Hated that the Knight was taken out of the first animated series we got. This will always be one of my favorite fantasy series of all time.

Berserk helped me get through one of the most difficult and stressful times in my life during my early teens and I always love Skull Knight.

I agree with the theory that King Gaiserc used the Berserker Armor and Elven magic during his conquest to unite Midland. There is a high possibility that he had encountered several Apostles thousands of years ago disguised as feudal lords of Midland. The godhand existed at the time, so it makes sense that Midland kings and warlords must've been Apostles and Pseudo Apostles as well. And King Gaiserc's use of Berserker Armor and Elven magic allowed him to kill the apostles easily during his conquest.

He's so damn cool and the mystery surrounding him makes him all the more cooler..

I mean just look at SKs design, Miura is known for conveying things through visual as well as textual, Skull Knights helm looks ominously like a skull with a jagged crown imbedded in his head. Now why would a priest or high ranking soldier wear a crown. It makes the most sense that a ruler would. I love storytelling like this. It leaves it up to the reader to come to their own conclusions. Which is why I love Miyazaki for somewhat taking up that storytelling mantel and applying it to games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Elden Ring. He in a way pays his respects to Miura every time he makes another game with the inspirations from Berserk.

“The brief moment she shares with skull knight is like two lovers who forgot eachother due to the sands of time recalling a memory as faint as a star on a cloudy night” bro that was poetry 🥲

Show and not tell. Perfectly put. That's why this series gets everyone who picks it up hooked.

Been a huge fan since 2010, Skull Knight is King Gaiseric. The five elemental angels that came to destroy his city were Void and the rest of his group that was the first God hand after Void's induction. I think King Gaiseric's kingdom failed and was destroyed due to the fact he wanted to marry the elf queen. The priest who became Void for forbid it. That is what jump-started the events that are occurring in Beserk today.

Well the Berserker Armour blood memory pretty much implies he's a former king (Gaiseric) that lost himself to it & died fighting the previous incarnation of the God Hand hench his connection to Void. How he came back hasn't really been addressed though Flora may of had some spell to cast his soul to his current armour somehow? Plus his horse, that clearly he was close to or perhaps a gift given to him. He seems to forsee things & may of known of Guts before he was born like The God Hand knew Griffith would be Femto before his existence likely explaining why he helps Guts at upcoming junction points or tries to intervene not knowing what will happen for sure. I believe Dannan has some connection to him as she resembles the woman he had in his arms during the memory... Maybe a relative? Guts now wears the very armour that killed him & potentially could do the same, is why he overseeing Guts knowing long ago another would tread a similar path but to not let the same outcome happen again? I don't believe Skull Knight is connected to Guts by being a future version or a unknown family member, he's a man that faced a similar situation & died & now he's found someone with the same goals that could either eliminate them once and for all (unlikely scenario) or sacrifice themselves to stop the God hands schemes one and for all. I think Rickert will be a defining addition to that situation knowing full well he could touch what no one else could! The face of evil Femto

Perhaps Guts is a descendant of Skull Knight, which is why he always goes out of his way to save him...

The King as Skull Knight and the Scholar as Void seems pretty plausible. Though I’m not sure if I buy the idea of the old city as debauched since the source is the Holy See. While Griffith did not deserve that torture, he was a monster well before that.

I like the theory that skull night is king gaiseric and that void is the priest that sacrificed the city the first time

I always thought Skull Knight was Guts in the future.

As I remember, Skull Knight was believed to be a former King and Puck said that he “felt like an Elf.” I assume he’s either Elfkin or is using some manner of Elf magic or something. To me, Skull Knight was great in watching and sometimes aiding in the battles Guts and company went on.

RIP miura I wonder what could’ve been if he was still alive

So I looked it up and turns out it is actually Band of the Falcon. The kanji for hawk and falcon are the same in Japanese, so the English translation probably mistook it for hawk by accident

I don't think Void was ever made. Seeing how he is in the center, makes me believe he was the actual devil himself or the proxy of devil. Rest of the god hand members may come and go or probably be killed over time or void eats them up so that's why the beheilt is spread around the world in all times so void can find new god hand members. I guess the skull knight might've killed a few god hand members too in an extreme battle and the only one he can't kill is the void. Thus he's focused on killing void at all cost because he's the Actual Heart of the Dark Realm.

- Skull Knight knew Guts would be a sacrifice, but he did not stick around to kill the owner of the crimson behelit. - The presence of the 2 people with the brand of sacrifice at Albion brought forth the mass of ghosts that killed everybody, allowing for the reincarnation of Griffith. Skull Knight saved these 2 people, allowing them to be present at the right place at the right time. - Skull Knight intervention allowed the merging of the astral and physical worlds. Is it just me, or Skull Knight sucks at his job of opposing the God Hand? I sometime feel he is working for the God Hand, not against them.

Void: Lips cut off seemingly but all skin flaps pulled back revealing all intact teeth. Maybe jaw closed shut and forced that way. Nose cut off. Eyes sewn shut but perhaps eyeballs are still back there as they're not sunken. Skull was slowly/somehow removed to expose swelling brain while trying to be kept alive assumingly. Interesting.

Zodd and Skully being "eternal Rivals" is a nice symbolism for guts' future. Two possible paths lead to apparently similar outcomes, but on different sides of the same coin. They both chose their 'destined' path and are now stuck in an eternal struggle against the other side. Guts may one day have to flip that coin for himself and maybe it will land on its edge for him, unveiling a new path nobody has traveled so far.

Hands down my dearest character from the BERSERK universe aside of the BLACK SWORDSMAN as well of course Skull Knight is not just one of my personal dearest Dark fantasy characters of all times but one of the greatest Dark Hero ever written much love Kentaro Miura thank you for the Knight, for Guts and for BERSERK may your soul live forever somehow

Griffith is repeating what Gaiseric did back then.

I've always thought of skull Knight and guts also as being the personification of true death in the bezerk world. You know they said in the story that guts Teeters on the verge of both life and death and is able or more attuned to escaping death and skull night also same situation technically he's a race he's on the edge of life and death he can't crossover because of his deeds and needs to continue his struggle. But technically yeah they're personification is death if you see guts or skullknight on the battlefield there's a 99.9% chance that you're not going to leave the battlefield, death is coming for you

Lowkey best character

I haven't heard someone say "Mayn-ga" in so long 😮

He was a hero king, and won his crown through blood, when he formed his kingdom, he had not the tools to govern. Though his heart was pure for the love of a woman, that does not mean the people shared his same morality or love. The scribe punished the kingdom for its debauchery, and the king is the kingdom.

Berserk is such a 💎thanks for this video analysis on this Berserk character.

Doom guy, skull knight, and Guts all men who are too angry to die

God I love Berserk. I hate that it took me so long to actually check it out

skull knight humms to him self the look my horse song constantly

He is so mysterious and rescued Guts and Casca

SUBBED and LIKED just like every one of their videos. Fantastic. Love you guys.

The fact hannar said he is just rattling in his coffin. I believe that Flora and Hannar worked to keep Skull Knight's ego or soul inside the new armor.

I love that berserk's being continued by Koji Mori but it just doesn't have the magical Miura touch. The pages don't jump out at me the way it used to. RIP to one of the greatest mangaka of all time

I love these analysis of the characters! I've followed the manga for so many years and I love the Void being the 5th element which is in everything! There's always the unknown mysterious parts of everything! But I love how intertwined it all is and hopefully His team will honour his wishes; but thank you for such a brueautiful story(is not a typo is brutal+beautiful) I wonder what's going to become of the skull knight.

I wonder if Gaiseric and had a friendship with Void’s original human form. And Gaiseric grew corrupt from constant expansion with no rest. The original void was perhaps his greatest tactician and second to Gaiseric’s queen. And amongst his many hours of torture he’d had his eyes sewn shut and heard the idea of evil this through an incarnation ritual he was reborn as Void. Choosing to sacrifice Gaiseric and his empire.

Man, the world of Berserk is so dark, depraved, bleak, and hopeless. Why can't I tear myself away from it?

The fact is Skull Knight has a crown on his head should tell everyone that he is that former King, I can't remember exactly what his name is right now I'm sure you'll see it in the video but we know he did some horrible things and it's possible that becoming the skull Knight or right before that he found out that what he was doing was evil or perhaps he was doing that terrible deed to this person because he was evil to begin with and then to continue his fight against this evil it's possible that he had his own Belhelit that was different from Griffiths egg of the king but still similar considering he is a king as well anyway he it's still shown wearing his crown, and we know that the God Hand are evil so he's most likely the opposite even though this is a Horror Story I'm sure you can see where I'm going I'm sorry I got a lot to do today

Just a thought but would be interesting if, during skull knight eclipse, during his reign as a king, his lover in his hands and her student must have did their own rebirth ceremony in the expense of skull knights lover life, to bring him back from the void, him and his horse. Something major had to get her banished from elfhelm, and maybe it was because of something in that nature (basically stated in the updated video the skull knights armor) maybe during the the witches ceremony it was something time based so the berserker armor still consumed the king, while dealing damage to the god hand themselves, and when the ceremony was completed, he was removed from the void and now resides in his version of the armor while he retrieved the one guts wears from the aftermath of his eclipse and places it under watch of the witch of the forest.

the godhand gets replaced, its a cycle. Void is the last of the 1000 year cycle. When on Godhand dies, another is born to take his place and it keeps going. One is destined to be born in the world. I think Gaiseric was a demon and it even says in the manga that Gaiseric was a demon of the battlefield. Gaiseric build the kingdom and then one his people sacrifices the kingdom that thy cared for.

Your content is awesome bro! Keep it up!

I've seen a theory that lacks but is interesting as a similarity. According to the tale, Gaiseric appeared out of nowhere, conquered and unified the land. That sounds pretty much like Griffith after reborning, except he was known in Midland before. Still, that sound more like a coincidence than proof of anything, as the other information leans more towards he being realy human as king

We will truly never Skull Knight's origin from Kentaro Miura.

I like him because he was with guts as soon as that great ending as the camera zooms out

imagine it's Guts but from the far future

Great video keep up thegood work

The skull knight didn't give him the sword guts took it. Also guts told him to go to casaca. Skull knight is very Crypted also with zodd he didn't wash he lost his arm but it look like he wasn't tired

If this channel was a class at school I'd attend everyday.

He is indeed a powerful being but he ultimately is just like Guts a failure in the fight against the God Hand in all the years he has fought them he has not defeated a single one of them he struggles against fate but for what he has lost everything just as Guts did I can't comprehend the will power they must possess to be able to fight so much and not desire the release of death in the face of a impossible enemies to defeat.

Yup I do believe skull king/Gaiseric is skull knight because there were many hints dropped to indicate this one theory

I always saw the Skull Night as Fate he always was Shown to Depict Guts and Casca's Purpose especially the Part in the Woods with Guts

Skull knight is a great guy By presence charisma powerful wise experience I like this character

Most of this I got on my own except one. Thanks for filling in the Void...

*Plot Twist* I personally believe Void was the original king(hence the ‘Brain Crown’) and SK was the heir to his throne(The Prince, perhaps). Void was corrupt and “levied heavier taxes on the people” for his own benefit. SK overthrew his father to take the crown and then Void(the Sage, formerly the king) used the Crimson Behelit to sacrifice his kingdom, branding SK the prince who was already wearing the berserker armour. Thus SK’s mortal life ended during Void’s eclipse, but his existence continued, potentially with some intervention from Flora. (In this process, there was a showdown whereby the 4 elemental kings were summoned, killing 4 of the original Godhand, excluding avoid, given he was too powerful and could manipulate space.. SK never found a way around this until he created The Sword of Actuation).

YES! WOOOOOOO! it feels great to have suspicions confirmed. I mean its kinda obvious, the titles that supreme king gaiseric had are all applicable to skull knight, skull knight rides a horse, has a skull shaped helm,(similar to the berserker armors first helmet design), and has almost unparalleled skill in battle, This also means that theoretically if the same thing were to happen to Guts then the form henwould take as a wraith would closely resemble his beast of darkness (which im pretty certain is a wolf, or something akin to one) Also if im not mistaken gaiseric's current armor still has a brand of sacrifice somewhere on one its pieces (i think its somewhere near his collar hidden by one of the pualdrons)

Great videos you made... Also Slan call him: Your highness... What if Danan is not the reincarnation of the former love of Gaiserik...may be is his daughter... thats why they gaze in that way.

This was a fantastic piece of work love Guts he's a beast! 👍🤙

For those that insist it is band of hawk.. It is band of falcon. Hawk is dark horse version. The real version is falcon.

ITS KING GAISERICK!!!

A teory that i have is that zodd was another strugler that was a Ally of skull Knight. But different of guts he used his behelit and become an apostle.

skull knight is the king, just makes sense. Void being the holy man also makes sense. since you have to go thru some king of horrible torture and loss and the willingness to give up everything.

I love that the armor has a similar effect of the behelits. The armor gives u power and ability but at the sacrifice of your own body and mind but the behelit is at the sacrifice of others

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SK is so cool, he got 2 videos for his character

i love skull knight..he always there to help guts

Perhaps when the previous godhand came to destroy gaisericks Kingdom, Void ascended as the new member but skull knight/gaiserick killed the older 4 members going ballistic in his berserker armour, and only Void survived, he may also have been resurrected or bound to his armour as a spirit and that's why can't ve killed

Band of the Hawks, band of the falcon is the demons

The underlying plot sounds like a very dark version of Fullmetal Alchemist in a sense. LOL it just popped in my head. The whole fact of sacrificing a whole bunch of people for immortality

Sucks the Mangaka died but why did he stretch the series out for 30 years??? Hopefully his best friend can finish it pretty soon

Is it just me but I haven’t heard one channel that covers this story point out the strong parallels between SK and Guts. It’s like the story that we are being told from start to finish is in fact a repeat story of what happened to SK.

There’s still a couple things that perplex me. For starters, if the sage hated Geisric so much why wouldn’t he equally hate his people as well, why would the kingdom hold any level of importance to his humanity it’s not like any of them tried helping him, because while the ritual doesn’t necessarily require a loved one or family member it doesn’t have to be someone dear to you at the very least something that anchors your humanity, wouldn’t it make sense that that Void is Geisric because of his sinful and debaucherous behavior much like how Griffith became Femto? After all the entire kingdom was sacrificed, not just his lover, it would make more sense that a ruler would hold his entire kingdom to a high degree of importance. What’s more is Void calls Griffith “kinsman” before he becomes Femto, and while this isn’t indicative of them being directly related he could be pointing out how Griffith much like Geisric had similar dreams and even had similar methods of obtaining those dreams and both were extremely sinful. This would also kinda explain why the Skull Knight hates anything thats inhuman as it was the inhumans that caused both his death the death of a loved one and why he is so intent on stopping future rituals from occurring and would also explain why he understand causality to some degree as in his previous life he explored it somewhat. See this is what I love about both of these characters they are so similar but so very different at the same time. Because cases for either one being the other is plausible. Though I am agreeing that SK is likely Geisric. Given his design and how he Carrie’s himself what’s more is he is more often than not riding his horse which falls perfectly into one of his titles as the “Death Rider” or the “Skull King”. It’s just that games like Dark souls have taught me to always look below the surface as there could be implications that we miss in the face of more blatant facts.

falcon i thought it was hawk...

Hey just a suggestion: Create more Playlists.There should be one just for Berserk content. Come on now. Make it easier to find all the videos associated with any given popular franchise. :)

I mean at this point if you deny skull knight is king gaiseric idk what to say. Like the skull armor the helmet the comment above the death of a foolish king when he’s clearly talking about his own death everyone calling him his majesty like come on it’s obvious he’s king gaiseric

Kentaro Miura would be proud of this video!

So if void was there at the eclipse the first time when skull knight "died, then wouldnt one of the other apostles be who the sage became..

I wonder if he is not the ""griffith"" of the relation with void By that I mean is that he was the one who wanted control, power and a kingdome and void was his right hand man So imagine if When griffith got his dream he somehow put guts in jail for some reason and probably tortured Since godhands need to sacrifice what they love the most Void would sacrifice the population that he worked hard to creat

Skull knight is a part of king Geizrick. Zod is the other half.

The angels are the god hand and the flash back of his woman dead is the moment his empire collapsed

Please do a video essay on big boss from metal gear solid series

Skull night wanting to be part of the first God hand by being King Gaiseric and sacrificing all his kingdom and everything for it. But after he gets into the God hand decides to confront them for an unknown reason.

Idk dude, Skull Knight had an angry brow when he rescued Guts from Slan in Qliphoth.

I think skull knight is a magically empowered former apostle, who killed his family and lost his kingdom using the berserker armor and lives now for revenge

Skull Knight is...GUTS!

I always had a suspicion that the SK was Guts in the future. Oddly similar to the Manwha "Skeleton soldier can't protect the dungeon" in that regard. At least to me! XD

This video isnt in the berserk Playlist for some reason, kept looking for it but ended up just searching KZfaq to find it. Just saying since so many videos in the berserk Playlist reference this video.

I haven't read the Manga so I'm going to ask but like this is the description of the band of the hawk in the manga written as the band of the falcon? Because I've always watched the anime in Japanese and just read the subtitles and Taka no dan.... was always translated to be band of the hawk

an eclipse and incarnation ceremony did NOT happen at the same time Void became godhand at albion tower of conviction 1080 years ago which is when SK died in berserk armor and when Zodd was also alive Then 1000 years ago Gaiserics kingdom fell during the incarnation ceremony in which void most likely was reborn at the current tower of rebirth then 864 years before void becomes first of new godhand

Is it impossible that both the priest and Geiseric possessed a baelot (can't spell)? I mean what if the two characters were both working with one another but for their own reasons, neither knowing the other possessed a baelot. Bailot? They both reach a crescendo at the same time, but Geiseric, realizing his mistake, rejected it while the priest didn't. Now they're pitted against one another, with Geiseric desperate to halt the ball he got going. Idk, I'm a casual fan.

The way the manga plays out during the golden age arc, the connections between skull knight and Gaeseric is really heavy handed. Its not subtle.

Literally me

Seems like skull not might be related to guts somewhere down the line

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I believe griffif and skull knight are more alike and void was similar to guts and in a final last ditch effort to defeat skull knight he sacrificed himself to the God hand and dethroned all former God hand members and guts will end up doing the same thing to griffif.

15:30 ayo eg hatch

He's Guts from the future!

Skull knight is that 🥷 that shows up late when shit hits the fan while being a badass.💀🗡🐴

lol he simply represents death I guess. That goes along with fate, his job is to make sure the characters die when they are supposed to. Thats why he saves them again and agian. Thats why he know about Guts birth, death was close, literally. thats why guts has a deep connection to death. he fought death while he was being born, thats like at early as it gets in the metaphoric way. I think thats also why guts has the berzerker armor, that just represents the darkness he already met at birth, thats why he has access to it. and death has access to it because death is literally existing in darkness if not is the incarnation of darkness, meaning his literal role/job is to bring darkness to someone when its their time to die. and maybe we see this eternal fight with the godhand because they are immortal and death isnt cool with that idea :D

Only thing I question is why are their corpses left behind cuz during gut’s sacrifice they left nothing much behind

I hope for Schierke's Origins... That she isn't Donovan in her past life.