can we all just come together and pray that miura told a handful of other people how berserk will end just in case he doesn’t live another 90 years and can’t finish it himself
Here’s an optimistic excerpt from the Duranki wiki: “The assistants of Studio Gaga had aided Miura in the production of Berserk for some years before Duranki, though Miura has still been the primary author and illustrator of the manga. With Duranki, Miura serves as a producer, responsible for storyboarding and maintaining artistic cohesion, somewhat similar to an anime art director. He hopes for the assistants to gain extensive experience illustrating in a cohesive, high-quality style, with intentions of eventually relying on them more in general, particularly in the case of illustrating Berserk - the often primary reason for the manga's long serialization times being such - thus increasing the rate and consistency at which the manga is published from that point onward.] Hopefully once he knows Studio Gaga is able to competently and consistently draw in a way that fits with his artistic vision we’ll be getting Berserk at a faster rate. Also, God forbid he dies anytime soon, but hopefully in the worst case scenario his team of trusted artists could carry on in his stead.
clarification, since you missed the detail, t he mother of the child who was on the brink of death wasn't tortured to death, she endured the torture but ended up broken and her child died under the care of the priests
I’d like to know if there is an equivalent of Byzantium in this world, having its own Autocephalous Sees, separated from the Pope’s, in short, an Orthodox Church with a Confederation Of Equal Bishops, opposed to Papal supremacy. They did things very differently than the West throughout the Middle Ages, including preferring to exile accused witches instead of kill them.
Fate is something which we cannot escape , for us mere creatures of flesh there are much bigger tides in motion that sweep us. Still we do not have to be stranded upon them, for we have the will to go against the tide. Something like that I don't know, Im not the brightest dude around...
The uniform clothing for heretics about to be executed by the Inquisition was called SANBENITO or ZAMARRA, it was usually yellow with patches of red and/or painted flames. The Gut's mother's garb can totally pass for that. Also notice how she is relatively fresh, while the rest of the hanged people on that tree are almost skeletons - spot on for figuring out it is the place of execution, not a singular execution of a family or a village.
The entire plot of berserk is struggling against destiny, if tris theory was true it would trash everything, the struggler didn't really struggle against destiny, but just followed a crafted one
It's all about Casca she is the only one that didn't struggle. She stayed strong without training after all this time and just got her memory back. She had magical powers, she was brain dead and survived all this time from cult members and everything when Guts wasn't around. She is the chosen one. Griffith unconciously saved her during Guts and Zodds second fight after Griffith came to see if he cared about any of them anymore which he said he didn't.
Nah, he still could have died at any time. Being born with a gift asserts nothing. Many intelligent people end up homeless, for instance. I see this as guts had a gift...not a script
Skull knight could easily be miura himself. He’s been around since long before guts was born (since miura was already in his 20s or 30s when he created him) and he was the original struggler (the years of trying to become a successful manga artist, the issues he had with mori ) and the fact that it’s skull knight who rescues guts could be a representation of miura having to figure out ways to save guts from the situations he had put him in
Maybe that's why there's multiple cases of pregnant womens wombs getting corrupted by evil throughout the series. It's to show that the opposite could possibly happen and there could be a positive magical influence if circumstances allowed for it. Either way, cool theory.
Two things: 1) Guts seeing faeries before anything supernatural can happen to him can be explained by Gambino using Pixie Dust to heal Guts' nose wound. 2) The 1997 Anime OP seems to strongly visually confirm it was the Holy See who hung Guts' mother. 3) I do indeed like this theory, keep up the good work.
@@Anthnax I mean that's not really an issue because every little deviation from the source material in 97 was Miura-approved, and by the time the anime aired, the Holy See was still a very new concept in Berserk. This was very much an intentional nod to who hung Guts' mother imo
@@judotaku_7829 Well yeah, but there were other things in the '97 anime that were just completely different from the manga, like the lack of inclusion of skull knight.
*What makes someone believe?* The idea of that only children can see the fairies and the magical, stems from a position of wonder and imagination. These aspects diminish over time as the child grows up and learns about and experience the world. You are taught how the world functions, how things are what they are. And you put trust in that knowledge, and in the people who taught you. Thus making you believe. What lessons have Guts been taught about the world? He has been taught only two things: How to swing a sword, and the only one he can trust is himself. And thus he doesn't believe. (Or maybe Im simply rambling cause its 3:20 am and I should really be sleeping)
I think believing has more to do with acceptance. As a child you accept everything is thrown at you, you know nothing, you are willing to learn everything. If you have been raised with some strict beliefs you would be less incline to accept other beliefs or different perspectives. Guts just doesn't gives a damn: he swings his sword no matter what. He accepts reality as it is.
This theory DOES explain something though. It explains why Skull Knight risked his life and his entire mission to save Guts during the Eclipse, which on its own is a very strange event.
@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 I think he saved him because he was with Casca. Casca might be the chosen one. She always gets saved randomly, she gets magic powers out of no where and she retained her strength even after not training or doing anything combat related after all this time. It seems like the whole show revolves around her. Everyone is literally doing everything to take care of her. Even Griffith saved her after the apocalypse during Guts and Zodds fight even after saying how he came back to see if he cared about any of them and he said he didn't yet still saved her. Cults try to kidnap her, people believe her to be a witch I mean it all makes sense. If not she'd have died off a long time ago.
@@stevenjones7823 Man, can you imagine if Miura pulled a George RR Martin and killed Guts revealing Casca to be the main character? It could work if it's well-thought-out.
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not "Last Jedi Bad", at least... But it's hilariously bad in every other way XD In fact I'd say it's almost the opposite of TLJ, while being about equally bad... if that makes any sense? ^^° At the very least, it breaks force lore to a degree that makes it almost impossible for the Disney trilogy to exist within canon in the long run... so... yay decanonization/retcon?
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not a visceral gut punch of awful like The Last Jedi, but it does more damage to the worldbuilding and lore, if that's possible. It also contains several of what I can only describe as "fuck you Rian" moments from JJ - those are worth seeing but only if you don't have to pay for your showing.
This was the most brilliant hypothesis, concerning Gut's birth mother. It would also make sense, if Griffith was chosen by The Idea of Evil, then Guts, his exact opposite frenemy would be designed to oppose him
I like the first part of the theory, namely Guts’ mother being hung for being a witch and practicing witchcraft, and this also being the reason that Guts can see magical creatures even at a young age, but I’m not so sure about the whole her, Flora and Skull Knight planning to create some sort of savior for what’s to come, mostly because it just kind of doesn’t fit Guts? Like Griffith is the one with all the destiny stuff, Guts is just a normal human fighting against fate, and that’s kind of his appeal. It’s in a vein similar to theories about Guts having some supernatural blood in him, it just doesn’t work for him because it sort of cheapens his struggle, saying he’s not just a regular human. Something minor like his mother being a witch being why Guts could see magical creatures is fine, as it doesn’t really affect things as much, it’s a minor detail. But something like what the latter half of the theory says, not so much Though I suppose then there’s not an answer for the original question in the video, namely why Skull Knight knows the circumstances of Guts’ birth. I mean, maybe Guts’ mother was a disciple of Flora and Skull Knight was just keeping tabs on his old friend’s student or something, I dunno I’m also not sure how something like this would be revealed in story, since it’s such a relatively minor point, especially as Guts at no point has shown any indication of knowing or really wanting to know about his birth family, it just doesn’t matter that much to him. I know this is just a “tinfoil hat” theory, so it’s not meant to be taken the most seriously, but still I also realize this comment is like 3 years too late, but screw it, I just got into Berserk and I want to look at theories
I wanna be honest i always thought that the fact that guts and zodd looked so similar and that zodd helped him by giving him his sword that they were related in some way
He helped him more times than that, he killed an apostle for him as well before the eclipse was about to happen. Zodd sees him as a great challenge and similar to himself. He won't allow anyone to kill him but him kinda like Vegeta with Goku in the earlier stages of Z.
I'm never normally impressed by a Berserk theory videos normally being your typical fan theory you've heard a thousand times. But damn that was a great theory.
There is actually a magic to look back in time. When the Godhands first appear in the black swordsman arc they peel back time and space to show the girl when her father used the behelit
Normally I’d argue with a theory when I see the flaws in them, but when you really have nothing to go on (besides lore/history); anything is possible at this point.
Or, maybe he saw that when Guts would be born, that he would survive the eclipse and be like, the chosen one or something, because Skull Knight does have premonitions.
I’m planning to make a live Acton short film of “spring flowers of a distant day”. I think it would be a great taster to see if berserk works in live action.
My film production company will Start on filming the dungeon scene and take photos of guts in his his lone mercenary amour. I’ll post it on berserk fan pages. As soon as I get approval from both the fans and Kintaro I will start a crowdfunding Campaign to finish it off. It’s going to be awesome!
J.A Kingston that was a beautiful story. I never heard about it before now. Though I haven’t read the Beserk Manga at all actually.😅 I’ve just seen the Golden Age Arc movies and watched RUclips Video Essays about Beserk...
Spring Flowers of Distant Days, one of the best, least remembered stories of Berserk. As for your theory, I have no idea if it is true but it certainly makes a lot of sense. Skull Knight not just suspecting but outright knowing the circumstances of Guts' birth should rightly raise some questions. Further, SK seems to know at least some of the details of Guts' future beforehand, something that not even the Godhand can boast; Slan, in particular, makes it clear that while they know causality more or less works for the Godhand, they do not know the future. The detail that really sold me on your theory though is the idea that Flora and SK had another companion, thus making them a trio that mirrors the trio of Guts, Griffith, and Casca. So while I'm not sure if I believe this theory if it is ever revealed to be true, I'll think back to this video.
I actually had my own crackpot theory regarding why Guts could perceive Cheech. It's possible that being born of a corpse and his many brushes with death left him very lightly affected by the interstice, leaving him with a toe in the other side while nearly wholly being in the material plane. It IS odd that the 80s as heck bandits in chapter one can even SEE and interact with Puck... But, Miura likely hadn't quite worked out the kinks of how magic worked yet since y'know, it was the first instance of Berserk's magic on display and we immediately jumped into Golden Age without much being set in stone yet. Tangent over.
He needs to give himself more credit, this theory fits so damn we’ll even if it’s based off assumptions it’s the best theory I’ve heard ever relating to berserk
4:45 rewatch the 97 opening, the holy see bird symbol it right there at the tree scene. Seems odd to add something like that considering the anime doesn't adapt past golden age, but I've heard Miura tends to be pretty involved with the anime adaptation (I remember someone pointing out the stonehenge Griffith used in resent chapters being part of the Golden age movies art)
I think the chapter after Skull Knight’s intro or some chapter around that one shows a short timeline of Guts’ life. It’s literally just one panel and it has his most significant encounters. Close to his birth is a skull with thorns. I wonder why they would put it so close?
There is also the fact that When Farneze apologised to Flora for burning witches Flora said that "if it's any consolation, your people have not harmed any of my kind". So if this theory is true verbatum, Flora had to be omitting Guts' mother, even if she willingly chose to die
I was ready for pure tinfoil... but this is good. Makes a lot of sense. Weaves a plot and characters we know have struggled against the Hand into Guts back story. Would ve good to see it in the story in some regard.
I'm late to the party. Gut's birth alone leaves him ON the veil between life and death. He was surrounded by a curse that was taken on by Gambino's wife when she picked the baby up. It's safe to assume he was born being able to see spiritual creatures. Whether we see him pay them any mind (pre hawks) is a whole other matter.
Not sure how this would affect things, but I think there's a chance that the tree Gut's mother was hung from is the same tree we see in the Lost Children arc, notice the metal pegs in the tree's trunk, the same as the one from Lost Children, it was used in sacrifice, where they would nail the intestines of the victim to the tree and make the victim try to walk around the tree before they passed out or died
I doubt it's the same tree. They don't appear to resemble each other very much, as it's very much noted that the demon tree has faces in it, not to mention having a different method of execution. However, the comparison between trees is notable, in that a popular interpretation is that trees are analogous for Gut's current wellbeing/mental state, especially if we also think of the tree from the Bonfire of Dreams.
So I had the thought that Guts was supposed to have the egg of the king. And that Griffith somehow stole that opportunity from him. That would mean Griffith would have known about Guts at some level and that he was taking away something from him already. And that would give a reason why Griffith told him that his body was his should Guts lose. But then i feel that maybe, as your theory would substantiate, Guts is actually setup for a much larger and crucial role than mere Kingship. Shrug...but then I just started on this whole story less than a month ago...
Kind of late but on reread I noticed the chapter 47 cover has a kind of timeline of encounters in guts life. Skull knight and a behelit are shown before meeting Griffith so something important is definitely missing from guts birth.
Actually Guts from the beginning is a chosen one, either by skull knight or by destiny itself so in other words he is a chosen one. He wasn’t a nobody with bad luck.
Can't say he was the chosen one I'd say Casca was. She randomly got magic powers and shit after the eclipse and maintained her skills without training all that time. She always seems to be saved at the right moment though not knowing or caring for anyone outside of the moonlit child and Farnase. Guts is not the chosen 1 i don't see it and I don't think the maker would want him to be a chosen one anyway to prove a point about humans.
Steven Jones after reading what you wrote, now I think both of theme are the chosen one, However, more Guts because he is the person who will fight Griffith and he is the main character. Also, I’m so sure the writer will never say Guts is a chosen one at all because that will ruin the concept of free will and nothing is stone written.
@@skullknight1465 Guts will not fight Griffith, he has no way to win that fight. Griffith doesn't even consider him remotely a threat which is why he lets him run around the way he does, not only that he would be dealing with 4 other godhand at the ready as well. The author said the story is coming to a close and it won't have a bad ending so I'm pretty sure he does not fight Griffith.
@@stevenjones7823 Casca never had magical powers,the demon baby had and whenever Casca was at danger he would step in to protect her,that is until during the Rebirth Ceremony it stretched it self out too thin and fell tired for long enough for the Egg of the New World Apostle to show up and absorb him in pity.
I think the thing with Guts is that there are lots of things about him that might make you think he's a chosen one, but the manga has never and probably will never explicitly confirm it. Does "luck" or even "being unlucky" really exist when elements like causality are real? It's hard to say. I personally dislike the idea that Guts is literally a chosen one, but I am fine with the idea that his birth set him up for his life. That's pretty much what Skull Knight says to him; it could simply be that SK took one look at Guts and was like "hmm I bet that guy was born on the cusp of life and death. Better keep an eye on him, since he's going to be interacting with the God Hand soon along with the other Schmucks of the Hawk." As in, SK could just see it in Guts' eyes or what have you rather than knowing all along that Guts was that way because he'd caused those events. My thinking is that SK would have taken a more active role in Guts' life to make sure he fulfilled his role had he been the one to set the events in motion but as we see he only starts getting involved near the Eclipse itself (which is when I think SK truly "noticed" Guts as someone with the potential to defy causality, hence why SK saves him and Casca during the Eclipse).
I just wanna mention, the mother who asked Mosgus for help was not killed during her torture. She is showed with bandaged up arms possibly losing a couple of fingers. her baby dies of starvation and she lost a couple of fingers.
Couldn't Guts seeing Chic be explained by him being the kind of guy who'd be open to anything that'd give him an edge in combat? He regularly takes the supernatural in stride, it doesn't ever phase him really, aside from the eclipse obviously but who wouldn't be unnerved by that. So while he isn't actively believing in, say flower spirits, he isn't actively believing they don't exist either, maybe he can see spirits when they want to interact with him because of that.
One thing I noticed is that many of the corpses share a similarity in that they have what appears to have been large red cloaks which Gut's mother also has on during her hanging and the ones that don't share this feature may have had one in the past but they were stolen or otherwise deteriorated with time as seen on some of the cloaks
No, it's not inhuman. It's inhuman to us cause we are modern humans, you've got to go study how older folks bodies were. There are old people that can bend metal with their bare hands till this day. Older ages humans muscles density was so tough that if we had it today we would die from the weight. It would crack our rib cages, past humans were born into war so their bodies adapted for the cause. Ever notice like in ghettos or prisons people get really big and buff easily vs common city people? It's cause their bodies are adapting to their environment. They have way less stuff than those city people for it to work but it still does, like Ice Cube said "Still getting swole off bread and water." it's a weird truth to it. Guts is normal, he grew up a mercenary training with a greatsword since he was a child, that is definitely humane. Zodd was a giant so his strength came naturally plus war it just made him a monster even before he was an apostle.
@@stevenjones7823 bro what the fuck are you on about, the average longsword used by knights was like 2-3 pounds, 5 max, the dragonslayer is 400. Guts has inhumane strength, its not that hard to believe
Hanged when referring to people, hung when referring to objects. Examples: “She hung the laundry out to dry”, and “he was hanged from the neck until dead”. The only time when hung is used for a person, is when someone is “Hung like a horse”.
But Flora told farneze something along the lines of: "don't worry, you hunt never got/hurt any of us" so that could mean that the Vatican didn't kill any witch tho. Besides that, other theory could say that maybe guts was mentally pure/good, and that allowed him see chich. (Guts it's actually a pretty nice person tho, you can see him cry after the little girl he told to kill herself cursed him, which means that he really didn't wanted to tell her that. That, besides a lot of other stuff that you guys know.)
the Theory is sound, even though it requires us to believe that Gut's mother would take such a poorly calculated risk against the ridiculous odds of baby Guts not surviving. Unless...Magic was involved. It makes sense to believe that If Guts mother was indeed a mage that she and her companions would prepare to protect her child supernaturally from a spiritual dimension. This supports the idea of why Guts so often escapes death. He has at least one guardian angel.
There has to be some way to logically explain his sometimes beastial nature, insane physical abilities, and ability to see magical creatures, without turning it into some chosen one bullshit that spits in the face of his whole "lowly human struggling against fate" story. Like, some way to make the power he holds entirely his own, not given to him by some force of fate, but something he gained as his earliest tool of defying fate, or perhaps something his mother gave him just by accident. I think his mother being a witch, and exposing her son to magic and the astral realm, leaving his soul in somewhat of a limbo actually makes a lot of sense. I don't think it was done on purpose as some sort of chosen one ritual, however. Instead I think it was just as human an experience as everything else that ever happened to him. His mother was just some random, unknown, small time witch or pagan that happened to have a child, maybe the father will become important at some point or maybe not, but lets assume he's equally as irrelevant as his mother, possibly they were even both killed together. But being pregnant while also being a magic user just happened to expose Guts to astral forces and when she died it left a slight hole in his spiritual walls, leaving his soul partially and permanently attached to the astral plane. It didn't leave him with super OP magic powers or anything like that. It just allowed him partial access to the first step of magic, harnessing small bits of energy from the astral plane. But this was something that was second nature to him, he didn't even realise he did it, or even feel it happening, it just happened, as naturally as his heart beating. It essentially just boosted his growth and physical capabilities to be quicker developed than average, and pushed his bodies limits further how so he'd have the capacity to be much stronger and more physically fit than others, but he'd have to work ten times harder to reach those higher limits. That, and similar to how emotion plays a role in magic, when Guts gets extremely emotional, while he cant actually do magic, the increase in astral energy he collects can give him slight temporary boosts to his abilities, as well as make him appear almost as if he's taking on a more beastial appearance. Which is why sometimes getting super pissed off gives him an edge in those tough battles, not enough to come out unscathed, and certainly not enough to make it like turning on easy mode, but just enough to get him out of a tight situation in case of true emergency. Its basically just enough of a boost to his natural human resilience to get him out of the closest of calls alive. That's my idea on how his features could be explained with a similar theory, whilst keeping his struggler identity in tact.
@BOOFIRE191 An explanation as to why the Skull Knight could actually tell of Guts's origins is because of the very way in which he was born. Being born from a corpse/dying person, granted Guts an "aura" ,so to speak, that was different from everyone else. This would depict his uncanny abilities and strengths being on par with astral beings as he himself can be seen of slight astral origin, the only question derived from this is when and where did Skull Knight truly first encounter Guts which lead him to sense this "aura" or presence which guides him. Another explanation as to why Guts can see astral beings before his encounter with Zodd, of which was witnessed by others and can thus be confirmed, is this very other-worldly presence/aura that follows him; aside from that, even if Guts never believed in the existence of such beings, it was never implied of how open to the existence of such things Guts himself actually was. He could be seen as a blank slate of which anything can be written with the tools I.E. experiences and encounters, all of which writing, molding and shaping Guts as a person.
nice Theroy with a weak point: the Skull Knight! He has only one goal and has pursued this singular goal since his creation - the destruction of all demons, especially the God Hand. It is rather unlikely that he cooperates with several characters, contrary to his nature, and leaves the destruction of his enemies to someone else. Guts is an anomaly for Skull Knight and partly also a reincarnation of his former life, so he always seeks its presence.
I just recently found these videos. As a long time fan of Berserk, I really appreciate what you've made for the series. I didn't even realize how much I hated giant swords in anime until you me mentioned it 😂
I disagree on you interpretation on why Guts can see chich. The reason why most can't see elves is because the holy see suppresses people's beliefs, Guts is not a member of the church and grew up largely ignorant of church doctrine.
I think the same as you. Guts being part of a bigger plan orchestrated by others removes a big chunk of who Guts portrayed. The person who got the world against him and had to fight for everything. He got Casca and the companions, but he earned everyone there. As the man that had to earn everything, him being given prior to his birth a "destiny" will shatter the idea of who he is. Great theory though
This theory is Golden. So much so, I may suspect u of being the author Kentaro himself. That explanation is incredibly feasible, reasonable and believable. Who knows, maybe he watches these videos for ideas on how to finish the story. Just subscribed.
The hanged corpses all have the same coloured robes, its just aerial perspective making it look a different colour. And also the whole scene is intentionally dichromatic as Gambino and his troupe are also red, the colours don't really allude to anything narrative wise really. The holy see idea could hold some weight though as they are all dressed the same.
i think its a good theory actually, but only because that would make guts trapped by yet another 'idea' of destiny, one made by attempting to oppose causality, while trying to escpae, they themselves trapping guts in their own plan of a 'chosen one'. He merely being a pawn in their game.
Idk if it matters that much who guts mom was, I think guts is suppose to represent a nobody, a person with no direction which is why griffiths words cut him so deep.
In the 1990s anime the opening shows the hanging tree with holy C ideals in that scene, and Mirua did help on that adaptation, so I think that when he was making that scene for the anime he added in that symbol because he hadn’t thought of it when he drew that chapter at the beginning
Actually, being surrounded by the prospect of death makes a person MORE likely to believe in the supernatural. Belief in the after life, in war gods, in glorious deaths being rewarded, etc; all these things help humans better cope with the fact that they are most likely gonna die in a battle. Of course, there are no signs that Guts himself believe this, let alone in the existence of things like flower spirits.
What about the beginning of humanity? You think people just kill other people and then are like yeah. They went somewhere else that we cant see. spirtualism sprouting from coping death doesnt sound very logic especially from a scientific stand point. By this logic you could also say in the fear of judgment people deny a spirtual judgment thus you would have athesim. Sounds like faulty logic. You can find many last words of soldiers in logs that died in war. Most people just say tell my family I love them or frantically grasp onto life before inevitably dying. Yes some do pray but also most people in past wars have been relgious people. Atheism is old but not as old as religion as well not as popular. That's why the statistic a pretty faulty. It's like having a controlled experiment on crusaders and before they die they pray. Well yeah of course statistically they're are more accepting a upper being most were born into that life style.
springflowers 3 chapter arc is where i send ppl when they ask me if berserk is good or what berserk is about! to me its one of the best parts in berserk. ps.the reason gutts was able to see the flower fairy was simply cause he was close to death.if the fairy hadnt helped him he would be dead(those are my 2 cents at least cause i also h8 the idea of gutts the chosen one!)
I think Guts’s coffin birth is meant to be the diametric opposite of those born into the nobility as well as opposite of Griffith, who was born as the chosen one of the God Hand. Guts seems more like a rejection of the chosen one archetype seen in much of fantasy.
Last I checked it's reasonable to assume the main protagonist is always the chosen one because the author chose to tell their story. Also as it has been presented in the past being a chosen could be either completing trials anyone else with luck could do or simply doing what no one else could it doesn't really detract from who the character is unless all they are is only tied with their "prophecy".
It wouldn't be surprising if the Skull Knight was the one responsible for Guts' mother being killed... because ever since his introduction in the Manga, I knew to my very core that he was UP TO SOMETHING. Whatever that something is, he clearly NEEDED Guts as an ally of sorts in their battle against the Apostles, including the God Hand. Would be shocked if he didn't had ANY other ulterior motives...
Thats what I thought. Doesnt make sense that He would be the only pure good guy in the Story. I mean just look at him. I think Sk initiated her death, for some kind of ritual. Seeing glimpses of who Guts is going to become. I also think at some point they are going to fight. Maybe SK wanted to get rid of the god hand, just to take their place in the first place? However, Guts will definitly go beserk, when he finds out, that he has been used all along.
@@prettyboyg1278 It would make perfect sense if that was his intention, to have Guts become his instrument of destruction and using his own berserk rage as a way to unlock his greater power. No one is "good" in the world Miura-san had created... even Guts himself is far from being the "hero" of his tale.
Maybe people close to death can see spirits, since they are closer to entering the Astral World. He couldn't see before and after because he was healthy.
So I think guts is like link from Zelda honestly maybe skull knight is guts from either a different time or a reincarnation of him. That's why he always ends up in the berserker armour, it would make sense that a guts from 600 years ago would know how his life would go and pan out. So he always ends up saving himself and casa to only throw his present self to the wolves to see if he's strong enough to take on Griffith. If he wasn't then he would take the place of his current self as skull knight, through letting himself be consumed by the armor and letting himself be reborn until he found one tough enough to take on the God hand. Or it's his son in the armor and he's trying to stop what has already happened.
I am quite confused about only people who believe in the existence of magical being could see an elf. Because in the first chapter of Berserk, when Guts entered a bar there were some underlings of Snake Baron who tortures Puck, and there were also many people watching the scene. Is it because they were already know about apostle or what?
My theory is that Guts is a descendant of a child that Zodd made before becoming an apostle. If Guts was Zodd's son, that would make the whole "i'm human, the real deal" rants he often makes lose meaning, and my whole theory would explain why there's a physical similarity between the two without taking away the humanity of Guts and how he survives by sheer willpower instead of a supernatural power.
What if this turns out to be another Naruto-Obito kind of deal? Like, the Obito prequel in Naruto foreshadowed Tobi’s true identity. And now, we have the prequel-side story in Berserk... maybe there’s something to this theory.
Idk if it’s magic or even if it allows some to peer back in time, but during Griffiths eclipse Ubik showed him a vision of his past. That might be something idk though.
It doesn't make much sense for Guts not to be a chosen one of sorts considering all the things we've seen him do and survive that a normal human being even in the world Berserk just can't do
This reminds me of Harry Potter. Harry’s mother uses her death to create an incredibly powerful magical barrier that protects her only son. There may end up being a similar magical incantation that requires a parent to sacrifice themselves to create a powerful barrier and a connection to the astral world in Berserk. It seems that magic in Berserk’s world may require either a prayer to an powerful magical entity or require one to sacrifice time for a lengthy phrase to trigger magical effects.
can we all just come together and pray that miura told a handful of other people how berserk will end just in case he doesn’t live another 90 years and can’t finish it himself
I heard that he told his wife and a few others who help him with the manga how it ends.
I believe he has it written down somewhere just incase
Here’s an optimistic excerpt from the Duranki wiki:
“The assistants of Studio Gaga had aided Miura in the production of Berserk for some years before Duranki, though Miura has still been the primary author and illustrator of the manga. With Duranki, Miura serves as a producer, responsible for storyboarding and maintaining artistic cohesion, somewhat similar to an anime art director. He hopes for the assistants to gain extensive experience illustrating in a cohesive, high-quality style, with intentions of eventually relying on them more in general, particularly in the case of illustrating Berserk - the often primary reason for the manga's long serialization times being such - thus increasing the rate and consistency at which the manga is published from that point onward.]
Hopefully once he knows Studio Gaga is able to competently and consistently draw in a way that fits with his artistic vision we’ll be getting Berserk at a faster rate. Also, God forbid he dies anytime soon, but hopefully in the worst case scenario his team of trusted artists could carry on in his stead.
He’s not George R.R. Martin...he’ll finish it.
@@dceasedbrickfan74 started it in 89 ircc so who knows the long gaps between chapters makes sense with art quality
I do have a theory.
It may be a bit of a shock to you all but... I think that Femto might be Griffith.
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NO WAY!
Let's not get crazy over here
THIS CAN’T BE TRUE I SACRIFICED CHINESE MEN TO A DISEASE RIDDEN BAT AND ME CORONA BECAME GOD HAND
WHAT ?! No way ! I refuse to believe it !
clarification, since you missed the detail, t he mother of the child who was on the brink of death wasn't tortured to death, she endured the torture but ended up broken and her child died under the care of the priests
I thought I saw a panel where the child was burned alive, or was that a different panel?
The child began recovering after the priests cared for him, but after they got booted back out into the camp, he died anyway.
@@BOOFIRE191 Must delete and reupload now. I mean, you won't possibly stand for such mistake to linger in the ether, will you? Keepo
I’d like to know if there is an equivalent of Byzantium in this world, having its own Autocephalous Sees, separated from the Pope’s, in short, an Orthodox Church with a Confederation Of Equal Bishops, opposed to Papal supremacy.
They did things very differently than the West throughout the Middle Ages, including preferring to exile accused witches instead of kill them.
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When the old lunatic wasn’t acting crazy as a bugaboo, he was totally incompetent.
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I'm down for it
Skull knight can get it ngl
Not only is this a gigantic reach but the "chosen one" trope goes against the entire message of Guts' character.
Fate is everything but at the same time absolutely nothing
You are a true master of thoughtful, and at the same time meaningless phrases.
Ok
Fate is something which we cannot escape , for us mere creatures of flesh there are much bigger tides in motion that sweep us. Still we do not have to be stranded upon them, for we have the will to go against the tide. Something like that I don't know, Im not the brightest dude around...
Nothing means everything
@6ix9ine #snitchgang it means no matter what you do you're out of control of it it's already pre-decided. It means everything and nothing
The uniform clothing for heretics about to be executed by the Inquisition was called SANBENITO or ZAMARRA, it was usually yellow with patches of red and/or painted flames. The Gut's mother's garb can totally pass for that. Also notice how she is relatively fresh, while the rest of the hanged people on that tree are almost skeletons - spot on for figuring out it is the place of execution, not a singular execution of a family or a village.
Thank you. And also true spot on, that was so clever of him
The entire plot of berserk is struggling against destiny, if tris theory was true it would trash everything, the struggler didn't really struggle against destiny, but just followed a crafted one
Maybe that’s the point, you can’t escape destiny. (Even though that would be a pretty shit way to go about it.)
It's all about Casca she is the only one that didn't struggle. She stayed strong without training after all this time and just got her memory back. She had magical powers, she was brain dead and survived all this time from cult members and everything when Guts wasn't around. She is the chosen one. Griffith unconciously saved her during Guts and Zodds second fight after Griffith came to see if he cared about any of them anymore which he said he didn't.
Nah, he still could have died at any time. Being born with a gift asserts nothing. Many intelligent people end up homeless, for instance. I see this as guts had a gift...not a script
@@stevenjones7823 cause her son was saving her man
Skull knight could easily be miura himself. He’s been around since long before guts was born (since miura was already in his 20s or 30s when he created him) and he was the original struggler (the years of trying to become a successful manga artist, the issues he had with mori ) and the fact that it’s skull knight who rescues guts could be a representation of miura having to figure out ways to save guts from the situations he had put him in
Issues with mori?
Actually this makes a lot of sense given the rules established.
Maybe that's why there's multiple cases of pregnant womens wombs getting corrupted by evil throughout the series.
It's to show that the opposite could possibly happen and there could be a positive magical influence if circumstances allowed for it.
Either way, cool theory.
@@marvinthemartian857 interesting this wasn't touched upon by the uploader
Two things:
1) Guts seeing faeries before anything supernatural can happen to him can be explained by Gambino using Pixie Dust to heal Guts' nose wound.
2) The 1997 Anime OP seems to strongly visually confirm it was the Holy See who hung Guts' mother.
3) I do indeed like this theory, keep up the good work.
Do you think the burning flower in the 1997 opening had to do with Chitch?
@@turoturolamama Chich wasn't a flicker in Miura's eye in 1997. But Tell Me Why has direct references to the Holy See during the brief tree segment.
@@judotaku_7829 The big issue I have with this is the question of whether or not the '97 anime is canon.
@@Anthnax I mean that's not really an issue because every little deviation from the source material in 97 was Miura-approved, and by the time the anime aired, the Holy See was still a very new concept in Berserk. This was very much an intentional nod to who hung Guts' mother imo
@@judotaku_7829 Well yeah, but there were other things in the '97 anime that were just completely different from the manga, like the lack of inclusion of skull knight.
*What makes someone believe?*
The idea of that only children can see the fairies and the magical, stems from a position of wonder and imagination. These aspects diminish over time as the child grows up and learns about and experience the world.
You are taught how the world functions, how things are what they are. And you put trust in that knowledge, and in the people who taught you.
Thus making you believe.
What lessons have Guts been taught about the world?
He has been taught only two things: How to swing a sword, and the only one he can trust is himself.
And thus he doesn't believe.
(Or maybe Im simply rambling cause its 3:20 am and I should really be sleeping)
I think believing has more to do with acceptance. As a child you accept everything is thrown at you, you know nothing, you are willing to learn everything. If you have been raised with some strict beliefs you would be less incline to accept other beliefs or different perspectives. Guts just doesn't gives a damn: he swings his sword no matter what. He accepts reality as it is.
Maybe it’s a pure of heart thing
This theory DOES explain something though. It explains why Skull Knight risked his life and his entire mission to save Guts during the Eclipse, which on its own is a very strange event.
Yeah I have always wondered why skull knight saved guts
@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 I think he saved him because he was with Casca. Casca might be the chosen one. She always gets saved randomly, she gets magic powers out of no where and she retained her strength even after not training or doing anything combat related after all this time. It seems like the whole show revolves around her. Everyone is literally doing everything to take care of her. Even Griffith saved her after the apocalypse during Guts and Zodds fight even after saying how he came back to see if he cared about any of them and he said he didn't yet still saved her. Cults try to kidnap her, people believe her to be a witch I mean it all makes sense. If not she'd have died off a long time ago.
@@stevenjones7823 Man, can you imagine if Miura pulled a George RR Martin and killed Guts revealing Casca to be the main character? It could work if it's well-thought-out.
Steven Jones why did you feel the need to comment this on 4 other people’s comments casca fanboy omg
Memento Mori I hope Miura won't kill off Guts. Miura did say that berserk won't end in a pessemestic way.
Video on how the Rise of Skywalker killed your very soul when.
@@BOOFIRE191 Go to wikipedia and live stream yourself reading the summary.
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not "Last Jedi Bad", at least... But it's hilariously bad in every other way XD
In fact I'd say it's almost the opposite of TLJ, while being about equally bad... if that makes any sense? ^^°
At the very least, it breaks force lore to a degree that makes it almost impossible for the Disney trilogy to exist within canon in the long run... so... yay decanonization/retcon?
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not a visceral gut punch of awful like The Last Jedi, but it does more damage to the worldbuilding and lore, if that's possible.
It also contains several of what I can only describe as "fuck you Rian" moments from JJ - those are worth seeing but only if you don't have to pay for your showing.
@@BOOFIRE191 its actaully good
Due to his characters design and lack of a beard I always thought Guts was a Half-Elf
Ian Krohn i remember puck makes mention that guts reminds him of an elf . I figured that would be a big detail later on
holy shit i never realized guts' lack of beard
I think that there's a panel of him shaving with a small knife, through...
@@nickzero6921 his face is too clean shaven with zero stubble I don't think a small knife does that
Ian Krohn but aren’t elves like the size of small birds how would that work between a human and elf?
This was the most brilliant hypothesis, concerning Gut's birth mother. It would also make sense, if Griffith was chosen by The Idea of Evil, then Guts, his exact opposite frenemy would be designed to oppose him
I like the first part of the theory, namely Guts’ mother being hung for being a witch and practicing witchcraft, and this also being the reason that Guts can see magical creatures even at a young age, but I’m not so sure about the whole her, Flora and Skull Knight planning to create some sort of savior for what’s to come, mostly because it just kind of doesn’t fit Guts? Like Griffith is the one with all the destiny stuff, Guts is just a normal human fighting against fate, and that’s kind of his appeal. It’s in a vein similar to theories about Guts having some supernatural blood in him, it just doesn’t work for him because it sort of cheapens his struggle, saying he’s not just a regular human. Something minor like his mother being a witch being why Guts could see magical creatures is fine, as it doesn’t really affect things as much, it’s a minor detail. But something like what the latter half of the theory says, not so much
Though I suppose then there’s not an answer for the original question in the video, namely why Skull Knight knows the circumstances of Guts’ birth. I mean, maybe Guts’ mother was a disciple of Flora and Skull Knight was just keeping tabs on his old friend’s student or something, I dunno
I’m also not sure how something like this would be revealed in story, since it’s such a relatively minor point, especially as Guts at no point has shown any indication of knowing or really wanting to know about his birth family, it just doesn’t matter that much to him. I know this is just a “tinfoil hat” theory, so it’s not meant to be taken the most seriously, but still
I also realize this comment is like 3 years too late, but screw it, I just got into Berserk and I want to look at theories
I wanna be honest i always thought that the fact that guts and zodd looked so similar and that zodd helped him by giving him his sword that they were related in some way
He helped him more times than that, he killed an apostle for him as well before the eclipse was about to happen. Zodd sees him as a great challenge and similar to himself. He won't allow anyone to kill him but him kinda like Vegeta with Goku in the earlier stages of Z.
The skull knight reminds me of Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt
Yeah the aesthetic is nearly identical.
Great fucking game.
@@우찬호 yes his armor is almost identical to eredin's, some frost themed powers, and hellhounds are all that's missing
Skull Knight's aesthetic may have been a direct influence. It wouldn't be the first time Berserk did that.
You mean the Wild Hunt reminds you of Skull Knight
I'm never normally impressed by a Berserk theory videos normally being your typical fan theory you've heard a thousand times. But damn that was a great theory.
There is actually a magic to look back in time. When the Godhands first appear in the black swordsman arc they peel back time and space to show the girl when her father used the behelit
Normally I’d argue with a theory when I see the flaws in them, but when you really have nothing to go on (besides lore/history); anything is possible at this point.
Or, maybe he saw that when Guts would be born, that he would survive the eclipse and be like, the chosen one or something, because Skull Knight does have premonitions.
Beeing the chosen one would go against fighting your destiny, don´t you think?
I’m planning to make a live Acton short film of “spring flowers of a distant day”.
I think it would be a great taster to see if berserk works in live action.
OMG!! Where can I find it!
My film production company will Start on filming the dungeon scene and take photos of guts in his his lone mercenary amour.
I’ll post it on berserk fan pages. As soon as I get approval from both the fans and Kintaro I will start a crowdfunding Campaign to finish it off.
It’s going to be awesome!
@@j.akingston2035 best of luck man, best or luck indeed!
Not my films.
J.A Kingston that was a beautiful story. I never heard about it before now. Though I haven’t read the Beserk Manga at all actually.😅
I’ve just seen the Golden Age Arc movies and watched RUclips Video Essays about Beserk...
Spring Flowers of Distant Days, one of the best, least remembered stories of Berserk. As for your theory, I have no idea if it is true but it certainly makes a lot of sense. Skull Knight not just suspecting but outright knowing the circumstances of Guts' birth should rightly raise some questions. Further, SK seems to know at least some of the details of Guts' future beforehand, something that not even the Godhand can boast; Slan, in particular, makes it clear that while they know causality more or less works for the Godhand, they do not know the future. The detail that really sold me on your theory though is the idea that Flora and SK had another companion, thus making them a trio that mirrors the trio of Guts, Griffith, and Casca. So while I'm not sure if I believe this theory if it is ever revealed to be true, I'll think back to this video.
Which Deluxe edition is that chapter in?
I actually had my own crackpot theory regarding why Guts could perceive Cheech. It's possible that being born of a corpse and his many brushes with death left him very lightly affected by the interstice, leaving him with a toe in the other side while nearly wholly being in the material plane.
It IS odd that the 80s as heck bandits in chapter one can even SEE and interact with Puck... But, Miura likely hadn't quite worked out the kinks of how magic worked yet since y'know, it was the first instance of Berserk's magic on display and we immediately jumped into Golden Age without much being set in stone yet. Tangent over.
He needs to give himself more credit, this theory fits so damn we’ll even if it’s based off assumptions it’s the best theory I’ve heard ever relating to berserk
4:45 rewatch the 97 opening, the holy see bird symbol it right there at the tree scene. Seems odd to add something like that considering the anime doesn't adapt past golden age, but I've heard Miura tends to be pretty involved with the anime adaptation (I remember someone pointing out the stonehenge Griffith used in resent chapters being part of the Golden age movies art)
The bloodeborne music is perfect for berserk ❤ especially considering the game is heavily inspired by the show
it was music to my ears
While specifics may certainly be different, the overall concept is pretty sound, so who knows, could happen, we'll see, thanks for sharing, Boofire
Gendy was able to read Berserk, get samurai jack back, steal this whole character and finish that show before berserk got more chapters
Skull knight: Guts, I am your father.
I think the chapter after Skull Knight’s intro or some chapter around that one shows a short timeline of Guts’ life. It’s literally just one panel and it has his most significant encounters.
Close to his birth is a skull with thorns.
I wonder why they would put it so close?
There is also the fact that When Farneze apologised to Flora for burning witches Flora said that "if it's any consolation, your people have not harmed any of my kind". So if this theory is true verbatum, Flora had to be omitting Guts' mother, even if she willingly chose to die
I was ready for pure tinfoil... but this is good. Makes a lot of sense. Weaves a plot and characters we know have struggled against the Hand into Guts back story. Would ve good to see it in the story in some regard.
I'm late to the party. Gut's birth alone leaves him ON the veil between life and death. He was surrounded by a curse that was taken on by Gambino's wife when she picked the baby up.
It's safe to assume he was born being able to see spiritual creatures. Whether we see him pay them any mind (pre hawks) is a whole other matter.
Not sure how this would affect things, but I think there's a chance that the tree Gut's mother was hung from is the same tree we see in the Lost Children arc, notice the metal pegs in the tree's trunk, the same as the one from Lost Children, it was used in sacrifice, where they would nail the intestines of the victim to the tree and make the victim try to walk around the tree before they passed out or died
I doubt it's the same tree. They don't appear to resemble each other very much, as it's very much noted that the demon tree has faces in it, not to mention having a different method of execution.
However, the comparison between trees is notable, in that a popular interpretation is that trees are analogous for Gut's current wellbeing/mental state, especially if we also think of the tree from the Bonfire of Dreams.
So I had the thought that Guts was supposed to have the egg of the king. And that Griffith somehow stole that opportunity from him. That would mean Griffith would have known about Guts at some level and that he was taking away something from him already. And that would give a reason why Griffith told him that his body was his should Guts lose. But then i feel that maybe, as your theory would substantiate, Guts is actually setup for a much larger and crucial role than mere Kingship. Shrug...but then I just started on this whole story less than a month ago...
But that's just a theory.
A GAME THEORY!
can't we mention the fact that his and griffith's ears are similaire unlike other charachters
Kind of late but on reread I noticed the chapter 47 cover has a kind of timeline of encounters in guts life. Skull knight and a behelit are shown before meeting Griffith so something important is definitely missing from guts birth.
Actually Guts from the beginning is a chosen one, either by skull knight or by destiny itself so in other words he is a chosen one. He wasn’t a nobody with bad luck.
Can't say he was the chosen one I'd say Casca was. She randomly got magic powers and shit after the eclipse and maintained her skills without training all that time. She always seems to be saved at the right moment though not knowing or caring for anyone outside of the moonlit child and Farnase. Guts is not the chosen 1 i don't see it and I don't think the maker would want him to be a chosen one anyway to prove a point about humans.
Steven Jones after reading what you wrote, now I think both of theme are the chosen one, However, more Guts because he is the person who will fight Griffith and he is the main character. Also, I’m so sure the writer will never say Guts is a chosen one at all because that will ruin the concept of free will and nothing is stone written.
@@skullknight1465 Guts will not fight Griffith, he has no way to win that fight. Griffith doesn't even consider him remotely a threat which is why he lets him run around the way he does, not only that he would be dealing with 4 other godhand at the ready as well. The author said the story is coming to a close and it won't have a bad ending so I'm pretty sure he does not fight Griffith.
@@stevenjones7823 Casca never had magical powers,the demon baby had and whenever Casca was at danger he would step in to protect her,that is until during the Rebirth Ceremony it stretched it self out too thin and fell tired for long enough for the Egg of the New World Apostle to show up and absorb him in pity.
@@justbny9278 came from her body which means it was her powers. Griffith already fused with the baby so that doesn't make sense.
Man Bloodbournes soundtrack works really well in this vid.
Chitch's arc was to make us cry...
It worked
I think the thing with Guts is that there are lots of things about him that might make you think he's a chosen one, but the manga has never and probably will never explicitly confirm it. Does "luck" or even "being unlucky" really exist when elements like causality are real? It's hard to say. I personally dislike the idea that Guts is literally a chosen one, but I am fine with the idea that his birth set him up for his life. That's pretty much what Skull Knight says to him; it could simply be that SK took one look at Guts and was like "hmm I bet that guy was born on the cusp of life and death. Better keep an eye on him, since he's going to be interacting with the God Hand soon along with the other Schmucks of the Hawk." As in, SK could just see it in Guts' eyes or what have you rather than knowing all along that Guts was that way because he'd caused those events. My thinking is that SK would have taken a more active role in Guts' life to make sure he fulfilled his role had he been the one to set the events in motion but as we see he only starts getting involved near the Eclipse itself (which is when I think SK truly "noticed" Guts as someone with the potential to defy causality, hence why SK saves him and Casca during the Eclipse).
I can't think of another explanation for everything you just laid out.
I just wanna mention, the mother who asked Mosgus for help was not killed during her torture. She is showed with bandaged up arms possibly losing a couple of fingers. her baby dies of starvation and she lost a couple of fingers.
Couldn't Guts seeing Chic be explained by him being the kind of guy who'd be open to anything that'd give him an edge in combat? He regularly takes the supernatural in stride, it doesn't ever phase him really, aside from the eclipse obviously but who wouldn't be unnerved by that. So while he isn't actively believing in, say flower spirits, he isn't actively believing they don't exist either, maybe he can see spirits when they want to interact with him because of that.
6ix9ine #snitchgang that would ruin a lot of what makes guts a good character and berserk as a whole imo
One thing I noticed is that many of the corpses share a similarity in that they have what appears to have been large red cloaks which Gut's mother also has on during her hanging and the ones that don't share this feature may have had one in the past but they were stolen or otherwise deteriorated with time as seen on some of the cloaks
I don't know if these red cloaks have any significance, but I have never seen anyone else talk about it so it might be worth some investigation
never mind he saw what I did
The spring flowers of distant days genuinely made me feel bad for chitch
I always figured his real father is Zodd. The hair and the insane strength back up that theory.
No, it's not inhuman. It's inhuman to us cause we are modern humans, you've got to go study how older folks bodies were. There are old people that can bend metal with their bare hands till this day. Older ages humans muscles density was so tough that if we had it today we would die from the weight. It would crack our rib cages, past humans were born into war so their bodies adapted for the cause. Ever notice like in ghettos or prisons people get really big and buff easily vs common city people? It's cause their bodies are adapting to their environment. They have way less stuff than those city people for it to work but it still does, like Ice Cube said "Still getting swole off bread and water." it's a weird truth to it. Guts is normal, he grew up a mercenary training with a greatsword since he was a child, that is definitely humane. Zodd was a giant so his strength came naturally plus war it just made him a monster even before he was an apostle.
@@stevenjones7823 bro what the fuck are you on about, the average longsword used by knights was like 2-3 pounds, 5 max, the dragonslayer is 400. Guts has inhumane strength, its not that hard to believe
Hanged when referring to people, hung when referring to objects. Examples: “She hung the laundry out to dry”, and “he was hanged from the neck until dead”. The only time when hung is used for a person, is when someone is “Hung like a horse”.
But Flora told farneze something along the lines of: "don't worry, you hunt never got/hurt any of us" so that could mean that the Vatican didn't kill any witch tho. Besides that, other theory could say that maybe guts was mentally pure/good, and that allowed him see chich. (Guts it's actually a pretty nice person tho, you can see him cry after the little girl he told to kill herself cursed him, which means that he really didn't wanted to tell her that. That, besides a lot of other stuff that you guys know.)
That is an interesting theory, but I feel it would ruin the entire tone of the series once you know it
the Theory is sound, even though it requires us to believe that Gut's mother would take such a poorly calculated risk against the ridiculous odds of baby Guts not surviving. Unless...Magic was involved.
It makes sense to believe that If Guts mother was indeed a mage that she and her companions would prepare to protect her child supernaturally from a spiritual dimension. This supports the idea of why Guts so often escapes death. He has at least one guardian angel.
Haven't seen this one, where did you read it? Also, I never thought of things like that, really good analysis and questions.
Tbh, boofire usually makes his own ones
The most disturbing part I saw now was how tiny his mom is. She must have been very young.
Outstanding theory! Still waiting for you post-mortem Berserk wrap up video.
There has to be some way to logically explain his sometimes beastial nature, insane physical abilities, and ability to see magical creatures, without turning it into some chosen one bullshit that spits in the face of his whole "lowly human struggling against fate" story. Like, some way to make the power he holds entirely his own, not given to him by some force of fate, but something he gained as his earliest tool of defying fate, or perhaps something his mother gave him just by accident. I think his mother being a witch, and exposing her son to magic and the astral realm, leaving his soul in somewhat of a limbo actually makes a lot of sense. I don't think it was done on purpose as some sort of chosen one ritual, however. Instead I think it was just as human an experience as everything else that ever happened to him. His mother was just some random, unknown, small time witch or pagan that happened to have a child, maybe the father will become important at some point or maybe not, but lets assume he's equally as irrelevant as his mother, possibly they were even both killed together. But being pregnant while also being a magic user just happened to expose Guts to astral forces and when she died it left a slight hole in his spiritual walls, leaving his soul partially and permanently attached to the astral plane. It didn't leave him with super OP magic powers or anything like that. It just allowed him partial access to the first step of magic, harnessing small bits of energy from the astral plane. But this was something that was second nature to him, he didn't even realise he did it, or even feel it happening, it just happened, as naturally as his heart beating. It essentially just boosted his growth and physical capabilities to be quicker developed than average, and pushed his bodies limits further how so he'd have the capacity to be much stronger and more physically fit than others, but he'd have to work ten times harder to reach those higher limits. That, and similar to how emotion plays a role in magic, when Guts gets extremely emotional, while he cant actually do magic, the increase in astral energy he collects can give him slight temporary boosts to his abilities, as well as make him appear almost as if he's taking on a more beastial appearance. Which is why sometimes getting super pissed off gives him an edge in those tough battles, not enough to come out unscathed, and certainly not enough to make it like turning on easy mode, but just enough to get him out of a tight situation in case of true emergency. Its basically just enough of a boost to his natural human resilience to get him out of the closest of calls alive. That's my idea on how his features could be explained with a similar theory, whilst keeping his struggler identity in tact.
@BOOFIRE191 An explanation as to why the Skull Knight could actually tell of Guts's origins is because of the very way in which he was born. Being born from a corpse/dying person, granted Guts an "aura" ,so to speak, that was different from everyone else. This would depict his uncanny abilities and strengths being on par with astral beings as he himself can be seen of slight astral origin, the only question derived from this is when and where did Skull Knight truly first encounter Guts which lead him to sense this "aura" or presence which guides him. Another explanation as to why Guts can see astral beings before his encounter with Zodd, of which was witnessed by others and can thus be confirmed, is this very other-worldly presence/aura that follows him; aside from that, even if Guts never believed in the existence of such beings, it was never implied of how open to the existence of such things Guts himself actually was. He could be seen as a blank slate of which anything can be written with the tools I.E. experiences and encounters, all of which writing, molding and shaping Guts as a person.
nice Theroy with a weak point: the Skull Knight! He has only one goal and has pursued this singular goal since his creation - the destruction of all demons, especially the God Hand. It is rather unlikely that he cooperates with several characters, contrary to his nature, and leaves the destruction of his enemies to someone else. Guts is an anomaly for Skull Knight and partly also a reincarnation of his former life, so he always seeks its presence.
I just recently found these videos. As a long time fan of Berserk, I really appreciate what you've made for the series. I didn't even realize how much I hated giant swords in anime until you me mentioned it 😂
I disagree on you interpretation on why Guts can see chich.
The reason why most can't see elves is because the holy see suppresses people's beliefs, Guts is not a member of the church and grew up largely ignorant of church doctrine.
I think the same as you. Guts being part of a bigger plan orchestrated by others removes a big chunk of who Guts portrayed. The person who got the world against him and had to fight for everything.
He got Casca and the companions, but he earned everyone there.
As the man that had to earn everything, him being given prior to his birth a "destiny" will shatter the idea of who he is.
Great theory though
This theory is Golden. So much so, I may suspect u of being the author Kentaro himself.
That explanation is incredibly feasible, reasonable and believable.
Who knows, maybe he watches these videos for ideas on how to finish the story.
Just subscribed.
The hanged corpses all have the same coloured robes, its just aerial perspective making it look a different colour.
And also the whole scene is intentionally dichromatic as Gambino and his troupe are also red, the colours don't really allude to anything narrative wise really.
The holy see idea could hold some weight though as they are all dressed the same.
i think its a good theory actually, but only because that would make guts trapped by yet another 'idea' of destiny, one made by attempting to oppose causality, while trying to escpae, they themselves trapping guts in their own plan of a 'chosen one'. He merely being a pawn in their game.
interesting! I like the the Theroy. Skull Knight knowing about the circumstances around Guts Birth is truly an indicator.
Idk if it matters that much who guts mom was, I think guts is suppose to represent a nobody, a person with no direction which is why griffiths words cut him so deep.
Queef Beast also makes him and Griffith the antithesis of one another as causilality chose griffith
@@jimmycoon3320 Exactly ! I Feel Like Guts Was "That Nobody"
In the 1990s anime the opening shows the hanging tree with holy C ideals in that scene, and Mirua did help on that adaptation, so I think that when he was making that scene for the anime he added in that symbol because he hadn’t thought of it when he drew that chapter at the beginning
muira kinda looks like filthy frank lol
R.I.P
i mean both muira and frank are both likable and they both died in years later..
Actually, being surrounded by the prospect of death makes a person MORE likely to believe in the supernatural. Belief in the after life, in war gods, in glorious deaths being rewarded, etc; all these things help humans better cope with the fact that they are most likely gonna die in a battle. Of course, there are no signs that Guts himself believe this, let alone in the existence of things like flower spirits.
What about the beginning of humanity? You think people just kill other people and then are like yeah. They went somewhere else that we cant see. spirtualism sprouting from coping death doesnt sound very logic especially from a scientific stand point. By this logic you could also say in the fear of judgment people deny a spirtual judgment thus you would have athesim. Sounds like faulty logic. You can find many last words of soldiers in logs that died in war. Most people just say tell my family I love them or frantically grasp onto life before inevitably dying. Yes some do pray but also most people in past wars have been relgious people. Atheism is old but not as old as religion as well not as popular. That's why the statistic a pretty faulty. It's like having a controlled experiment on crusaders and before they die they pray. Well yeah of course statistically they're are more accepting a upper being most were born into that life style.
springflowers 3 chapter arc is where i send ppl when they ask me if berserk is good or what berserk is about!
to me its one of the best parts in berserk.
ps.the reason gutts was able to see the flower fairy was simply cause he was close to death.if the fairy hadnt helped him he would be dead(those are my 2 cents at least cause i also h8 the idea of gutts the chosen one!)
Perhaps because guts has seen magical things before the eclipse he didn’t get so traumatized by it like casca idk maybe
Remember the sacrifice tree at the beginning of the conviction arc? Maybe this was one of said trees.
I think Guts’s coffin birth is meant to be the diametric opposite of those born into the nobility as well as opposite of Griffith, who was born as the chosen one of the God Hand. Guts seems more like a rejection of the chosen one archetype seen in much of fantasy.
The vision is the black bird killing the white hawk and it’s strange that he is untouched by the crows which the tree is riddled with.
The dark souls music fits perfectly. Miyazaki's work works with his inspiration.
The fire link shrine music hits correct w this
It's the hunter's dream ost from bloodborne
Griffith did nothing wrong
Last I checked it's reasonable to assume the main protagonist is always the chosen one because the author chose to tell their story. Also as it has been presented in the past being a chosen could be either completing trials anyone else with luck could do or simply doing what no one else could it doesn't really detract from who the character is unless all they are is only tied with their "prophecy".
This theory just fucked with my mind a ton because I 100% don't believe that Chik (or Chic) was a mistake. It had to be in the manga for a reason.
It wouldn't be surprising if the Skull Knight was the one responsible for Guts' mother being killed... because ever since his introduction in the Manga, I knew to my very core that he was UP TO SOMETHING. Whatever that something is, he clearly NEEDED Guts as an ally of sorts in their battle against the Apostles, including the God Hand. Would be shocked if he didn't had ANY other ulterior motives...
Thats what I thought.
Doesnt make sense that He would be the only pure good guy in the Story. I mean just look at him.
I think Sk initiated her death, for some kind of ritual. Seeing glimpses of who Guts is going to become. I also think at some point they are going to fight. Maybe SK wanted to get rid of the god hand, just to take their place in the first place? However, Guts will definitly go beserk, when he finds out, that he has been used all along.
@@prettyboyg1278 It would make perfect sense if that was his intention, to have Guts become his instrument of destruction and using his own berserk rage as a way to unlock his greater power. No one is "good" in the world Miura-san had created... even Guts himself is far from being the "hero" of his tale.
Maybe people close to death can see spirits, since they are closer to entering the Astral World. He couldn't see before and after because he was healthy.
Is it just me, or does time for a person to turn to bone after being hung and a newborn baby to still be alive are way too apart...
Bloodborne music in a Berserk video, it appears the spirit of Birginworth lives on within you
So I think guts is like link from Zelda honestly maybe skull knight is guts from either a different time or a reincarnation of him. That's why he always ends up in the berserker armour, it would make sense that a guts from 600 years ago would know how his life would go and pan out. So he always ends up saving himself and casa to only throw his present self to the wolves to see if he's strong enough to take on Griffith. If he wasn't then he would take the place of his current self as skull knight, through letting himself be consumed by the armor and letting himself be reborn until he found one tough enough to take on the God hand. Or it's his son in the armor and he's trying to stop what has already happened.
I am quite confused about only people who believe in the existence of magical being could see an elf. Because in the first chapter of Berserk, when Guts entered a bar there were some underlings of Snake Baron who tortures Puck, and there were also many people watching the scene. Is it because they were already know about apostle or what?
My theory is that Guts is a descendant of a child that Zodd made before becoming an apostle. If Guts was Zodd's son, that would make the whole "i'm human, the real deal" rants he often makes lose meaning, and my whole theory would explain why there's a physical similarity between the two without taking away the humanity of Guts and how he survives by sheer willpower instead of a supernatural power.
Whats the music youre playing in the background? Is it the firelink shrine theme from dark souls 1 or 3
What if this turns out to be another Naruto-Obito kind of deal?
Like, the Obito prequel in Naruto foreshadowed Tobi’s true identity.
And now, we have the prequel-side story in Berserk... maybe there’s something to this theory.
Idk if it’s magic or even if it allows some to peer back in time, but during Griffiths eclipse Ubik showed him a vision of his past. That might be something idk though.
It doesn't make much sense for Guts not to be a chosen one of sorts considering all the things we've seen him do and survive that a normal human being even in the world Berserk just can't do
I think the mark of a great fan theory is one the creator doesn’t want to come true
Skull knight "oh shit i forgot to go get the kid"
Maybe he could see the flower spirit just because was sick/weakened. After recovering, in fact, he was not able to see her again.
falconia is deffo the next sacrifice
This reminds me of Harry Potter. Harry’s mother uses her death to create an incredibly powerful magical barrier that protects her only son. There may end up being a similar magical incantation that requires a parent to sacrifice themselves to create a powerful barrier and a connection to the astral world in Berserk. It seems that magic in Berserk’s world may require either a prayer to an powerful magical entity or require one to sacrifice time for a lengthy phrase to trigger magical effects.