The Beast Of Darkness: Guts' True Enemy
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- čas přidán 22. 01. 2020
- Discussing the concept of the beast of darkness and what it means for the story of Berserk, and guts as a character.
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To quote a great man: "there are two wolves inside you. One wolf is gay, the other wolf is gay... You are also gay"
My dad wasn’t that great of a man
@@BobbyZo43383 surely he was
Punch line hits better if you just say "you are gay"
@@calebcreekmore7531 yes maybe, but I like to think it has class
Thanks, incel!
I always liked how the Beast of Darkness took the shape of a Hound. It's a clever call back to when Casca said "You're just a Mad Dog!" And it's as though that comment took form subconsciously to become what the Beast of Darkness is.
Yooo genius
Also Guts had that encounter with the wolves after he killed Gambino
[spoiler]
Remember what they saw inside Casca's mind.
its a doberman
And his dad's dog
Happiest ending: guts leaves his quest for revenge behind to be with Casca after they somehow recover her full memory.
Worst ending: guts kills griffith and becomes the beast of darkness in the process
Bittersweet ending: guts kills Griffith and manages to restore casca's memory entirely but dies in the process.
Most likely ending: something I've never even thought of.
Just out of curiosity, are you caught up in the manga
@@notthesimi yes I am :)
I don't think Guts can leave Griffith alive in the best ending. I highly doubt that Griffith's goal ends with humanity thriving. And even if Griffith is perfectly happy with his current white knight role I doubt the other God hand are content with that status quo. Guts will have to deal with him, but he has to leave behind the idea of doing it for revenge otherwise his hate or beast of darkness will consume him. He has to do it for the future and betterment of mankind and a future with Casca.
@@davido2161 yeah you're totally right. I agree completely
Worst ending of all: Miura dies before he finishes the manga and we never get to know the true ending.
"Griffith did everything wrong"
Finally somebody said it.
I give you two likes
@@Ted4321 Thank you
@@bertalanfabian5742 ill have what he's having.
Griffith had already won, he had everything, it is true that the band would have followed him to the depths of hell (the irony), but when Guts left he just acted like a 3 year old kid having some raging about not being able to have something: just a mere hypocrite if you ask me
@@dokuganryyu i think griffith couldn't support the idea of guts not being he's equal but being superior to him he loses against him in theyre "final" battle he lose casca to him a woman who was devoted to him and was so angry that he slept with the princess out of frustration it was the first time that grifith has lost in his life against someone he wanted guts for himself in a way (thats my interpretation)
It’s not necessarily the Beast of Darkness that is Guts’ enemy. That’s part of who he is even if he wants to deny it. He knows the danger of giving control over to that side of him, yet he risks it anyway so he can try and control it. It’s admirable
Paul Toledo He controls it by feeding the good/remembering his true purpose
RealLifeRyan maybe he can change what the armor feeds on instead of rage? That’s be cool!
It comes with the name :)
karl jung - the shadow.
@@CrazyDiamond419 Or what if he uses both sides? Rage or regret give you power but hope or faith do too. (sry if I'm cheesy)
Gut's internal conflict derives from Carl Jung's concept of shadow integration. The beast of darkness is Guts's shadow, it is all the traits that guts rejects and represses and as such his shadow grows stronger. The impulses becoming more and more frequent, you cannot defeat your shadows but merely gain understanding and acceptance of their existence. Doing so grants and person the access to some of the greatest gifts they were blessed with. Think of what happened to Naruto when he resisted the nine tailed fox and look at the contrast when they began to work together. Guts' beast of darkness may be his greatest enemy right now, but in the end it will serve to be his answer to Femtos God like power.
That is what I noticed, it is right now for Guts never ending battle. He simply does not know how to deal with it, he leaves it to the pure luck, be it by him snapping from the control of his shadow or relying on Schrieke to do it. I believe, what u said, it is best for him to approach and accept it as a part of him; which it already is. Firstly, he has to win that battle and then focus on Griffith/Femto.
The beast is growing stronger and stronger, and later it is going to be late, and someone will pay the price.
Yeah, I've never thought Guts has to get rid of the Berserker armor. It's ironically saved him and allowed him to protect the people he loves many, many times. He's gotta accept that the darkness within him is part of himself. I think he's slowly getting there. Also there is no way that he will be able to stand against Femto without it. Because when he does, revenge will probably be on the back burner for Guts in his mind.
@@j.d.thornton3683 exactly what I thought but you used better words to explain what I wanted to say also. Thanks
I agree
I LOVE IT
Tbh the beast of darkness might be the deciding factor of the ending. It could easily end with guts giving into the darkness or it can end with him not giving into it. Loved the video!
Kai The fact that it could go either way and it’s not obvious as to which is just a testament to the great writing
R.I.P. master Kentaro Miura
The Beast of Darkness is that feeling you get after eating ten habanero jerky sticks, needing to use the bathroom but every stall is currently occupied.
"OPEN UP, YOU ASSHOLES! MY BLADDER'S ABOUT TO BLOW LIKE MOUNT ST. HELENS!"
It's that feeling after getting shite loads of kills in a game but it lags out and disconnects you
Ah that's why he's called "Guts" then.
when i get to the final in fallguys but "ERROR you have been disconected"
And your booty tells you to let go of everything and let that rage full diarrhea out
" Don't you want to see Guts kill Griffith? "
Yes, yes I do...... alot!
How about *_Casca_* killing Griffith?
@@concept5631 Sure.
Maybe Pipin too.................
Starts off with a lesson from an Old Cherokee Chief
Me: Aight ima have to up my game, but seriously I love what the beast of darkness adds to Guts struggle, now he struggles with not only the outside forces, but faces arguably the biggest struggle in life, self control
He heard it on the show 12 Monkeys.
Not in the wilderness smoking peyote with some elder Indian (feather not dot)
Yawl both do a great job!
I'm just being a d!ck
Worry not, it isn't actually a story that is native american in origin. Native Americans rarely ever had such polarized views on spirituality, the wolf thing actually originated from some clergyman
The beast isn’t something to be vanquished or supressed, it’s something to be integrated. Enlightened people still feel pain, have vices and get angry. They remain human.
The inner conflict is the problem within itself, not a symptom
@AxentiumZ he did kill that kid though
This sort of reminds me of Samurai Jack and his struggle with his inner-self, the worst part of him. Sure it was rare, but there was one way to tell that he struggled and that was whenever he felt anger and frustration whenever Aku one-upped him or Cheated to screw him over! Even his fight with the guardian summoned out his anger as he tried to get home, only to end up defeated.
Great video. I think if Guts gave into the beast of darkness to defeat Griffith it would defeat the purpose of all the character growth we have seen him go through. I think once he finally does fight Griffith it will be more out of necessity than for revenge, and we will see a calm and collected Guts like we saw in their second fight showing that he has finally tamed the beast of darkness.
Emmanuel De La Mora This guy gets it 👍
Right no way they showed griffith thinking no fear no rage no hate... and then he gets one up'd. GG griffy
I kinda wonder a couple things.....
1.) I wonder if Guts Beast Of Darkness is so powerful due to him existing on both the astral and the physical plane.
2.) If someone who is mainly pure of heart, having little to no real anger or rage wore the Berserker armor, would it have any effect or just be really badass normal armor?
I've always wondered about that second one too. I mean the duality of light and dark must exist within everyone but if one doesn't circum to the darkness and instead embrace the light will the good will also give a power boost? Or perhaps that's wrong also. What if accepting the duality and being at peace and harmony within is the key to proper utilizing the armors full potential.
Guts has done some pretty shitty things and is out of balance because of his guilt and uncertainty of if his actions. But he seems to be starting to realize that what he is doing (atleast now) is for the greater good in a way or atleast finally accepting it and isn't fueled so much by his anger and want for vengeance anymore instead more so to protect those he holds dear in so feeding the good wolf now so to say, restoring balance of the yin and yang duality neccessary to be in harmony to be truly at peace.
Then what? Does the armor stop working or maybe that's the strongest version of it yet? What if that is what allows Guts to finally stand toe to toe with Griffith?
Skull knight may have been using it wrong thinking that's the only way or the thing about the former owner died inside it (which he said it was his) was a metaphor. The person he was is no more, changed entirely into someone unrecognizable to his former self. His current armor or body whatever it is white and black in a way now. Although that's most likely just cause it's bone white and shadow not actually white for the sake of cool imagery and I'm trying to force some head cannon into places it doesn't belong lol.
Sorry that's long as fuck but it got me thinking kinda rambling a bit.
Well Guts can just wear the armor normally as he does when walking around. Though I mean that's nothing special I suppose. The armor also grinds up or tears up it's user, and I don't think it's ever been stated that the grinding is because of one feeding off hatred. The armor itself simply brings out one's BoD in greater proportions I think. I recall that being said, albeit not in the exact way I said it. So I feel like the armor is in comparison more like a symbiote I suppose? In the sense that it allows one greater power for a tradeoff, and in a sense takes over when it needs to. Though the BoD is more the symbiote than the armor, the armor being a vessel that brings out one's BoD greatly. Sorry, horrible comparison I know. I wonder if there is any way to better the armor, rid oneself of the trade off. Would it eevn be fair to do so? Not that fair really matters, but Miura doesn't seem like the "Oh here have this Op thing and no trade off." Kind of guy you know? Even the current Band's magical weapons aren't nearly as good as the Berserker Armor so I'd say they don't compare in the whole simply getting good gear aspect. I do wonder though, I always do say Miura is the Wild Card. We can only usually theorize about that which we already know a decent amount about. And future plotlines usually are alluded to only by SK, whom is very unspecific and often leaves things very vague. But you know who would understand this armor nonsense? The man who made it! Read the new chapter guys, we're getting there.
@@agamerforgod4088 that's awesome thanks for the update bud! I'm currently rereading it again from the beginning but I cant wait to see what the maker of the armor has to say. Guts needs to figure out some kind of way to get stronger maybe he can help him better utilize his armor in a way that won't kill I'm the process.
Sometimes really nice people deal with dark thoughts so I imagine it would be fairly consistent with just how dark the thoughts and how they manage it
Here's the thing. There is a very violent, near malevolent presence inside the armor itself, the Od which is basically the spiritual energy in Berserk Lore, making it essentially "Alive" in a sense. The Od inside the armor is reactive to whomever chooses to wear the armor, often mirroring the person's own Ego, the culmination of all their dark desires and wants that they would otherwise lock away within themselves. That's why when Guts first put on the armor, it changed its appearance from that of a metallic skeleton to that of a Black Beast, reflecting Guts' desire to maim kill and slaughter all in his path as he has long done so since before joining the Hawks.
I do not believe that a person that is "Pure of Heart" can completely overcome the negatives that come alongside wearing the cursed armor, nor would they be able to use it to its full capabilities as the Armor's Od feeds on their Ego to give a degree of its power.
Kenshin, from _Rurouni Kenshin,_ had an inner demon too: The Battousai. But we never got to see him fully tap it and fight Saito to the death. The same letdown could happen to Guts and Griffith in in _Berserk._ 😒
Is that really a letdown tho? For Kenshin NOT succumbing to the battosai was the whole point of his redemption arc / the show. He was arguably stronger without murdering people. Do you really think Guts killing Griffith 2.0 will solve anything?
@@EnigmaBL It just feels like there's unfinished business. Plus the fans want it! We never got to see a fight between Saito and Aoshi either.
RiP
I love your breakdown of the Berzerk series , love love love
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What is Bezerk?
Thanks for another well thought out video.
Well, the name of the series IS "BerserK", from the Norse "bear -shirt", referencing warriors who became a bear in battle - but Guts' Beast of Darkness is a dog, not a bear, not a wolf, not a wild animal. Dogs can be tamed. Dogs are our oldest allies. Schierke (sp?) is essential to Guts taming his Beast.
This is Musashi territory - the taming of the wild and powerful warrior by a series of instructors who focus his strengths, gentle him, guide him to his final battle. In the Berserk manga, it is done by love and companionship - less Casca's romantic love than the others' in his party and in his world. I think Guts will stay human, even if/when he dies. Because that is his victory.
Hey, where are the dwarves? Dwarves made the Berserker armor and possibly SK's. Might they be on Elfhelm (sp?) and can they help? Was Godot a dwarf?
An aside - in a earlier live stream you suggested that Flora and SK might know of Guts' origins and path through their knowledge of Causality (removed Causality chapter inference HERE). Could it be that both could see Guts hurtling at them through Causality like a steam engine through the fog? The Flower Storm King of Fairies does not seem much surprised at Guts - and she is KIND to him and his party. Is pure human WILL, Guts' will, more powerful than causality?
Very interesting and beatiful post, congrats!
it really turns out we meet those dwarves on Elfheim
Idolmaster is the real true enemy.
@CW misinformation is the real real true enemy 😉👌
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I love that old native legend but everyone has it incomplete..... you feed both in the original. For one cannot exist without the other for if you feed one and not the other one will starve and will create imbalance.
Love your videos as always! I’ll find the link to the original and post it here. Cheers and keep the great content coming!
czcams.com/video/JHXwPFMvaXk/video.html
Here you go guys. It’s totally like this manga. The duality of mankind.
Nice one.
The beast of darkness is guts shadow.
It contains his unharnessed potential and resentment.. it must be sublimated and faced in order for the power lurking it it to be properly used.
The apostles surrender to it and become possessed by it. If guts integrates it, he May transcend it and become whole.
So his greatest enemy is not the evil demi-gods who branded him, the demons who chase him endlessly, or the man who betrayed him slaughtering all his allies and raping his one love but... himself?
I mean for most people irl that might be true enough, but for Guts I think it would be griffith.
Honestly lol
I feel it's more of like he can't beat them unless he beats himself first. So right now it's his greatest enemy since it stops him from achieving his goal.
@@matiauka1 nnno! I'm sorry but no that's not at all right.
@@DeathSithe92 You can't just say it's not right and not explain yourself. That's kind of redundant
@@DeathSithe92 It's not right that if Guts succumbs to the Beast of Darkness in the berserker armor he'll lose his mind, murder his friends and go on a rampage until he runs out of blood and dies? What version of Berserk are you reading?
This concept of the beast exists in sufism too.
The analogy is, within the soul there are 3 characters. The beast, the devil, and the angel/sage. Every human have this.
The beast strives in eating, consuming, mating, sleeping etc. The devil strives in sowing corruption and harming others. The angel strives in the noble quality of human being and yearns to be closer to God. All of these 3 are in a constant battle against each other to control the self. And none of them can destroy one or another since the body needs all 3 of them.
The animal is needed so the self will feed the physical body. The devil is needed to protect the body from the harm of others. The angel is needed so the self can achieve his true noble purpose. Each does have their role so you cant erase them.
When the beast wins control, the self will be akin to animals, obsessing over food, sex and leisure. When the devil takes over, the self becomes obsessed with sowing corruption and in hurting others. Only when the angel is in control the other 2 will be suppressed and the man will become noble. This is the point of sufism.
Im just mentioning this coz idk. maybe its an interesting pov.
Top tier Berserk content here. Keep it up Ryan.
The tale of the 2 wolves is actually a bit different from the version that you used in the beginning . At the end of the more canonical version the grandpa says that you must feed both wolves but in a balanced amount .
I love the idea of someone like Guts, struggling with his beast of darkness, overcoming it and therefore accepting his own darkness in tandem with his light, and then using that gained strength to complete his quest.
Seeing such a tortured character achieve a true balance of self has an especially powerful impact.
We may find out the beast of darkness is not just an internal struggle of Guts darkside. The brand keeps him 1 step in the interstice, where demons and spirits continually haunt his subconciense. I wouldn't be surprised to find out its supernaturally adding to his beast.
That was a really dope breakdown my dude! You put what I was thinking but couldn’t explain myself into words. Hell yeah!
The story of berserk is not for happy endings, Guts is likely to become whatever skull knight is, something not human , but not apostle, something that is not evil, but something that no longer can walk the path of humanity forever chasing a vengeance that cannot be quelled.
Yeah.. that is absolutely stupid and it's not going to happen. "Happy endings" are not inherently bad, even in a story like Berserk. And in fact, making a story incredibly bleak misses the point of fiction. It turns it into an edge/horror fest without any substance. Good fiction always has that "light at the end of the tunnel" that greatly supersedes any darkness. Whether that light is in the form of eternal rest (death) or afterlife of some sort, it has to be there. And I see Guts getting ahold of that light at the very end. Making him tread a path of tragedy for eternity is subversion for the sake of subversion for the edgelords that don't like the current lighter atmosphere of Berserk when compared to some earlier arcs.
I feel like ur right about the happy ending part
But then again it could just end like the old man logan path
He does everything bad
Then good
Gets afew things stripped away and dies a old man death with the memories of his friends he once knew
And not a death of battle
A death of a long lived man with my memories of good in him along with the legacy and scars of war
Berserk creator already Said berserk has a happy ending.
@@UncleDaniel Rest in Peace but he likely only said that so that people will buy the Manga.
Do you think the people who waited the ending for 2 decades now will stick around if he said it will have a bad ending?
Everyone probably expected that and move on.
If he said that he'll get a good ending then people will be more curious especially in a series like Berserk.
Behind all this bleakness is a light at the end of the tunnel? Now we want to see this light.
The reason why guts is not destined to used behelith because he has a great amount of determination that even despair itself cannot get through his nerve.
Jeje puck sleeping so cuteeeee 4:22
My dude I’ve been seeing this panel for years and never once noticed puck was there lolololololol
Thank you so much for breaking this down. This is absolutely my favorite berserk analysis. I subscribed after watching this video
Dario Thank you so much, and welcome :)
Not only are your videos great but then you played one of my top ten scenes from south park. Thank you so much for uploading today.
I liked your thoughts on guts and his path towards or away from darkness. The beast of darkness was always my favorite concept in Berserk 🖤 This has always been a story that could go any direction and I can't wait to see where it goes
So sad we may never see the true ending of berserk. With the authors death I have no idea whether his idea for the ending was ever shared. I just hope whatever comes next can be as close to what he would have envisioned as possible, and the continuation of berserk lives up to its past (Though I have little faith for it).
Im just astonished how much this fantasy universe resonates with ours.
In our lives there is nothing ti change or fix, there is nothing we need to fight except for ourselves.
The world and life we experience mirrors our thoughts, so if you are suffering in life the only reason is you, change you and your life will change.
Honestly i think Guts not only wants to kill all the demons, but he also has too, simply for the fact that the mark would haunt him and Casca till the end of days. So he has to fight so he can kill every single demon, in order to live a normal life.
They can live peacefully on the Elfhelm though.
Great video, the Buddha says we can have bad thoughts as long as they do not manifest outside our heads.
I agree with your assessment of Guts and why I love him as a character.
Noice 👊🏼, great up load!!
Loving the berserk vids hopefully CZcams’s algorithm blows this one up too
Proud you made this before the passing
Cool video again man. Made some interesting points here.
That analogy or metaphor for dinner struggle in yourself was not only a great start of the video but the answer to the boys question was very interesting and hit close to home.
Just acorrection, meditation is not about forcing your mind into a void, it's about letting the thoughts freely flow through your head instead of grasping. Trying to actively stop your mind is counterintuitive to meditation.
The Beast of Darkness reminds me of The Maxx in a very obtuse way.
-The Maxx and The Beast represent the Animus and Shadow, respectively, for Julie Winters and Guts
-The Outback is analogous to the Astral Realm
-The Maxx and the Beast both born into the setting after the main characters commit their most reprehensible actions.
-The dallop of Outback that envelopes and animates Maxx's body (he's the reanimated corpse of a homeless man that Julie killed with her car) adheres to him like how the Berserker Armor does on Guts and the shape it takes on is the closest the Beast actually gets to actually manifesting in the real world.
-Teeth
Ah yes... The personification and amalgamation of all of the negative and sinful things within the hearts of men, in this case Guts.
A fursona
More like a Stand.
Furries man. That's what happens when you let it win inside you.
The quality of your videos are unreal
Beast of Darkness is what makes Guts struggle and fight 100 soldiers, 100 apostles, 100 hopeless battles, Berserk is very grounded to reality though portraying larger than life characters. Message is clearly to keep fighting for your humanity and existence against causality and destiny. I think casca will betray guts in future that's why beast of darkness wants him to kill her or forget her.
Yes in manga chp-345 tiny Casca wants to meet Griffith(she had experienced multiple orgasms while femto took her during eclipse manga chp-86+87)her moonlight child.
Also Guts crawled out of a corpse mother dead for weeks, survived war, brutality in mercenary camps, became young lone mercenary who sliced armored knights with single strike from his giant sword, bested band of the hawk also managed to outsmart griffith their leader, bested zodd in humanoid form survived zodd in apostle form, he's out done impossible legends, defeated wayld hound ape apostle after fighting midland army and bakirakas to rescue femto before eclipse. Beast of darkness gets stronger in presence of femto, god hand, apostle etc, however it becomes weak because of moonlight boy(Griffith physical)
Casca loves only griffith, Griffith loves only guts, Guts loves casca, casca gets rejected fucks guts, griffith gets rejected fucks princess. moonlight boy defends all 3 from one another.
This kinda reminds me of fullmetal-alchemist 2003 with is theme
İmagine if guts were to relinquish the beast by remembering that he is doing this for Casca too and in that moment the Berserker Armour changing its shape yet again but now the head of the Beast of Darkness is gone and the Helmet becoming something more happier and positive like getting a Helmet that resembels Guts and all of his Comrades and the armour becoming less sharp and more on the Defensive side and Guts being able to use the Armour with out the Beasts negative effects causing Guts to be able to better use the armour
I just hope miura left a story time line for his team.
“Why Fighters Use Dark Alter Egos in the Ring - Sports Psychology Breakdown” - The Modern Martial Artist, CZcams Channel. IMHO Very worth watching alongside this video. Different circumstances but parallel saliency.
i always like these videos, thanks
i love how the beast of darkness form of the berserker armor shows him being eaten, and that it also can be seen creeping up from his cape as if trying to catch him off gaurd
Now we'll probably never know or get that guts and Griffith clash.
I think this is the best way to look at Guts as a character and the series. His struggle is not with Griffin, it's with himself. If there is a way to make that the finale of this series, it could be very fulfilling.
Very good break down of his inner darkness's 10 ✨✨⭐⭐⭐⭐!!
I imagine the beast of darkness will just become his own entity manifested in reality doesn't need guts anymore.
Great video, you really gave me a whole new perspective about the best of darkness. Honestly I feel like guts should defeat Griffith wihout the power of the beast, but instead defeat it within him and becoming enlightened, essentially overcoming himself thus overpowering the beast.
Perhaps by doing so, guts might unlock the powers of the berserker armour, of course in this case instead of it being a power of evil it can become a power of good, at least that's what I would like to see.
I think it would be interesting to have Casca do the final blow against Griffith he gave her first sword and she'll make it the last blade he sees
What a great video! Can't belive i just found it
Your introduction was great. The one you feed is the one to prey upon yourself.
your videos are so good, I wish you had a better mic tho. Other than that, great video as always
The tale of the two wolves... nice touch 👌
Thinking about the ending... I can't guess on specifics but I have a feeling that the culmination of story is Griffith destroying the god hand permanently.
"Can you imagine Guts meditating?" LOL'd hard!
I just hope you get the light that "burns" the darkness and keeps it from taking control correct. Of course, it is actually revealed if you look at the Yin Yang symbol. Same with Griffith/Femto but opposite side.
Remember Guts has a behelit that we don't know who the true owner is. I wouldn't be shocked if the ending is fucked up, somehow involving him sacrificing Caska to become some crazy apostle version of the wolf of darkness and using that power to somehow kill Griffith.
Let me ask you this - why has Griffith not killed Guts yet? He has plenty of opportunity to.
Remember that Griffith went nuts by losing Guts as his righthand man. I could see him still seeking this and orchestrating a destiny where he turns Guts into an apostle, only not working out the way he thought it would and Guts turning on him and killing him (and probably himself too).
Yep. Thats probs gonna be a hinted thought but wont happen. The beast will be the 9 tail fox and thats how he gonna kill griffith
True anger is the self. He can see the sins of Griffith as a temptation, but one that he resisted and uses as motivation to continue on the road ahead. Its nearly biblical, love it.
Bless you for this meal
Your psychological metaphors are very good
I think we can all learn something from this video, it breaks down the balance of life
It's crazy how many of these videos need to be remade just because of the last 5 chapters
Barytes, Valhalla, a controllable berserker armor, powerful witches, Rickert and the Bakiraka.
I think the Beast of Darkness is similar to Fenrir from Greek mythology with it promising to consume Guts and becoming bigger every time he brings it down referencing Fenrir eventually becoming extremely gigantic but also the bindings of Fenrir being the chains that surrounds the Beast of Darkness. Plus they're both malevolent gigantic wolves.
I love that. I've always thought his true enemy was himself. Everyone going through something in the manga.
Great video
Guts is like that op front liner you just can't give up in a campaign of battle brothers.
I first heard the quote about the two wolves on Sci-Fy channel's 12 Monkeys.
Great show
If the Beast of Darkness ever took over Guts I'd imagine it would be like how the Abyss corrupted Knight Artorias. Losing your humanity just aimlessly wandering around battle damaged attacking anything on sight.
I want a full anime of this manga already! >.
The beast of darkness reminds me of Ichigo's inner hollow in Bleach. Once he fights and beats him, he can use his power without being taken over by the Hollow.
So having been on a bit of a Berserk binge lately, watching a bunch of these videos in particular, my theory for the ending of Berserk is that Guts gets a belith and chooses Griffith as his sacrifice. Think about it for a second, outside of the poetic justice of Griffith being torn apart by the very monsters and demons he chose to become one of (and ultimately killing every single last one of them because he's sooo much more powerful}, you have to choose the people most dear to you, that matter the most, in order to fulfill the ritual. Griffith cared about no one else more than Guts, to the level of obsession Griffith needed Guts in his life. Thats why he was choosen as his sacrifice. Now the opposite side, Guts's singular motivation in the beginning of the manga is finding and murdering Griffith for what he did. Outside of Casca, who he would never sacrifice, Griffith is the most important person in his life. It makes perfect sense to me that Guts, having found a belith, would come before the God Hand and choose Griffith as his sacrifice. Perhaps he then finds some loop hole out of becoming a demon, or maybe he becomes one and goes on to murder the rest of the God Hand and ultimately God himself.
Solid video. Me likey.
They wouldn't be any beast of darkness if guts had a normal upbringing from birth .
Miuara really understood the human condition.
That moment when Ryan basically quotes a Headpsace ad
He sure never did the lotus pose, but, is it true that he never meditated on his life? Maybe in quiet moments/scenes/panels, sometimes holding his sword, sometimes just gazing at the sky, often alone, but not always...
I can’t help but feel the beast of darkness and the berserk armor will play a roll in the final battle considering the foreshadowing of the battle in cascas mind. hopefully he conquers it and ascends during that battle but it feels like a huge part of his personality so it’ll probably consume him and kill him and Griffith and maybe the guts crew. unless Griffith and his apostles kill the crew feeding the beast of darkness and its power leading to guts at his strongest
Guts really do got that dog in him
Berserk is so deep it's incredible.
The suit I believe it to help him incorporate the beast of darkness in a way that's acceptable. Carl jung said that you cant banish your shadow or else you will just relapse but instead you should find a way to implement it in a way that's seen as acceptable. I think that Griffith can be harmed by guts since guts is a sacrifice who was never sacrificed. I mean he still struggled against his telekinetic powers and with his new strength can maybe overpower him with help from his new friends.
Griffith did nothing wrong, or rather unexpected, he wanted his own kingdom and to be THE KING OF HIS OWN KINGDOWN, he had friends and people who loved him, but still longed for more, meaning he was not content with what he had making him willing to sacrifice his current state of prestige and brotherhood for what he truly wanted, the band of the hawk was just a means to an end. Obviously the eclipse presented this in a way that was extremely gruesome and poetic, but if Griffith were to meet a human such as a king who would give him everything he wanted including his own throne in exchange for everything he loved he would have also done it, now i know Griffith had everything taken from him before the eclipse, but if he was healthy and knowing that he could never achieve his goal without sacrificing everything that was "dear" to him he would still do it. I would like to call this philosophical discussion the "Griffith Switch". But really this is human nature and we are presented this kind of situation on micro and macro scales on a daily bases, do you throw a friend/family member under the bus for your own finacial/social gain. Griffith's intentions were always wrong because he wanted a kingdom with him as the crown, i know he intended to make a better life for everybody in midland, but his own prestige took front seat, as seen with the sacrifice of the Band of the Hawk..... edit guts is the opposite of that, at least when it comes to the ones he holds as dear to him, i know he killed a child
Literally just the headspace ad for the first half lol
My theory on the Beast of Darkness is that a person who, for whatever reason, is able to partially defy Fate / Causality is also able "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" to be an actual threat to the Godhand. During and after the Eclipse, Femto and Void both bother evading SK and Guts' attacks, which I think indicates those attacks would matter if they landed (if you're truly sure a sword will bounce off your face, letting it is MORE of a dismissive display than a portal-parry).
But it still costs you. Instead of sacrificing people you cared about to the Eclipse, you have to choose *the fight against the Godhand* over everything else you could've done with being unshackled from Causality. So you "beat" them... by becoming what you would've been as one of them.
The "Wolf of the Dark Millennium," if you will.
Part of me thinks this side of Guts will soon evolve and become its own independent entity.
Like Guts literally created a Demon out of his own fractured mind.
i can totally see how this explanation correlates to the part where guts becomes something even greater (what we already have seen like Guts vs Grunbeld) only to defeat griffith. Thats his most important task. It is not justice, but revenge and hate that drives him or lets say plays a bigger part here than justice. I can even see how it will eventually to lead to a point, where he is kind of drawn to the decision, where he needs to sacrifice his "dear", only to defeat griffith (behelit-stylish); where the biggest decision of all has to be made - will the evil or light side in himself prevail. They might make him sacrifice casca or his whole group, only to gain more power - maybe the armor drives him even more insane....but i cant see how the armor makes up for what guts is missing to withstand griffith. (iam not fully up to date rn, somewhere where they make it to elfhelm going into this dreamphase).
Everything leads to a plot, we have seen in many other series and movies - still awesome ofc. Where Guts needs himself to ask the question if it is worth it sacrificing everything, only to get revenge and if the cost will make up for that.
I assume that by the time I am fifty the manga of berserk will finally com to an end, well at least I have something to look forward for my next twenty years.
We’ll never know. And sometimes that is the best ending.
Given the idea that belief and conviction play such a huge role in berserk, I wonder if by in sense feeding his feelings of revenge and hatred really could have created the wolf. And who knows, miura could literally have guts "kill" the wolf. But possibly in a dream state like with casca. I hope he overcomes the wolf. Berserk having a tragic ending would just feel too bad.
At some point I started to feel that perhaps the beast if darkness is partly influenced by the idea of evil in order to keep guts on the path of causality
Could you imagine how strong guts would be as an apostle