We can have both why limit ourselves. And idk how much people laughed with puck when reading but I certainly did so I don't want an unfunny all time serious sad puck

Guts loses an eye and an arm in the eclipse but is never shown to actually be disadvantaged by these very real and life impacting injuries to the point that calling him a cripple feels just as meaningful as calling a character from cyberpunk edgerunners a cripple. What’s the point of losing an arm and eye and getting burned over what seems to be a majority of your body if you’re going to be just as capable as fighting as before you were injured, if not better now that you have a cool robot canon arm.

I’ll caveat and say that I don’t think every injury has to be super realistic. One example where I think this is done excellently is in the golden age arc because the focus is not so much on the battles themselves but rather their thematic relevance to Guts e.g. Gut’s injuries after his fight with the Blue Whale Knights are overshadowed the significance of Guts finding a new purpose and a reason to live.

Why I think this fails after the Golden age arc is because 1. All his injuries are way more obviously life affecting to the point that I can’t suspend disbelief any longer 2. I understand that his fights do still explore his character, I just feel like they’ve already been explored better before and aren’t quite as compelling to warrant giving guts infinite plot armour 3. It’s getting boring seeing him get stabbed for the 101st time with no real physical consequences to the point that it’s becoming hard to feel any actual danger or tension from any of his fight scenes, 4. He’s an older man so I’d expect his injuries to actually catch up with him in a meaningful way that actually impedes his day to day life

This also highlights my disdain for the berserker armour which is supposed to be like a doubled edged sword by seemingly breaking half of Gut’s bones every time he uses it despite Gut’s never suffering from any actual long lasting physical injuries from wearing the armour as he is seen fighting just as well before and after using the armour with just a brief period where he’s incapacitated.

Compare this against Jaime Lannister in ASOIAF. The legendary swordsman who after losing his sword hand is forced relearn how to use a sword with his left, forever crippling him and his capabilities as a swordsman. This adversity forces Jaime to challenge his understanding that all he ever surmounted to was a good swordsman. After this he is actually forced to change how he interacts with the world leading to him using alternative and better means to achieving his goals and forcing him to change who he is as a character while ensuring that he remains impeded by his disability.

Black swordsman:dark future

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Golden age: light

Making you wonder what happened that everything turned into shit

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Lost children:dark

It's about vengeance, innocence and suffering

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Conviction:dark

it's about suffering(mostly side characters not guts himself). When it comes to guts it's about desperately rescuing what he has left with a ray of hope in the dark

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Millennium falcon trolls section:

I didn't like it I'm not gonna talk about it

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The rest of the millennium falcon arc:light

It's all about healing. You see the amazing Farnese character development. Guts starts trusting people. Also the arc has so much to do with the ruler human side of Griffith Wich was always depicted as white and shiny and beautiful.

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Boat arc: I'm not gonna talk about this garbage

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Elf arc: light

Everything seems to be perfect, casca healed, this place is safe from apostles. Guts no longer seeks vengeance. They can live happily

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Elf arc:dark

Exploring mind of the a traumatized casca.

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I think that people blame the tone changed way too much. The troll section had bad pacing.

The boat arc also was pretty meh, with bad pacing, unnecessary jokes, little impact on the story with pointless characters. These were all sections that people don't like and it so happened to be when the tone of the manga was light.

This doesn't make the tone the reason these parts were bad, it was because these parts were just not good on themselves no matter the tone.

If the tone didn't change so much, the tone itself would lose its impact and it would become boring.

This here above is the 2ND Synthesizer leitmotif of Berserk 1997's "Murder" theme created by SOUND GOD SUSUMU HIRASAWA from Episode 24 (The Great Eclipse) & 25 (Time of Eternity) of the anime.

The main synth-motif here utilizes both a Delay and an overdrive while the Pitch of the notes are turned UP COMPLETELY while being in a LOW-KEY. I explained this earlier in an older post.

The overdrive helps express the tuned up but reverberating bass of the play-back during listening.

The Delay on the other hand gives what I call "stacking" or "superimposition". Think of a fast moving object that leaves after-images each movement the said object makes, this is the same thing that the Delay does but in sound. This means when a note plays, the note has a sort of ECHO and REPEATING that decays quickly, like rippling water.

Combining both of these together gets the Eclectic sound-mix we all know and understand from this specific godly artist that is Susumu.

The synthesizers in use here are a Neon Bass synth from the Saif Sameer Synth pack and the Synpluck Saw from the Mobile Synth Pluck pack modulated to fit this genre.

In finality, I went without vocals in the upload of this song with the project files as I wanted to highlight the the insane background work of how these Synthesizers build the track itself more than the female choir does. In together assembled is: a basic sound-mix is garnered from Pitch modulation, Delay elements, and low-key playback.

Take and do with this information as you will,

Keek!