A side-effect of Miura's aging and change in interests or an intential writing device?
I've been thinking about the Golden Age through to Conviction and comparing it to Falconia. The subject matter is largely not as grimdark as it once was.
Personally, I think it is an intential framing device to juxtapose pre and post Roar of the Astral World. The world is different, it's all smiles and sunshine in Falconia, apostles and humans live together, Griffith is posed more favourably towards the reader with creates conflicting opinions on the character.
Since it has been so long since it happened the Eclipse feels like a faint memory for some readers and being challenged by the 'happier world' is difficult, seeing as most normal people should have hatred towards Griffith (did nothing wrong fags need not apply).
tl;dr either Miura is playing us and setting up something terrible, or he has just changed on what Berserk is.
I don't get how there can be an ending really. Unless something changes what does Guts and the Skull Knight have against the God Hand?
Easton Brown
The God Hand won't be defeated. The final battle will be Guts and his son (having reclaimed his body from Griffith) vs. Femto.
Kayden Edwards
Griffith has slowly but surely been the architect of his down demise. Every step of the way for him to fulfill his dumb dream is making it more possible for Guts to kill him.
Cameron Rodriguez
It's the same frame of perfection, utopia, that Griffith once had when he was a Duke and had all of Midland in his hand before his desire fucked it up and caused it all to come crashing down. The same thing will happen here, only this time Griffith has conquered the world and everything will be thrown into turmoil as a result of him casting away Falconia.
Charles Collins
Griffith is trying to make as many people reliant on him as possible. That way he can get away with anything, and even people who oppose him won't be able to do a thing about it. If Griffith 'died', or died, the apostles in Falconia would go full murderrape on the humans, except maybe Irvine.
Austin Johnson
I'm betting that Falconia is just another way of gathering humans and do another grand Causality event that sacrifices humans, like the Eclipse and Griffith's "Resurrection".
Dylan Cooper
That wasn't a grand causality event, it was a festival, a banquet. Griffith indeed sacrificed the entire Band of the Hawk, but that's no different from any other Apostle sacrificing someone else.
Colton Davis
>implying implications most implicatory Calling it now, Griffith is the hero we need but not the one we deserve. His plan all along has been to remove the divide from the real world and the supernatural, in effect allowing humanity to confront the once metaphysical manifestation of its thoughts and feelings. Remember how it's stated that monsters exist because people believe or need to believe they do? Well, what does that make Griffith when he keeps killing those monsters? His ultimate goal must be to bring the very idea of evil into the physical world and destroy it along with the godhand. There's a lot of Nietzsche bullshit in Berserk so this fits beautifully. Think about it, what was done to Griffith during the eclipse? His dream didn't come true, it was stolen from him, he was shown that it was never his dream all along and that he'd just been manipulated the whole time. The only way for Griffith and humanity to have real agency is to undo causality itself and kill god.
That begs the question: Where does Guts stand? Surely after resolving things with Casca he would catch wind of Griffith's recent exploits and soon forms a motivation to stop him at all costs.
Luke Anderson
Honestly if you didn't drop this shit after the golden age arc then you're a retard. Golden age arc is perfection in story form and should have been the end. After that it devolves into a more edgy version of shounenshit where you have annoying mascot characters, power ups, and all the rest of the abhorrent shit that plagues shounenshit.
I will admit that just """reading""" the later arcs for the art is ok though.
>Guts's hair is turning white >Griffith's is turning black >Guts is slowly being consumed by his inner demon/the Berserk armor >Griffith is slowly becoming more human
David Phillips
Lost Children was good. The rest going forward is hit or miss, but it isn't entirely bad. Do you hate fun or something? At this point I read Berserk to despair and see how far Miura strays from what put him on the map. It's part of the experience, and it's nice to share it with my frens.
I'm guessing Guts will have to choose between not ruining everything for everyone and getting his revenge. Wouldn't killing Griffith kill his magic-demon-baby too? Who knows.
>Lost Children No. As soon as Puck entered the story it was a lost cause, like literally just turns into a completely different genre and only seems to progressively get worse.
>Check back in with the series after like two years >Casca finally got her memory back >Cliffhanger as she remembers the bad shit >Chapters since then are just reminding everyone that Griffith is strong and amazing oh for FUCKS sake
Jacob Harris
Part of me feels like the story could have ended when Guts met Griffith at the hill of swords, though there'd still be a lot of loose ends.
Seems pretty normal. The biggest falls come after the highest peaks. Just like the moment Guts left the Band of the Hawk. Everything was on the path to happiness, but Griffith just had to tap that ass.
I thought Griffith tapping that ass was him coping with guts leaving not just random shit
Jace Johnson
Obviously Im ignoring the Black Swordsman Arc due to it's short length and overall irrelevance to the golden age arc. Although yea black swordsman arc was shit too, just less shit than the arcs after godlen age.
Brody Hill
>Obviously Im ignoring the Black Swordsman Arc SO SINCE THE BEGINNING
Evan Price
>T. mascot character apologist
Joseph White
I really liked the Golden Age arc and really wouldn't have minded a story of Guts seeking revenge, but that being said the new supporting cast is terrible compared to the Golden Age supporting cast.
Xavier Thompson
Fuck you, Farnese is great.
Matthew Gray
"I will have my own kingdom"
the only thing apostles have to follow is one commandment. "Do as thou wilt"
This is important. Because griffith has no love for the godhand. They are merely contexual allies. Here is the poetry. Griffith saved casca at the meeting of the swords. Because of moon boy. Meaning Gut's son corrupted by griffith. Is also the source of griffiths morality, and concisence.
Which by extension might mean that griffith might use his new found heart found in the strangest of places to turn against the god hand if they were to threaten his kingdom. Until we know how griffith feels, or if griffith is set to become the moonboy and 'dying' after finding his own kingdom
Nolan Ross
>griffith finishes off the godhand >guts teleports behind him >pssht it is personnel this time kid >decapitates griffith
Adrian Harris
It'll be bittersweet because Miura will die and that Berserk cant be ruined with a poor ending that inevitably disappoints.
Ryder Barnes
And it's great. And if he leaves it like this I'd be fine.
Understand this: The world of Berserker is a world where demons and monsters get to go around and kill and rape villages left and right without resistance.Griffith not only manage to defend the world from demons and corruption but he became a demon himself waiting for the perfect oportunity to off the other God Hands. Just look at his past desu...
Nolan Bailey
>tfw you go back and read the eclipse to remind yourself why you hate griffith
Probably. Couldn't he just masturbate thinking about Guts instead?
Matthew Foster
>tfw you realize that Femto may act to Griffith as Berserk does to Guts >tfw you realize that Griffith was trying to stop the Eclipse
Benjamin Ortiz
at the end of the manga as a stand alone side story in griffith's battle arena
Nolan Adams
So, if it ever ends it'll end with Guts defeating Griffith but the rest of the God Hand/Idea of Evil will survive right?
Easton Phillips
That's about the only possible way it could end within Miura's lifetime. Another entire arc about taking out the God Hand for good would take 30 years.
Landon Roberts
Predictions: >Elf Queen reveals that Casca needs her son to finish healing >Puck and Ivalera stay behing in Elfhelm >Isdoro and Isma are lost somewhere along the way >Guts's team joins up with Rickert's team >Griffith gets Guts's behelit, sacrificing Falconia to double-ascend
