|
305 is out! It looks like the merger of the ethereal and physical planes of existence, Berserk has completely switched gears from from "medieval story with vaguely demonic supernatural elements" to "hosed up fantasy"--I cracked up when that Hydra started eating those unicorns. I mean I guess it's been on track to do that ever since lil' witch showed up, but still. Unicorns! There's no turning back now. Also, this probably explains why Griffith is afraid of mages---I can only imagine that this development is going to make Schierke (and eventually Farnese) a whole hell of a lot more powerful.
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 07:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 23:41 |
|
|
Awesome. Miura has sure been making it easy for the translators recently. I wonder what the merge did to Guts there? Also will this mean that Guts' mark won't really have any effect now since all the demons etc are already in the physical plane? And how will this work with Schierke travelling to the astral plane whenever she uses magic?
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 07:51
|
|
|
Who were those people on the boat? I don't recall what part they played in the story... Seriously though, nice to see Guts again finally. And June 26th! Keep it up Miura, please.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 15:07
|
|
|
I've been reading this series off and on for the last 10 years. Over the last few months I've been slowly catching up on what I missed after my most recent near two year break. All caught up as of this week, and here I find today is the first day I have ever paid attention enough to read the news of a newly translated episode, the day of. I am pleased that my level of Berserk devotion has risen to new heights. Oh, and I finally bought a Dreamcast just last week... for the Berserk game of course. With this new world fantasy becomes reality turn of events, that elf island is most likely hosed now. I suppose there could be some magical barrier of sorts. An elf sanctuary residing in multiple planes of existence isn't too far of a stretch at this point, but I have a feeling that the end of the sea journey won't be pretty.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 23:39
|
|
|
2 chapters a month for 2 months in a row, it's madness 
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 23:49
|
|
|
Hot drat, I guess Miura's been catching up on his Greek mythology. I don't care what it takes plot-wise, give me a Guts vs. Hydra fight. Preferably complete with burning the stumps of its severed heads off to stop them regenerating.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2009 23:53
|
|
|
Holy poo poo at plot developments.
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 03:22
|
|
|
Hydras, unicorns and harpies. Hell yeah
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 03:30
|
|
|
"Something big happened in Berserk." "That's impossible, nothing ever happens anymore." "Then how do you explain the dead unicorns?"
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 03:57
|
|
|
So since All the fantasy stuff is now part of the world, will we be seeing a Guts vs. Kraken fight soon?
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 04:55
|
|
|
bondster posted:So since All the fantasy stuff is now part of the world, will we be seeing a Guts vs. Kraken fight soon? It means we'll be seeing Guts fighting EVERYTHING now. Like literally, Guts is going to probably have to walk from one side of everything to the other side sword first because the world is one giant monster den now.
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 05:13
|
|
|
Did the fantasmic juice cure Guts of his burns? (spoiler for guts this chapter)
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 05:17
|
|
|
Demtor posted:I've been reading this series off and on for the last 10 years. Over the last few months I've been slowly catching up on what I missed after my most recent near two year break. All caught up as of this week, and here I find today is the first day I have ever paid attention enough to read the news of a newly translated episode, the day of. I am pleased that my level of Berserk devotion has risen to new heights. Or they become much more powerful, and aren't so friendly anymore.
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 06:02
|
|
|
Zorak posted:It means we'll be seeing Guts fighting EVERYTHING now. Like literally, Guts is going to probably have to walk from one side of everything to the other side sword first because the world is one giant monster den now. So this. So very, very this. Burn the hydra stumps my rear end. This is Guts. He will, upon finding that chopping off the heads isn't working, chop off the body
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 07:48
|
|
|
Demtor posted:Oh, and I finally bought a Dreamcast just last week... for the Berserk game of course. I still can't recall if I ever beat that game. One of the later levels is this horrific sequence of running towards the camera while instant kill chases you down. It's miserable. It might be that I never beat it higher than normal if there are multiple difficulties though. narfanator posted:Burn the hydra stumps my rear end. This is Guts. He will, upon finding that chopping off the heads isn't working, chop off the body So he's turned into Chuck Norris? I like this.
|
|
#
?
Jun 11, 2009 08:58
|
|
|
I love the farmers. They're all "...is that a loving unicorn, Tim?" "I think so, Phil. Is that a goddamned hydra eating unicorns?" "Yeah, seems that way."
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 02:15
|
|
|
Does this big 'light dome' event remind anyone of Malazan Book of the Fallen? Something similar happened there in one of the latest books (Bonehunters I think), where a bunch of Bridgeburners got transfigured by a big dome of light.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 02:27
|
|
|
Kinda makes me wonder where the series can go from here. I wish it were back to the days of solo Guts.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 06:53
|
|
|
This so has to be the start of the series's endgame.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 11:07
|
|
|
Scoobi posted:Did the fantasmic juice cure Guts of his burns? (spoiler for guts this chapter) Looks like it. I wonder if his demon dog persona will become real at some point.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 14:50
|
|
|
Fiannaiocht posted:Looks like it. I wonder if his demon dog persona will become real at some point. I doubt that, it's not an astral being so the worlds merging has no real effect on what it does to Guts. It's internal to him.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 16:08
|
|
|
By the way, has it ever been stated if the Skeleton Knight is actually a skeleton or if that's just the form his berserker armor takes? EDIT: It was implied back at the witch's house that he had some connection with it if I remember right.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2009 23:52
|
|
|
The Berserker armor that Guts/Gutsu/Gatts/whatever wears originally looked Skull Knight-ish. I believe it was stated, or at least implied, that The King of that ancient civilization wore a skull based armor, and that the skull knight wore the berserker armor until his entire body was eaten away. I don't think his current armor is his skeleton or the berserker armor, but I think it is symbilogical of his past.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 00:12
|
|
|
Ryuujin posted:The Berserker armor that Guts/Gutsu/Gatts/whatever wears originally looked Skull Knight-ish. I believe it was stated, or at least implied, that The King of that ancient civilization wore a skull based armor, and that the skull knight wore the berserker armor until his entire body was eaten away. I don't think his current armor is his skeleton or the berserker armor, but I think it is symbilogical of his past. He doesn't wear the Berserker armor, since the one Guts is wearing used to be Skull Knight's.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 01:46
|
|
|
Yeah I think it was a case of the berserker armor ate him, but he couldn't die because of fate/curse kind of like guts.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 02:02
|
|
|
Does he poop?
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 03:14
|
|
|
Cbouncerrun posted:Does he poop? I would assume not, otherwise he would poop behelits and then he's have to eat his behelit poop so that he always has a reserve of behelits in his stomach to coat his sword with so that he can slash through dimensions and turn Apostles into light-jizz at any given time. But I really do not know Skull Knight biology, so I am just speculating here HTH Edit: Or zorak may be right. Follow-up question: Does his horse poop? Centzon Totochtin fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jun 15, 2009 |
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 03:54
|
|
|
Cbouncerrun posted:Does he poop? Yeah, he poops.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 03:55
|
|
|
Cbouncerrun posted:Does he poop? He takes lively poops, but wait he is probably already dead 
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 05:00
|
|
|
Ryuujin posted:Yeah I think it was a case of the berserker armor ate him, but he couldn't die because of fate/curse kind of like guts. I thought Guts's distinguishing characteristic was that he wasn't bound or affected by fate, and that was how he survived the Eclipse in the first place. (EDIT: Aside from being, y'know, Guts. And that whole chopping off of the arm process.)
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 05:53
|
|
|
Wow, I picked the right time to catch up on this. That was awesome. I wonder if things are changed completely now, or if we just get fantasy monsters on top of everything else. I'm also hoping that the main characters are rearranged during all this. Get Isidoro out of there at least.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 06:49
|
|
|
Maxwell Adams posted:Wow, I picked the right time to catch up on this. That was awesome. Isidoro rules why would you want to get rid of him 
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 06:54
|
|
|
Zorak posted:Isidoro rules why would you want to get rid of him To each his own, but personally I'd say because he's a useless, redundant, and more annoying version of Puck. I could probably be convinced to change my mind if Miura actually spent some time developing this set of characters the way he did the Hawks, though. Right now they just don't stand out in my mind at all, except for maybe Schierke, who still suffers from being like twelve years old.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 07:36
|
|
|
Zorak posted:Isidoro rules why would you want to get rid of him I agree. He now has a fire knife and is awesome!
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 07:45
|
|
|
Cbouncerrun posted:Does he poop? He poops tortured souls. It's been some years since I read the previous volumes now--good pacing, you perfectionist bastard--, but I don't recall him having a super-badass sword made of behelits previously. Anyway, he found a use for those, so what's left for him to poop?
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 09:09
|
|
|
Andrigaar posted:He poops tortured souls. The first time that his sword was revealed to us was in the troll cave, after guts got really hosed up by Slans physical manifestation, skully used the sword (Blade of resonance or something) to teleport out of there if I recall
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 09:18
|
|
|
Tuxedo Catfish posted:I thought Guts's distinguishing characteristic was that he wasn't bound or affected by fate, and that was how he survived the Eclipse in the first place. Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree. Guts was clearly bound by fate. Is was binding him. So he stabbed the thing enacting fate. And then he found another thing enacting fate, and killed that, too. Rinse, repeat. This is not, and has never been, a story about a guy who is special because alone among men, he is untouched by fate. It's not even a story about a guy who takes his fate by the balls and stabs it into tatters. Guts had a fate. It ran into the indomitable wall of his will power and got distracting watching Guts kill everything. Seriously, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember many, many people being astounded by how little Guts seemed to care about "fate", most notably the various whiny Apostles. Then again, it's common in Anime/Manga for the villians go on about fate, and be totally wrong.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 11:49
|
|
|
So, I'm playing the PS2 game but it gets old really fast, does it get any better once I leave the snow levels?
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 12:14
|
|
|
narfanator posted:Seriously, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember many, many people being astounded by how little Guts seemed to care about "fate", most notably the various whiny Apostles. I have to agree with you. Guts is marked by fate to die (the brand) yet he simply refuses to do so, despite the pain and suffering it brings him. The villains here have all been correct about fate, whenever they speak about it. I don't think they will be proven wrong when guts finaly kills them, because it was never his fate to kill them, he just did it because he diden't want to die.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 12:32
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 16, 2024 23:41 |
|
|
Um, I just noticed: What happened to the patch of white hair on Guts? It seems to be gone when the white light hits him. If so, I wonder if the light is going to also remove the brand/restore his arm or eye or something. Or actually, you know, heal Casca for once. If Griffith is the one that caused her to go nuts, it would be interesting if he's also the one that heals her.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2009 18:18
|
|