Berserk 6
March 10, 2008
Let’s see… Griffith is sort of working himself more and more into the King’s good graces. Also, the good graces of the princess, which is sort of what I imagined he had in mind when he described his ambitions. He’s got a ways to go for that, though, because there are plenty of people who hate him just because his blood is apparently not blue enough.
Griffith actually has Guts murder someone in the dead of night, which is interesting because prior to this most of the fighting has been pretty straightforward and out in the open (well, I suppose the weird sewer worms with the lord’s face on them in the early volumes are sort of an exception, but that was magic). The person plays dirty and certainly has it coming, but things go bad and Guts winds up doing something really horrible. So horrible, in fact, that even Guts feels a little bad. When he tries to talk to Griffith about what happens, he hears part of a speech that seems to apply to everyone present (Griffith, Guts, the Princess, and Casca). The gist of it was that Griffith considers a friend someone who is equal to him, and I couldn’t figure out if Guts was disturbed by this, gratified by it, or considered it something to strive for. I’m not sure that the specific effect is all that important just yet, though.
What else… there’s some weirdness in the last few chapters where Guts winds up saving Casca and the two are separated from the main group. I was a little insulted that Casca fell in battle because she was menstruating, but I suppose it gave the story reason to show how it was that she joined the Band of the Hawks and some of her other problems with being a woman among men. Thankfully this single event doesn’t seem to have magically healed the rift between Casca and Guts, but it at least got Casca’s feelings for Griffith out in the open. Well, a little. I suspect that’s where the flashback is going, anyway.
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