Despite her death setting the story into motion, little to nothing is known about Guts' mother. Though she could be peasant nobody, there's a chance she was once something more. Link to How Berserk Will End: • How Berserk Will End
can we all just come together and pray that miura told a handful of other people how berserk will end just in case he doesn’t live another 90 years and can’t finish it himself
Here’s an optimistic excerpt from the Duranki wiki: “The assistants of Studio Gaga had aided Miura in the production of Berserk for some years before Duranki, though Miura has still been the primary author and illustrator of the manga. With Duranki, Miura serves as a producer, responsible for storyboarding and maintaining artistic cohesion, somewhat similar to an anime art director. He hopes for the assistants to gain extensive experience illustrating in a cohesive, high-quality style, with intentions of eventually relying on them more in general, particularly in the case of illustrating Berserk - the often primary reason for the manga's long serialization times being such - thus increasing the rate and consistency at which the manga is published from that point onward.] Hopefully once he knows Studio Gaga is able to competently and consistently draw in a way that fits with his artistic vision we’ll be getting Berserk at a faster rate. Also, God forbid he dies anytime soon, but hopefully in the worst case scenario his team of trusted artists could carry on in his stead.
I always thought that in a world where all mankind, and all beings, are bound to their fates, Guts was to die that day along with his mother at the hanging tree, as it was his destiny, his fate was written that he would pass away in his mother's womb... ...except that he didn't. Call it a glitch or a malfunction in the universe or whatever, but now a man is born into the world that is not bound to causality or fate. In a world where everything is part of this grand program, he is an anomaly. As such, he is the one free man, governed completely by his own will. This also ties into how, while still being only a human, he continuously defeats otherworldly enemies that a human shouldn't have a chance against. As Guts essentially skipped his fated death, he is effectively, at least in some sense, un-killable. He's a wrench in this complex, delicate universal machinery the god hand and their master have so carefully planned out, and despite being only a flesh and blood mortal, the fact that he is not bound to the rules that govern that universe, makes him an existential threat to the god hand, even if they themselves do not understand it. It is how Guts was able to survive the sacrifice, and how as long as he chooses to fight and resist, he is able to stave off death when he should have been slain a thousand times already. He has effectively broken the universe he exists in. His actions also have potentially exponential consequences to further throw the universe into chaos, as Caska, who was also arguably supposed to die along with the rest of the Hawks at the sacrifice, was also saved by guts, and all though the evils of the world continue to hunt her and guts as they try and right the ship so to speak, as long as they continue to fight, Guts and Caska can continue to resist fate. Their actions having a ripple effect throughout the universe as more and more of their actions throw off and break fate and destiny. Everyone they save, every monster they kill, erodes at the careful script the universe was supposed to be following. If you look at how often the story and the god hand talks about fate, and how Guts often speaks of man's will to fight and survive in the face of their death, this narrative forms of resisting fate and destiny, and in Guts cases, breaking it. Guts isn't the chose one or destined to save the world, he is chaos incarnate and in one sense, the destroyer of the universe, as least as it is governed by fate and destiny, and in another sense, the liberator of the all living things and the universe itself from their fate, and the gifting them the ability to be governed by freedom, chaos, and individual will. Anyway, just my two cents on the subject. Could be completely wrong as well.
What you said really resonated with me. In Nietzsche's beyond good and evil. He said the world contains good and evil，but good and evil is a man made concept, before human exist, good and evil didn't exist. What existed is order and chaos. Godhands obviously is the order, then guts is the chaos.
@@Kakistocrator that explains why his storytelling is on another level, I don't think normal manga writer would read philosophy books just have ideas how to draw a manga.
clarification, since you missed the detail, t he mother of the child who was on the brink of death wasn't tortured to death, she endured the torture but ended up broken and her child died under the care of the priests
I’d like to know if there is an equivalent of Byzantium in this world, having its own Autocephalous Sees, separated from the Pope’s, in short, an Orthodox Church with a Confederation Of Equal Bishops, opposed to Papal supremacy. They did things very differently than the West throughout the Middle Ages, including preferring to exile accused witches instead of kill them.
If I have to be honest, Guts' pointy ears and somewhat beastly features, not counting his inhuman strenght, made me think he wasn't totally human since the beginning. What I think is that he is human, but heavily influenced by magic, maybe he is capable of harnessing power from the astral world to increase his strenght and survive otherwise deadly wounds.
@Please Complete All Fields Not right. A quick look at the golden age band of the hawk members and Guts' current party shows that Guts and Griffith were the only ones drawn with pointy ears. Arguably, I didn't actually look at anyone else so it might just be because of the small sample size.
That kind of defeats the whole point/purpose about how Guts- a lowly human- can struggle and fight against the God Hand without the need for magic or inhuman practices.
Gut's mom being a witch seems pretty solid when you put it like that. A grand causality creation need not be necessary for Skull Knight's presence at Gut's birth. If Gut's mother was even a vague enemy of the Godhand pre-Falco I can see Sir Skull taking a casual interest her life/death and by extension her anti-miracle baby. What with all the time he has to piss away waiting for the eclipse that is.
Skull Knight also travels around looking for Behelits and probably supernatural events in general so it's not unreasonable to assume he could show up at places of witch hunting
I like to think of Guts' first magical encounter as a way to show how he's always been somehow hopeful, open to the beauty of life in its world, like that gentle elf that helped him while he was caged
Fate is something which we cannot escape , for us mere creatures of flesh there are much bigger tides in motion that sweep us. Still we do not have to be stranded upon them, for we have the will to go against the tide. Something like that I don't know, Im not the brightest dude around...
@@minshouyukida1112 Sorry but that will never happen since the author was addicted to video game called Idol Master?! Also same to Eichiro Oda of One Piece where the author got a health issue due to smoking addiction?!
The uniform clothing for heretics about to be executed by the Inquisition was called SANBENITO or ZAMARRA, it was usually yellow with patches of red and/or painted flames. The Gut's mother's garb can totally pass for that. Also notice how she is relatively fresh, while the rest of the hanged people on that tree are almost skeletons - spot on for figuring out it is the place of execution, not a singular execution of a family or a village.
This was the most brilliant hypothesis, concerning Gut's birth mother. It would also make sense, if Griffith was chosen by The Idea of Evil, then Guts, his exact opposite frenemy would be designed to oppose him
The entire plot of berserk is struggling against destiny, if tris theory was true it would trash everything, the struggler didn't really struggle against destiny, but just followed a crafted one
It's all about Casca she is the only one that didn't struggle. She stayed strong without training after all this time and just got her memory back. She had magical powers, she was brain dead and survived all this time from cult members and everything when Guts wasn't around. She is the chosen one. Griffith unconciously saved her during Guts and Zodds second fight after Griffith came to see if he cared about any of them anymore which he said he didn't.
Nah, he still could have died at any time. Being born with a gift asserts nothing. Many intelligent people end up homeless, for instance. I see this as guts had a gift...not a script
Skull knight knows, somehow, events of the future, remember when Rickert's group were eaten? Skull knight came across a lot of future Gutt's enemies and yed he didn't kill any (he being able to obliterate them effortless), somehow he knows he have to let shit happens and intervene on a subtle way so this actually makes a lot of sense, since Gutts appears to be the odd one.
Wasn't that because Skull Knight understands causality and thinks history is like a circle? Or as the Witch stated "Like a spiral". History repeats itself over and over again, always a bit different, with infinitely similar results.
The thing is. Guts always has shown a very open mind. There is hardly a moment that i can think of (pre-eclipse) where Guts has shown denial of another's belief. If i'm not mistaken, the worst that he's ever done in that department was not denial or disdain of someone else's belief, but disbelief of said views. That makes that, Guts wouldn't really need any kind of occult lineage to see things that he doesn't really have the pretention to accuse of not existing. The only exception of said rule being, not believing the sudden strange apparitions (like fairies) because of him thinking it an hallucination caused by his wounded state. Though, his open mindedness could very well be indeed linked to subconscious memories of the Astral World through his mother. Neat theory, but a thin one indeed.
You may have hit the nail on the head with this one. Think about it: Why did the story begin with Guts, and follow Guts entirely? Why is he the main character, in a story with the most amazing character development ever, yet the character development about Guts' past isnt revealed? What is very interesting is the Behelit blocked that arrow attack and saved Griffith's life. The Godhand and evil were looking out for THEIR child and pawn that they were waiting to use for their own needs. Just like how Skull Knight is looking out for his own child/pawn that he is hoping can fill the need everyone against evil. ALSO: 'So after Gut's mother got done with whatever she needed to do, probably with some random man who is meaningless' or is he really so random, and meaningless..? I wonder who Guts true father is.. remember, Guts is more powerful than most Apostles. He can even survive in Hell amongst hordes of Apostles, only being stopped by the Godhand themselves. Human? Who the fuck is Guts father goddamnit he is not Human.
guts himself says he is human right down to the bone. I do believe you are looking too much into this. like the comment above me says i doubt an apostle could have a child with human, the closest to this we have seen has been femto corrupting guts and cascas child and those ogres who impregnate woman which causes the child to blow out of their stomach. also if you wanna count those devil kid looking monster used by the kushan emperor, but those are purposely made to be fucked up so i dont count those. tbh i truly believe nothing before guts matters in terms of his family line, he is just a struggler like skull knight just lives on purely using rage as his fuel, and instinct too ig if we talking about that wolf scene where he goes on auto mode even though in his head he had already accepted death
I think it's entirely possible for Guts mother to have been a witch or just accused of being a witch but I do not think that Guts birth was some sort of grand play by Skull Knight or Flora. I believe that Skull Knight knowing Guts was born from a corpse was something that Skull Knight discovered on his hunt for behelits and the godhand during his investigation of Griffith and the resulting eclipse. I feel that Guts birth being a planned event to remove him a half step from causality would make the themes of struggle and the will of man irrelevant.
To be fair he does wield magical tools which is giving him a chance against Apostles, remember he barely survived against the first apostle he fought, and when he was about to be sacrificed he was saved by skull Knight. Most of the time before he gets the berserker armour he has been incredibly lucky while at the same time insanely reckless with how he fights. Just look at the lost children arc.
Maybe that's why there's multiple cases of pregnant womens wombs getting corrupted by evil throughout the series. It's to show that the opposite could possibly happen and there could be a positive magical influence if circumstances allowed for it. Either way, cool theory.
I like to believe that Guts was born irrelevant, and he was to remain bound from causality itself, with the only anomaly being his unnatural will. His steel conviction to overcome the odds and prove fate and his enemies wrong, every single time, is what I think Miura wants Guts' ultimate weapon to be , when he succeeds in his quest against the Godhand.
Skull knight could easily be miura himself. He’s been around since long before guts was born (since miura was already in his 20s or 30s when he created him) and he was the original struggler (the years of trying to become a successful manga artist, the issues he had with mori ) and the fact that it’s skull knight who rescues guts could be a representation of miura having to figure out ways to save guts from the situations he had put him in
I think there would be way to many variables for a plan like that to work that would have to be explained away with magic or something unsatisfying. The SK, Flora and Guts' mom would have to know in advance who Griffith is, what actions he would take, that he would end up with The Egg of the King, that Guts would end up intertwined with him, that Guts wouldn't just be killed in some random battle (which he almost was a bunch of times), that he would be a sacrifice at the eclipse, that he could survive the eclipse and I'm sure there's other things I can't even think of off the top of my head right now.
@Matthew Mather Flora described causality like a spiral rather than a circle. So yes, those things were fated to happen, but SK should only have a general idea of how everything would play out, not all these specific details. He knew a fifth God Hand member would ascend and when it would happen, but how would he know it would be Griffith before Griffith was even born? It seems far more likely that SK discovered that Griffith had the Egg of the King and just pieced together what would probably happen based on his experiences in the past. As for his knowledge of Guts' birth, maybe it's just something SK can sense about Guts' nature just like how Puck sensed elfen magic with SK, but IDK. I feel like giving SK all this knowledge and having him secretly pulling the strings from the background this whole time would just make him this big dumb skeletal Deus Ex Machina; and that would be a huge disservice to the story.
Maybe Griffith Was Always A Big Deal In The Collective Unconsciousness Manifesting His Prophesied Arrival. While Guts Is A Slim Chance In The Dark, Like A Last Minute Court Shot With 3 Seconds Left On The Clock...Team's Watching 👀
@@HanMasho I personally assume that skull night pieced together guts's story, especially considering that he fought nesfurrato zodd during the golden age, and fought by side of Griffith, (turning guts into a marked name/target)
I'm never normally impressed by a Berserk theory videos normally being your typical fan theory you've heard a thousand times. But damn that was a great theory.
I like the idea that Guts is just simply an exception to the idea of preconceived destiny/fate. He is an anomaly. He is someone that doesn't entirely fit the mold of this world of Berserk. Just like his sword, it is far too big and what not to be called a 'sword'. He is far too strong to be human, yet he is. He is tied to magic but is not entirely someone who was born with/from magic or from a lineage of people who are 'magical' or from a prestigious family. He is just a gap in the world, thus, giving him the edge to be looked at as a sign of hope. There was a magic that looked into people's past. Take for example in the earlier chapters (chapter 3 volume 3 page 90) by one of the God Hand, Ubik. In the first arc, he showed Theresia the events that unfolded before her mother's death. I strongly believe that SK could have access to similar magic with one of the mages he became acquainted with. It's odd that Ubik mentioned that Guts was not 'chosen by destiny', however, he intertwines with it when he came in contact with Griffith. SK more than likely kept tabs on Griffith first (knowing he loves to keep tabs on the GOD hand overall). But, he then slowly took notice of Guts because of how oddly he resembles his former self. Edit: Also, another strong example is the berserk armor itself! In the latest chapters, he looked at past memories thanks to the magical properties of the armor. :)
While I think this theory makes a lot of sense, and it is hard finding flaws in it (in fact it would explain why in their encounter after the Eclipse he mention a possible connection between Guts and elves), I also think Skull Knight is capable of manipulating space and time with his sword, therefore it is possible he travels through time to witness/investigate certain events like Gut's birth, and he might already know how the story ends (or perhaps where Guts might die), which is why he is always at the right moment at the right time to save him.
*What makes someone believe?* The idea of that only children can see the fairies and the magical, stems from a position of wonder and imagination. These aspects diminish over time as the child grows up and learns about and experience the world. You are taught how the world functions, how things are what they are. And you put trust in that knowledge, and in the people who taught you. Thus making you believe. What lessons have Guts been taught about the world? He has been taught only two things: How to swing a sword, and the only one he can trust is himself. And thus he doesn't believe. (Or maybe Im simply rambling cause its 3:20 am and I should really be sleeping)
I think believing has more to do with acceptance. As a child you accept everything is thrown at you, you know nothing, you are willing to learn everything. If you have been raised with some strict beliefs you would be less incline to accept other beliefs or different perspectives. Guts just doesn't gives a damn: he swings his sword no matter what. He accepts reality as it is.
Although I love these theories and thinking more about guts’ origins, I think I’d also prefer if guts was just a normal dude who just doesn’t know when to give up I think it just fits the themes of his character better
I wanna be honest i always thought that the fact that guts and zodd looked so similar and that zodd helped him by giving him his sword that they were related in some way
He helped him more times than that, he killed an apostle for him as well before the eclipse was about to happen. Zodd sees him as a great challenge and similar to himself. He won't allow anyone to kill him but him kinda like Vegeta with Goku in the earlier stages of Z.
Two things: 1) Guts seeing faeries before anything supernatural can happen to him can be explained by Gambino using Pixie Dust to heal Guts' nose wound. 2) The 1997 Anime OP seems to strongly visually confirm it was the Holy See who hung Guts' mother. 3) I do indeed like this theory, keep up the good work.
@@Anthnax I mean that's not really an issue because every little deviation from the source material in 97 was Miura-approved, and by the time the anime aired, the Holy See was still a very new concept in Berserk. This was very much an intentional nod to who hung Guts' mother imo
@@judotaku_7829 Well yeah, but there were other things in the '97 anime that were just completely different from the manga, like the lack of inclusion of skull knight.
I've honestly always believed that the skull knight is actually Guts himself, mostly because of how close he was to the old witch, and the fact that he has a sword that can cut through space and (I theorize) time.
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not "Last Jedi Bad", at least... But it's hilariously bad in every other way XD In fact I'd say it's almost the opposite of TLJ, while being about equally bad... if that makes any sense? ^^° At the very least, it breaks force lore to a degree that makes it almost impossible for the Disney trilogy to exist within canon in the long run... so... yay decanonization/retcon?
@@BOOFIRE191 It's not a visceral gut punch of awful like The Last Jedi, but it does more damage to the worldbuilding and lore, if that's possible. It also contains several of what I can only describe as "fuck you Rian" moments from JJ - those are worth seeing but only if you don't have to pay for your showing.
This theory DOES explain something though. It explains why Skull Knight risked his life and his entire mission to save Guts during the Eclipse, which on its own is a very strange event.
@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 I think he saved him because he was with Casca. Casca might be the chosen one. She always gets saved randomly, she gets magic powers out of no where and she retained her strength even after not training or doing anything combat related after all this time. It seems like the whole show revolves around her. Everyone is literally doing everything to take care of her. Even Griffith saved her after the apocalypse during Guts and Zodds fight even after saying how he came back to see if he cared about any of them and he said he didn't yet still saved her. Cults try to kidnap her, people believe her to be a witch I mean it all makes sense. If not she'd have died off a long time ago.
@@stevenjones7823 Man, can you imagine if Miura pulled a George RR Martin and killed Guts revealing Casca to be the main character? It could work if it's well-thought-out.
I’m planning to make a live Acton short film of “spring flowers of a distant day”. I think it would be a great taster to see if berserk works in live action.
My film production company will Start on filming the dungeon scene and take photos of guts in his his lone mercenary amour. I’ll post it on berserk fan pages. As soon as I get approval from both the fans and Kintaro I will start a crowdfunding Campaign to finish it off. It’s going to be awesome!
J.A Kingston that was a beautiful story. I never heard about it before now. Though I haven’t read the Beserk Manga at all actually.😅 I’ve just seen the Golden Age Arc movies and watched RU-vid Video Essays about Beserk...
These people, " If Guts were more than just a human, it would ruin it!" While Guts very humanly leaps 20 feet in the air with a sword that weighs three times he does, and swings it with one hand, even before the Berserker Armor. Also It's not just for big sword flair. As he has tons of people and even the narrations say that it should not be able to be wielded by a person. His Band of the Hawk sword, while still much heavier than even the historically accurate huge swords, I think is still pretty believable. I think when he went into the interstice, I think even Shierke says something like ... His will there in the time he spent may have sorta .. cursed / blessed himself with even more strength than he already had. Even if his label remains human, he'd be more like a Human with a capital H, like the first humans in the bible which also had superhuman abilities despite just being labeled "human". Or just like the Flash, Green Lantern, Spiderman, Captain America, and Wolverine are humans.
Yeah I think the reason for his strength is that he's had a foot in the astral world for years now from the brand. Willpower in the astral world translates into tangible force and no one has more will than guts. I like this theory because it essentially makes the astral world a catalyst for his strength instead of being the source
The problem with that arguement is almost everyone in Gut's crew is human or "once" a human Schierke is human, farnese is human, flora is human even skullknight was once human
Well, based on how the magic system works in Berserk, what if guts is secretly a magic user. Since elves, trolls and other mythological creatures existed in Berserk because many people subconsciously believe in it, maybe guts just BELIEVE he's will survive and kill his opponents and thus it's manifest into reality by giving guts superhuman strength but of course still not strong enough to beat godhand.
There is actually a magic to look back in time. When the Godhands first appear in the black swordsman arc they peel back time and space to show the girl when her father used the behelit
4:45 rewatch the 97 opening, the holy see bird symbol it right there at the tree scene. Seems odd to add something like that considering the anime doesn't adapt past golden age, but I've heard Miura tends to be pretty involved with the anime adaptation (I remember someone pointing out the stonehenge Griffith used in resent chapters being part of the Golden age movies art)
First of all, I hope you feel better soon. Being sick sucks. I really like this video and, as always, hope that Miura learns about what you said. I think it's really cool to think about and a pretty solid theory. I like the idea that it allows skull Knight and Flora to have made hard and questionable decisions in their past, but I think it could be just as plausible if he only knew things in passing initially. As in, he hears about a witch through Flora or something and that she's pregnant. He is passing by when he sees that she's been hung. He's about to leave when he hears Guts crying and watches him be taken away by Gambino's band and immediately takes interest in Guts because of how he was born, against fate, or something like that. Anyway, I think this sounds really interesting and plausible. Whether his birth was orchestrated or random, I think that skull Knight would have to have been aware of Guts' existence from the get go. I don't overly like the idea of Guts being this chosen one thing from birth because of his parents, but I don't think that, given Miura's style, he would be like all powerful, I have every jutsu, i am a god reincarnate Naruto-kun if he was chosen in that way. Really goes to show, to me at least, the difference between a good and great writer. A great writer naturally leaves hooks that they can use later on even if they don't know at the time of writing an event how it will come into play later on (like how Miura apparently doesn't know how berserk will end. Personally think it'd be interesting if it ended by Guts and Casca having to raise Griffith, the star child, to not be like Griffith or they realize they have to decide on whether or not to kill the star child to kill Griffith or something like that). Man I love berserk. So well crafted.
guts was on the brink of death, which is already established as being closer to the astral realm due to that being where departed souls reside. His further interaction with chitch probably serves as a catalyst for the subconscious belief of other supernatural beings. That, and Zodd, were probably why he saw puck and other things pre-Astral Roar and eclipse. I think guts being the cumulative effort of the idea of good would serve as an adequate antithesis to the idea of evil and more entertaining in a speculative sense. However, him being the ‘struggler’, makes things more meaningful because he isn’t introduced with inherent meaning. A true hiccup in fate, painfully normal and human, makes Guts one of the greatest hero’s and Berserk the greatest manga
Normally I’d argue with a theory when I see the flaws in them, but when you really have nothing to go on (besides lore/history); anything is possible at this point.
German and japanese speaker here :D I always thought Miura might mean "Silke", because in the japanese alphabet there is no "Si" sound, their equivalent would be "Shi". Same goes for the letter "R", which is prounounced somewhat like a mixture of "L" and "R".
@@firewalkwithme90 It's a german name that fits with the european naming scheme. Pretty much every name in that manga is either english, german or french.(which makes sense since most of the world is inspired by middle age europe) Also they pronounce it Shi ru ke which fits with the sheer kuh germanic pronunciation.
Spring Flowers of Distant Days, one of the best, least remembered stories of Berserk. As for your theory, I have no idea if it is true but it certainly makes a lot of sense. Skull Knight not just suspecting but outright knowing the circumstances of Guts' birth should rightly raise some questions. Further, SK seems to know at least some of the details of Guts' future beforehand, something that not even the Godhand can boast; Slan, in particular, makes it clear that while they know causality more or less works for the Godhand, they do not know the future. The detail that really sold me on your theory though is the idea that Flora and SK had another companion, thus making them a trio that mirrors the trio of Guts, Griffith, and Casca. So while I'm not sure if I believe this theory if it is ever revealed to be true, I'll think back to this video.
Or, maybe he saw that when Guts would be born, that he would survive the eclipse and be like, the chosen one or something, because Skull Knight does have premonitions.
Spring flowers of distant days is probably my favorite chapter. It’s beautifully written and it just gives me nostalgia because it seems like a classic fairy tale or fable.
I think you're sort of misinterpreting how the astral world works. Basically if you have a strong belief that astral beings don't exist then you won't be able to see them but you don't necessarily have to believe in them to see them because obviously if you've never heard of them one way or the other then you don't have any belief that they don't exist so you would still be able to see them. TLDR: you only can't see them if you believe they aren't real, so presumably being able to see them if you have no information one way or the other is the default
I think the chapter after Skull Knight’s intro or some chapter around that one shows a short timeline of Guts’ life. It’s literally just one panel and it has his most significant encounters. Close to his birth is a skull with thorns. I wonder why they would put it so close?
I just recently found these videos. As a long time fan of Berserk, I really appreciate what you've made for the series. I didn't even realize how much I hated giant swords in anime until you me mentioned it 😂
If Guts, was created by causality, then he isn't the only one. The problem with causality is that, it's a force that influences alot of people. I don't doubt that Skull Knight kicked up some trouble that led to Guts creation, but logically speaking if Guts was the end result. Then that means there had to have been others. Others that were like him. Individuals who were born closely to Death. I'm certain they have their parts to play. However, the thing about Guts is that he was the only one to have been on the same path as Griffith.That was probably the trickiest part.
This makes even more sense considering how when Guts gets the Berserker armour, Zodd says to Skull Knight: "You would have him tread the same path as you" Possibly Skull Knight couldn't do it but Guts' state as the struggler lets him properly deal with the armour.
This theory is Golden. So much so, I may suspect u of being the author Kentaro himself. That explanation is incredibly feasible, reasonable and believable. Who knows, maybe he watches these videos for ideas on how to finish the story. Just subscribed.
I actually had my own crackpot theory regarding why Guts could perceive Cheech. It's possible that being born of a corpse and his many brushes with death left him very lightly affected by the interstice, leaving him with a toe in the other side while nearly wholly being in the material plane. It IS odd that the 80s as heck bandits in chapter one can even SEE and interact with Puck... But, Miura likely hadn't quite worked out the kinks of how magic worked yet since y'know, it was the first instance of Berserk's magic on display and we immediately jumped into Golden Age without much being set in stone yet. Tangent over.
Not sure how this would affect things, but I think there's a chance that the tree Gut's mother was hung from is the same tree we see in the Lost Children arc, notice the metal pegs in the tree's trunk, the same as the one from Lost Children, it was used in sacrifice, where they would nail the intestines of the victim to the tree and make the victim try to walk around the tree before they passed out or died
I doubt it's the same tree. They don't appear to resemble each other very much, as it's very much noted that the demon tree has faces in it, not to mention having a different method of execution. However, the comparison between trees is notable, in that a popular interpretation is that trees are analogous for Gut's current wellbeing/mental state, especially if we also think of the tree from the Bonfire of Dreams.
If Guts were the "Chosen One" I could understand his struggle with reality. Knowing deep down inside that he is preordained to battle with the universe continuously for eternity. I believe guts is already at peace within himself. That's why he is literally close to death. He is one with not only life but death itself. Therefore he has the potentiality for immortality. Law of attraction is inverted. Therefore those who fear life/death. Will experience detachment from there own ego at death and the removal of all the knowledge granted in that lifetime, to then be reborn infinitely (Reincarnation Cycle). Guts truly wants to be dead. Therefore the God Hand shows no mercy. Life is the arena where one can struggle. Imagine the wisdom and experience one can gain living threw the worst pain and loses fathomable. Imagine Guts losing everything hes ever loved and known. To eventually become a former version of himself. I forgot which episode or manga. But guts says his light comes from another source. "Born twice , die once. Born once, die twice" This clearly shows that guts is being led by his HIGHER self. Skull knight helps guts because they both have the same enemy in common. GOD HAND. Comparable to Satan/Lucifer. Opposing gods will, Because true free will. Clearly means there is no destiny. To be destined , is to be owned. To be free , is to have no destiny. Hope I can bring light and a decent perception to the table.
@@raccus2719 You misunderstood my interpretation. He opposes God (like lucifer) I don't think he is like Lucifer at all. He opposes any form of control from the God Hands/Heads. In a sense he is against everything. He rather be alone with nature. Watching the view , the birds , taking deep breaths. The only thing by his side is his sword. The only thing he trust , is his sword. He only finds peace alone. He is a lone wanderer. Obviously meeting the Band changed a lot of things. But only further reason for him to fight demons endlessly. He is a demonslayer. Anti-Satan , But not like Jesus.
He needs to give himself more credit, this theory fits so damn we’ll even if it’s based off assumptions it’s the best theory I’ve heard ever relating to berserk
I agree with how you end it "I still prefer Guts as a really unlucky nobody, who struggles against destiny..." I feel this gives the depth of what the Skull Knight says to Guts in your opening. Also, I feel this gives more meaning to the Skull Knight always referring to Guts as "Struggler". Although a very interesting theory!
Kind of late but on reread I noticed the chapter 47 cover has a kind of timeline of encounters in guts life. Skull knight and a behelit are shown before meeting Griffith so something important is definitely missing from guts birth.
Couldn't Guts seeing Chic be explained by him being the kind of guy who'd be open to anything that'd give him an edge in combat? He regularly takes the supernatural in stride, it doesn't ever phase him really, aside from the eclipse obviously but who wouldn't be unnerved by that. So while he isn't actively believing in, say flower spirits, he isn't actively believing they don't exist either, maybe he can see spirits when they want to interact with him because of that.
if i remember correctly, in the berserk 1997 op theres the scene of the hanging tree panoramic with sihlouettes of the white hawk of the holy see in the foreground of the shot which somewhat confirms they were behind his mothers death
Actually Guts from the beginning is a chosen one, either by skull knight or by destiny itself so in other words he is a chosen one. He wasn’t a nobody with bad luck.
Can't say he was the chosen one I'd say Casca was. She randomly got magic powers and shit after the eclipse and maintained her skills without training all that time. She always seems to be saved at the right moment though not knowing or caring for anyone outside of the moonlit child and Farnase. Guts is not the chosen 1 i don't see it and I don't think the maker would want him to be a chosen one anyway to prove a point about humans.
Steven Jones after reading what you wrote, now I think both of theme are the chosen one, However, more Guts because he is the person who will fight Griffith and he is the main character. Also, I’m so sure the writer will never say Guts is a chosen one at all because that will ruin the concept of free will and nothing is stone written.
@@skullknight1465 Guts will not fight Griffith, he has no way to win that fight. Griffith doesn't even consider him remotely a threat which is why he lets him run around the way he does, not only that he would be dealing with 4 other godhand at the ready as well. The author said the story is coming to a close and it won't have a bad ending so I'm pretty sure he does not fight Griffith.
@@stevenjones7823 Casca never had magical powers,the demon baby had and whenever Casca was at danger he would step in to protect her,that is until during the Rebirth Ceremony it stretched it self out too thin and fell tired for long enough for the Egg of the New World Apostle to show up and absorb him in pity.
One thing I noticed is that many of the corpses share a similarity in that they have what appears to have been large red cloaks which Gut's mother also has on during her hanging and the ones that don't share this feature may have had one in the past but they were stolen or otherwise deteriorated with time as seen on some of the cloaks
Normal people all throughout Black Swordsman could see Puck though. Even a self proclaimed "priest". I'm sorry but this "Chosen one" cliche completely undermines the theme of Guts. He's a nobody, just a regular human, who struggles.
You can also consider the fact that elves and mages seem to be drawn to Guts like Puck and Schierke are, and also that boy who guided them to Elfhelm and saved Guts from the Berserker armor twice. He's always had some help from those of the spiritual world so much so its as if he actually was chosen.
Dude that crazy I already read this Berserk but liked it so much I'm reading it again. The reason I say this is crazy cause I literally just went threw the part where the Skull Knight encountered Guts and was hummm I wonder. Then boom here is your vid. Awesome I like what you are thinking freaking 🤯
Can you do one on how the god hand was created? My opinion is maybe skull knight could have possibly been the first of the 5 God hand years ago, or even more likely, void was the first finger created in order to possibly over throw king G ... ?
In the 1990s anime the opening shows the hanging tree with holy C ideals in that scene, and Mirua did help on that adaptation, so I think that when he was making that scene for the anime he added in that symbol because he hadn’t thought of it when he drew that chapter at the beginning
No, it's not inhuman. It's inhuman to us cause we are modern humans, you've got to go study how older folks bodies were. There are old people that can bend metal with their bare hands till this day. Older ages humans muscles density was so tough that if we had it today we would die from the weight. It would crack our rib cages, past humans were born into war so their bodies adapted for the cause. Ever notice like in ghettos or prisons people get really big and buff easily vs common city people? It's cause their bodies are adapting to their environment. They have way less stuff than those city people for it to work but it still does, like Ice Cube said "Still getting swole off bread and water." it's a weird truth to it. Guts is normal, he grew up a mercenary training with a greatsword since he was a child, that is definitely humane. Zodd was a giant so his strength came naturally plus war it just made him a monster even before he was an apostle.
@@stevenjones7823 bro what the fuck are you on about, the average longsword used by knights was like 2-3 pounds, 5 max, the dragonslayer is 400. Guts has inhumane strength, its not that hard to believe
On one hand, I don't want to acknowledge that there may be an unprecedented mistake like Chic in Berserk, I want to believe that there was a reason why Miura chose to include it, on the other hand I really don't like the idea that Guts isn't just an unlucky individual fighting against his destiny, or that there was some conspiracy level reason as to why Guts exists.
I agree. Guts shouldn't be a "chosen one". For me Guts is the perfect example that everyone can overcome their fate if they have a strong enough will. Him being chosen by skull knight would mean he isn't a struggler against destiny, but a tool of the destiny. However, pointing that Guts was able to see spiritual being like Chitch before the eclipse is still interesting and maybe it has a meaning behind it. Maybe Guts' mother was a witch, who knows? But personnally I'd like Guts' origin to stay a mystery
@@Franpowah I can see why you think that. But to me, Guts' innocence was long gone (with the wars, the night with Donovan and Gambino's death). My suposition (ans it's only my interpetation) for Guts to see Chitch was that he was about to die (by his wounds or just the situation of the fight he was sure to lose). Near death, you'd be more "receptive" to the spiritual realm. And see how Guts was unable to see her after he was fully healed and so having a chance to win the duel. But for now, neither your or my interpretation are correct. The only one who really knows is Miura. But it's nice to have that discution!
Solid video, congrats, i have a theory tho I think Miura enjoys seeing people create these theory videos so he makes hiatus on purpose. Edit: I always had the thought that Zodd is related to Guts maybe even father because of the similarities physically and personality, I don't think that's the case tho but it's interesting.
