Berserk Analysis - The Meaning Behind Berserks Shortest Arc
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- In this Berserk analysis, I will be analysing: Spring Flower of Distant Days. Spring Flower of Distant Days is only 3 chapters long but it manages to showcase Berserk's important themes and values in a very subtle way. It is another example in the Berserk manga where Kentaro Miura showcased his clever writing style.
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Mistrust
5:08 - Indifference to Living
6:55 - Part 2
8:08 - Chitch's Role
11:40 - Guts and Chitch Parallels
16:17 - Part 3
24:19 - Final Thoughts 
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When looking at his core, Guts is a really innocent character.
I don't know if innocent is the correct word. He definitely did terrible things. But he always regretted and never repeated any of these. He's a good man. Who always choses the hard way over the high way because the high way is paved with innocent people blood.
@@yusukeelric Yeah but that isn't his core, someone's core is the thing('s) they want above all else and for Guts that's a place where he belongs with people that care about him.
Down to the marrow of his bones he is a human. And a hero
Well because he is the hero of story
Idk about that, what does it mean to be innocent at the core of it?
Chicchi's innocence and death broke my heart. It just reminds me of the problem of having too much empathy leaves none for you're self. Her kindness is truly a rarity and it's shows a more innocent side of Guts.
Imagine: after all is done the last panel of Berserk is of a slightly broken but blooming flower in a beautiful field.
we can only wish now :(
@@nammar6435 gonna make me cry...im still not over it
Yup
Oh that would've been perfect
Not quite correct, but the last panel still managed to be touching
I WAS CRYING OVER CHITCH SHE WAS SOOOOO ADORABLE DAMN
thats why he had puck around
@@animeuniverse5586 thats why he did not want puck to follow him in the beginning
I cried too, so sad that she died :(
@@mojojojo7163 damn. 😭
This Arc is important, because while lost children marks the end of Pilot Guts, or Black Swordman guts.
This arc marks the end of solitary guts. He would never be alone again. He learned by this point he needs others. This is a way to tell the reader , that guts longed for this.He just couldn't trust people. Because everyone used him.
When I read this arc. I couldnt help thinking to myself how beautiful Guts is as a person.
I think this chapters also showed that Guts have quite a strong bond with spirits. This is pretty much showed a proto relationship between Guts & Puck. She also could represent the semblance of "Idea of good," that pure innocent kindness in which possibly reside within ourselves regardless.
Interesting note that the flower is actual IRL Shepherd's Purse flower that actually could treat hemorrhage & could also be a medicinal food like "warm" porridge.
Thank you for that factoid. That's fantastic.
Nice one!
Someone claimed miura said he wanted to show why guts hated fairies like puck and said he felt like he wanted to crush them for being weak. I don't know if he literally said that, but regardless it's a good explanation for his treatment of puck at first - he wants to alienate the weak and innocent in the black swordsman arc because of that pure fear of connection. Obviously guts has many cases of this - it goes back to his childhood - but showing it so elegantly with a magical mini arc was brilliant
Damn berserk is just too good man. I wish i could explain and understand every single detail in guts’s character but its so deep and complex. only your feelings can understand it without being able to explain it
How could anyone dismiss this as filler? It's such a beautiful story that gives us more character and another look at the more enchanting elements of the world. And Chitch is the cutest little thing, always speaking in third-person, her design, and being happy to heal others despite the fact that it weakens her and ends up being her death
Because It Is a filler..... With or without this 3 episodes nothing change in Berserk
@@fabioranieri2625 nothing changed? how wrong that statement is
@@Dr.HooWho please explain to me what this filler changed
@@fabioranieri2625 We get to know more about Gut's past??
We got 11 volumes of Guts pass ... With this 3 episodes or without nothing change in Berserk....
Since Miura's death I've been unable to keep this Arc out of my head. In a way he now shares Chitch's tragedy, and we share what he gave us.
This is just awful news. Absolutely awful. The Berserk readership obviously had an idea Miura may not survive his work given his lifestyle and release rate, but we weren't thinking 54, we were thinking mid-60's, a full life for someone with Miura's habits.
I feel for his family and colleagues, they lost a wonderful and gifted man with a beautiful mind.
What was wrong with his lifestyle?
@@fettsackmitbandana4632 I don't think he got quite enough sleep. But that's not why he died; it was an acute aortic dissection
Just another reason I love Berserk. Whether or not Muira did this on purpose, the psychology behind Guts' psychological development is surprisingly in line with what we currently know in psychology (albeit very loosely but still shows how much thought was put into his character and speaks to how good of a writer Muira is).
Going beyond Guts' willful distancing from others physically and emotionally as a result of his abuse, I actually think Shisu's mothering of Guts' is actually one of the most impactful relationships of his life , that made Guts who is even though that portion of his life is presented as very minor, brief, and probably the least detailed of the series considering the truth of the impact. It's very well that without Shisu he would have been left for dead, but something that's really interesting to me is that despite everything he's been through, Guts still has the capacity to give and receive love even though it's very difficult for him. Reason why I think Shisu really deserves so much more credit for who he is than what's given to her because her role goes much deeper than her act of mothering.
In a person's development from birth to adulthood our first three years of life are the most important to who we are at our very base. It's by the age of three that we have established our bonds and attachments to our caregivers. The way our caregiver treats us in those years and the type of psychological attachments we learn in that time stay with us for the rest of our lives and set the tone for how we bond and attach to others for the rest of our lives. In developmental psychology there are different kinds of attachments that can be healthy (stable attachment), but depending on the caregiver, not all of us can be so lucky. For example, if a caregiver is unpredictable in their reliability to respond, the child will form an anxious-ambivalent attachment where the child feels little security if the caregiver is present and even less when they are not. The child is less likely to explore new situations and be wary of others and this will very likely be their future approach when building relationships if intervention doesn't occur (important to note here, I'm oversimplifying attachment theory but this is the basic gist).
But what happens to children when they have almost no consistent caregiver or to children who experience extensive abuse in these important first three years? Children who fail to develop any meaningful or significant attachments in this time are commonly in abusive homes or they can at times result from being moved from caregiver to caregiver when in the foster care system to have spent enough time with a single caregiver. In either case, these children can develop what is called Reactive Attachment Disorder (aka RAD), the most severe and least treatable of disordered attachments. These children are incredibly hard to care for and tend to be a danger to themselves and others (not always, but typically). They have a high likelihood of having Conduct Disorder among other things which, also if untreated, can evolve into psychopathy or sociopathy (there is a lot of nuance to this however, but I won't get into that here but it's basics are illustrated well in the "wire mother" experiment if you're curious). Going further than that, if a child is "raised" with little to no physical human contact beyond what's necessary to be alive, the child develops no speech, no social skills, or pretty much anything which results in what people call a "feral child". So, what about Guts? He is neither feral nor does he display characteristics of RAD. Taking the whole of his childhood into account he was at high risk for RAD, imo. That's not to say that children with RAD are inherently dangerous, or can't love or want the love of others, but again, taking into account his past it would have been likely he would have had an extreme case, yet he doesn't. Why?
Even though his time with Shisu was short, she was with him until the important age of three, when his attachments have been established. Most likely he had an, at least by Berserk's world standards, a relatively stable and loving attachment to Shisu. Assuming this to be true, without her, he probably wouldn't have had the ability to form functional relationships at all or have trust for others as he does with characters like Casca, Chitch, etc. Obviously he's still very unstable in many ways, has abusive tendencies, and likely still has a type of attachment disorder among other things (like, really really). I'd be really curious to know what his years with her were like. We know little about her other than she was the only one who took Guts in to compensate for a loss of her own, and that she was mentally unwell in her own ways, but Guts still manages to learn to thrive with others despite everything.
How strong was his connection to her really? Does he remember very much about her? Gambino takes up a lot of room in Guts' head as we see from flashbacks where we see little of Shisu at all which would lead to the impression of Gambino, an abuser had a bigger impact on his life. He could also have a dissociative disorder where there are gaps in his memory, or he was simply too young to remember much about her, but either way an attachment was established. We also tend to remember negative events more easily than positive ones. While, Gambino and other interpersonal influences might appear to have had a bigger impact on his development because of their physical presence versus his short time with Shisu, I think it's really the attachment with Shisu that really deserves credit for his resilience and strong instinct to survive struggle after struggle, to subvert what others claim his destiny to be. A lot of fans of the series relate his trauma being what makes him strong, his ability to survive through anything and it's true to an extent since we are shaped by our experiences. But I think the "what doesn't kill you makes you stranger," mentality that's often applied to Guts and other characters of the series is rather misguided. Without Shisu, however insignificant she may seem in the narrative, that foundation never would have been built. Guts could have turned out very differently without her.
Considering all of this, and how little is said about her could also have a lot of meaning about her character and the role of mothering/parenting (or Muira actually does consider her more of a footnote). She's so understated in the grand scheme of the narrative that it actually shrouds her in a kind of mystery and the idea of what makes family family not just in the world of Berserk, but also in general. Guts also illustrates how trauma and abuse never really goes away. He falls into periods of distrust and isolation still, then relearns and re-adopts his relationships again still living out the cycle of abuse. He craves connection, while simultaneously fearful of it. I could go one and on, but I've over explained enough. Congratulations on making it to the end! How many years did it take?
Wow a great comment i never thought about shisu having a strong impression on guts since he was so small but this comment made think that shisu is actually 1 person he meets in his life and first to show him love and affection just like a mother.
The fact that guts stood fiercely by her side as she was dying of plague/being treated even when they told him to leave her he wouldn't.. this to me implicitly established not only guts heart &loyalty but his innate loving caring nature.. this also quite clearly shows Shisu had a major impact on his development &was very nurturing towards him.. which ironically put him at a disadvantage over and over again in his youth.. as her kind nature instilled in him left him soft hearted &succeptible to naivety &elthe exploitative ways of ppl like Gambino (who he still showed loyalty to regardless)
I loved every bit of this comment. Thank you for taking time to write all of this
Well, it's nice to see someone give her credit.
Because of how little we saw of her, I didn't think much of her role (in the anime, we don't even see her face!)
But you made me realize just how important she must've been. Such a shame we don't get any flashbacks with her after she dies. Hopefully, Guts can remember something to help him on his journey
I cried like a baby at this chapter
Eu tb kaka
Cried right now watching the video...damn.
Chicchi is my favorite character aside from guts, thanks for doing a video about this chapter🙏
Who ever said that this arc is filler is a heartless monster
I think it plays into the overall narrative. With the latest chapter, maybe it is gonna come down to his decision to kill the moonlight child or let him live and this arc shows how he deeply cares about children and wishes that someone had done the same for some when he was a kid.
Alright you missed the biggest oof of all. It’s said Elf’s are descended from wind spirits in the manga. Chitch blew the wind in her dying flower elf form to make Guts reach out and save himself. Chitch saved Guts with the last she had 😭😭😭
Guts is probably the best example of a human ever depicted in history. So deep yet relatable that he will last for decades to come. Thank you muira 🙏
My favorite arc it really came out of nowhere in the chaos and had that nostalgic charm of the golden age arc really beautiful stuff
As a HEMA practitioner myself, seeing legitimate Mordtschlag and Stretto holds in these chapters made me so happy!
The most lighthearted chapter of this manga.
Honestly though. This could potentially be a good way to trick people into getting interested in Berserk.
"Those who blindly follow others out here just get chewed up, spat out, and killed"
That turned out to be...quite literal. I wonder if this was intended as foreshadowing
RUclips suggested this video in my feed. This opened up a deep wound in my heart and now I'm crying broken. This chapter back when I first read it broke me. Thank you Kentaro Miura-sensei for teaching us keep going no matter how shitty the world can get. Rest In Peace
Thanks to Chichi , we get to glance over Guts tender soul. Her innocence & her desire to feel connected to somebody will forever touch my heart. It just sucks that she died Living most of her life in emptiness & loneliness. Reminds me a poem by 2 pac : The Rose that grew from concrete.
I swear i cant be the only person that noticed that 95% of the music through this video is Guts’ theme
The ending definitely hits different now
Amazing video! I'm re reading Berserk again and i can't wait to get to this chapter. Not many people remember this arc let alone even talk about it. i remember the first time i read it, i had to put it down because I was just BAWLING my eyes out. This has always been a hit in the feels but in a beautiful way. And the way you put it into words so eloquently and with the music, it honestly brought out a few more tears from this hard as nails metalhead. You just earned yourself a sub. I look forward to seeing more videos from you. I'll definitely share this with some of the groups I'm in because this needs to be seen. Thank you and well done sire!
Im in need of that piano piece in the end, but other than that, i really enjoyed this arc, it caught me off guard i was dealing with betrayal around these chapters so it pissed me off to see guts used by that soldier but when the flower spirt arrived i completely forgot about my anger and really enjoyed the innocence and vulnerability both displayed, man i cried when she died, i wanted so bad for guts to save her or at the very least her spirit show thanks, but there wasnt anything like that. Just a quiet field. It Made me feel empty but also in a way seeing guts still take the flower to the field felt thankful. Man... berserk is my favorite piece of art ever. Im so thankful to Miura for sharing his wonderful story with us all. Hope hes in a better place.
Bach-prelude in c major
I know thatthe more i am betrayed in life the more i long to see what genuunly nice people are like. Im sure id be willing to do alot for such a person if they ever existed.
That theme song lives in my head rent free forever.
This arc pierced my heart.
This arc made me cry
Great analysis, can't wait for your channel to blow up
One of my favorite parts of the entire story
Finally someone covered it
only discovered your channel after the sad passing of the author and this was really one of my favorites you have made. Hope you continue to make more videos in the future that are well thought out, spoken gracefully.
Griffith's defining trait is his willingness to sacrifice others for his own gain. Guts, however, is shown time and again to be defined by his capacity for self-sacrifice, putting himself through hell time and again to protect or avenge those close to him. Guts, though he's done unquestionably horrible things, he's a deeply selfless person at heart. He can't function properly on his own. It's not enough just to struggle. He needs someone to struggle for. More than salving his wounds and keeping him alive through the night, Chitch gave him that: a reason to keep going at a time when he needed it most.
Man the narration followed by the background melody hits you in the mf feels man. Berserk is a masterpiece of a Manga.
Really loved this video. It made me appreciate one of my favorite parts of the manga even more. I look forward to any future videos.
You are the next big face of Berserk, I believe in you.
Yankee with no brim
i think your theory of this as a dream of guts after his fight with sea god is very understandable and true. Because in that fight, he understand the importance of group and they give him a meaning in life. They themselves are reason for guts to live his life with some meaning. He understand how he neglect his always desire to find a place where people live who care him and he also care them. His desire is to find a place to belong to. That's why why he understand that he neglect his real emotions of empathy, care and love for others. He forget that he has reason to live. He is not with reason which is succumbed by his primal instinct to survive or his every dark desires which born from his desire of brutality and destruction and the feeling of ecstasy he gets from it is the only way to feel pleasure from him in this brutal world. This desire born from his only comfort i.e his sword which always help him and is the only true friend he has. he also understand that he can't truly win against his inner beast of darkness because it is his own emotions. And he actually believe in it. He loves his sword and his fighting spirit. He has find a meaning to use his fury or rage and his brutality to construct a meaningful result for his loved ones and unwanted stuff which stops them like their fear and hopelessness as well as their effort to run from their destiny and their strength but actually fight against it and find their true strength. This flashback represent his newfound relation with himself in the end of sea god arc.
Beautiful video!! I loved all the parallels you drew, and your editing was absolutely on point 👌 wonderful work~
But couldn’t this also mirror Gambino sending his line to be slaughtered for his own gain? Guts tells her he’ll take her somewhere where she won’t be alone (giving her incentive to heal him more) to the point where it benefitted him and sacrificed her?
I still believe this is a beautiful chapter with the pure intention of Guts just wanting to break that cycle and band with someone also forgotten and alone, I can’t help but see that unfortunately even if Guts didn’t do it on purpose, she did die for his survival...
I think the scene where he picks up the flower thats flying away shows that Guts, while believing acting in "childish" ways is not good for him, still doesn't want to give up on these purer beliefs.
I hope the finale of Berserk, somehow includes Chitch helping Guts out without him knowing, in the end. His kindness to her would finally be repaid. 😢
Wow I really love how you portrayed the end of this arc in the field with the music, nice touch. Poor Chitch😭
Very happy to see this short arc get some love. Amazing video
By far my favorite arc, actually so beautiful it really surpised me bcuz we were in the middle of the main plot
Just found your channel and binged most of it. Fantastic content man.
I just want to say that I really enjoy your slow delivery, it makes the video much more easy to absorb for someone like me and I really appreciate that. I teared up several times watching this, such a well done video..!
Wow, really awesome perspective you really put into worda what that chapter felt like, really good analysis
Nice video, keep up the good work.
Thank you very much for this encapsulation of the arc I feel was sort of like a final message to the readers from the author Kentaro Miura. It was such an extremely beautiful story which invokes powerful emotions this video conveys that perfectly
Your videos are amazing!! More please 🥺
Ahhhh, this was the one chapter I couldn't finish because it was impossible to find complete, thank you for uploading this!
I am crying at work right now listening to this 🥺 since I started reading Berserk it has invaded all of my thoughts, even in my dreams. Literally, I've had dreams with berserk themes, symbols, characters, and music the last few nights. It's just such a good damn story. Guts deep down is just a sweet little baby boy 🥺😢😭 I love him so much.
I am alive today because this story, and I may be doomed still but it has taught me to face the possible end and to have witnessed this sublime story has freed my soul from absolutes and fate.
Everyday my life has meaning and I thank kentaro for letting me sit next to the bond fire that is berserk the flame burns on.
Chitch 💔💔💔💔💔 felt like early berserk so much. Brutal.
Ah this arc. Absolutely love this one exactly. The best one in berserk
I love this arc it is so short yet it is so good
9:17
I just realized the Irony of this scene. In the 1st arc if the story, Guts is saved by puck getting the Cell keys and healing his wounds, yet guys rejects Puck and show's some inner regret for it. Guys then uses the keys Puck left to escape, and set up his trap for the Snake Apostole.
Yet in his Youth, he accepts the spirits kindness, and is grateful for it, even going so far as to protect it.
One of my favourite arcs ❤️
I legit cried seeing chihts flower die i havent cried in years and never rarely cry for things like this but dahm this was bueatiful
Can't believe I cried at a flower that I met like 3 pages ago, at 2am
Beautiful
Man i wanted to cry at the end
This is the second time I come back to this video
Top quality stuff
:( We're all children like Chitch. This is also a lesson here.
beautiful
I think for this story too because I’m the beginning of the series it was people seeking him out to be a new member of the group for someone else’s dream. Now it is guts’ turn to seeking out people who believes in his dream.
That is what gives guts the willpower to keep fighting and overcome fears. There maybe some failures along the way but nothing could beat rage (beginning guts), and greed (currently griffin). Guts as many times he fights will gets what he wants and will indeed locked in his happy endgame. It is not for griffin to realized to stop his greed or have the mindset what he has done is wrong and not accepting what he is has is good. I just know karma will come after him like hound once the moonlight boy finally boots Griffin out of the vessel and his spirit dies to Guts’ sword. Then having the greatest Guts speeches ever to tell griffin to pass on.
I just read volumes 1-40 over the past few weeks. This arc was such a standout towards the end.
Man i knew chich was going to die since she was never mentioned in future arcs, but i still felt sad man, had to walk around in my imagination a bit to ease my mind.
spring flower of distant days is definitely one of my top 3 berserk arcs, it is a short story and i get why it’s not as liked as others but it seriously is just a great read even after “finishing” the recent chapters of berserk
An object protected Griffith from an arrow and everyone saw it.
A living thing sacrificed itself for another to protect from an arrow and no one saw it.
Both causalities
That was really good.
Chitch made me cry
If people regard this as filler then lost children is filler.......
27:29 fading like a flower...
Rip chitch
Just like Chitch can feed off the sun, even giving it a childlike name, Poppo, Guts' inner child is able to feed off light energy. He is not being altruistic, it's just that doing good things for others feeds his spirit. Even the beast of darkness is well harnessed in his rage against the demonkind. However hard it is for Guts to hone his energy and cut precisely between good and bad, he retains the ability to love tenderly.
Ah man... now I can't watch Berserk videos without being sad... ahhh que droga!
Who's chopping onions in here?
Miura really be like, imma bout to drop the saddest story you mf's ever heard
Rip Mirua
Yup
what program are you using for editing???
The last meaningful thing Miura did for Guts character growth
3:49 Griffith reference
nice catch
Never saw this one
Just hearing the name "Chitch" makes me really sad
chitch is chitch
What song is the outro
I can't handle this stuff man...
What's the song at the end?
Nvm got it, The Well Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-869: No. 1 Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by Svetlana Karas
@@lukewolfram7756 Thank you so much I was looking for the name
2 people think griffith did nothing wrong
I WANT A DAUGHTER LIKE HER
Your pronounceiation is somehow irritating. Why all the short breaks within a sentence?
Probably not his native language, and talks slow to pronounce things correctly.
@@klar7566 might be a reason, but I doubt that.
Yup