Yeah I quite liked it. While Casca admittedly felt a bit off and I did indeed like Miura's illustrations of her more, I still think she is well drawn, only in a somewhat different style.
@@zuffin1864 Yeah, he hasn't actually changed. It's now that his plans are directed at Us as opposed to the other kingdoms during the 100 years war who weren't great people.
This chapter felt nostalgic. The Gaga and Mori squad are really getting their feet wet and incorporating Muira-esque details like that haunting Griffith panel and that nasty cliffhanger. Its really feeling like Berserk fr and I couldn't be more happy
The haunting Griffith panel? When has Miura ever done any sort of evil looking face for Griffith? He always looks either stone cold stoic or cheerful, and that's what makes him even more hateable. It shows his apathy for those around him, and his false facade of a saviour. Him giving an evil grin is not something Miura would have done.
@@Sorrocasharked Griffith makes haunting evil faces all throughout the entire Golden Age arc whenever he’s confronting someone he believes stands in his way like Julius and the short bald noble guy. He sometimes does it in scenes when he’s looking away from the person he’s talking to.
@@Sorrocasharked Do you not recall the time Griffith expressed his evil in Golden Age arc? I mean, sure It was when he was still human but you gotta remember that Griffith isn't COMPLETELY lacking emotions, just lacks empathy altogether. As a Godhand, he can still express emotions, but it's not defined how much he can feel. Though I can see him expressing some darker emotions. You can't just dismiss it as cartoony evilness. Griffith was always like that.
@Rhys Griffith literally made the most evil face he could in the Primrose hall chapter when he overhears Princess Charlotte's alert of Julius' and his son's assassination.
It feels genuinely good to *finally* have a "Casca only" chapter since it's been so long, and also to give us more reason to hate griffith even further
This chapter was so damn good. Not much happened, but seeing Casca in action, the false paradise she finds herself trapped in, seeing Griffith's menacing presence haunting every inch of Falconia, the heartwrenching moments of distant romance, not to mention the art looks so much better and more like the old Berserk. The dialogue and writing also feels just as strong as it used to be. Really hyped for the new arc now.
Another thing to consider is that Griffith lacks control over himself when he turns into The Moonlight Boy. The Moonlight Boy always seems to go to Casca. Keeping Casca prisoner is a way to ensure that when he transforms into The Moonlight Boy, Griffith won't stray too far from Falconia.
Griffith is going to feel himself as the biggest clown of the animanga history If the Moonlight Boy go out to see Guts, even though he kidnapped Casca just so the Moonlight Boy won't take him out of Falconia in the first place!
@@PedroLucas-mg5je yeah thats what i thought...When I thought of that reason I thought "thats a brilliant plan, but what would happen if its full moon and guts uses the berserker armor to insanity? what then genius?"
Of course Berserk will never be the same without Miura but Mori and the team are doing a damn good job with these recent chapters. I loved this one too.
The new authors saying that they won't add any lines they don't remember hearing miura say is good, but i wish they would be a bit more creative, y''know? keep the themes and don't cut out any lines, but add some more to flesh it out, otherwise you get a lot of empty panels.
They really care about the berserk universe and respect it . Hopefully it will continue to go this way and i respect the effort and quality they've put in so far. I wish we get a proper anime adaptation down the line similar to what was done in 1997(however this will probably not happen in many years if ever). Same goes for claymore, really love that series/manga but the anime caught up which really hurt the ''ending'' of the anime.
@@zippo71111 Yeah, hopefully they'll announce a remake of Berserk and adapt it correctly this time. I also hope they'll remake Claymore and adapt it properly, true to the manga.
The opening page of this chapter is heartbreaking. If you look towards the bottom of the page you can see that Casca is already in the stages of forgetting Guts. We don't even see his face, just his side, back and then we see him slowly fading from her memory. Whatever Griffith is doing to Casca's mind must feel like agony.
@@Sichlitt That’s just ignorance. It doesn’t justify the means, he wanted Guts to suffer like he did, and still does. Seems like you didn’t quite understand much so far.
@@Sichlitt Griffiths hamartia led to that. Human Griffith did anything and everything for one goal and has shown that many times with little/no regard for others. If Griffith knew what he could become from the eclipse he would definitely take it, even in a clear and healthy mental state.
Griffith is imprisoning Casca because she's his only weakness when he turns into the Moonlight boy. He's being strategic again, more than he actually cares about Casca and Guts. At least I think so! Beautiful chapter.
If that was the only reason he would've kidnapped her far earlier. He waited until it was the right moment for him to infiltrate the island and destroy it and then just took her. It may be as a result of the child, but it may also be a result of spite and wanting more and more since he was never going to allow them to be happy together in "his world", it's the same negative feelings that resulted in what happened in the Eclipse.
@@hieioni3354 yes it really seems likely despite all the violence in berserk people never thought Guts would beat Griffith via a fight. Now that we know that the Moonlight boy is Griffith it gives an actual answer to how Edit I forgot to put how berserk ends
@@2265Hello How as in killing the Moonlight Boy = killing Griffith? Nah, it would be too easy. Besides, I don't think Guts can kill Moonlight Boy because of their relationship with each other.
I belive casca is in multiple states of mind at this point in the story. To me it seems like she is stuck between her original personality, her broken personality and her reborn personality. Despite gaining her memories back her mind is still struggling with the past trauma which is causing her to have these breakdowns
@@srslydoatm9251 i disagree with OP's theory, cause in the previous chapters we see casca, her original personality is back she even asks the elf king to spar and is capable, she only struggles with seeing guts cause he reminds her of the eclipse. so without griffith interfering, we would have seen her struggle to deal with the memories, and gain strength to see guts without a mental break, instead she seems hallow, she doesnt have much emotions, or say. she is in a cage, the issue is she doesnt know, and the question is why doesnt she know...well thats up to said theories.
@@117Ender Said theories yes, but Casca still has the thorns around her heart from when Schiercke and Farnese rebuilt her in the dream world. My theory based on the panel of her seeing/ remembering Guts during the Eclipse as ‘at the forefront of the sea of apostles’, is that the thorns are having an effect which associates Guts with her sexual trauma instead of Griffith(possibly because he was the last thing she saw because Griffith finished raping her, which causes her to regress into a childlike mental state). It also may be a byproduct of having the seed of a Godhand planter within one’s self.
Casca is super beautiful in this art. I wish she kept the long hair but the art on her face is so smooth and the lines are drawn perfectly. Art has improved big time from few chapters ago.
the art is nearly Miura level, the only thing the team seems to struggle with is drawing Guts unfortunately. but this was a gorgeous chapter in terms of the art
@@single4life484 drawing people is arguably the hardest to draw because it's locked in someone's artstyle whereas background, although also sort of locked in artstyle it is a lot more loose in terms of having differences
Casca breaking out of her sedated stance and trying to escape was the highlight of the chapter for me. It was so cool to see her use her swordsmanship on that soldier and take his arm off. Also, its a interesting how Griffith only says “the east” and doesn’t elaborate at the end of the chapter, it really adds to the mystery of his overall aims.
@@nathannix3217 When Casca gets her mental state back together. The lady at elfheim gave her some scarecrows ( I think. Its been a while since I saw the chapter) to fight and after she beats them, she says something along the lines of "I guess u can never forget something u become good at ".
Griffith is really testing our patience in these last few chapters 🤬 I might even go as far as to say that he makes me want to go Berserk... Maybe Berserk was really us the whole time... 🤔
@@ilyHate. I would love for Casca to remember the man beneath the Berserker armour, but Guts needs to remove it. The armour will forever remind her of THAT TIME
@@falconeshield It's impossible for Guts to remove the Berserker Armor. According to Skull Knight, the Berserker Armor will drain the wearer of their lifeforce, little by little.
A beautiful crimson bird.... sleeps in a gilded cage. A great white hawk watches her...from his perch. His eyes sharp...and unblinking. His heart cold...and unfeeling.
Interesting that Casca on Elfhelm got her memories back and her consciousness. Now in Falconia she is being drugged to forget again. Interesting parallel.
she sliced off his left arm huh? At a similar spot that Guts' arm was cut at. That whole gang up on her felt like a mini mock-eclipse. She was surrounded and targeted by the hordes of soldiers that outgunned her. My predicitions: Irvine is respondibl for sedating her via some music thing. Ties into his hunting theme and subduing a flighty prey. Zodd will be integral to Griffith's downfall. He seems to not like this whole current operation. I really hope Casca's red theme is her Phoenix arc of rising up and shedding her past self. Guts will be doing similar on his own as well. I also cant wait to see RIckert and the Bakiraka go to war with the Apostle generals!
I feel like she's getting visions of the state of mind that guts is in when for the first time in his life he has truly given up. And I think willpower is what keeps guts from falling into darkness. And I never thought of casca being distant from guts as her hating him but rather that just looking at guts reminded her of every horrific moment of eclipse. Because technically for her, almost no time has passed. But I think that her seeing the vision of potentially losing guts forever might be the catalyst for her to overcome her trauma and in a poetic sense, we might see casca being the one to save guts from his despair this time instead of vice versa. It will also be great to avoid her character becoming a damsel in distress when she used to be such a formidable warrior.
The 4 handmaiden imo are the other 4 God Hand members in disguise. They were also present when Rickert slapped Griffith and back in the day they were very loudly talking about Griffith's exploits back when Julius was still alive so that he could get enraged and attempt to assassinate Griffith, thereby setting various events in motion.
I think that Griffith wants Guts back as a puppet. He is trying to make him suffer in order to force him to activate the Behelit and become an Apostle. As an Apostle, Guts would be forced to obey Griffith orders. This could be an explanation for Zodd behaviour. He is not happy of Griffith plan of introducing Guts into his team again, because he wants to fight him. And this would explain also why Casca wants to rejoin Guts (to avoid his downfall).
i think it's because Griffith most likely has some form of omniscience which makes him all seeing or at least can see potential futures and prophesies and he probably knows that Guts is most likley his destined killer and falconia's destroyer. Griffith is like Odin and Guts is like Fenrir and if your clued into Norse mythology Odin knew that his death was coming as the hands of fenrir and in his desperate attempts to avert his death he ended up bringing bout ragnarok and ensured that Fenrir would kill him.
Casca is the biggest weakness of Griffith when he is in his moonlight form he alway go to casca for him keeping her in falcon keep him from going far away
@@solidskullz5736 the person who become the egg of the perfect world was branded (in fact, he branded himself), therefore I think that it is possible, as long as you have something to sacrifice.
The art is so beautiful, I love that they’ve done their best to imitate Miura’s genius. Also I see Zodd as a kneelers since day 1 when he lost his horn. I’ve always seen his downfall being Casca and Gut’s baby being a part of him. Would be Justice for his cruel violation of Casca to be his downfall.
It would make sense thematically. Despite all Griffiths efforts and his betrayal, casca amd guts would have had the last laugh and thier philosophy of clinging to those you love and not power would win in the end. Even the egg of the new world ate the deamon child because it saw a kinship in it.
For Casca “being sedated” I think her closing her eyes, was just the only way she could “Fight”. By refusing to see everything, to enjoy it as she knows what it cost to be built. That she was refusing to buy into it, even for a second. Indeed it’s a reality that many people enjoy. What other way can a human combat a god? Which is an exceptionally beautiful thing, considering Gut’s current state.
Honestly, this was just such a good chapter.. i can't express how happy i am that mori-sensei is continuing this series. Miura would be so proud, the chapter looks amazing.
This episode was a big improvement over the last few. Especially the art leveled up a lot. I hope they keep taking their time if it means we get better quality like that.
it could be, that great artists, have their own style, and most dont enjoy copying other artists, so the issue could have been with taking over the project, since no one knew 100% how the story ends, only major plot threads, and thus trying to story board them, and release something to gauge the fanbase feedback, might have cut corners on the style, and its only after months, that they got the style down packed and see how the story plays out over chapters instead of just writing to meet a deadline. there are artists on youtube who draw X manga character in Y style, but if you ask those artists, would they perfer getting famous with their own style/characters, they would say yes, cause copying someone else while great to learn/practice, its not your own work, think of fan fiction, if said fans use it to practice their skills its useful to learn how to write characters, and fan fiction, is easier, cause you have premade characters, their personality, and world building exists, so its an easy choice to practice, you dont have to think of a major story/lore/etc, you need to take your idea and how it can be made to fit into said existing work. same with artists, drawing is a skill, using other ppl's art to practice and recreate it, and have it look like said style is a talent, but its not an easy one, so said characters have reference material that exists, recreating it, is building said skill cause said characters have said poses that are drawn, so its easy to compare said drawing with the original and see how close it comes, but thats practice its honing said craft, when it comes to creating a unique work, it feels more satisfiying to bring your own ideas to life.
is it just me, or the team FINALLY managed to fully adapt Miura's style, this chapter looked exceptionally good, Zodd looked a little bit off, but other than that, every single character design was on point
I find it telling just how many armoured soldiers of the Neo-Band of the Hawk were dispatched to restrain/recapture Casca--in a weakened state and wearing just a gown at that. Clearly Griffith hasn't forgotten her combat abilities.
Very happy to see Casca have some more agency. It sucks that its taken so long to get her personality sort of restored although I understand its really not something that could be done with the snap of a finger. Its good that Casca can now emote and voice her own experiences considering it was HER that was raped by Griffith. She's not a case of fridging. Her trauma shouldn't be a prop to exist as motivation for guts alone. I very much hope to see her play a central role in the climax of this epic and the downfall of Griffith. I think for me the overall theme of Miura's work here is that there is healing after trauma. That life is possible and we must save each other. And that's why I think Griffith is the ultimate evil in an antagonist. He directly poisons and embodies that which brings guts and casca together literally and symbolically as their child.
I think this chapter marks a significant turning point in the art. That illustration of Griffith gave me GA vibes but if feels like the artists put their stamp on not only Griffith but the other characters as well. They seem to be getting more comfortable with Miura’s character models.
I think that being separated from Guts and isolated from the group will be what Casca needs to grow her character and resolve her feelings about Griffith and deepen her loyalty to Guts and seek to reunite with him instead of freak out when she sees him But Guts is gonna go through it more than ever before because Griffith stole Casca once again and he feels powerless to stop Griffith; he might give into the wolf since he’s being driven to the brink
Fav chapter since the author takeovers. This feels exactly like the direction berserk should go it. It’s NOT supposed to be easy or fair. It’s supposed to suck, it’s supposed to suffer, it’s supposed to make it challenging. What I love about berserk is that it holds no punches, just like life. It makes the light at the end of the tunnel all the more rewarding to get to.
I haven’t seen anyone say this but I think Casca is swinging between having her memories and not having her memories because she is somewhat going back to being Elaine. She is not as incoherent as she was post eclipse but her new trauma might be pushing her back into that state every so often.
I think it is different. You can see how she is extremely depressed and has dead eyes when she is taken care off. It is nothing like Elaine especially when she tries to escape and attack soldiers she is much emotional than potato Casca ever was. It is because she already knows she realizes what happened and what Griffith became. And thats what makes it such tragic and sad because this Casca now technically suffers more than Potato Casca ever did, because she is fully aware what Femto did to her. Her spacing out is probably caused by some Griffith spell he put on her hence why she goes to the sleep every time when she tries to escape. But since Griffith is heavily influenced by the Moon Boy now he incapable of breaking Cascas mind again. Truly tragic. The way how now Casca suffers because of everything that happened almost makes one wish she was in Potato mode again because ignorance in bliss ALMOST. Trully puts bittersweetness into her regaining sanity. Also following on this chapter really made starting to believe those theories that Cascu could be the one who will murder Griffith. She looks in some of those panels reallly pissed off.
@@rjofusetsudzin8011 facts, we also saw casca just a few chapters ago, acting like herself, she even asked to spar against the elf king, and the elf king made mud dolls, and everyone was impressed with her skill. the only time casca had a mental break was seeing guts, cause he was there for all the low points. he was there at the eclipse, he was there when she was elaine. her feelings for him, remind her of everything, and she wasnt able at that moment to accept all of it. if griffith never reappeared, she would have struggled with the breaks, but eventually been able to look at guts and not break. that was her struggle. now shes hallow, she has nothing, as elaine, the core of her personality, was caring, and free, she wasnt violent, she lacked worldly understanding, like a child. she would run and explore, and flee when she felt scared, she couldnt process the events and understand but she existed as person mostly how a child would act. this casca, doesnt speak, she doesnt seem to act for herself, its not until shes in the bath that a memory resurfaces and she becomes casca again, able to fight, and has her goals, to get back to guts. while elaine was herself trying to protect her mental state from breaking down, this casca, has no state, its like someone whose drugged up, hazy and etc, just going through life. this casca is worst casca, cause atleast with elaine, others saw her as someone whose broken, and needs help to take care of her, this casca, how would she react to guts? to anyone? after how many attempts would the original casca, end up swallowed by losing her memories, or would she realize that shes held prisoner, and have to act the part...all we know, is that something is keeping casca in this state, but is it temporary? permanent? and what will griffith do, once casca loses all her memories? cause elaine was casca being mentally broken that her memories are repressed, we dont know if they are repressed, or being erased. will it end up that griffith, not only NTR'd casca physically, but now will do it mentally, that if guts is too late, casca will be by griffiths side, instead of by guts?
I honestly hope Casca finds a way back to where she was, to where her friends are. I know Berserk's world and story is always miserable and nothing ever goes right.. I just hope Miura planned something good because my fucking god we need it.
What I really like about this chapter (and the other chapters made by Mori and the Gaga team) is the lack of dialogue. Idk how to explain it well, but it seems to me to be intentional, as a sign of respect to Miura. Mori knows the overall story, Miura's assistants can replicate his artstyle (and they are getting better each chapters) but the dialogues is the thing they can't do with certainty. So, maybe, they use the art and pannelling to tell the story instead. Well, it's only the impression I have, maybe I'm wrong.
Casca is definitely a fighter that’s for sure. As much as griffith tries to suppress her memories, she gain them back every time. Can’t wait to see griffith die, one day 💯
I think all the shit with Casca this chapter was her in the dream. All but two panels, her in the chair in that empty room, and her in that bed. I think the flight Irvine mentioned was her struggling and resisting the dream that we saw
I really wish there was more dialogue. It feels like that has been the style of late. Hardly any dialog since Miura passing. When I read this chapter, it felt like Casca was doing this all in her head, I was kind of confused when she attacked the guards she was struggling to resist in her mind.
Now that we know Casca wants Guts, it's that much more heartbreaking. Makes you wonder: Does Griffith want Casca because she's valuable to him or does he want Casca because she's valuable to Guts?
That’s the thing, I thought it was mentioned that when you ascend to the godhand, human emotion means nothing to you, but in these later chapters, Griffith is acting less of a being of omnipotence and more a man with huge amounts of power, feeding his hunger of conquest
Now we gotta remember guys we still don’t know what the god hand’s plan is .. Miura’s hint was “void” they haven’t included any of the other godhand and void is presumed to be the leader .. we’re in for a real treat for the final arc
I really hoped that they were going to announce a chapter every two months instead of one, cause the decrease of art quality in the chapters from the fall were posted monthly as well
For some reason, i don’t think any physical violence is enough to satisfy me. I wanna see Griffith’s mind fall apart and act petty towards the life guts has built around him; being surrounded by love and care whilst Griffith’s kingdom worships him feels empty and shallow. Not much difference from the band of the hawk expect without the one he treasured the most: Guts.
Griffin’s expression just getting more evil after the last Miura chapter. I love Casca drawing in this chapter or the new team drawing in general, they just keep getting better. Casca cut off the man is brutal (poor guy), something i missed from Berserk. They definitely put some spells on her to make her subdue so she couldn’t escape. Griffin couldnt outright lock Casca up in the deepest dungeon, it will hurt his image so put her under spell is a smart choice. Maybe we will see Rickert next chapter because Griffin will go conquer east, maybe.
“The East”could be Griffith implying they’re going to conquer the Kushan, which may establish an alliance between Guts’ and Silat’s teams, in facing off against the apostles.
Griffith has had multiple opportunities to kill Guts. Including when he spirited Casca away from Elfhelm. One has to wonder what his reason is for not killing him, and instead breaking his spirit. Does Griffith need Guts to reach despair for some reason? I don’t think it could be for Guts to activate a Behelit, because Guts is branded.
So my take on things is that zodd will manipulate things to make it so Charlotte will find casca and befriend her again which will allow her to find the prostitutes again who will help her escape or deal with the traumas properly.
I think Zodd and Griffith vs. Guts and Casca would be great. I think I would be really cool if Cacsa gets the final blow on Griffiths head and that Guts kills all the apostles.
4:51 just so it's clear the one not kneeling is approaching Griffith and we see him take a knee in the next panel great video btw always love your berserk videos
I wonder if there might be an arc similar to the farm arc from vagabond or the slave arc from Vinland saga but shorter in which Guts comes to terms with all that has happened and readies himself for what might be the final arc in the series, being a raid of sorts on Falconia, another confrontation with the god hand and potentially the reintroduction of the embodiment of evil
I think Zodd wasn't kneeling because he's staying behind in falconia. And the other 3 are going with Griffith "east". Zodd is staying behind just Incase you know who shows up to try to get to casca.. Guts..
@@mrmanju6989 remember when. Griffith was reborn into the world in his new body? Zodd bow down to him then. So zodd has no issues with bowing down before Griffith. I think he's stand away because everyone else is riding out with Griffith but Zodd is staying behind. Because think about who does those kind things for Griffith.. Zodd is the one who watches over Griffith when he is the moonlight child. So it only makes sense that he would stay there in case Griffith and the other three mission to the east takes longer than expected and the moonlight child takes over Griffith and returns to Casca.
Thinking ahead but the final chapter of all Berserk, Guts is at his most brutal form with Griffith. He kills the sadistic warrior without hesitation and Casca is left petrified by Kentaro Miura’s rage filled hero she cannot bare look at Guts. Not even their love for each other will be able to prevent the visceral blood bath.
It's all gonna end in pain and blood, it has to. There's no happy ending, no redemption. Everyone's broken and discarded by their creator in Berserk. I'm aware there's no ride off into the sunset awaiting them, they'll never be happy again. But please before I die let me see him reduced to nothing, like he was before the eclipse, a husk of a man, brutalized and worthless. Forced to spend the rest of his days unable to do much more than piss and shit himself. Some kind of justice would make it bearable.
so many years a was scared that we ld take the ntr way with casca...thnk god we got that cleared up!when i saw that she "pushed away" the eclipse memories i was scared that she would blocked that part off and her admiration for griffith would be like it was before all the events.
@@silentsurvivor2082 well if you take out all those memories then casca has no reason to h8 grifith and even tho she has fallen in love with bestboiguttsu-sama her admiration for grifith was still there.
@@michaelkean5969 i can "tolerate" that if its griffiths shity mambo-jumbo magic but i wouldnt be able to stomac(?)watching casca act like that on her own.i hope i could convey my thoughts correctly,sorry if i wasnt clear enough from the start.
I know this is probably not going to happen, but I think Guts shouldn't be the one to kill Griffith, it should be Casca. I feel like it would serve as a nice character development, as Casca head-on confronts her past and comes to terms with it and kills Griffith.
I've been saying for years that the little girl that can read minds is gonna play a big part in Griffith's downfall. Specifically, by exposing the truth about him to the wider public. And to me this is the perfect setup for that. Casca having all those flashbacks, just radiating out those images through all of Falconia, I'm telling you, that girl is gonna find out, it's bound to happen.
They should flesh out the chapters sticking with what miura wanted is the way to go but you also have to add things to his points to get it all to blend well together
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all of that is a dream she didn't wake up at all , if you focus on the maid's faces look"s familiar and the kids too and the army pump up suddenly and the soldier arm cut it without blood you dont see that wierd ? and guts the only one wiped out from her dream its like griffith want casca to forget guts or turn him the evil one in her memory .
I feel like this isn't the first time casca tried to run away. The number of guards abd how quickly they came is weird, the sedation and memory erasing feels like a kind of spell she is put on that she then breaks, has tk get captured and then re spelled. The way they speak of how shes back in the cage as well. It all makes me think she keeps breaking out.
after reading this chapter, I didn't think I would ever have a feeling of such overwhelming hatred for a particular character then I do now for Griffith, and yet here we are.
So far I haven't complained about the dialogue situation because I understand that the crew wants to interfere as little as possible with Miura's work, and I can respect that. However, after the conclusion of the Elf Island Chapter, how long is the series gonna run for? can we have 50+ or 100+ chapters with this lacking amount of dialogue? I personally would be okay with the crew taking the series into their own direction, filling the gaps the way they see fit, yes it would basically be sort of a "fanfiction", but to be honest it already is, even if you dont make new dialogue you are already tampering with the story in terms of art style and how you use visuals to tell the story, which no matter how close you know an artist, you can't replicate that.
Mori and team’s drawing of Griffith in that last panel is the best he’s looked in a long time, since Millennium Falcon arc. Miura would be proud.
While lots of characters look off in anatomy, they really nail some shots and especially Griffith
He was so childlike some time ago
liesss, this whole chapter had horrible art, especially casca looking like an alien.
you know, youre right. I forgot about the change for a minute there tbh, It looks amazing
Yeah I quite liked it. While Casca admittedly felt a bit off and I did indeed like Miura's illustrations of her more, I still think she is well drawn, only in a somewhat different style.
@@Belowone L
Your limitless hate for Griffith infinitely increases after reading this chapter
mine is infinite
He honestly did nothing wrong
@@cyper480 🤓
What is crazy is rereading the golden age arc and seeing this is closer to his true nature than we wanted to believe at first
@@zuffin1864 Yeah, he hasn't actually changed. It's now that his plans are directed at Us as opposed to the other kingdoms during the 100 years war who weren't great people.
This chapter felt nostalgic. The Gaga and Mori squad are really getting their feet wet and incorporating Muira-esque details like that haunting Griffith panel and that nasty cliffhanger. Its really feeling like Berserk fr and I couldn't be more happy
Preach, this chapter made me really excited for what’s to come.
The haunting Griffith panel? When has Miura ever done any sort of evil looking face for Griffith? He always looks either stone cold stoic or cheerful, and that's what makes him even more hateable. It shows his apathy for those around him, and his false facade of a saviour. Him giving an evil grin is not something Miura would have done.
@@Sorrocasharked Griffith makes haunting evil faces all throughout the entire Golden Age arc whenever he’s confronting someone he believes stands in his way like Julius and the short bald noble guy. He sometimes does it in scenes when he’s looking away from the person he’s talking to.
@@Sorrocasharked Do you not recall the time Griffith expressed his evil in Golden Age arc? I mean, sure It was when he was still human but you gotta remember that Griffith isn't COMPLETELY lacking emotions, just lacks empathy altogether. As a Godhand, he can still express emotions, but it's not defined how much he can feel. Though I can see him expressing some darker emotions. You can't just dismiss it as cartoony evilness. Griffith was always like that.
@Rhys Griffith literally made the most evil face he could in the Primrose hall chapter when he overhears Princess Charlotte's alert of Julius' and his son's assassination.
i love love LOVED the studio’s choice of showing casca in a dress as the first indicator that something was wrong
It feels genuinely good to *finally* have a "Casca only" chapter since it's been so long, and also to give us more reason to hate griffith even further
People:"How much more are we gonna hate Griffith?"
Mori-sensei:"Yes."
The day Griffith dies is gonna become a international holiday
This chapter was so damn good. Not much happened, but seeing Casca in action, the false paradise she finds herself trapped in, seeing Griffith's menacing presence haunting every inch of Falconia, the heartwrenching moments of distant romance, not to mention the art looks so much better and more like the old Berserk. The dialogue and writing also feels just as strong as it used to be. Really hyped for the new arc now.
Griffith will never be a real Angel of Light like me.
Sadly Casca new design looks like shit.
i think its way better then we all couldve hoped for. RIP but berserk lives on forever.
whhhaaat bro the art looks nothing like miuras casca for example never looked like this (not sayin its bad)
The one thing I don't like about this chapter is Zodd looking real funny. Other than that, the chapter is great.
Another thing to consider is that Griffith lacks control over himself when he turns into The Moonlight Boy. The Moonlight Boy always seems to go to Casca.
Keeping Casca prisoner is a way to ensure that when he transforms into The Moonlight Boy, Griffith won't stray too far from Falconia.
Griffith is going to feel himself as the biggest clown of the animanga history If the Moonlight Boy go out to see Guts, even though he kidnapped Casca just so the Moonlight Boy won't take him out of Falconia in the first place!
@@PedroLucas-mg5je yeah thats what i thought...When I thought of that reason I thought "thats a brilliant plan, but what would happen if its full moon and guts uses the berserker armor to insanity? what then genius?"
@@manoftomorrow_ No he only turns into him on full moons, It's implied he does not have control.
@Man of Tomorrow he can't
@Man of Tomorrow
I hope they can be separated like Hulk and Bruce Banner. Or Doppio and Diavolo.
Of course Berserk will never be the same without Miura but Mori and the team are doing a damn good job with these recent chapters. I loved this one too.
The new authors saying that they won't add any lines they don't remember hearing miura say is good, but i wish they would be a bit more creative, y''know? keep the themes and don't cut out any lines, but add some more to flesh it out, otherwise you get a lot of empty panels.
In this chapter, Zodd looks weird to me.
They really care about the berserk universe and respect it . Hopefully it will continue to go this way and i respect the effort and quality they've put in so far. I wish we get a proper anime adaptation down the line similar to what was done in 1997(however this will probably not happen in many years if ever). Same goes for claymore, really love that series/manga but the anime caught up which really hurt the ''ending'' of the anime.
@@zippo71111 Yeah, hopefully they'll announce a remake of Berserk and adapt it correctly this time. I also hope they'll remake Claymore and adapt it properly, true to the manga.
@varsancton Which part are you talking about? Zodd or remaking Berserk?
Poor fucking Casca, man. Berserk can't give us a break 😭
That's the thing with Berserk. You can never have a break.
Becuz we love to be tortured
Well, sometimes puck pretends to be yoda. Thats kind of a break.
@@trevorsamuel1114 Well, now Puck won't be able to be Yoda anymore because of the direction the story is going to.
The opening page of this chapter is heartbreaking. If you look towards the bottom of the page you can see that Casca is already in the stages of forgetting Guts. We don't even see his face, just his side, back and then we see him slowly fading from her memory.
Whatever Griffith is doing to Casca's mind must feel like agony.
@@Sichlitt Bitch Guts has been in a compromised mental state. Griffith just can handle losing anything
@@Sichlitt That’s just ignorance. It doesn’t justify the means, he wanted Guts to suffer like he did, and still does. Seems like you didn’t quite understand much so far.
@@Sichlitt no
@@Sichlitt Sounds like copium to me.
@@Sichlitt Griffiths hamartia led to that. Human Griffith did anything and everything for one goal and has shown that many times with little/no regard for others. If Griffith knew what he could become from the eclipse he would definitely take it, even in a clear and healthy mental state.
"Sparking your hatred towards Griffith-"
Masked we are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past 'sparking' at this point.
that raging fire is hotter than the fires of hell at this point.
It's a whole ahh Dante's Inferno.
Griffith is imprisoning Casca because she's his only weakness when he turns into the Moonlight boy. He's being strategic again, more than he actually cares about Casca and Guts. At least I think so! Beautiful chapter.
If that was the only reason he would've kidnapped her far earlier. He waited until it was the right moment for him to infiltrate the island and destroy it and then just took her. It may be as a result of the child, but it may also be a result of spite and wanting more and more since he was never going to allow them to be happy together in "his world", it's the same negative feelings that resulted in what happened in the Eclipse.
The boy might try to reach his father once again just as he did during the conviction arc.
@@silentsurvivor2082 Yeah, the Moonlight Boy will be Griffith's downfall somehow.
@@hieioni3354 yes it really seems likely despite all the violence in berserk people never thought Guts would beat Griffith via a fight. Now that we know that the Moonlight boy is Griffith it gives an actual answer to how
Edit I forgot to put how berserk ends
@@2265Hello How as in killing the Moonlight Boy = killing Griffith? Nah, it would be too easy. Besides, I don't think Guts can kill Moonlight Boy because of their relationship with each other.
I belive casca is in multiple states of mind at this point in the story. To me it seems like she is stuck between her original personality, her broken personality and her reborn personality.
Despite gaining her memories back her mind is still struggling with the past trauma which is causing her to have these breakdowns
I like that interpretation. There have been theories that she may be getting mind controlled by Sonia too
@@srslydoatm9251 i disagree with OP's theory, cause in the previous chapters we see casca, her original personality is back she even asks the elf king to spar and is capable, she only struggles with seeing guts cause he reminds her of the eclipse. so without griffith interfering, we would have seen her struggle to deal with the memories, and gain strength to see guts without a mental break, instead she seems hallow, she doesnt have much emotions, or say. she is in a cage, the issue is she doesnt know, and the question is why doesnt she know...well thats up to said theories.
Also, she hasn't had a proper time to greed and process everything
@@117Ender Said theories yes, but Casca still has the thorns around her heart from when Schiercke and Farnese rebuilt her in the dream world. My theory based on the panel of her seeing/ remembering Guts during the Eclipse as ‘at the forefront of the sea of apostles’, is that the thorns are having an effect which associates Guts with her sexual trauma instead of Griffith(possibly because he was the last thing she saw because Griffith finished raping her, which causes her to regress into a childlike mental state). It also may be a byproduct of having the seed of a Godhand planter within one’s self.
Griffith also was clearly doing something to her to pacify her.
Casca is super beautiful in this art. I wish she kept the long hair but the art on her face is so smooth and the lines are drawn perfectly. Art has improved big time from few chapters ago.
At last, Berserk is back 🔥 the art really improved with this chapter, and I hope we see Casca back in action real soon
the art is nearly Miura level, the only thing the team seems to struggle with is drawing Guts unfortunately. but this was a gorgeous chapter in terms of the art
@@seanmundyphoto right! Guts's drawing feels sloppy and unsmooth . I dont get it these guys can draw the 7 heavens and struggle with a human
@@single4life484 I think they're struggling particularly because he's showing A LOT of emotions that he hasn't really shown much previously
@@single4life484 drawing people is arguably the hardest to draw because it's locked in someone's artstyle whereas background, although also sort of locked in artstyle it is a lot more loose in terms of having differences
I hope to see Rickert at the assassin village planning stuff with Silat. I feel like Mori and co focus too much on Griffith and Falconia.
Casca breaking out of her sedated stance and trying to escape was the highlight of the chapter for me.
It was so cool to see her use her swordsmanship on that soldier and take his arm off.
Also, its a interesting how Griffith only says “the east” and doesn’t elaborate at the end of the chapter, it really adds to the mystery of his overall aims.
It didn’t make much sense to me because she hasn’t trained extensively in years so she shouldn’t be at the level she was at.
She wasn't nearly as well practiced in this chapter, she did look rusty
She got some training, and that just means she is rusty and still that good.
@@marocat4749 She’s not portrayed as rusty here just frantic which is the problem.
@@nathannix3217 When Casca gets her mental state back together. The lady at elfheim gave her some scarecrows ( I think. Its been a while since I saw the chapter) to fight and after she beats them, she says something along the lines of "I guess u can never forget something u become good at ".
Griffith is really testing our patience in these last few chapters 🤬
I might even go as far as to say that he makes me want to go Berserk... Maybe Berserk was really us the whole time... 🤔
Nah Berserk was the friends we made along the way 🙃
@@NinthShinigami Guts and casca:
ua-cam.com/video/N_vJMHMBzLM/v-deo.html
Relax bro control your beast of darkness 😂😂😂
@@KingBeat3406 let go...let go of everything...LET GO!!!!
@@shadowboy2818 NOPE that's not happening 😂😂😂
Casca and Guts reunion is going to hit different. I wouldn't be surprised if I'll get quite emotional or cry.
That's what I thought when they met after cascas memories were restored but instead I got more depression
@@ilyHate.That false hope we got just gave ourself a bigger hole of depression to fall into.
@@ilyHate. I would love for Casca to remember the man beneath the Berserker armour, but Guts needs to remove it. The armour will forever remind her of THAT TIME
@@falconeshield It's impossible for Guts to remove the Berserker Armor. According to Skull Knight, the Berserker Armor will drain the wearer of their lifeforce, little by little.
@@hieioni3354 But they went to Elfhem. I had hoped the Flowerstorm King would've healed Guts T-T
8:10 when you said “a cage is still a cage no matter how pretty it looks on the inside.” I felt that.
I think the team has finally found their stride. This chapter looked phenomenal and had some quality content. I hope they keep it up going forward
A beautiful crimson bird.... sleeps in a gilded cage. A great white hawk watches her...from his perch. His eyes sharp...and unblinking. His heart cold...and unfeeling.
7:00 if a war arc happens the series will be over in 50 years
Interesting that Casca on Elfhelm got her memories back and her consciousness. Now in Falconia she is being drugged to forget again. Interesting parallel.
I saw casca and Griffith in the same thumbnail and knew something gonna be up 💀
My man Zodd looks like he gonna pull a Prince Zuko
UnCle!
😂😂😂
LOL
I didn't expect a last air bender reference. omg
Let's hope Sonia pulls an Prince Zuko as well!
"I must find the Black Swordsman and regain my honor"
she sliced off his left arm huh? At a similar spot that Guts' arm was cut at. That whole gang up on her felt like a mini mock-eclipse. She was surrounded and targeted by the hordes of soldiers that outgunned her.
My predicitions: Irvine is respondibl for sedating her via some music thing. Ties into his hunting theme and subduing a flighty prey.
Zodd will be integral to Griffith's downfall. He seems to not like this whole current operation.
I really hope Casca's red theme is her Phoenix arc of rising up and shedding her past self. Guts will be doing similar on his own as well. I also cant wait to see RIckert and the Bakiraka go to war with the Apostle generals!
If Casca develops an Beast of Darkness, let's hope it looks like an phoenix!
I feel like she's getting visions of the state of mind that guts is in when for the first time in his life he has truly given up. And I think willpower is what keeps guts from falling into darkness. And I never thought of casca being distant from guts as her hating him but rather that just looking at guts reminded her of every horrific moment of eclipse. Because technically for her, almost no time has passed. But I think that her seeing the vision of potentially losing guts forever might be the catalyst for her to overcome her trauma and in a poetic sense, we might see casca being the one to save guts from his despair this time instead of vice versa. It will also be great to avoid her character becoming a damsel in distress when she used to be such a formidable warrior.
I like how Caska nearly took on a whole castle guard detachment all by herself. She's amazing.
The 4 handmaiden imo are the other 4 God Hand members in disguise. They were also present when Rickert slapped Griffith and back in the day they were very loudly talking about Griffith's exploits back when Julius was still alive so that he could get enraged and attempt to assassinate Griffith, thereby setting various events in motion.
Studio Gaga would like to know your location
the godhands really went all out on this maid outfit cosplay
@@existence9994 I mean, they are basically gods so changing their appearance to influence the fate of humanity would not be surprising imo.
ur on crack or something bro if ur right ill venmo u 10 dollars
wait they were in golden age
I think that Griffith wants Guts back as a puppet. He is trying to make him suffer in order to force him to activate the Behelit and become an Apostle. As an Apostle, Guts would be forced to obey Griffith orders. This could be an explanation for Zodd behaviour. He is not happy of Griffith plan of introducing Guts into his team again, because he wants to fight him. And this would explain also why Casca wants to rejoin Guts (to avoid his downfall).
i think it's because Griffith most likely has some form of omniscience which makes him all seeing or at least can see potential futures and prophesies and he probably knows that Guts is most likley his destined killer and falconia's destroyer.
Griffith is like Odin and Guts is like Fenrir and if your clued into Norse mythology Odin knew that his death was coming as the hands of fenrir and in his desperate attempts to avert his death he ended up bringing bout ragnarok and ensured that Fenrir would kill him.
Casca is the biggest weakness of Griffith when he is in his moonlight form he alway go to casca for him keeping her in falcon keep him from going far away
I wonder if it’s even possible for Guts to become an apostle. He’s already been branded so causality might not even allow it to happen
@@solidskullz5736 the person who become the egg of the perfect world was branded (in fact, he branded himself), therefore I think that it is possible, as long as you have something to sacrifice.
@@Boney1992 oh right I forgot about him. He sacrificed himself so I guess it would be possible
The art is so beautiful, I love that they’ve done their best to imitate Miura’s genius. Also I see Zodd as a kneelers since day 1 when he lost his horn. I’ve always seen his downfall being Casca and Gut’s baby being a part of him. Would be Justice for his cruel violation of Casca to be his downfall.
It would make sense thematically. Despite all Griffiths efforts and his betrayal, casca amd guts would have had the last laugh and thier philosophy of clinging to those you love and not power would win in the end.
Even the egg of the new world ate the deamon child because it saw a kinship in it.
What a beautiful chapter also. The team has come so far. I had to stop and appreciate how the details were done. The team used the hiatus very well.
For Casca “being sedated” I think her closing her eyes, was just the only way she could “Fight”.
By refusing to see everything, to enjoy it as she knows what it cost to be built.
That she was refusing to buy into it, even for a second.
Indeed it’s a reality that many people enjoy.
What other way can a human combat a god?
Which is an exceptionally beautiful thing, considering Gut’s current state.
Good catch,she is still resisting and thats probably why she looks at least sceptical.
So is Griffith controlling her mind, or clouding her memories? That’s what seems to be happening because as soon as she remembers she starts to fight.
I would go for cloud her memories and personality.
Honestly, this was just such a good chapter.. i can't express how happy i am that mori-sensei is continuing this series. Miura would be so proud, the chapter looks amazing.
Berserk fans be like:i hate this chapter. Depression, pain and hate towards Griffith is higher than usual. 10/10 chapter.
I like how there is very little dialouge, insead relying on visual storytelling to present Casca's state of mind. Excellent job by the team.
This episode was a big improvement over the last few. Especially the art leveled up a lot. I hope they keep taking their time if it means we get better quality like that.
it could be, that great artists, have their own style, and most dont enjoy copying other artists, so the issue could have been with taking over the project, since no one knew 100% how the story ends, only major plot threads, and thus trying to story board them, and release something to gauge the fanbase feedback, might have cut corners on the style, and its only after months, that they got the style down packed and see how the story plays out over chapters instead of just writing to meet a deadline.
there are artists on youtube who draw X manga character in Y style, but if you ask those artists, would they perfer getting famous with their own style/characters, they would say yes, cause copying someone else while great to learn/practice, its not your own work, think of fan fiction, if said fans use it to practice their skills its useful to learn how to write characters, and fan fiction, is easier, cause you have premade characters, their personality, and world building exists, so its an easy choice to practice, you dont have to think of a major story/lore/etc, you need to take your idea and how it can be made to fit into said existing work. same with artists, drawing is a skill, using other ppl's art to practice and recreate it, and have it look like said style is a talent, but its not an easy one, so said characters have reference material that exists, recreating it, is building said skill cause said characters have said poses that are drawn, so its easy to compare said drawing with the original and see how close it comes, but thats practice its honing said craft, when it comes to creating a unique work, it feels more satisfiying to bring your own ideas to life.
Bro that pannel with zodd turning his back to griffith and the others kneeing down goes hard for no reason
The whole thing felt like a dream, which suited it perfectly. New team is nailing it
is it just me, or the team FINALLY managed to fully adapt Miura's style, this chapter looked exceptionally good, Zodd looked a little bit off, but other than that, every single character design was on point
I find it telling just how many armoured soldiers of the Neo-Band of the Hawk were dispatched to restrain/recapture Casca--in a weakened state and wearing just a gown at that. Clearly Griffith hasn't forgotten her combat abilities.
Solid chapter, interested to see where it goes next. Only a matter of time until both Rickert and Guts' group reunite
Very happy to see Casca have some more agency. It sucks that its taken so long to get her personality sort of restored although I understand its really not something that could be done with the snap of a finger.
Its good that Casca can now emote and voice her own experiences considering it was HER that was raped by Griffith. She's not a case of fridging. Her trauma shouldn't be a prop to exist as motivation for guts alone. I very much hope to see her play a central role in the climax of this epic and the downfall of Griffith.
I think for me the overall theme of Miura's work here is that there is healing after trauma. That life is possible and we must save each other. And that's why I think Griffith is the ultimate evil in an antagonist. He directly poisons and embodies that which brings guts and casca together literally and symbolically as their child.
I, Darkseid, Lucifer Morningstar will Donovan the hell out of Friggith.
I think this chapter marks a significant turning point in the art. That illustration of Griffith gave me GA vibes but if feels like the artists put their stamp on not only Griffith but the other characters as well. They seem to be getting more comfortable with Miura’s character models.
The art is just getting better and better
I think that being separated from Guts and isolated from the group will be what Casca needs to grow her character and resolve her feelings about Griffith and deepen her loyalty to Guts and seek to reunite with him instead of freak out when she sees him
But Guts is gonna go through it more than ever before because Griffith stole Casca once again and he feels powerless to stop Griffith; he might give into the wolf since he’s being driven to the brink
That devious look and smirk on Griffith's face was literally spot on
" HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT !!! "
He can't keep getting away with it ... 😭😭😭
I guess you can say Casca went berserk in this chapter.
Fav chapter since the author takeovers. This feels exactly like the direction berserk should go it. It’s NOT supposed to be easy or fair. It’s supposed to suck, it’s supposed to suffer, it’s supposed to make it challenging. What I love about berserk is that it holds no punches, just like life. It makes the light at the end of the tunnel all the more rewarding to get to.
Thank you. That was very moving.
I haven’t seen anyone say this but I think Casca is swinging between having her memories and not having her memories because she is somewhat going back to being Elaine. She is not as incoherent as she was post eclipse but her new trauma might be pushing her back into that state every so often.
I think it is different. You can see how she is extremely depressed and has dead eyes when she is taken care off. It is nothing like Elaine especially when she tries to escape and attack soldiers she is much emotional than potato Casca ever was.
It is because she already knows she realizes what happened and what Griffith became. And thats what makes it such tragic and sad because this Casca now technically suffers more than Potato Casca ever did, because she is fully aware what Femto did to her. Her spacing out is probably caused by some Griffith spell he put on her hence why she goes to the sleep every time when she tries to escape. But since Griffith is heavily influenced by the Moon Boy now he incapable of breaking Cascas mind again.
Truly tragic. The way how now Casca suffers because of everything that happened almost makes one wish she was in Potato mode again because ignorance in bliss ALMOST. Trully puts bittersweetness into her regaining sanity.
Also following on this chapter really made starting to believe those theories that Cascu could be the one who will murder Griffith. She looks in some of those panels reallly pissed off.
@@rjofusetsudzin8011 facts, we also saw casca just a few chapters ago, acting like herself, she even asked to spar against the elf king, and the elf king made mud dolls, and everyone was impressed with her skill. the only time casca had a mental break was seeing guts, cause he was there for all the low points. he was there at the eclipse, he was there when she was elaine. her feelings for him, remind her of everything, and she wasnt able at that moment to accept all of it. if griffith never reappeared, she would have struggled with the breaks, but eventually been able to look at guts and not break. that was her struggle. now shes hallow, she has nothing, as elaine, the core of her personality, was caring, and free, she wasnt violent, she lacked worldly understanding, like a child. she would run and explore, and flee when she felt scared, she couldnt process the events and understand but she existed as person mostly how a child would act.
this casca, doesnt speak, she doesnt seem to act for herself, its not until shes in the bath that a memory resurfaces and she becomes casca again, able to fight, and has her goals, to get back to guts. while elaine was herself trying to protect her mental state from breaking down, this casca, has no state, its like someone whose drugged up, hazy and etc, just going through life.
this casca is worst casca, cause atleast with elaine, others saw her as someone whose broken, and needs help to take care of her, this casca, how would she react to guts? to anyone? after how many attempts would the original casca, end up swallowed by losing her memories, or would she realize that shes held prisoner, and have to act the part...all we know, is that something is keeping casca in this state, but is it temporary? permanent?
and what will griffith do, once casca loses all her memories? cause elaine was casca being mentally broken that her memories are repressed, we dont know if they are repressed, or being erased. will it end up that griffith, not only NTR'd casca physically, but now will do it mentally, that if guts is too late, casca will be by griffiths side, instead of by guts?
I honestly hope Casca finds a way back to where she was, to where her friends are. I know Berserk's world and story is always miserable and nothing ever goes right.. I just hope Miura planned something good because my fucking god we need it.
What I really like about this chapter (and the other chapters made by Mori and the Gaga team) is the lack of dialogue. Idk how to explain it well, but it seems to me to be intentional, as a sign of respect to Miura. Mori knows the overall story, Miura's assistants can replicate his artstyle (and they are getting better each chapters) but the dialogues is the thing they can't do with certainty. So, maybe, they use the art and pannelling to tell the story instead. Well, it's only the impression I have, maybe I'm wrong.
Casca is definitely a fighter that’s for sure. As much as griffith tries to suppress her memories, she gain them back every time. Can’t wait to see griffith die, one day
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Casca's dress reminds me of princess dusk of oolacile
I think all the shit with Casca this chapter was her in the dream. All but two panels, her in the chair in that empty room, and her in that bed. I think the flight Irvine mentioned was her struggling and resisting the dream that we saw
I really wish there was more dialogue. It feels like that has been the style of late. Hardly any dialog since Miura passing. When I read this chapter, it felt like Casca was doing this all in her head, I was kind of confused when she attacked the guards she was struggling to resist in her mind.
Now that we know Casca wants Guts, it's that much more heartbreaking.
Makes you wonder: Does Griffith want Casca because she's valuable to him or does he want Casca because she's valuable to Guts?
That’s a great question. Sometimes I feel it’s the later because he hated guts for leaving him and this is like a punishment.
That’s the thing, I thought it was mentioned that when you ascend to the godhand, human emotion means nothing to you, but in these later chapters, Griffith is acting less of a being of omnipotence and more a man with huge amounts of power, feeding his hunger of conquest
@@rufatkupa4848 it was a cold strategic movd
Hope casca doesn’t lose her memories
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEOOOOO
5:39 - Sparking our hatred towards Griffith? Pretty sure that hatred sparked a long time ago and grew into a multiverse-wide wildfire by now.
Holy shit casca isnt having a meltdown thinking or seeing guts because last time she did the memories of the eclipse started to flood her mind
THIS ONE was drawed by kentaro miura I am sure... well, he would be proud
Now we gotta remember guys we still don’t know what the god hand’s plan is .. Miura’s hint was “void” they haven’t included any of the other godhand and void is presumed to be the leader .. we’re in for a real treat for the final arc
I really hoped that they were going to announce a chapter every two months instead of one, cause the decrease of art quality in the chapters from the fall were posted monthly as well
I swear I want Guts to kill Griffith in the worst way possible.
It will be more satisfying than when Kratos killed Zeus and the entire Greek pantheon
@@doomkid1331 seriously I will not shed a tear when Guts finally cuts Griffiths head off and crushes his skull.
For some reason, i don’t think any physical violence is enough to satisfy me. I wanna see Griffith’s mind fall apart and act petty towards the life guts has built around him; being surrounded by love and care whilst Griffith’s kingdom worships him feels empty and shallow. Not much difference from the band of the hawk expect without the one he treasured the most: Guts.
@@ghostknight4147 same I want him to break physically, mentally, emotionally, and all of the above.
@@elijahbaker781 he needs the blood eagle vikings execution but unfortunately that wouldn't harm him but that is the punishment he needs
You don’t know how good it felt to click this video! Been so long
Waited so long
Waited so long
Griffin’s expression just getting more evil after the last Miura chapter. I love Casca drawing in this chapter or the new team drawing in general, they just keep getting better. Casca cut off the man is brutal (poor guy), something i missed from Berserk. They definitely put some spells on her to make her subdue so she couldn’t escape. Griffin couldnt outright lock Casca up in the deepest dungeon, it will hurt his image so put her under spell is a smart choice. Maybe we will see Rickert next chapter because Griffin will go conquer east, maybe.
“The East”could be Griffith implying they’re going to conquer the Kushan, which may establish an alliance between Guts’ and Silat’s teams, in facing off against the apostles.
Griffith has had multiple opportunities to kill Guts.
Including when he spirited Casca away from Elfhelm.
One has to wonder what his reason is for not killing him, and instead breaking his spirit. Does Griffith need Guts to reach despair for some reason?
I don’t think it could be for Guts to activate a Behelit, because Guts is branded.
Zod is gonna end up siding with Guts and Skull knight. He respects them too much and doesn't want to be a conquer
The trolling is intense. At this point is just hilarious.
Just cut the wait. Go for it. Grifith vs Guts.
Bring it.
So my take on things is that zodd will manipulate things to make it so Charlotte will find casca and befriend her again which will allow her to find the prostitutes again who will help her escape or deal with the traumas properly.
I think Zodd and Griffith vs. Guts and Casca would be great.
I think I would be really cool if Cacsa gets the final blow on Griffiths head and that Guts kills all the apostles.
4:51 just so it's clear the one not kneeling is approaching Griffith and we see him take a knee in the next panel great video btw always love your berserk videos
I wonder if there might be an arc similar to the farm arc from vagabond or the slave arc from Vinland saga but shorter in which Guts comes to terms with all that has happened and readies himself for what might be the final arc in the series, being a raid of sorts on Falconia, another confrontation with the god hand and potentially the reintroduction of the embodiment of evil
I think Zodd wasn't kneeling because he's staying behind in falconia. And the other 3 are going with Griffith "east". Zodd is staying behind just Incase you know who shows up to try to get to casca.. Guts..
troof bro
@@mrmanju6989 remember when. Griffith was reborn into the world in his new body? Zodd bow down to him then. So zodd has no issues with bowing down before Griffith. I think he's stand away because everyone else is riding out with Griffith but Zodd is staying behind. Because think about who does those kind things for Griffith.. Zodd is the one who watches over Griffith when he is the moonlight child. So it only makes sense that he would stay there in case Griffith and the other three mission to the east takes longer than expected and the moonlight child takes over Griffith and returns to Casca.
I think there's a good chance we'll be seeing what Rickard is up to in the next chapter
Casca’s current predicament reminds me of Theresia. I wonder if she’ll play a role too.
Thinking ahead but the final chapter of all Berserk, Guts is at his most brutal form with Griffith. He kills the sadistic warrior without hesitation and Casca is left petrified by Kentaro Miura’s rage filled hero she cannot bare look at Guts. Not even their love for each other will be able to prevent the visceral blood bath.
Casca looks like Isabeau so much in this chapter. A trapped hawk, away from her wolf.
Bro once Griffith hit that she went all stupid and forgot Guts and lot all her memories, you know Guts was mad.
It's all gonna end in pain and blood, it has to. There's no happy ending, no redemption. Everyone's broken and discarded by their creator in Berserk. I'm aware there's no ride off into the sunset awaiting them, they'll never be happy again. But please before I die let me see him reduced to nothing, like he was before the eclipse, a husk of a man, brutalized and worthless. Forced to spend the rest of his days unable to do much more than piss and shit himself. Some kind of justice would make it bearable.
Will I offend anyone if I wanted Guts to force Griffith to watch as his dream of Empire burns in front of him after this chapter?
No, i will gladly lend him a lighter.
Mori clearly knows what his bestfriend trying to create and tell his story for the readers. Im very glad he's the one who's continuing his legacy.
I couldn't disagree more, well said.
so many years a was scared that we ld take the ntr way with casca...thnk god we got that cleared up!when i saw that she "pushed away" the eclipse memories i was scared that she would blocked that part off and her admiration for griffith would be like it was before all the events.
That was one of the greatest worries I always saw amongst berserk readers.
@@silentsurvivor2082 well if you take out all those memories then casca has no reason to h8 grifith and even tho she has fallen in love with bestboiguttsu-sama her admiration for grifith was still there.
that is still coming mate you can already tell that Griffith has started twisting Casca's memories and is manipulating her back onto his side.
@@michaelkean5969 i can "tolerate" that if its griffiths shity mambo-jumbo magic but i wouldnt be able to stomac(?)watching casca act like that on her own.i hope i could convey my thoughts correctly,sorry if i wasnt clear enough from the start.
I know this is probably not going to happen, but I think Guts shouldn't be the one to kill Griffith, it should be Casca. I feel like it would serve as a nice character development, as Casca head-on confronts her past and comes to terms with it and kills Griffith.
Hoping Casca will be the one to deliver the final blow to Griffith as well, that would be justice to her character.
Or both both should have a part.
Nobody is killing griffith
I've been saying for years that the little girl that can read minds is gonna play a big part in Griffith's downfall. Specifically, by exposing the truth about him to the wider public. And to me this is the perfect setup for that. Casca having all those flashbacks, just radiating out those images through all of Falconia, I'm telling you, that girl is gonna find out, it's bound to happen.
They should flesh out the chapters sticking with what miura wanted is the way to go but you also have to add things to his points to get it all to blend well together
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all of that is a dream she didn't wake up at all , if you focus on the maid's faces look"s familiar and the kids too and the army pump up suddenly and the soldier arm cut it without blood you dont see that wierd ? and guts the only one wiped out from her dream its like griffith want casca to forget guts or turn him the evil one in her memory .
Haven’t read this chapter. Chiming in before I do. Will get back to you with my thoughts
Berserk series still going strong…
But not for guts 😔
caged bird similar to themes with puck and the count’s daughter in the black swordsman arc
I feel like this isn't the first time casca tried to run away. The number of guards abd how quickly they came is weird, the sedation and memory erasing feels like a kind of spell she is put on that she then breaks, has tk get captured and then re spelled. The way they speak of how shes back in the cage as well. It all makes me think she keeps breaking out.
after reading this chapter, I didn't think I would ever have a feeling of such overwhelming hatred for a particular character then I do now for Griffith, and yet here we are.
So far I haven't complained about the dialogue situation because I understand that the crew wants to interfere as little as possible with Miura's work, and I can respect that. However, after the conclusion of the Elf Island Chapter, how long is the series gonna run for? can we have 50+ or 100+ chapters with this lacking amount of dialogue?
I personally would be okay with the crew taking the series into their own direction, filling the gaps the way they see fit, yes it would basically be sort of a "fanfiction", but to be honest it already is, even if you dont make new dialogue you are already tampering with the story in terms of art style and how you use visuals to tell the story, which no matter how close you know an artist, you can't replicate that.
I agree with the lack of dialogue. I don’t mind if they fill the gaps since they already know how the story will end.
How would Charlotte would react seeing Casca? Something she doesn't know what about to happen.