IamShmgeggy said:
Casual Shinji said:
The addition of the Berserk armor in Berserk.
It fucking destroys Guts as a character, and turned Berserk into a Shounen manga.
It still makes my brain throw up into my skull just thinking about the stupid thing.
I think everything past his flashback was absolutely stupid. Hawk's character arc has taken a turn for the stupid, Guts is now annoying as a protaganist, and that girl he 'loves' is now a mute retard? COME ON!!!!! It was good before the flashback ended. Its now just another 'oh look, he might die, nope hes going Super Berserk!!!'
Well, he always went "super berserk", even in the first two half volumes (the intro). Guts was always inhumanly strong, but it was a strength he earned by being raised on the battlefield and constantly pushing himself to his physical limits. This mentallity of never wanting to lose ever all stems from his childhood when "that" happened where he was completely powerless. This is what made his struggle admirable, because he attained his power through his own training and suffering, not because some demon or curse granted him it. And this is exactly what the Berserk armor does; A magical dodad that grants him power.
If by "everything past his flashback" you mean everything that came after the sacrifice of the Band of the Hawk, then I'm going to have to disagree with that. I thought that the series all the way up to the re-rebirth of Griffith was brilliant. It wasn't until the Fantasy arc started that annoying things were suddenly creeping into the story.
- Guts became sorta bland as a character, and had lost that fire and passion he'd always had.
- Farnese suddenly became a Mary Sue.
- Blatent symbolism. The lame demon wolf representation of Guts' rage. Ugh...
- The fucking Berserk armor, which basically gives Guts a Deus ex Machina.
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- Oh, and the recent flashback filler.