/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>785106

Now we know that Guts must use the demon baby as a projectile to defeat Griffith

Good job on those spoilers, anon.

So was deus ex in the hat?

So is the baby Gutts' or Griffith's?

>>785238

Gut’s, but Griffith’s Demon-splooge is apparently high in mercury-content or some shit and gave the fetus Harlequin Syndrome on contact.

>>785103

>>785104

>>785105

>>785106

Thanks for the dump. I guess Idolmaster isn't the only thing he's been playing.

It looks like the dream could end in a month or two from the looks of it.

>>785356

Not counting the Sea God island bit, they were on the boat for ten fucking years. Ten fucking years. I don't mind a two year dream, as long as they can charter a plane or magical bird back to the mainland. Or maybe that's blind optimism, and six years from now Miura will be looking back on 15 chapters of fantasia-esque sea creatures dogging the groups return boat ride, covered in his own ejaculate, clinging to life and his Idolmaster hugpillow.

>>785103

Well shit. Translation when?

>>785463

Do we even need a translation? Most pages have no dialogue, and the dialogue that does exist, has been perfectly summarized by OP.

>>785471

>this

The dialogue really isn't that important at this point given how glacial the story has been the last decade or so.

>>785447

I fully expect another decade on the return trip. Rather than quickly going back the way they came, they'll get diverted to a nearby landmass and be forced to return on foot/by horse.

Don't get me wrong. I loved Berserk, but I largely gave up years ago on ever seeing the ending to this series. The best way to end the series now is to just return us to the night of the eclipse and have Guts screw up Griffith's ascension somehow. It would be an easy way to see Griffith get btfo by the Godhand and then things can go back to the status quo. There's no way in hell Guts will ever be written well enough to explain how he could ever defeat the Godhand without some sort of major plot device. Of course, Miura could take a page out of FMA and make it so that the Godhand get weakened by reminding them of who they once were or something along those lines. An easier option would also to have the Godhand be individuals who mounted the power of gods and individuals who can be severed from that godly power. If they are actual dieties, there's no way to for Guts to make that jump without major asspulls. Regardless of how he eventually decides to tackle them, the Godhand will have to get "nerfed" down or given a major weakness that Guts can exploit. Not that it matters much though. It'll be another 20 years or so before Guts and Griffith meet again, based on how quickly things have been moving over the previous 20.

>>785479

Well they did say that guts sword is capable of killing them now since he killed so many demons it gained magic properties

>>785479

I think it's plausible for Guts to find power comparable to the God Hand, for two reasons.

First, as >>785512 says, his sword's been absorbing the essence of the monsters it's been killing, enhancing its effectiveness. Second, the Beast of Darkness is continuing to develop within Guts, fuelled by his rage and slaughter. It's possible that the same sort of function in which sacrifice can be used to turn a human into an apostle or God Hand could utilise all the people and monsters he's killed to transform Guts into something else. Perhaps he could follow the same path as Gaeseric and becomes a Skull Knight equivalent.

>>785538

>new weakness

Femto transformation into godhand was never finished since Guts and retard is still alive.

Guts already killed one god. While he was close to murdering godhand.

Cletus the Fetus is clearly implied to be capable of many things for many reasons.

>>785544

I've got another take on this. Guts would never sacrifice any of his companions. After seeing first hand what hell people end up in if sacrificed, I don't think he'd even do it to a mortally wounded Isidro who was begging for Guts to use his life. But, as seen by the Egg of the Perfect World, concepts can be sacrificed as well. What if Guts was to give up his revenge against Griffith in exchange for the power of an apostle?

>>785857

>What if Guts was to give up his revenge against Griffith in exchange for the power of an apostle?

For what fucking purpose, after curing Casca, his only goal left would be to kill Grififth, not to become a demi-god. If anything, he would sacrifice his memories of Casca and the rest of his JRPG party in order to kill Grififth.

A worse conclusion would be if an ancient evil awakens, so Guts and Grififth have to join forces together in order to stop nacient evil, and in the process rekindling their friendships ala Naruto and Sausuke

>>785958

>ancient evil

Do you have any IDEA what berserk is all about? Berserk is not a fucking isekai about gaining the most powers.

>teaming up

What could possibly be worse? We dont want another episode of Guts riding Zodd to slay a motherfucking god.

>>786003

>Do you have any IDEA what berserk is all about?

I am not sure if the author even cares about what Berserk even means at this point, plus I'd argue that the sea god was an ancient evil, so who know what other bullshit is in store for us. Lastly, the berserk we are reading now is not the same Berserk from the Black Swordman arc.

>Guts has gone Berserk

It all makes sense now.

>>786035

>>786036

>>786037

Why are MS scans smeared in shit?

The last year of chapters have amounted to absolutely nothing.

This whole thing is a filler arc covered by Miura doing his classic big inky monster drawings to trick retards into thinking this is going to be the eclipse arc all over again

>>785103

How long until Casca finally uses the Behelit?

>>786260

That would be somewhat nice since it will redeem Casca from "retarded baggage" status.

>>786492

Midland. On one hand they might be located literally in the middle of every border, on other hand France seem plausible with 100 year war and everything and if Spain was conquered by mudslims or if Hindu started the mongol invasion and didnt stop at Poland or they used boats(cat remember exact details). And I am pretty sure midland fought with that buttfucker who had winged hussars in his army.

>>786628

>>786492

>Where does it take place?

In a Europe inspired fantasy land.

>Midland

The name Middle-earth was already taken.

>>786492

I'm a poltard but I can't really think of grifith as a jew.

>>786492

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_von_Berlichingen

Germany

>>786757

I've been wondering how, when you are under an imperial ban (which among other things takes away all your property), you are supposed to pay the fine to have the ban be removed.

>>786759

Same way people bail out niggers from the jail.

>>786870

It's forbidden to help a banned person. If you do, you get banned yourself.

>>786757

It still amuses me that Miura says he never heard of Götz before he started Berserk.

I fucking hate the loli. Ever since she appeared the story has gone to shit. She just whips plot devices and deus ex from her ass and even now, a decade after that she keeps doing so.

>>786643

>The name Middle-earth was already taken.

Yes, it's the capital of Lombardy, Italy.

>>786035

>TV anime is airing

Oh shit. More CLANG when?

>>786229

It's amazing how little I feel. The eclipse was extremely tense and worrisome, but now nothing has any consequence. (you already knew before they entered the dream that everything would turn out fine)

>>787012

I don't hate the loli, I hate magic. Silke has a good head on her shoulders/isn't a bad character in and of herself, but she was the gateway to introducing magic into the world that inevitably ruined the series. Up until that point the series was extremely magic-lite. There were demons, yeah, but Guts overcame everything with his own strength or with the strength of his companions later on. Even the Berserker armor (as shitty of a plot device as it is) wasn't horrible necessarily, but the introduction of magic ruined the whole grim atmosphere and put the series into the tailspin it's been on ever since.

>At last, we have.. become the Berserk

Damn, this is shit. The whole dream thing has been boring. The bitches just dig easy bullshit solutions to every obstacle from their bags. I'd take Rickert and his pointless filler adventures over this.

>>790090

I am still waiting for the inevitable Casca betrayal.

>>790901

>I am still waiting for the inevitable Casca betrayal

Guts goes to give a finishing blow, Casca step in front of him and takes it.

Mark my word and take a fucking screencap for shitposting on 256chan in forty years.

>>792600

>If you kill Griffifth you will be just as bad as he is.

>>792614

Nice reddit arrows, fucking loser.

>>792600 (checked)

I'm only betting against that because I have faith that Muria will disappoint everyone beyond everyone's imagination.

I don't really care anymore, I'm simply crestfallen.

>>788274

>Up until that point the series was extremely magic-lite.

Yeah, reality-altering man-eating demons and a cthulu which spawned them and can randomly take people into hell dimensions, and guts wielding a 180cm 300kg sword was really magic-lite.

>>792749

It doubt that's what he meant. There were demons in the world, sure, we wouldn't even have a series if that wasn't the case. However, Guts has always defeated them with his own power and maybe a few gadgets. Compare that two "hold them back, I need some more time to solve our problem with a spell" or Guts going into super berserk mode thanks to his armor.

>>792752

Guts still has no real magic and still does solve his problem through brute force and skill. Now the armor releases the requirement for skill and feeds on his worst traits .

>>785479

Was it ever stated that the God Hand are actual gods?

I have them as angels from god the idea of evil or what it was called in my head. That would mean that they can be slain like demans and what not, but are considerably stronger.

>>793104

Have you seen the sky in Dark Souls 3 near the end?

>>790090

>At last, Guts has become... the Berserk: Complete Collection Remastered

What did he mean by this?

>>792960

>Was it ever stated that the God Hand are actual gods?

No. Pretty sure that's why they are the hand of god but not god itself. They are powerful but not almighty. The idea of evil probably is almighty but it is so far above normal existance that it doesn't even have an active will or personality. It existed since the beginning of time, as an sll powerful, eternal, eldritch presence, closer to a concept that a being.

TL;DR: Miura clearly watched Hellraiser 1 & 2 and took about as much inspiration from it as Dark Souls took from Berserk but he's much less open about it.

>>794163

Clearly not enough.

>>792618

All he has to do is not make it happy like his shitty idolmaster waifus, so probably the opposite of what we will get.

I really hope it ends with Theresia crashing the party, stabbing Guts to death and then somersaulting away.

From the 354 raws, it looks like Casca is awake. Mundane as fuck, but at least another chapter will be out on the 23rd of March.

>>787005

>Yeah, but it's geographically identical to Earth

Just because you can see map once it does not mean that author used maps while making berserk more than just once.

>>794211

He made like 5 games with references to it(if you ignore older ones).

>>792960

God gave Griffith complete control over everything theoretically. And God is the Idea of Evil, basically chaos god from WH working by same laws as them. Evil, despair and other nasty shit birthed him

And you can easily slay even someone who is almighty god simply if he wills it.

Basically godhand can affect causality and its their main power. And they can fuck with laws of reality unless they are not changing reality, but breaching prime material plane to the Warp.

It was stated that humans cant affect anything because they live in the world, part of it and therefore under complete control of its laws and laws state that you cant kill godhand. But someone like skullknight basically left world and fight them on their own terms. And Ganishka also turned himself into their equivalent with resources of whole empire.

BUT after that whole world combined with warp and basically turned into demon world. So technically laws of the world changed a lot. And Griffit never finished Eclipse and sacrifice, Guts and Casca still alive, I think its an important point. And technically you can turn the world into a better place therefore killing the Idea of Evil. But I dont think it will be so. I think berserk heavily inclines towards "you cant defeat evil on going on quest for revenge, you can only defeat evil by destroying evil inside you and helping these who are close to you." Pretty sure it was common theme for past years.

>>792750