Berserk's Godhand Lore Breakdown and Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2023
- Now we look to the Godhand and who they are and who they could have been. Spanning from the very beginning the Godhand have been seen as mysterious individuals with little information. This video breaks down the evidence we are given in the manga with a little speculation. We try to understand who Void was in the beginning. Who Slan was before. What purpose Conrad and Ubek play. Finally looking at Griffith's role as the savior and destroyer.
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The plot is too damn good, it hurts that Miura passed :( genuinely one of the best plots I've ever read in my life
It's not that good calm tf down
@@sreenivas6071I agree people gotta chill
@sreenivas6071 There is literally nothing better
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@@jonnywick4611 I think Kingdom, Made in Abyss, Vinland Saga and Hellsing Ultimate are better manga. You guys are just closed minded when it comes to Berserk.
Every so often, the algorithm gets it right. I'm glad this video popped up in my recommended.
I mean, if Griffith is favored by the Idea of Evil, perhaps Guts is favored by something else.
18:00 We do know the ambitions of Griffith. His dream, to which he sacrificed his comrades, his loved ones and his only friend, was to have a kingdom of his own. Everything that followed after his rebirth(including his rebirth) was to facilitate him acquiring such a kingdom. He took Midland, the place that he previously aspired to become king of, and fashioned from it Falconia by defeating the Emperor Ganishka. Everything else was the reckless disregard of his actions. He hunted down mages, who would potentially oppose his plan in facilitating the merge, he gathered the apostles, in order to be able to fight the monster hordes that Ganishka, an apostle, could produce, and he tried to unite the disparate elements of his army, by appearing as messianic/godly figure to the unwashed masses. He manipulated the pontiff, the nobility, the footsoldiers and ultimately even the enemy(both "seen" in Ganishka and "unseen" in the Skull Knight) to obliterate reality as is, to gather everyone under his banner, his kingdom, in the last human nation on Earth(since everywhere else there were fantastical monsters now abound).
That was Griffith's ambition and it was fulfilled to the layman's eye, but as Guts said, Griffith always strives to go higher and higher. His ambition right now may be to become ruler of the whole world->possibly more. It was said that the fifth God Hand was special and it shows if one gets to look at Griffith's history. From rags to a Messiah king of the last kingdom.
Perfect analysis of Berserk’s god hand
the love I have for this is crazy. you explained this so well. skull king and skull knight went over my head when I was reading lmao
I like your videos please keep it up, really enjoy watching yours and other YT Berserk content when I’m driving, intriguing it is
This is the content I want to watch on TH-cam. Excited to what else you cook up. Very happy the algorithm brought me here
If there was one series that i could read again without knowing the plot it would be Berserk the intrigue in the story and all the hand written panels that Kento labored over for hours rest in peace king
Hell I’d read again while knowing the plot.
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IF the idea of evil is a spoiler. What could that mean?
Does it mean that the idea of evil is the ultimate big bad?
Does it mean that evil is merely an idea/concept?
A bit of both?
Also does the idea of evil exist allone or does it imply The idea of Good?
Great comprehensive video about the Godhand by the way!
Now you are asking the right questions!
In the most recent chapters of Berserk Griffith says “His will.” Who is this person he is talking about is it void or could it be the idea of evil or something else?
The idea of Good. Now that’s interesting. Especially since we know there is a heaven(or something similar) in Berserk
5:01 from my interpretation… it’s saying that he influences good and bad. It inflicts tragedy/despair but is also the one that inspires hope to individuals. The idea of evil plays both sides of the same coin
I'll try to explain in a short amount of time.
Berserk shows the debate between Nihilism and Existentialism. In his writings, he brought up that "God is dead" and what that meant for us. The idea of evil is a creation of man to cope with the fact there is nothing to blame our suffering on.
In Berserk, we see there is very little anybody can do to defy "fate". The fact people have this "evil" to blame their problems on, is what created and empowers the "evil", that controls fate.
The thing to contrast against the "idea if evil" is "will to power". Guts starts a Nihilist, and switches to Existentialism when he hears the fountain speech.
You will have to google Nietsche and any terms you don't understand. Forgive my bad typing! I'm on my phone.
@@BigSteveLiveif humans realized that there is nothing to blame their suffering on, then the idea of evil will be gone?
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I found berserk during the lowest point of my life. It definitely helped it not get any lower. Berserk and manosphere content. ALMOST started doing meth because I had just divorced. Living in hotels driving 2 hours to job sites and the weekends/free time I was alone in a hotel room. My only single friends from childhood or ones not busy with their families are the ones on drugs still. The women at the hotels were doing it too. Everyone was. I did try it a few times and it ain't for me. Stuff breaks people down and turns them into monsters and I can see why. I just layed in my bed listening to berserk lore for entertainment instead of going out. I don't even like anime or manga. Berserks story is something else. It's so real at times. I related a lot to it.
stay strong bro
That doesn't sound like a healthy combination at all. Here's hoping you're doing better. If you can, I really recommend trying to see if your city has a sliding scale clinic. Talking to a psychiatrist and therapist isn't always a fix but it can take the edge off and get you moving in a healthy trajectory again. It is very easy to dismiss the idea but getting help before you hit the wall makes a huge difference. Good luck and please be mindful of the content you consume, it may be exploiting your pain more than healing it.
Berserk and "manosphere content" are ingredients of a mass murderer, hope you're doing better these days
but if not, please see a f×cking therapist
@@josephbaladez5346 Based mass murderer. Do what thou wilt.
Amazing video and analysis!
Thank you. Glad you like the video
First time in a while when I watch a video of such nature and it's not regurgitated stuff, but instead something new
Good job btw
Thank you!
amazing vid keep making more!
Great video you should cover the latest chapters 374 plus and do a theory video on whats to hopefully come soon!
Thank you! Working on some videos like that now
I am extremely amazed you never mentioned the 4 Khaos gods from Warhammer and the crossovers for the God's Hand members with them. Even Slaan basically shares a name, design, and ideology. Tbh I think that many fantasy worlds pull from biblical ideas and beliefs. Berserk and Warhammer are very similar though.
Good video, subbed
Me from a town called midland:
Im in danger
Great video please keep it up
Even though it won't be by the hands of the creator, I am happy Knowing we'll see an end to berserk
Let's go! Berserk lore
great video!
Please do a lore video of skill night n fantasia i just noticed the necklace she wearing in king G dying arm look just like the queen of elf-hem n rember they had that one moment together
Well the God hand themselves represent certain aspects like. Ambition, Treachery, Lust, Deception etc.
i need to go back and read this series gain
Please do more lore vids brother the only channel that’s really big on it is marvelous anime and they don’t do as good of a job
I think Skull Knight killed the other 4 members of the godhand that we see in his eclipse flashback, after lost his lover, at that moment, he probably just went full berserk releasing his beast of darkness and just started merkin mfers
Nice video!🙌🏼🔥🔥
Why does the current timeline we’re experiencing feel just like this?
We deserve a re make of this manga
There’s a lot of Hermeticism & Thelema in this and I’m all in
Just got Berserk deluxe 1 and 2. Already love them.
To me I'm thinking there can't be an idea of evil without the idea of good to differentiate them.
Personally I think it wasn’t necessarily the Idea of Evil that was to revealing, what was to revealing was Griffith’s ignorance of the higher, transcendental divine realities. (It also bears mentioning that the groundwork for dualism wasn’t established yet)
What you so lovingly did for Slan, equating her to Cleopatra, and my personal favourite Echidna, I’d like to do for Casca. Personally I feel Casca initially invokes the Egyptian Goddess Isis, and by extension Golden Age the Egyptian myth of Osiris. (In the interest of time there’s two things I’d like to briefly highlight. For starters this equation is but one of a series, synchronicity or not, a meaning to the word cascade; I’ll dive in the other soon enough. Second, and arguably important, especially for what’s yet to come, this implies her so “son” to be Horus; you know, a god in the form of a falcon, who’s right eye is said to be the sun whilst his left eye is said to be the moon, etc. as there’s just to much to type out just on this topic).
Ultimately I predict her true ‘self’ will invoke the Greek Goddess Athena, I think that’ll be her role to come and why she’s in Falconia as of late. (Noteworthy this implies she served her previous role)
If you haven’t caught on yet, I’m beating around the bush know as wisdom and knowledge. (Yet another neat synchronicity, in metaphorical sense, causality, and the cascading there off, can be compared to the acuasition of wisdom and knowledge)
In other words Sophia, specifically the Gnostic Sophia and thus equating Casca’s fall, coincidentally the other meaning of cascade, to Pistis Sophia.
Longwinded as I am, I’m now short on time and thus have to cut this comment short.
That said, this topic bares further discussion; invoking Pistis Sophia, as I did in my opening paragraph, equates Griffith to the Demiurge.
I dare say he is the Demiurge. Thus, making Guts the human soul, this in turn implies the series ends with Gnosis, which is why I implied Casca (largely) served her current role; it is the combination of both Sophia and John that symbolise the soul’s journey. With Sophia out of the picture for the foreseeable future and, surely coincidence, the sudden reappearance of the aforementioned John Rickert, after he’s spoken to Jesus I might add, both even, their teachings must be truly esoteric, I thinks it’s save to say he’ll continue where she left off for now; in the East no less, who knows, some of those esoteric teachings might be very transcendental once shed of orientalism?
Anyway, good video; made for an interesting ponder during lunch break, hope you read, and perhaps taking inspiration, this as it’s a topic I haven’t really seen discussed elsewhere. Aptly, I think this is why Elden Ring is the most Berserk-esque game yet; they fundamentally draw inspiration from the shift to monotheism, or rather the Christian rejection of polytheism, Gnosticism especially but as Casca’s spiritual predecessors show certainly not exclusively.
I really don't see it with Elden Ring. Elden Ring reminds me of an extremely high fantasy world like a dark fantasy George RR Martin version of The Silmarillion. Berserk only recently became a world like that with the merging of the planes. I see the influence in the weapons and the creatures but the structure of the world has never particularly been berserk like.
12:12Artemis is mostly associated with the hunt,wilderness, and nature. She was also a virgin goddess, without pairing with anyone in the pantheon(pretty unusual occurence). Demeter would come closer to mind, when thinking of fertility, and Aphrodite would be of love and procreation. Societal norms like marriage and household were depicted through Hera and Hestia respectively, with the former also being the goddess of women in general.
Ashtarte or Ishtar would probably be the goddess he’s referring to though
Slane(spelling) sounds like she's based off Lilith who is described as the mother all monsters.
It being a right hand they stand on isnt a good sign for there being a "good" godhand side if history is a prevalent reference. Unless hes making ultimate order as a bad thing and chaos good. Maybe there is another culture referen e for bases of which hand...
hey what chapter was 18:21 ? i cant seem to find it
Chapter 304, Fissure. That is when Skull Knight tries to attack Femto. Cool chapter
I’m pretty sure when all 5 god hand members have been formed the oldest one at the next 216 years will die and go into the spiral
W vid
So, “Idea of Evil” is Chaos gods from WH40K?
My understanding is chaos gods are born from the pains and hate of the world so yes you could see it that way. I also heard that chaos gods are infinite but seems the ide of evil is born from humans feelings and pain. Not he came before humans. I see there being some similarities.
I don't know how it happened brother but I post a comment I made for another video on here. I'd literally don't know how it happened so please I didn't mean that comment that you sent the first time if you did see it
Graet job
7:23 wait radahn is that you
There's From Software characters everywhere in this manga
12:45 In Europe not the entire world tho...
I think that since the sacrifices didnt all die (casca and guts) he will try to force casca into the god hand by sacrificing all those people in the new "kingdom" he made or he is an unfinished god hand and needs both guts and casca dead
Yeah Griffith is def up to something, I suspect he’s feeding the souls of fallen warriors we see in that one chapter to the god hand, got nothing to support it but I just feel that’s what he’s doing, after all everyone is made to serves griffiths purpose
A more accurate version of
god of war??? KRATOSSS
It's funny how you tried censoring the video but there's so much nudity that some still popped through
Haha yeah when I was assembling the video I realized how much there was. Especially with slan.
How are you going to censor things labeling as family friendly while talking about Berserk?
Covers breasts at 2:46 , then leaves ducks all out at 3:00. MVP
Slan is for sure based on Warhammers Slaanesh Edit: Partially inspired by, they are like one and the same xD
probably not. Both first came out in the 80s, though I'm not sure when Warhammer became popular.
@@Blownkingg Warhammer was released in the early 80s however I don't know when the chaos gods were introduced and for some reason it's hard to research the ACTUAL real world history of Warhammer as opposed to the made up ingame history lol.
I love Warhammer but due to its...... "liberal" use of inspirations shall we say its FAR more likely they share some common inspiration than that Miura took direct inspiration from Warhammer itself.
Its not so blatant as say the Cenobites aesthetic and nature from Hellraiser.
@@walmartian422 xD
Void and skull knight are based real life figure.
Skull knight is based on caesar nero and jesus christ.
Void is based on paul the apostle and hasan i sabbah.
A God who rules by fear claiming its love is a demon lord in disguise
Doppppppe ass video
great vid but the idea of evil isn’t canon😢
Yeah it’s sad because there are a lot of cool theories and ideas there! No pun intended. I feel give it enough time and we might see it again. They didn’t remove that panel that showed the idea of evil so gives me hope.
Neither is the berserk prototype but that still gets included in the tankobons. It's also something that WAS official at first, so it should still be taken into consideration, even if what Miura was going for changed over time.
I think that chapter was taken out because it spoiled everything plus the chapter could return in a flashback chapter when the Idea of Evil revealed itself
It is canon. It can't be removed for being too much of a spoiler if it's non-canon. Nothing that's happened since has contradicted it.
I think it was implied to exist. I think we still see a portion of it in the chapter B4 Griffith talks to it.
Yo Guys What if The God Hand were in The Demon Slayer!
family friendly?! are you kidding? this is insane - if you want sth "family friendly" then talk about my little pony or sth like that - even talking about Berserk is not family friendly in itself, why even bother censoring -.- yah, YT guidelines ...
and btw: masks are utterly useless for diseases
I'm going to say this for the idiots. WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT CANON? Canon isn't real, it is your own head canon anyway. We are all operating off our own head canons anyway.