Pop-Culture Weapons Analysed: Guts from Berserk
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2019
- In this episode of Pop-Culture Weapons Analysed I take a look at Guts' armor from the anime Berserk, specifically his golden age armor, his black swordsman armor and his berserker Armor.
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Guts doesn't wear a codpiece because they don't make one big enough to protect his gargantuan balls.
How do you know how big his balls are?
How do you know he has big balls?
@@justsomepepperwithinternet2788 how do you not know?
@@justsomepepperwithinternet2788 how do you not know?
Given what we see him do, he doesn't need a codpiece because that dude is walking around with a pair iron cannonballs between his legs and enough big dick energy to repel attacks to the wing wong out of sheer awesomeness alone.
It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.
Didn't he joke about using it as a frying pan in the manga?
@@Atsuraelu very well possible but it's been so long I don't really remember
Never read that before
@TheHobbitMonster Talk about Ending them Rightly.
But enough about Guts' dick...
The title implies Guts is the weapon. Which is true, because his body is too big, too thick, too heavy, and too long. Its more like a slab of badass.
But his wife got raped...which cost his arm
Ah
CLANG
Hey OP, can you tell your brother to stop appearing everywhere?
Who are these legendary mustache-related men that appear in every comment section ever? Where did you come from? What do you want?
Considering Guts is a lifelong mercenary, maybe his armor is made from bits and pieces he manages to scrounge together throughout the years. Thus the missing parts, wrong size, etc.
Is make sense
Exactly what I was thinking! The "If it works it works mentality"!
Totally agree. Except I think that's shads point. Like hed have accumulated much more armour over the course of his life. Which then makes it unrealistic
@@mattpage4726 during the golden age guts is only around 16-17 the likelihood of him finding fitting armor is not likely. but then again looking for realism in a manga about a rage golem seeking to avenge his fallen comrades and repair his beloved potato is like looking for polite discourse in a youtube comment section.
@@michaelkelley88 fair point my lad!
Guts pinned down?
Dude the only thing that stopped him for any amount of time was the boat.
anything that can pin him in the berserker armor will not be using daggers.
Donovan also pinned him down.
: ^)
@@astillia6073 Yeah. And that didn't last as long as the boat.
Guts'll beat up the ocean if he had to for Casca,let's be honest here.
He was pretty pinned down when Griffith had fun with Casca.
Guts leaves his groin exposed as a way to spook his enemies. First you see his mighty sword swinging at you, then he hits you with his metal one xD
Underrated comment lmao
😂😂😂😂
You're goddamn right
"Weapons Analysed: Guts"
I guess you can consider him as a weapon.
he's a *whole* killing machine
I mean if you count unfiltered rage as a weapon, Guts is basically a walking nuclear arsenal.
His weight is probably close to a cannon ball
@@mrwindupbird101 The man survived the Eclipse with his bare hands. I'd say he qualifies as WMD.
He resists to die
Just like kratos
I love how giddy Shad gets when he gets to the Berserker armor, even he can’t deny its badassery
if someone can denythe Berserker armour's badassery i will be amazed
Berserk uses the "Monsters are monstrous" idea better than any other fantasy story I've read.
@Some Kind of Rodent actually, the violence that comes from Guts and Griffith is presented as artful, purposeful, just. The violence coming from normal humans is presented as horrible and pointless. And the one from monsters is presented as evil and monstrous.
"Rape Horse"
@Some Kind of Rodent Guts is like the embodiment of humanity in the story. He may be violent, but he's nothing short of relatable.
any thing
Okay... go to any prison and ask if there is a female guard and why there isn’t one.
All the monsters in Berserk were once people [well, the demons at least] and now apply the prisoner example to that mix, yes there are female demons, but not that many nor that many which can be considered beautiful outside of a few when they present illusions or change forms.
@@Samm815 some people are into that, stop judging, unless you are approving
“Goblin Slayer is next-level shit with actually monstrous monsters.”
me: *[laughs in Berserk]*
Goblin Slayer is what happens when you mix D&D with volumes 24-26 of Berserk.
The one thing I really don't like in the anime industry with fantasy is there blatant rip off of dnd. I'm still not over with the first 3 minutes of grimgar (and rest of the episode), that tramatized the shit out of me of how shit it was and the fact it take rpg elements way too literally. I couldn't watch any fantasy anime after that, it's impossible.
@@ulysses7157 that's kinda the point alot of isekai anime are written with that direction in mind as too why that is I'm sure I don't know maybe it's because of how popular the fantasy rpg culture is prominent in japan
@@lampad4549 and the point I'm trying to make is that this direction is something I hate. I don't like seeing it anymore and think it should die.
@@ulysses7157 I don't think I'd call them rip offs persay. considering that d'n'd got its material from the fantasy genre itself. I'd look at it more as a homage.
I see you have placed Guts in his proper category, as I clearly intended.
Arigato gozaimas miura sensei
It's really him! Kentucky Möria
STOP MAKING PEDO MANGA AND RESUME BERSERK!
Shits on hiatus yo
Nice
17:02 That would be a fair point but if there is one thing we have learned in berserk is that attacking Guts' mouth is not a good plan.
True fact (Rosine)
Luis Gregorio Padilla I remember how awesome it was to see her arrogant smile turn into sheer terror at Gut’s inhuman will to win.
arkinyte13 I love you you said inhuman, because that drive for survival is solely human
Jean Pierre Polnareff She called him a monster she was not used to seeing that kind of drive in a human before.
@@crowmagnon humans also lose their will to fight on and accept death
Guts is a very straightforward guy. Can't cut something with a regular-sized sword? Just get a bigger sword.
And a literal hand cannon. Can't forget about that.
And his sticky bombs
Don’t forget he can ignore physics!
@@pianologic9340 That's just manga physics on the whole.
I mean swords basically follow the same logic. The knife isn't enough? Let's have a bigger knife! A 90cm knife is still too short? Let's make it 120cm!
@@pianologic9340 he throws himself off his feet on the regular from his sword swings
The reason the helmet on the berserker armor is a bit inconsistent is that it's sort of semi-sentient and can open and close on it's own like a mouth, usually in response to how in control Guts is in a given moment.
the helmet is also a shapeshifter in general and offers more protection and less visibility depending on who's wearing it.
@@Yal_Rathol a shapeshifter? what
@@mr.angryman3599 it starts as a skull, turns into a full cover dog's head, then turns into a half cover open dog's head.
@@Yal_Rathol that doesn't mean the armor is sentient or a shapeshifter
It only changes depending on the wearer that's it. It was a skull before because of skull knight now it's dog because of guts.
Visibility isn't an issue.
@@mr.angryman3599 .....i didn't say any of that except for the shapeshifter bit, and if something possesses the ability to SHIFT between different SHAPES, say, it had the ability to jut spikes into the wearer or change the helmet to be more suited to the wearer's psyche, or grow a helmet up over the wearer's head, people would say that this ability to SHIFT its SHAPE would qualify it for being a, oh, what's the word, mmmm, something about a SHAPE-SHIFTING ability, there's a term for that, i think.....
*Game of thrones is really dark*
*Berserk:Hold my potato casket*
And Casca casket
rey sanchez books GoT is pretty much the same as berserk
@@janizuka1922 both has long hiatus haha
@@janizuka1922 ASOIAF is just GRRM writing fanfiction of Kentaro Miura's manga.
You guys want to ride horses?
Funny Thing: Both Griffith's Armour designs (Golden Age and Millenium Falcon) have pretty noticeable folds. And AFAICR, several other characters use them. I guess Guts just don't see the point in bending sideways when he can cleave people in half. 🤣
Upvote - it would have been nice to see a section of this video, or a future addendum, about Griffith's armor and the general equipment used in Berserk by everyone. Especially a part about the difference in armor used by the Kushan.
I think guts's armour leans more into kendo armor design
Guts' balls were Massive, Thick, Heavy, and far too Rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.
they need no armour
Dragonslayer is the perfect counterweight
Griffith cant compete
Faxx
40 pounds of brass balls
@@trollguy3339 NO ONE can compete
About the seeming lack of groin protection in Guts' Golden Age armor - you don't need a groin protection when you got a pair of cast iron balls that make a "CLANG!" sound when you walk like ol' Guts there does.
He is also mostly mounted during this era.
yes because japanese somehow don't get german 16th cent warfare that was dominated by infantry. for japanese worrior have to be like samurai on hors epredominantly.. @@AndrewTJ31
You'd still like to protect two big veins that go in that area.
@@patriciusvunkempen102 Who says they were supposed to be in Germany? It's just generic European-esque medieval fantasy, not German medieval fantasy.
@@patriciusvunkempen102 Excuse me? What do you mean by european warfare not being dominated by mounted units? roman and greek antique warfare, sure. But during medieval times mounted warfare ruled. Ever heard of Knights? Yeah.. every knight had to have a horse and be trained with a lance... guess why... whole purpose jousting became a thing: to train it better during peace time.
Also, most lancers, Dragoons and musketeers were mounted units... not to mention hungarian hussars.
Miura, the author of Berserk, died recently, Im literally rewatching every video on Berserk ive saved because it hurts so bad man. Berserk helped me though dark times, its stupid to say but this feels like a personal loss, like ive lost someone close to me.
I feel you bro, our generation is much more connected to our childhood, and we almost feel like a link with creators that shaped it, so whenever someone we deem as important dies, it hurts twice as bad as our parents would've felt
Internet is good, but growing up in it makes us for much more vulnerable beings, not necessarily in a bad way, but definitely more fragile, and this is one of the direct effect
honesly bro, rip Miura, may you finally rest
I always think how berserk wouldve gone if he was still alive. I'm glad it's being continued, but it just doesn't feel the same. Rest in peace, king.
One thing about Guts' Golden Age armor you didn't get wrong but forgot the context about:
In the GA, Guts doesn't care that much about getting injured or dying. I mean, no he doesn't want to die outright but he's in a mindset where he just doesn't care and just wants to swing his sword because he hasn't found a genuine reason in life yet. So Guts wouldn't wear armor that restricted him, even if it provided more defense. He's also the leader of the mounted raiders so he's fighting a lot on horseback. That might explain that incomplete armor.
Also, the "missing" fold on the Black Swordsman Armor and the Berserker Armor might come from Guts' fighting style which is all out attack with a rather animalistic movement, lots of pounces and full body attacks. So a fold would restrict him to no end there.
For the Berserker Armor (which was not crafted for/by Guts) it might even be an intended choice by design since Berserkers were supposed to just go in (and eventually die) flailing and swinging and the armor took care of the injuries anyway.
Also, Guts has been actually quite poor for most of his mercenary life. The stuff he uses was most likely looted and only really mostly fitting him because that was the best he could get that also fitted the way he liked to move.
If he was in infantry the lack of leg protection wouldn't matter much, but on hirse back the legs are an easy target for opponents on foot.
@@arx3516 yeah, if anything it would be hard to aim for the chest or head if you were on foot facing a horseman.
I had that thought but isn't there a moment when he murders Donovan where he thinks how stupid it is to take off your helmet during a battle? You'd think that would apply to other vital organs.
@@davidwilson6577 There is indeed. But while Guts was part of Gambinos mercs, he was still content (despite everything that was going on). That self-destructive, reckless attitude of Guts developed from the trauma of losing his place of belonging and hating himself for how things turned out. Not saying he was suicidal specifically but he sure as hell stopped caring about potentially dying after he lost his "family" back then.
If you're trying to say he's contradicting himself there however, I fully agree. But a lot of contradictory behavior and statements come from emotional irrationality so I think it fits the situation there very well.
By the way, Miura does an excellent job drawing architecture and has a hardon for castles. You should review some of the more prominent castles and cities in Berk at some point.
Several of them are slightly altered/carbon copies of real life buildings. A few examples:
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"You should've gone for the crotch"
Yeah but the anatomy is mostly... bad... :(
@@kubibrodel5632 I mean. It's perfectly serviceable. There are way worse abusers of anatomy in manga/comics than Miura lol.
@@kubibrodel5632 The anatomy is fine for Guts' proportions the anatomy is basically perfect a lot of manga in general and especially mangaka like Miura and Araki comes far closer to perfect than any other medium in regards to realism unless your doing something like a portrait but I don't judge you for making that mistake because of how Berserk is it can be sometimes be hard to tell that the anatomy is actually quite good but though I do suppose its your opinion on how "bad" anatomy has to be to be considered bad
so serpico should have went for guts crotch is what i got from this lol
@Wild Fang It was too big to be called a d*ck. Massive, thick, heavy and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw flesh.
"Serpico should've gone for Guts' crotch."
I think you're thinking of Griffith.
But guts dont need crotch armor. What made the CLANG sound wasn't the sword but guts valls
Guts' steel chad member would've shattered that puny rapier
@@vvaldbeere I think, I might've read that hentai...
*Griffith:* Want to make an Eclipse reference?
*Band of Hawk has left the server*
*Femto has joined the server*
Herpy Depth as someone who just read that chapter yesterday pls shut up. I still can't get over Judea's death
@@znightowlz6585 I have only seen the anime (the old one, without CGI), but the death of the members of Band of Hawk wasn't nearly as traumatizing and sad to me as what happened to Guts and Casca. Especially Casca...
@@XanderFenikkusu Pretty late but the band are much better fleshed out in the manga. I don't think I can compare between everyone but we lost some great characters there.
@@XanderFenikkusu Yeah the anime cuts out a fight between the Griffith rescue crew and Kushan assassins and the Band versus a band of prisoner mercs led by an apostle trying to retake/kill Griffith
@@XanderFenikkusu I strongly recommend you read the manga. you'll get to experience the boat arc.
all jokes aside the manga's worth a read if you haven't already cause it's better fleshed out n there's just more.
Hey Shad,
I know it's a wee bit late but I think you are missing one little bit about the golden age armour.
In that era, Guts (along with most of the Band) is primarily a mounted combatant first and for a mounted warrior that prioritizes mobility over protection first, the tasset configuration and the length of the breastplate isn't bad. It does look like the historical lighter/earlier Catapract outrider sets found with lesser nobility.
That's actually a pretty good point - though I think Shad's points still stand sustained, all the more so with that new context. After all, mounted cavalry would still want to wear breastplates that don't stop them from bending sideways to swing and cut. I suppose with the longer reach of Guts's sword, he might not need to lean from his mount as much, but I would mostly just chalk that up as an oversight from Miura, having never rode in armor himself for reference. It's nothing to grill him on, as this is his longest running work and he wrote the Golden Era arc in the earliest stages of this manga's lifespan.
@@mc_zittrer8793 Eh, looking back on this, I think Shad and I both skipped over another important factor related to the armour design; "cost".
The armour is made from good quality metals and is robust (IIRC) but at the same time, it seems to be as cheap as possible without sacrificing (or at least sacrificing as little as possible) protection and/or hardness; proper plate until the navel follower by a studded leather/lamellar belt piece followed by a thick leather codpiece - tasset bottom.
It's a merc soldier's self purchased armour as opposed to a what a proper Noble could shell for a full body cuirass or "standardized" (please ignore the sarcasm here) standing army issue gear.
Just a fun fact: When Miura was making the golden age + early arcs, he didn't had any kind of accurate historical source or guides, so he made most of the armour designs based out of movies and other types of fictional media.
Kentaro Miura took a lot of inspiration for some of the earlier armor styles from the movie Blood of Heroes, Guts' helmet is representative of the influence as well as Guts early on looking very similar to the actor Rutger Hauer, and Casca looking very similar to the Asian female protagonist in Blood of Heroes. Both Griffith's and Femto's helmets/heads are influenced heavily by the film Phantom of the Paradise and the protagonist's alter ego in it.
Berserk itself is responsible for the massively oversized swords and black armoured brooding antihero.
Despite that the story is deep and well worth the grimdark setting. You just have to wait a couple years to get off a boat.
As a newer reader of berserk, I would like to be thankful that I never have to experience the pain of waiting for guts to get off the boat, but then I remember that the last chapter was released over a year ago =(
Look up Yang Guo from Return of the Condor Heroes. Has only one arm, wields the "Heavy Iron Sword" and is unquestionably a brooding antihero. No black armor though, but big swords and brooding antiheroes are older than you think.
@@zachk3702 I might not have been as clear as I'd like to have been with the comment, when I said responsible I wasn't saying that it was the first, but merely popularized the archetype.
Thank you for introducing me to that character as I've never heard of him, I can see how guts might have had inspiration drawn from him.
Large numbers of fans DIED before Guts got off that fucking boat...
berserk is more dark fantasy than grim dark
You have to remember, the berserker armor is practically alive. It removes it’s user’s sense of pain and stokes them into a fit of rage, then removes all your physical limiters allowing you to break bones and rip muscles yet the armor just sends needles in and _Holds your bones together._ you will literally fight until you bleed out. Also the mouth is pretty literal ;)
Rest In Peace Miura.
Just a small addendum about the berseker armor specifically. It allows him to draw out, or rather, be possessed by, his inner beast, his darkness. When that happens, the helmet changes its shape, and becomes the beasts head. And as such, the eyeslits are its actual eyes. About the mouth opening as well, it can open at will, because it is the beasts head, but when you can see Guts' face underneath it, its because he is regaining control.
TL:DR the berserker armor is cursed as crap, and it manifests its wielders evil side physically.
*Ash Crow intensifies*
And while it's not possessing him, it makes for a great batman cosplay.
And when it is active it moves on its own(preferably close to living beings to slaughter),thus conserving the stamina of the wielder and forcefully 'repairs' any damage done,making the user output more strength,speed and agility done otherwise possible(whilst decreasing the durability of the wielder though).It essentially eliminates any and all drawbacks of being injured/fatigued by taxing the body of the person inside.It can also substitute missing limbs,as shown early on,with Guts using his left arm without issues (he must have had a grip or otherwise his sword would have flown out of his hands during the apostle level attack of Grunbeld,that fully dislocated and fractured Guts' right arm bones,while later being unable to even clutch with his metallic hand),when he tried to catch Casca on the ship.
@@agamemnonofmycenae5258 Basically it becomes full on Magic Power armor at this point.
@@daddysempaichan Not really since it does have a limit to how much strength you can output,your absolute max,but continuously(like say running at your record speed for longer than a second or lifting 300 kilos for an extended period of time).It does not make you stronger in a sense that you could not do that before.It just enables you to constantly output your max state,disregarding fatigue and damage, and lumping more upon you.It also changes your mental state,completely disregarding pain,tiredness and self preservation iin order for you to focus exclusively on offense.
It is magic armor,but not on the conventional sense someone can interpret it in a fantasy setting.Wearing it does not give you magic powers.It simply makes you a RPG player character,whilst removing the stamina bar and anything negative effects associated with depleted health bar(while also draining it,based on how much damage you sustained).Point is,you must be mad or desperate to put yourself in it.Because anyone who dons it,will die inside it.
I think the inaccuracies of Guts' armor were all done on purpose to make him stand out. Readers of the manga know that every other person he's been around use proper historical equipment.
But Guts is *THE* 100 man slayer. He's *THE* blackswordsman. Good way to make him stand out.
"Of course, they're going to TRY to go for the gaps"... "Try" being the operative word.
The inaccuracies aren't detrimental to the story
They were mostly made to look cool tbh. Especially the black swordsman armor, before Miura turned him into such a. Sympathetic character (the number of OOC moments in the BS arc prove that he didn't have the entire GA arc planned)
@@harrylane4 guts' character changes due to what he's gone through. black swordsman is not out of character
17:31 I understand the reasoning of open gap can be targeted by dagger....but..if any man insane enough to stab a dagger inside this armor "mouth"..his hand just..bitten off......and the dagger simply cease to exist..
that Teeth has tore Giant monster entrail
He cam open and close the mount so... in some moments it moves up and down.
@@Revanchist only when zerking tho
@@baldy117irl yeah but he can zerk at will do it still seems like a pretty bad idea to stick your hand in a maw that can rip apart monster flesh
@@noahjones9833 Guts doesnt zerk at will when the armor takes over Guts can be pretty pissed off when wearing the armor but that aint zerking its when his inner beast of darkness takes over that is when the zerking happens
zerking off?
I feel it's worth mentioning that the armor by design is hostile to the person wearing it... It literally numbs pain completely and will stab it's hosts bones in order to keep them functional while fighting to state its own bloodlust... It doesn't exactly care if guts is comfortable lmao. I would say when it's activated is more akin to a exoskeleton fused with guts than it is armor, like his helmet is his head
Let's not forget that THE HELMET BITES
I feel like there's more you could have discussed about the berserker armor. It's supposed to numb your senses and keep you together by stabbing your broken bones together. I want to know how much of an advantage that really is in the medieval era. Also another person from berserk who is wearing full armor is Skeleton Knight, and I think his armor is more functional structurally speaking.
Yea but if memory serves the armor isn't so much for protection and just to allow some insane bastard to never stop fighting.
@@EnvaReaver yup, the armor doesn't really heal you either it's just keeping your body together by stabbing steel needles throughout your body. It will allow you to keep fighting on peak condition until you shed your last drop of blood
@@lowkeyarki7091 the additional loss of blood fro the armor's inbuilt orthopedic surgery function sure doesn't help you stayng in the fight.
Just to add on to your comment, Bazuso's armor and Griffith's sword would be interesting to hear about as well.
@@arx3516 when you have two broken arms it does, or you're using two handed sword.
I'd love to see your analysis of Skull Knight's armor. Still feel he had the coolest armor design in Berserk. Especially since the design had a certain type of armor around the waist you like.
Rest in Peace Miura Sensei
Rip
His older swords are twice as thick as a normal sword and of course Dragon Slayer is probably 3-4 times thicker. And Guts is used to using large swords because of his “ childhood” and his adopted “ father”
They didn't have swords for children, so he had to get used to one bigger than what would be normal for his size. He just got used to that and that's how he's always fought.
You are mistaken. The Golden Age sword is 3 times longer and thicker than a normal longsword, as said by Guts himself, bit the Dragon Slayer has no official measurements.
The Berserker Armor originally had a skull-shaped helmet that didn't leave nearly as much of a gap as the Hellhound design. The armor only morphed when the Hellhound became one with it, and the primary means of taking over Guts' body.
The armor morphed by reflecting the darkest side deep within wearer's concious. The helm is the reflections of his wrath and hatred.
And I can imagine that the skull shape of the helmet is due to the Skull Knight having worn/wielded that armour before him. At least that is suggested from time to time.
Small correction its the beast of darkness not the hellhound
Berserk is my favorite manga by far and probably my favorite work of art.
SHLONG ARMOR > COD PIECE xD lmao
Definitely, there's nothing out there like Berserk
Same, it's a masterpiece
God if only we got the anime adaptation we deserve so more people could get into Berserk
@@ronin_4075 never gonna happen
1. Noone will be able to catch the gruesomeness and horror of the manga
2. Censorship
@@smittywerbenjaggermanjensen69 Adi Shinkar the creator of the Castlevania Netflix series said he would love to do a Berserk anime and since Castlevania was so damn good if anyone could do Berserk justice its him
This dude is great, he likes pop culture and...is named shad...
SHADMAN FLASHBACKS
We finally discovered what shadman does when he is not drawing...
@@cinnamonbummer9504 giving shitty edgelord life advice on twitter?
@@Lenn869 Who does?
"If he is really strong he could still use it..."
Yea I dunno if you payed attention but Guts is a pretty good distance beyond "really strong"... The guys is literally beating God (or at the very *least* demi-god) tier demons in physical combat.
He LITERALLY kills a sea god in 1 of he later arcs.
@@kash3862 point and case.
Thanks!
kash3862 and he’s gone toe to toe with actual dragons. Maybe he even kills one. Haven’t finished the manga yet but it’s certainly possible
Pop-Culture Weapons Analysed: Guts from Berserk
"Pop-Culture Weapons" "Guts"
I mean you are not wrong...
Guts IS a weapon... Just point him in the right direction, and watch the enemies fly like bowling pins!
'Nuf said.
@@BlackEpyon hopefully he cant make 4 enemies fly at once! it's an amazing spectacle you can't lose!
@@justbny9278 Only every time he swings the bloody thing!
BlackEpyon
Guts : Griffith I killed everything.
Griffith : I’m a brilliant tactician!
But Guts is not a weapon.....
He's a unit. *THE ABSOLUTE UNIT*
You need to analyse Saitama's Cape and Hulk's underwear and how they're made of a material stronger than anything in fiction
(Censorship clothes>>>Adamantium)
Rew Rose yes please!
Forget about the cape, what about his gloves?
It's canon that Reed Richards created a super stretchable material and made pants from it for Banner for when he hulks out. I think someone wrote a letter to Stan Lee asking why Hulk's "gamma bomb" wasn't flapping in the breeze every time he added 4 feet in height and a ton or more in mass during his transformation and that was the reply.
I call those _"genre armor"_ .
@@biohazard724 yeah but that wasn't until after the comic began
It think it's really important to mention that everyone in the Berserk universe is literally shocked by his sword and they all think it's too big and heavy to use. One of my favorite things about that world is that the fantasy elements are reacted to as though they are abnormal by the people within that world.
"Could put a dagger into Guts face through the opening"
Me: Yeah good luck with that...
He would probably bite the dagger in half lmao
I love when Goblin slayer came out and every normie was like : OH NOOO THIS IS MESSED UP.
And me like: YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HELL
Sir.Anthony the messed up thing about the first episode is how they composed the scene making it look like “fan service “ and not something disgusting like how berserk presented the heinous act of rape
@@rydelltorayno8271 yeah. It came across as just put there get people in because of how controversial it is... while in berserk it is not a selling point. But there are...more...with more people... and OH MY GOD the lost children ark...the scene of the fake fairies ''playing''
That's the thing that always confused me about the people bitching about Goblin Slayer. You complain about that, but not Berserk? I think it's exclusively because Goblin Slayer came out when this line of thinking became mainstream that they freak out about it. Because if they freaked out about Berserk everybody would just ignore them.
@@bevvvy1374 no. Because it foes not add anything to the anime. And what if I see some goblins raping a girl? Like if it didnt happen in real life. It was presented as fanservice with a backstory of ...and hear me out:
A demon king that wants to conquer all the world...FFS. that is almost every fantasy setting ever.
The characters seemed shallow and just archetypes. IT IS BASICALLY THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING.
@@bevvvy1374 there is no character developement. What do we know of the lizard guy? That he now likes cheese? That the elf is just a tsundere loli? C'mon. Enjoy GS but dont even compare it
Gambeson bias detected at 6:55
Kinda late for the party, but the Black Swordsman Armor isn't intented to be used against humans, so those gaps don't really matter. And when at this point Guts fights any human... well, not like it's any challenge for him, he could be doing it totally naked anyway.
And has done it (mostly) naked.
"Nah I use it for my cooking"
-Guts
Faulds are for Griffith...
If you look at his armour, you will see 'faulds' for days!
Faulds are only work by bad people
Please analyze the Catarina armor set from Dark Souls-
I'm curious how effective you think the armor is, compared to actual historical medieval armor.
*onion bro armor
that armour was actually real, it was king henry's.
@@Ghorda9 Which Henry
@@Ryu1ify the 8th
Well, if a slightly-rounded breastplate is good for deflecting blows, clearly making everything very rounded should make you near invulnerable. That's science.
I feel that the biggest thing Shad is missing Is that while Guts is a mortal man, he is the most powerful normal man in a supernatural world. Which makes him a normal man in a normal world.
The weapons and armor don't really matter. Because, at the end of the day, Guts *is* the weapon. He'll kill you with a broken blade and one hand if he has to. It really doesn't matter what he wears or uses.
So if he wore a colander on his head and wielded a half-empty jar of mayonnaise...
and he will do it after cutting off his own arm with that very same blade if he has to!
Is he a normal man at this point? My impression was that he's slowly accumulated magical energies over time. You're right that he's just a mortal man up against gods and demons, and that he's the ultimate mortal at this point.
No offense but i think the biggest thing you are missing is that Shad is just talking about the armour/weapons and if they would work in real life
The character that wields them dont matter because they arent the point, its not about bringing Guts to real life, is about bringing the designs of his weaponry into real lifd
Michael Davis yeah i subscribe to that theory too. Skull Knight is always talking about how Guts is the one “on the boundary between worlds” so if anything he’s closer to a mage than a normal human. It’s even sort of referenced with his sword, as it’s accumulated so many kills it became a magic/cursed weapon
It's pretty impressive how accurate some aspects are considering it was created in the 80's in Japan before it was easy to do research on these kind of things. Must have taken a lot of trips to a lot of libraries.
Proper and trustworthy realistic analasys
Oh that?
Thats a bigass sword
@ Shadiversity, that Berserker armor was enchanted. It acted more like the Marvel Venom Symbiote than just full Plate. Still nice review overall. Would have liked for you to dig a little deeper into the lore and keep that in mind for the review OR say that you are reviewing just the design and not its Lore capabilities. Still enjoy your work! keep it coming!
You gotta read through the manga a few times. for that.
It's more like cursed. It appears the armor can self repair but it won't heal the wearer. The price of superhuman power- it suck life, blood and sanity. Without the little mage, it's more like a suicide battle every time
@@chengkuoklee5734
If you actually read it..
The armor manifests the user's RAGE (removing their sanity), it keeps the user's body intact (by literally piercing through the skin of the user, keeping the bones aligned and fixed) and makes the user not feel any pain (until the Berserk effect runs out)..
It doesn't suck the user's life and blood, it just lets the user go in a Wild and Blind Rampage unlocking the user's 100% strength without any pain in exchange of their sanity. As a real Berserker..
@Arusiek90
If a human being that doesn't feel pain and is able to exert 100% of their strength for long periods and consecutive times, they would eventually break their body..
Like... METAL Venom!
You mentioned Berserk. Therefor I am obligated to subscribe.
A superb in depth look into the armour of my favourite anime character, stellar work as always Shad!
When you realize that even though Berserk comes back this month, it'll probably be a year or two before we see Guts and Casca again
Hello there again.
Justin Y. Yeah, maybe another griffith chapter next month
Nope
You should review Griffith's armor, or the armor of the Midlanders. That stuff is pretty spot-on accurate.
I think Miura said that he looked at actual armor pieces and just drew them in his manga.
Excellent video!! I'm doing a study of Guts and recreating his armor in Zbrush. Your video helped me out a lot! Great breakdowns! Very good video! Thank you!
You mentioned the mouth of the Berserk armor being opened, but that seems to be something he can do on command, as his armor is magic in nature, so it's not a very consistent weak point, and could even be a bear-trap style backup weapon if his arms are incapacitated.
Also, a little surprised you didn't mention his biggest weakness: His armor is constantly spiking him to keep his bones and muscles together, draining his blood.
The thing I like in Berserk is how much attention is paid to how Guts would actually sheath his sword, which kinda gets glossed over in most fantasy.
BTW, if you ever cover Berserk again, I'd love for you to talk about the armor designs of other characters. Griffiths Golden Age armor in particular.
Awesome video 👍 referring to your video about superstrength apllied to weapons: the berserker armor would be advantageous for dragon slayer als Guts' usage of the weapon, assuming he can handle the weight, as the armor, which looks insanely heavy (given Guts superhuman strength that would be manageable), would help hin to anchor himself while fighting, so he isn't thrown off balance as much as he'd be otherwhise.
As cool as it is - no. After quick googling Dragonslayers estimated weight is around 200 kg (99kg-283kg I'd say it's rather on heavier side) so Guts might be as well fighting with his shlong flopping around and it would still require the same amount of suspension of disbelief.
@@marcun666 You would be absolutely right if Guts used "normal", more ordinary fencing techniques, but since he is, due to his usage of bigass swords, fighting by using momentum of his sword into pendulum swings, I do believe, that by adding weight of massive full plate armor to his already pretty build up body, he can pretty much overweight Dragonslayer by at least a few kg, which could be, by my opinion, sufficient to anchor this pendulum movement...I'm not saying that it wold definetly work fine, I didn't do any exact calculations on that matter, but I think that adding a heavy-ass cursed full plate armor (which due to its supernatural nature possibly can actually weigh more than it seems or even adjust its weight or sth.) is enough to confirm my belief
I love how he is fanboying over the Berserker armor. I'm the same way. It's hard not to. So iconic.
thanks for making a vid about guts, shad. It's one of my favourite mangas of all time, and it's nice to see you covering it.
Thanks bro, ur a good guy
Golden age/Black swordsman armour: I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow to the... you know what never mind
lmao
But what about dragonslayer?
This about Dragonslayer:
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BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAAAAGONS?!
@@michaelgoldberg4000 Still dead.
@@XxSLaYerZzxX Thats what they want us to think. I think they evolved into the lizard "people" that now control the world and have us all secretly enslaved.
@@hatework4282 Well, I can't say it's impossible.
Yes the anime is truly dark. Especially for 2016. It still haunts me at night.
hey I learned something with this one! I always thought a gorget protected the neck up but it is indeed a Bevor! Im happy I learned something new.
But what about dragons?!
-I have a dragonslayer.
You have changed the paradigm.
One of my favorite anime and great video and please do video about Arabia weapon and armor
Forget the anime, read the manga
epic_schnitzel I read it
Ah, Berserk, the first anime/manga I ever found and watched on my own volition. Still love it, great video as well.
first video i ever watched of yours. eso needs you
I feel like if gunpowder was never invented/discovered and we continued to use swords and plate armor to this day, modern armor would look a bit like the Berserker armor.
I'd imagine it would become more and more form fitting until it became like an exoskeleton for an insect. Fantasy worlds should take note.
The Flaine interesting but it's impossible for us to never discover gun power
We probably would. Japan was still using swords when they reopen trade and discovered firearms being traded.
Tchoy Thao yeh except it was heavily restricted and the only reason they kept using swords is bc guns hadn't become mainstream yet. When they became the number 1 weapon swords almost entirely lost fame
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I thing big part of Guts, which could be considered as part of this armor (armor 2 and 3), which was not talked about, is Guts prosthetic. What's your thought about that?
If you want some historical context, his prosthetic (and namesake) are more than likely based off of XVI cen German mercenary and knight Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen. His right hand was replaced with a metallic prosthetic which was capable of holding objects from a shield, or reins to a quill, and continued his military service thereafter.
Interestingly Kentaro Miura said he was unaware of gots but was struck by the similarities when he heard of him.
Too interesting... it was Götz as his spiritual muse!
Joking aside, that is really quite the coincidence. Despite that though, it still puts some credibility to him having a prosthetic in that time
6:25"If you actually are going into battle ..."
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10:08 fun fact in the manga the sword is often described as "looking more like a big piece of metal than a sword"
Just want to comment on Gutts' Golden Age armor, the reason his equipment is random peices of anachronistic armor is to emphasize the fact that he's a mercenary, as if he picks up a piece here and there as he goes along. Always love your content and I don't disagree with you, I'm just speaking from an artistic standpoint, and it's cool to hear the historical information behind it
love ya shad keep bringing the good content :)
Hey I just killed this dude but I looove his boots so I'm gonna take them. Oh and his gauntlet, just one though.
While I agree that Guts's sword is too thick for realism, remember that he hacks through *plate armor* with it. A blade with a realistic thickness wouldn't survive much of that, but the thickness gives the edge more support.
Through plate? He smashes through steel-reinforced marble pillars!
@@SoI_Badguy And doesn't even slow to a halt or bounce back from the force of it. It's like punching through a few boards or something.
@@mmirlas2820 Well, he swung through like 4 of them before his dragonslayer got wedged.
*T H I C C S W O R D* Has someone R34'd the Dragonslayer?
@@jocosesonata No, Farnie.
I love your videos they inspire me to make my own stories
I'm a bit late to the party but I believe that Boscogn (the Commander of the Tudor Empire's forces) Had a fold in his armor so I don't think it was JUST a grudge against folds lol.
Hey shad, I would really love it if you took a look at some 40K weapons and armour. Id like to see your take on things such as Space Marine armour and weapons!
Hello I would just like to say that I like your videos
I'm watching this while Kentaro Miura just died is a trend.
kentaro probably made the armor incorrect so that way guts actually gets hurt, to build story.
I feel like the fauld is so pronounced in medieval armour to accommodate horseback combat and riding in general. So if you don't ride you can get along without a fauld.
I'm not so sure about that. I'd take a look at Medieval English armor as the English were known for their propensity for fighting on foot. If pronounced faulds were an aspect of fighting on horseback then we should see less pronounced of no faulds in English armor, if not, then we'll see pronounced faulds on English armor.
he was on horseback a shitload of time in the golden age arc, so...
Let me just get this out of the way:
*GRIFFFITTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!*
Pretty happy your doing some "pop-culture weapon analysis". I actually followed Skallagrim because he used to do it and was pretty sad to see he sort of doesn't do it anymore.
I kinda want to see you do an analysis of Artorias' armour from Dark Souls. It took a lot of visual cues from the berzerker armour so I think you'd enjoy it.
@Jonathan Spier in their defense, he has been corrupted by the abyss and is basically a decaying zombie that point. But yeah, they tiny.
Anyone else imagine Guys just setting his sword on Griffith and leaving him for the final battle?
Like how Thor did Loki in that one movie with his hammer?
@Shadiversity
People tend to ignore how Guts wields his weapon..
They tend to ignore that Guts uses the spinning pendulum technique in order to swing his weapon instead of his brute strength alone..
YukitoOnline why not have a warhammer at that point or the unbeatable halberd?
Wild Fang Good point
The point of Gut's sword is that he has always swung a sword that is too large for him. As a child he used a broad longsword instead of a shortsword or something else more manageable for his size. This forced Gut's to always use a spinning pendulum technique, he's never known any other way to swing.
Once you have such a technique, while yes other techniques are better suited 1v1, there is no good reason to give up such a power advantage. The progression to larger swords makes complete sense since that is all he knows, big and sweeping swings and using the length of his blade to keep others back. Even his thrusts are designed around the length and weight of the weapon, basically just let the enemy skewer themselves on a nearly unmoveable blade.
So his swords, completely unrealistic in all historical context, but completely realistic for Gut's specific case where he has always used a sword too large for his body.
Well you must also forget that he doesnt just use that method, its been shown that he can swing the sword at incredible speeds with pure strength. Though spinning pendulum method is his most favored due to how powerful it is combined with his strength, he is also very capable of wielding it like an actual sword.
@@Clamchief024
Swinging the sword with Pure Strength alone with whenever he goes Berserk Mode (with the Dragon Slayer sword) or during the Golden Age arc (which is sword was manageable with his strength alone due to him training with swords that larger than himself since childhood)..
If you seen how he uses the Dragon Slayer it's always the spinning pendulum technique (when he's not in Berserk mode). Twisting his body to make a strong spin to swing using the weight of the sword to crush/cut his enemies.
I know other medieval themed channels have already made videos on For Honor when it first came out, but a lot of characters have been added since then including a Chinese warrior faction. It would be cool to see a new analysis of these characters faithfulness and maybe a tier list how good they would actually be.
That was interesting. Great review.
Please do a Underappreciated Historical Weapons on medieval guns
Muskets...
0:58 look at that! He's dunking! Guts is dunking with the Dragonslayer! Wow, that Berserker armor!
I found this video while just looking for stuff about Berserk, and this video caught my eye.
And after looking at your channel real quick, it is quite interesting. And you also cover a little bit of anime stuff, which I like, so I'll be here a while.
I also wish there some little medieval theme background music, beacuse your voice is quite... dominating... So a little bit of quite looping medieval style music would help quite a lot
I love your Robert Jordan books near the bottom right. That series doesn't get enough love these days.
And people say Game of Thrones is the most brutal anime...
?
Huh!?
Game of Thrones is for sissies compared to Berserk.
@@DonVigaDeFierro as a fan of both, true
@@DonVigaDeFierro in what way exactly!!?
Anime logic: the more ridiculously oversized your weapon is, the deadlier it is
Big things hurt more duh (sarcasm)
@Please Complete All Fields Legit only the only person that uses a oversized weapon is Guts, well also Zodd but Zodd is also 7 feet tall (In human form) and also one of the most poweful apostles.
@Please Complete All Fields unrealistic yes. Cartoonish. Fuck no. That thing is terrifying. One swing and the whole room will be caked in blood, guts, shit and piss as its swung by a monster of a man. It fits the setting. If you want realism go read medieval historical fiction not fantasy you dummy.
I love that the title of this video basically looks at Guts and just says "Yeah, we're just counting ALL of this as a weapon"
When guts goes beserk with the armour, his whole body is encased within it including the head. The wolf helmet actually doesn't have a slit he can see through. So when he is in the berserk state he is actually blind and can only see people or monsters as soul like entities infront of him. That's why in the manga when he's like that he can hardly tell which is his ally from his enemies. Later in the manga he begins to adapt to it because he uses the berserk state more often.