Hi I saw your comments about Casca and Go girl I canât believe there are people disliking Casca. I wanna call it the âmainstream badass hero syndrome â or âsuccessful instagram influencer twisting reality syndromeâ because all modern big screen shows or movies have badass female and male characters (all played by the Rock) that go trough literally anything and so much trauma and come out victorious with dramatic music playing in the background, or like all the instagram infuluencers that have a sob story that is âi went trough domestic violence â and came out victorious, bought a house started my business that want to sell you a course and you donât even know if they are lying, but people get exposed to all that daily and start to think thatâs NORMAL when itâs notâŠwhile irl people arenât like thatâŠwomen and men go trough bad stuff and get traumatized, depressed, go insane, loose their jobs and homes, suffer, sometimes there isnât happy endings or victorious ost music, sometimes you keep dragging yourself trough hell without being sure wtf will happen like Casca or Gutts, or a supposed noble seeming leader and friend like Griffith actually being not so noble. And people donât like seeing that because it makes them uncomfortable. Same as why lots of people dislike the series Shamaless and say âI hate X character of Shamless because they had potential to grow or succeed, but didnât â like yeah my dude thatâs real life ⊠sometimes you grow backwards , anyway sorry for the rant, I just really donât like people disliking Casca (of females like her idk Sansa from GOT) because I can see myself being Casca or Sansa or similar characters in such situations
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Yes. People don't approach Berserk as a tragedy with severely flawed characters living with ptsd, but a manga with characters who SHOULD be level headed and has John M. Gottman interpersonal skills ready to respond with temperance and maturity in most situations.
I was born and raised in the ghetto and the common attitude for some people around is low levels of emotional regulation, high aggression and they can be verbally/emotionally/physically abusive. Miura's characterizations of orphan teen soldiers is the STRONGEST part of his writing. These character traits are not something the reader is supposed to approve of but we ARE supposed to recognize WAR is the reason for their behavior and empathize with them for making small progress.
They are enduring the hardship of constant battle around them all while going through puberty. Surviving was thier main priority and because of this they where emotionally underdeveloped.
How we learned to care about these characters is their IMPERFECT and messy attempts too improve with their morality guiding them causing them to confront their unstable emotions during their dangerous and hostile lives. Casca and Guts didn't perfectly change or handle conflict but they saw communication and self reflection as nessissarcy which makes them respectable and righteous. Berserk is about mental illness and coping with it during warfare.
We as readers are supposed to care about their character development because it's harder to grow during times of strife and conflicts than in peace. It's admirable for their efforts in a almost hopeless situation. Which is realistically taking years because people don't change over night but their desire to be better people and have better relationships shouldn't be ignored because that's a very weak analysis of the series.
Guts spending 98% of his time trying to protect Casca post eclipse while fighting demons, possession and mental illness shouldn't be lost on any reader. And Casca re-claiming her life while fighting ptsd after getting significantly more mature, patient, appreciating and reconciling her complex relationships should be paid attention too.