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[digitalzombie]

Despair

Chapter 371: “A Dying Light in the Pitch Black Night”

Berserk by Kentaro Miura (and Kouji Mori)

[heirofdragons]

NEW CHAPTER DROPPED AND!! IRVINE CRUMBS!!!!

(I know everyone has an unhealthy and unjustified attachment to a side-character with little to no relevance plot-wise, well that character for me is Irvine who had a total of 6 lines in the manga but idc I love him to bits.)

[wandringaesthetic]

Vague Berserk 371 spoilers

maybe being consumed by the beast of darkness doesn’t turn you into a cool rage monster. maybe it just sucks, actually.

I think depression/despair being part of darkness’ domain is pretty interesting, actually

[simonespeaks]

we literally just got casca back fr just to have gr*ffith make off with her. i’m gonna fucking lose it.

[wolfgangleblanc]

I'm eternally grateful that we're getting the continuation of Berserk as much as any other fan... but man, does the art and storytelling are suffering drastically because of the new release schedule... I would just prefer to get 2-3 episodes per year where Studio Gaga can actually polish the art as much as they humanly can because the last couple (370-371) left such a sour taste in my mouth regarding pacing, dialogue and overall art composition...

[griffiths-huggybox]

Griffith hate gone amok on reddit, as expected.

[lu15d4]

Just read chapter 371

Just look at this bitch and tell me you want to punch him in the face

Guts is fucking crying btw

[manga-meow]

[skyradiant]

Berserk Chapter 371: “A Dying Light In A Pitch Black Night.”

[bthump]

Chapter 371 is out: readseinen*com/berserk-chapter-371/

Oh lol this snuck up on me, totally forgot. Thanks for the heads-up!

My thoughts on the chapter and another anon about it under the cut:

I'm sorry but Guts' breakdown is hilarious to me lol, it's so fucking overwrought, I'm dying. Full on losing his shit and sobbing while remembering all the good times he's had with his fucking sword. Like yeah, thematically it makes sense, Guts is all about his sword, this is the knockdown to the set up of him waxing poetic about it all the way back in chapter 48, etc. But come tf on lol. I wonder if Miura would've been able to pull it off better and make it feel more emotionally fitting honestly.

Also nelsonlaugh.wav at everyone who insisted his sword was a symbolic stand in for Casca and he was really having a breakdown over her kidnapping. Still not a thought spared for her. You love to see it.

Anonymous asked:

I loved the new chapters but I'm super concerned with how they have NeoGriffith smirking all the time. It makes him look super villainy like Black Swordsman Femto and it makes me anxious that they're gonna play him up as a mustache twirling pure evil type like how the general fandom sees him as

Yeah it def seems a little ooc to me. Miura always drew him with a neutral to blandly positive expression as far as I can remember, with some interesting subtle emotional shades imo, and I don't think there's a single instance of evily smirking NGriff in his art. But to be fair Miura was fucking incredible at nailing expressions. Like this is Miura's smug NGriff:

I can imagine this is someone aiming for the same vibe and just not being able to pull off the sense of subtlty:

But it's definitely a shame lol, the moustache twirling smiles are so much less interesting than

[eternal-misfit]

Fucken hell last time a Berserk panel got me this emotional was back in chapter 355 when Casca cried happy tears.

[radhakawaii]

So we waited for chapter 372. For nothing. Ok

[hiphopandanimerebuild]

Welcome back that dude named Master Griffith!! I hope the next chapter we get some serious dialogue. So curious to see how it all goes down. Poor Guts, all that for nothing my boy. Stay strong, getting your girl swept off her feet by another dude is never easy.

[deripmaver]

one overarching trend ive noticed in this fandom (though i'm sure it happens in others) that i find very frustrating is that when folks present evidence against gutsca as their notp, it almost exclusively winds up devaluing casca's place in the narrative well beyond the issues inherent to berserk.

recently the posts i've seen about the latest chapters by mori and studio gaga present the idea that guts doesn't at all care that casca has been kidnapped by griffith, and that his current breakdown is ONLY because he wasn't able to beat griffith. the thing with this that you'll notice is that it isn't evidence that guts doesn't feel romantic feelings towards casca, it's that casca simply doesn't matter.

i wound up finding this set of screenshots from chapter 371(?) and chapter 372 because to me it seems so obvious theyre supposed to be parallels of each other, and that they're supposed to communicate to the reader the pain both guts and casca are feeling at their unwitting separation, again.

if we were JUST shown this panel, i think it'd be possible to argue this is reaching out to griffith, but in chapter 372 we get its twin:

i really think this is almost so in your face that ignoring it is missing the forest for the trees - either that or they simply don't pay attention to any chapter with casca as the main focus lol.

i wanna be clear, the argument i'm making here isn't that gutsca canon kings (though i do ship it LOL)!!!! them reaching out to each other doesn't even necessarily imply romantic intent, which is part of the issue i have. it's simply that the clues that casca does actually matter to guts (and the story) are pretty obvious, so obvious that it feels willful to argue that she really is totally unimportant.

that being said, i wound up getting a lot more interested in the second part of the page from chapter 372 when i found it earlier and decided to make this post. in casca's mind, she sees guts walking away from her. this to me seems to be obviously calling back to when guts left on his revenge quest post-eclipse, abandoning her rather than face their shared trauma, something for which the narrative has THOROUGHLY raked guts across the coals.

the reason for the separation this time is because when casca screams at seeing griffith again, guts immediately regresses and becomes filled with rage and violence. he attacks griffith, leaving casca behind with farnese and schierke, and then when griffith overpowers him casca is essentially undefended for griffith to spirit back to falconia.

so i'm wondering if what casca is thinking of as she's taken away is that it's just like before, when guts left her all alone, and she's feeling that abandonment again. she doesn't see guts reaching out to her or trying to save her in these panels, she just sees guts walking away.

there's also a section later in the chapter when casca thinks to herself "if i don't get back then guts will-" and it cuts off there. guts will what? i think it definitely would make sense if she's thinking that guts will hurt himself to come rescue her, because he's done that in the past, but i'm also wondering if she's thinking that if she doesn't get back to guts then he'll move on from her just like he did before. ugh!!!!! tragedy

i've said this before but i think their separation really is a very promising setup for guts and casca to really think about what THEY want, and how best to move forward with all the baggage of the time where casca was regressed. now if only we could get another casca chapter.........

[ariesgamesandminis]

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[demifiendrsa]

Berserk manga episode 371 color page