Berserk - Ch. 386 - Can You Catch Hold of a Migrating Bird in the Clouds?

[Rogulair]

Page 12 Griffith talking real from experience that cost him everything when Guts leave him.

 

[Beazy]

Oh nice, another chapter to remind me how much I fucking hate Griffith.

 

[HailBritannia_]

Oh I can see it. Faggith gonna pull a Lelouch and make Guts take all the credits of defeating the God Hand to redeem himself for the massacre of his Band of The Hawk in the past.

this is actually a pretty interesting theory
we'd need a whole lot of evolution of Femto's character for that to happen though, and I don't see it likely becuase not even Griffith was a remorseful person and I don't expect him in Godhand form to regret what he did much

 

[JosebaZilarte]

The more I see this perfect kingdom Griffith has created for himself, the more I question his final goal. He has enough power to make the entire world submit to him, yet he uses it to build an impossibly beautiful castle... on top of an even more beautiful lie. And, in this chapter, we even see the other members of the God Hand chastise him for it.

Until now, I was thinking there was some kind of devious plan to fool everyone else, while he was doing something demonic in the background... But it seems he is truly building his ideal kingdom by using demons as mere puppets. Strange, to say the least.

 

[zhuk0v1811]

Are they accelerate the manga production, or it just until now people translate those chapters? I hope it is the first.
We have quite many chapter recently while few years ago it tooks whole year to get a new one.

 

[kohakusan]

Great chapter! Idk I'm just getting really annoyed by the lack of blacks in the past chapters, the new mangaka loves using grays too much, it lacks depth sometimes. Of course this one is in Falconia which is all white so I understand the usage, it's fine.

 

[ckckckck]

Are they accelerate the manga production, or it just until now people translate those chapters? I hope it is the first.
We have quite many chapter recently while few years ago it tooks whole year to get a new one.

The author collective released 3 chapters close to each other now. As soon as they come out, they pretty much get translated over night. So the creators picked up some speed. Let's see if it is with sacrifice of quality. But this chapter gives me hope that it was just as the one tweet said: they really struggled with the story line of Guts being reborn, and that hampered it more than the time needed to draw it.

 

[Eggsburst]

Didn't Guts kill the medusa lady?

Was an avatar she was using to manifest physically, similar to Griffith using Casca's child to do so.

 

[swimminginsand]

I guess playing on easy mode isn't as rewarding.

 

[Ahab19]

Page 13 Griffith looks like he has buckteeth.

 

[LoliShinobu]

The author collective released 3 chapters close to each other now. As soon as they come out, they pretty much get translated over night. So the creators picked up some speed. Let's see if it is with sacrifice of quality. But this chapter gives me hope that it was just as the one tweet said: they really struggled with the story line of Guts being reborn, and that hampered it more than the time needed to draw it.

Please understand they have to match late miura's pacing, they gonna take decade long break to rethink his notes and release special 12 page yearly chapter to remind people this still exists in a vortex of endless "undecided" studio that can't seem to produce anything of value while they do nothing for the rest of the year

 

[Makenai]

Very interesting. I always thought the Godhand welcome what Griffith did to the world but it also makes sense for them to act like this, as other comments already explained.
They basically made him one of them and he left them shortly after.

I honestly wonder if the Godhand can even be "defeated" at all. Griffith yeah and we know Guts will do it but the rest? Or maybe thats not point of the story and my way of thinking is too shonen like.

 

[Renard]

Very interesting. I always thought the Godhand welcome what Griffith did to the world but it also makes sense for them to act like this, as other comments already explained.
They basically made him one of them and he left them shortly after.

I honestly wonder if the Godhand can even be "defeated" at all. Griffith yeah and we know Guts will do it but the rest? Or maybe thats not point of the story and my way of thinking is too shonen like.

I've given a couple of reads to this chapter and I think that the God Hand just planted the seed of their doom with the condescending comment that they gave him, even if Griffith ascended into one of the highest beings in existence, he's still not seem like an equal, and probably made an enemy that exits in the same plane where they can be hurt.

 

[Theozilla]

It also explains, why Casca and Guts were able to survive so long as branded. It was less about them being hidden but griffith protecting them, in a twisted way. They serve a role in his "play". The question on my mind, is all this so that Griffith can strike one final devestating blow to Guts and strike him down as a "hero" taking down a "beast"? Or, is there a possibility that he wants to be struck down?

No, Casca really was just protected thanks to Godo's home and smithy being a former home of elves. Griffith never felt any compulsion to protect Casca until his merger with Guts and Casca's child. And Griffith specifically couldn't play his hero role until he had incarnated back into the physical plane.

Was an avatar she was using to manifest physically, similar to Griffith using Casca's child to do so.

No, Slan manifesting through troll entrails is specifically not the same as Griffith physically incarnating into the physically plane. Slan manifesting through troll entrails could be pushed back into the deeper levels of the astral realm because her true self was still anchored in the deepest levels, when Femto/Griffith incarnated during the climax of the Conviction arc he brought his whole being from the astral depths into the physical realm, which is why his existence as the Falcon of Light is so extraordinary.

 

[Parejus_Maximus]

I was under the impression that Guts was going to die in the armor and thus become a skull knight of sorts to even rival Femto. But it appears I wasn't aware that he was wearing the plot armor all along...

All jokes aside, I think that Griffith's larping in a physical body will be his undoing. Maybe since Gustavo now can interact with both worlds will be able to deal damage when he wasn't before, and it will be permanent to even astral beings.

I'll put the bubbler down now.

 

[ydn67]

hi-key missing theresia

 

[Anon94]

Thank god Griffith shielded Casca from those guys. She almost got traumatized

That'd be her son, not Femto.

 

[Drifter]

The more I see this perfect kingdom Griffith has created for himself, the more I question his final goal. He has enough power to make the entire world submit to him, yet he uses it to build an impossibly beautiful castle... on top of an even more beautiful lie. And, in this chapter, we even see the other members of the God Hand chastise him for it.

Until now, I was thinking there was some kind of devious plan to fool everyone else, while he was doing something demonic in the background... But it seems he is truly building his ideal kingdom by using demons as mere puppets. Strange, to say the least.

Remember that Griffith was a good leader but he was never really a good person. He lost Guts and started the whole tragedy because he couldn't see Guts as a friend. Its always been about his dream.

 

[michi_choux]

I think we are going to see Grifith miserable once again and 'hehs dreams' gonna go down the toilet. He doesn't seem super happy with all that is going on.

I took it for granted that Griffith was long dead. I think this is the first time we get a clue he's still there somewhere, and apparently he is still bitter.

But it always struck me as odd that, despite being the equivalent of a semi-God to humans' standards, Griffith is still obsessed with the mundane and material vanity of being a king.

I think that's because he was born as slave of fate, an incarnated synthesis of human desire, something like the macabre divine interpretation of yielding an agent for human will. He never reasoned out on why he wanted this, he just felt its calling. The only human desire of Griffith the vessel himself was Guts. Alongside that, he had various human anguishes that perhaps are still unresolved even after ascension? Particularly, the man felt quite tender when sacrificing both his flesh and that of others.

These "gods" are representations of the struggle born from terrenal affliction, perhaps they are still suffering from human feelings. An entertaining thing in Berserk is that there is God, and then there's deities; there's theology and then there's religion. In past visions there where other members of the god hand now gone, which means they can be killed.

Why does he go トクントクンin pg. 15? As it seems there's a resourfacing of Griffith, I don't even want to get thinking that his doings always contemplated an ending similar to "Guts, now that you've seen yourself my equal you'll understand my doings, now come back to my side". Perhaps he still feels possesive over Guts, previously in terms of subjecting him to a cage of existential pain. Perhaps in his ugliness and depravity he still fancies an ending where they are powerful enough to go around doing things together? Which is quite delusional. I'm not sure that would be great for the work... Moreover, he still resents Caska (it's unclear if as a god or as a man). Perhaps Griffith the man envisioned different reasons than those of Griffith the Falcon.

From a buddhist point of view, no, now Griffith is certainly not an equal, as he still dwelves in anguish, and is stuck in eternal suffering. If Guts did really come onto himself, these to him are not.

 

[GazumYuh]

Why casca looks like ngefly, the expression should be pain not like that

Huh?? "Ngefly"?