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so, i’m new to berserk. and i’m just shook at how blatant the homoerotic subtext is? like why did no one tell me about this? I would've read it a lot sooner. I have this very clear memory of me having just read a fanfiction where a guy had just given another guy a blowjob. then I switched off to reading the beginning of the golden age arc, and their duel made me think “this was the gayest shit I’ve ever seen” (much gayer than the literal sex scene that I had just read!!) (1/2)

(2/2) And then it somehow got even queerer as time went on? HOW. The romantic subtext is so obvious that I don’t understand how others can miss it. Pretending these two aren’t down bad for each other is like denying that the sky is blue. No wonder this fandom has such trash takes and bad reading comprehension, they refuse to see the obvious and it’s maddening

lmao yeah if you look at most sites people get information about a canon, like the wiki or tv tropes, you'd never know how gay it is. Even I was totally blindsided by the homoeroticism when I read the manga in 2017, and that was technically a re-read - it's just that the sites where I'd read up on it before diving back in downplayed griffguts so much that I assumed it wasn't nearly as gay as I remembered. And yeah no, turns out it's much gayer.

Glad you checked it out eventually anyway!

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The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters

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The fact that this is canon non-genderbend long haired Kabru ... Madame Kui please, I'm about to start chewing glass.

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Chilchuck : DELETE YOUR SEARCH HISTORY NOW!!!

Marcille : they've already printed it there's no use!!

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Sleep well knowing you have converted a former Shuro hater (Anime Watcher that previously saw the Big Argument from a series of manga caps that had no context n thot he was being needlessly cruel)

Yeah! He was definitely being mean but like idk I don't think being a bitch while stressed and hangry is the worst thing in the world. He said a lot of stuff but ended up leaving them be and offering to help hide them from the elf cops in the end, so.

Anyways now see him chibi style

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Dungeon Meshi - Rin

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the way that this page in particular was adapted just OOZES studio trigger tbh. like I know everyone likes to joke about studio trigger being the horny studio, but the quick jerky animation direction is what truly makes their work recognizable to me. I can practically see Lio Fotia bleeding through the pixels in that 5 frame animation of Falin peeking through her fingers

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just caught up to berserk

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tom and jerry looks kinda different 😭😭😭

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they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

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Singing the 'WHOO—OAAAAAO—OOO' bit from Guts theme that's in the 90s anime during emotional moments in life really adds to the vibe

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in dungeon meshi 2 laios gets the behelit and narrowly avoids plunging the world into darkness when senshi points out that it has a face so they cook and eat it

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I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate the treatment Casca gets as a character after The Golden Age (I have some problems even with her characterization after she fell for Guts during that same arc, but those are minor complaints compared to the state of current Casca).

The first complaint would absolutely be the treatment of her situation as an SA survivor. I don't think her trauma is ever explored on a deeper note, nor her actual pain for the whole situation she got trapped in. The focus of her rape isn't on her, it's always on Guts' pain and Guts' feelings about it, backed up by actual interviews in which Miura stated he made the rape scene just for the eclipse to be more painful for Guts. The rape itself is drawn in a way that makes it extremely uncomfortable to witness, not for its brutality nor because you feel the pain she's feeling, but because it's drawn as if it was a non-con hentai, something that always disturbed me. How come the same person who put so much heart and genuine care into realistically depict Guts' trauma as a survivor could do something so distasteful ?

That event would curse her character into becoming a complete tool for the story and its male characters to use. During the eclipse her body serves as a mere object for Griffith to project his pain onto Guts, the same Guts that thinks about raping her as a way to get closer to Griffith. The same Guts that on a lot of occasions thinks about abandoning her to chase after Griffith, and that a lot of times treat her as an inconvenience. Even after getting her sanity back, she can do nothing but become a narrative tool to give Guts' a reason to chase after Griffith again.

During the Golden Age she was interesting, but she's always been "a girl in love", always pining for some guys. Griffith didn't want her so she got with Guts instead, to cure their mutual obsession with the man. I hope the manga doesn't end with Casca staying romantically involved with Guts, because to me their relationship never felt genuine. Casca in the narrative is something Guts use to delude himself into thinking he would ever be able to just let go of Griffith and forget all that happened.

In the current arc, after being kidnapped, she's getting dressed in fancy clothes, dreaming and sleeping, while Guts is more concerned about his sword than he is for her. I don't think she would ever recover from this character assassination, but I do hope she gets a bit of autonomy in the end.

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Favorite dunmeshi reaction image

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From catgirl Izutsumi's chapter in the Adventurer's Guide for Dungon Meshi:

Laois doesn't clock that what's acceptable to do with a cat isn't acceptable to do with a teenage girl, so Chilchuck, father of daughters, accepts that he must suffer if he doesn't want anything else Weird going on.

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Hunger