Zhukov said:
Casual Shinji said:
Zhukov said:
Actually, Griffith is interesting. Although I'm not quite sure what his deal is yet. It would be awesome if he actually had some kind of sympathetic goal in mind rather than just being evil.
You mean pre- or post Godhand Griffith?
Before Griffith becomes part of the Godhand, I think the point isn't why he has megalomaniacal ambitions , but
that he has 'm so that they conflict with his relationship with Guts.
No, I mean post Godhand.
It would be interesting if he was working towards something sympathetic or noble. Then Guts inevitably comes along as the avenger of past sins despite Griffith having achieved something really great.
It would certainly be more interesting than having Griffith just be doing all the messianic malarky for the sake of power or something equally trite. Then Guts comes along, they have a fight, Griffith turns into a demon, Guts hits him with a sword a whole lot, etc etc. Meh.
Oh, incidentally, it was your praise of the series that got me to read it.
By the way, do you know how many volume are available in English? I could only find up to #37 online.
Well, initially I thought it was pretty interesting that after Griffith's rebirth he was actually doing some pretty noble things and helping people out big time. It kind of made it hard for you to hate him when he's saving people from that emperor Ganishka. But we'll have to see what happens now that all the different layers of existence have apparently merged into one. I'm also interested in seeing what Rickert is going to do when he sees Griffith again.
There's also the issue of Caska and what's going to happen to her once/if she regains her memories. It's been hinted at that she might very well leave Guts, and perhaps maybe even join Griffith. That act would most certainly completely destroy Guts. And then there's the black haired moon child which is obviously Guts and Caska's son.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's also a deleted chapter that I think chronologically takes place during the Eclipse where Griffith meets God, who appears in the shape of this big, black dimension spinning heart. Apparently it was scrapped because it gave away too much too soon.
In my opinion though, I feel the series took a bit of a tumble ever since volume 23, and I don't think it will ever get as good as it used to be. They screwed up Farnese's character by not having her screwed up anymore, and my loathing for the Berserk armor is unfathomable. I'm afraid I don't see this series ending with any of the shine left that it used to have. But I am glad that fucking mermaid/seamonster shit is over. That just went on and on.
As for the volumes, I think #37 is as far is the series is right now. The author tends take his sweet time on new chapters.
And yay for me getting other people to read this epic work!
