Berserk 317

  » Posted November 16th, 2010 by DrPepperPro

It returns again.
[Evil_Genius]Berserk_v36c317.rar

163 Responses to “Berserk 317”

  1. Hakou Says:

    YEAAAA!!! Thank you!

  2. Biell Says:

    Niceeeeeeeeeeee ;D

  3. Xical Says:

    For how long this Berserk bonanza will last?

  4. Kidd Says:

    GESSUZ!!!!

  5. Mess Says:

    Hey guys what’s going on in thiAWWWW SHIT.

  6. Daiceman Says:

    Xical: Theres another out on the 26th

  7. Ben Says:

    what the heck! I fully expected to wait another few months.

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  9. vashfanatic Says:

    Yay! Farneze gets to be useful for once! Really looking forward to the next chapter, guys, thanks for continuing this.

  10. tsubaimomo Says:

    @ behelit

    Nice try, better luck next time.

  11. lara skadi Says:

    Awesome! Thanks a lot, guys!

  12. GhostUnit Says:

    “ok, now that we’re done with the monsters we can finally go to Elfhelm…”

    me: FUCK YEAH! awesome man, we’re finally getting to Elfhelm! at last, after like a years of reading and waiting!!!

    Guts: “hey, before that we better go back and explore the entire island, make sure there are no monsters left”
    Everyone else: “what a sensible idea”

    me: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Dex Says:

    :D

  14. CyberNinja Says:

    FINALLY!

  15. Mystyc Vegeta Says:

    a million times thanks EG !

  16. sebastian Says:

    OMG!!! i had a bad day, now it changes!!! :D

  17. sebastian Says:

    Spanish= GRACIAS EG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. IGrowPot Says:

    Fucking damn awesome!!!!

    Rolling a joint to celebrate!!!

  19. IGrowPot Says:

    ps Farnese debut as not just unecessary baggage? lol

  20. djchayan Says:

    ty guys keep it up!!

  21. wutz Says:

    you can read it on somemanga

    http://somemango.com/manga/Berserk/317/

  22. Helaine Says:

    oh my god, thanks a lot

    love this manga <3

  23. wutz Says:

    ftr when i first uploaded the somemanga link, the version on the site was scaled down because it was scraped from mangareader. but i’m currently uploading the full sized version to replace it.

  24. Slumber Says:

    Thank for this awesomeness.

  25. CrackoWitcho Says:

    Didn’t even know we had another coming.

    Thanks, EG.

  26. CrackoWitcho Says:

    Also, same time post, possibly a message from the cosmos telling me to go to bed…

  27. gabodelbarca Says:

    Fucking YES!!! Thanks a lot EG

  28. Black Drak Says:

    Berserk continues on November 26th!

    Miura is actually working on Berserk now, after years of smoking weeds and oogling hentai.

  29. Aldarion Says:

    Thank you EG. Much appreciated.

  30. Caminante Says:

    Thanks a lot!

  31. guren no kishi Says:

    Thank you.

  32. Mr. America Says:

    Hell yeah, thanks a lot, helluvascanlationteam =D

  33. Tiago Simões Says:

    Amazing!
    Thanks a lot for the release!

  34. Dromar Says:

    Great, I didn’t think i would read another chapter this year but here it is :)

    great job btw^^

  35. buttobasu Says:

    WOOOHOOO!! Awesomesauce!! Thanks EG!!

  36. geroprog Says:

    Thank you!

  37. John Says:

    Thank you kind gentlemen!

  38. HERMITsnake Says:

    I would like to think that Maybe miura appeared to falling off, but was actually working very closely with the anime production :?

  39. random berserk fan Says:

    Thanks for the release! :D

  40. kirill Says:

    LOVE!

  41. HNG Says:

    FUCK YEAH BERSERK TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  42. Aga Says:

    i wonder why can’t i download this chap :(
    my utorrent said “torrent error access denied” :(

  43. RAGE Says:

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    Thanks.

  44. darkerthanblackswordsman Says:

    Fantastic! Still, the best part is that next chapter comes out in 2 weeks :-)

    Maybe Miura really was working on the anime?

  45. zamb Says:

    A big, humongous, colossal “Thank you” to team Evil_Genius!

  46. will Says:

    OH MY GOSH !

  47. Morkar Says:

    OOO crap thanks EG!! I’M gonna go sleep 2 weeksto see the next one :)

  48. Ariel Says:

    Thank you very much!!

  49. Thana Says:

    Yay! New Berserk release! Thanks as usual.

    @ that wutz guy: Did you ask EG about uploading their stuff on some manga viewer site?

  50. karaii Says:

    *SPAZZES THE FUCK OUT*
    Thank you so much for scanlating this! You guys are GOD <3

  51. TheParagon Says:

    @ Thana

    did EG ask miura if they could scanlate this chapter?

    we all just want to share the joy, and some can’t use torrents. most ppl here buy the manga anyways in due time. so give him a break

  52. rebellion Says:

    so who is the child?
    caska’s and grifith’s child or
    caska’s and guts’s child?

  53. Soleyfir Says:

    Great job EG, as always. Thank you very much.

    For the chapter, good thing the stoy keeps on progressing though I don’t really care about Farnese’s progression (my least liked character in this manga) and it’s starting to be boring to have Shierke saving Gutts again.
    Then again, it was still a good chapter. Looking forward to the next one!

  54. Anonimo Says:

    Nice chapter, I like the slow but costant improvement in the story of the magic skill of Farnese, and the boy’s light is too cute next to Guts and Caska. I really hope that with the merge of the realms this time does not disappear, but I think that we will see him only on full moon nightt (I also wonder if his appearance means that in the island is present Zodd). But the real surprise of the chapter is the sincere big smile of Guts, we have not seen it for centuries.

    PS: What is “Avalon” that Miura thanks in the comment at the end of the chapter? It has something to do with the development of the anime?

  55. yhgyjhyj Says:

    Anonimo: no, read the Notes page.

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  57. Thana Says:

    ‘did EG ask miura if they could scanlate this chapter?’

    Did you turn yourself in after downloading this chapter?
    Although I get your point it’s something about respect to ask for warrant. Just because someone jumps of a cliff no one else has to follow.

    I just asked this wutz guy is he asked for permission, no need to butt in for you. If he/she didn’t I won’t do a thing. It’s just for my internal judging persona scoreboard. Same goes for the site he/she linked. I use those kind of pages a lot. I’ll mind this site then.

    @Anonimo: You’ll find the answer on the same page…

  58. Daiceman Says:

    Thana: The argument you’re missing is that EG is technically “stealing” his work while still giving him credit, the same thing wutz did.

  59. DamnedBones Says:

    Thanks as always, EG.

  60. Spirit Of Yggdrasill Says:

    Just so f-ing genial. Thank you guys as always fantastic work. I am in love with Miura. He is still the king.
    This was such a sweet chapter, since I was working for last 22 hours this was like I one smack of relaxation in the head before getting knocked out into bed :) ))

  61. Thana Says:

    Daiceman: Please read my whole post.
    “Just because someone jumps of a cliff no one else has to follow.” – if you don’t get this point or you can’t agree with it explain yourself, else I have to think you didn’t read my post. Especially the part about respect.

  62. kumodoushin Says:

    Damn. I cant connect to the torrent, what is going on?

  63. Anonimo Says:

    I don’t know how I could not notice it XD, thanks a lot yhgyjhyj and Thana

  64. Starnum Says:

    As far as I know, Wutz didn’t ask our permission to upload our scans to their viewer, but it’s not really a big deal. Lots of sites do it all the time without consulting us. At least he gave us credit and left our credit pages intact. That’s all we really ask. Most sites don’t even do that much. Besides, as I’ve said before, we’re not in this for some sense of notoriety. Unlike some other groups who insist on putting watermarks on ever page of a release *grumbles*. We’re just trying to share the love, so the more the merrier. It’s a service, which we don’t offer ourselves, to the people who can’t DL the chapter directly. So it’s all good.

    As for the chapter, I thought it was pretty good. I especially liked the part where Guts was struggling to get the armor off. As for the child, personally I believe it to be the son of Guts and Casca.

  65. Anonimo Says:

    Off course, thanks guys for the scans of the chapter.

  66. gatsu Says:

    thnxxxxxxxxxx EG

  67. black87 Says:

    November 26… as expected from Miura, he wouldn’t miss that one!

  68. Thana Says:

    Credits uploaded, EG says ok. Everything is fine.

  69. IGrowPot Says:

    The child is Guts son, Griffith merely corrupted it.

  70. ekiow Says:

    Such a long release list without Angel Heart sure makes me sad…

    Hope that Island girl doesn’t become a long term travelling companion, don’t dislike here, but there sure are already enough kids hanging about.

  71. DrPepperPro Says:

    @ekiow:
    We have no editor for angel heart.

  72. Starnum Says:

    Yeah, I feel the same way, Ekiow. I don’t dislike Isma, but I hope she doesn’t become a permanent companion. I like all the main characters, but as you said, we’ve got enough kids in the group already.

  73. CrackoWitcho Says:

    I been selling prints of your scans for $15 for over a year at school.

    …Just kidding. The only people I know who like manga here are only interested in the slice-of-life variety. Also, I wouldn’t screw you guys like that >_>;

  74. Eugene Says:

    I always liked this manga because the selfishness and loneliness of the Guts!
    I really like shierke’s character, but at the same time I’m pissed off at Guts!
    Anyway this manga is the best!
    tnx Evil Genius for sharing the love

  75. GhostUnit Says:

    You guys are just not privy to Miura’s grand scheme.

    Doesn’t the fact that Isma, Schierke, the moon kid and Isidoro (ugh) are all kids give you any clue?

    Miura is tired of doing a serious and compelling manga. So in the next eclipse, all adults die and the manga is renamed to “Mini-Berserkers! The New Adventures” in which we continue to see the hilarious antics of Isidoro et al, in a redesigned shonen-style.

    Truly is Miura a genius and visionary of his age.

  76. Berserk Season 2 Says:

    Berserk Season 2?????!!!
    http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&lp=ja_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.younganimal.com%2fberserk%2fcm%2findex.html

  77. ekiow Says:

    @DrPepperPro
    Editor eh? would offer my own services, but since I’ve only testedited a little so far, I don’t really wanna defile this favourite series of mine with my inexperience…

  78. myself Says:

    THANK YOU!!

  79. Thana Says:

    How can you dislike Gatts? He’s awesome! ;)

  80. Farnese!! Says:

    Well after that scene Farnese felt herself up while thinking of some corpses I started to like her!

  81. secretmyth Says:

    i’m waitin for the Isidoro spin off… that shit is gonna be ill, kid :)

  82. IGrowPot Says:

    People complaints here and there about Gatts companions… I really the only one that ain’t bothered with them? If we think, in vol 4 he joins the Hawks and so we have 10 vol of Gatts with companions, 4 – 13. In the 18th vol, Isidro first appears, so we have 4 vols of Gatts without companions. Sum up the first three vol, we have seven vol of Gatts without companions against the other TWENTY NINE vols so far of Gatts with companions. So, Gatts without companions is the exception. And look, In theese calculations I did not considered Puck or Gambino’s band as companions.

    Ok, Gatts before usually fought alone, even if he had companions, I’ll give you that, but we have to consider that if Gatts became stronger, his enemies in the general became even more, so I think it’s only fair if he can get some help sometimes.

    So, just get used to the companions, they were there from the beginning and will be there in the end.

    If it ever ends of course lol

  83. Farnese!! Says:

    Well its also a matter of variation. Sure Gatts fights are pretty awesome which is also a big part of the reason I like this Manga but honestly.. even the most awesome thing you can think of could get boring after doing or seein it a thousand times over several years. It just gives fights more pepp since there are more factors that can influence the outcome of a fight. If gatts would still fight alone the onliest things that could happen are interactions between gatts and his enemy..
    Plus he can alrdy be told an old man so well it would also be strange if he would still be able to fight like a youngster with that rly fucked up body he achieved meanwhile..
    The thing that bothers me is that there are so many pages wasted with them bullshitting I can’t be helped but I got the impression that there onliest purpose is that of mini fillers because overall their fight influence is limited since gatts is still the onliest being able to take out the “big” ones.
    Sure its funny like that pirate face ut DARN I’d prefere seein the story going on or at least some perv stuff :[

  84. Krishkrush Says:

    Hm. I don’t know if I remember that right, but…
    Was Guts face ever that soft as it is now after Schierke liberates him from the armor? It kind of hit me right in the face ;) Discuss!

  85. CrackoWitcho Says:

    None of his new companions hold a candle to Judeau.

  86. Sheepy-Pie Says:

    @CrackoWitcho – Yes! I am glad i am not the only one that feels this way!

    @Krishkrush – You are right, i knew something was odd about when we see his whole face and him smiling (other than the fact he is smiling obviously) and his nose and cheeks look a lot softer. I hope the armour isnt turning him more womanly! Haha

  87. Mormegil Says:

    Poor Jodo… =(

  88. Thana Says:

    I can’t agree. I don’t see Gatts’ face as soft as people think…

    First I made a comparison: His face from volume 1 and in the actual chapter. First fact: It got way more details, but visual trademarks stayed the same. He looks way older now, but not soft…

    I think the main problem you guys have is his soft smiling. The reason may be that he has his new group. He smiled like that back in the days with the Hawks, too. I’m sure Miura wants it that way. It’s character development. Gatts doesn’t look softer, he looks more human to me.

  89. Krishkrush Says:

    @Thana – That wasn’t criticism, it’s just something I was wondering about without any valuation. You compare between the first volume and the last, but I think that would be inappropriate. Between those two lie miles and that’s besides the art- and age-progression. I thought more of the last few volumes, but maybe you’re right and it’s just the heavy contrast to Guts “berserker-face” we saw often the last volumes ;) Anyway, this “change” (whether it actually is a change or not) was something very spectacular to me personally. Funny how such a minor detail awakens such emotions :) BTW since this is my second post at all on this site, thank you very much EG for the great work that helps taking on the long wait for new volumes.

  90. Saria Says:

    Just sayin…I Think the conscious of the child is very partial to the merge of the behelit and the fetus. Its perfectly plausable that the child only appears on full moons…a moonchild ^_^ But Im wondering as to whether the child will apear at any time to protect caska from the berserker armor and hopefully bring guts back to his self. I Believe the child reborn not to be tainted by griffith but somehow…mabye becuase of the behelit…have knowlege of what happened durring the eclispe somehow…mabye its a far stretch :P Eaither case i deffinatly believe its theirs!!

  91. Thana Says:

    If someone disagrees it doesn’t mean necessarily criticism… but you got the point yourself: He shows us more emotions. We had the so called berserker face as one of his main facial expressions beside the evil smirk for long, so it may be unusual for some.

    I personally like it. I already mentioned it. Character development, that is. He has become more mature and more emotional. May be one of the reasons why some people think of Berserk as a masterpiece of a Manga.

  92. Black Drak Says:

    Holding my breath for the next chapter!

  93. Kain Says:

    Ah, 2 new berserk chapters, thanks a lot!

    I still don’t see the point of this island and of this new Isma character (plainly annoying), but it is good to have proof that this great saga is not completely dead.

  94. Legato Says:

    Is the next one (318) the final one for 2010 or…

  95. tsubaimomo Says:

    @ Legato

    We’ll find out when the chapter’s out.

  96. IGrowPot Says:

    @ Kain

    I don’t see the point of this island either…
    Why bother to bring Caska back to sanity???

    lol

    About Caska subject, what do you people think she’s gonna do once she gets to her normal self?

    a) join Gatts in his revenge
    b) try to make Gatts forget his revenge
    c) team um with Griffith and his new Band of the Hawk

  97. shcnoff Says:

    i guess nobody likes isma, but you really can’t be surprised if the world’s greatest lolicon: kentaro miura keeps introducing little girls into this manga. especially mysterious girls with strange abilities. i’m assuming elfhelm will be crawling with them at this point.

    as for the release schedule, i’m glad we’re getting a few chapters at a time again too, but i don’t know if miura was busy with the anime. he seems to work on a big batch of chapters all at once and feed us a new one every few months, and then we get a few in a row when he’s finished. i take these regular releases as a sign that he’s completed or nearly completed all of the island (and hopefully the endless boat ride, too) material and we’re about to start crawling along towards elfhelm again.

  98. GhostUnit Says:

    Kids in Berserk that were important and ok:
    Jill
    Roshinu
    Snail Count’s daughter

    Kids who are like Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace:
    Isidro (add Jar-Jar Binks attribute)
    Istma (great, just what we needed, a cooky character)

    Rule of thumb: DO NOT put kids in your work

  99. Thana Says:

    3 pros against 2 cons induces you to say kids are bad for this manga? 3-2 < 0? Right…
    I personally like Isidro. He has more depth beside his comedy segments. After all he was just a homeless kid in a war-torn land struggling for food before joining Gatts – his story has potential to me.

    How about Rickert? His symbolism in the original band of Hawk?
    How about the 2 kids in Griffith's new Band? Lil' Gatts?

    The appearence of kids had serious impact in Berserk so far. Who knows what Isma will mean for the story in some chapters? But without knowing it you shouldn't decide it's crap. It's like zapping to "The Godfather" when Michael is in Italy speaking Italian and then switch to "American Idol" cause you don't get the shit…

    Patience, my eager padawan…

  100. Phireo Says:

    New Berserk out, new one not announced yet, so there won’t be one on 12th of December… meaning that most probably it’s the last one for this year, especially seeing as there may or may not be another volume of the magazine from then until new year being the two fridays, one on 24th and the other one on 31st…

    Phireo

  101. Phireo Says:

    Sorry… 10th of december…

  102. CrackoWitcho Says:

    Golden Age Berserk – Development.

    Current Berserk – Exposition.

  103. Mr. America Says:

    There’s a reason why it’s called “Golden Age” of berserk =P

  104. IGrowPot Says:

    @102

    I see it more like

    Golden Age – introduction
    Current Berserk – development
    Future Berserk – exposition
    And then the conclusion if Miura still alive then

  105. Rapi Says:

    yep… yet another break…

  106. Phireo Says:

    You know, I already stated this, but the life expectancy of a Japanese is by 5 years higher than the life expectancy of an U.S.American. This, however, is misleading, because the Japanese have long ago found a practical solution to the Banach-Tarski paradox. For them it actually works, only not in space, but in time. I wonder just how many of you understood this ^^.

    Phireo

  107. buttobasu Says:

    WHAN IZ UPDATE?!

  108. IGrowPot Says:

    I still prefer to use Banach-Tarski on hash balls

  109. js Says:

    yup, another break. but that’s fine as long as miura don’t under-develop the story, or slack off for that matter. it’s the year-end, take a small break.

    and I like Isma and her wavy hair.

  110. IGrowPot Says:

    I like the pirates. As someone pointed out some time ago, they resemble the pirates in Asterix, whose are everytime getting owned.

    Also, you have to consider whats happening in Berserk world. After the doors to astral plain/realm of the dead/hell/wathever you may call/ were open(Ganishka exploding) and that wind blew the world, we the readers see the changes it brings to the world. But how to point it out to Gatts crew? As they already used to encounter other worlds beings, just fighting sea monster or whatever is in that island wouldn’t be enought to fully justify Schierk and Gatts feeling that’s something weird goin on in the world, so the pirate ship was the best way. First they fight a normal ship(it also shows that Roderick isn’t just your average noble sailorman) and after that wind, they fight it’s wicked version, expliciting that the world is changing.

  111. Legato Says:

    The times they are a-changing

  112. Jovi Says:

    Phirineo: the Banach–Tarski paradox only works for 3-dimensions or more, so it cannot be applied to time.
    You will be suprised of how many people are beyond your level of math in this world (this is just to be on the same pedantic tone you just used on your comment).

  113. IGrowPot Says:

    3-dimensions or more = Four dimensions = 3 dimensions more time

    You would be surprised

  114. Stele007 Says:

    I find these posts rather shallow and pedantic.

  115. Phireo Says:

    ‘Till now I saw just a couple of people commenting about the paradox. And as about the basis of the theory, that you can cut something and reasemble it, the result being larger, it may be applied to space or time, as the “time as the fourth-dimension” is being corrected, the space-time continum shows us that time does in fact interact with space and vice-versa. Besides, nobody proved that you cannot cut time in any way, yet, there are actually teories of the contrary… so… But besides that, the point was that; I used the idea of that paradox and put an alternative nerdy-humor-full explanation intertwiningly connected to a reasuring simple statement about a statistic being the Japanese life expectancy, Miura being Japanese.
    I won’t comment here anymore, not unless a new chapter is released. Besides, I understand there are a lot of people whose knowledge of maths is better than mine, but the group whose knowledge of it worse than mine is vastly bigger in members.

    Phireo

  116. IGrowPot Says:

    Wow, THAT is pedantic! Jus’ kiddin’

    All I know is that MY knowledge in math is pretty negligible, but I just love the term “spacetime continuum”, specially when used to explain some sort of fringe sobrenatural science in sci-fi works or some pseudo-science theorys

  117. Thana Says:

    ‘Besides, I understand there are a lot of people whose knowledge of maths is better than mine, but the group whose knowledge of it worse than mine is vastly bigger in members.’

    Die in a fire… Just because only a few people comment your crap everyone else is bad in math? I studied math myself and as Jovi pointed out your post was just stupid – not worth a comment.

    And why post something like that in the first place? I don’t care about the mathematical knowledge of people in a forum about a manga (which is obviously not about math at all).

  118. Jovi Says:

    Phireo: “I won’t comment here anymore”
    me: Yeah!
    Phireo: “not unless a new chapter is released”
    me: damn it…

  119. Jovi Says:

    IGrowPot, about Casca, I totally think she would join Gats on his quest, she had some temper herself at the begining of this story to begin with.

  120. IGrowPot Says:

    I see at least two motives for her to refuse aid on Gatts vengeance.

    One is that even if her sanity is back, perhaps not her full memories, as fas as her not remembering the eclipse, the raping, and everything else.

    The other is that Griffith has been reborn in Gatts/Caska’s son, and, as we see in vol 22, it affected both Griffith and Caska. Also, there’s that full moon kid. What if in order to kill Griffith, Gatts has also to kill his own son? Will Caska be cool with that, even if she remember the eclipse and all the fucked up mess?

    And man, oh, man, I think thats exactly what Skull Knigth was meaning on the day the full moom kind first appeared

  121. Kidd Says:

    Eeeeerrrr I thought Guts had dropped his lust for revenge Wasn’t that the whole point of the Retribution: The Birth Rite Arc? Besides, you know, bringing Griffith back to the picture.

  122. IGrowPot Says:

    So what, they get to ElfHeim and lives happily ever after? The point of him dropping his lust for revenge was to protect Caska. Once she is ok, I would expect his lust to come in full might, especially when he is always trapped up in a thing that’s constantly telling him to go berserk and gets his revenge

  123. Thana Says:

    So considering your points: couldn’t that mean that Caska is somehow able to force Gatts back on his path of revenge? The kid could come in handy here, too.

  124. av Says:

    I never once interpreted Femto as having taken the body of the evil baby. I wonder who came up with that nonsense.

    The egg apostle became his body, the evil baby regenerated along the way.

  125. IGrowPot Says:

    Griffith himself came with this nonsense in vol 22 page 70, you can read it yourself

  126. Mystyc Vegeta Says:

    well, every egg has to be inseminated by something, and in this case you could consider that something to be guts and caskas aborted child infused with griffiths evil…. or sth like that, i know it sounds fucked up

  127. notanewb Says:

    So what’s up with 318? The raw has been out for 4 days. I understand if the scanlators were busy with Thanksgiving, black friday, and cyber monday and all but I’m dieing inside each day I don’t get to read it.

  128. Kagato Says:

    Perhaps because the mystical/spirit world has supplanted the mundane/physical world, we now see the child of Guts and Caska whose body was sacrificed for Griffith’s rebirth as a being of physical and incorporeal form. While the child’s physical form was demonic and corrupted by the rape of Caska, the twisted body of the child would become Griffith’s new body, quite possibly leaving only the pure soul and new astral/physical body of the child behind. Seeing as how Griffith’s influence transformed the child into a being of the astral world (I don’t want to use the word demon because it is clear that the child doesn’t share the inhuman, cruel and vainglorious drive that the demons of the abyss possess), perhaps the child we see now is of angelic form.

  129. Kagato Says:

    It seems to me that Guts and Caska have been affected by their direct exposure to the abyss and their incredible survival of the Eclipse, against all odds. Aside from physical and emotional change, Guts has clearly become dramatically more powerful, beyond the limits of human ability I would say; Guts’ inner wolf/dog spirit seems to me to be a product of his time in the Eclipse, we have yet to see whether Caska possesses a similar inner spirit, and whether she will be similarly affected by it; My guess is that she will harbor guilt and shame for Guts’ ordeal in caring for her post-eclipse, but more than this I could see her succumbing to a strong desire for vengeance against Griffith. Such a development would give cause for Guts to pursue his vendetta against Griffith. Might we see two unnatural berserkers in the near future?

  130. evan Says:

    It seems to me that Guts and Caska have been affected by their direct exposure to the abyss and their incredible survival of the Eclipse, against all odds. Aside from physical and emotional change, Guts has clearly become dramatically more powerful, beyond the limits of human ability I would say; Guts’ inner wolf/dog spirit seems to me to be a product of his time in the Eclipse, we have yet to see whether Caska possesses a similar inner spirit, and whether she will be similarly affected by it; My guess is that she will harbor guilt and shame for Guts’ ordeal in caring for her post-eclipse, but more than this I could see her succumbing to a strong desire for vengeance against Griffith. Such a development would give cause for Guts to pursue his vendetta against Griffith. Might we see two unnatural berserkers in the near future?

    no, women always come back to those who have abused them, they go crazy for that shit. Casca probably still loves griffith and its gonna drive guts further into madness.

  131. Guts38 Says:

    Awesome manga!! I’ve hungerd of the Berserk’s movie.. who knows about Berserk season 2?
    BTW – http://guts38.mybrute.com/ – create your own berserk and try fight me(check by google) =)))

  132. Black Drak Says:

    People need to stop dreaming. If Miura is going to bring back that epic feeling of Berserk, Casca will have to go, one way or another. Only then can Guts become a true Berserker and destroy Griffith along with everything else. That is unless the Skullknight has a great trick left in his sleeve.

    I’m dying for the translation of chapter 318!

  133. Thana Says:

    ‘People need to stop dreaming. If Miura is going to bring back that epic feeling of Berserk, Casca will have to go, one way or another. Only then can Guts become a true Berserker and destroy Griffith along with everything else. That is unless the Skullknight has a great trick left in his sleeve.’

    This is YOUR opinion. I dare to disagree. With Caska as a part of the group – and I’m talking about a full functioning member of the group – it would be like a Band of Hawk v2.0. Besides it would be to obvious to take her away from Gatts or to kill her. A Caska lusting for revenge, maybe because her first child became a spirit, the raping thingy, killing of her friends, etc., might be an interesting thing to witness, too.
    I hope Miura doesn’t play the Stockholm Syndrome on us… She couldn’t have forgotten about all the guys killed because of Griffith. In fact, I want Caska to be the Berserquerette – the female sidekick of our all loved main hero aka the Berserk. An unlikely evolution by a girl known for getting raped repeatedly, but it would be less expected than her being killed of and Gatts going into rage and biting of Griffith’ head for the cause of shitting into his neck… Well, it’s my hope… the Berserquerette-thingy, that is. I’m quite a softy sometimes.

  134. IGrowPot Says:

    I’m still betting a couple joints thats Caska is not becoming a ‘berserquerette’(loved the term). THAT I think would be to obvious. I don’t think Caska would team up with Griffith, but I thought the scene of Griffith saving Caska at Godo’s house too emblematic not to give it a tought. I mean, I’m pretty sure that she recognized her son in Griffith body, just take a look on her face, it’s not just the pain from the Stigma she’s feeling.

    Well, whatever will happen, I think it would let Gatts more fucked up than he is now, not the contrary. Just can’t see a happy and for Berserk

  135. Mystyc Vegeta Says:

    I think Miura visits this website to get ideas for the storyline :D

  136. IGrowPot Says:

    I knew Miura was a plagiator!!!

    lol

  137. Thana Says:

    Oh, I don’t think any of my expectations will come true. If so, it would be boring. In fact I’m well aware that talking about possible outcomes of the plot are pretty meaningless. But it’s always interesting to observe the reactions ;)

  138. Killerman Says:

    Oh yea, Miura needs to get crackpot ideas on something that he CREATED.

  139. lun3tic Says:

    first hi everybody like everyone im waiting 4 the new chapter and im sick of waiting… it’s my first post here, not the kind of people who talk a lot but reading a lot, i have read a lot of theory when i check 4 the new release so i think that i need to talk a bit. start with casca there somethings we need to put on the table… comeback to first volume when she was sane remember her thing about sword… she’s a sword, griffith s sword… she a woman you now a strong one who give everything for the sake of the one she love… its all, and when she give herself to guts there is no doubt she belong to guts now… second griffith, that one was is still in admiration, jealous and affraid of guts, but he was need him… guts is a born leader, born into war from deat and he leave only to get strong… the kind of man that everybody wanted to be like but that no one will choose to live his life… griffith, on the other side is a genious, the kind who smile a lot, and the one who win whatever he try, a cheater who trow everyone else life but not his, a lonly guy with everyone behind him because he win everytime… and then came guts his first friend, who been his hope, his fire fore countless battlegrounds… and one day the light gone than the darkness fall on his life he was always on darness but he got light behind him and see nothing else… he suffered like never before and blaming his friend for it, than… GOD HAND… when guts came back he stole, without now it, band of the hawk with a griffith useless… than he accept to be a dark angel of god… had a lot of europeans legend and there is berserk… so for my only think is that griffith seems to be connected to the new world like was the kushan kig to the hell… guts will destroy the capital sure and alone as a black something and die… and the world colapse whitout the key griffith and there s the reason why this old shity japanese mangaka create the beach boy guts casca son, conected with the key 2 time, and raised by a real man, with darkness and compassion guts… i think my post is to long and not well write am french so forgive some of my mistake and let us wait until the next chapter and keep theorising… next time… lun3tic

  140. IGrowPot Says:

    Just like politics, religions or football(the one with a ball that’s actually round, and you actually use yours feet, not your hands) lol

  141. branko7171 Says:

    Thank you for the new chapter.

  142. lun3tic Says:

    as if simply guts kill everybody? than learn to fight back armor with help of his kid never smile again just one last way way to get his old revenge with leaving only death behind him and a noise of terror above hin as the truth berserker with all the skill he have now… that will just be epic, a hell without talk…

  143. Fanto Says:

    ! ! ! G I V E * M Y * B E R S E R K * P L Z ! ! !

  144. IGrowPot Says:

    @143 Smoke a joint and get a grip. EG guys aren’t yours slaves.

    Still, I think the F5 of my key board will crack

  145. vashfanatic Says:

    “no, women always come back to those who have abused them, they go crazy for that shit. Casca probably still loves griffith and its gonna drive guts further into madness.”

    No, they don’t, not always, glad to see misogyny is alive and well. Every case of abuse is different, as with every woman involved. I don’t know how Casca will react. Her insanity seems to indicate she wanted to withdraw from the world; maybe she won’t want to leave Elfheim once her mind is restored? That is, assuming it can be done. I’m not holding my breath for a happy ending with this series.

  146. Thana Says:

    Well, it depends on Miura if he wants to pull off a Drama on us. The problem is that Berserk can only end good or evil. As long as the God Hand and this ominous God exist life is shit in the Berserk universe. If God Hand is destroyed, no matter if Gatts and pals die, it would be a good ending. Sure, there are dramatic possibilities like Gatts being the only survivor mourning over the dead, but the end will be pretty obvious good or evil. The plot has to much influence on the whole Berserk universe to receive a minor conclusion.

    Well, it’s interesting for me. I’m eager for more chapters ;)

  147. vashfanatic Says:

    @Thana
    I’m imagining a bittersweet Earn Your Happy Ending (if I dare bring TvTropes into this). Guts will be victorious, but there will be HUGE sacrifices in the process. You see him as the only survivor mourning the dead, but I’m guessing he’s going to give up his life to stop Griffith and save the world. :(

    Anyway, bring on the next chapter! And may the break not be too long this time.

  148. GUTS38 Says:

    How long we’ll waiting for season 2?
    http://guts38.mybrute.com/ – beat him

  149. lun3tic Says:

    @147 To much see already… that type of ending… i think that just too heroic for a berserk work look kind of things like an evil king destroy the world and there’s just on man standing see im not telling that’s a bad idea but that have already happen remmeber the dark priest is what you talking about… not well work for the end of berserk i mean there will be a deja vu and for some fans this will like a joke…

  150. RedSamurai Says:

    After seeing all these discussions (if one can call them this way), I guess I’m not afraid anymore of the possibility of Miura dropping the series for whatever reason (death, boredom, etc.), because NOW I’m sure there are people who can carry on his work maybe in an even better way than he did :)

  151. Killerman Says:

    No offense, but the discussions here are just discussions. It’s all personal crackpiping opinion and none of which is Miura’s.

    I’d rather see Miura crash and burn but stay true to himself and the series than see someone else come in and come up with some BS that’s inconsistent with the overall Berserk.

    It’s like H.P. Lovecraft’s amoralist “Cthulhu Mythos Proper” compare to August Derleth’s Catholic “good vs evil” black-n-white bullshit.

  152. RedSamurai Says:

    @Killerman:
    You, my friend, have just expressed my very exact opinion… only with more directness and a lot less sarcasm.

  153. Spartan1590 Says:

    I find these posts rather shallow and pedantic.[2]

    hahaha

  154. Jin21 Says:

    Just wondering anyone know when we should expect 118. Not trying to rush EG at all just wondering. By the way the comments are ok, but I think Miura will do a lot better job than half of what you people have been speculating. All I am hoping is that the anime next year goes a whole lot farther than last time. I am not saying the first anime was bad(It was freaking awesome) just hoping they don’t leave anything out this time.

  155. Jin21 Says:

    I meant 318. lol

  156. Daichii Says:

    Uff, it’s been a lot since I last wrote here..

    I’m pretty sure miura-sensei will go back to massacre and slaughter, and im hoping he gets his left arm back.. and his eye… it’ll be an awesome power up… anyway.. let’s keep waiting…….

    p.s. great work EG!!!

  157. DrPepperPro Says:

    318 will probably be released relatively soon.

  158. Cellardoor Says:

    I really hope the next anime will go farther than last time too but by the looks of the few teasers avalaible right now it only looks like a remake of the first serie with better animation.

  159. Guts Says:

    Well I’ll take a remake over nothing anytime. If this one ends up being more popular (which I believe Berserk has gained quite a few more fans since the first series in 1997) then they might continue it. But as a side note, seeing Caska’s post-eclipse hair (long), Griffith in his rebirth armor, things look promising.

  160. ImpacientGuy Says:

    Where ma berserk man.. is 4.. i want this so much.. i cant hold anymore.. i need see.. i need read.. i need cry in last paginas when i read .. “next berserk in 22 february”.. so give me plz

  161. IGrowPot Says:

    Well, I’m really hoping for a remake. I mean, it was pretty awesome seeing Berserk in anime form, but, except for the music and the fucking awesome story, but I was very disappoint with the crap animation. Gatts sword movements just didn’t look natural, for example

  162. IGrowPot Says:

    ps.

    Of course, after the remake they should continue with the series, and not stopping exactly when things starts to get good

  163. rebellion Says:

    well the new animation might not be any better my only problem with the new animation is that 1 i dont like CG(but the CG from PS2 game was perfect and would like that) and 2 from the promos it looked like disney and caska looked like cinderella so its a very bad CG,
    i would love normal 2D drawing CG makes everything to shiny and always has a bad bloom effect,but the promos from berserk were exceptionally bad really looked to much like disney for my taste
    and 2D drawing suits berserk cause it brings out the gloominess and darkness, which are the main characteristics of the story, CG only for the occasional ray of hope

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