I think the overall message of berserk isn't exactly against ambition: after all, Griffith's ambition did make him incredibly charismatic and successful, people looked up to him. In my opinion the message of berserk is that while fighting for your goals, you shouldn't shut off people close to you and become a monster

This is the best Berserk video I've ever watched. You understand the story really well. One thing I'd add is that Guts leaves the Hawk's precisely because he values and loves Griffith even if Griffith doesn't realize this and wants to be his equal because he's convinced that's what Griffith would want.

Griffith's whole shpiel about dreams to the princess feels more like BS and a coping mechanism he's created to hide his insecurities and vulnerabilities. Guts didn't realize Griffith saw him as an equal and Griffith didn't realize Guts loved him back. It's truly a tragedy that leads to the worst outcome possible, where when manipulated by the Godhand and goaded into suppressing his true feelings, Griffith rips his heart out in order to not feel heartbreak. In doing so he becomes Femto and proceeds to violate Casca as the most extreme form of violent and emotional petty revenge on Guts for making him feel this way.  He commits this act while staring Guts straight in the eyes.

I wonder how much Miura sacrificed in order to make Berserk up to his standard, and if he ever regretted it.

with regard to 23:28 - I always felt like the reason Guts questions what he's doing wasn't to do with any kind of morality or belief he was just a pawn to Griffith, but because he wanted to be seen as an equal, and knew the only way to live up to the expectations he felt Griffith had of him was to become his own person, not just Griffith's soldier. The irony being that this leads Guts away from Griffith which goes against Griffith's desires and expectations, and forces him to face a situation in which he did not come out on top and, for the first time, gives him reason to doubt if he can realise his dream.

The way it's talked about in this section makes it seem as if Guts' began to doubt Griffith, but I never got that impression. His reverance for Griffith at this point is exactly why he wants to become someone Griffith acknowledges an equal.

Damn it, i allways could not hold the tears when gaston tells guts he is willing to join him. Damn

You really prove the point as to how Griffith, was never a great person. He never wanted to be and that guts seemed to be the only shackle left to his humanity and him losing that caused what happened at the eclipse. He no longer needed emotion he thought with logic as if guts were never there.

This story gives me the chills and makes me wanna cry

guts followed griffith for a lack of another purpose, but griffith thought that he just didn't care about him being the leader of the  hawks, wich he didn't, so when griffith made the speech with the princess,, he was talking about someone like caska who both follows him blindly ad admires him, so this explains why griffith was so shocked when guts wanted to leave

can you make new chapters of berserk? seems like you wrote the story yourself. good vid

There's a lot of Carl Jung within Berserk. Griffith begins the Story as the Classical Hero archetype while Guts is the Anti-Hero archetype. However as the Story progresses Griffith loses the Battle with his Shadow as Jung would put it and fails to assimilate the Shadow within him, where as Guts eventually wins the Battle with his Shadow and assimilates it into his Consciousness. Because of this Griffith ends up becoming a Villain and Guts develops into a true Hero. If you ever enjoyed Berserk on a deeper level this is why, it has some seriously mature themes woven into the Story past the elements of Dark Fantasy.

I have read/watched berserk a few times and watched many analysis videos. I thought I knew all the aspects of what made it a masterpiece but you proved me wrong. Thank you for putting all this effort into such a great piece of art.

“Griffith is fighting for someone else.” As you mention, Griffith is literally hoping to kill guts to maintain control over the band and feed his narcissism

This is fantastic but it really does miss the whole motivation for Griffiths action due to his kinship/love/heartbreak for Guts. Granted would probably add another hour on top of this though :P

One hour and twenty six minutes later and all I can say is amazing video. I analyze Berserk as well and you brought up many unique insights I hadn’t considered. Great video 👍🏻

I’m like 99 percent sure that Guts killing Gambino foreshadows the end of  Guts and Griffith journeys that would have been in Fantasia.

I think everyone misunderstood Griffith. People assume  that Griffith's precious thing was a Kingdom for it's own end, but he himself gave us the answer. He won't allow himself to have precious things until he has a kingdom of his own in which to keep them safe. Think about what he said to Casca when they first met. I think the more Guts proved himself to be invincible the more precious he became to Griffith. Griffith grew up in a world where he only experienced loss and death and abuse but Guts is the one person who manages to emerge wounded and tired, but alive and unbroken by his emotional pain. I think the visual of Gambino impaling himself on Gut's sword in order to kill Guts stands in contrast to Griffith who considered impaling himself at the thought of losing Guts all over again just before his blood somehow summoned the behelit back to him and he went on a diff rabbit hole. I think we should look at what a Kingdom and castle means to Griffith: security, safety, stability. Everything he needs to allow himself to have precious things to care for. I have a sneaking suspicion that Griffith may have lost his parents violently, or perhaps just his mother like Serpico. His disgust for nobles makes me think that perhaps his mother had been a courtesan and was murdered by a lover in front of him while he was hidden away. He may have had the chance to save her by charging her murderer but she may have expressed to him that he should remain hidden. His words to Casca haunt me. He speaks from experience.

You are a very talented storyteller/analyst. Thanks for the great video.

yeah thats the best analysis and truly how it was, to call it a misunderstanding is underselling it... its such a tragedy.. those two had, at least to me the most unique relationship in all manga i read, despite their differences they sort of completed each other and brought out the best out of another.. i think pre Guts leaving Griffith was a pragmatic person but HE HAD TO. He was a commander and firstly he had to show himself as a strong leader, he couldn't be the river scene Griffith for his soldiers, thats not a leader people would've risked their lives for.. also he had to shield himself for his own sake, if he was to befriend every and each of his men he would be devastated upon each death like he was after the "knight" boy after which he sold his own body and still couldnt wash out the guilt and shame of causing death of another. No one can convince me that before Griffith lost it he was already "seeing Guts as a mere pawn and all that stuff, thats so shallow, it's like if he was really like that, and not a deep and complex character, i wouldnt have given the show much notice. It reads like a Shakespearean tragedy with so many great written characters, real life references to mythology, religion, occult, alchemy, psychology and tons of other things.. it saddens me that Miura himself wont finish the story cause its really his details that hit the best spots.. i hope the new team can bring at least some of Miuras showing (drawing) rather then telling storytelling. And the thing you said about Griff being manipulated by Godhand just shows how much of a strong character he had.. he lost Guts (the only one he was ready to throw it all away), got tortured immensely , which people jump over so much, not taking into account what they themselves would be like or whether they would even survive such ordeal.. Griffith sanity was crushed, he was slipping in and out of consciousness, was hallucinating and yet even after that and being handed his dreams and his body back together with godhood, had to be manipulated to say "yes" ... im not a Griffith stan and i as much as the person next want to see Guts send him into the abyss but people talking how Griffith was always "PURE EVIL" is just cruel and uninteresting.. those need to re read the manga and pay attention

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