Berserk's Godhand Lore Breakdown and Analysis 

The plot is too damn good, it hurts that Miura passed :( genuinely one of the best plots I've ever read in my life (Edit) Relax people, the world is still spinning, you've probably eaten today and you're alive, it's not that serious. Relax.

Every so often, the algorithm gets it right. I'm glad this video popped up in my recommended.

18:00 We do know the ambitions of Griffith. His dream, to which he sacrificed his comrades, his loved ones and his only friend, was to have a kingdom of his own. Everything that followed after his rebirth(including his rebirth) was to facilitate him acquiring such a kingdom. He took Midland, the place that he previously aspired to become king of, and fashioned from it Falconia by defeating the Emperor Ganishka. Everything else was the reckless disregard of his actions. He hunted down mages, who would potentially oppose his plan in facilitating the merge, he gathered the apostles, in order to be able to fight the monster hordes that Ganishka, an apostle, could produce, and he tried to unite the disparate elements of his army, by appearing as messianic/godly figure to the unwashed masses. He manipulated the pontiff, the nobility, the footsoldiers and ultimately even the enemy(both "seen" in Ganishka and "unseen" in the Skull Knight) to obliterate reality as is, to gather everyone under his banner, his kingdom, in the last human nation on Earth(since everywhere else there were fantastical monsters now abound). That was Griffith's ambition and it was fulfilled to the layman's eye, but as Guts said, Griffith always strives to go higher and higher. His ambition right now may be to become ruler of the whole world->possibly more. It was said that the fifth God Hand was special and it shows if one gets to look at Griffith's history. From rags to a Messiah king of the last kingdom.

I mean, if Griffith is favored by the Idea of Evil, perhaps Guts is favored by something else.

If there was one series that i could read again without knowing the plot it would be Berserk the intrigue in the story and all the hand written panels that Kento labored over for hours rest in peace king

I think Skull Knight killed the other 4 members of the godhand that we see in his eclipse flashback, after lost his lover, at that moment, he probably just went full berserk releasing his beast of darkness and just started merkin mfers

By far the best video on berserk I’ve seen. I know broad statement but you nailed all the spots and well spoken. Ty

Perfect analysis of Berserk’s god hand

IF the idea of evil is a spoiler. What could that mean? Does it mean that the idea of evil is the ultimate big bad? Does it mean that evil is merely an idea/concept? A bit of both? Also does the idea of evil exist allone or does it imply The idea of Good? Great comprehensive video about the Godhand by the way!

the love I have for this is crazy. you explained this so well. skull king and skull knight went over my head when I was reading lmao

First time in a while when I watch a video of such nature and it's not regurgitated stuff, but instead something new

I found berserk during the lowest point of my life. It definitely helped it not get any lower. Berserk and manosphere content. ALMOST started doing meth because I had just divorced. Living in hotels driving 2 hours to job sites and the weekends/free time I was alone in a hotel room. My only single friends from childhood or ones not busy with their families are the ones on drugs still. The women at the hotels were doing it too. Everyone was. I did try it a few times and it ain't for me. Stuff breaks people down and turns them into monsters and I can see why. I just layed in my bed listening to berserk lore for entertainment instead of going out. I don't even like anime or manga. Berserks story is something else. It's so real at times. I related a lot to it.

Good afternoon. I'm fan of berserk. Everyone have great day and next day and week and weekend and next week and full happiness 😊😊😊😊😊. Great video and keep make more great videos.

Me from a town called midland: Im in danger

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I like your videos please keep it up, really enjoy watching yours and other YT Berserk content when I’m driving, intriguing it is

I am extremely amazed you never mentioned the 4 Khaos gods from Warhammer and the crossovers for the God's Hand members with them. Even Slaan basically shares a name, design, and ideology. Tbh I think that many fantasy worlds pull from biblical ideas and beliefs. Berserk and Warhammer are very similar though.

Artemis is not the goddess of fertility much more than that. She was actually one of the virgin goddesses forever

This is the content I want to watch on RU-vid. Excited to what else you cook up. Very happy the algorithm brought me here

To me I'm thinking there can't be an idea of evil without the idea of good to differentiate them.

Besides Griffith/Femto, I think my favourite is either Void or Slan. But all of them are very interesting.

"Do what thou wilt" is the same as do what you want. It's do what you will, which is connected to your divine will.

Well the God hand themselves represent certain aspects like. Ambition, Treachery, Lust, Deception etc.

12:12Artemis is mostly associated with the hunt,wilderness, and nature. She was also a virgin goddess, without pairing with anyone in the pantheon(pretty unusual occurence). Demeter would come closer to mind, when thinking of fertility, and Aphrodite would be of love and procreation. Societal norms like marriage and household were depicted through Hera and Hestia respectively, with the former also being the goddess of women in general.

There’s a lot of Hermeticism & Thelema in this and I’m all in

Berserk has some Lovecraft and Giger influences in it.

Great video you should cover the latest chapters 374 plus and do a theory video on whats to hopefully come soon!

Amazing video and analysis!

Ubek reminds me of a Xenobite from the Pinhead franchise

New subscriber here, keep it up with the great Berserk analysis video ❤, its rare to find one this good, congrats on it 👍

Personally I think it wasn’t necessarily the Idea of Evil that was to revealing, what was to revealing was Griffith’s ignorance of the higher, transcendental divine realities. (It also bears mentioning that the groundwork for dualism wasn’t established yet) What you so lovingly did for Slan, equating her to Cleopatra, and my personal favourite Echidna, I’d like to do for Casca. Personally I feel Casca initially invokes the Egyptian Goddess Isis, and by extension Golden Age the Egyptian myth of Osiris. (In the interest of time there’s two things I’d like to briefly highlight. For starters this equation is but one of a series, synchronicity or not, a meaning to the word cascade; I’ll dive in the other soon enough. Second, and arguably important, especially for what’s yet to come, this implies her so “son” to be Horus; you know, a god in the form of a falcon, who’s right eye is said to be the sun whilst his left eye is said to be the moon, etc. as there’s just to much to type out just on this topic). Ultimately I predict her true ‘self’ will invoke the Greek Goddess Athena, I think that’ll be her role to come and why she’s in Falconia as of late. (Noteworthy this implies she served her previous role) If you haven’t caught on yet, I’m beating around the bush know as wisdom and knowledge. (Yet another neat synchronicity, in metaphorical sense, causality, and the cascading there off, can be compared to the acuasition of wisdom and knowledge) In other words Sophia, specifically the Gnostic Sophia and thus equating Casca’s fall, coincidentally the other meaning of cascade, to Pistis Sophia. Longwinded as I am, I’m now short on time and thus have to cut this comment short. That said, this topic bares further discussion; invoking Pistis Sophia, as I did in my opening paragraph, equates Griffith to the Demiurge. I dare say he is the Demiurge. Thus, making Guts the human soul, this in turn implies the series ends with Gnosis, which is why I implied Casca (largely) served her current role; it is the combination of both Sophia and John that symbolise the soul’s journey. With Sophia out of the picture for the foreseeable future and, surely coincidence, the sudden reappearance of the aforementioned John Rickert, after he’s spoken to Jesus I might add, both even, their teachings must be truly esoteric, I thinks it’s save to say he’ll continue where she left off for now; in the East no less, who knows, some of those esoteric teachings might be very transcendental once shed of orientalism? Anyway, good video; made for an interesting ponder during lunch break, hope you read, and perhaps taking inspiration, this as it’s a topic I haven’t really seen discussed elsewhere. Aptly, I think this is why Elden Ring is the most Berserk-esque game yet; they fundamentally draw inspiration from the shift to monotheism, or rather the Christian rejection of polytheism, Gnosticism especially but as Casca’s spiritual predecessors show certainly not exclusively.

i need to go back and read this series gain

I just got the first book in the deluxe edition, I'm starting to read it now. I'd only watched it before so I'm really excited

Please do a lore video of skill night n fantasia i just noticed the necklace she wearing in king G dying arm look just like the queen of elf-hem n rember they had that one moment together

Just before anyone gets it twisted, he obviously means the Ephesian Artemis, who was a goddess of fertility, and not portrayed as the huntress of the moon as the Romans and Greeks did. Which, if you look at how moon cycles were used to keep track of fertility, it still makes sense. Also, the whore of babylon is known as the mother of harlots and abominations (ie. Monsters, fiends, demons). Whore of Babylon = Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea. This lines up with your theory, and was the first thing I thought of

Nice video bro u get my sub keep up the berserk ‼️

At one point I thought I was watching a Warhammer lore video. 5:41 A god of disease A god of desire A god of war Tzeench has left the chat at the end but still.

Please do more lore vids brother the only channel that’s really big on it is marvelous anime and they don’t do as good of a job

Let's go! Berserk lore

The bible says that the antichrist will come calling himself the savior but is really a wolf in sheeps clothing griffith does the same he potrays himself as a savior of humanity but hes the downfall and guts is often compared to a black wolf or a dog especially in cascas dream or whatever the hell that was

It's funny how you tried censoring the video but there's so much nudity that some still popped through

Covers breasts at 2:46 , then leaves ducks all out at 3:00. MVP

Slane(spelling) sounds like she's based off Lilith who is described as the mother all monsters.

amazing vid keep making more!

Amongst the 4 elements , void is the 5th that contains the others . If the elementals are the agents of the idea of good . Evil is the exploitation of good . The collective evil of human consciousness inspired the idea of evil to become powerful . The enslavement and suppression of others is the essence of evil . Souls who committed evil end up in the vortex where they suffer the idea of evil which they themselves contributed to and in the process feed it’s power . It is these souls that fuels the power of the idea of evil and the apostles .As evil is the exploitation of the good either the first 4 angels are elementals who were summoned against evil by the one using them : void but then he himself retained the identity of the void making his own 4 angels in contrast to the 4 angels of good . Also the idea of good doesn’t have a void to hold the elementals and lets the individuals be the voids to hold them . Or these 4 angels are basically only the positions of the god hand personified and exerted by the idea of evil before the thousand year period of actual individuals acquired to align themselves with these positions , which is why instead of eclipse their is a vortex from where these positions emerge at this time purely created through voids power , or serve to instruct void in guiding others to these position so to fill the ranks of god hand . Or another theory is that multiple such progressions of god hands habe occurred and in the end they get absorbed into the vortex where in they control or exploit the energy of the respective souls they lead to hell and channelise this to service of the idea of evil , so there may be many god hands but they are in vortex and not in external decision making . Either way this isn’t eternally a cycle since they were waiting to acquire enough power to allow for the blessed king of longing that is Griffith

Great video please keep it up

Berserk is genuinly peak

Great video! Very well researched!

great video!

Bathory actually was only a pawn in the machinations of noble political aspiration

Why does the current timeline we’re experiencing feel just like this?

I’m pretty sure when all 5 god hand members have been formed the oldest one at the next 216 years will die and go into the spiral

It being a right hand they stand on isnt a good sign for there being a "good" godhand side if history is a prevalent reference. Unless hes making ultimate order as a bad thing and chaos good. Maybe there is another culture referen e for bases of which hand...

I personally want to see Griffith/femto betray the god hand and give up his dream for his friends😢

hey what chapter was 18:21 ? i cant seem to find it

i think there cant be a god of war when you have a god of desire, desire is the beginning of all suffering buddhism knowledge

Like the hellraiser reference

Just got Berserk deluxe 1 and 2. Already love them.

7:23 wait radahn is that you

Nice video!🙌🏼🔥🔥

How are you going to censor things labeling as family friendly while talking about Berserk?

I don't know how it happened brother but I post a comment I made for another video on here. I'd literally don't know how it happened so please I didn't mean that comment that you sent the first time if you did see it

Artemis is not the Goddess of fertility in fact she is the opposite. She is the Goddess for ever Virgin, the perfect Hunter, the non man seeing female. Huge mistake from your part. Persephony or Demeter could be more accurate.

So, “Idea of Evil” is Chaos gods from WH40K?

Which universe is worse, Berserk or Warhammer 40k

W vid

Nietzsche obviously had an influence, among others.

216 years 2+1+6=9 which is the most divine number

I think that since the sacrifices didnt all die (casca and guts) he will try to force casca into the god hand by sacrificing all those people in the new "kingdom" he made or he is an unfinished god hand and needs both guts and casca dead

Berserk is the perfect example of why some creators should have one story shouldn’t be told over 30 years. There too high a chance of the creator never being able to conclude their story. As each year passes it becomes more and more likely something may happen that prevents their story from ever being finished due to failing health, death, destitution, lack of ideas, but the main one being death. From what I’m aware of, it seems that even to this day-nearly 30 years after their introduction to the Berserk story, fans still know next to nothing about what the God Hand actually are, what they want, WHO they are, or where things in the story maybe heading. The creator used them so sparingly, and intentionally withheld so much information about them that it’s insanely scarce, and what information there is about them minimal that it’d be nearly impossible for fans to ever accurately formulate an educated theory as to where the creator was taking the story, and how it could have ended. We know absolutely nothing about Void in particular, yet he’s so clearly central to not just the plot going forward into the future but also the backstory to several characters, and the events that kicked the this whole story into motion. It’s so extremely unfortunate because the creator of Berserk was clearly setting up something of biblical proportions, no pun intended, and it could be likely we’ll never know where it was actually going or that whoever takes up the challenge of trying to finish Berserk may not be able to realize the creator’s vision for Berserk’s ending that would be up to par with what the creator would have done if still alive. Another good example of why taking this long to finish a single story isn’t the best idea is George R.R. Martin. It’s been what over a decade since he release A Dance With Dragons? And he’s like in his 70’s! And as we saw with Game of Thrones season 8, other writers most likely aren’t anywhere near up to the task of finishing A Song of Ice and Fire of R.R. Martin does pass before releasing Winds of Winter. What’s worse is he’s writing other books set within the Game of Thrones world but for some damn reason just won’t finish Winds of Winter. As amazing as great stories spanning multiple decades to create can be, it can wind up really hurting the series in the long run if it takes too long for them to finish. And that does a real disservice to the fans, especially fans that have stuck by the series since its conception.

god of war??? KRATOSSS

Slan = Slaanesh Is that too far fetched?

12:45 In Europe not the entire world tho...

Slan is for sure based on Warhammers Slaanesh Edit: Partially inspired by, they are like one and the same xD

A more accurate version of

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"Caca enjoyed it" - Nuts

Graet job

A God who rules by fear claiming its love is a demon lord in disguise

Yo Guys What if The God Hand were in The Demon Slayer!

We deserve a re make of this manga

Void and skull knight are based real life figure. Skull knight is based on caesar nero and jesus christ. Void is based on paul the apostle and hasan i sabbah.

great vid but the idea of evil isn’t canon😢

Doppppppe ass video

family friendly?! are you kidding? this is insane - if you want sth "family friendly" then talk about my little pony or sth like that - even talking about Berserk is not family friendly in itself, why even bother censoring -.- yah, YT guidelines ... and btw: masks are utterly useless for diseases

I'm going to say this for the idiots. WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT CANON? Canon isn't real, it is your own head canon anyway. We are all operating off our own head canons anyway.

Good video, subbed