3 Life Lessons From BERSERK
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- 3 Important life lessons from BERSERK
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" Hate is a place where a man who can't stand sadness goes "
Excellent one!
Volume 17, Godo to Guts, that quote has been stuck in my mind for a long time.
@@axelcastilloskinfield5946 Must be one of my favourite scenes in the manga.
it sounds corny but like, i unironically think of guts and us as "strugglers" whenever im stressed af and it lowkey helps
You're not alone
Yeah, you're definately not the only person
I do too
Us
My music would change you ✊🏾🌀❤️🔥 stay strong and always stay TRUE TO YOURSELF. You ARE guts. If you can handle that
Berserk taught me that if Guts, a child born from a corpse, one that lost everything, can still find happiness, then I can too.
Facts bro!
Idk, depends on how you’re environment and what cards your dealt
@@Darkendlezzz yes and no. Your own thoughts control 60% of it.
He hasn't found happiness bro. But yeah better than before
@@unworthy3198 it's safe to say he's more just content with how things are/were
3 things I learned fron Berserk
- during war keep your kids and woman in basement so nobody could rape them
- hard work is better than any other kind of gaining power
- every dirty move is allowed during battle
I think something Berserk really taught me is that traumatized people can do awful shit and their trauma isn't an excuse it's an explanation. Like it is not okay to do awful shit even if you are hurting but the sad reality is we've all hurt someone and we have to accept that and move forward and choose to heal and become better. Like Guts when he told Theresia to kill herself or when he assaulted Casca. He did awful shit and we understand why because of the Eclipse and his circumstance but it's not a justification he has to keep choosing to evolve and grow as a person. And in reality, even if we hurt someone we should not just keep doing awful shit, we have to accept what we did and try to become better people.
An excuse is just a rationalization void of personal agency. An excuse is a surrender. To rationalize is to make sense of a situation. And a wise person takes that chance to learn and seize personal agency to overcome the pain.
Nice talk,but everyone inmediatly become huge pusseys when the topic on race touches said issue of people with hardships doing awful stuff
@@JRBDWD explain?
@@flappy7373 People repeat this speech of superation and overcoming hardships in life while telling that we should make zero excuses about it and that hurting others is out of the table no matter how shitty our life has been. BUT like i said,all of this stop being said the moment the conflicted person is an outsider or a person from a different race,specially those with darker skin. Then,they are allowed to do everything,hurting anyone and there would be an army of selfhating cowards making excuses for them. You can research about grooming gangs on the UK or the BLM/Antifa activity on the USA.
@@JRBDWD, just come out and say you're a racist. Black folks face challenges in life because of the bigotry people have held over them and continue to hold over them. White privilege is literally not having to deal with issues due to skin color. It's not self-hate to sympathize with their frustrations. I've dealt with self-hate before, but never over skin color and being white. I've felt conditioned self-hate due to being autistic and being told that I should consider myself lucky to even be worth people's time and energy. I know what self-hate feels like all too damn well. What you're describing is an imaginary scenario.
"Struggle, endure, contend." Probably one of the best quotes ever.
"If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you you won't be able to walk around." Was always one of my favorite quotes. As the years have passed I've had to painstakingly learn to not put others on pedestals or be so eager to help others to my own detriment. And avoiding being a people pleaser, particularly for people who aren't trying to please you in return.
I think your interpretation is kind of different with what the story intended at the time i dont think its wrong by any means but i think that quote wanted to show insight as to guts view on the world the more selfish uncaring side but again your interpretation isnt wrong
The Casca and Guts love scene has a really strong message in my opinion, that you must be vulnerable and honest with the people you care about. To receive honesty you have to give the same. And, as everything, this is always a risk of being really hurt but also the only way I know to find true love for someone or something.
My favorite moment, and my most personal moment, in Berserk is when Jill is standing on the hill looking at the sun and says "I don’t have wings so I guess I’ll look up at the sky and crawl along the earth." I relate to her character in the sense that we aren't remarkably strong like Guts, nor do we possess any great attributes, and are not traveling on a great adventure. We can't fly, so we can only crawl, and struggle, across the world. But if we can make the slightest difference in our lives, in our community, or in another person, then it is all worth it. All under the vivid sky.
It's a small moment but the one quote that has been of comfort to me recently is from skull knight at the end of 360 when Guts says to himself "the hell do I do now?" to which skull knight says "you bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing." I'm almost finished post-secondary and have seen most of the friends I've made leave and move on with their lives. I am sort of the last of the old guard as it were. Things are changing and a new chapter is about to start but it is comforting in a way to be alright with the end of this one not being a happy one.
Damn your weak.
Good luck in the chapter of your life,mate. Also that interaction was a stab on my heart.
even in those “highest highs,” and i put that in quotes because it seems to me that Guts has only seen lows, Guts is always mulling over his decisions and purpose in life. It goes to show that in the human experience, despite things going okay or well, that there will always be something missing in our lives. There is no paradise to escape to.
Not on this planet amigo. You have to make your own. I believe we'll be judged by and by, and take our place in heaven. But you've got to earn it, it isn't given.
@@ChoseDeath True
Broken people would never be good as new but they must overcome their own broken pieces and rebuild themselves.
I look at it the other way around, despite the fact that life won't be easy and sometimes you will feel lost and hopeless, it's still worth living and pushing forward. I think in the beggining Guts keeps going because of hatred and we see the reasons for his struggle maturing and becoming less and less harmful as the story progresses despite his circumstance never being really "better". Anyways this 2 points of view are two sides of the same coin
The biggest thing that Bersek taught me was that no matter how bad life gets, no matter what evil is thrown at you, no matter how dark the night may become, there is always a dawn and this too (your struggkes, fears, etc), shall pass. You can't give up.
Another thing from Guts is how important it is to control your emotions.
Having finished Berserk, I think the best lesson I have taken from it was not to seek out revenge and value the relationships you make in life. It is easier to want some form of justice to be carried out on those who wronged you, but by making relationships and continuing to struggle is the best form of revenge
Hey Ryan, so here's my story... I'm 24 years old, I do not particularly have a difficult life per se, but Berserk came into my life when I think I needed it the most. I struggled with what I wanted to do in life, quit my nurse training seeing it wasn't for me. I spiraled into a sort of depression and for months I didn't leave my apartment. That's when I found the 1997 animé and fuck it was good. I then started to buy the Manga to know the story and it really resonated with me. For me the speech from Guts to Jill at the end of the Lost Children was... Wow. I remember fucking ugly crying at this drawing where Guts looks att Jill in the eyes taking her in his arms. I am not saying this sorted everything at ounce, but I am 100% sure it was the beginning of my struggle. There's no heaven to escape to, no-one will do this for me, I am the only captain of this ship. I had the mark of sacrifice tattooed a year later. Currently it is my only tattoo but I want to wear proudly my struggle, and the story that helped me through it. Thanks for this video I needed it today. Keep on struggling
Heaven does exist amigo, but there isn't one on this plane of existence. "Long is the road, and hard, that out of Hell leads to light." Milton, Paradise lost, Book 2 verse 432
You know that demons are going to come for you now,right? The Mark is a lure. Lol nice to hear you are filling better,mate.
What did you do after you left your nursing training if you don't mind me asking?
@@pablop.7635 Hey man, weird seeing this notification after a year. I actually got my shit together. I worked as a nurse aid for a couple of months until I found something that suited me. That was dietetics. So I did dietician training for two years, and a specialization in product developing for the food industry for a third one. I now work as a dietician for nursing homes in Paris (product developing was kinda meh) 😁
Berserk has reiterated to me what I already know…
No one knows what the future holds. Your job is to simply be present when it calls your name.
something i often have difficulty thinking about is the time Guts assaulted and almost raped Casca. A time of weakness where he let the beast inside him, his primal desires, get the better of him. How it affected his relationship with Casca going forward. How it affected the way he thought of himself. How it affected the way he interacted with others. I feel like he was scared of himself and even hated himself for so long after that. Maybe his way of recompense was putting himself through enormous pain and injury afterwards. I know you’ve talked about it in other vids but I think a video dedicated to that scene and the rippling effects it had through the rest of the series would be great
Yes. Rage is really autodestructive
Guts is so incredibly self aware, he never shrugs off his own impulses as something that he cannot control. I hope more people would be like him, and I try to emulate that degree of self reflection and yearning for control when my immediate drive is to give in to self-serving desires. He is the most human character I've ever come across in fiction, his struggle is so apparent and it encompasses every aspect of who he is and the situations he's in. From within and without he is just a man trying to make his way through the world and all the unfathomable challenges internally and externally. He's a hero in the most grounded sense of the word
You are born to struggle a life. Lets struggle together and find happiness.
"Life is constant struggle and the reward for said struggle,is life." - Adolph Hitler
Berserk has taught me a plethora of lessons. Ranging from dealing with loss, regret, channeling my rage into something positive, letting go of relationships when they are no longer healthy for you, and, of course, to keep on struggling no matter the opposition. I think in this day and age it's all too easy to just give up and surrender to despair. But the life lessons from Berserk, if you take them to heart, can help anyone pick themselves up and keep on pushing. So if you're reading this, remember to keep telling whatever adversity you're facing in your life to go f*ck itself. You are all the strength you need, fellow Struggler.
I was raised by a narcissistic mother, until I was kicked out and made homeless by her in 2005 at the age of 25.
I was moved into a hostel in 2006 and finally got my own place in 2007.
I worked hard and went through a lot to try and turn my life around.
I had seen berserk the previous year in 2006 while I was living in that hostel and I remember crying at the end of the 97 anime.
For me, when I first watched the anime, I thought it was about perseverance, struggle contend no matter what the odds are. This is very true however, there was something I had missed completely.
In 2010, I met my wife who I am now married to and we have two children together. I recently watched Berserk again, and now I know exactly what I had missed the first time I watched it. I did not read between the lines.
I can now see that Griffith was a narcissist. The epitome of evil, and Berserk is about what happens when you trust them.
Unfortunately, my other half is a narcissist, just like Griffith she showed me love and affection, let me into her world but told me lies continuously.
I never saw the red flags because I was in love.
Before long I was devalued, mocked, stonewalled and gaslighted whilst trying to figure out why she was so cold towards me I looked online and saw all the traits of a narcissist and she fitted the description perfectly.
That’s what Griffith is, narcissist. Never trust a narcissist and be very wary of these people.
They will ruin your life and have you on the border of suicide. Don’t think it can’t happen to you, learn from my mistakes.
Bless you brother.
Exactly
Huh. Women.
I think not trusting nobody is a must.
My favorite quote from guts is” He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.” That tell me do the things that make you happy.
The continue struggling one is very true to me. I don’t care how hard my life gets I’m still not gonna just accept it.
Dude I even cried with this ending! Take care bro, your videos are very important to a lot of people, including me!
"Even if you try to put things back together, they won't be the same they were before". When I was getting into berserk 7 odd years ago this helped me let go of a long term relationship falling apart. Berserk is a masterpiece and has helped me push forward in tough times. Great vid man
Life Lesson #0.5 - Judeau deserved better. #SorryJudeau
Rip my boy Judeau
Pippin too 😔😔
Guts is a very motivational character. From him wanting to be his own person and follow his own dream instead of living someone else’s dream to him losing everything and still fighting. There’s not many characters in fiction as impactful as him. Btw I like the remix to Guts’s theme in the background 👌🏾
I recently started reading Berserk in September 2021, and finished reading it about a week or 2 ago. I really enjoyed the story from start to finish and something about this story felt special. The reason I started reading berserk was because something bad had happened with me and this one person and I told myself “Well if I’m gonna be depressed, I might as well read berserk”. And honestly the story did help. It was a nice distraction, but it wasn’t until Guys said this quote
“You’re going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road, it means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn’t it? I’m sure you’ll overcome this. You’ll walk again, soon.”
That I started to realize that Just like Griffith in that scene and everyone else in life who has stumbled. I too will stand back up again because I can do better. Ever since reading that part, I motivated myself to go out more and forget the person who hurt me and walk a better path.
Berserk really got me through tough times. Unlike other pieces of media, it helped me face my struggles rather than distract myself from them. I'm afraid no other story will fill me with the range of emotions, as well as life lessons as this manga does. I wish strength to anyone reading this
One of my kitties passed away last night and all I could think of was playing guts theme and how it’s part of my struggle. Rip Space Jam.
I think the line from Berserk that impacted me the most, (and I've only recently finished the anime, I'm gonna start collecting the manga soon) is the one right after he defeats Griffith, "You're going to be alright. You tripped over a stone in the road. It means nothing." That resonates with me hard because I've always been one who catastrophizes every little thing that goes wrong. My own cynicism basically feeding off of the things happening in my own life as well as the world. And seeing Guts walk off after overcoming so much, setting off on his own journey to live his purpose. It's very much in line with where I'm at in life right now.
The story of berserk came into my life at the right time and I can’t even remember how I came across it. I lost 2 parents in my life countless failed relationships friends committing suicide welcoming a baby into the world and splitting from his mother. Betrayed by my best friend and became gravely ill lost all my muscle and energy and I still push forward as something in me refuses to let life eat me, and this amazing story and character help me push through that darkness every day and to those reading this please say f..k you to it all and keep going NEVER GIVE UP!!!
"The reward of ambition too great is self destruction"
as of recently i was diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and possibly PTSD. In reading Berserk i felt as if i myself had to confront my issues daily, and no matter how worse it would get i would still have to keep going, or else id let those struggles define me and override my progress and achievements.
The inspiration I get from Berserk and Guts' struggle has saved me from committing the Big Die™️ a few times throughout my life. I owe Miura a lot for all the many many things that this story has provided me, it has had so many unlikely impacts on my life that it would take hours to describe them all. RIP Miura you affected more people in positive ways more than you probably realized🙏
When Casca and Guts are making love, then it shows guts breaking down and blaming himself for his dad it just seemed like he was so scared and lost. When in reality his father was terrible to him yet Guts still loved him.:(
One of the tragedies of life is good people showing loyalty,trust and love towards disgusting excuses of human beings.
@@JRBDWD wise words
Love, redemption, violence, passion, pain, sadness, hope, and strength. These are things my family have taught me, and Berserk is such an encapsulation of it. God bless you all Strugglers, and I will leave a quote from Deadwood. "The world ends when you're dead. Until then you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back." Al Swearengen.
Ryan should really teach the philosophy of Berserk at a college. I would love to take that class! Such depth and passion for Berserk. Ryan you did another beautiful thing today! Thank you! 💗
True. Now everything on uni is either marxist propaganda or gay psyops.
I agree 100 %. Life and others will f you whenever they want. As I grew older i realized that 1. True happieness can only come within yourself without thinking what others are thinking about you. And thats a hell of a mission. If you reach that state you feel free like never before. 2. Fight for your dreams if you hate mondays and celebrate fridays there is something wrong and you have to Fight and struggle to change that.
Today iam a different person. I travel 6 months a year and never felt so alive and satisfied. I love mondays and myself and thats what i accomplished I never have to think about money again and this freedom ( in time not money) changed me forever.
I watched this 3 times in a row and shared it because this right here.....this is the realist things ive heard in so long,thank you ryan.
Guts' reflection when he fought those 100 men really stuck a cord with me, and I found myself reflecting the same way when the chips are down.
Who am I? What am I doing in this miserable place?
Do not let your (often temporary) circumstances define you. You define you. With every thought and every choice.
Always move forward fellow strugglers!
“And the memory now, is like the picture was then, once the papers crumbled up, it can’t be perfect again” - Linkin Park
Berserk taught me to suffer well, that’s how you win
Really needed to hear this today, thank you.
New ryan vid! Thanks for the content fam
Great video, Ryan! Would love to see more like this!
Hmmm definitely needed this one today. My struggle is starting to get real again. But it's so funny that you did this because for years I aways thought to "struggle through" but somehow I forgot. These were the words that I needed to be reminded of. Thanks for the content man!
This is so well stated im following. Look forward to more of your content!
love ya ryan it feels good to have someone to share this story with. keep fighting. Berserk remonds me of kelsier from mistborn, one of my favorite series of all time. just survive
when i found berserk so long ago it was during some of my darkest times and it Taught me that sometimes to simply struggle and live on is rewarding enough. even if everything has gone wrong if you can still breath then you can still keep going until things are better. i am so very grateful for berserk and Miura.
This was a really great video man. This is why I love this manga
Thank you for making this video, never take it down. I watched it about 5 times, it really highlighted the message of berserk, illuminating it in a different perspective with perfect wording and examples. I always felt like I was getting swept around by life, in my highest highs and my lowest lows. I never handled suffering or failure well. I felt like a fish that was getting sent to wherever the river flowed to. A long time ago that river was in a very good place, so I didn't really notice this or care. But once that river flowed into a sewer, I realized I couldn't swim, I felt like I was drowning in toxic waste, absolutely powerless to do anything. I never achieved anything hard by my own volition and it seemed like I never will. I just felt like I was decomposing alive because I didn't have any motivation to do anything. As cringe as it may sound, berserk really showed me what it is to struggle and this video highlighted it and some other lessons. It was hard at first but for the first time in my life now I feel like I have control over my own life and actions.
Thank you.
The first lesson you listed really struck a cord with me as it is something I have to or am currently dealing with regarding various things in my life like failing friendships and the last one applies to just where I am going in life and how I have to keep at it
Bless you brother.
i love that speech skull knight gives guts after the eclipse. to struggle, endure, and especially where he says "steel yourself". its something ive always been doing without noticing, and even when i had noticed it i never knew how to put it into words, it was like a subconscious thing due to how i hadnt fully recognized it. after reading berserk, i recognize it now, i have come all this way from one side of the world to another through struggling, and enduring, contending and steeling myself along the way. and nothing changes now that i know of it, i know i will continue to do it, maybe even more efficiently because now im self-conscious about it. all thanks to guts, he has set an example for me and i give this character so much respect. i felt so many parallels with the feelings he goes through and the way he deals with the struggles in his life to my own life growing up. so thank you dark souls and a fellow friend of mine for getting me interested in berserk, and thank you kentaro miura, for everything berserk
I notice that whenever Guts is in a bad mood, he swings his sword a lot to ease his suffering and be present in the moment so he doesn’t think of the trauma. Basically, physical exercise is good to do whenever you’re in a bad mood and need something to heal you.
Another banger video from Ryan
I fell in admiration for Griffith’s definition of a friend, a true one. One that does not neglect his dreams for others, protects them and make them realize even if it’s against is own friends.
My mind clearly blew up (even Guts face when he realize he wanted to dip) of fascination for the manga, as this scene is also is the catalyst of the Band of the Hawk’s downfall.
I have troubles sharing my fellings when writing down English as I’m not native, but man THIS moment was just too many truths spitting out at once I realized I was wrong all my life and then those feelings of happiness and sadness together mixed made me cry like I was reborn.
Really love this channel. Seriously. I never imagined how popular BERSERK would become. I bought the DVD box but it only came with one DVD. Just in fashion of BERSERK I had to wait 4 to 6 months before another DVD came out. It took almost 2 years to collect the whole DVD set. Only to have it end on the eclipse!!!
"there's no paradise for you to escape to." Yeah, if you commit suicide, you'll only end up in hell (or the eternal void, or just live another life again which might be worse) and the only way to even get to a heaven is to suffer first.
Ryan a real one, god bless you 🙏
Berserk taught me that a man can always do something with what has been made of him.
another great vid man thanks
What I love about Guts, is that he transitions from an edgelord character, to a character that cares for others. He realizes that the best way to recover from his pain is to start caring for others, and that he had to allow the risk of those he cares about to be taken away again if he was going to continue.
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there's a lot of parallels you can draw from the things in berserk to real life. the brand of sacrifice can be seen as so many different things depending on the person. i see it as a terminal illness metaphor for example
Lost children arc
There’s only so much I can do for you
I know the world is scary
But if guts can survive this harsh world then you can too
Donovan’s writing touched me deeply.
I love this series so much it still pain me and many that miura is gone and now that landfill Twitter has found this precious gem honestly I personally don't get bothered at all about what the brain dead people of Twitter say about things and I figured they'd have something to say about berserk one of these days but when they said he should have died that made my blood boil to say a man who's taught many to be better and struggle to where we want to be to have touched the hearts of countless to say he should have died because of something you don't like struck a nerve
The will to keep going no matter any and all adversity, that is what it means to be human.
Thank you for this.
Amazing video, dude.
Something Guts has done multiple times is leave behind the people he cares about to search for meaning or to just wage war. And I’ve done the same. Basically I try not to beat myself up about it. I learned a lot during those times. But now I know to keep my eyes forward. And to keep the people I care about most close. Although fiction Guts and his journey is just so human and relatable
instantly saw the title & knew this would be agood one hittin play LETS GETITTTTTT
Lesson # 1: in legal trouble? Better call Schnoz!
Another great vid!
failure is not an option for the sword that protects others
One thing Berserk does that I don't know see many other stories do is have consequences for doing the right thing. Guts beats Griffith one on one and earns his right to walk away. He is setting his own path, wielding his sword for himself and not someone else. That's a good thing, but it sets a domino effect that will lead to the Eclipse. In so many stories doing the right thing leads to great outcomes, happily ever after, in Berserk the happily ever after is very temporary and something worse than before can await us.
Berserk came into my life when I was almost fresh out of a bad living situation with my father and stepmother. 18 years old with a cut short Senior year about to go into Community College. I started with the manga and I just remember getting invested. In the Band of the Hawk and Casca and Guts and Griffith too. Then the Eclipse shattered it.
Like Guts. I hated Griffith. Like Guts. I hated those who hurt me the most. Yet I always rooted for Guts because he's against so many odds. He makes so many mistakes but he still goes on. He became one of my comfort characters. Always struggling and always trying to find a way to get to where he wants to go.
But the scene that hit me so hard was when Guts raged out. But then heard Cascas cries and stopped himself. In my mind I always imagine myself as Guts at that moment. Wanting so badly for those who hurt me to pay. But then I think about those I care about. If I continue down the road to resentment and anger I will never find peace.
Another scene that hit me hard was Guts having an episode in front of Casca. Remembering Gambino and what occurred with Donovan. Instead of turning away from him. Instead of just walking away and forcing Guts to just deal with it himself... she hugs him. She comforts him. I always feel as though I'm going to be alone and distancing myself from everyone around me just because of my trauma. Just so I don't hurt them. Avoiding every time my family or friends want to do anything together just because I'm worried about a what if.
In my mind... I want someone like Casca. I want that connection and that feeling. I want to be cared for and loved and wanted. I want to be accepted by someone regardless of my scars or difficulties.
Now to conclude with one final moment that stuck out to me... it was the moment when Guts realized what he really wanted. He had it with the Hawks the whole time but never saw it. Sometimes I feel that way. I wanted to impress and stay with a server I once was apart of. And now... its gone. All of my friends. My dumb letter where I list grievances and complaints. All of it. I didn't know what I had until it was gone. If I just talked more and didn't let things stew. If I just let it out in a good way instead...
They would be my friends still. Now I swore to myself to never do that again. To never let go of those I love. And those who like me. Because I don't want to lose them again.
you will fall to sin
you will never get your love of your life back
you will be scared of hell
you will lose friends
berserk made me joy the pain becase of guts
man this sounds so emo and i hate it
i don't even know if i just a this is deep and i am 14 kid
Just pushing tf through.
Great video ! A lesson is Good is never what it seems
berzerk is very much about perspective and the relative nature of good and evil. the overarching theme is connection with the higher aspects of reality trough suffering. how ambitions and desire cause the greatest evil.
Might have to give this a read after seeing this
Berserk is the reason I started to work out more than one and a half years ago. Im still going on, 4 times a week and very grateful for this amazing manga💪
Never thought that a manga about a big angry guy with a Sword the size of him would make the average joe into Socrates
Lesson No1 is what I been practicing for life. It's hursh yet it make me strong.
What an amazing video. All I could do was nod my head and say “facts”
Great video!
The greatest analysis
Every lesson you mentioned is one I can very personally relate to. There is one other though.
During the conviction arc, when the demons were swarming around and devouring all the people, the smart ones hid and survived. The lesson? Think for yourself, never follow the mob, there is always a way to make it.
I liked the video even before watching :D
I think the most profound lesson comes from a meme of all things; "I see the anger in your eyes, an anger I once carried, no, still carry to this day. You feel as though the world has taken everything from you, that it will do nothing but eviscerate all the good from this miserable experience you call life. That in spite of everything you have endured, eventually that very pain, that rage will consume you whole. But it is from that pain... that hollowness... it is where we find the resolve to continue onward. To ignite that very spark that gave us a reason to live. To find that desire, purpose, understanding, belonging, friends, family. It matters not whether you heed my words, nor should I care what you do with fury inside of you, but a man who lives by selfishness and anger alone will very often stray away from the light he had forgotten so long ago. Anyways the words seem pretty useless don't they? But maybe they'll do someone some good one of these days" -Guts
Can you make a review on Hajime no ippo and what are your thoughts on it. Btw loved the video
Think about the things you do when your are forced into struggle. Struggle is how people move rather be idle.
The major thing that berserk thaught me is that it's okay to follow your dreams/objectives in life without hurting or superimposing them above other people. That's the mais difference between Guts and Griffith, Guts left the band of the hawk in order to find himself and discover what his true purpose in life was, of course, he hurt his friends' feelings, but not in a horrible way, they carried on with their lives knowing that Guts was doing something true for him. On the other hand, Griffith would chase his dream by asking his companios to give up theirs and follow his, and when one person said no to him, he broke down in despair. The peeble quote right after Griffith's defeat is by far one of my favorite quotes, it's okay to fail sometimes, to have a stepback, it's just a peeble in the grand scheme of things, what matters the most is how we keep getting up and keep fighting, and that's something Griffith didn't know how to do, he didn't know how to lose, but Guts sure knew. Damn, I need to read Berserk again.
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I think another crucial message of berserk is to valuable the time you have, bc it can all change very quickly. It’s a running theme that Guts doesn’t acknowledge the good he has and is always fighting for better. But the blacksmith says that he never allows himself to just be grateful and enjoy the present. This is both a strength and weakness to Guts. He is constantly pushing for greater, but when all of his friends die, all he can think about is why did i leave them. This potentially could contribute to another theme that don’t beat yourself up over a decision you made; you had no idea what would happen ,and it’s out of your control. Guts didn’t know leaving the band of the hawk would do what it did. He had no reason to. These two themes combined can be summarized as live in the moment, be grateful for what you have big or small, and live your life to the fullest with not regrets bc it’s really out of your control.
we all have our demons to fight, just like guts. Albeit they are different embodiments, they are our demons nonetheless, they tear us to the core. our fights will be different in form, but the same in meaning. try to get through, try to break the chains that hold you back. Similar to guts, i too thought i can get the one i loved so much in my life back to me if we work together. But she hurt me in ways i can not imagine. in ways where i can say "no matter how painstakingly hard we try to fix things, it wont be like how it was". even if there was a chance, it wont be the same, because of the memories and emotions of betrayal experienced will linger and live on. picking up where we left off can not be something attainable, as she left me in darkness and a place where I had to guide myself alone, instead of with her. the thing i want is for us to be where our golden age was, where we trusted eachother and went through thick and thin regardless of the situation. i want her, i want her so bad, but it cant and wont happen. i want what we had but what we had is not that anymore. she's on her own, and so am i. she doesnt want what i had or what she had. i must push through....
You are absolutely right about BERSERK love the love story at the base of the story tragic love
What I took from Berserk was finding my own Dream, in Book eight where Guts talks to Judo and Corkus, that conversation they had really stuck out to me, making me wonder what is in my path, what do I yearn for, what is my dream.
In my mind, Claymore is the manga I most closely relate to Berserk.. I'm not sure if that's just because I read it around the same time or not, but they are pretty similar in feeling to me.
They could perfectly fit in the same world.