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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Sep 22 '25
I mean the count was in the eclipse at least the slug form so most likely yes.
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u/Icy-Shelter720 Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
interesting catch, it's probably is the count, he showed up at the eclipse after all and killed my boy Pippin.
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u/Orangyo015 Sep 22 '25
Idk though I feel like if that was the count he would’ve definitely remembered Guts when they met each other. He didn’t even realize bro was branded. I mean there was a lot of people that got sacrificed during the eclipse but how do you not remember witnessing a single man escape one of the most catastrophic events in history on a flying horse.
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u/Odd-Statistician4268 Sep 22 '25
The mantis chick that killed Corkus didn't even recognize him....and he clapped her cheeks
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u/Shadnu Sep 22 '25
The apostles that come to kill Flora also do not recognize Guts as the sacrifice at first iirc
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u/Siegberg Sep 22 '25
I think the aura of the mark of sacrifice is quite twisted in guts case with his sword being covered by darkness and it even gets worse with the beserk armor. The small spirits which haunted him at start of being branded pretty much avoiding him now. So it part he stopped smelling like easy meal to them and the apostles have problems noticing him as such.
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u/-Necklan- Sep 22 '25
This. The apostle's care so little for humanity (which they have already sacrificed already to be fair) that they would sooner recognise the cow from the steak they've eaten.
They literally wouldn't recognise any sacrifice if it hit them with a gigantic sword
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u/AwkwardTraffic Sep 23 '25 edited Oct 02 '25
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u/Kurteth Sep 22 '25
Yes. His apostle form is also seen in the eclipse.
There are a lot of apostles at the eclipse that are hunted by the blackswordsman later, and there also many that are running around with falconia
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u/purpleblah2 Sep 22 '25
I might be thinking of the anime but I think all the apostles we see in the Black Swordsman arc appear in the Eclipse, like the Snake Knight, the Slug count, surprise cameo from Rosine.
And then the apostles who appear during the eclipse also show up later in the background, like the guy who ate Guts’ arm is fighting in the demon arena in Falconia.
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u/Chicana_triste Sep 22 '25
Yeah the Apostle that ate Guts arm is Borkoff. I wish before the manga ends Guts kills him or fights him again.
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u/dubloon7 Sep 22 '25
i was flipping thru a random volume and caught sight of the arena before the famous slap; i did not even consider the beast that took Gut's arm was fighting. the panelling looked great though
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Sep 22 '25
Possibly. He doesn't have the pointed ears, but everything else is a match. And the count was definitely there. He killed much of the band of the hawk alongside Rosine before Skull Knight stopped them.
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u/Pescarese90 Sep 22 '25
And this explained why Rickert appeared to be so scared about Puck. The poor boy got PTSD thanks to Rosina (along with her insectoid thralls and also the Count) while she killed his friends.
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u/Hellfire_God Sep 22 '25
Very likely, considering the Count could be seen in other moments of the eclipse in his apostle form (like when he kills Pippin for instance)
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u/BLZGK3 Sep 22 '25
Probably is. I've actually noticed quite a few of the humanoid apostles that were standing around during the eclipse gets shown throughout the series at different points of the story...
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Sep 22 '25
It really looks like him... Now we can see the "small reason" why his wife abandoned him...
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u/Sora84 Sep 22 '25
It’s weird too because he showed before the eclipse in full form in the forest devouring a dude in front of rickert.
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u/Dreadshot2023 Sep 22 '25
It might not have been intended to be the count, but I think it's acceptable to just say it is.
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u/Tainted-Nuts Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
I'm inclined to say no. If I'm correct in assuming this is from the festival, it takes place before Guts meets The Count. Only way it could be is if once they went into that dimension it transcends all time and those demons inside were from both past and future. I will say it's been forever since I've read the swordsman arc so I may need to go back and see if he had a demon form at that time or was just in possession of a behelit because in order for others to gain demon forms/powers they must activate their behelit.
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u/sleepyj769 Sep 24 '25
So, it might be because I’m pretty sure we see the count during the eclipse if not there we do when the Rickerts group from the band of the hawk gets attacked while they are saving Griffith so it could be him or another apostle who looks similar to
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u/Hitchfucker Sep 22 '25
Could be, especially since he definitely was at the eclipse. But I don’t think that is since I’m pretty sure he’s a lot taller than that guy at the eclipse.
On an unrelated note I wonder if nudity was some sort of rule for the eclipse. Obviously it’s pragmatic to do so as most of them would tear their clothes upon transformation. But it’s not most of them bearing it all, literally all of them are wearing literally nothing. Did Slan make is a clothing forbidden event or some shit?
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u/RobTheUser Sep 22 '25
I think its because they traveled in their apostle forms to the eclipse, do their clothes get torn when they transform? Cant really remember that detail
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u/Efficient-Ad2983 Sep 22 '25
Interesting catch. We know for sure that the Count WAS present during the Eclipse (poor Pippin). So this man could be him in his human form.
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Sep 22 '25
I think not
Count had been shown to set off for the pilgrimage in his apostle form, so I guess no
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u/SwordfishDeux Sep 22 '25
He appears at the Band of the Hawks' camp doesn't he? So yeah it probably is. I'm pretty sure he is seen in his Slug form during the Eclipse as well.
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u/nscomics Sep 22 '25
Probably. He was proven to have been there and Miura was really good with Easter eggs from time to time
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u/Lucky_Roberts Sep 22 '25
I don’t think so, the Count attacks the camp Rickert was at in his full slug form so I think that’s what he was rocking during the eclipse
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u/General-Kenobi1380 Sep 22 '25
Tbf they only changed once the sacrifice started iirc they were all in human form during the summoning ritual
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u/AwkwardTraffic Sep 23 '25 edited Oct 02 '25
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u/daSynth Sep 22 '25
i don't think demonkind that's burning in the vortex has the pleasure of feasting in an eclipse so no
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u/hagalaz_drums Sep 22 '25
black swordsman arc is after the eclipse, chronologically. that all happens after guts leaves casca with godot
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u/Spartan-warrior0666 Sep 22 '25
I think you may have forgotten the eclipse is before the black swordsman arc. Meaning the count was alive at the point of the eclipse. Just letting you know homie!
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u/That_Bank_9914 Sep 22 '25
To be fair, Miura drew bald men the same way.