#theme: fandom

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How well do you think Mori and Gaga studio understand Miura's ideas, especially In relation to Griffith? I doubt Miura envisioned Griffith as a pure-evil monster who deserves a terrible death. However, most of the fandom tends to simplify the story into a primitive tale of 'the good hero Guts defeating the vile villain Griffith, who must die." Is it likely they will cater to this majority, downplaying Griffith's complexities, dismiss his waking feelings like "it's just the moonchild" and presenting story as a story with Guts chopping Griffith into pieces, and all his crew go celebrate this and live happily, consigning Griffith's name to oblivion? After all, that is what the fandom want. Will they give the majority what they desire? I fear that most readers simply won't accept any ending other than a brutal revenge against Griffith. It's sad that the fandom feels this way about the character, but it can't be changed, no matter what, so their attitude doesn't bother me too much. However, I am concerned that their feelings might influence the continuation. And will you accept post-Miura's Berserk as canon, no matter what it turns out to be? (I apologize for any mistakes or strange phrasing. I'm not a native eng speaker)

I don't know any more about how closely Mori is adhering to Miura's vision than anyone else, but as an optimist I do believe him when he says he knows what Miura had planned and doesn't intend to stray from that.

In terms of like, character nuance and Griffith in particular, on the one hand I never really expected the new crew to match Miura's ability to convey subtle emotions and details, and on the other hand even before Miura died I didn't have 100% confidence that he was going to maintain a lot of the nuances I loved in the earlier manga, like fear being one of Guts' main driving emotions, or like the moral ambiguity of Falconia.

I think it's easy to fall into thinking that Miura's Berserk is perfect and anything disappointing about the new chapters is because of deviation from his intentions, but we don't really know Miura's intentions, or how his perspective on the story may have shifted throughout the decades.

So basically I guess my best guess is that while Miura may have been able to convey more subtle character stuff than the current artists can, and therefore probably wouldn't have drawn Griffith looking so cartoonishly villainous eg lol, I do feel like it's a safe assumption that the plot is still Miura's, and if he hadn't died Griffith still would've kidnapped Casca and whatever is happening in Kushan would still be happening (but maybe more clearly conveyed lol), etc.

Also it's worth noting that as far as I'm aware the "majority" of fans you mention, with boring overly simplified ideas about the story, are just the majority of English language fans, and I don't think that's the fanbase Berserk is catering to. I've heard that the Japanese fanbase, the fans more likely to influence the direction of the story if it can be influenced, tends to see Griffith as much more complex and nuanced than English fandom. I could be wrong, I don't speak Japanese so I can't check it out myself, but based on what I've heard from bilingual fans I don't think that's something you have to worry about.

Finally, yeah I think the new material is still canon. I think it makes sense to treat it as, like, an interpretation of the "true" story and maybe take some details with a grain of salt (like Griffith's evil smiles lol), but I mean even if it ends with Guts casually chopping Griffith's head off and riding into the sunset with Casca, I'm not gonna declare Mori a lying fraud or anything like that yk? I would be disappointed in the story the same way I would be if Miura had written it.

Thanks for the ask!

[lemonwrap]

[fuckfuckgoback]

Surprised to see not that many people talking about a lot of Jax's anger coming from a loss of bodily autonomy?

That struck me as a huge thing from this episode. From first the vegan joke to how he gets noticeably distressed from it at the bar, to realizing his tail is gone, even the maid outfit section, Jax clearly doesn't like being controlled. He tends to roll with the punches during adventures, or finds ways to have fun otherwise, but when its his own body being changed against his will, thats when he gets actually upset beyond the point of masking it with being an ass

[elexuscal]

Danny Phantom, The Show:

geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!

Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:

a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!

[paperlignes]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-2024) SEASON 6, EPISODE 10: THE PROMOTION

[crushedsweets]

Seems that every time the weather’s on our side, I turn it right back into rain

[thecutestgrotto]

Starry Night

It’s been a while since I’ve done something that wasn’t a request, so this was nice. 🩵🌸

• set inspired by Van Gogh’s Irises • Famous Art Collection •

[sthmogai]

[PT: Lordxcharic. End PT]

— 💌 : LORDXCHARIC

A xenogender for people whose gender is related/connected to Lord X in some way! Their gender might feel like a decaying vessel and be related to gore and sonic.

Stripes are just based off it's color scheme and design! Not exclusive to any specific group, but made with autistic people in mind!! ^_^

[stealingpotatoes]

it's funny whenever i post dinluke i always get comments along the lines of "why do people ship these two they only met once" and its like bestie. babygirl. ok first off it's about the Themes™/dynamics/potential, not how many times they've met in "canon" and 2. when i was a teenager the biggest ship in my favourite fandom was two guys who'd never even interacted and you think its weird people ship two guys that acually met?? in real life canon?? they literally made eye contact, that's like the fanon-shipping equivalent of third base

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Is Griffith like supposed to be way older in the anime/movies? Berserk fandom is now calling Charlotte/Griff p*dophilia when I’m 99.9% sure that they only have a 1 year age gap (17 & 18 at the end of Golden Age) between them in the manga. I’ve also seen people say it’s wrong to ship him with Guts because of the age gap???. I’m like what age gap??? Doesn’t Guts say they’re about the same age? They’re listed as being the same age in the official guidebook.

My understanding is that (I think) the companion art book for the ovas says that Griffith is three years older than Guts, for some reason, and people searching for reasons to hate Griffith seize on that to call him a pedophile lol.

But you're absolutely right that the only thing we ever hear about Griffith's age in canon is that he's about as old as Guts, ie fifteen at the start of the Golden Age and eighteen when he sleeps with Charlotte. The official guidebook is correct in this instance. I mean he could easily be slightly younger than Guts, for all we know.

But also lol @ the idea that it's wrong to ship characters with a three year age gap, or that an age gap is what makes griffguts ~*~*~problematic~*~*~

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

gnarp gnarp

[ayilings]

do we fuck with black parade hatsune miku [wip] 💀🖤

[paperlignes]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-2024) SEASON 6, EPISODE 4: THE RAILROAD

[kidspawn]

There is something inexplicably hilarious to me about the entire TRC fandom being able to draw an ace-coded interpretation about nearly every character - Blue and Gansey always read very ace spectrum coded to me, one could argue Ronan is on a demisexual wavelength (or he's just catholic), aroace Henry interpretations, Noah gets a lot of asexual headcanons too.

Adam, though? We've all collectively agreed that that motherfucker is ready to fucking go. Mr. Touch starved, "hi literal soulmate I drove eight hours for birthday sex", "wow my murderous Latin teacher is hot", "I have had a girlfriend for a week and I want to kiss her right NOW" "had been starving for much longer" "now that we've made out once we are living on a farm and raising a dream child together let me look at your tattoo RIGHT NOW no conversation we are kissing now lets go bang in the laundry room" "i keep a pinup of a car model in my glovebox" Adam Parrish has dodged these interpretations on a widespread scale solely by having r-rated thoughts about every person he's found attractive in the series. We're all right and I think we should say it more.

[crabsnpersimmons]

Happy Halloween from the "Have You Eaten?" Boys!

[lyss-butterscotch]

Fear her