I hope Guts doesn’t have any kind of special bloodline. I like that he’s just a guy that overcomes things.

The idea the Void is basically Skull Knight’s Griffith is so interesting to me. I imagine the sage trapped in the tower had a behelit and used Skull Knights kingdom as a sacrifice or something

Guts is the only character in my opinion who lives outside of casuality becuase in casuality he should have died at birth, everytime the strings of casualty had been cut he was a part of it ( eg: the count, escape from eclipse, and him surving this long). In my view the only reason ricket was able to slap griffith was becasue in casualty he was meant to join him therefore he did not expect it. becuase of guts impact on ricket he did not join him. Guts's birth is very significant he is a miscalculation of casualty or something else.

No No, that theory that Guts may have a magical or somewhat special background goes against his character, Miura said so several times, is a mortal man, struggling against incredible odds. Its a nobody, forged by the circumstances and obstacles. One of the themes of the manga is the determinism that hovers over humanity, and some people trying to break free from the external influence.

Guts being some kind of fated hero with magic parents would make the story so much worse, since it would invalidate all of the hard work and determination he puts into fighting and surviving and instead just makes it som predestined fate shit.

Skull King didn't say his life as a human was stupid...he said his time as a king was when he made stupid choices. At least that is what he implied in response to Gut's vision.

That’s it guys: a Beserk videos a day keeps the beast of darkness at bay! Keep rolling them out

The thing that makes me think that Guts’ mom wasn’t a witch is that when Farnese meets Flora, Flora tells her not to worry about feeling guilty bc the holy chain knights never killed any actual witches, making me think that witches were far too evasive to get caught even individually much less as a coven

I believe Gaiseric's empire fell when Void became a Godhand, Void was a close friend to Gaiseric and just like Griffith, sacrificed everything dear to him to ascend. Including the whole empire and Gaiseric's lover.

Griffith was made by causality. Guts survives in spite of causality.

Imagine Guts or Casca naming their child and therefore having some control of Griffith

Another mystery or problem that worries me is the Beast of Darkness within Guts and that ominous promise it made to lash out with all it's fury once Guts is at his lowest/weakest. I think more than anything that's going to be THE biggest threat right up there with the God Hand. I get the feeling if anyone among the main characters die, it just may end up being Farnese. That one would certainly be the most tragic and effect everyone. Making that vision Serpico had a reality...

The moonlight boy is gunna be a karma response to what Griffith did to casca

So happy you're still making berserk content

Pucks true name is 100% going to bit a big reveal. Most likely he will be powerful enough in his released form for the final arc, abs get an instant massive powerup

The thing with the previous god hand members can be simply explained. Void 1000 years ago was the youngest god hand just like griffith and the 4 others in the background were older then void. As to what happened to them can be explained that skull knight probably sent them to the shadow realm forever.

Berserk deserves some stuff to be unexplained or left to the reader interpretation but that’s just me.

Your vids on this series are great. Yall go so in depth, your R&D Team must work hard learning and figuring it all out!!

your suggestions has tied so many threads for me. when u suggest the outcast kushin bakiraka teaming with guts to take out griffiths army in the end makes so much sense when u say it and present evidence

Highly doubt Guts is the offspring of a witch. His birth is special, but not his heritage. His son the demon child, mirrors Guts. The demon child is an astral being, mostly known as the world of the dead, but was born from a living being Casca. Guts is a moving being born of a corpse. That's the cycle of his lineage

So, what I'm curious about is that Guts was born outside of fate and all of that. I'm curious if he's the cycle breaker, and that's the point of all of this.

you had me at Rickert pimp slaps Griffith A PIMP NAMED SLICKBACK

30:49 I think it might honestly be impossible to overstate just how important the Moonlight Child is to the end game of Berserk. He quite clearly exists outside of causality, being that he was corrupted by a member of the Godhand and should have died along with Casca and Guts in the Eclipse and was later merged with that very member of the Godhand. Which would also explain why the living Behilit saw fit to also take in the demon child, he sensed more than just a dying apostal.

All these excerpts from the manga have completely awed me! I just recently got into Berserk and watched the anime just this summer, and now I really want to read the manga!! The art is just amazing!!

3. Griffith's True Lineage: I think that in the recent chapters, there's a lot more effort in being more deliberate with Griffith's ancestry. In Chapter 363, they mention at the root of the spirit tree being the grave of the lady maiden of the cherry blossoms is the Skull Knight's former lover. At the end of that page, Guts has a memory from the Berserker armor of her looking a hell of a lot like Griffith with a brand of sacrifice on her shoulder. My educated guess is that Griffith is a descendant of Elves + King Gaiseric. Which makes me wonder if Falconia being rebuilt on the same grounds as Gaiseric's former empire is intentional for the final arc. You guys might be onto something @Marvelous Videos on Falconia becoming the location for another Eclipse. 7. How Will the Real Name of Magical Creatures Come Into Play? I think this will take a bigger role in the story than we anticipate, in Chapter 364, Danann makes a comment on the Moonboy having an air similar to elves. If this is true, and Griffith being a parallel spirit of the Moonboy, this would mean that if the Moonboy were to tell the Black Swordsman's party his spirit name, then his spirit form could be released. In turn, it could also enslave Griffith. Which makes things interesting seeing as the Moonboy hasn't spoken in the physical world. But during the fight on the beach, when Guts was in the Berserker armor and just about to turn on his party, there was a sprite (that looked very similar to Flora's Daemon) was able stop Guts dead in his tracks during that blinded rage. Perhaps it'll be up to Shierke or a more trained Farnese to tread deep in the astral world and find a way to communicate to the Moonboy and stop Griffith or at least find a way to make him vulnerable. 14. What is the Fate of the Black Swordsman Party? Without getting too philosophical, I think the parallels between Guts and Griffith are similar to the on going question of Free Will and Determinism. Guts represents staying true to your own path, whatever that may be and that even if the path may seem uncertain, that the uncertainty will be a continuous struggle, to fall down again and again, that you find a way to get back up and keep going. Whereas Griffith represents following the dream. Stopping at nothing to attain that dream. But it is Griffith's dream, everyone that follows him are merely pawns to attaining it. The difference being that everything that's happened since Griffith has arrived in the physical world, seems too good to be true. All the obstacles the new Band of the Hawk are facing from defeating Ganishka, convincing the lords of Midland to resolve their differences and unite under him, the discovery of the sky path are like a fairytale. To hit that point home with what you guys mentioned at 25:03 "Griffith now is akin to the author of his own story it's as if he's rewriting the very fabric of reality with his own convictions and he casually mentions that only those outside his story can now affect him." In order for the Black Swordsman party to not fall into Griffith's vision of causality, they need to follow their own path. Thematically, this is beautiful and I can't wait to see how all interwoven narratives tie together in the final arc.

I would like to add another mystery that could be essential for the end of the story and that is the ultimate purpose of the Behelit Guts has been carrying with him since the beginning. Whose could it be and what role will it play?

If time is a spiral in this respective universe, wouldn’t that frame up that guts is destined to be the next skull knight character? The only other compelling way to carry out the storyline, in my eyes, would be that Guts is somehow the only one to defy time itself, given his defiant nature. Events repeating themselves is a huge part of this universe, so “Guts” being the one to break the cycle would be epic.

This was awesome and I enjoy thought out theories from other fans.....

0:01 BEST MANGA PANEL EVER. PERIOD.

I just think Griffith allowed Rickert to slap him because he knows he deserved it. It serves to show that Griffith is aware of what he did, and it reinforces that he *chose* to sacrifice the band of the hawk. It wasn’t just causality playing out with him being swept along, causality put him there but he chose this and he fully knew how selfish and evil a choice it was and did it anyway, that’s why he accepts the slap, because he knows Rickert is right.

i thought that void becoming a godhand was what we were seeing with skull knights memory

Not to mention that the bakiraka are now allied with Rickert and the Kushan Sorcerer guy, so they are definitely being set up as strong force that can join Guts eventually

If there’s anything in Berserk I desperately need back story on its 3 characters in particular first is my second favorite character after our boy guts himself, Nosferatu Zodd. I’m dying to know what he was like as a human or even if he’s human to begin with. Next would be Void. Is he the sage that Gieserick locked in the tower and if so why? Finally would be SkullKnight. We definitely got some sort of rough outline with him but there’s still so much mystery about him. I hope studio gaga has the info and the writing chops to solve and articulate the answers to these questions.

another pointer to void being the sage is that Sages are described as some further evolved humans with better traits, and it just so happens having 6 fingers instead of 5 is considering an evolutionary leap, void has 6 fingers

With Rickert. I think it is because he was supposed to be sacrificed with the rest of the band. Guts and Casca were marked so they are technically a sacrifice. Since he was outside of the event he was disconnected to those events so he exists outside of it all. I believe that is what makes him able to slap Griffin. Causality would state that since he was outside the key event he was supposed to die therefore Griffin can't do anything to him.

Rickert, Erica, Daiba and Silar is my favourite party at this point of the story. The unlikeliness of the group even existing..

I just thought of this but we assume the hawk of darkness in the story is either representing guts or is of Griffith, but what if it's actually the moonlight child and the hawk of light is actually the moonlight child and Griffith is the hawk of darkness or something like that.

On your goku video I noticed that you showed who the narrator for the video is .. I like that touch you should do that for your berserk videos as well … your the guy with the voice 😂😂 these videos aren’t the same when anyone else narrates them …thank you keep ‘em coming !!

i think defeating griffith is gonna be almost the same way when they saved casca from her mental trap but guts is just gonna kill him or lock him away in the world tree

I think Griffith is Gaiseric's descendant, thereby having bloodline to rule the midland, also in prev memory of berserker armor, we see prev godhands, but there's void still there, and gaiseric's lover dying in his arms, maybe void is femto to gaiseric's guts

My prediction: Casca will learn Griffith’s true name (spiritual/astral). And She and Guts will abandon their anger, resentment, and sadness about the eclipse like Rickert did, and move forward-damaged but forward nonetheless. Knowing the true name will bind Griffith/Femto. And Femto will lose control of the body he has and it will return to the child. And the child will become the dominant personality of the body that Griffith now has. It will mean that the child Griffith corrupted was destined to be his downfall. That his own act of violation would lead to his own natural downfall. Causality chose the baby to be picked up by the egg of the perfect world and to seek out his mother. And that is my prediction.

The moonlight boy or Guts and Casca's son will be the key to defeating / killing Griffith maybe even sacrificing himself to get rid of him and Griffith to save Casca and Guts.

Why is Rickert's pimp slap the most powerful attack in the whole series?

The manga is coming back in April 28th and I believe and new anime or animated movie adaption is in production

I really want to see the origins of skull knight and as well as all the Godhand members.

You can only hurt Griffith if you hold no hatred against him that is why Rickert was a able slap him.

Another mystery. Was Puck looking for Guts? I mean Puck at the beginning seemed to be looking for something or someone. That's how he was captured and ended up in that bar. Now that could be a retcon, but maybe, puck and Guts link was already in Miura's mind. But I don't think puck just thinks " guts is a good man with harsh attitude" I think he saw something in guts beyond his own comprehension. Maybe it was Guts what attracted puck to end up in that Bar. 2-I think they already achieved part of their goal. to join back Human and astral world. The astral world, was somehow in a different layer of reality, i think it was hidden in the layer of imagination. What i mean is that Astral beings weren't born from human imagination, I believer they were banished to the human imagination realm. By what? Idk. But for some reason whatever happened, it spared elves, however they lived in constant hiding for many years in a secluded island too difficult tor each without another elf. Also considering the assault on elfheim, id say the elfs were definitely involved in these events. 3-I don't think Griffith had any significance or important lineage, he's the perfect puppet for the godhand, Griffith would do anything to have his kingdom, so the godhand gave him the tools to have one. He's to them , imo, the best possible useful idiot. and whatever end goal they have, Griffith most probably doesn't know it. I also believe Ganishka was destined to become the next finger in the hand, but he went rogue and rejected the Hand. And Ganishka was also very ambitious. Why everything gravitates towards griffith? Well... Causality isn't really such, i think the godhand always had a hand in guiding griffith towards his ultimate goal. 4- Gaiseric could fall for the same reason Ganishka empire fell and the same reason Griffith empire may fall later. They all went agains whatever the hand wanted. I think Rickert slapped Griffith because Griffith Allowed him. I think There is some regret in Griffith's mind, And he seeks some kind of Approval. When his human side takes over, he becomes as mortal as any human. Of course that's just my theory. I think Griffith biggest weakness is his emotional fragility. He did a lot of things he regreted, He even regreted the losses he had during battles, he sacrificed a lot to prevent that from going on. Griffith isn't pure evil, but more a wwhirlwind of human emotions. Want, love, hate, greed. He decided to priorize his ambitions, but that doesn't mean he can't feel regret. When he summoned Rickert, he wanted judgement from him. And that's what he got. Ricker told him off. Whatever he has now, it's not the hawks, the hawks are dead, and he killed them.

Imagine the face of the princess, the pontiff, Sonia and the wolf kid if Griffith turned foggy at Rickert's slap. Same if Rickert missed at that range, or Griffith did a 'hee-hee' MJ evasion. He just had to take that on the chin. Peer pressure and the need for validation is Griffith's weakness. He can't show Femto powers in front of his subjects.

Its funny how the Sea God's heart and the Idea of evil looked similar

If guts mom was connected to some kind of magic or astral realm then maybe Guts has a "real name" that unleashes his true form? Just a thought.. connecting the two theories.. the astral name thing and the guts witch mom thing . Maybe some kinda ritual affected guts inside her womb and that gave guts a hidden form that he can only unlock figuring out his real name..? Maybe that has something to do with his connection to the elf's also?

❤ the berserk lore! Best story of all time

I think that Griffith simply allowed Rickert to slap him for some Reason.

FYI: Guts will be a member of God Hand but before his party are branded he will rebel against the God Hand and finish them off one by one until the final showdown with Femto ~ 😎🍻

With the merging of the worlds I wonder how acring a beherit will affect things. If it has a different effect on the world around it, what will guts' beherit do?

Makes me feel very sad at the possibility of no real ending for Berserk. RIP Kentaro san

All of these are very interesting, espacially the yet unexplained connections between characters or the set ups for later payoff. This video has made me sad again, that Miura san has passed away and i hope Mori san will fulfill all of Miura san´s setups and present to us the best possible and fitting ending for berserk. The only thing i dont like is the idea of guts being born from a "special" bloodline and not from just some peasants, because this way he is more relatable to all of us normal humans who are also not born from a "special" bloodline.

guts parents are uniumportant insignificant corpses. its guts' situation that makes him who he is. he is the struggler. his sheer willpower rivals the gods.

I’m pretty sure the Godhand wasn’t always around and was made when Void become one. It’s not a natural group that was born like the sun, or a tree. This group is almost man made like for a purpose we don’t understand. “Void is the key”

I belive there's going to be a reveal that falconia is shaped like a brand

Guts will become to true white hawk. Mark my words. Also, the last thing I want is to find out who his parents are. Guts should be a "ordinary" man overcoming challenge after challenge through grit and determination. There is no way in hell I want him to be born special. You should become special through your actions and choices not because of whom your parents are.

3:23 Guts' parents are nobodies. That's the point. He is a struggler against all odds, not some foretold Jesus placeholder like most other fantasy protagonists.

Guts lives outside the bounds of causality. He is a wild card. The God Hand can't see his future or the futures he affects. ( or had the ability to but doesn't always)

I think there will be a mirror choice for guts to either sacrifice them or himself, and will probably choose himself, mirroring griffiths choice to sacrifice the others for himself.

The name thing is interesting. It doesnt seem like it applies to godhand members unless the names we were given are not their true names. I think we have 2 arcs ahead of us to wrap the manga up

I have a theory and hear me out it gets wild. What if the reason for history to move in a spiral is the very reason there are 2 different godhands ? I think causality was first broken back when the kingdom of Gaiseric was falling to ruination. We clearly see, that back then, there already were 5 Godhand members, but where are they now ? What if, everything was suposed to end then and there and the last big sacrifice would have included the Godhand itself ? Somehow Void cheated the system because of unknown motivs and the cicle of filling up the godhand began anew while causality tried to rectefy itself to recreate the nescessary circumstances to end it all again. Thats why all of humanity has to be in Falconia and that is the purpose of the Godhand. Everyone has to be sacrificed to end it all and prepare an age of darkness or unconciousness. So what happened was, Void was part of the first Godhand and upon the promised day, he realised that the godhand itself was to be sacrificed and that was either unknown to them, or not part of the deal they made with the idea of evil. So he sacrficed his old collegues, prevented the end and now has to play his role as causality repeats itself and thats why he is as unphased by everything that happenes, because he already lived it. So he either becomes the final final obstical or will switch sides when the right time comes, so that our heroes at least have a fighting chance. I mean just fighting one of the Godhand is near impossible. Fighting all five is just not what is going to happen. So Void will either stalemate his current colligues in the Godhand, so that Guts and Femto can settle the final score, or he will repeat his trick at the old kingdom and sac the other members again when the time comes and then be defeated by Guts or the Skullknight.

griffith got falconia living in peace with literal demons that will one day kill them and that sounds much like our current real world

Berserk still had a bunch to tell, sadly we wont get answers to most of our questions RIP Miura sensei

I think the fate of the new Band of the Falcon is just as important as the fate of the Black Swordsman's party. Its not just a spiral, its got forks.

It makes more sence to me that void is the angel that came to grant the sages wish. Void is the only member of the god hand that has been around since the beginning. makes more sence he was created by the idea of evil to help make sure the eclipses would happen and put the brand of sacrifie on everyone. Perhaps void is the only one who can do that.

0:26 why are we not talking about the smiling friends reference with Glep here?!?! God I love that show!

Rickert can slap Griffith because Rickert is an ancestor of Bright Noa

Also is a mistery the history of Zodd, Locus, Irvine and Rakshas... what happend with Teresia? Gil? And Jerome???

Assuming void was someone that Skull Knight knew, making him technically, Gaesric's Griffith..

Imagine skullknight is guts in a different time line or his father

I’m curious. 14:00 I’ve heard the spiritual “true name” referenced in other works like eragon. I didn’t do much research on when each writer wrote about but is there some sort of author appreciation being noted in the writings of these two?

Griffith looks like skull kings woman who was sacrificed. Maybe he is from his blood line after all and maybe that for shadows he will be the sacrifice of the god hand.

i think zodd is the astral body of scullknight/ his inner beast of darkness, if u zoom in skullknights gaiseric helmet u can see transformed zodd as his emblem .

if idea creates evil to give reasons to human suffering, then that implies that there used to be no reason ? mixing that with fantasia being common place around the time gaiseric was king. maybe back then “elemental godhands” were all that was needed. tragedy was purely/mostly a result of natural disasters or natural unavoidable pain. but then with the rise of gaiseric’s kingdom more people were hurting each other and building castles while separating themselves from magic. eventually humans became enough of a problem for each other that idea had to create void, the first god hand. as the years past more human reasons are needed until finally we end up with the five members we have. i would have this be supported by the fact that if griffith is the godhand of longing or whatever, he is also kinda the first character to ever have a dream. before him we don’t see anyone exhibit any kind of desire beyond surviving. longing makes sense as a reason or cause of pain and griffith existing maybe put that energy out into the world and suddenly now people dream and long and hurt each other as a result of their longing. maybe each member has brought with them something like this connected with their ascension as a godhand

Causality would mean void and skull knight are the Guts and Griffith of 1k years ago.

Guts is unbound by fate. There is another series that is very similar in concept to Berserk and that's Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain. Guts is similar to Raziel in concept; both are not bound by fate and have free will. They are not part of the Wheel of Causality.

I dont think they will kill the moonlight boy. Doesn't fit thematically

I know this is super late but a possible reason why Rickert was able to slap griffith was because he's an anomaly. On the day of the eclipse Rickert was supposed to die but through intervention from skull knight he survived and wasnt able to be marked for death like Guts and Casca are. When something not progamed into a game interacts with a piece of code it causes a glitch or error. Rickert(the anomaly or uncoded entity) interacted (slapped) Griffith it caused a glitch in the system which allowed for his slap to connect. Guts and Casca too are glitches in the system but once they got marked by the brand their fates were sealed.

I don't believe that the accompanying 4 with void are the four kings. That's a bait for sure. We've seen them anyways. Granted undetail versions, but they don't resemble them the slightest. If anything I think they're counterparts like zodd and sk's relationship. The opposite end of the scale of the balance of the world. Possibly some form on causality and retrocausality.

Skull knight and guts have the same future, same path. I feel the reason we keep seeing skull knight is cause everything and everywhere guts goes skull knight was already on his way. I feel we'll end up seeing skull knight fall just for guts to pick up his mantle, its a stretch but i really think skull knight is guts or is in the training to be skull knight

Can you do a video on balzac

the moonlight boy will be the perfect vessel for the idea of evil in the physical plane, a being born of both the physcial plane and astral plane

Thanks!

Zodd's past remains a mistery too

What is that background music!?

The Moonlight Child's power makes sense, after all he too went too the rebirth with the living behelit. As Griffith's power were transfered into a mortal body and his godlike charisma was born, so as Guts and Caska demon kid. He too evolved through rebirth.

it will be extremely disappointing if we found out that guts had special parents

Moonlight boy is the weakness of Griffith and will be the end of him, no doubt.

Okay the Rickert theories are a bit ridiculous… Him getting a slap in was probably just Griffith showing some restraint and compassion for his former Band of the Hawk member There been evidence that Griffith has some humanity left in him due to Casca’s baby being his vessel for reincarnation He didn’t get angry, he wasn’t even implied to be the one to attempt to assassinate Rick. It’s more likely that Griffith was being stoic and letting Rickert say his piece. I think the scene was powerful as is without reading into it that Rick is some insane force of power lol

I feel like guts is going to become a God hand, but a good one I would line up with Griffith. And the prophecy. 30:11

Skull Knight’s grudge is against Void. I feel like Skull Knight was the Griffith in his time but it would be his version of Guts was the one with the behelit who became Void

Where can i find or read after Volume 41 ends??

The crazy amount of mysteries surrounding the god hand just make them the most terrifying antagonists in anime

Doesn’t the godhand want both realms to be fused? The. Maybe void backstabs everyone or the godhand backstabs Griffith OR Griffith backstabs them

Hear me out: The prophesy by Sonya actually was talking about Zodd and Skull night teaming up to take down Griffith alongside Guts

The thing for me is there’s still no conception of their plan. It seems to me the godhand has autonomy despite causality, and I find it hard to believe that Femto is now in a position of import within the group. But other than femto, who’s plans could even be sensed in the modern era? I don’t have any answers but I think knowing who has input on their machinations is the first step