“Hey, Oikawa-san? Earlier today... for a minute... just one short minute... I actually got kinda down and depressed, but seeing you has put me in a super-duper, extra, awesomely good mood! Thanks!”
Not sure why the scanlators translated this as they did, but I think they got it wrong.
「日の下をあっあ歩イタだけデ」
「俺ハ殺虫剤を撒力レた」!!
"Just for walking under the sun, I was sprayed with pesticides."
(speech is distorted; I left out the distortion for readability)
That's Spinner talking, and the singular pronoun use is clear that he's talking about himself as one person, and this is a thing that happened to him.
It could be him talking figuratively, but I don't think so. The words are accompanied by an image of him as a hikikomori, locked up in his room, avoiding going outside. This is a fact we already knew from My Villain Academia, that Spinner was a recluse because he was bullied:
"What bullying was so bad that he just stopped leaving his house?" I had wondered. And now we know.
We saw from last chapter in Shoji's flashback that this also happened to Shoji, villagers threatening him to stay inside his home:
So yeah. It seemed like Spinner's village sprayed with pesticides at least once when he went outside. That symbolic and literal gesture that he’s a pest and should be gotten rid of.
idk if you've heard yet, but the newest chapter was leaked!
(ok apparently posting links in asks have gotten weirder ugh)
Ty for letting me know! What are your thoughts on it, if you feel like posting about it?
Here's the link for anyone else who hasn't seen it yet
And my thoughts and a couple more asks under the cut, ty for the asks!
Anonymous asked:
What are your thoughts on the latest chapter? It was centred around Casca. Also idk if you already knew but there’s another chapter coming out a month from now. Which is kinda insane for berserk lol
Yeah I'm glad we're gonna get another string of chapters instead of just occasional chapters in isolation.
And my thoughts are: whatever lol.
Like, it's basically what I expected. The magic-induced stupor Casca's in is both boring and shitty for people who wanted Casca to exist as a character, but for me it's also reassuring in that it prevents most things I don't want to happen from happening lol, and it keeps Casca's trauma and big emotions on ice for a while longer because I'm still hoping for the behelit to be hers. If Casca's a full character then I risk disappointment with how her trauma is handled and what she chooses to do. If she's a drugged up damsel in distress who occasionally wakes up enough to punch a guard then I don't have to care, basically. Cool, go through the motions, I'm not invested in this part of the story so idgaf. Sucks to be Casca, same as it ever was.
She's finally got an animal association, and yk, I don't mind it. I can roll with raven for her. (plsplspls say it's laying the foundation for her apostle form pls)
I would like to imagine there's some meaning to be gleaned from Danann putting Casca in a dress to go see Guts and Casca wearing a kind of similar dress here in Falconia (feathers, head-piece) but probably the only throughline is Casca not getting to choose her own clothes/highlighting that she prefers to wear pants.
The moment she wakes up was mildly interesting, I'm glad the memories were of Farnese and co even if she did start fretting about Guts lol. There's a subtle zig-zag pattern in the last drop of water before she wakes up and starts fighting guards:
Which may be absolutey nothing, but made me think of the Beast of Darkness and gives me hope for Casca's inner darkness.
Anonymous asked:
I’m sorry bthump but after ch372 it seems like the story is indeed heading in the direction of Gutsca being endgame and Griffith being this manipulative machiavellian emotionless type villain, that last panel of him looks so exaggeratedly evil
Idk, I mean we already knew Casca still has ~feelings~ for Guts, it's not surprising to me that she'd dream about being carried away from him and think about him. It's not great, but it didn't majorly disappoint me or fill me with dread. If anything it makes Guts' sword obsession even funnier lol. Talk about emotional one-sidedness.
And rather than feeling terribly romantic, that moment when she fights the guards and thinks that she has to get back to Guts or he'll... makes me think she's anticipating Guts walking into a trap to rescue her, which, yk, is probably what's going to happen lol, unless this sword crisis resolves in a way that gives Guts an upper hand/a better plan B. But again, it's not surprising, the only thing I'm really curious about is what's going to happen when Guts gets here.
Though it does make me a little concerned that enough time has passed during this chapter that we're skipping over Guts' side of the story for a while and he might actually show up soon? We left his story on a cliffhanger so I feel like that would be stupid, and when I read the chapter I parsed it as like, Casca's first day as a damsel, but upon re-reading it's more likely one day in the life after days/weeks/months, so who knows?
And Griffith's cartoonish evil smile is dumb but I don't care honestly, I already got over it last chapter which also ended with an evil grin lmao. I know Miura would draw him with an ambiguously neutral expression so I just substitute my own in. I don't think it's a sign that he's going to be a 2 dimensional cackling villian, though frankly if he is I'd still chalk that up to non-Miura writing lacking all nuance and subtlety. What I imagine is in the future for Griffith though is more evil smiles, some Guts taunting, and then like, a crumbling of the facade in a moment of truth. It's just that the facade is no longer mildly neutral it's smug sinister evil because the new crew can't draw him.
Though man I read your ask while I was still at work before I could read the actual chapter and I was like 😟. But also I appreciate it lol bc you gave me the chance to brace myself for the worst, so I ended up pretty neutral on this chapter rather than disappointed.
I see a lot of people very annoyed with this chapter (and the continuation as a whole), and like, I get it because it objectively largely sucks lmao, but idk, I guess I have very low expectations for the continuation of Berserk comparatively. I'm no longer here for a good emotional story, I'm here to find out how it ends. I'm reading the cliffnotes version as far as I'm concerned, just scanning it for clues that point towards my desired ending.
