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sawyerie's review against another edition
5.0
Berserk, Top 1. Je sais pas quoi dire d’autre. Quelle aventure…
hisabelbide's review against another edition
5.0
Hits hard at arcs of healing, characters coming to terms with the work to be done internally. Carries a lot of emotional heft in the nonverbal, slice of life sequences punctuated with quite the surprise ending.
mykoyamo's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
dushkrush's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
meorawr's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
berry_9029's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
8bitlapras's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
emmaisnotavampire's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Once again, I procrastinated writing this review, so I might have forgotten half of the things I wanted to say. But I do remember the overall feeling this volume provoked, a mixture of surprise and pain followed by more surprise.
It was amazing to see Casca back to her fighter self and her physical strength, just as much as it hurt to witness her psychological weaknesses a moment later, how she desperately wants and desperately tries to reconnect with Guts, but ends up falling victim to her trauma. And speaking of Guts, how heartbreaking to see his condition as well, forced to step back from the dream he has cultivated all this time for its own good. Casca was his everything, and now that he can’t have her he feels like a nothing, like he’s lost his sense of self; for him there’s nothing to do, nothing to be.
In a way, Guts’s identity problems are paralleled by Farnese’s story: while he finds himself stuck in the necessity to reinvent who he is and find a new purpose, she comes to the end of the first part of her own reinvention journey, finally accepting and feeling accepted as a witch, a promising one even.
But the most mind blowing parts of this volume are yet to come. There have been a couple of crucial revelations that managed to shock me despite the fact that I expected them. Skull Knight being the long lost king was largely foreshadowed and suspected by most, but this is the closest thing to a proper explanation that we’ve ever gotten. I honestly really want to know more about his backstory!
And the kid, the damn kid… it was all there, and deep down I knew about all the little puzzle pieces, but the picture they painted once Miura finally put them together before our eyes still felt so unexpected and shocking. I knew the kid was linked to the full moon, I knew he was Guts’s and Casca’s demonic baby, I knew Griffith somehow used said baby to reincarnate in human form… BUT HOW COULD I PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER? HOW COULD I SUSPECT THAT THE CHILD PLAYING WITH CASCA, HUGGING HER, SLEEPING WITH HER, COEXISTED WITH THE MAN WHO RUINED HER LIFE?
That sure is a cliffhanger… though I must say it will take so long to digest that discovery that it’s probably a good thing having to wait.
It was amazing to see Casca back to her fighter self and her physical strength, just as much as it hurt to witness her psychological weaknesses a moment later, how she desperately wants and desperately tries to reconnect with Guts, but ends up falling victim to her trauma. And speaking of Guts, how heartbreaking to see his condition as well, forced to step back from the dream he has cultivated all this time for its own good. Casca was his everything, and now that he can’t have her he feels like a nothing, like he’s lost his sense of self; for him there’s nothing to do, nothing to be.
In a way, Guts’s identity problems are paralleled by Farnese’s story: while he finds himself stuck in the necessity to reinvent who he is and find a new purpose, she comes to the end of the first part of her own reinvention journey, finally accepting and feeling accepted as a witch, a promising one even.
But the most mind blowing parts of this volume are yet to come. There have been a couple of crucial revelations that managed to shock me despite the fact that I expected them. Skull Knight being the long lost king was largely foreshadowed and suspected by most, but this is the closest thing to a proper explanation that we’ve ever gotten. I honestly really want to know more about his backstory!
And the kid, the damn kid… it was all there, and deep down I knew about all the little puzzle pieces, but the picture they painted once Miura finally put them together before our eyes still felt so unexpected and shocking. I knew the kid was linked to the full moon, I knew he was Guts’s and Casca’s demonic baby, I knew Griffith somehow used said baby to reincarnate in human form… BUT HOW COULD I PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER? HOW COULD I SUSPECT THAT THE CHILD PLAYING WITH CASCA, HUGGING HER, SLEEPING WITH HER, COEXISTED WITH THE MAN WHO RUINED HER LIFE?
That sure is a cliffhanger… though I must say it will take so long to digest that discovery that it’s probably a good thing having to wait.