“You absolutely need to have dark in order to have light… if you have dark on dark… you basically have nothing, you gotta have a little sadness in life to know when the good times come” - Bob Ross
The struggle is how you know you are still you and still alive. Making peace with the struggle is how Sisyphus learns to smile again. Don't let the hardships of the world turn you cynical to the beauty that can be found. Emanate kindness and empathy so that others who are looking for it might find you like a lighthouse in the fog. Love and kindness only grow as they are shared. Unlike any other resource we need to survive. That's why the story of the black swordsman resonates so strongly with its audience. Because everyone can identify with the struggle, and we are all looking for kinship to get us through.
@@earlygray4456 lmao thanks mr.therapist, that's pretty easy to say when you don't have constant night terrors that spawn actual demons to kill you while you sleep. Having a mark that literally burns your neck every time evil is near by or demons with bloodlust. Living with the fact that your ex-bestfriend grape your girlfriend to the point where she is mind-broken. Said ex-bestfriend then become a literal untouchable God that leads an entire kingdom and having millions of people worshipping him not knowing that he is just a demonic entity. Your only means of defending yourself against hordes and hordes of giant monsters and demons is swinging a literally IRON BRICK and an armor that breaks all your bones to keep you fighting. .... I don't know did you read the Manga? LOL because no freaking therapy in the world is going to fix that one major moral.
@yinlu3647 the 1997 one is the best but the later one that also did the Golden Arc was not bad. There was a super cut somewhere on RU-vid of the two together though it may be a bit jarring as it is two animation styles but the 1997 version uses art lifted straight from the manga really well so I would recommend that. All the others sucked and I would stick to the manga.
We all had to experience that pain and trauma to understand why guts is full of hate and vengeance, making us root for him and see him change and better himself. The horrific and traumatizing images and scenes we see aren’t for a sadistic perverted purpose, but to show that evil won’t hold back and has no moral. And showing no matter what, struggle against the strings of destiny and retaliate against the monsters that destroy us.
Yea Guts is more than well within his rights to be the biggest cunt in the universe to any and everyone. In fact it’s a miracle in and of itself how he’s not a worser off person than the beginning of the series
me on chapter 1: "pff typical shonen protag, overpowered as hell, bigass 2hander, robot arm, ya right this is dumb" me after eclipse: "understandable have a good day"
The scene that got me was when guts woke up to find Casa happily taking a shower. My first emotion was joy due to thinking she’s ok, just to find out she was broken beyond repair.. fucking gut wrenching
friend, that's like not having seen anything, it's practically impossible for you to understand, read berserk, it's not an anime since even the one from 97 skips everything, it just starts in chapter 4 of the manga (which the first 3 is the snake man) and you will end up understanding, my story is almost completely different from anime
I got to chapter 200 and I feel like the story has been completely derailed by magic and 10 year olds. What a weird direction to take. The tone has shifted so much and it now feels like a typical manga. I loved everything up to this point but I've lost interest.
Something that I don't ever see anyone else mention about this is that non of adaptations really show just how hard they struggled to even try to get Griffith away from the castle let alone into safety from their pursuers. It really makes The Eclipse hit much harder when you see just how close they were from failing to save Griffith only for him to betray them in the end.
@@ForestWizardLookingForPotion why would he hurt guts? I liked him up until this point but that felt unnecessary. Maybe miura wanted to make him into more of a villain
He did only for him, he was in a shitty position that he put himself in, and blamed guts for that, even though guts had a will of its own, griffith didn't respect that, as if he owned guts, and this motherfucker did what he did just to break guts, just out of pure revenge for the state the griffith was in.
@@Finn959he wanted to hurt guts because he was the only one among his men that didn’t need Griffith, he obscured Griffith’s vision and when Griffith realized he couldn’t have Guts to himself anymore it made him lose his mind. Especially when he was tortured and lost all physical strength and the ability to speak. He also saw how Casca confided in Guts and became envious of him and covetous of her.
@@aekartzdefense7603I kept going, I was just that invested in the story. But I was reading it for the first time over a Christmas break, so that's also another reason.
I didn't know what was gonna happen, but the hints of the "Eclipse" were all over the place, plus the very first episode clearly showed that some supernatural stuff is about to go down
I read the first 100 chapters in early January of 2022…I haven’t continued. I’m still not ready. I just can’t continue. But those 100 chapters were the most exciting and beautiful things I’ve read in my 23 years of life. Hopefully I’ll pick it up again soon
when i'm allowed to give u a piece of advice... keep reading... believe me... guts is in the same position as you are - you can identify as him and struggle together. I wanted to leave Berserk after the ecplise aswell - but i thought no. Guts survived, i wanna see how it's going to end. And... my gosh - I learnt a lession from Berserk and espacially from guts - how to deal with negative days... months and situations 🙂. We are all struggleres
Me before the Eclipse: "Loving the attention to detail. Guts is such a funny asshole." Me during the Eclipse: "This is all sorts of twisted and I'm loving it". Me after the Eclipse: "... this hollow feeling is just going to linger until the end, is it?"
it's definitly going to leave when berserk become a lovely shonen with a lot of colourful character, like the cute little witch or the goofy little boy who want to be Guts's aprentice. Just stop at volume 13.
You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again... soon.
@@jolopolo4761 Bro, this is a quote. My brother in Christ, hating others in order to feel better about oneself is like darkening another room to make yours seem brighter. You have not brightened the room, but darkened the house. You must put light into your room, and as such, brighten the house.
@@11rally2Give yourself a favor and don't spoil yourself. You're going to go through an Experience, it will be like a Canon even for you (as people now say)
I saw the scene for it in very first anime adaption - that Was literally the only thing I saw of the series before I decided to read it. ......... The build up to that point in the manga, as well as the context of the scene and the tragedy of the event of which it is a total different experience. It would likely have been totally different if I actually read spoilers, but I just saw a scene and wondered where it was from.
I see a lot of people write that they felt dead inside after watching the 1997 anime. This is one of my favourite animes of all time but what I felt was different. I felt anger and hatred beyond imagination at the end, which somehow made me feel alive, not in a healthy way but my heart was burning with intensity.
To this day, I am still amazed how Berserk went from a casual anime in a typical but grounded war setting with human problems during wartime to an absolute clusterfest of abuse, pain, demons, horror, otherworldly beings and just in general a complete downhill ride.
It goes from a low fantasy to a nightmarish dark fantasy and somehow makes it look natural Tho ofc there was the Black Swordsman arc warning us beforehand
Ngl the eclipse at the end of the anime broke me. I honestly thought Zodd showing up out of nowhere was the most horrific thing I'd see. *Zodds warning to Griffith was as much for us as it was him*
I started two years ago. I can’t imagine being a day-one reader and going through all of the hiatuses and waits you guys have been through for so long. It’s phenomenal but the waiting is killing me now and it’s only been a short time.
@TheHippyProductions Miura completed the manuscript before he died. His friend, another mangaka, took over to complete it in his stead and has already released more chapters, though its been slow which is to be expected
Getting to eclipse was genuinely the most heart and gut wrenching experience I’ve ever felt reading anything as I was genuinely afraid to see how much worse stuff got each page. 10/10 masterpiece
We will never recover from this chapter. But one thing Berserk teaches us that we can all take to heart: even in the darkest of times and after great suffering, there can still be hope. We may be damaged but we are not broken irreparably
Though I'm not an anime fan, when I found the 1997 anime by chance, my mind froze for a whole week and it changed some of my insights about this whole life. It got me to the manga. Its philosophy is so deep, but has some fallacies. Good luck for new readers.
The fallacies in philosophy often come from the individual meaning there's nothing wrong with the philosophy there's only something wrong to you it's a staple of philosophical debate no one will agree on everything also Griffith was going insane
@@tonythetwitch5813 No a lot of characters are going insane so there's a lot of philosophical fallacies as their sens of meaning is biased by their scars.
I mean it's just a story with characters that have their own philosophies, it's the characters that we look through, see ourselves in and find these philosophies. Characters, like humans, are and should be flawed. There is no perfect philosophy, everyone is different.
We've all been there. I remember watching the anime adaptation (1997) back in high school, when the episodes were still uploaded on RU-vid. Felt dead inside for several days afterwards.
Bruh, unlike most animes and mangas that throw r**e scene out of nowhere for shock value, first time watching eclipse in Berserk nearly made me tear up for Guts. Just the betrayal and the dreams he had, hits so close to home.
It’s not really there for no reason, it was built up that Griffith wanted Casca but couldn’t have her because she was his subordinate and he needed to keep on the mission. He finally decided to “have her” the way he wanted and to also fuck over Guts as payback for leaving the band.
@@sullivandmitry1416 Yea that's basically what he is saying. Other anime and manga throw it in out of left field, while in Berserk the Griffith and Casca scene was built up over a whole arc.
I recently watched Berserk 1997... I immediately liked the atmosphere and attention to details, I watched episode after episode all day and night... And how quickly events turned upside down in the most terrifying way... I went out onto the balcony , lit a cigarette, thought a lot, cried... A couple of days later, I decided to watch the next seasons, and immediately become blind due to 3D. As soon as I could see, I started reading manga. One of the best in terms of graphics and details, in my opinion. A wonderful piece of art, I will get to the end, no matter how many tears will drop.
I've watched anime since middle school (started with AOT) but Berserk in sophmore year of high school was the first manga I read. Few things have stuck with me like that. So glad my first experience of it was the manga.
@@Mepharias Berserk manga will never disappoint you in terms of graphics, deatails and plot twists. It’s kinda heavy to be first manga for some people, I mean that philosophy of berserk is really deep and complicated for guys who don’t like to use their brain and don’t want to lose their sleep due to deep thoughts at 4pm ;) As I already said, berserk is monumental piece of manga art, but I also can say the same about AOT and death note manga and anime. At one time I’ll prefer to watch/read regular story about japanese school girls etc, but at another time I’ll prefer to break my mind and cry in front of the screen as i did when i watched berserk for the first time
i think eclipse is a culmination of physcial and emotional horror that none of the other arcs come close to seeing as we watch all the characters weve come to love and get close to get brutally murdered by their own leader or best friend in the case of gutts.
the first time that I readed it I felt numb until the part that skullknight appeared and saved them,then everything collapsed on my head,this guy is me in a milisecond
Memes aside, this was SO accurate to my experience. After The Eclipse, I was stunned, speechless. I just sat staring blankly at the wall for a few minutes, then the tears came. I immediately had to keep reading though once I calmed down. I needed to know what Guts would do next. No work of fiction has ever hit me that hard emotionally, and it stays with me even years later. Miura was a master of his craft. The world will never be the same without him. As an added side note, Lost Children actually hit me just as hard. The effects of Guts' trauma on full display, it was heartbreaking to see him like that. I was glad he was getting better, even getting to talk to Casca again (kind of). But now with these new chapters.. I have no idea what to expect. I just want to see my boy smile again.
DAMN, IM FEELING IT RIGHT NOW!!!! Guess thats an UNIVERSAL experience, Vol 12 makes men hug and cry. The cry and the song hit so deep. Tears, anger and guts theme defines that volume perfectly.
I’m on volume 5 and as much as I enjoy it, I wonder how disappointed am I going to be when I finally get caught up and learn that it’ll never be finished and end on a cliffhanger…
The thing about berserk is that like any other good story, the experience can't really be tarnished. You can read the continuation or stop with his last chapter (like me), i don't think you will be bummed out
@@hacooray525 Mori was quite involved in Berserk, and is going to continue the manga as faithfully to Miura's vision as possible (bar a few extremely minute details). The difference shouldn't be too noticeable.
This is an actual reaction and not played up I've never felt actual anger when reading any manga but the eclipse is absurd so much amazing stuff leading up to that terrible moment it just hurts, so much
People dont talk about the fact that art and creative works can leave a lasting and powerful impression on you for the rest of your life. Hope, inspiration, joy, sadness, anger, love, hate and even trauma. I still feel this chapter in my chest when I think about it.
My introduction to Berserk was warching the fan made Redux where one man single handedly has pieced together all the adaptations and pieced them together in such a way to fill in all the different dialogues and fill in holes others missed but maybe a movie did cover. It came out awesome. Takes a full 10 hours to watch. Beautifully done. 😢 I had to take a break after The Eclipse, to cope and process everything i just experienced. I was prepared for just how dark that got. I have no other words for this story. Its a roller coaster ride of emotions. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel nauseous. But you’ll love it in the end.
Dammit man.. Am I gonna have to read this thing?.. I don’t even like anime.. but man I’ve been getting Berserk references of all types for about a year and a half on my feeds.. it’s time?
Do it. Dont get spoiled. Dont watch the movies or the anime. Read the manga. I wish I did because what happens would have hit 100 times harder if I wasnt spoiled by the animated adaptations because the manga is raw, uncensored, unforgiving and relentless.
I can't explain why, but every single man had this feeling in his live. Feeling of overhelmed and helpless. When you are unable to help your loved ones. I have this feeling right now, i understand you. You're not alone.
when i realised what was about to happen during the eclipse i had to pause, stand up and get my shit together before i finish watching it. No other series has made me feel this way
Volume 1 is the probe of shock factor the,”oh, it’s one of THOSE manga” then the “holy shit” and “damn” then golden age is,”this is awesome! Wonder what happens.” Then IT happens and everything spirals as your head can’t comprehend what you just saw and what was lost at the same time. The restless nights and dread follow. Then the ultimatum: do you keep going, or end it here?
"You're going to be alright. You just stumbled over a stone in the road. It means nothing. Your goal lies far beyond this, doesn't it? I'm sure you'll overcome this. You'll walk again... soon."
I watched the anime for the first time a couple months ago, I already knew the story because of YT. I love Berserk, the Eclipse hurt. I'm currently reading the manga, I just got done reading volume 2 of the deluxe edition. Honestly, the best story I've ever read 🙏
Non have truly recovered from the Eclipse I even had to take an extended break from reading it after the fact I think it was almost half a month or so… honestly I kinda lost track of time I just hurt and still hurts and won’t stop yet we struggle on still Really goes to show the masterful power of Berserks storytelling Beautiful, dark, funny, tragic and so much more It’s truly life changing… I dunno if I’ve become a better person from reading it but I know it really made me think and put a lot of things into perspective and the management of one’s own struggles no matter how big or small Really my words fail to do it justice
I feel the same I stoped to read long time ago. I prefer to not remember the anime. Its hurts me alot Poor Judeau man i cried like a baby. Ill never be able to read or watch Berserk again😢.
shit hits harder than my dad did when i use to fuck up in school and he’d be waiting with his sandal in his right hand, arm swole tf up like suigetsu’s arm in naruto😢
@@oimgrn The only game in the Dark Souls series thats even hard is DS3, DS1 is honestly pretty easy and nobody even talks about DS2 cuz it sucks. Honestly, if you want to play a souls game just start with Elden Ring.
I had never heard of Berserk before finding a video on RU-vid of the entire 1997 anime in japanese. I watched the whole thing in one sitting and felt weak and empty once it was over. Id never been so invested and so hurt by a piece of art before. I sat in silence for like five or six minutes just digesting what I'd just seen, and i knew I'd just discovered my new obsession.
