The plot is too damn good, it hurts that Miura passed :( genuinely one of the best plots I've ever read in my life (Edit) Relax people, the world is still spinning, you've probably eaten today and you're alive, it's not that serious. Relax.
@@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.
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.
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
I sincerely don't get this idea of Griffith becoming a "false good" or having a hidden agenda behind his rule, he is literally living his dream, becoming the ruler of both men and devil. I think the core themes of Berserk go beyond that, Guts in his rightful quest for revenge destroys the only hope of the world, because in the real world horrible actions are capable to give birth the most stable peace and beauty, only in fiction bad actions equals bad outcomes, and I think Berserk is that raw with his message.
You lost me at "only in fiction bad actions equals bad outcomes". I think life is a little bit of both? You're point just comes across as an edgy fantasy.
@@pancakes8670I think he’s saying only in fiction does a bad action ALWAYS equal a bad outcome. Irl things are more complicated when it comes to things like ends justifying means or righteous intentions having horrible outcomes yk?
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I commented the same thing some secs ago. I am suprised that no one wrote anything before or your comment has more likes. Artemis is know for her ironclad mentality about her virginity and her notorious punishment to the ones that even peeked at her by accident, transforming ppl to wolves, bears etc as punisment. She is the perfect hunter, a skilled archer and a wild force. Persephony or Demeter are associate with fertillity and birth. We could even add Gaia(earth) as the Mother, the giver of birth of monsters,giants,cyclopses,titans, Hecatoncheirs and in general a main de facto Cthonic deity in the Hellenic pantheon.
Yeah if Artimis was real she would probably skin OPs alive or let her pack of dogs slowly rip him to shreds. She was always very obsessed with her chastity. She really has nothing to do with fertility quite the opposite, anyone who threatened her chastity was fated to die
0:26 reading the shadow over insmouth at the moment and didn’t realise how closely Berserk takes from that story. Pretty cool seeing that Lovecraftian influence. I’ve heard it’s pretty heavy in Berserk.
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
Good afternoon. I'm fan of berserk. Everyone have great day and next day and week and weekend and next week and full happiness 😊😊😊😊😊. Great video and keep make more great videos.
Wait. If each of those weird pre-godhand monsters beside Void in the flashback are connected to the current Godhand... If Slaan is the booby artemis thing, Conrad is the skeletal mouth thing, and Ubik is the big mouth mask thing. Then Femto would be the crystal king thing, which kinda makes sense, they even have similar abs.
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...
At one point I thought I was watching a Warhammer lore video. 5:41 A god of disease A god of desire A god of war Tzeench has left the chat at the end but still.
Just before anyone gets it twisted, he obviously means the Ephesian Artemis, who was a goddess of fertility, and not portrayed as the huntress of the moon as the Romans and Greeks did. Which, if you look at how moon cycles were used to keep track of fertility, it still makes sense. Also, the whore of babylon is known as the mother of harlots and abominations (ie. Monsters, fiends, demons). Whore of Babylon = Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea. This lines up with your theory, and was the first thing I thought of
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.
Gaiseric is the reborn king and owner of the crimson behelit. that means in the other realm only four godhand members remain. Then Gaiserik loses his kingdom since he has the egg of the king due to the wise man sacrifices the kingdom to become the 5th member. Then Gaiseric goes on a hunting rage and kills each member one at a time for the cycle to renew itself in 1000 years. each member that he kills will unlock a new godhand member to be rebord every 250 years. Void and Gaiseric are destined to die.
The bible says that the antichrist will come calling himself the savior but is really a wolf in sheeps clothing griffith does the same he potrays himself as a savior of humanity but hes the downfall and guts is often compared to a black wolf or a dog especially in cascas dream or whatever the hell that was
Amongst the 4 elements , void is the 5th that contains the others . If the elementals are the agents of the idea of good . Evil is the exploitation of good . The collective evil of human consciousness inspired the idea of evil to become powerful . The enslavement and suppression of others is the essence of evil . Souls who committed evil end up in the vortex where they suffer the idea of evil which they themselves contributed to and in the process feed it’s power . It is these souls that fuels the power of the idea of evil and the apostles .As evil is the exploitation of the good either the first 4 angels are elementals who were summoned against evil by the one using them : void but then he himself retained the identity of the void making his own 4 angels in contrast to the 4 angels of good . Also the idea of good doesn’t have a void to hold the elementals and lets the individuals be the voids to hold them . Or these 4 angels are basically only the positions of the god hand personified and exerted by the idea of evil before the thousand year period of actual individuals acquired to align themselves with these positions , which is why instead of eclipse their is a vortex from where these positions emerge at this time purely created through voids power , or serve to instruct void in guiding others to these position so to fill the ranks of god hand . Or another theory is that multiple such progressions of god hands habe occurred and in the end they get absorbed into the vortex where in they control or exploit the energy of the respective souls they lead to hell and channelise this to service of the idea of evil , so there may be many god hands but they are in vortex and not in external decision making . Either way this isn’t eternally a cycle since they were waiting to acquire enough power to allow for the blessed king of longing that is Griffith
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 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
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
no, the Crimson behelit comes in every 1000 years and the owner of that behelit is reborn in the real world. The other behelits are not the egg of the king.
@@disturbeddemon828 listen, I've been reading this manga over and over again since the mid 90s. I was the first one to figure out that gaiseric was skull knight ever since the panel of him came out in while they were walking to get griffith in the tower. Also I called out that Griffith is the moonlight child because there was a silhouette of Zodd in a hill. There is only one egg of the king and that is for one to be reborn to be conqueror. its every 1000 years, all others are every 250 years or so area which means if you multiply it by four you will have 1000 years and in addition on the 1000th year you will have the fifth godhand.
Berserk is the perfect example of why some creators should have one story shouldn’t be told over 30 years. There too high a chance of the creator never being able to conclude their story. As each year passes it becomes more and more likely something may happen that prevents their story from ever being finished due to failing health, death, destitution, lack of ideas, but the main one being death. From what I’m aware of, it seems that even to this day-nearly 30 years after their introduction to the Berserk story, fans still know next to nothing about what the God Hand actually are, what they want, WHO they are, or where things in the story maybe heading. The creator used them so sparingly, and intentionally withheld so much information about them that it’s insanely scarce, and what information there is about them minimal that it’d be nearly impossible for fans to ever accurately formulate an educated theory as to where the creator was taking the story, and how it could have ended. We know absolutely nothing about Void in particular, yet he’s so clearly central to not just the plot going forward into the future but also the backstory to several characters, and the events that kicked the this whole story into motion. It’s so extremely unfortunate because the creator of Berserk was clearly setting up something of biblical proportions, no pun intended, and it could be likely we’ll never know where it was actually going or that whoever takes up the challenge of trying to finish Berserk may not be able to realize the creator’s vision for Berserk’s ending that would be up to par with what the creator would have done if still alive. Another good example of why taking this long to finish a single story isn’t the best idea is George R.R. Martin. It’s been what over a decade since he release A Dance With Dragons? And he’s like in his 70’s! And as we saw with Game of Thrones season 8, other writers most likely aren’t anywhere near up to the task of finishing A Song of Ice and Fire of R.R. Martin does pass before releasing Winds of Winter. What’s worse is he’s writing other books set within the Game of Thrones world but for some damn reason just won’t finish Winds of Winter. As amazing as great stories spanning multiple decades to create can be, it can wind up really hurting the series in the long run if it takes too long for them to finish. And that does a real disservice to the fans, especially fans that have stuck by the series since its conception.
Artemis is not the Goddess of fertility in fact she is the opposite. She is the Goddess for ever Virgin, the perfect Hunter, the non man seeing female. Huge mistake from your part. Persephony or Demeter could be more accurate.
@@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.
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.
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
I mean, if Griffith is favored by the Idea of Evil, perhaps Guts is favored by something else.
The indomitable human spirit
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Nobody pal, he's a lone wolf fighting against literal evil gods and destiny.
thats such an interesting point ngl
The idea of good, schnoz
Every so often, the algorithm gets it right. I'm glad this video popped up in my recommended.
The plot is too damn good, it hurts that Miura passed :( genuinely one of the best plots I've ever read in my life
(Edit) Relax people, the world is still spinning, you've probably eaten today and you're alive, it's not that serious. Relax.
It's not that good calm tf down
@@sreenivas6071I agree people gotta chill
@sreenivas6071 There is literally nothing better
@@eligreg99yeah right name a better magna any one n I swear if u say a shonen
@@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.
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.
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The thing i think everyone forgets is that griffiths true wish is to create a kingdom of darkness like he says to guts before the eclipse
@@snakebox4049 where does he say this? do you remember the release number? i would like to go back and read it again
By far the best video on berserk I’ve seen. I know broad statement but you nailed all the spots and well spoken. Ty
Perfect analysis of Berserk’s god hand
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.
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 sincerely don't get this idea of Griffith becoming a "false good" or having a hidden agenda behind his rule, he is literally living his dream, becoming the ruler of both men and devil. I think the core themes of Berserk go beyond that, Guts in his rightful quest for revenge destroys the only hope of the world, because in the real world horrible actions are capable to give birth the most stable peace and beauty, only in fiction bad actions equals bad outcomes, and I think Berserk is that raw with his message.
You lost me at "only in fiction bad actions equals bad outcomes". I think life is a little bit of both? You're point just comes across as an edgy fantasy.
@@pancakes8670I think he’s saying only in fiction does a bad action ALWAYS equal a bad outcome. Irl things are more complicated when it comes to things like ends justifying means or righteous intentions having horrible outcomes yk?
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!
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
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
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?
Me from a town called midland:
Im in danger
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.
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.
Yeah , when you hear about choas warp rift swallowing a planet in a reality bending horror , makes me think of berserk
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I like your videos please keep it up, really enjoy watching yours and other YT Berserk content when I’m driving, intriguing it is
bro this is an amazing summary video on godhand
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
I commented the same thing some secs ago. I am suprised that no one wrote anything before or your comment has more likes. Artemis is know for her ironclad mentality about her virginity and her notorious punishment to the ones that even peeked at her by accident, transforming ppl to wolves, bears etc as punisment. She is the perfect hunter, a skilled archer and a wild force. Persephony or Demeter are associate with fertillity and birth. We could even add Gaia(earth) as the Mother, the giver of birth of monsters,giants,cyclopses,titans, Hecatoncheirs and in general a main de facto Cthonic deity in the Hellenic pantheon.
Yeah if Artimis was real she would probably skin OPs alive or let her pack of dogs slowly rip him to shreds.
She was always very obsessed with her chastity.
She really has nothing to do with fertility quite the opposite, anyone who threatened her chastity was fated to die
0:26 reading the shadow over insmouth at the moment and didn’t realise how closely Berserk takes from that story. Pretty cool seeing that Lovecraftian influence. I’ve heard it’s pretty heavy in Berserk.
Amazing video and analysis!
Thank you. Glad you like the video
amazing vid keep making more!
Well the God hand themselves represent certain aspects like. Ambition, Treachery, Lust, Deception etc.
New subscriber here, keep it up with the great Berserk analysis video ❤, its rare to find one this good, congrats on it 👍
To me I'm thinking there can't be an idea of evil without the idea of good to differentiate them.
There’s a lot of Hermeticism & Thelema in this and I’m all in
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"Do what thou wilt" is the same as do what you want. It's do what you will, which is connected to your divine will.
Artemis is not the goddess of fertility much more than that. She was actually one of the virgin goddesses forever
Besides Griffith/Femto, I think my favourite is either Void or Slan. But all of them are very interesting.
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
Good video, subbed
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
Good afternoon. I'm fan of berserk. Everyone have great day and next day and week and weekend and next week and full happiness 😊😊😊😊😊. Great video and keep make more great videos.
Have a great day and weeks to come as well! 😀
Berserk has some Lovecraft and Giger influences in it.
Let's go! Berserk lore
Covers breasts at 2:46 , then leaves ducks all out at 3:00. MVP
i need to go back and read this series gain
Wait.
If each of those weird pre-godhand monsters beside Void in the flashback are connected to the current Godhand...
If Slaan is the booby artemis thing, Conrad is the skeletal mouth thing, and Ubik is the big mouth mask thing.
Then Femto would be the crystal king thing, which kinda makes sense, they even have similar abs.
What is the link between Slanesh in 40k and Slan? The similar name cant be a coincidence. Like what is the origin of that name?
that conrad guy looks like one of those babies from the hr giger paintings
great video!
Great video please keep it up
I just got the first book in the deluxe edition, I'm starting to read it now. I'd only watched it before so I'm really excited
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
At one point I thought I was watching a Warhammer lore video.
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A god of disease
A god of desire
A god of war
Tzeench has left the chat at the end but still.
Hellraiser : 1987
Berserk : 1988
I think we all know the true inspiration for the God Hand
Just before anyone gets it twisted, he obviously means the Ephesian Artemis, who was a goddess of fertility, and not portrayed as the huntress of the moon as the Romans and Greeks did. Which, if you look at how moon cycles were used to keep track of fertility, it still makes sense.
Also, the whore of babylon is known as the mother of harlots and abominations (ie. Monsters, fiends, demons). Whore of Babylon = Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea. This lines up with your theory, and was the first thing I thought of
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.
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
Great video! Very well researched!
Slane(spelling) sounds like she's based off Lilith who is described as the mother all monsters.
Nice video!🙌🏼🔥🔥
Gaiseric is the reborn king and owner of the crimson behelit. that means in the other realm only four godhand members remain. Then Gaiserik loses his kingdom since he has the egg of the king due to the wise man sacrifices the kingdom to become the 5th member. Then Gaiseric goes on a hunting rage and kills each member one at a time for the cycle to renew itself in 1000 years. each member that he kills will unlock a new godhand member to be rebord every 250 years. Void and Gaiseric are destined to die.
7:23 wait radahn is that you
There's From Software characters everywhere in this manga
@@omegaweapon116 you mean theres berserk characters in fromsoft?
@@WilliamGunnarsson-r6s yes, it came first, I know
Berserk is genuinly peak
The bible says that the antichrist will come calling himself the savior but is really a wolf in sheeps clothing griffith does the same he potrays himself as a savior of humanity but hes the downfall and guts is often compared to a black wolf or a dog especially in cascas dream or whatever the hell that was
“The Holy See” is the name of the Pope who is the “king” of Vatican City, as well
Ubek reminds me of a Xenobite from the Pinhead franchise
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.
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
Bathory actually was only a pawn in the machinations of noble political aspiration
Hmm... I have a feeling it has something with the Apocalypse of John
Amongst the 4 elements , void is the 5th that contains the others . If the elementals are the agents of the idea of good . Evil is the exploitation of good . The collective evil of human consciousness inspired the idea of evil to become powerful . The enslavement and suppression of others is the essence of evil . Souls who committed evil end up in the vortex where they suffer the idea of evil which they themselves contributed to and in the process feed it’s power . It is these souls that fuels the power of the idea of evil and the apostles .As evil is the exploitation of the good either the first 4 angels are elementals who were summoned against evil by the one using them : void but then he himself retained the identity of the void making his own 4 angels in contrast to the 4 angels of good . Also the idea of good doesn’t have a void to hold the elementals and lets the individuals be the voids to hold them .
Or these 4 angels are basically only the positions of the god hand personified and exerted by the idea of evil before the thousand year period of actual individuals acquired to align themselves with these positions , which is why instead of eclipse their is a vortex from where these positions emerge at this time purely created through voids power , or serve to instruct void in guiding others to these position so to fill the ranks of god hand .
Or another theory is that multiple such progressions of god hands habe occurred and in the end they get absorbed into the vortex where in they control or exploit the energy of the respective souls they lead to hell and channelise this to service of the idea of evil , so there may be many god hands but they are in vortex and not in external decision making .
Either way this isn’t eternally a cycle since they were waiting to acquire enough power to allow for the blessed king of longing that is Griffith
Yu are smart! Respect
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 personally want to see Griffith/femto betray the god hand and give up his dream for his friends😢
Double space your script lines so you don't lose your place and freeze up as much during your reading. You're doing great otherwise
Just got Berserk deluxe 1 and 2. Already love them.
12:45 In Europe not the entire world tho...
Like the hellraiser reference
Why does the current timeline we’re experiencing feel just like this?
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Which universe is worse, Berserk or Warhammer 40k
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
i think there cant be a god of war when you have a god of desire, desire is the beginning of all suffering buddhism knowledge
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
no, the Crimson behelit comes in every 1000 years and the owner of that behelit is reborn in the real world. The other behelits are not the egg of the king.
Bro in manga it say the eclipse comes in every 256 years the reincarnation ceremony comes in every 1000 years
@@disturbeddemon828 listen, I've been reading this manga over and over again since the mid 90s. I was the first one to figure out that gaiseric was skull knight ever since the panel of him came out in while they were walking to get griffith in the tower. Also I called out that Griffith is the moonlight child because there was a silhouette of Zodd in a hill. There is only one egg of the king and that is for one to be reborn to be conqueror. its every 1000 years, all others are every 250 years or so area which means if you multiply it by four you will have 1000 years and in addition on the 1000th year you will have the fifth godhand.
How are you going to censor things labeling as family friendly while talking about Berserk?
Berserk is the perfect example of why some creators should have one story shouldn’t be told over 30 years. There too high a chance of the creator never being able to conclude their story. As each year passes it becomes more and more likely something may happen that prevents their story from ever being finished due to failing health, death, destitution, lack of ideas, but the main one being death.
From what I’m aware of, it seems that even to this day-nearly 30 years after their introduction to the Berserk story, fans still know next to nothing about what the God Hand actually are, what they want, WHO they are, or where things in the story maybe heading. The creator used them so sparingly, and intentionally withheld so much information about them that it’s insanely scarce, and what information there is about them minimal that it’d be nearly impossible for fans to ever accurately formulate an educated theory as to where the creator was taking the story, and how it could have ended.
We know absolutely nothing about Void in particular, yet he’s so clearly central to not just the plot going forward into the future but also the backstory to several characters, and the events that kicked the this whole story into motion. It’s so extremely unfortunate because the creator of Berserk was clearly setting up something of biblical proportions, no pun intended, and it could be likely we’ll never know where it was actually going or that whoever takes up the challenge of trying to finish Berserk may not be able to realize the creator’s vision for Berserk’s ending that would be up to par with what the creator would have done if still alive.
Another good example of why taking this long to finish a single story isn’t the best idea is George R.R. Martin. It’s been what over a decade since he release A Dance With Dragons? And he’s like in his 70’s! And as we saw with Game of Thrones season 8, other writers most likely aren’t anywhere near up to the task of finishing A Song of Ice and Fire of R.R. Martin does pass before releasing Winds of Winter. What’s worse is he’s writing other books set within the Game of Thrones world but for some damn reason just won’t finish Winds of Winter.
As amazing as great stories spanning multiple decades to create can be, it can wind up really hurting the series in the long run if it takes too long for them to finish. And that does a real disservice to the fans, especially fans that have stuck by the series since its conception.
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I always connected the Anti christ story to match with Griffith / femto. Miura was defiantly pulling from that lore.
Nietzsche obviously had an influence, among others.
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216 years 2+1+6=9 which is the most divine number
Artemis is not the Goddess of fertility in fact she is the opposite. She is the Goddess for ever Virgin, the perfect Hunter, the non man seeing female. Huge mistake from your part. Persephony or Demeter could be more accurate.
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
god of war??? KRATOSSS
Graet job
I mean hey slan kinda-
"Caca enjoyed it" - Nuts
Slan = Slaanesh
Is that too far fetched?
A more accurate version of
A God who rules by fear claiming its love is a demon lord in disguise
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.
Yo Guys What if The God Hand were in The Demon Slayer!
all that you will see from now on will be filler
and with the speed of like 40 pages per year
We deserve a re make of this manga
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.
Doppppppe ass video