Well that was an excellent rehearsal for Saezuru Chapter 49, however, there will be no chapter in the new edition of ihr Hertz this month as well. So the hiatus continues!!!
However, Yoneda Kou is healthy and fine and apologized for not making the deadline. But we still HAVE THE COVER!!! So please note that ComiComi Studio will have a postcard of the clean cover available with your order. Amazon and others do NOT sell the postcard.
I was pretty surprised when I found out that a new chapter was going to be released so soon. At first I thought, "hope this isn't going to be typical. I mean, hiatuses and breaks can be annoying but they're necessary for a story+illustrations that are as involved as Berserk's." Luckily I was soon filled in that the next chapter release wouldn't be until mid-August or so. Cool beans. Proceed.
Of course being the fan girl that I am - because I too have eager fan tendencies - I really want August to come quickly after what just happened.
So it's finally happened:
Griffith up and kidnapped Casca.
Maybe not entirely predictable or even a lot of people's top prediction, but I always had a feeling this would happen, especially since now more than ever Griffith's connection to Casca is more evident: is Griffith kidnapping her for his own motives or is it the Child's desire to be with his mother that is compelling Griffith to do this? It might be a very disturbing blend of both (Griffith knows that the Moonlight Boy is her son so he might be wanting to keep Casca captive so that the boy won't go so far looking for her because this is most likely Griffith's most vulnerable form OR Griffith might be seeking some weird maternal desire from Casca as explained below). And that's why this part of the trio's relationship - the one between Griffith and Casca - is the part of the story that's going to be the most troublesome, both for the characters themselves and how the writers are going to approach this mess.
For the record, I don't think Griffith is going to S.A. Casca again - at least, not with the explicit viciousness of the Eclipse. BUT I forewarn: we might be treading into some VERY messed up Freudian shit now Recap: Griffith who had some latent desire for Casca - who had obvious unrequited love for him but moved on with his friend/rival - before the Eclipse went on to R-word her very viciously to the point that his material mutated her unborn child and then he later went to body steal that kid's body, a kid that he technically shares with Casca and Guts but who is also kind of a brother now too sooooo basically Casca is up against a nigh preternatural being who is her former friend and love interest, abuser/r*pist, and son all rolled into one.
I can only hope that for whatever emotional crap Casca is going to be going up against (because even if Griffith doesn't touch her, doesn't allow her to see him, she's still in so much mental and emotional trauma from the Eclipse; like, how is she going to react to seeing just plain-ass apostles???), I hope that this situation is going to be utter hell for Griffith too. Just - I hope he doesn't take out any of his moral confusion/angst out on Casca because THIS IS NOT THE JUMP I WAS EXPECTING FROM HER HEALING ARC.
(Basically some creepy shit from American Horror Story: Asylum can happen or some creepy shit from Jessica Jones Season 1 can happen between Casca and Griffith. Lord help us.)
It might be temporary (maybe she will be rescued sooner? Like damn I need to see Casca in her armor again!), but I strongly think it's going to be a catalyst for the final confrontation between Guts and Griffith. Speaking of which I'm just wondering how Guts is going to be reacting to this in the next chapter. Like, he already hasn't really said much since chapter 365, but I do notice how this is all mirroring the events from the confrontation on the hill of swords so long ago. Guts and Griffith confront each other, Griffith is smug, Guts flies into a rage, Nosferatu Zodd comes in at the worst time which allows for Griffith to get close to Casca and - Guts has no idea how to react.
Only this time, Griffith took it a step further (but thankfully not as far as the parallel between that scene and the Eclipse went).
It's a very tragic cycle, because it seems like Guts can save Casca from everybody except a) Griffith and b) himself.
It's also very ironic because for as little as Casca thought her importance was throughout the story and how she wanted to be useful to the men around her, Casca is either mans greatest strength and weakness. It's pretty formulaic as this point too, because if the events of the Eclipse proved anything, Casca ended up becoming Griffith's sword like she had always wanted, albeit against Guts; BUT now she - and the love she has for her son - is likely going to end up being Griffith's biggest Achille's heel.
So some other side stuff: kinda confused as to how Danaan wouldn't have sensed all of the happening (unless again, this all happened just as Griffith is making his appearance and we're seeing that reaction in hindsight). Also, Casca being transported to the den of beasts might provide for an opportunity for her to be reunited with Luca and her girls and possibly interactions with Charlotte (as well as Sonia. THAT'D be interesting ¬_¬).
In conclusion, the story is taking some turns I was not fully expecting. I thought we would at least get some further development with Casca's healing and her relationship with Guts on Elfhelm before all of this peace got broken. But I'm willing to stick around to see where this tale goes.
Oh man, I didn’t think about the possibility of Griffith sexually assaulting Casca again! idk why, but that would be a special kind of horrible. I don’t feel like he will, but yeah, even without that, it’s still not a good place for Casca to be. I would be curious if she does end up in Falconia how she’ll deal with the brand. The only good thing about it would be her seeing Charlotte again. I feel like they are two characters that have hardly interacted, but share a lot of similarities, expecially at this point.
I was pretty surprised when I found out that a new chapter was going to be released so soon. At first I thought, "hope this isn't going to be typical. I mean, hiatuses and breaks can be annoying but they're necessary for a story+illustrations that are as involved as Berserk's." Luckily I was soon filled in that the next chapter release wouldn't be until mid-August or so. Cool beans. Proceed.
Of course being the fan girl that I am - because I too have eager fan tendencies - I really want August to come quickly after what just happened.
So it's finally happened:
Griffith up and kidnapped Casca.
Maybe not entirely predictable or even a lot of people's top prediction, but I always had a feeling this would happen, especially since now more than ever Griffith's connection to Casca is more evident: is Griffith kidnapping her for his own motives or is it the Child's desire to be with his mother that is compelling Griffith to do this? It might be a very disturbing blend of both. And that's why this part of the trio's relationship - the one between Griffith and Casca - is the part of the story that's going to be the most troublesome, both for the characters themselves and how the writers are going to approach this mess.
For the record, I don't think Griffith is going to S.A. Casca again - at least, not with the explicit viciousness of the Eclipse. BUT I forewarn: we might be treading into some VERY messed up Freudian shit now Recap: Griffith who had some latent desire for Casca - who had obvious unrequited love for him but moved on with his friend/rival - before the Eclipse went on to R-word her very viciously to the point that his material mutated her unborn child and then he later went to body steal that kid's body, a kid that he technically shares with Casca and Guts but who is also kind of a brother now too sooooo basically Casca is up against a nigh preternatural being who is her former friend and love interest, abuser/r*pist, and son all rolled into one.
I can only hope that for whatever emotional crap Casca is going to be going up against (because even if Griffith doesn't touch her, doesn't allow her to see him, she's still in so much mental and emotional trauma from the Eclipse; like, how is she going to react to seeing just plain-ass apostles???), I hope that this situation is going to be utter hell for Griffith too. Just - I hope he doesn't take out any of his moral confusion/angst out on Casca because THIS IS NOT THE JUMP I WAS EXPECTING FROM HER HEALING ARC.
(Basically some creepy shit from American Horror Story: Asylum can happen or some creepy shit from Jessica Jones Season 1 can happen between Casca and Griffith. Lord help us.)
It might be temporary (maybe she will be rescued sooner? Like damn I need to see Casca in her armor again!), but I strongly think it's going to be a catalyst for the final confrontation between Guts and Griffith. Speaking of which I'm just wondering how Guts is going to be reacting to this in the next chapter. Like, he already hasn't really said much since chapter 365, but I do notice how this is all mirroring the events from the confrontation on the hill of swords so long ago. Guts and Griffith confront each other, Griffith is smug, Guts flies into a rage, Nosferatu Zodd comes in at the worst time which allows for Griffith to get close to Casca and - Guts has no idea how to react.
Only this time, Griffith took it a step further (but thankfully not as far as the parallel between that scene and the Eclipse went).
It's a very tragic cycle, because it seems like Guts can save Casca from everybody except a) Griffith and b) himself.
It's also very ironic because for as little as Casca thought her importance was throughout the story, at this point she's either mans greatest strength and weakness.
So some other side stuff: kinda confused as to how Danaan wouldn't have sensed all of the happening (unless again, this all happened just as Griffith is making his appearance and we're seeing that reaction in hindsight). Also, Casca being transported to the den of beasts might provide for an opportunity for her to be reunited with Luca and her girls and possibly interactions with Charlotte (as well as Sonia. THAT'D be interesting ¬_¬).
In conclusion, the story is taking some turns I was not fully expecting. I thought we would at least get some further development with Casca's healing and her relationship with Guts on Elfhelm before all of this peace got broken. But I'm willing to stick around to see where this tale goes.
Find it very funny that one of my most popular posts here is scans from my copy if aku no hana, since in those scans you can see how poor U-ta has been defaced from the previous owner tracing over the letters on the page in front if him in pencil. It gives the album personality though
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