman he loved and falls into his final rage where the armour takes over. This sequence is sometime after the eclipse that caused Gaiseric to rampage and I imagine it's related to the death of the four unknown god hand members, perhaps at the hand of a fully lost berserking SK. I can't imagine SK used an armour that could kill him until after his kingdom was already gone, in some ways it is a behelit, where you must sacrifice in order to acquire extreme power, you'd only use it out of desperation.
This chapter while short was so good. Really brought back the hype for this manga.
It's an honour for me to live at the time when I can see by my own eyes new chapter and already one of the best in the whole Berserk series. And I'm sure it will remain so by the end of this millenium story.
Miura's bonfire is still flaming.
About the part with the lady with the brand, it still could be voids 'ascension' still and that she stayed alive long enough to witness it, much like guts and casca, i can imagine SK going absolutely ham on demons to get to her/protect her, and they were both still alive when his transformation was complete. However i feel like a massive curveball could be that SK accidently killed her while trying to protect her in the armour because as you said, the only thing he could focus on was the godhand.
That woman he was holding? Don't you all recognize her?
It's Slan. It's Lust. Look at her face!
The covered eye! The flowy hair! The overly pouty lips. The crazy empty eyes? Try not to think about the physicality, because Griffith came back with even more flourish than he had in life - his plain humble features replaced with perfect curls. Her nose has changed, and her physical body, but the motif's are the exact same.
It's no coincidence.
The biggest evidence? She's not scared. In that scenario she should be terrified but she's calm, she's peaceful even. It's not love, she's not even looking at the King. It's... rapture. Seeing the king's blood drain out of him, seeing him sacrifice himself for her, it's her ultimate turn-on, she's in a state of bliss watching it.
This scene is way more complicated than it seems. Skull Knight sacrificed his human form using the armor - the Apostles didn't eat him, but it accomplished the same thing. He sacrificed his world for this woman, his own flesh, and sacrificed himself FOR her. Narratively this makes perfect sense - Lust loves the flesh, and a god-king such as Skull Knight in his human form might be the ultimate specimen. Getting him to sacrifice himself for her, in body, would be the perfect ascension. If the king sacrificed his kingdom for power, and then she sacrificed him to be the Godhand, this would explain why he's going after void.
She sacrificed him - he achieved a brand on his body, but when his flesh was stripped away, so was the brand. When she became an apostle her flesh was stripped away - which is why she has to absorb herself into material matter to reconstitute, her brand was stripped away, if she were to take material form likely the brand would return. The hypocrisy of that is outstanding.
She betrayed him, which is why he deems himself foolish. He goes after Void because Void orchestrated the whole thing... but moreso because he can't handle going after Lust. He probably still cares for her, even now, and Void is so much easier to throw your hate at.
Meanwhile if he exposed his connection to Lust, they wouldn't work with him, and he very clearly has been keeping secrets - this must be why. Lust... is his weak spot.
Want more proof?
Look at her headdress.
A butterfly.
A creature that folds into a cocoon and then erupts into a higher state of being. The fey necklace she has signifies her dreams - the fey worship nature, not other fey, she dreamt of becoming a "fey" via a "cocoon" and that's a human interpretation of the fey. Her clasps on the dress? Two spirals, much like the void of souls spiraling into eternity. The crescent moon? A partial eclipse. Incomplete. An eclipse happens when you're about to sacrifice a lot, and to make a major change - but the birth of a lesser godhand only created a partial eclipse. The flowers too - cocoons, with drops of blood. A partial eclipse for a partial sacrifice - Skull Knight's "Body", Lusts "Body" and a kingdom... but nobody feasts so the ascension is only partial. The only victims were the kingdom, but something went sideways - all their heads are intact and they placed the marks themselves. They wanted this. They thought this would be some kind of ascension perhaps, a heaven of magic.
Want more?
Look at the earrings.
Six points.
I know you're thinking "But shouldn't it be five to be symbolically relevant?"
Not if she's about to BECOME a godhand.... and there's 5 points present already. This makes her the sixth. There are diamonds in her earrings with 4 points - she will be the fourth godhand before Griffith. Diamonds begin as coal and through hardship, become diamonds. They're symbolic shapes, but show her place is meant to be the 4th.
What happened to the other Godhands? Easy. Skull Knight killed them all or likely had a hand in it. They were destined to die, incomplete versions of the true godhand - or perhaps they metamorphized into Greed.
This kingdom invoked the Godhand into a false eclipse, and created an apostle and a godhand through sacrificing itself, by this convoluted series of events.
This is why Slan is fascinated with Guts - as he walks Skull Knights path, she becomes more and more engrossed. Throwing himself suicidally into the troll nest? It's just like Skull Knight, whom she once manipulated much the same way. It's why she "loves" him, because she's in love with his pain as Skull Knight once did the same.
It seems obvious to me only because of the hair.
We know that look.
Look at the hair. Look at the emotion she's having. People aren't numbed blissfully for this process - unless she was purposefully drugged and died in a state of pure rapture, likely having dosed an incredible amount of something like morphine, which might explain her constant-state of ecstacy.... but either way.
That "look" and that hair is all the evidence I need. We've seen this look before.
Thats a quality shitpost
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Lmao nah
It's a little crazy but,I like your theory and really enjoyed reading all of it
11:25 During the Eclipse Femto manifested without Caska being killed yet. Remember that the brand alone is evidence of being a sacrifice, they don't necessarily need to die, as they're forever marked for the dead. So this unnamed woman still being alive after Void has manifested doesn't rule out this event as a Void-creation event. It'd just make it an even stronger parallel to Gut's experience.
Although I think it's strange that Gaiseric would have berserker armor as early as his first eclipse event though, so I do think there's still big questions left as to the timeline of this. I'd argue maybe it's Gaiseric finally at the 'end boss fight' of his revenge story, facing the Void and the God Hand in the deepest levels upon the Abyss. However that'd make the brands and woman weird inclusions. Perhaps he had to offer her as a sacrifice to obtain the opportunity of this fight? I think I remember dark spirits suggesting Guts use Caska for that purpose before too. Prehaps in an ironic twist of fate, he killed her himself his berserker rage. Completing the sacrifice ceremony and cementing his fate as some form of apostle-like immortal.
Also, I think the Incarnation ceremony and the Eclipse was for King himself.
My theory is that he found out about the "power of abyss" from his sage and wanted it for himself.
Sage knowing what kind of terror it would unleash on the world refused to say anything to protect people of the kingdom, hance he was tortured. But then similarly as with Griffith, God Hand appeared and offered him a way out by revealing the secrets of abyss to the King.
So he forced everyone to carve a mark on their forehead, those were the taxes mentioned in story. Eclipse then consumed the entire kingdom thats why everything is covered in tentalces, which the King was okey with until he saw mark on his wife/daughter.
Then the Sage revealed that if you want to ascend to ranks of God Hand you have to sacrifice everything precious to you. Which Sage already did by telling the King about the Abyss and dooming the entire population of the kingdom.
King then realized what a catastrophe he started, he was fighting to stop the Eclipse started because of him. He obviously failed, but with help of elves and dwarfs he stopped Void's incarnation into the mortal realm by incarnationing his defiance of God into the armor.
Thus creating Skull Knight.
I totally agree with this one, and I think reason why Void and SK cant fight it out to the end is maybe because SK became something like Void at that event, so he searches and waits for Guts, as he might be the one to end it with God Hand, being that Guts wasn't the one that sacrificed something to become a god, like Griffith ,SK or Void
This theory answers why the sage was imprisoned in the first place and why SK said it was the end of *foolish* king.
It seems the skull knight is pursuing the endless darkness, meaning Evil or that entity that is behind the God hand which perpetuates never endless evil.
Furthermore, it might be that the skull night was going to be initiated by the God hand but changed his mind last minute 🤷🏻
I really hope Wits studio adapts the rest of Berserk.
With how similar that scene of the godhand with Void in front is to how Femto’s ascension pose was I think that scene is Void undergoing his own ascension.
Hey, I was thinking what we are seeing could be an eclipse, an incarnation or a third large sacrifice. The third sacrifice being the start of a new 'spiral' ''the end' I.e: Griffith/Void- are imprisoned/tortured-- then Incarnate by sacrificing the people in the tower and descend to Earth as an angel--Then have a third and final sacrifice (once gathering all the people like what Griffith is doing) to start humanity over again and return to the God hand to ensure the same thing happens in 1080 years or whatever.
It's interesting...it's like, Void was the Femto in this memory...the new member among the ancient evil...
I feel kinda bad as I got the first volume of Berserk as a gift for my birthday over the summer, and finally caught up to the manga tonight.
To have THIS chapter be the one I finished on just feels so mean to those who have waited decades for lore like this.
Guess I'm still waiting like the rest of yall, though.
Struck down by 4 angels. The non-Void members of the original God Hand.
03:36 that's how skull Knight defeated 4 god hand but failed defeat Void
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one making the link between the the first GH mentioned and Geiseric's armor.
This chapter was exactly what we all needed after being starved for ages. Despite how short it is, it's brought a lot of life back to this community of strugglers
i think the fact that theres a sacrifice brand sign on the ground always seemed to me that the old capital was sacrificed as a whole, and thats why when the blast of the astral world happened the capital reappeared, thats why im pretty sure there was an incarnation type ceremony but it was sent to the astral world instead of vice versa, Danan (lookalike?) was probably one of the people present at the moment the ceremony happened, now Skullknight might have crashed the occultation like he did when he saved Guts and Casca nad saw somebody he know and perhaps loved being sacrificed by the godhand, now what happened afterward and how it all came to be is still unknown and up to large speculation and i wouldnt go that far... since Gaiseric himself doesnt seem to have been branded so i always believed that he crashed the "party" and i also believe that after fighting the godhand and getting devoured by the armor the remnants of his spirit and the last emotions were engraved into an elven set of armor carried out by Flora, the taboo she apparently broke, backed up by her words how one should never prolong their lives, as if she was scolding herself... if i were ever to speculate i would saythat Flora did leave some barriers, magical spells down deep close to the abyss if Guts and Schierke/Farnese were ever to go that far down, and that since recent chapters Daiba and Morda will play a role one way or the other in helping Guts within the end Arc of Berserk
Such a bomb shell, didn't even know a new chapter would be coming out until RealLifeRyan mentioned it was out in a UA-cam post
Best analysis on yt so far. Congratulation
I play stone cold Steve Austin’s entrance music in my head whenever the Skull Knight enters a scene
The possibly elf woman face dying in his arms reminds me a bit of Slan
You put so much work into this it literally breaks me
I am baffled at how attention much you've payed to every single panel...
I didn't knew those details even existed before you mentioned them...
Great work sir!!
Bearded tentacle guy reminds me of typhon from greek mythology and the one next to him gives me very much oni vibes with the shape of the face.
*its been 84 years* just kidding! Glad to see you back pal. Great content like you never missed a beat. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Fuck I thought muira was losing his eye touch but that panel of skull knight.... JESUS MURPHY
Now that's how you do a (Berserk)chapter analysis. Great video!
Skull Knight had immaculate taste
Just found your channel, and i am amased by the quality of the review and the attention to detail. You just got a new sub!
The SkullKnoght died and went to the abyss, but somehow He is out of it, he can walk in the physical world only during nights.
pretty clear Human Void loved the city more the the King did (skull knight) he sacrificed the entire Kingdom he helped the king create. most likely having apostles in his army without even knowing it. then after being tortured he had found a behelit
Great video once again. Spired! Please don't go back to hiatus again.
Also the abstract Godhand member that is your favorite, his face isnt a whatchamacallit, its actually a mouth turned sideways. So that's how it communicates, just spun around 90 degrees
I doubt he was a cruel king, as Flora mentioned that she missed his smile. Someone with supreme authority would have a twisted face with each act of cruelty. In the same chapter, I forgot the name of the character who mentioned that he visited King Gaesric when he was a boy, the fact that the king also remembers him gives us details that he paid attention to his citizens. Furthermore, Flora wouldn’t have risked banishment if he wasn’t worth saving. Alas, history is written by the victors, and since he has clearly lost, we got a false version of Supreme King Gaesric.
Happy to see you back man! you might wanna start a Patreon so we can show more appreciation towards your work and passion in these exceptional breakdowns.
Wow. 24 years since void’s last appearance. I was six. People my age have kids older than that today.
I seriously never noticed zodds bandolier clasp matches the kings in the legend....
I think that women was part of void becoming a god hand because even tho we see him in the previous memory that doesn’t mean thi can’t just be an earlier one and notice how it has a brand of sacrifice burning infront of them like in the tower of rebirth almost like miura is trying to show that they’re similar because i think it means that this happened on the physical world not in the deep layers of the abyss and then the other memory looks very deep in the abyss so i think they are very different memories in very different locations and that the second one is the earlier one
Gaiseric killed the apostles, the former God Hands and got consumed by berserk armor when taking on Void
The farthest left one looks to me like one of the Jotun Giants from the recent Griffith chapters.
Crackpot theory time - we're watching one of the Godhand members being incarnated into the real world like Femto did. Except Skull Knight murdered them, sending the Godhand's plan back to square one - thus putting into motion Griffith's eventual sacrificing of the Band of the Hawk and ascension. Skull Knight bites it due the armor being pushed to the limit but Hanarr somehow Edward Elric's his soul into the armor we see him in today, assumedly with the help of Elven magic/Flora.
Skull Knights beloved has a brand on her shoulder which is weird because a lot of the other skulls that were shown in the dungeons has brands on their forheads
I think this means that the ceremony we're seeing is not the one at the tower at albion
Hmmmm...
What if the skull knight armor is actually...gaiseric’s own bones that were the only parts of him left after all his blood was drained from him after using the berserker armor? A human without blood, literally all the water in their system as well drained off them, wouldn’t they look more like their pwn bones? And Gaiseric’s a pretty big human at that even. And he’s, essentially a golem now, or a “possessed” armor. Armor made from one’s own self would have a heckuva lot of resentment in it to actually come alive. Dead things that died with no resentment, there’s no way to raise them as undead. Even if you try to turn them into armor. But if they died under the influence of rage and the sorrow of loss...that’s when even the armor will become alive, and have a chance to, become possessed itself.
maybe we're thinking about it all wrong, maybe void is gaiseric and skull knight was like closest advisor/soldier friend. maybe the woman skull knight is the queen and they were in love and that is what caused the rift between gaseric(void) and skull knight and then an eclipse happened. skull knight and the queen survive and go through the same thing as guts and casca until skull knight gets the berserker armor and the queen's sanity back maybe, and then skull knight lets his thirst for revenge take him and pursues the godhand and void and this causes the deaths of both skullknight and the queen. now that's a crackpot theory
I think that Skull Knight killed the women while in the Berserker armor. I think that in this eclipse (or whatever kind of ceremony it was) many of his friends were killed as a sacrifice and because of that he succumb to the power of the armor. Consumed by terrible rage I think that he killed this women. There must be a reason why he calls himself foolish. If he was a good king that just had a bad luck of imprisoning a future God hand, I don't think he would call himself that, he would not feel quilt, he would just want revenge.
But I think that murder of that women would help him realise his bad deeds while he was the king.
It would also reflect the biggest fear of Guts-succumbing to his rage and the Beast of Darkness
I have full analysis of this chapter on my channel where I talk about this, but I would also like to make a theory video on who Void really was (what was his relationship with Skull Knight) and perhaps even one on Skull Knight.
If somebody is interested you are free to check out
personally, I think all those visions were of Voids ascension to the godhand and SK dying after most likely having killed the previous 4 members.
I think the tower that they save griffith is the birth of void as godhand and the capital itself was used as sacrifice and the incarnation ceremony is what allowed void to gain physical form. What we see in this chapter is a foreshadowing to what griffith will do by dragging a piece of the physical world into the astral plane in an attempt to get his ultimate desire. For griffith it's to have absolute control of the physical world and to have an eternal kingdom. For void it was to have his cult become an absolute in the world and for the return of magic. Maybe it's how behelits came to be. But I think that it might be a monkey's paw because they are no longer human and cannot remain in the physical world and so must return to the astral plane like Void did. But the consequences are still felt centuries afterward. Maybe in griffiths case the godhand hopes that the merger can be more permanent as the physical world and the interstice are already overlapped. Because Griffith was said to be the culmination of the godhand's meddling for a higher purpose. IDK I'm just spit ballin there's a lot more info that needs to be dropped to get a better picture of what's going on.
The dying woman instantly reminded me of Danann. My first thought was, "Was this her in a past life? A relative?"
I think the debate if the Skull knight is Gaiseric is finally over. Maybe I am to confident but I think this is a 100% proto Eclipse (with the Void as rising star) and I don't think like many others that God hand members recycle each other 215 years. I think the former/original members are of gods hand were slain by Gaiseric in Berserker armor (except Void of course) but in the process Gaseric was consumed/killed by the armor. This give us glimpse of the Guts future and potential power of the berserk armor which is very important. Gods hand is are not invulnerable but to kill them all Guts have to pay ultimate price. His life and everything that he loves.
A theory: the woman Skull Knight was holding was branded which means she was someone possession. It had to be a mother or father to give her up or someone much greater like a king possibly! Who knows, but it's uncertain if the Skull Knight kills her mistakenly because she tried to stop Skull Knight from killing the person who sacrifice her...Just my theory.
Thanks for this one!
Now we could all agree that the biggest chad, and the one who literally carried the whole series in the shadows is SK.
Nah... It was Becchi...
Haha you’re overthinking. It was an eclipse probably voids, hence casca says weren’t there 4, Cus it’s only after the sacrifices could he be able to take that form and people there wudve seen only 4 before they died. The eclipse is different then what we saw with guts, simply Cus it’s evolved from those initial days to what it is now.
Consider two minor and one major things about the woman dying in SKs arms:
- She really reminds me of Flora in a way
- Her hair looks and awful lot like Griffith' hair
- The position of her brand is veeeery interesting, considering it symbolizes some character traits of the branded as seen in the Eclipse
(Judeau got it on his hand which symbolizes his dexterity and supporting nature, Kjaskar got it on her chest, close to the heart, symbolizing how she was the heart of the BotH and often acted purely emotional, Corkus on his forehead, symbolizing how he seems to be very narrow-minded and stern etc.)
A brand on the shoulder might symbolize somebody who often lent a supportive shoulder to cry on? I'm almost certain that Guts' story is a repeat of SKs story, with their loved one being the last and only thing that binds them to humanity. The only difference being that Guts still has the opportunity to save and protect what is most dear to him....
One additional note here is that, yes, Guts also has his brand near the shoulder on his neck. But for him I'd symbolizes either his bull-like physique and nature or that he carried an immense weight on his shoulders.
Also, Guts being reminded of Godot by Hannar made me tear up a bit... :c
*Casca, *Godo.
@@doomtrooper3184 wait he meant casca? how tf did he butcher that so badly lol
@@alangutierrez7368 Idk, autocorrector maybe? Or his mother language isn't English.
Tbh when seeing the chapter and skull knights past when he worn the berserk armor. From the tales and legends that was said and seeing what had happened to skull knight does look the same events has happened to guts.
When the brand of sacrifice appeared in skull knights vision while holding his lover in his arms does look like the time when guts went to save casca from the guy with the square head (forgive me i don't remember his name and if I did i Don't wanna spell it wrong). When casca mentioned there were 5 angels that came (or 4) it does sound similar to what guts had encountered when he faced the square head guy and his followers who "were angels" which was 5 angel's i think.
Then after the city was consumed by the void the 5th God hand member is reborn which is griffith being reborn in the astrial and physical world
Okay can we all confirm that SK killed the other 4 old god hand; and that's why the other 4 god hand we see today are replacements!?. We know that Void is special whether he is in partnership of the Idea of Evil or if he was the sage mentioned by Mozgus. We also know that each of the God hands' forms describes something they held meaning to in their previous lives, but made twisted and evil. Void's ascended form is a big brain meaning he is very very smart, meaning he was probably someone knowledgeable in his past life. Personally I think that Void created the religion of the holy see to allow Griffith to ascend to Femto due to causality. This makes me lean to the theory that Void was the sage in the tower of conviction, allowing The Holy See to rise to power. Since Angels were sent down this was seen as a celestial event when in actuality the God hand destroyed it. This also destroyed most of the SK(Gaiseric's) city's knowledge meaning their knowledge of magic as well. Therefore, Voids ploy to make white sheep of the people on the physical world came into play. Since the Holy see abolished magic as a whole; good and bad, people willed their unfaithfulness to the supernatural, deeper into the astral world. In conclusion, when demons were ravaging and Kushan were invading Midland and her allies, Griffith was seen as a savior like a Jesus like figure. The absence of magic due to the rule of the Holy see makes Griffith's rise to power that much more important and God like to them.
From my understanding skull knight's prophecies were actually informed from his past experience rather than the future. In that sense, when he says to guts at the tower that he can either save casca or fight its not a prophecie but actually what the memory shows in this issue. He probably fought instead of saving his beloved.
Skull knight staying alive beyond his death means he can see the parallels he has with guts. That is probably why he often refers to causality in events happening. Chances are he lived through both an eclipse and a rebirth of a godhand and as dictates causality things happen again tho not the same.
Wow this is a master piece
I reckon, through his reign, and backing his enemies into a corner, SK "made" all of that iteration of the God hand. He has been at war with them since before his death, and has successfully killed four, and pursues Void, his former captive priest, who ascended and later sacrificed his capital and lover. Something along those lines anyway lol. But I reckon SK knew the human Void, and that Void created the sacrifices for the rest of the former God hand as he did with the sacrifices for Femto
About the supposed god hand with the vagina head, I'm looking up some possible symbolisms. The first thing that came to mind was the idea of how vaginas represent creation and infinity, but also how they are depicted in correlation with many fears of men in different cultures. I remembered Bilquis, the goddess of love as depicted in American Gods, and also of different portrayals of the Vagina dentata
(look it up, even on wikipedia there's a good amount of nice info).
About the dead woman in gaiseric's arms, her appearence and her necklace actually reminded me of Danann, maybe she had a connection to her somehow. We have to remember that Gaiseric's court supposedly was involved with practicioners of magic such as Gedfryn (assuming he and his father were sorcerers then). So it's not too far fetched to think they could have a relation with Danann as well.
Anyhow, there's much more to think about, I'm really excited to think about how Miura is going to connect the dots in this 30+ years masterpiece.
And thanks for the great video, your analysis is really on point!
Maybe Gaiseric made an offering to become immortal?
I think the sacrifice was to save his kingdom while the first scene with the god hand are those that he killed after getting eaten by the berserk armour
Great video
Me watching a video that has nothing to do with shingeki and where I won't be expecting those damn repetitive words "Because I/he was born into this world" only to find out I've been fooled AT THE START 0:03.
(I love shingeki btw and I know how powerful those lines are)
I know this is a year old video
But I think the ceremony wasn't neither an eclipse nor a sacrifice, I think this ceremony was an "egg of the perfect World" situation, but reversed
Void somehow communicated to these ancient and horrid power, and created the layer on top of the abyss were monsters were created
The tentacles we see are similar to Genishka and the Sea God, so that's probably intentional
Sacrificing an entire kingdom and it's people to create a destined path in causality, creating the first God Hand member and probably the first Behelit as well
For some reason I have strong feelings that (Slan) the middle of the god hand is the dying lady on skull knight's hand.
let's all survive for the next chapter :(
>pure human > has elf ears
The angels are probably schierk's elemental gods.
Just good use of fumito uedas games music in general. Literally my favorite games
Thank you for this new video.
I am becoming increasingly convinced that it was Gaiseric/SK who took Void's eyes.
I think the siege was Void and the "One Angel" was probably an already existing member of the god hand who came to void. Maybe Void became a member of the god hand some time after that. Then once he became a member himself, he and the other members of the god hand went, hence 5 angels, to the kingdom and destroyed it. This is just my theory though.
I feel like skull knight made a similar decision to Griffith as (although he has no skin) there is no brand on him. I think he used the behelit and he either kept his humanity and regretted it, or maybe him and void are the same person split
Your theory about the event we’re seeing not being Void’s eclipse is interesting. It makes me wonder if the whole “there’s no guarantee that your wish will be her wish” was him speaking from experience. Maybe he dragged his elf wife into something she didn’t want to do, & ended up dying here.
My first thought was that Void may have been a subject of Gaiseric, or a high level officer of some kind in his kingdom, who ended up sacrificing the kingdom to become Godhand during their era's eclipse. After watching this though, I'm not so sure anymore
Void stands out from the other God Hand in the image because of how normal he looks, in comparison at least. Maybe just Miura's artstyle changing so mich in the last 24 years.
Those other God Hand are probably not around any more, which implies that they can be killed. Maybe by the Berserker armor but I don't know.
Also, this does seem to confirm the theory that Skull Knight is King Gaiseric. It's not outright stated, but it is heavily implied.
-Getting Ganishka vibes when seeing those creatures. (ep 298)
-Maybe all those tentacles belong to a singular thing similar to the Sea God?
-I thought it looked like the slithering things were creating a room like a giant rectangular box for some reason as they might be trying to attach to itself
-I might be going crazy on this tin foil hat observation, but if you zoom into the black swirl it looks like there is some thing that might be coming out of it. IOE ? like its not completely backed out, what do you guys think.