Berserk 5
Posted: March 3, 2008 Filed under: Berserk 3 Comments »I must say, I’ve never seen so much fighting/action in a single volume of manga. Not just that, but this is the most graphic fighting I’ve ever seen. There are many decapitations, stuff being shoved through people’s heads, and… well, even some quartering by what is apparently a Nosferatu. I’m all about that stuff.
Lots of male bonding between Griffith and Guts. There is an implied relationship between Griffith and the female captain that hates Guts… implied because I would guess that she has a serious crush on Griffith that is not spoken, and he doesn’t seem to pay much attention to her. Griffith does pay a lot of attention to Guts, and vice versa. At the end of the volume, Guts keeps pressing why it is Griffith continually puts his life on the line for Guts. If it were any other series, I’d say that that’s going somewhere. I won’t be surprised if it does, actually, because Griffith really, REALLY looks like a woman. But given the fact Guts cut the last person’s head off that tried to make him take it up the ass, coupled with the fact that I can’t imagine a place for romance in this series, I suspect it will either take its time getting there or not go there at all.
We get to see the… face-egg again, the one that summons demons or opens a gate or something… which I want to call Lemarchand’s Box but won’t. Griffith has it and wears it at all times. I suspected he would somehow have one, but I didn’t figure it would get there yet. There is a battle with a Nosferatu at the end of the volume that is not very successful, which I’m guessing was just a way for the reader to see that, as invincible as Guts is, he’s still not nearly as strong as he was in the present.
“If it were any other series, I’d say that that’s going somewhere. I won’t be surprised if it does, actually, because Griffith really, REALLY looks like a woman.”
Actually, the relationship between Guts and Griffith DOES go somewhere. Just not the “where” you’re thinking, I suspect. And if that convinces you to read this series faster, then good–your various reactions are quite amusing. XD (I’m surprised you’ve managed to pick up this series without hearing about that “where” anywhere beforehand.)
Actually, yes, that does make me want to read it faster. I can’t imagine at all where it is that the Griffith-Guts thing goes, other than giving Griffith that power it showed briefly before the flashback.
I hadn’t heard all that much about Berserk before I started reading it other than it was a dark fantasy and supposedly really good. I didn’t even find out that a huge chunk of the story after the third volume was a flashback until after I started the series, which is something I probably would have found out if I had read anything at all about the actual plot.
Well, FYI, the flashback arc as such extends through vol. 13. And I strongly suggest that you read 12 and 13 in the same sitting–for your sanity’s sake, if nothing else. ^_~