Berserk Journal 2
Berserk Journaling Continues. I mean, spoilers are a given... and I apologize for the quality in this one. Health progressively getting worse.
It's so cool to see Miura revisit situations through different characters. Here, volume 20, page 27, we have a revisit during the Rebirth Eclipse of volume 12, page 143 during the Eclipse. Of course all the main characters are off panel, busy doing something else so it's up to Luca, Nina, Jerome, and Isidro to do their nakama thing. And the Gryffindorish character strategically and heroically decides to let the Slytherin character's hands go. However, in contrast to that, Griffith went through an entire year of torture and is holding Guts and himself up with a broken arm and severed tendons, volume 12, page 144, whereas Nina got a finger-thing (I can't tell whether they pulled a fingernail or not.)
The question, then, is can we use the secondary characters in question (i.e.: Luca and Nina) to glean something from their relationship or actions as foils and apply them to Griffith and Guts? There are obvious differences with Griffith:Nina and Guts:Luca (and also Griffith:Luca and Guts:Nina). Griffith is very intelligent, really ambitious and my god, Nina is the dumbest, most chicken shit thing I've ever seen. And Guts has serious issues while Luca is blessedly well-tempered.
I really don't want to get into Nina though so I'll just leave notes: yandere, resentment, love/hate, Nina/Luca with a full arc to compare and contrast for Guts/Griffith speculation. Or has it already happened with Griffith walking away? Also possible opposite of Guts/Griffith issue if neither of them had walked out on the other and Guts resenting Griffith?
Starting with volume 21, page 137, the beginning of the second Eclipse, Puck is again, taking up a bit of our attention on the page and overwhelmed by the screaming. Actually, you go back to page 135 and check it out, Puck is the brightest thing on the 2 pages and all the panels and images lead our gaze to Puck. So when Behelit Apostle is activated, "I feel that everything in my world carries one hope which is the same as mine. Everything is going with me...the world I'm creating and screaming [punctuation?] Everything is synchronized." Page 139, you can see Behelit Apostle is smiling in contentment .
Page 140, you see the multitude of living and dead souls and everything screaming in anguish, which is like all other activation of behelits but where with Griffith's and the apostles, it's about the individual's anguish, this is the collective anguish. The Second Eclipse is like my favorite part of the story so far because it is so beautifully done. The sacrifice are the most religious. Jerome even points it out in page 196. And who are the ones left? It's like Luca said, those who don't get disturbed by others and work to survive. But the sacrifice are included in the mass wish so, in a way, it's like an inversion of the First Eclipse.
Page 141, check that out, Puck again is the brightest thing on the page and he realizes that Guts's behelit is "resonating with the screaming". It's just all the repetition of Puck earlier and overwhelmed by screaming makes me think this is a significant page, specifically the fifth panel when he opens the bag to show the behelit grinning. I'm wondering has the behelit been changed by this Second Eclipse event? I'm thinking when it gets activated, whether it's by Guts or Puck or whoever, I think it's going to be tied in to Behelit Apostle's wish for a better world and/or Griffith's purpose/destiny.
The key words here are "resonating" and "synchronized" (from page 139) to that "one hope" the Behelit Apostle wished for. If the resonating screams and hope can give us a neo-Griffith, what does that mean for a behelit that was in synch with the Behelit Apostle?
Page 142, inversion of the hand color from dark to light.
Page 147, again inversion of color from light to dark but it's because all the faces are spewing blood as Griffith is reborn as opposed to taking in the blood for Griffith's body.
I love Behelit Apostle, by the way. He is my favorite side character and one of the most pivotal characters in Berserk. No one will know his story except Luca but it says something when the guy wants to be a behelit for a better world. That's so unique and selfless.
I don't know anything about Christianity so I don't know if Griffith riding on Zodd is of any significance. But...7 angels ala Mozgus and his gang, lol.
Oh, yes, Farnese:Nina foil of girls ruled by fear who use religion as their crutch, one on the Holy See side and one on the pagan side whose faith and faith structure had been demolished and organization all killed off and were forced to change and grow because of it.
It's so cool to see Miura revisit situations through different characters. Here, volume 20, page 27, we have a revisit during the Rebirth Eclipse of volume 12, page 143 during the Eclipse. Of course all the main characters are off panel, busy doing something else so it's up to Luca, Nina, Jerome, and Isidro to do their nakama thing. And the Gryffindorish character strategically and heroically decides to let the Slytherin character's hands go. However, in contrast to that, Griffith went through an entire year of torture and is holding Guts and himself up with a broken arm and severed tendons, volume 12, page 144, whereas Nina got a finger-thing (I can't tell whether they pulled a fingernail or not.)
The question, then, is can we use the secondary characters in question (i.e.: Luca and Nina) to glean something from their relationship or actions as foils and apply them to Griffith and Guts? There are obvious differences with Griffith:Nina and Guts:Luca (and also Griffith:Luca and Guts:Nina). Griffith is very intelligent, really ambitious and my god, Nina is the dumbest, most chicken shit thing I've ever seen. And Guts has serious issues while Luca is blessedly well-tempered.
I really don't want to get into Nina though so I'll just leave notes: yandere, resentment, love/hate, Nina/Luca with a full arc to compare and contrast for Guts/Griffith speculation. Or has it already happened with Griffith walking away? Also possible opposite of Guts/Griffith issue if neither of them had walked out on the other and Guts resenting Griffith?
Starting with volume 21, page 137, the beginning of the second Eclipse, Puck is again, taking up a bit of our attention on the page and overwhelmed by the screaming. Actually, you go back to page 135 and check it out, Puck is the brightest thing on the 2 pages and all the panels and images lead our gaze to Puck. So when Behelit Apostle is activated, "I feel that everything in my world carries one hope which is the same as mine. Everything is going with me...the world I'm creating and screaming [punctuation?] Everything is synchronized." Page 139, you can see Behelit Apostle is smiling in contentment .
Page 140, you see the multitude of living and dead souls and everything screaming in anguish, which is like all other activation of behelits but where with Griffith's and the apostles, it's about the individual's anguish, this is the collective anguish. The Second Eclipse is like my favorite part of the story so far because it is so beautifully done. The sacrifice are the most religious. Jerome even points it out in page 196. And who are the ones left? It's like Luca said, those who don't get disturbed by others and work to survive. But the sacrifice are included in the mass wish so, in a way, it's like an inversion of the First Eclipse.
Page 141, check that out, Puck again is the brightest thing on the page and he realizes that Guts's behelit is "resonating with the screaming". It's just all the repetition of Puck earlier and overwhelmed by screaming makes me think this is a significant page, specifically the fifth panel when he opens the bag to show the behelit grinning. I'm wondering has the behelit been changed by this Second Eclipse event? I'm thinking when it gets activated, whether it's by Guts or Puck or whoever, I think it's going to be tied in to Behelit Apostle's wish for a better world and/or Griffith's purpose/destiny.
The key words here are "resonating" and "synchronized" (from page 139) to that "one hope" the Behelit Apostle wished for. If the resonating screams and hope can give us a neo-Griffith, what does that mean for a behelit that was in synch with the Behelit Apostle?
Page 142, inversion of the hand color from dark to light.
Page 147, again inversion of color from light to dark but it's because all the faces are spewing blood as Griffith is reborn as opposed to taking in the blood for Griffith's body.
I love Behelit Apostle, by the way. He is my favorite side character and one of the most pivotal characters in Berserk. No one will know his story except Luca but it says something when the guy wants to be a behelit for a better world. That's so unique and selfless.
I don't know anything about Christianity so I don't know if Griffith riding on Zodd is of any significance. But...7 angels ala Mozgus and his gang, lol.
Oh, yes, Farnese:Nina foil of girls ruled by fear who use religion as their crutch, one on the Holy See side and one on the pagan side whose faith and faith structure had been demolished and organization all killed off and were forced to change and grow because of it.