Berserk Chapter 371: Bad Gets Worse, It's Great 

"Berserk has NO SET SCHEDULE. The chapters are done when they're done and will be released when they're done." -Kentaro Miura

It’s still so worrying that this despair filled man has a behelit within 50 feet of him.

“You get a sight that will enrage you to no end: Sonia.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

-Guts finally has some happiness in his life. Griffith: “That is a precious sight, it would be a shame if that island sank to the bottom of the sea…”

Miura said himself in an interview that such a Dark story like Berserk wouldn't feel right without a happy ending. So everything Guts and his crew are going through, I hope it leads to the happy ending promised so long ago.

"Technically Griffith came out of her rabbit hole" I never thought about it like that. This is actually kind of fucking with me now...

I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda hoping that Puck is going to come in and try to talk to Guts. I mean Puck, and us the viewer, have been with him since the "beginning" and he was the one to support Guts in some shitty moments

I think what makes this chapter so hitting to me is how it points out how Guts has always depended on his sword, whether it's the Dragon Slayer, the heavy swords he used with the Band of the Hawk, or the normal swords he used as an infant. Griffith won, ultimately, but this is going to fuck him over in the long-run, Mark my words.

Guts : *happy* Griffith: We don't do that here.

Lifelong friend picks up manga of passed beloved artist, draws them getting shit on by the bad guy (who he inspired) draws the MC everyone loved going into a deep depression, refuses to elaborate, leaves

"The is so sad, Puck do the Thug Shaker." - Roderick

I think the manga is going on hiatus again so the team can fully flesh out and finish figuring out the rest of the plot. 371 feels like the end of an arc, and leaving it at such a depressing and infuriating (in a good way) cliffhanger means people will want to come back as soon as the manga continues. But that's just my speculation on the hiatus.

I think skull night is going to come in and tell guts of a way he can actually harm Griffith with his sword if they do x,y and z and that's when he'll leave the party

I 100% believe that Griffith is doing this on purpose to make guts feel the true despair that he felt when he left him and we all know how petty Griffin can be in the story.🤔🐱

Puck seems to be taking the destruction of his beloved homeland very well.

The team who took over Berserk are my heroes. The story hasn’t missed a beat and looks beautiful.

Man, i'm still annoyed at Zodd's whole thing. He was a somewhat honorable fighter who just wanted good fights, straight up saved guts because he liked him, and even gave him a warning about hanging with girffith but ever since griffith cut his horn off he's been a whipped errand-boy for him. I wonder if he'll get a face-turn against griffith's monster mash in the end or something.

A hair I don't know how many people don't realize how much this matters when dealing with a godlike being. He managed to do SOMETHING. He CAN do something.

Things are serious when even Guts succumbs to being Yamcha’d

I think the Beast kept off activating when confronting Griffith to fuck Guts over. Not because its power would have been able to put a dent in Griffith or anything like that, but because he didn't want Guts to lose consciousness when he realized just how powerless he truly is before Griffith. If Guts had lost himself in a rage he wouldn't have been able to see for himself how weak he is compared to his enemy, which was crucial for breaking him and allowing the Beast to break its shackles and then go in for Guts's mind.

its funny so many youtubers 'review the new chapters' i just wait for this man to do videos. nobody comes close to breaking it down and explaining bravo my good man!

I personally think that bringing Casca back is eventually going to lead to her spreading the word of what Griffith really is, which will lead to Guts finally being able to hurt him.

Man, that chapter hit me in the feels. I seriously wonder how it will end

Personally, I think the kidnapping of Casca was impulsive on Grifith's part. Partially the desire of the moonlight child wanting to be with his mother and partially his desire to have Casca back as a pawn/lover. It's less that he sees it as something planned out, more that he can write it into the plans, or he's confident that he can control things even though Casca is like Guts, being partially outside of causality.

The amount of pain just seeing our boy Guts on the ground like that was just..insurmountable 🫠

He took his Cacsa, her homeland and the boys mermaid. *Vengeance* 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!

Nice little note of Guts only snipping off small bits of Griffith's hair, it's exactly what he did when they dueled way back in Golden Age.

My best guess on how this will end goes as follows. Could be totally wrong. Skull Knight's complex plan will be put to action at his stolen kingdom, and it will either destroy one or all the members of the Godhand, at the cost of his old empire, which he learned to let go of long ago. The Godhand can't anticipate all of what he does, and he knows that. So he's taking advantage of their limitations to end the suffering they force on the world. Guts will properly grieve his losses instead of bottling it up like he did for years, tame his inner beast, and go on one final journey to retrieve Casca, and get out of Falconia as fast as possible. Guts won't be the one to get revenge, since it's now confirmed that he can't fight Griffith. Skull Knight can, so he'll be the one to carry out an attack on the Godhand and hope it's a killing blow. Guts will simply evacuate whoever he can before they're caught in the crossfire.

"Back to the 'hiatuses'. Back to the suffering. Back to Berserk!"

I don't think Guts is going to or is even able to kill Griffith. From what I understood, Rickert is able to hit him because he doesn't see Griffith as a god, and the perception of the human mind is what powers the astral world and by extension the godhand. In theory, assuming i'm right, that means that the one who will kill Griffith will not be Guts or any of the characters who perceive him as a god, but a lesser character who doesn't, like Rickert for example. It all goes down to the story trope of the great evil not being defeated by the powerful but by the weak (Like LoTR). But that's only speculation and no one really knows what was in Miura's head except Mori, so thank god he's writing the story now and we'll be able to see Miura's ending at least at a conceptual level

The thing about toxic people like Griffith is that they never really let go. There have been people in my life who were manipulators, who always tried to keep others closest to them down in order to feel better about themselves. Which is Griffith to a t, as he literally became a demon to shut off his emotions and get what he wanted. The sad thing about people like this is treat they never really let go, they just focus on whatever they don’t have or their own insecurities. Even when Guts tried to move on, Griffith couldn’t handle it apparently, and so stole everything from Guts again. I’m sure this will come back to bite Griffith in the ass, but whenever Griffith is defeated or killed, I will have some satisfaction in knowing that the last thing he will see, real or imagined, was his best friend. I hate you Griffith.

Guts has to give up his hate to win. A man can not live by hate lest he be consumed by darkness and become evil. He is clearly at a crossroads of darkness and light, I’ve been there. Hardest challenge so far.

Respect for using the Kingdom Come: Deliverance music! Love that soundtrack!

The Art is actually amazing. Not only did they tell the story pretty well, but the amount of call backs and how good they looked showcased their ability on handling this. I'm glad it's taking this long. I might get another double whammy and get our minds blown again.

may god have mercy on the assistants

i think the fact that he pulled a hair off is huge. it seems to me this is a hint that Griffith isn’t totally invincible

9:48 Another character that's also currently on Falconia and knows Casca: *Charlotte.* Basically one of the pillars of the whole damn city, and one of the things that allow Griffith to have as much political sway as he does. Imagine when she finds out the woman she saw rescue Griffith from the tower of rebirth all these years ago is now a broken mess because of her lover.

I think the parallel of Guts sinking to the depths of despair, parallelling Griffith's sinking to the depths of despair before and during the eclipse, is a bit understated. Griffith was fully lost, insane from torture, jealous of others' station and thinking his dream will never be accomplished. That's when he was manipulated into giving up his most precious thing, his mercenaries whom he had so desperately built, to gain power and ascend to a demon, to gain his dream of a kingdom. Guts' dilemma has been his friends and his vengeance on the other hand. He has so far ignored his vengeance, or rather it has set aside. But this chapter reveals that Guts never really let go of it. I think the dilemma was best put into words by skull knight: Guts can choose the path of vengeance but he might fade into a shadow of rage and malice with no real personality or person left. I believe this is what happened to Skull Knight. He chose vengeance and even to remain in existence, even when he was turned into a creature of a single purpose, who understands and exists for nothing other than vengeance. I think that's what the parallel with the queen of faeries was about, she still loves him, but to him the only thing he lives for is vengeance, his human past and priorities are forgotten, they are not real to him anymore. i believe this choice must come to Guts as well. Will he choose vengeance or his friends or some other path, yet unclear to me. To be precise, Guts will be presented with the power to destroy the Godhand but that power must come with a terrible price, like the parallel choice of Griffitth's. Maybe Guts will be overtaken by the spirit of vengeance that lives within him and only with great cost or the loss of one of his new companions will snap him out of his madness. In spite of the passing of the irreplaceable Miura, I believe the story has great potential and remains very interesting to me. We shall see what the future will give us.

I think that Guts was shown the memories of the Skull Knight for a very specific reason. It brings back the conversation that Skully had with Flora before she died, the Knight believing that fate is cyclical and that things are destined to repeat, but Flora disagrees, saying that she believes that it's more of a spiral. I deadass think she's right, after seeing what the Skull Knight *probably* did to the previous God Hand, and that his lover died in his arms in the Old Capitol... might be VERY important information for Guts to have Especially since he basically seems to be facing the choice of whether or not to become the Skull Knight and "let his hatred consume him" or "to use his rage to keep him alive". Skull Knight has been pushing Guts to try to make different choices than he did, and I don't doubt Flora helped as well, trying to resist the flow of Causality. Let us also not forget a warning from the Skull Knight: "You must choose between killing Griffith and saving Casca, you cannot do both." If Guts goes to Falconia with the intentions of killing Griffith, driven mad by his rage and hatred, he will be unable to kill Griffith. If Guts goes to save Casca, I think it'll knock Griffith off balance and he'll lose to Guts, very similarly to when Guts left the Band of the Hawk. Plus, it *is* possible to hit Griffith, we have seen Rickert do it, so perhaps one cannot strike Griffith down with hatred in their heart? Maybe Rickert or Casca was always supposed to be the one to kill Griffith, and Guts needs to be the one to protect them? I truly can't wait to see how this all comes together, so hyped for more chapters whenever they actually come out

Really small detail that I noticed about Sonia is that her armor in 371 has a heart symbol on it. Casca's sword hilt during the Golden Age had a Heart Symbol in it, I don't know if this is meant to represent how Casca and Sonia each show(ed) devotion to Griffith, but I think it's really subtle character design.

Saw your nostalgia critic stuff last week and then it got me to watch the berserk videos great stuff earned a new subscriber

i hope casca being locked in a tower by griffith, and she ponders how much guts went through to save her (we could se ein her mind that even when she was insane she still recognized guts), and she is inspired by guts' willingness to push forward no matter what. Then casca has a scene mirroring guts in the cave refusing to lose casca ever again, as guts loses all hope, casca is now the one who refuses to accept what happens to her... honestly, a scene with casca mirroring guts' cave scene would be absolutely insane.

In Baki and Parasyte they each have a line like "In the wild, a beast never enters a fight it cannot win. Losing means dying." I feel like that addresses the beasts behavior a bit

@TheAlmightyLoli Maybe the reason why the Beast didn’t do anything when it saw Griffith is that it wouldn’t do any better & that would allow Guts to ignore the seduction of the Beast if he saw it be ineffective… now if the beast didn’t act it gets to promise Guts power, revenge, fury smothering out Guts’ despair.

Nothing has changed. Berserk will always be about the never ending despair of Guts.

I think the stage is now set for a classic, albeit horrifically twisted trope. Our brave and intrepid hero must now rescue his fair maiden from the clutches of an evil dragon. She is locked in the tallest tower in the dragon's keep. But... Our hero may just fall into darkness, and be consumed by the Beast. Our dragon is a hawk, and the people believe the hawk to be their savior. I fear what Guts will become in the chapters to come.

I can see guts with the beast of darkness just marching towards Falconia as darkness takes over the sky following guts the more he walks.

I felt like the beast of darkness knew Guts couldn’t hit Griffith. Thus giving him control in the fight in order to drive him in that mental state. Because if the beast took over Guts would’ve gave only see sharp teeth instead of his attack outright on connecting with Griffith. Leaving his mental state somewhat more intact.

Omg! Rewatching the episode where guts and Griffith have there snow duel and in the fight it literally shows guts only cutting off a hair off Griffiths head before he stops his blade so there’s definitely a connection between that duel that sent griffith spiraling down to the duel now that’s doing the same to guts damn that’s so awesome the parallels

i think the beast of darkness didnt take over when Griffith appeared was because gut's anger was faster than the armor itself, because we can see the beast kinda slither up the cloak at the beginning but guts moved in first

I also love that people are debating whether or not the Beast of Darkness feared Griffith. imo The Beast of Darkness was physically TRYING to get out but couldnt. Like Guts wasnt controlling himself, its just that the Beast of Darkness was far to weak to even come out and face Griffith. Its amazing that we never even saw griffith face the berserk armor, because the berserk armor was so meaningless to him that it couldnt even come out by his sheer radiance. The winds were to strong.

The beast of darkness tried to take over Guts right when he realised Griffith was there, but Guts resists it. U have a panel of the beast of darkness eye and then u get one of Guts resisting it, before he runs at Griffith.

It's been months and I'm still waiting for the chapter

Tbh when I saw Sonia eye, I’m sure she looked into casca mind and saw everything, that’s why they had the panel of Sonia eye looking shocked. She knows what griffth truly is now. The panel of guts literally diving into the water, is pretty similar to when he was trying to get out of the abyss when the beast of darkness trapped him, he legit doesn’t care now, he knows the only way to win is give the beast of darkness the wheel.

Please keep covering these new chapters your content is awesome

This time on man never catches a break, man continues to not catch a break.

What I think it is Griffith's body is vulnerable when the demon child takes over I think he took casca because the child's kept going towards her putting him in danger

Hey struggler I know the world is scary right now but it's gonna get way worse... For Griffith

I hoped after his death they'd lay this story to rest with hope the author could never have known, but we are in the same darkness, and the writers now know that more than ever. We are here forever.

Berserk Log 371: Well… it's over. Mmm. Casca and I, well, she was kidnapped, 'cause birdman tricked me again.

Glad to see Mr. Koji keeping the hiatus tradition strong and going

Griffith: Gimme your thing. Guts: Why your thing bigger? Griffith: Don't care want both of them.

“I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real” -Johnny Cash

You are without a doubt the best Berserk breakdowner AlmightyLoli. Thank you for your dedication

Sonia doesn't seem pleased that Griffith brought back another woman

Holy shit the Demon's Souls ost was awesome.. and damn these chapters have been soulcrushing.. give this man a break :(

its still surreal to see berserk continue and you cover the new chapters. i was watching berserk saga when it was still coming out part by part and i was certain it was over at 364, but we berserk fans have suffered too much and deserve to see the actual ending...

Something's gonna break, and I hope it's Griffith's back over an anvil.

What if the beast was an agent of Griffith? The beast itself was born from hatred of Griffith so it might consider him to be a parental figure, there might be some kind of loyalty there.

i think this is when the behelit that is in guts' possession should be activated if possible. Forcing guts to sacrifice his very life and body to an even higher degree in order to get an increase in power. Or combine the behelit with the dragonslayer

I can't unsee a lot of the inconsistencies people brought up on the skullknight site for the recent chapters but I'm happy fans are enjoying them.

2 berserk videos in a row? What a treat.

It wouldn’t be Berserk without a hiatus.

Almight has quite literally given berserk a voice to such a large audience to fall in love with, including myself. and if that was the goal then he damn well went above and beyond.

"The Raven's kingdom will not last. It was never his to rule. He is nothing more than a king of thieves, sitting on a stolen throne. The true owner of this throne, the Supreme King, has vowed to give it up, to destroy it for the good of all, and to repay the flaming vengeance wrought upon him by the ones who buried it in a single night, and forced him to watch."

Aight, in grand well established tradition we shall be receiving news or a new chapter real soon. Most likely tomorrow. Not like it hasn't happened before.

Love your Berserk vids, very well structured

He cant keep getting away with this HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

Waiting for your summarize of 372. Cmon dude

i dont think Sonia is really aware of the details of Griffith's journey, she likely just knew when he would come back because Griffith sent her a vision. She didn't knew about the apostles' monstrous nature until they transformed during the battle against Ganishka, so her powers wouldn't detect that Griffith is a God hand, and her going from a naive girl being manipulated to knowingly supporting all the bad shit Griffith does would be shown. But yeah, Casca in Falconia is a time bomb.

Imagine the manga actually just ending with "and all was lost, sometimes there are no happy endings" And just ends the next chapter lol

Sweet! Thanks to you, I'm a fan now and I plan on ordering the entire series.

huh, what a coincidence, i actually read that chapter for the first time today

Guts has come this far. No matter how far down this man gets in the darkness. The name of the story will show how he gets back up. Always gets back up. Always Berserk; always gets up and fights.

Even though it was only a single hair, the fact that guts was able to do that says a lot. He really shouldn't have been able to harm Griffith at all. Instead he did 1% damage. This will most likely grow into something more significant as the story progresses.

I think the reason the beast of darkness didn't take over when Griffith appeared harkened back to when he was reborn at the Tower of Conviction. Guts was in awe... Same thing when Griffith just walked up to the Kushan general and killed him in front of his troops... Griffith's mere presence must have some emotional/Od manipulation ability

6:05 Guts REALLY hit that yamcha

Great timing, I was just rewatching your video on Conviction arc. I prefer Studio Gaga take their time with story and art, instead of rushing it, but HOPEFULLY, we're not looking at Boat Arc 2.0.

I hope miura left a notebook detailing the whole story or atleast storyboards on how the plot is, and detailed backstory of important characters

COME ON GRIFFITH YOU HAVE THE WORLD WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO TAKE FROM GUTS AND HIS PSEDUO FAMILY AAAAAAAHHHHHH

Just waiting for that Behelit to roll right into Guts' hand

Witcher 3 background music a mainstay

It’s gotta be puck right? His whole purpose was to be a bright spot in one of the most depressing series of all time so who else to bring Guts out of possibly his worst moment in the series

The return of the king!

Next Arc is Casca going into her own Black swordsman arc and breaking guts out of his insanity.

WAHHHHHHHHH!!!! You uploaded more?!?!? I LOVE IT!!!

For me, the devils in the details...the fact that Guts got the one hair on his head means something....not sure what but it does mean something. Also, it all wasn't for nothing as casca now has her memories back (both the bad AND the good...I'm hoping when casca sees the woman who used to take care of her, that will come back to her and she will remember the love Guts had for her and since Griffith has love for her, she would be the only one who could get close enough to him to actually hurt him but that's just a theory...at this point, what if Guts uses the bailiff to become strong enough to kill him

We all collectively agree not to acknowledge the Yamcha-esque panel of Guts. THIS IS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER

Cool guy Guts suffering hits men like myself in the heart hole. Get well buddy you can do this 😞🥺