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la_vie_noire) wrote2008-04-11 10:25 pm
la_vie_noire) wrote2008-04-11 10:25 pm
Oh, Berserk. How the hell were you animated at all?
I'm... baffled.
How much can you make your monsters look like sexual organs? It's ridiculous. The first time was... well, 'what the hell.' The second time was 'maybe he want to show something.' But every fucking time?
I mean look at this. And this. And THIS. Etc.
WHAT WRONG WITH YOU, MIURA? SEXUAL ORGANS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THAT EVIL.
And I'm not even talking about how Guts was introduced in the manga, and how everyone (and with everyone I mean every. single. character) says something about the size of Guts sword.
It's so big. So incredibly big. So AMAZINGLY big. SO THICK. And it is.
This manga is... I don't know, sex vilified?
Berserk is gore. With such a disturbing sexual imagery. And gore. And the monsters are drawn in the most grotesque ways. And Guts kills everyone by cutting them in half (this displays a big amount of blood, organs and viscera, most of which isn't even supposed to be there). And we are in a kind of medieval Europe where every person in power is corrupt and demonic (and says: "you are strong! But you can't kill me because you are a human!" Of course Guts always kills them... or some human does it). And every innocent person dies in a dismembered kind of way. Oh, I almost forgot! The uglier you are, the more evil you are. Except when you were disfigured beforehand by an evil powerful man.
Anyway. Guts. You see, he drives me nuts most of the time. And not in a good way. How much manly pain can a man take? He doesn't only have an amazingly awful past where he obviously lost someone 'weak' and dear to him, and where he was possibly raped (don't take my word for it, I'm probably wrong on this; but damn, it would be an interesting twist for such a manly main character); he is branded and thus harassed by evil spirits and nightmares. And every good person who is around him dies in a awful and dismembered kind of way.
So most of the time I'm like "God! If you didn't remember me of Kurogane, I would SO kick you in the balls right now."
So Puck can feel all his anger, trauma, pain (oh, Puck! I won't even talk about it! I don't know if it's supposed to be cute or sexualized or what); and the elf wonders if that the core of his power.
Puck is dead on. Guts is so strong because he uses all the resentment as a THICK armor. He doesn't involve with anyone, he blames the weak's fate on their own weakness and makes himself believe they deserve it. Thus is not Guts responsibility. He won't feel regret over their deaths, and over their lives. He doesn't care about hurting people if they get in his way, that would just slow him and make him weaker.
So Guts thinks everyone is insignificant enough (insects?) and the pain can't affect him anymore. He is his own man, and that man is only revenge. (If you have people you care about, you have a weakness. Guts is SO strong because he doesn't waste his time protecting anyone.)
He, of course, fails at all that.
We see he is a human who can't overcome his traumas. (I don't know you, but every time a man touch him.... and you know, the sword! Overcompensate much? Hey, maybe it's just me... don't spoil me! I'm spoiled enough.) He can't talk about the weakness of people without feeling pain, he can't take the death of innocents without throwing up.
So Guts is all manly pain and it drives me nuts. And I can't stop reading.
Actually, I can't remember being this engaged with a manga for a while.
Edit, SPOILERS FOR THE END OF CHAPTER 6: I'm guessing that the start of the manga is actually the end of the series? As in... well. I'm confused now. Then it goes in retrospective? But NOW I sympathize more with Guts since I was already spoiled. Now I feel bad for making fun of his pain.
Edit 2:Okay now I feel really, really bad about Guts, and... damn. But what the hell? Evil religion? What the hell, Berserk? And I was so loving you moments ago. *sigh*
How much can you make your monsters look like sexual organs? It's ridiculous. The first time was... well, 'what the hell.' The second time was 'maybe he want to show something.' But every fucking time?
I mean look at this. And this. And THIS. Etc.
WHAT WRONG WITH YOU, MIURA? SEXUAL ORGANS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THAT EVIL.
And I'm not even talking about how Guts was introduced in the manga, and how everyone (and with everyone I mean every. single. character) says something about the size of Guts sword.
It's so big. So incredibly big. So AMAZINGLY big. SO THICK. And it is.
This manga is... I don't know, sex vilified?
Berserk is gore. With such a disturbing sexual imagery. And gore. And the monsters are drawn in the most grotesque ways. And Guts kills everyone by cutting them in half (this displays a big amount of blood, organs and viscera, most of which isn't even supposed to be there). And we are in a kind of medieval Europe where every person in power is corrupt and demonic (and says: "you are strong! But you can't kill me because you are a human!" Of course Guts always kills them... or some human does it). And every innocent person dies in a dismembered kind of way. Oh, I almost forgot! The uglier you are, the more evil you are. Except when you were disfigured beforehand by an evil powerful man.
Anyway. Guts. You see, he drives me nuts most of the time. And not in a good way. How much manly pain can a man take? He doesn't only have an amazingly awful past where he obviously lost someone 'weak' and dear to him, and where he was possibly raped (don't take my word for it, I'm probably wrong on this; but damn, it would be an interesting twist for such a manly main character); he is branded and thus harassed by evil spirits and nightmares. And every good person who is around him dies in a awful and dismembered kind of way.
So most of the time I'm like "God! If you didn't remember me of Kurogane, I would SO kick you in the balls right now."
So Puck can feel all his anger, trauma, pain (oh, Puck! I won't even talk about it! I don't know if it's supposed to be cute or sexualized or what); and the elf wonders if that the core of his power.
Puck is dead on. Guts is so strong because he uses all the resentment as a THICK armor. He doesn't involve with anyone, he blames the weak's fate on their own weakness and makes himself believe they deserve it. Thus is not Guts responsibility. He won't feel regret over their deaths, and over their lives. He doesn't care about hurting people if they get in his way, that would just slow him and make him weaker.
So Guts thinks everyone is insignificant enough (insects?) and the pain can't affect him anymore. He is his own man, and that man is only revenge. (If you have people you care about, you have a weakness. Guts is SO strong because he doesn't waste his time protecting anyone.)
He, of course, fails at all that.
We see he is a human who can't overcome his traumas. (I don't know you, but every time a man touch him.... and you know, the sword! Overcompensate much? Hey, maybe it's just me... don't spoil me! I'm spoiled enough.) He can't talk about the weakness of people without feeling pain, he can't take the death of innocents without throwing up.
So Guts is all manly pain and it drives me nuts. And I can't stop reading.
Actually, I can't remember being this engaged with a manga for a while.
Edit, SPOILERS FOR THE END OF CHAPTER 6: I'm guessing that the start of the manga is actually the end of the series? As in... well. I'm confused now. Then it goes in retrospective? But NOW I sympathize more with Guts since I was already spoiled. Now I feel bad for making fun of his pain.
Edit 2:Okay now I feel really, really bad about Guts, and... damn. But what the hell? Evil religion? What the hell, Berserk? And I was so loving you moments ago. *sigh*