The idea of Falconia becoming a mass, MASS sacrifice to the Godhand makes the idea of this all being part of a grand cyclical plot, and that King Geisreic's kingdom was simply the one that fell to it last, becomes even more concerning...
Rickert leaving before it happens. Luca being the boss lady and having to survive the city's collapse again lol lots of parallels. Guts arriving just in time for the destruction
It never occurred to me about that idea…omg that’s horriable! But the manga has foreshadowed that could happen as it happened in the past and skull knight does seem share and unfortunate past which I hope guts won’t share
But I wonder why they would sacrifice the whole of humanity? Isn't the reason behind the IOE and the Godhand's existence because of people? If everyone was gone, what would become of them?
I think miura already told us that there will be a timeskip, the moment they landed on elfheim the party was warned of how time works differently there
I saw thealmightylolis analysis on conviction and the story of the boy plying in the elf village and then coming oit for it to be years later is foreshadowing of leaving elfheim
When Ganishka is thinking about Griffith in volume 33, he specifically says that they weren't able to harm even a strand of hair from Griffith, but Guts...
Good Catch! The loss of a strand of hair foreshadows guts to being able to take down Griffith somehow. How? I really need to know how because the godhand is too powerful. I wonder if Griffith might try to sacrifice casca to get rid of that weakness? Maybe he can’t even do that.
@@whitedragoness23 I always thought Griffiths sacrifice wasn’t complete with guts and casca still alive so maybe that’s why he was able to cut a piece of his hair off. Idk I always think of weird stuff like that
I hadn't noticed that connection. At some point, I think Guts will find a way to more fully remove himself from the flow of causality. I think he's already on his way. Although, he may be risking his humanity in the process. The fact that Guts was able to cut that hair likely shows that he's already on the cusp of some major breakthrough. Pretty soon, he's either going to get some kind of upgrades to his equipment or he'll develop some kind of new technique with his companions.
@@jaywills5898 I think as long as he gets a sacrifice someone even if he hasn’t gotten every single person then he’s still able to get his transformation at max level. Guts and casca escaping was just to show the game can always change. Even the god hand noticed how their escape means nothing is perfectly set in stone and a single splash in the water can occur during a whirlpool. It doesn’t change the whole event it just means don’t expect everyone’s plans to go according to plan. Again Griffith’s plan is off the rails as the demon child merged with his body. That wasn’t supposed to happen and maybe because the demon child also survived the apocalypse inside casca til he was born so he’s out of sorts with causality
@@whitedragoness23 damn I didn’t even think of it that way. That actually makes a lot of sense that casca survived in order to birth his physical form. Good take
Bro, this is actually blowing my mind: I've just noticed that, taking note to the fact that in the last chapter in Falconia, Griffith was specificaly talking about conquering other lands (a.k.a the whole world) and remenbering that time runs in a different flow in Elfhelm, could it be that Griffith appearing in Elfhelm, means that he ALREADY had the whole world in his hand, having Elfhelm as his last challenge???
@@leaguesources just imagine they exiting elfhelm just to discover that the world is no longer the same or even realizing some small details like discovering that Rickert is dead for more than a century
Ultimate happy ending would be they somehow keep the full moon in the sky and keep Griffith forever imprisoned in the moonlight boy's form as he's forced against his will to feel his emotions for the rest of time
I don't think so. The moonlight boy is likely just a vessel for griffith at the moment. Slaying griffith would mean killing the moonlight boy and even if they do, it probably won't kill astral world femto.
@@idiotengineer3925 a fitting end for him. Griffith simply can't be defeated in battle; however, something like this is very possible, and more satisfying than just Griffith dying.
Haven't got through the video yet but one thing I want to happen is for Guts and Casca to get rid of the Brand of Sacrifice. If they don't they are damned to hell for all eternity. Even if the story ends on a happy note this will still linger in the back of my mind and stress me out.
My personal theory is that 'hell' as described by the Godhand is the river of souls and it is where everybody goes when they die. You return to the astral world and dissipate into the magic energy from which you were created. The Godhand view it as he'll because to them the loss of their ego and ambition is the worst possible fate. I'm with you that it should be addressed in some way. The whole concept rubbed me wrong since we first see Vargus in the vortex.
@@gmanyer68 there is a sort of heaven afterlife that good people go to in the astral world. But since Guts and Casca are branded they will end up in hell. I love dark fate that the count told to Guts. I just hope they can avoid it some how.
@@gmanyer68 its quite literally stated that the idea of evil created hell and its a place where souls suffer while good humans go to “heaven” or the astral world
This is my own batshit contribution: Skull Knight or Guts will cut Griffith with the Sword of Actuation, but instead of killing him and the Moonlight Boy, it just separated them. Not only will this give us some levity amidst the incoming darkness (Guts and Casca deserve it, goddammit), but it honestly makes Griffith even more of a tangible threat to them, since he no longer has the Moonlight Boy straining on his judgement and autonomy.
I've been pondering how they are going to seperate the moonlight boy and Griffith. Somehow never thought of The Sword Of Actuation. I think The Moonlight Boy will grow vastly in power, dimishing Griffiths hold on their body as their minds mix until Griffith can be destroyed as he becomes more "real"
I hate to give Griffith a technical W but I think he will *allow* this to happen, especially since he along with everyone else benefits from the Moonlight Boy being separated from him. Maybe his knowledge of causality will tell him that this is what he needs to do to be truly free.
my only rebuttal is that Skull Knight strictly told Guts to kill the defiled fetus at the end of the Golden Age arc because it's going to come back to haunt him. With howw dark Berserk gets, I don't think that there's going to be a real happy ending. I think it's going to be bitter sweet
@@purerage7963 It would've be cool for this to happen and then Guts and SK had no choice, but to go to the place on the Astral World where the GodHand is inhabitating and finish the fight there!
Here’s what’s been my theory for a bit: I always think back to just before the Eclipse during Guts’ battle with Wyald. In the end, Wyald was defeated and then further humbled by Zodd. He was then stripped of his apostlehood by that vortex and laid bare as the twisted old man he was before his ascension. Having said that, you might say that I’m of the school of thought wherein the Godhand are using Griffith. If Griffith lives up to his name and longs for something so grand that he steps on the toes of the Godhand, perhaps he could end up like Wyald. Once again laid bare as Griffith the Tortured, who ended up just being a cog in the causality.
Interesting. In a way they are reflections of each other. Wylad and Griffith both do whatever they want. Wylade was the leader of the black dog knights just like Griffith with his white aesthetic leading the hawks. Both sold their souls to become demons. Both weren't satisfied with their human existence. Where Griffith was calm and polite to get what he wants Wylade was rude, loud, and very vulgar.
Guts needs to lead his own army against griffith. How could would it be seeing him on the front lines again, doing what he's been doing since day 1, but with people who all look up to him and love him. Essentially he became his own griffith, finally making himself an equal to him. Isidro also needs to realize that Guts is the 100 man slayer, and we need to see the behelit's purpose. Hopefully Guts doesn't turn into an apostle at the end that'd be really dumb. I hope it has a good ending where Guts sword is put to rest at the hill of swords and he's able to live out a peaceful life. Oh yeah and he needs to kill a dragon
This is my theory, Griffith is cooking up up Falconia to not just sacrifice for himself or to summon the godhand to the world, but to sacrifice the Godhand themselves.
@@ZachariasTheFirst I mean they do scheme, thats the whole reason there is a prophecy of the Hawk of Light and Dark, and how the Godhand is utilizing the religion in Midland and other countries to implement Griffith as a ruler and further the Godhand's influence. The question is, will their schemes ever come into conflict with Griffith's ambitions?
I love everyone’s theories, speculations, and expanding scenes from the previous chapters. This is what it’s all about, berserk fans coming together to talk about berserk and it’s big finally
Because of elfhelms time dilation, I believe Falconia has already fallen or begun to collapse offscreen. The manga states that Griffith was the only thing keeping the melting pot from boiling over, and hes been gone for who knows how long in the time outside of elfhelm. So we have an enormous city full of racial tensions, man eating monsters, an inept government, and the one man who was keeping it all together just vanished overnight and didn't return? I'd honestly be suprised if Falconia was perfectly fine by the time we see it again.
It seems that Griffith cannot harm Casca so she is more likely to be the one to kill him. Would make it similar to Attack on Titan as well, and the two stories have some parallels that I think are not intentional but natural. It is also a common trope for revenge stories that the avenger gets robbed of their revenge. In the final arc I assume Guts, Casca, Rickert, the bakiraka, Griffith, Zodd, etc will eventually end up in the same place and it'll feel like the Golden Age again, and I hope it can approach that level of quality as well.
So in response to what you started to say about The Beasts of Darkness. I'm not sure if you're aware of Carl Jung's "The Shadow" but what Jung says about the shadow is spot on what The Beast of Darkness. Jung says in order to become a self actualized person one must integrate their shadow. Basically get it under control. That's where Skull Knight and Guts differ. King Gaiseric was never able to integrate his shadow so it consumed him. Guts will need to integrate his shadow AKA The Beast of Darkness in order to succeed!
I've been thinking about that to. Miura really did his research. We're already seeing Guts's beast in his eye while trying to attack Griffith recently. I think he's beginning to master it.
@@spencerharmon681 I mean, he knew about the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) which Shierke often performs a version of. It's extremely obscure to anyone outside of western occultism, so he REALLY knew his stuff.
The Beast of Darkness may not be the Shadow tho, it could be it own entity and cant intergrate. Its personality and Guts do overlap in the ID, and this is were the Beast seems to try to take over Guts . I read am a big Fan of Jung myself Academy Of Idea's has some great videos on him.
@@jamesspencer1997 I think they've been very clear that the best is in Guts mind. Like others can see it. I remember panels of the beast following behind as a shadow would. Or having the best literally emerge from the shadows. I think as well recently the new chapters coming out there is a panel where guts has the eye of the Beast. Maybe they were just showing us that it was about to take over. Or maybe it was showing us guts having more control over it starting to integrate it. I definitely could be wrong but I feel really strongly about this.
Just maybe, the last behelit would be used to track down Casca. Maybe Griffith's last resort and stronghold would be the Eclipse realm itself just so Casca can't be easily retrieved by Guts. The band would by then be forced to a stalemate to find a way for an incarnation or wait indefinitely. Also maybe, the moonlight child would be then sacrificed by Guts to hinder Griffith's physical manifestation while also have an access to kill Griffith in his Astral/GH form.
guts won't sacrifice anyone. He's the opposite of grifith in the sense that he would rather go through the worst so that people he cares for are well while grifith sacrifices people around him for his own benefit. It's the same as the theory of apostle guts, won't happen because he's human, down to the last bone.
Any new information on Skull Knight and Void and I would be happy. Also I want to see Guts' reaction to Falconia and if Griffith has more plans for the people of Falconia.
If Casca gets a new group for herself in the current arc, Sonia, Mule (If these 2 learns of Griffith's real form and intentions), Jerome (It would be nice to see him back in the manga and his possible future interactions with Casca will remind her of Corkus), Jill, Theresia (it would be absolute irony if the 2 girls who met Guts on his Apostle Hunt Season will help Casca to come back to him) and Chitch (OKAY, OKAY, I just want to see her again and if she returns, she can have the same healing role Puck and Ivalera has and I WANT to see Guts reunite with her) would be the perfect candidates to join her team!
5:40 just minor reminder, "Silat" name pronounce as "Sie-lat" not "Saa-lat." Silat itself is a name taken or directly reference from real martial arts from Indonesia (South East Asia) called "Silat." This pronunciation make sense as both Japanese & Bahasa Indonesia languages read as it sounds, different with something like English.
I see Guts becoming more than just a raid leader and commander, he becomes a general of his own army marching against the forces of the Godhand. I too would like a reunion with Rickert and company and what skills, trades, knowledge they bring back to the fold. Who knows, would be interesting seeing him either a poet or king in the very end of Berserk. I do think wielding a dragonslayer should mean he has to encounter a dragon on his way back to Falconia. I do think there should a big reveal to the masses who Griffith really is. I used to toy with the idea that both Guts and Griffith would go out like both Winslow and Swan do in the Phantom of the Paradise. As for the brands, not sure if they can be removed from those still alive from the original Band of the Hawk. I would love to see a Wounds part three to tie Guts' and Casca's relationship together again. There is the possibility this all could end like in King of Wolves Miura did back then. This has been the best story of my lifetime here in earth. Lots of turns we did not expect from the previous readings.
It sounded crazy to me at first, but Guts has gathered quite a lot of powerful allies very recently. He's not the kind of guy to try to become some big shot leader, but it might just happen anyway.
Honestly I think Skull Knights behelit sword is gonna play a part with griffith and the moonlight boy. Imagine if at the moment MB turns back into Griffith. SK or someone was able to slash with the sword thus separating the two into separate entities but making both of them vulnerable again!
9:03 just a detail on this pannel, the dragon slayer was actually capable of harming griffith, if you notice theres a single stranf of hair that came out of griffith. So yeah thats a minor detail that can make a huge diference
I imagine if the Moonlight Boy must be sacrificed for the sake of the world...it will be at the boy's urging himself. to protect it's parents, namely Casca... demanding his own end...to save the world they live in. after all, he sacrificed himself at Albion to save Casca...it didn't die as a result, but should have. so, if with the little power he had before he goes that far...you don't think that it will go that far again, or further ? the Moonlight Boy won't just be a party to Griffith's defeat...chances are, he will be an active participant.
For me the biggest thing i want answered is a full backstory on SkullKnight and his history as king G. What exactly happened? I want to see a scene by scene flashback of all of it. I want to see what he was capable of back when he was human, how he met Flora, when he got the breserk armor, the full fight between him and the GH, and exactly how he ended up into what he is now as SK. I want to see the history with him and Void, and see what happened to the previous GH members and a backstory on the current GH members. I want to know who Slain was before she became a GH and see her history. I would also like the count’s daughter to return as an apostle to fight Guts. And see the guy with the circle blades (forgot his name) team up with Guys to fight Griffth and the GH. Lastly I wanna see Guys get a power up in someway so he can realistically face griffith, because currently there’s no way he can beat him.
My personal crack tgeory for bechi the behelit is that it will be used as a catalyst for sherikes biggest spell. we know that the god hand are essentially unbeatable, and that the behelit acts as a warp pipe straight to the bottom of the astral realm. I believe they will reverse engineer the artifiact and use it in a way to trap the god hand in the abyss and sever that section of the astral world from the rest of reality.
We all know that Guts hasn't mastered the armor. And we all want an upgrade to Guts armor and sword somehow. It may need to be a mix of everything. Forged by dwarves, enchanted by elves and or everyone. Coated in Behelits idk have Rickert make explosives on the blade as well
I don't know if they said the ark after this one will be the final one. I think they just said that there are a few more chapters to make until this ark was finished, then they will start a new one, but I don't think they said the new ark is the last one. Someone point me to a link if I'm wrong. I totally forgot Puck named the Behelit Betchi. LOL. He really takes care of that thing like a pet too. I mean it is harmless when it's not being used for the obvious. Plus, it's not its fault what it is. I wonder what the origin of the Behelits are. Maybe Betchi was a person once. I have 2 questions that bother me with this series. Granted, they are not as important to the plot, but I would still like the fact that Griffith had most of Charlotte's family killed and the fact that Serpico knows he and Farnese are half siblings to come out. They're not major to the plot, or at least they don't seem to be at the moment, but both of these being cases of one character who knows something that they aren't telling another character they are around a lot is annoying to me, especially with the Serpico/Farnese situation because I see no reason why he can't tell her already.
1. Obviously puck is going to use it and become the first true elf/apostle hybrid the likes of which the god hand could only dream if. Then puck proceeds to beat down the god hand one after the other. They all die including Griffith. Guts and casca live happily ever after. The end
You just know we're going to see an almost shit for shot remake of Guts holding Casca like Skull Knight held his wife. That's going to be one fucking scene, with Falconia burning as a giant mark of sacrifice.
Has anyone noticed how gut's beast of darkness looks like the apostles/demons in the berserker armour flash back? Same mouths, teeth and eyes. I don't think it's anything too important but just interesting.
On the Idea of Evil: If it is the result of spontaneous/uncontrolled human action/forces, acting as a super-natural uncontrolled force... If it is destiny itself represented in the most materialistic (philosophically) way possible (i.e., the natural, necessary result of things as they are, without any subjective/conscious intervention on it with enough agency, substantivity and capacity to change the bigger path) ... Then it is no different from the lack of conscious control (on a social, not merely individual level) over our own, very real and material, social relations. And we have to approach it in the same way we should do with real humanity. Same as in the world of Berserk humanity want reasons for sadness, for pain, for misery, etc., but don't want sadness, pain, misery, etc., and they don't inflict or suffer it consciously on a social level (I'm not saying there are no d*ckheads or malicious people in the story, but the whole is always more than the sum of the parts), we don't do that either. We didn't collectively and actively choose to create the social conditions in which a big part of the population engage in stultifying jobs to afford a poor living, then suffer from depression, anxiety, etc., and a lesser part feed off of it to live like kings... But it has been the natural, spontaneous result of how we came to produce and reproduce our means of living through necessity (i.e. through the unavoidable circumstances of the starting point of us being primates living in the wild millions of years ago), though the lack of references of freedom (it couldn't exist just yet, outside its 'natural' form), through the lack of control over natural forces in the first place, and through the lack of control over social forces once we progressively started to organize ourselves in newer ways to survive, progressively controlling the laws of nature to our advantage; i.e. through the lack of freedom to organize social life as we want (we did it because there was no other choice: our background as an independent species separating ourselves from the wilderness was scarce to say the least)... But that background is no longer scarce, and through the historical experience of millions of years, we finally created the means to make freedom possible in a social scale, we are at the precursor of another historical stage of humanity... But there is one last barrier to break to make it not just possible, but real. I said freedom couldn't exist just yet... Freedom and necessity are opposites, one is the negation of the other, one cannot exist without the other, and so one cannot be defined if not through the relation with the other. So, for humanity to be free, to break its chains from the unavoidable fate born from its way of living up until now, it has to negate itself (in a dialectical way... Not in a "say 'no' to yourself" way...), to transform itself. Humanity is a social animal species, our nature is our historically determined, concrete social relations, so our nature is historical and not immutable or eternal. What separates us from other animal species is that we produce our means of living in accordance to the historical stage we're in, defined by those concrete social relations, product of our own collective action. We can't get rid of the necessity of natural things (and it is not the natural world that make us slave to necessity), we can't get rid of death or pain (we are naturally limited and sentient beings), but we can get rid of the social causes for them (wage labour, starvation, evictions, reactionary wars...). We can organize the production and reproduction of our means of living in a conscious way, because we already created the means through which that production is no longer individual/familiar/isolated but social, and through which it becomes necessary to plan some of the outcomes of it. But the social relations we live in now don't allow it to the fullest, it still 'lives' in contradiction: these are still the ones through which only a part of the population privately benefit and regulate to their advantage the social production and its outcomes, and not humanity as a whole, auto-conscious and auto-regulated organism. That is our last barrier, and I think that is the last barrier to break in Berserk too. We've seen how agency and subjective action are given facts in Berserk, even if only still at an individual level (Guts, Skull Knight, mages, etc.) and at precise moments (The Eclipse, The Festival, etc.), given that the IoE controls humanity at a subconscious level in the physical realm, i.e., only if you live 'inside the story' (SK to Guts talking about Femto in chapter 237) ... But we know too that those living in the Interstice and beyond, and those who use magic (if I'm not mistaken, humans like Farnese should count too), already have if 'merely half a step' (or more) outside of it (chapter 142). If so... If Fantasia is the merging of the physical and astral worlds, if magic and mysticism are one with the reason of the physical world too... Aren't these the world-scale conditions, created by the God Hand to their advantage (so outside of humanity's collective, conscious volition and action, but created nonetheless through the agents of its collective, unconscious actions), through which humanity in the world of Berserk can get to transform its way of life? If so, to take down the IoE, humanity has to surpass one last barrier, and that barrier is too the social organization through which it is in need of Holy Saviours (actually resulting in the economic projections and benefits of the Aristocracy revolving around Griffith), instead of creating their own destiny with their hands, making it their own collective, conscious will... And Guts know a bit about that. For that, I guess some kind of revelation has to take place, not only regarding the true nature of Apostles or the God Hand (both formerly humans), but the underlying reasons through which these beings could come to existence in the first place and control humanity. If so, I could see a final war (I guess through the whole Second Empire of Humanity, already built by then, not only in Falconia) between those (humans, apostles, mages, etc.) who actively engage and promote the IoE and those who are against it. Griffith/the God Hand would be at the head of the first, and Guts at the vanguard of the second. Of course, I hope Guts' party wins ;) As an ending quote for this already biblically large comment: «Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and especially on his countrymen, when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organisation of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal world as regards the social aspect, in the same way that production in general has done this for men in their aspect as species. Historical evolution makes such an organisation daily more indispensable, but also with every day more possible. From it will date a new epoch of history, in which mankind itself, and with mankind all branches of its activity, and especially natural science, will experience an advance that will put everything preceding it in the deepest shade. » - Friedrich Engels, "Dialectics of Nature".
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Would a branded person like Guts even be able to use a behelit if given the chance? Does having the brand of sacrifice negate the ability for you to be come one who sacrifices? I'm pretty sure that was never talked about. So it's an interesting theory to consider.
When Guts attacks Griffith in the last chapter, a light emerges from the dragonslayer. Is the dragonslayer getting the ability of cutting astral bodies? When Guts killed the trolls, a dark aura comes from his edge.
Do you mean the strand? That should be a piece of griffith's hair which he cut. The Dragonslayer has been known to affect the astral plane since before Guts even got the berserker armor
@@reinstriver5432 Yeah, is like a spiritual light instead of hair. Also, the dragonslayer has been increasing his efectiveness while Guts was hunting apostles and other astral creatures. To cut a former member of the God Hand is equal to absorve a portion of his odd.
Skull knight will fuse the dragonslayer with beihelits to fight Griffith. Durring the fight, guts will use the berserk Armour almost to the point of death until the full moon comes out, turning Griffith in to the child. At that moment, the behelit activates as guts is ok his last breath The sacrifice he makes will be the boy, killing Griffith in the process and removing the brand from him and caska. guts' new form will be the merging of him with the Armour and of the beast of darkness , now zodd gets his wish to fight the ultimate fight. Guts wins and vows to hunt down all apostles and the rest of the God hand .
Doesn't sound like something i would see in berserk, if i saw a plot like that in animes like one piece, i would say nice, but it would be so out of place in berserk, Luck was never on the side of our protagonist
Damn…that point about each major arc ending with some huge event scaling upwards as we go on is a REALLY good point…and that coupled with the 1000 years prior Geiseric situation where an entire civilization was lost, has some very possible implications for Falconia aka the whole of humanity. Miura was never predictable in the least but that does seem like some very possible macro foreshadowing. I don’t think the story will end that way because I couldn’t imagine a story with the narrative subtlety of Berserk ending with some grand cheesecake like human extinction, and far more likely to be something that’ll be emotionally jarring in a pleasant or unpleasant way on a personal level for the reader. I’m pretty confident whatever closure the story ever gives us will NOT be simply the defeat of Griffith in a physical sense or the “end of the world” but something more like a rift between Griffith and the Godhand and/or either Griffith, Guts or Casks sacrificing themselves in some unexpected way. Who knows. I don’t think this story gives us any safe bets in trying to guess what’ll happen. I don’t even know if ending it in a way that’ll satisfy anyone is even possible. There are people that have been following this story for either their entire literate life or like 30+ years, right!? What story has EVER been so epic and set both in a fictional and real world timescale so massive? The Bible? Maybe? if so, that’s only because Revelation comes after a bunch of boring stuff repeated like 4 times. Holy Pimp slap! Revelation is kinda like the Christian version of the Eclipse (omg nobody else use that analogy it’s mine! I’m foreal you guys 🧐 !!)
I think Griffith can become literally the maelstrom at will, intangible much like Kitty Pride in X-men. When Rickert slapped him he got caught in a surprise, maybe that'll be a fighting chance? Some element of surprise?
I think the story of skull knight and void should be similar to guts and Griffith, what I'm interessed is: void's body is actually like the figma or does he have a proper gigachad type body
Another youtuber Arveuss made a video about his "God theory" of berserk which focuses on Griffith becoming one with the idea of evil. In that chapter the idea of evil spoke to griffith about them being a part of each other and i think T.I.O.E has built the story so far to make Griffith the desired God, aka the Idea of evil incarnate, in the flesh. But if he builts a safe haven for humanity, and fantastic beasts and monsters cant harm humanity, people wont suffer as much and won't cling to a savior/religion as much as they did before, which might be Gods undoing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly sure there's a panel in which it's explained that the God's hand are in service of something greater (heck they're the hand of God, so...). So... This greater thing, maybe god or the idea of evil or both/the same are showing up at some point like in the banned chapter,, right? .
I always thought the behelit will be activated by someone in his party and I believe due to chekovs gun it’ll be used. Now based off your dragon slayer theory for the behelit I think maybe if Guts were to have the dwarves fuse the Behelit with the Berserker armor it’ll give him some sort of insane dimension hopping ability or in a way alter space around him to help him fight the Godhand. We saw Sk avoid Griffith using his GH powers to smash a bunch of apostles but he avoided it. I think an ability similar to this will happen.
I am pretty new to this IP. To me the behelit is "obviously" going to go to Casca. She is the character that has had no autonomy and would be the most susceptible to it. That would also be the second biggest betrayed in the franchise.
U missed the most important one: who the fuck are the old members of the god hand? And how and who defeat them? Also I honestly would like to know something more about the actual members of the god hand like Conrad and Void but I’m not expecting too much.
Is it possible Bechi could finally be used before the end of the phantasia arc? Danann says "They will emerge from the ground one by one" If she's referring to the godhand like some people have said, then it could be leading to an apostle ceremony, traditionally the godhand only all appear in one place when somebody is about to become an apostle. Skull Knight also said to Guts that he has reached the end of his journey after he arrived on Elfhelm, but we all know that berserk isn't going to end on Elfhelm, so saying this is the end doesn't make much sense, but maybe the reason he was destined to go to Elfhelm in the first place was so he could carry the behelit to its final destination, so now that Bechi has finally made it to where it needs to be, in that sense his journey has finally come to an end
a lot of people are talking friffith in a way of just ' how can he be deafeated overlooking his character completely as if he is just te snake apostle from the first arc and has no personality .. berserk is not a monster killing manga what makes it good is the character develpment and human interactions and how will they develop ... people forgot that the concept of apostle is just a metaphor and griffith is very much a human character i think most reader miss the depth of berserk and see it as guts: hero griffith : villain casca : damsel as for the rest of the mysteries of berserk they arent just 10 question but like a 100 questions that needs answers
I just can’t wait to see more of griffiths new band of the hawk. I want to see more Locus and Irvine fights. I want to see guts take these guys on. The grunbeld fight was great.
I believe the behelit is either guts or one of his people in the group, remember what zodd said the behelit always comes back to its owner so the question is is it guts behelit or one in his group.
I have 2 beherit theories. The first is that Guts uses it to summon the God Hand to kill them. The second is the Griffith uses it to try and defeat Guts.
The team will be reunited, the egg of King will be activated somehow, guts will embrace the armor and will die after killing the gods in the void, Griffin will die in cazca arms will turning into the moon child...
Personal theory: The behelit Guts carries is actually for Casca, and her wish will be the destruction of humanities self-imposed misery, which means instead of humanity collectively asking “why do we suffer?” The collective thought becomes a more empowering “we will get through this”. This means that the idea of evil stops creating monsters and suffering to justify the atrocities people face and give them an origin, but rather personal satisfaction when a hardship is overcome, making it more “the will of perseverance”. As a result, the Godhand are depowered, and no more monsters are created. Instead, humanity finds value and courage to defeat evil that exists in the world and develop a drive to endure and find satisfaction in both the eradication of evil, as well as the peace that ensues after, no matter how brief. In essence, every human becomes a struggler. Her sacrifice will be her child/Moonchild. And without his physical vessel, Griffith reverts to his tortured, broken body as it was before the Eclipse, forever broken and rendered impotent as a threat. She and Guts feel the loss of their child, but as per her own wish, they continue to live and persevere.
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The idea of Falconia becoming a mass, MASS sacrifice to the Godhand makes the idea of this all being part of a grand cyclical plot, and that King Geisreic's kingdom was simply the one that fell to it last, becomes even more concerning...
Rickert leaving before it happens. Luca being the boss lady and having to survive the city's collapse again lol lots of parallels. Guts arriving just in time for the destruction
that sounds freaky af
Thank you. Nice to see that I am not the one one who has the same thought
It never occurred to me about that idea…omg that’s horriable! But the manga has foreshadowed that could happen as it happened in the past and skull knight does seem share and unfortunate past which I hope guts won’t share
But I wonder why they would sacrifice the whole of humanity? Isn't the reason behind the IOE and the Godhand's existence because of people? If everyone was gone, what would become of them?
I think miura already told us that there will be a timeskip, the moment they landed on elfheim the party was warned of how time works differently there
true.. could be interesting to come back seeing an adult rickert and maybe falconia goes to shit with Griffith gone for a long period of time
@@Hannex433 THIS
@@Hannex433 I'm so down for Adult Rickert
So charlotte would be what? Griffith’s older woman now? Granny?
I saw thealmightylolis analysis on conviction and the story of the boy plying in the elf village and then coming oit for it to be years later is foreshadowing of leaving elfheim
When Ganishka is thinking about Griffith in volume 33, he specifically says that they weren't able to harm even a strand of hair from Griffith, but Guts...
Good Catch! The loss of a strand of hair foreshadows guts to being able to take down Griffith somehow. How? I really need to know how because the godhand is too powerful. I wonder if Griffith might try to sacrifice casca to get rid of that weakness? Maybe he can’t even do that.
@@whitedragoness23 I always thought Griffiths sacrifice wasn’t complete with guts and casca still alive so maybe that’s why he was able to cut a piece of his hair off. Idk I always think of weird stuff like that
I hadn't noticed that connection. At some point, I think Guts will find a way to more fully remove himself from the flow of causality. I think he's already on his way. Although, he may be risking his humanity in the process.
The fact that Guts was able to cut that hair likely shows that he's already on the cusp of some major breakthrough. Pretty soon, he's either going to get some kind of upgrades to his equipment or he'll develop some kind of new technique with his companions.
@@jaywills5898 I think as long as he gets a sacrifice someone even if he hasn’t gotten every single person then he’s still able to get his transformation at max level. Guts and casca escaping was just to show the game can always change. Even the god hand noticed how their escape means nothing is perfectly set in stone and a single splash in the water can occur during a whirlpool. It doesn’t change the whole event it just means don’t expect everyone’s plans to go according to plan.
Again Griffith’s plan is off the rails as the demon child merged with his body. That wasn’t supposed to happen and maybe because the demon child also survived the apocalypse inside casca til he was born so he’s out of sorts with causality
@@whitedragoness23 damn I didn’t even think of it that way. That actually makes a lot of sense that casca survived in order to birth his physical form. Good take
Bro, this is actually blowing my mind:
I've just noticed that, taking note to the fact that in the last chapter in Falconia, Griffith was specificaly talking about conquering other lands (a.k.a the whole world) and remenbering that time runs in a different flow in Elfhelm, could it be that Griffith appearing in Elfhelm, means that he ALREADY had the whole world in his hand, having Elfhelm as his last challenge???
Possibly, not probably.
the next eclipse is coming. after they exit elfheim the next 200 years are passed
So Guts will have to run around in a World Where Griffith’s Evil Low
@@leaguesources just imagine they exiting elfhelm just to discover that the world is no longer the same or even realizing some small details like discovering that Rickert is dead for more than a century
Holy shit this is nuts
The idea of moonlight boy taking over thus giving their chance to slay him is horrifyingly possible
Ultimate happy ending would be they somehow keep the full moon in the sky and keep Griffith forever imprisoned in the moonlight boy's form as he's forced against his will to feel his emotions for the rest of time
I don't think so. The moonlight boy is likely just a vessel for griffith at the moment. Slaying griffith would mean killing the moonlight boy and even if they do, it probably won't kill astral world femto.
@@idiotengineer3925 a fitting end for him. Griffith simply can't be defeated in battle; however, something like this is very possible, and more satisfying than just Griffith dying.
@@idiotengineer3925 kinda like the dream Griffith had where casca and guts live happily and he can only watch.
@@follower4633 exactly!
Haven't got through the video yet but one thing I want to happen is for Guts and Casca to get rid of the Brand of Sacrifice. If they don't they are damned to hell for all eternity. Even if the story ends on a happy note this will still linger in the back of my mind and stress me out.
My personal theory is that 'hell' as described by the Godhand is the river of souls and it is where everybody goes when they die. You return to the astral world and dissipate into the magic energy from which you were created. The Godhand view it as he'll because to them the loss of their ego and ambition is the worst possible fate.
I'm with you that it should be addressed in some way. The whole concept rubbed me wrong since we first see Vargus in the vortex.
@@gmanyer68 there is a sort of heaven afterlife that good people go to in the astral world. But since Guts and Casca are branded they will end up in hell. I love dark fate that the count told to Guts. I just hope they can avoid it some how.
@@gmanyer68 its quite literally stated that the idea of evil created hell and its a place where souls suffer while good humans go to “heaven” or the astral world
@@brando31799 the brand dosent decide weather they go to hell or not, it's just like a attraction to dark beings for the rest of their life's.
@@artorias2483 it definitely does. Reread the guardians of desire chapters. It's stated outright by the Godhand and slug boi.
This is my own batshit contribution: Skull Knight or Guts will cut Griffith with the Sword of Actuation, but instead of killing him and the Moonlight Boy, it just separated them. Not only will this give us some levity amidst the incoming darkness (Guts and Casca deserve it, goddammit), but it honestly makes Griffith even more of a tangible threat to them, since he no longer has the Moonlight Boy straining on his judgement and autonomy.
I've been pondering how they are going to seperate the moonlight boy and Griffith. Somehow never thought of The Sword Of Actuation. I think The Moonlight Boy will grow vastly in power, dimishing Griffiths hold on their body as their minds mix until Griffith can be destroyed as he becomes more "real"
I hate to give Griffith a technical W but I think he will *allow* this to happen, especially since he along with everyone else benefits from the Moonlight Boy being separated from him. Maybe his knowledge of causality will tell him that this is what he needs to do to be truly free.
my only rebuttal is that Skull Knight strictly told Guts to kill the defiled fetus at the end of the Golden Age arc because it's going to come back to haunt him. With howw dark Berserk gets, I don't think that there's going to be a real happy ending. I think it's going to be bitter sweet
@@purerage7963 It would've be cool for this to happen and then Guts and SK had no choice, but to go to the place on the Astral World where the GodHand is inhabitating and finish the fight there!
Here’s what’s been my theory for a bit: I always think back to just before the Eclipse during Guts’ battle with Wyald. In the end, Wyald was defeated and then further humbled by Zodd. He was then stripped of his apostlehood by that vortex and laid bare as the twisted old man he was before his ascension. Having said that, you might say that I’m of the school of thought wherein the Godhand are using Griffith. If Griffith lives up to his name and longs for something so grand that he steps on the toes of the Godhand, perhaps he could end up like Wyald. Once again laid bare as Griffith the Tortured, who ended up just being a cog in the causality.
Interesting. In a way they are reflections of each other. Wylad and Griffith both do whatever they want. Wylade was the leader of the black dog knights just like Griffith with his white aesthetic leading the hawks. Both sold their souls to become demons. Both weren't satisfied with their human existence. Where Griffith was calm and polite to get what he wants Wylade was rude, loud, and very vulgar.
Guts needs to lead his own army against griffith. How could would it be seeing him on the front lines again, doing what he's been doing since day 1, but with people who all look up to him and love him. Essentially he became his own griffith, finally making himself an equal to him. Isidro also needs to realize that Guts is the 100 man slayer, and we need to see the behelit's purpose. Hopefully Guts doesn't turn into an apostle at the end that'd be really dumb. I hope it has a good ending where Guts sword is put to rest at the hill of swords and he's able to live out a peaceful life. Oh yeah and he needs to kill a dragon
Dude someone who gets it...nice
I think the sword's name is a giveaway that Guts will kill Grunbeld (a dragon), but that's just me.
@@Sorrocasharked TBH Grunbeld isn't that interesting and his design also isn't as cool as fucking Zodd
Guts turning into an apostle would immediately end his quest for vengeance and have him serving under Griffith again.
@@lukas-kevynmuller6697 Right, but a dragon is a dragon.
I wonder if griffiths ambitions to rule will come into conflict with the grand schemes of the godhand?
This is my theory, Griffith is cooking up up Falconia to not just sacrifice for himself or to summon the godhand to the world, but to sacrifice the Godhand themselves.
@@danielortega7657 That'd be interesting. But yeah, I agree, Falconia is definitely a ticking time-bomb.
@@danielortega7657 that’d be sick
Do the godhand have a grand scheme? “Do as thou wilt”…
@@ZachariasTheFirst I mean they do scheme, thats the whole reason there is a prophecy of the Hawk of Light and Dark, and how the Godhand is utilizing the religion in Midland and other countries to implement Griffith as a ruler and further the Godhand's influence. The question is, will their schemes ever come into conflict with Griffith's ambitions?
The one thing I want to know is what happened to the old Godhand, that’s the one thing that really baffles me.
proof that someone got over on them once before
@@Evermore098 I think the skull knight died from fighting the old god hand taking 4 of them with him before void or the berserk armor killed him.
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Because of elfhelms time dilation, I believe Falconia has already fallen or begun to collapse offscreen.
The manga states that Griffith was the only thing keeping the melting pot from boiling over, and hes been gone for who knows how long in the time outside of elfhelm.
So we have an enormous city full of racial tensions, man eating monsters, an inept government, and the one man who was keeping it all together just vanished overnight and didn't return?
I'd honestly be suprised if Falconia was perfectly fine by the time we see it again.
But dont we see the city again in the last frames when griffith brings casca back to falconia? Although we only get a glimpse
It seems that Griffith cannot harm Casca so she is more likely to be the one to kill him. Would make it similar to Attack on Titan as well, and the two stories have some parallels that I think are not intentional but natural. It is also a common trope for revenge stories that the avenger gets robbed of their revenge.
In the final arc I assume Guts, Casca, Rickert, the bakiraka, Griffith, Zodd, etc will eventually end up in the same place and it'll feel like the Golden Age again, and I hope it can approach that level of quality as well.
How would that be related to AOT exactly
@@zainy_inc154 Mikasa kills Eren
@@angeldeleon7121 oh yeah. Let's hope berserk gets a good ending though 🔥
@@zainy_inc154 Absolutely. But If it’s anything like that last few chapters, then I have no worries
@@zainy_inc154 Have you read the manga? Otherwise I won't tell you
So in response to what you started to say about The Beasts of Darkness.
I'm not sure if you're aware of Carl Jung's "The Shadow" but what Jung says about the shadow is spot on what The Beast of Darkness. Jung says in order to become a self actualized person one must integrate their shadow. Basically get it under control.
That's where Skull Knight and Guts differ. King Gaiseric was never able to integrate his shadow so it consumed him. Guts will need to integrate his shadow AKA The Beast of Darkness in order to succeed!
I've been thinking about that to. Miura really did his research. We're already seeing Guts's beast in his eye while trying to attack Griffith recently. I think he's beginning to master it.
@@TheGreenKnight500 I had the same thought! I think you're right about the research!
@@spencerharmon681 I mean, he knew about the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) which Shierke often performs a version of. It's extremely obscure to anyone outside of western occultism, so he REALLY knew his stuff.
The Beast of Darkness may not be the Shadow tho, it could be it own entity and cant intergrate. Its personality and Guts do overlap in the ID, and this is were the Beast seems to try to take over Guts . I read am a big Fan of Jung myself Academy Of Idea's has some great videos on him.
@@jamesspencer1997 I think they've been very clear that the best is in Guts mind. Like others can see it. I remember panels of the beast following behind as a shadow would. Or having the best literally emerge from the shadows.
I think as well recently the new chapters coming out there is a panel where guts has the eye of the Beast. Maybe they were just showing us that it was about to take over. Or maybe it was showing us guts having more control over it starting to integrate it. I definitely could be wrong but I feel really strongly about this.
Can't wait to see guts say "this is quite a berserk story Costco...I mean casca"
same
Just maybe, the last behelit would be used to track down Casca. Maybe Griffith's last resort and stronghold would be the Eclipse realm itself just so Casca can't be easily retrieved by Guts. The band would by then be forced to a stalemate to find a way for an incarnation or wait indefinitely. Also maybe, the moonlight child would be then sacrificed by Guts to hinder Griffith's physical manifestation while also have an access to kill Griffith in his Astral/GH form.
guts won't sacrifice anyone. He's the opposite of grifith in the sense that he would rather go through the worst so that people he cares for are well while grifith sacrifices people around him for his own benefit. It's the same as the theory of apostle guts, won't happen because he's human, down to the last bone.
Any new information on Skull Knight and Void and I would be happy.
Also I want to see Guts' reaction to Falconia and if Griffith has more plans for the people of Falconia.
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I am mainly curious if Theresia will come back to avenge her father. Last time we saw her, she said she will kill Guts.
If Casca gets a new group for herself in the current arc, Sonia, Mule (If these 2 learns of Griffith's real form and intentions), Jerome (It would be nice to see him back in the manga and his possible future interactions with Casca will remind her of Corkus), Jill, Theresia (it would be absolute irony if the 2 girls who met Guts on his Apostle Hunt Season will help Casca to come back to him) and Chitch (OKAY, OKAY, I just want to see her again and if she returns, she can have the same healing role Puck and Ivalera has and I WANT to see Guts reunite with her) would be the perfect candidates to join her team!
5:40 just minor reminder, "Silat" name pronounce as "Sie-lat" not "Saa-lat." Silat itself is a name taken or directly reference from real martial arts from Indonesia (South East Asia) called "Silat." This pronunciation make sense as both Japanese & Bahasa Indonesia languages read as it sounds, different with something like English.
How does one province “sie” I’m being real here.
@@whitedragoness23 A hard I like ICE. 'SAI' 'LAT" like the weapon/Naruto Character
I see Guts becoming more than just a raid leader and commander, he becomes a general of his own army marching against the forces of the Godhand. I too would like a reunion with Rickert and company and what skills, trades, knowledge they bring back to the fold. Who knows, would be interesting seeing him either a poet or king in the very end of Berserk. I do think wielding a dragonslayer should mean he has to encounter a dragon on his way back to Falconia. I do think there should a big reveal to the masses who Griffith really is. I used to toy with the idea that both Guts and Griffith would go out like both Winslow and Swan do in the Phantom of the Paradise. As for the brands, not sure if they can be removed from those still alive from the original Band of the Hawk. I would love to see a Wounds part three to tie Guts' and Casca's relationship together again. There is the possibility this all could end like in King of Wolves Miura did back then. This has been the best story of my lifetime here in earth. Lots of turns we did not expect from the previous readings.
Guts will definitely fight and kill the dragon that appeared when the planes merged.
@@heavenlysteel8337 that sword will finally slay a dragon. The old blacksmith would be so proud.
It sounded crazy to me at first, but Guts has gathered quite a lot of powerful allies very recently. He's not the kind of guy to try to become some big shot leader, but it might just happen anyway.
I just want Guts to kill griffith in the most gruesome way and for him to finally be happy with Casca
Ive also been thinking if they will somehow use becchi with guts sword to allow a further power increasing and allowing guts to harm a godhand member
Honestly I think Skull Knights behelit sword is gonna play a part with griffith and the moonlight boy. Imagine if at the moment MB turns back into Griffith. SK or someone was able to slash with the sword thus separating the two into separate entities but making both of them vulnerable again!
Another big question it's the backstory of the most important apostles like Locus, Irvine ecc.
8 and 10. YES! and YES!(especially considering how time flies there) YES!
9:03 just a detail on this pannel, the dragon slayer was actually capable of harming griffith, if you notice theres a single stranf of hair that came out of griffith. So yeah thats a minor detail that can make a huge diference
Wildest manga year imo, I'm just glad its continuing
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When guts cut through Griffith there was a strand of hair that came off in the most recent chapter
Where? I've read through the chapter multiple times and I can't seem to find it.
Betchi is for to summon a part of the astrial world that makes the godhand physical. Guts right now is in a state of despair.
Loved that last question, totally agree with you, I really hope she's 18
I imagine if the Moonlight Boy must be sacrificed for the sake of the world...it will be at the boy's urging himself. to protect it's parents, namely Casca... demanding his own end...to save the world they live in.
after all, he sacrificed himself at Albion to save Casca...it didn't die as a result, but should have. so, if with the little power he had before he goes that far...you don't think that it will go that far again, or further ?
the Moonlight Boy won't just be a party to Griffith's defeat...chances are, he will be an active participant.
For me the biggest thing i want answered is a full backstory on SkullKnight and his history as king G. What exactly happened? I want to see a scene by scene flashback of all of it. I want to see what he was capable of back when he was human, how he met Flora, when he got the breserk armor, the full fight between him and the GH, and exactly how he ended up into what he is now as SK.
I want to see the history with him and Void, and see what happened to the previous GH members and a backstory on the current GH members.
I want to know who Slain was before she became a GH and see her history.
I would also like the count’s daughter to return as an apostle to fight Guts. And see the guy with the circle blades (forgot his name) team up with Guys to fight Griffth and the GH.
Lastly I wanna see Guys get a power up in someway so he can realistically face griffith, because currently there’s no way he can beat him.
Flashback arc, rivaling the length of goldan age 😂
My personal crack tgeory for bechi the behelit is that it will be used as a catalyst for sherikes biggest spell. we know that the god hand are essentially unbeatable, and that the behelit acts as a warp pipe straight to the bottom of the astral realm. I believe they will reverse engineer the artifiact and use it in a way to trap the god hand in the abyss and sever that section of the astral world from the rest of reality.
We all know that Guts hasn't mastered the armor. And we all want an upgrade to Guts armor and sword somehow. It may need to be a mix of everything. Forged by dwarves, enchanted by elves and or everyone. Coated in Behelits idk have Rickert make explosives on the blade as well
Look up Falcon Slayer, that’s the only Guts’ version of the Sword of Actuation I’ve seen
I don't know if they said the ark after this one will be the final one. I think they just said that there are a few more chapters to make until this ark was finished, then they will start a new one, but I don't think they said the new ark is the last one. Someone point me to a link if I'm wrong.
I totally forgot Puck named the Behelit Betchi. LOL. He really takes care of that thing like a pet too. I mean it is harmless when it's not being used for the obvious. Plus, it's not its fault what it is. I wonder what the origin of the Behelits are. Maybe Betchi was a person once.
I have 2 questions that bother me with this series. Granted, they are not as important to the plot, but I would still like the fact that Griffith had most of Charlotte's family killed and the fact that Serpico knows he and Farnese are half siblings to come out. They're not major to the plot, or at least they don't seem to be at the moment, but both of these being cases of one character who knows something that they aren't telling another character they are around a lot is annoying to me, especially with the Serpico/Farnese situation because I see no reason why he can't tell her already.
1. Obviously puck is going to use it and become the first true elf/apostle hybrid the likes of which the god hand could only dream if. Then puck proceeds to beat down the god hand one after the other. They all die including Griffith. Guts and casca live happily ever after. The end
In one picture where guts swings at griffith it looks like one of griffiths hairs gets cut off by guts
the behelit will be used to separate griffith and the moonlight child
You just know we're going to see an almost shit for shot remake of Guts holding Casca like Skull Knight held his wife. That's going to be one fucking scene, with Falconia burning as a giant mark of sacrifice.
I meant shot for shot, but I'm not editing it. That's a good typo.
Thinking small. Party is going to lasso the moon somehow
Has anyone noticed how gut's beast of darkness looks like the apostles/demons in the berserker armour flash back?
Same mouths, teeth and eyes.
I don't think it's anything too important but just interesting.
I think a cannon ball made of Behelits would be cooler
Bump for the algorithm! Much love homie!
But in all seriousness …. The last question is fucking crucial 🥵we NEED to know .. like… asap
Guts behelit might be used in falconia…
Man that last one got me really good 🤣. I tho you gonna say something like "when will we see the legendary schnoz again" Or something
On the Idea of Evil: If it is the result of spontaneous/uncontrolled human action/forces, acting as a super-natural uncontrolled force... If it is destiny itself represented in the most materialistic (philosophically) way possible (i.e., the natural, necessary result of things as they are, without any subjective/conscious intervention on it with enough agency, substantivity and capacity to change the bigger path) ... Then it is no different from the lack of conscious control (on a social, not merely individual level) over our own, very real and material, social relations. And we have to approach it in the same way we should do with real humanity.
Same as in the world of Berserk humanity want reasons for sadness, for pain, for misery, etc., but don't want sadness, pain, misery, etc., and they don't inflict or suffer it consciously on a social level (I'm not saying there are no d*ckheads or malicious people in the story, but the whole is always more than the sum of the parts), we don't do that either. We didn't collectively and actively choose to create the social conditions in which a big part of the population engage in stultifying jobs to afford a poor living, then suffer from depression, anxiety, etc., and a lesser part feed off of it to live like kings... But it has been the natural, spontaneous result of how we came to produce and reproduce our means of living through necessity (i.e. through the unavoidable circumstances of the starting point of us being primates living in the wild millions of years ago), though the lack of references of freedom (it couldn't exist just yet, outside its 'natural' form), through the lack of control over natural forces in the first place, and through the lack of control over social forces once we progressively started to organize ourselves in newer ways to survive, progressively controlling the laws of nature to our advantage; i.e. through the lack of freedom to organize social life as we want (we did it because there was no other choice: our background as an independent species separating ourselves from the wilderness was scarce to say the least)... But that background is no longer scarce, and through the historical experience of millions of years, we finally created the means to make freedom possible in a social scale, we are at the precursor of another historical stage of humanity... But there is one last barrier to break to make it not just possible, but real.
I said freedom couldn't exist just yet... Freedom and necessity are opposites, one is the negation of the other, one cannot exist without the other, and so one cannot be defined if not through the relation with the other. So, for humanity to be free, to break its chains from the unavoidable fate born from its way of living up until now, it has to negate itself (in a dialectical way... Not in a "say 'no' to yourself" way...), to transform itself. Humanity is a social animal species, our nature is our historically determined, concrete social relations, so our nature is historical and not immutable or eternal. What separates us from other animal species is that we produce our means of living in accordance to the historical stage we're in, defined by those concrete social relations, product of our own collective action. We can't get rid of the necessity of natural things (and it is not the natural world that make us slave to necessity), we can't get rid of death or pain (we are naturally limited and sentient beings), but we can get rid of the social causes for them (wage labour, starvation, evictions, reactionary wars...). We can organize the production and reproduction of our means of living in a conscious way, because we already created the means through which that production is no longer individual/familiar/isolated but social, and through which it becomes necessary to plan some of the outcomes of it. But the social relations we live in now don't allow it to the fullest, it still 'lives' in contradiction: these are still the ones through which only a part of the population privately benefit and regulate to their advantage the social production and its outcomes, and not humanity as a whole, auto-conscious and auto-regulated organism. That is our last barrier, and I think that is the last barrier to break in Berserk too.
We've seen how agency and subjective action are given facts in Berserk, even if only still at an individual level (Guts, Skull Knight, mages, etc.) and at precise moments (The Eclipse, The Festival, etc.), given that the IoE controls humanity at a subconscious level in the physical realm, i.e., only if you live 'inside the story' (SK to Guts talking about Femto in chapter 237) ... But we know too that those living in the Interstice and beyond, and those who use magic (if I'm not mistaken, humans like Farnese should count too), already have if 'merely half a step' (or more) outside of it (chapter 142). If so... If Fantasia is the merging of the physical and astral worlds, if magic and mysticism are one with the reason of the physical world too... Aren't these the world-scale conditions, created by the God Hand to their advantage (so outside of humanity's collective, conscious volition and action, but created nonetheless through the agents of its collective, unconscious actions), through which humanity in the world of Berserk can get to transform its way of life? If so, to take down the IoE, humanity has to surpass one last barrier, and that barrier is too the social organization through which it is in need of Holy Saviours (actually resulting in the economic projections and benefits of the Aristocracy revolving around Griffith), instead of creating their own destiny with their hands, making it their own collective, conscious will... And Guts know a bit about that.
For that, I guess some kind of revelation has to take place, not only regarding the true nature of Apostles or the God Hand (both formerly humans), but the underlying reasons through which these beings could come to existence in the first place and control humanity. If so, I could see a final war (I guess through the whole Second Empire of Humanity, already built by then, not only in Falconia) between those (humans, apostles, mages, etc.) who actively engage and promote the IoE and those who are against it. Griffith/the God Hand would be at the head of the first, and Guts at the vanguard of the second. Of course, I hope Guts' party wins ;)
As an ending quote for this already biblically large comment:
«Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and especially on his countrymen, when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organisation of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal world as regards the social aspect, in the same way that production in general has done this for men in their aspect as species. Historical evolution makes such an organisation daily more indispensable, but also with every day more possible. From it will date a new epoch of history, in which mankind itself, and with mankind all branches of its activity, and especially natural science, will experience an advance that will put everything preceding it in the deepest shade. » - Friedrich Engels, "Dialectics of Nature".
That last question is definitely important
Dragonslayer of Actuation... I can't wait for it.
Lol Ryan sent me and definitely think there is a perspective to you theory on the behielet or however you spell it
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Would a branded person like Guts even be able to use a behelit if given the chance? Does having the brand of sacrifice negate the ability for you to be come one who sacrifices? I'm pretty sure that was never talked about. So it's an interesting theory to consider.
When Guts attacks Griffith in the last chapter, a light emerges from the dragonslayer. Is the dragonslayer getting the ability of cutting astral bodies? When Guts killed the trolls, a dark aura comes from his edge.
Do you mean the strand? That should be a piece of griffith's hair which he cut. The Dragonslayer has been known to affect the astral plane since before Guts even got the berserker armor
@@reinstriver5432 Yeah, is like a spiritual light instead of hair. Also, the dragonslayer has been increasing his efectiveness while Guts was hunting apostles and other astral creatures. To cut a former member of the God Hand is equal to absorve a portion of his odd.
Skull knight will fuse the dragonslayer with beihelits to fight Griffith. Durring the fight, guts will use the berserk Armour almost to the point of death until the full moon comes out, turning Griffith in to the child. At that moment, the behelit activates as guts is ok his last breath The sacrifice he makes will be the boy, killing Griffith in the process and removing the brand from him and caska. guts' new form will be the merging of him with the Armour and of the beast of darkness , now zodd gets his wish to fight the ultimate fight. Guts wins and vows to hunt down all apostles and the rest of the God hand .
Doesn't sound like something i would see in berserk, if i saw a plot like that in animes like one piece, i would say nice, but it would be so out of place in berserk,
Luck was never on the side of our protagonist
i think casca will forgive guts for assualting her especially considering its not the first time
Did they state officially that the next arc would be the final one?
Damn…that point about each major arc ending with some huge event scaling upwards as we go on is a REALLY good point…and that coupled with the 1000 years prior Geiseric situation where an entire civilization was lost, has some very possible implications for Falconia aka the whole of humanity. Miura was never predictable in the least but that does seem like some very possible macro foreshadowing. I don’t think the story will end that way because I couldn’t imagine a story with the narrative subtlety of Berserk ending with some grand cheesecake like human extinction, and far more likely to be something that’ll be emotionally jarring in a pleasant or unpleasant way on a personal level for the reader. I’m pretty confident whatever closure the story ever gives us will NOT be simply the defeat of Griffith in a physical sense or the “end of the world” but something more like a rift between Griffith and the Godhand and/or either Griffith, Guts or Casks sacrificing themselves in some unexpected way. Who knows. I don’t think this story gives us any safe bets in trying to guess what’ll happen. I don’t even know if ending it in a way that’ll satisfy anyone is even possible. There are people that have been following this story for either their entire literate life or like 30+ years, right!? What story has EVER been so epic and set both in a fictional and real world timescale so massive? The Bible? Maybe? if so, that’s only because Revelation comes after a bunch of boring stuff repeated like 4 times. Holy Pimp slap! Revelation is kinda like the Christian version of the Eclipse (omg nobody else use that analogy it’s mine! I’m foreal you guys 🧐 !!)
I think Griffith can become literally the maelstrom at will, intangible much like Kitty Pride in X-men. When Rickert slapped him he got caught in a surprise, maybe that'll be a fighting chance? Some element of surprise?
I think the story of skull knight and void should be similar to guts and Griffith, what I'm interessed is: void's body is actually like the figma or does he have a proper gigachad type body
Hes just head and backbone
In addition, will Guts ever actually slay a dragon? Maybe he will kill Grunbeld as an appetizer before Griffith
Has any body in the story ever been a willing sacrifice
Great video bro
Another youtuber Arveuss made a video about his "God theory" of berserk which focuses on Griffith becoming one with the idea of evil. In that chapter the idea of evil spoke to griffith about them being a part of each other and i think T.I.O.E has built the story so far to make Griffith the desired God, aka the Idea of evil incarnate, in the flesh.
But if he builts a safe haven for humanity, and fantastic beasts and monsters cant harm humanity, people wont suffer as much and won't cling to a savior/religion as much as they did before, which might be Gods undoing.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly sure there's a panel in which it's explained that the God's hand are in service of something greater (heck they're the hand of God, so...). So... This greater thing, maybe god or the idea of evil or both/the same are showing up at some point like in the banned chapter,, right?
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I always thought the behelit will be activated by someone in his party and I believe due to chekovs gun it’ll be used. Now based off your dragon slayer theory for the behelit I think maybe if Guts were to have the dwarves fuse the Behelit with the Berserker armor it’ll give him some sort of insane dimension hopping ability or in a way alter space around him to help him fight the Godhand. We saw Sk avoid Griffith using his GH powers to smash a bunch of apostles but he avoided it. I think an ability similar to this will happen.
I am pretty new to this IP. To me the behelit is "obviously" going to go to Casca. She is the character that has had no autonomy and would be the most susceptible to it. That would also be the second biggest betrayed in the franchise.
I don't think Skull Knight is Gaiseric, I think he was a former king of the elves.
My fav berserk youtuber
What if the Behlit is meant for the moonlight boy?
Wait this might be dumb, but didn’t skull knight eat Guts’ behelit in the Quipoth the first time?
U missed the most important one: who the fuck are the old members of the god hand? And how and who defeat them? Also I honestly would like to know something more about the actual members of the god hand like Conrad and Void but I’m not expecting too much.
I think it's gonna happen accidentally again like the one in the first black swords man arc. (About the behelit)
Is it possible Bechi could finally be used before the end of the phantasia arc? Danann says "They will emerge from the ground one by one" If she's referring to the godhand like some people have said, then it could be leading to an apostle ceremony, traditionally the godhand only all appear in one place when somebody is about to become an apostle. Skull Knight also said to Guts that he has reached the end of his journey after he arrived on Elfhelm, but we all know that berserk isn't going to end on Elfhelm, so saying this is the end doesn't make much sense, but maybe the reason he was destined to go to Elfhelm in the first place was so he could carry the behelit to its final destination, so now that Bechi has finally made it to where it needs to be, in that sense his journey has finally come to an end
I feel like when we see falconia from the sky it's going to look like a brand
a lot of people are talking friffith in a way of just ' how can he be deafeated overlooking his character completely as if he is just te snake apostle from the first arc and has no personality .. berserk is not a monster killing manga what makes it good is the character develpment and human interactions and how will they develop ... people forgot that the concept of apostle is just a metaphor and griffith is very much a human character i think most reader miss the depth of berserk and see it as guts: hero griffith : villain casca : damsel
as for the rest of the mysteries of berserk they arent just 10 question but like a 100 questions that needs answers
I just can’t wait to see more of griffiths new band of the hawk. I want to see more Locus and Irvine fights. I want to see guts take these guys on. The grunbeld fight was great.
Maybe the moonlight boy will use the behelit to separate himself from Griffith or sacrifice himself AND Griffith and that's how it ends
Oh yeah... new sword theory! I hope you're right.
I believe the behelit is either guts or one of his people in the group, remember what zodd said the behelit always comes back to its owner so the question is is it guts behelit or one in his group.
A farnese death and Serpico becoming an apostle because he resent guts is a possibility.
For number 8...see the beherit that Guts possesses!
Age of consent 17 in New York I'm getting that bag Ryan don't even come near
The most important question is why doesn't Griffith have his *hawk* after his rebirth
Because he doesnt need it. He is “perfection”
@@nicholascolagiovanni7158 so we shouldn't worry when he takes Casca to Falconia, he can't hurt her anymore
The final arc may not be the last one
I have 2 beherit theories. The first is that Guts uses it to summon the God Hand to kill them. The second is the Griffith uses it to try and defeat Guts.
We aren’t getting answers. Without Miura, what has been left unsolved shall stay as is
We absolutely need that last question 😱
The last question 😭😭😭
Wait the next arc is the last one? Or were you just saying we will eventually end up in the last arc?
got your rickert and salat wish
The ending. Holy crap 💀
Upgrading Dragon sword will help in final Battelle, but I think we'll lose MF Zoooooooold 🥲
The team will be reunited, the egg of King will be activated somehow, guts will embrace the armor and will die after killing the gods in the void, Griffin will die in cazca arms will turning into the moon child...
My big question is where tf is skull knight in 367?
Personal theory: The behelit Guts carries is actually for Casca, and her wish will be the destruction of humanities self-imposed misery, which means instead of humanity collectively asking “why do we suffer?” The collective thought becomes a more empowering “we will get through this”.
This means that the idea of evil stops creating monsters and suffering to justify the atrocities people face and give them an origin, but rather personal satisfaction when a hardship is overcome, making it more “the will of perseverance”.
As a result, the Godhand are depowered, and no more monsters are created. Instead, humanity finds value and courage to defeat evil that exists in the world and develop a drive to endure and find satisfaction in both the eradication of evil, as well as the peace that ensues after, no matter how brief.
In essence, every human becomes a struggler.
Her sacrifice will be her child/Moonchild. And without his physical vessel, Griffith reverts to his tortured, broken body as it was before the Eclipse, forever broken and rendered impotent as a threat.
She and Guts feel the loss of their child, but as per her own wish, they continue to live and persevere.
What if void is skull nights Griffith!
We need our Shnoz fix