Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Chapter 373 of Berserk! In a twist of fate, madnessIts massive comeback is perhaps its most difficult development yet: a truly defeated Guts. Since Berserk was revived by Studio Gaga last year, this long-running manga has given readers a dream come true of returning to the tragic and action-packed tale of the black swordsman. However, with Berserk’s most recent excursion to the world, Chapter 373 “The Rusty Iron Rings Binding”, fans are finally getting to experience the real nightmare scenario that lurk throughout the entire series. : what if Berserk’s hero Guts is too embarrassed to lift his sword?
Studio Gaga starts off to great success in Berserk Chapters 365 & 366, which tells the long-awaited confrontation between Guts and Griffith, after the evil one invades Skellig. Although Guts had trouble with some of the strongest demons around, this particular battle was neither spectacular nor saw Guts as the victor, with Griffith becoming invisible and kidnapping Casca. Easily. This also caused Elfhelm’s destruction, as it suddenly disappeared from the physical world due to Griffith’s intervention. When Guts’ group escapes aboard Roderick’s ship, the Seahorse, Guts is nowhere to be seen, wallowing in misery at the bottom of the ship, reflecting on his failures even as the ship is overrun by the Kushans. However, sadly to say, this is exactly what the series needed.
Berserk makes the intestines a lot deeper by breaking him
Technically, Berserk is setting the stage for their newest and highest-stakes story, with the journey presented through the long-running “Fantasia” now abruptly ending with the loss of Elfhelm and the kidnapping of Casca. One hallmark of Berserk since its founding is that, no matter how besieged, beaten, and brutal Guts is, he will always find a way to victory or survival, with him breaking in the famous Eclipse is one of his most helpless things. case. However, just when he needed to muster the resilience needed to overcome this relatively pedestrian obstacle, the stoic Guts vomited from fear and fainted from the pain instead. suffering. This is the strongest place to begin the final countdown to Gut’s conclusion: with the hero once again thwarted. Not by iron chains or bonds of friendship, but by self-hatred.
Guts’ struggle speaks to Berserk’s audience
Throughout Ch. 373, Guts is obsessed with the childish play Griffith has laid out for him, imagining his enemies dancing on his sword as he did the first time they fought, day which Griffith essentially enslaves Guts through physical domination. Now unable to raise his sword from physical fatigue or truly disgusted by his own failed attempts to protect Casca, Guts’ boredom is obvious and powerful enough to make him inconsolable.
But nothing can stop him from picking up the Dragonslayer again and using it to take down his enemies and save his friends again but his own belief that he’s too weak to do so, his lack of confidence. his. It’s a simple message: that it is this state of being immersed in one’s own supposed failures and weaknesses, filled with self-loathing that is fundamentally unworthy, that is the real enemy. the need to overcome. And unfortunately, Guts will have to overcome this self-doubt if he is to save Casca. Likely no one else in the world of madness capable of defeating Griffith.