The BEST DAMN Berserk Golden Age Arc Analysis (Probably)

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  @milanmilosavljevic1586 · 4 years ago

  I think the overall message of berserk isn't exactly against ambition: after all, Griffith's ambition did make him incredibly charismatic and successful, people looked up to him. In my opinion the message of berserk is that while fighting for your goals, you shouldn't shut off people close to you and become a monster

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• RI

  @rivendude5652 · 4 years ago

  This is the best Berserk video I&apos;ve ever watched. You understand the story really well. One thing I&apos;d add is that Guts leaves the Hawk&apos;s precisely because he values and loves Griffith even if Griffith doesn&apos;t realize this and wants to be his equal because he&apos;s convinced that&apos;s what Griffith would want. <br><br>Griffith&apos;s whole shpiel about dreams to the princess feels more like BS and a coping mechanism he&apos;s created to hide his insecurities and vulnerabilities. Guts didn&apos;t realize Griffith saw him as an equal and Griffith didn&apos;t realize Guts loved him back. It&apos;s truly a tragedy that leads to the worst outcome possible, where when manipulated by the Godhand and goaded into suppressing his true feelings, Griffith rips his heart out in order to not feel heartbreak. In doing so he becomes Femto and proceeds to violate Casca as the most extreme form of violent and emotional petty revenge on Guts for making him feel this way. &nbsp;He commits this act while staring Guts straight in the eyes.

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• DE

  @DeusAmoeba · 4 years ago

  with regard to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF98Cz2Muik&amp;t=1408">23:28</a> - I always felt like the reason Guts questions what he&apos;s doing wasn&apos;t to do with any kind of morality or belief he was just a pawn to Griffith, but because he wanted to be seen as an equal, and knew the only way to live up to the expectations he felt Griffith had of him was to become his own person, not just Griffith&apos;s soldier. The irony being that this leads Guts away from Griffith which goes against Griffith&apos;s desires and expectations, and forces him to face a situation in which he did not come out on top and, for the first time, gives him reason to doubt if he can realise his dream.<br><br>The way it&apos;s talked about in this section makes it seem as if Guts&apos; began to doubt Griffith, but I never got that impression. His reverance for Griffith at this point is exactly why he wants to become someone Griffith acknowledges an equal.

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• TH

  @TheKuno · 4 years ago

  guts followed griffith for a lack of another purpose, but griffith thought that he just didn&apos;t care about him being the leader of the &nbsp;hawks, wich he didn&apos;t, so when griffith made the speech with the princess,, he was talking about someone like caska who both follows him blindly ad admires him, so this explains why griffith was so shocked when guts wanted to leave

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• JO

  @joeziggy2956 · 4 years ago

  You really prove the point as to how Griffith, was never a great person. He never wanted to be and that guts seemed to be the only shackle left to his humanity and him losing that caused what happened at the eclipse. He no longer needed emotion he thought with logic as if guts were never there.

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• MA

  @mauauauauaua14 · 4 years ago

  I wonder how much Miura sacrificed in order to make Berserk up to his standard, and if he ever regretted it.

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• JO

  @johnthreesixteen5643 · 3 years ago

  Damn it, i allways could not hold the tears when gaston tells guts he is willing to join him. Damn

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• PO

  @power5641 · 4 years ago

  can you make new chapters of berserk? seems like you wrote the story yourself. good vid

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• OS

  @oscarmejia8306 · 4 years ago

  This story gives me the chills and makes me wanna cry

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• RC

  @rcmunro22 · 2 years ago

  There&apos;s a lot of Carl Jung within Berserk. Griffith begins the Story as the Classical Hero archetype while Guts is the Anti-Hero archetype. However as the Story progresses Griffith loses the Battle with his Shadow as Jung would put it and fails to assimilate the Shadow within him, where as Guts eventually wins the Battle with his Shadow and assimilates it into his Consciousness. Because of this Griffith ends up becoming a Villain and Guts develops into a true Hero. If you ever enjoyed Berserk on a deeper level this is why, it has some seriously mature themes woven into the Story past the elements of Dark Fantasy.

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• SP

  @spencerfoote6977 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I’m like 99 percent sure that Guts killing Gambino foreshadows the end of &nbsp;Guts and Griffith journeys that would have been in Fantasia.

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• KA

  @kapslock8008 · 4 years ago

  I have read/watched berserk a few times and watched many analysis videos. I thought I knew all the aspects of what made it a masterpiece but you proved me wrong. Thank you for putting all this effort into such a great piece of art.

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