To describe Guts in two words: Medieval Doomguy.

Nightmare is merely a pebble in the strugglers rocky path

Berserk has influenced so much. He was the original black swordsman, basically the first guy with a big sword. Dark souls for example has enemies ingame similar to berserk and you can even find "the greatsword" ingame, which basically is dragonslayer .

Berserk inspired Dark Souls, Guts inspired every "anime big sword" character including Cloud from FF7 and his prosthetic hand inspired automail in Fullmetal Alchemist!

I LOVE seeing ppl react to Guts’ story who don’t know his story

a commenter on the original video described this perfectly "for nightmare, this was the fight of his life. for guts, this was just another tuesday"

Berserk is the greatest dark fantasy manga ever written.

Guts is just built different. Him and Kenshiro are just the biggest Chads in anime. Also on the animation. Death Battle has approximately 2/3 more sprite animations in their playlist over 3D or hand drawn animations. Reason being is time and resource constraints. They can't produce Hugh quality 3D animations for every video, for every two weeks, while simultaneously working on ten videos in the background to upload on a tight schedule to be uploaded later. It's just not possible. On average Death Battle produces around 6-8 animation a month, each one needing their own research, background information and time dedication to them. So it's just more time efficient to have the ones that require less time to research/the outcome is more clear cut to be done in sprite form. They've been doing this for years, their first 3D animation ever was Link Vs Cloud and that's only after nearly twenty sprite animations all done by Ben the showrunner. So going forward, try not to have expectations of every Death Battle being full 3D or hand drawn animations. With over 200 videos, less than a third of them are that type of animation. You'll see far more sprite battles then not. Just a disclaimer moving forward with these reactions.

this dude is so underrated, it actually seems like he is interested in the video unlike others, great work man!

My all time favorite Death Battle episode was TJ Combo vs Balrog You should check that one out

When they were introducing guts one thing they forgot to mention about Dragonslayer is that it was actually used before to slay an actual dragon and the dragons soul is trapped inside

I recommend Raiden vs wolverine (not mortal kombat Raiden its a different one from metal gear) you would obviously know about wolverine but Raiden would be new to you (I think?) Its also another 3D one

but it's cool to see that in the 90s japanese were introducing interracial partners compared to the west.

a really good anime vs MCU/marvel death battle: Carnage (spiderman = MCU/marvel) vs Kaede ("Lucy") (Elfen Lied manga/anime)

Can you do death battle ivy vs orchid

Samurai Jack vs Afro Samurai

Way back when I watched this battle, I realized I had a plan to not watch or read Berserk.