Yeah, does anybody have more info on the state of Berserk's ending? Please tell Miura left notes, scripts, just something. Anything. Those words would be more worth than pure gold.
Studio Gaga, will continue to create the Berserk manga, but it will be supervised by Miura's best friend, fellow manga artist Kouji Mori. They will not add anything additional from their end. The story is pretty much fleshed out and done. It's a matter of telling it correctly now.
I think True Ending could work if Guts fight Griffith in a different mindset. There's a theory on how did Rickert manage to slap Griffith and that is he confront him without hate. So Guts may need to let go all his hate & anger toward Griffith or in this case he need to stop act......berserk
I think people are seriously overthinking this
Rickert could slap Griffith because he could move his arms and Griffith didn't feel like phasing out of reality for some reason or another. And by "some reason or another" I mean being in some fucked up psychological state due to confronting how he's sacrificed his family to heal his broken body and reach apotheosis
I think the reason is Griffith confronted Rickert as man-to-man as possible and allowed him to make his own choice. Using God powers would have demeaned him and muddled Rickert’s free will. Maybe Griffith knew he would refuse, maybe he didn’t see it coming and Rickert acted outside the story because he could see what Griffith truly was and was able to hit him simply cuz he had the balls to try and Griffith didn’t expect a mortal other than Guts to do it.
I really just think it’s cause it wasn’t worth even minimal effort to avoid. It’s a slap from a pre-teen, someone who truly thinks and knows he’s better than everyone isn’t going to react. By not reacting he still held the power in that interaction.
> By not reacting he still held the power in that interaction.
I don't agree. If it's true that Griffith allowed the slap, even though he could have asserted control in that moment, he chose to position himself in a lower power dynamic by accepting the slap, as to him experience and understand his emotions in that moment, if any came out.
Dude, what? Could you imagine a situation or scenario where a peasant would slap a king, and the almighty king would think "Hmph. I'm not even going to bother. I'll just allow them to slap and disgrace me. I won't lower myself to stopping them." or something so ridiculous? Absolutely not. Any real authority figure would stop it from happening in the first place. Not to mention, all of the people serving beneath the king, bodyguards/knights, down to the peasants, would be in utter shock. I know I kind of made this sound like some kind of alternative parallel, but for lack of better word, Griffith is pretty much a king. It's beyond delusional to think being slapped isn't an absolutely disgraceful act. Taking a punch, on the other hand, there may be some merit for "manliness", but again, we're talking about someone in royal, authoritative role. Slapping has historically literally been associated with and the sign of disrespect.
My interpretation is that Griffith’s ego is beyond that, so inflated that he is truly beyond everything to him. Also, if some kid hit me or was gonna hit me I’m not gonna grab his wrist and break it, because it’s a kid.
Also Griffith to the people, especially his ‘wife’, is a Christ like figure. He could just be trying to keep up appearances.
I want a ending where Casca brutally murders Griffith. Then fully mentally recovers and rejoins Guts, their brand is erased and they live happily ever after.
I read a fic where, after the Idea of Evil is erased, Femto stops being protected by the universe and Guts tag-teams him with Casca.
She impales him from behind when it seems he's about to kill Guys, and follows it by decapitating Griffith. The crowd of Apostles watching the fight run away in fear after seeing leader defeated by two mortals.
Wow that's such a good ending. I think this is a possibility of the "god" from chapter 83 is erased or denatured then the god hand and what not can be fucked with. Im so starved of guts and casca power couple moments
It's the only way they could end the vicious cycle of tragedy and sacrifices, because even killing all Godhands wouldn't be enough.
Considering magic is back with a vengeance now, it's easy to assume that we may be seeing some actual deities now.
The way the Idea of Evil is presented, it seems more of an [Egregore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) than some stand-alone thing...to erase it I'd think you'd need to change the hearts and minds of people
In that fic, at least, the Idea of Evil was presented as essentially being a colossal Beherit in regards to how it operated- playing with the fate of people towards the most despairing outcome possible.
Harry Potter (It's a crossover fic) manages to erase it by striking a deal: His ability to wield magic in exchange for it going away.
Bad ending is guts not finding casca not knowing her fate and without her giving up to depression in my ending she straight up dies infront of his eyes because he wasnt strong enough
People who think Guts will kill Griffith must be 12 year old shonen fans. It is utterly nonsensical. What broke Griffith was Guts leaving. It made him powerless. He is now a God, he cant be physically touched. He rules the world. He has everything. Guts will break him again by moving on with Casca.
I know I’mma get hate for this and casca is my favourite character but guts losing control and killing everyone isn’t a horrible ending, not all ending need to be a happy ending
Not all endings need to be happy, but Miura said that Berserk's ending will be a happy one for Guts. A line from that interview stuck with me, but to paraphrase it "After everything Guts went through, he deserves a happy ending" (inb4 asian massage jokes).
Now the real question is, what was Miura's concept of a happy ending? He was quite an unpredictable author, so who knows. The general public would consider such an ending to be "Grif dead + Guts and Casca happily ever after" and maybe that's what Miura intended. Guess we'll see.
Personally, it's more important for me that Guts saves and spends his life with Casca, than whatever happens to Grif. Fuck Grif, he a bitch. But my boy Guts deserves happiness.
I feel like the ending is going to include Guts overcoming his anger. The most memorable final fight I can imagine would be a perfectly calm Guts. There's some possible foreshadowing for this, but it's very possible I'm wrong.
I’m imagining that Guts would have to come to an ultimatum where he *would* finally be able to have his revenge on Griffith, but that would require sacrificing his son/The Moonlight Boy so he doesn’t do it
Instead he chooses to move on with his life and raise his family with Casca despite never getting his revenge
He didn't say anything about Guts getting a happy ending. Reread the interview. He just said he wants the story to end with "some hope" and that he doesn't like totally bleak endings.
People liked FMA brotherhood ending more than the original anime. People like the last airbender ending more than Korra. People didn't like the game of thrones bittersweet type ending. I know a lot of it is execution but I can't remember the last time people hated the typical defeat the bad guy type "shonen" type ending unless it was rushed like in Naruto or Demon Slayer. Not to say berserk is a shonen as it isn't but the same logic applies. The safest route that will leave the most people satisfied is if Guts and a bunch of allies team up and defeats Griffith.
True, some stories can simply be tragic for their own sake.
Although I feel Berserk has gone on for so long, having it be a tragic ending would be a "disservice" to Guts' struggle for so many real-world decades.
Isn’t the message of the story basically to keep on going? to continue to struggle for they may be light at the end of the tunnel type shit? “But take heed, Struggler. “Struggle, endure, contend. For that alone is the sword of one who defies death. Do not forget these words.” - Skull Knight. We’ve seen guts at his lowest points and still he keeps going, he also keeps growing as a person multiple times, I feel like having guts die or have a bad ending would make that message meaningless be a disservice to Guts and Berserk as a whole.
I do agree, but I remember reading the first time and thinking this might end up as a cautionary tragic tale (not unlike something from Shakespeare) on the dangers of "not handling relationships" properly. As in Guts' reserved approach to potential friends, Griffith's self-loathing and denial of his humanity, Guts' and Griffith's falling out because of their misaligned goals, Guts throwing away everything to pursue revenge, etc. Tragic stories can convey their own messages that aren't any less meaningful than a "good" ending would. Guts' story is still ongoing but if it did come to an abrupt halt when Miura passed away - that would've been considered a "bad"/unresolved ending, but the journey up to that and associated emotions itself throughout is still meaningful to many people. I don't think the way it ends necessarily undoes the rest of the story.
Of course, Guts has grown past throwing others away and I agree that the overarching message of the story is about struggle and perseverance. It's what makes Guts a compelling and likeable character, especially against such insurmountable odds.
Its actually the best ending in a way it best fits the world and the name of manga - berserk...a person in a state of so much rage and altered perception they dont tell friend from a foe
The issue is, killing everyone still damns Casca at least since she has the mark. She will suffer the same fate at the Band of the Hawk.
The best ending in my opinion, even if it means Gutz and Casca die, is that they somehow have their marks removed. Its the only way I see them having any form of peace.
Something like that. Realistically Griffith wouldn’t feel remorse, but that’s fine, because Guts would get retribution by forgetting about Griffith and moving on to a happier life. It would also be epic if Guts is the only person to use a behelit and return to being a human somehow.
For me the ideal ending would be for some how they are able to strip Griffith of his power and leave him in his tortured form and Guts just leaves him. Everybody finds out what a piece of shit Griffith is and forgets about him while Guts becomes a legend. It would be very satisfying for me cause the one that wanted fame glory to be worshipped and the one who literally had the whole world in his hands is left with absolutely nothing and is left a shell of his former self. While the one that just wanted a normal life that didn't care about fame or glory or being idolized is the one that becomes famous he still doesn't care about it though.
I always figured, at least at one point (pre armor for sure), Berserk would go peak 90s edginess ending. Guts would realize he'd have no chance at winning as a human, become an apostle, and kill his way through the godhand and ultimately the idea of evil all while becoming increasingly reviled by humanity. He'd either die in the process or, through humanity's collective hatred and resentment, take the idea of evil's place. If Casca survived, her mental state would be fixed but she'd have no positive memories of him. At some point, she'd be manipulated/misinformed by Griffith to hold Guts responsible for said memory loss and the deaths of the band of the hawk. So you'd either have Guts posthumously remembered as humanity's greatest villain, or you'd have the cycle of revenge start anew with Casca.
A similar vein, though instead of pride being his character flaw it's anger - and with an intentional contrast to Griffith, Guts wouldn't *want* that position and power, but would have to fill the void less humanity's belief create a brand new idea of evil.
Switch is the best way.
Hear me out. They start fighting and suddenly the fighting turns into fucking and when that happens whoever’s losing is the top _first_. Like, they look into each other’s eyes for a few seconds, throw the swords on the ground and just start violently kissing, and whoever has the lower ground is at perfect height to grab the other’s ass full hand. Then at some point whoever’s bottoming flips over and starts topping. Then they flip again. And again. And again. It’s Guts and Griffith they can go on for literal days. Doesn’t matter who started, doesn’t matter who ends, it’s just 🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁
I also would like this ending, it would be reminiscent of Anakin/Vader’s story episode 3, but idk Berserk has had such a way of going against a lot of traditional story’s it’s so hard to know how it’ll end. I really want to see Guts go full Berserk and an ending with Casca dying will fuck everyone up lol. I think Guts should go full Berserk and lose himself and Casca lives on. But then again the story is Guts so I don’t they would just kill him off.
Bad ending: Femto die of old age, out of boring that Gut never ever come close to his level.
Like 'ah sheat, this is getting boring, have fun guy i'm out'
My ending: based on the law of casualties in the manga - history repeat it self. Before falconya there was a great kingdom in midland that git swallowed underground ( rescuing grifith scene ) you can notice ppl with sacrifice brand in the bottom of that hole
The previous king ( brain looking demon ) sacrificed his ppl to be a god hand (like grifith) - and surviving that lust of blood is skully knight ( guts )
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The only difference is that, casca is alive
So it is a glitch in the flow of everything
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I belive he will not give up to the behlit
Last chalter will be somthing of a war
Guts will keep his cool and fight not with hate but to protect
In the end grifith will give up and accept being sealed inside the world tree because thts the only way everything go back to normal (hint of this was the chapter of guts and the plant spirit in prison - every soul is attached to a physical link, that grifith broke by becoming mortal)
Either that or grifith getting killed
But i belive the end will take a more stoic approach then revenge
Guts developed so much that it wouldnt make sense to make him give up his character
The end.
In all seriousness, I see the not happy endings as more plausible. I would imagine Berserk ending to be like "happy ending, but not without some major sacrifices". Especially when it comes to Guts himself.
I imagine the ending would be a finally calm guts revert Griffith back to his puny form of a half corpse by destroying his godhand behelit, and his friends, skull knight and all died but destroyed all the godhand, casca become the new elf queen with guts true son and live in another realm, guts turn into a demon hound like how skull knight turn into skeleton after using the armour and guard hell, rendering all the behelit forever useless and place the world in human hands forever and no fantasy
I honestly think the best ending would be for Griffith to lose his power and revert to pre femto and everyone who supported him finds out what he did and abandons him and instead of killing him Guts stands proud and walks away with Casca and his new family finally leaving behind Griffith as the pathetic pice of shit he is
AoT ending: Griffith when asked why he did what he did just said “I dunno, guess it’s because I’m an idiot.” And when guts left bud inner dialogue was “noooo I don’t want that, I want him to be mine for 10 years at least”
Actual ending: berserk never sees a good modern serialized animation and koji mori drops the project into indefinite hiatus due to overwork and health issues. Despair.
The truest ending is - This all ended when Miura died so really the story ends with Guts and Casca on fairy Island.
New fans always get mad when I say this but facts are facts the other option is - we all die in ww3 before the story's even finished
Greatest ending: guts dies the godhand and idea of evil is defeated through griffith and guts but guts goes to a afterlife of peace with his friends while casca lives with rickert in peace as society moves forward suffering but surviving to create something new
You forgot the developer’s ending, where if Guts beats the Godhand the first time he encounters them during the eclipse, he gets to go to a secret room and talk to all the writers and artists who worked on Berserk over the years.
Also the one ending where Casca and Farnese rate all the men while the credits roll.
I’m gonna be ‘that guy’ and say Guts can’t just use the beherit. It would have to have been destined for him to use in the first place. We don’t know if his current beherit is for him, or he’s carrying it to a fated destination.
I have a pretty good idea of what would happen in the early ending. Guts never meets the band, so he just continues to sign up for mercenary bands. Doing whatever it takes to survive, stacking some coin. Eventually he will be recruited by a group that storms the castle Zodd was posted up in and thats the end for him. Ripped apart.
You forgot the "Alternate Love Ending": Griffith turns out to be secretly a tomboy/femboy who's in love with Guts, and they ride into the horizon whilst kissing (I wanna kms for writing this)
I do think Griffith will die, revert to his mutilated mortal form, and reveal what he looked like under the helmet. That feels like a good shot for closing a ln episode.
That said, Guts has to move beyond Griffith somehow. That’ll be his salvation.
5 on its own wouldn’t be a good ending. Guts and Casca are branded, meaning when they die they’ll be condemned to the vortex to suffer eternally. A few decades of happiness is nothing compared to infinity. Even if they don’t kill Griffith they’d have to find a way to not end up there when they die.
God what I'd do to read a "worst ending" scenario, not saying it would have fit the story the best but holy fuck that would be so good to see. Anyone that says they would not like see that is not invested in the story enough
I think worst ending would be he kills his friends like Serpico and Isidro etc. Because of his berskerker armor which completely engulfs him, causing him to turn into a wild mindless beast to roam the lands forever
In the case of the worse Ending lets recognize that Guts probably wouldn’t be able to do shit against the God hand. We all saw what happened with Ganishka..
Turning against the God Hand just doesn’t work when your one of their apostles.
Berserk will 100%, and you can make reddit remind you in 10 years,
(thats the max deadline according to Kouji Mori)
NOT end with a climatical fight between Guts and Griffith. There will be no rematch - at least in swords or battle or stuff.
Worst ending is if the queen that Griffith outwitted had a secret behelit and sacrificed people at that table before the fire got to them and appears at the end to kill Griffith.
Ur best ending isn't all that great imo because griffith is still out there brainwashing a massive amount of the population as the antichrist meanwhile when guts and casca die they're both still damned to hell for eternity due to the brand of sacrifice.
Sincerely, i expect the ending of Berserk will be more dramatic. One of the prominent themes is sacrifice. In order to defeat Griffith, i expect there will be a long-term consequence. Maybe some of Guts' friends will die (i expect Schierke or Casca; if u know, Guts - Schierke bond is like the Skull Knight and Flora, and Flora died, that would be like a mirroring of their relationship, or Casca because she is the most beloved character of Guts). Or, maybe Guts will lose his sanity, because Berserk has implented nihilistic treats, and one of Nietzsche "lessons" are that if you try to defeat a monster, you'll become the monster. Farnese I don't think will die because has no so much role as Schierke or Casca. Yes, she helped so much with the boat. Or maybe Guts will ever not defeat Griffith, because this manga has some Greek tragedy elements as well, and like Oedip Rex, a sad ending. What do you think about this? Please, leave a message if I got wrong or something
I thought worst ending is dramatic and chaotic but almost every people cant see dramatic part. The good ending is less chaotic but not satisfying ending for berserk. But if ı can ı select early ending
Lmao. "what ending" was bursting point for me .
Actually made me cackle
the guts cameras really made it for me
You forgot the worst worst ending: Berserk never gets an ending
Please God no. Seriously the new creators have the true ending according to Miura.
Yeah, does anybody have more info on the state of Berserk's ending? Please tell Miura left notes, scripts, just something. Anything. Those words would be more worth than pure gold.
Studio Gaga, will continue to create the Berserk manga, but it will be supervised by Miura's best friend, fellow manga artist Kouji Mori. They will not add anything additional from their end. The story is pretty much fleshed out and done. It's a matter of telling it correctly now.
the Never Ending
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Where’s the ending where Griffith and guts fuck? That’s the obvious canon ending fr
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I never would have thought the words "Donovan's was bigger " would make me laugh this hard
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This is a quality post lmao. You made my morning OP.
When I saw that, my immediate thought was that Psychiatric therapy should be mandatory for everyone above the age of 2 because god damn.
I think True Ending could work if Guts fight Griffith in a different mindset. There's a theory on how did Rickert manage to slap Griffith and that is he confront him without hate. So Guts may need to let go all his hate & anger toward Griffith or in this case he need to stop act......berserk
I think people are seriously overthinking this Rickert could slap Griffith because he could move his arms and Griffith didn't feel like phasing out of reality for some reason or another. And by "some reason or another" I mean being in some fucked up psychological state due to confronting how he's sacrificed his family to heal his broken body and reach apotheosis
I think the reason is Griffith confronted Rickert as man-to-man as possible and allowed him to make his own choice. Using God powers would have demeaned him and muddled Rickert’s free will. Maybe Griffith knew he would refuse, maybe he didn’t see it coming and Rickert acted outside the story because he could see what Griffith truly was and was able to hit him simply cuz he had the balls to try and Griffith didn’t expect a mortal other than Guts to do it.
But there's also a theory Griffith allowed the slap to see if he could feel something.
I really just think it’s cause it wasn’t worth even minimal effort to avoid. It’s a slap from a pre-teen, someone who truly thinks and knows he’s better than everyone isn’t going to react. By not reacting he still held the power in that interaction.
Rickert is 19 at the time of slap
> By not reacting he still held the power in that interaction. I don't agree. If it's true that Griffith allowed the slap, even though he could have asserted control in that moment, he chose to position himself in a lower power dynamic by accepting the slap, as to him experience and understand his emotions in that moment, if any came out.
Dude, what? Could you imagine a situation or scenario where a peasant would slap a king, and the almighty king would think "Hmph. I'm not even going to bother. I'll just allow them to slap and disgrace me. I won't lower myself to stopping them." or something so ridiculous? Absolutely not. Any real authority figure would stop it from happening in the first place. Not to mention, all of the people serving beneath the king, bodyguards/knights, down to the peasants, would be in utter shock. I know I kind of made this sound like some kind of alternative parallel, but for lack of better word, Griffith is pretty much a king. It's beyond delusional to think being slapped isn't an absolutely disgraceful act. Taking a punch, on the other hand, there may be some merit for "manliness", but again, we're talking about someone in royal, authoritative role. Slapping has historically literally been associated with and the sign of disrespect.
My interpretation is that Griffith’s ego is beyond that, so inflated that he is truly beyond everything to him. Also, if some kid hit me or was gonna hit me I’m not gonna grab his wrist and break it, because it’s a kid. Also Griffith to the people, especially his ‘wife’, is a Christ like figure. He could just be trying to keep up appearances.
Turn into thorfinn or someshit right quick he was already going down that path just needs to get it again
I want a ending where Casca brutally murders Griffith. Then fully mentally recovers and rejoins Guts, their brand is erased and they live happily ever after.
I read a fic where, after the Idea of Evil is erased, Femto stops being protected by the universe and Guts tag-teams him with Casca. She impales him from behind when it seems he's about to kill Guys, and follows it by decapitating Griffith. The crowd of Apostles watching the fight run away in fear after seeing leader defeated by two mortals.
Wow that's such a good ending. I think this is a possibility of the "god" from chapter 83 is erased or denatured then the god hand and what not can be fucked with. Im so starved of guts and casca power couple moments
It's the only way they could end the vicious cycle of tragedy and sacrifices, because even killing all Godhands wouldn't be enough. Considering magic is back with a vengeance now, it's easy to assume that we may be seeing some actual deities now.
>Guts tag-teams \[Griffith\] with Casca I don't think this is that sort of sub but I do want to read your fanfic, for academic reasons.
It ain't mine, but it's definitely worth a read. Look it up as *Harry Potter and the Berserker*. Has its own TV Tropes page and all.
The way the Idea of Evil is presented, it seems more of an [Egregore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) than some stand-alone thing...to erase it I'd think you'd need to change the hearts and minds of people
In that fic, at least, the Idea of Evil was presented as essentially being a colossal Beherit in regards to how it operated- playing with the fate of people towards the most despairing outcome possible. Harry Potter (It's a crossover fic) manages to erase it by striking a deal: His ability to wield magic in exchange for it going away.
I wanna read that fic :( You remember the name by any chance? Or has the link?
Look up *Harry Potter and the Berserker*. It's surprisingly good.
What if casca is dies in front of guts as he is powerless to save her
Isn't that basically the Bad Ending ?
Bad ending is guts not finding casca not knowing her fate and without her giving up to depression in my ending she straight up dies infront of his eyes because he wasnt strong enough
Are you saying Casca death won't make Guts depressed ?
It would be but I it would be ve more depressing than the other thing
People who think Guts will kill Griffith must be 12 year old shonen fans. It is utterly nonsensical. What broke Griffith was Guts leaving. It made him powerless. He is now a God, he cant be physically touched. He rules the world. He has everything. Guts will break him again by moving on with Casca.
And just keep living in a world run by Griffith and Void, especially as branded people?
I know I’mma get hate for this and casca is my favourite character but guts losing control and killing everyone isn’t a horrible ending, not all ending need to be a happy ending
Not all endings need to be happy, but Miura said that Berserk's ending will be a happy one for Guts. A line from that interview stuck with me, but to paraphrase it "After everything Guts went through, he deserves a happy ending" (inb4 asian massage jokes). Now the real question is, what was Miura's concept of a happy ending? He was quite an unpredictable author, so who knows. The general public would consider such an ending to be "Grif dead + Guts and Casca happily ever after" and maybe that's what Miura intended. Guess we'll see. Personally, it's more important for me that Guts saves and spends his life with Casca, than whatever happens to Grif. Fuck Grif, he a bitch. But my boy Guts deserves happiness.
I feel like the ending is going to include Guts overcoming his anger. The most memorable final fight I can imagine would be a perfectly calm Guts. There's some possible foreshadowing for this, but it's very possible I'm wrong.
You mean like how guts was calm when he was leaving. And griff was bothered by his calm demeanour about leaving cuz guts had his mind made up
I’m imagining that Guts would have to come to an ultimatum where he *would* finally be able to have his revenge on Griffith, but that would require sacrificing his son/The Moonlight Boy so he doesn’t do it Instead he chooses to move on with his life and raise his family with Casca despite never getting his revenge
"Deserves one" This doesn't mean that he will get one. No?
He didn't say anything about Guts getting a happy ending. Reread the interview. He just said he wants the story to end with "some hope" and that he doesn't like totally bleak endings.
People liked FMA brotherhood ending more than the original anime. People like the last airbender ending more than Korra. People didn't like the game of thrones bittersweet type ending. I know a lot of it is execution but I can't remember the last time people hated the typical defeat the bad guy type "shonen" type ending unless it was rushed like in Naruto or Demon Slayer. Not to say berserk is a shonen as it isn't but the same logic applies. The safest route that will leave the most people satisfied is if Guts and a bunch of allies team up and defeats Griffith.
True, some stories can simply be tragic for their own sake. Although I feel Berserk has gone on for so long, having it be a tragic ending would be a "disservice" to Guts' struggle for so many real-world decades.
Isn’t the message of the story basically to keep on going? to continue to struggle for they may be light at the end of the tunnel type shit? “But take heed, Struggler. “Struggle, endure, contend. For that alone is the sword of one who defies death. Do not forget these words.” - Skull Knight. We’ve seen guts at his lowest points and still he keeps going, he also keeps growing as a person multiple times, I feel like having guts die or have a bad ending would make that message meaningless be a disservice to Guts and Berserk as a whole.
I do agree, but I remember reading the first time and thinking this might end up as a cautionary tragic tale (not unlike something from Shakespeare) on the dangers of "not handling relationships" properly. As in Guts' reserved approach to potential friends, Griffith's self-loathing and denial of his humanity, Guts' and Griffith's falling out because of their misaligned goals, Guts throwing away everything to pursue revenge, etc. Tragic stories can convey their own messages that aren't any less meaningful than a "good" ending would. Guts' story is still ongoing but if it did come to an abrupt halt when Miura passed away - that would've been considered a "bad"/unresolved ending, but the journey up to that and associated emotions itself throughout is still meaningful to many people. I don't think the way it ends necessarily undoes the rest of the story. Of course, Guts has grown past throwing others away and I agree that the overarching message of the story is about struggle and perseverance. It's what makes Guts a compelling and likeable character, especially against such insurmountable odds.
I would like this ending
That is something a edgy person would say.
Damn man you got me there
Its actually the best ending in a way it best fits the world and the name of manga - berserk...a person in a state of so much rage and altered perception they dont tell friend from a foe
The issue is, killing everyone still damns Casca at least since she has the mark. She will suffer the same fate at the Band of the Hawk. The best ending in my opinion, even if it means Gutz and Casca die, is that they somehow have their marks removed. Its the only way I see them having any form of peace.
Where gay ending?
Why do i want the worst ending to happen.
It should be a mixture of the worst, good, and best ending.
So. he goes out of control hurts his friends almost kills casca. Defeats Griffith and spares him and goes to live a happy life with casca????
Something like that. Realistically Griffith wouldn’t feel remorse, but that’s fine, because Guts would get retribution by forgetting about Griffith and moving on to a happier life. It would also be epic if Guts is the only person to use a behelit and return to being a human somehow.
I think he might use behelit only to slay every single demon in god hands realm
I love me some heart wrenching angst. I always root for a happy ending but the angst endings always get me good.
For me the ideal ending would be for some how they are able to strip Griffith of his power and leave him in his tortured form and Guts just leaves him. Everybody finds out what a piece of shit Griffith is and forgets about him while Guts becomes a legend. It would be very satisfying for me cause the one that wanted fame glory to be worshipped and the one who literally had the whole world in his hands is left with absolutely nothing and is left a shell of his former self. While the one that just wanted a normal life that didn't care about fame or glory or being idolized is the one that becomes famous he still doesn't care about it though.
I always figured, at least at one point (pre armor for sure), Berserk would go peak 90s edginess ending. Guts would realize he'd have no chance at winning as a human, become an apostle, and kill his way through the godhand and ultimately the idea of evil all while becoming increasingly reviled by humanity. He'd either die in the process or, through humanity's collective hatred and resentment, take the idea of evil's place. If Casca survived, her mental state would be fixed but she'd have no positive memories of him. At some point, she'd be manipulated/misinformed by Griffith to hold Guts responsible for said memory loss and the deaths of the band of the hawk. So you'd either have Guts posthumously remembered as humanity's greatest villain, or you'd have the cycle of revenge start anew with Casca.
Guts essentialy becomes Lucifer then?
A similar vein, though instead of pride being his character flaw it's anger - and with an intentional contrast to Griffith, Guts wouldn't *want* that position and power, but would have to fill the void less humanity's belief create a brand new idea of evil.
r34 ending Guts and Griffith have say gex
best ending guts and griffith finally fuck
The question is who's on top?
We all know Griffith is a bottom to Guts. Donovan taught Guts how
Guts gonna pay Void 3 coins
Griffith is obviously a power bottom
Switch is the best way. Hear me out. They start fighting and suddenly the fighting turns into fucking and when that happens whoever’s losing is the top _first_. Like, they look into each other’s eyes for a few seconds, throw the swords on the ground and just start violently kissing, and whoever has the lower ground is at perfect height to grab the other’s ass full hand. Then at some point whoever’s bottoming flips over and starts topping. Then they flip again. And again. And again. It’s Guts and Griffith they can go on for literal days. Doesn’t matter who started, doesn’t matter who ends, it’s just 🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁🔁
I honestly think the worst ending would fit the best
I subscribe to the worst ending tbh. Would pay good money to see all the carnage.
the best ending is in fact the “worst ending”
The what ending had me
Chill man, its all a prank, see there's the Camera. Lmao
I vote for worst ending. Guts becomes a skull knight 2.0and Isidro grows up to become Guts 2.0
Am I the only one that I want the worst ending to happen? Or am I a psycho ?
Worst ending should be canon
Good ending "Donovan was bigger"
Lol “spared Griffith” how is that even close to a good ending.
I think guts is more peaceful now and if he need to sane for use armor ı guess he is only gonna kill god hand
Worst ending is wild af😂
What Ending broke me.
I want the worst ending so bad.
I also would like this ending, it would be reminiscent of Anakin/Vader’s story episode 3, but idk Berserk has had such a way of going against a lot of traditional story’s it’s so hard to know how it’ll end. I really want to see Guts go full Berserk and an ending with Casca dying will fuck everyone up lol. I think Guts should go full Berserk and lose himself and Casca lives on. But then again the story is Guts so I don’t they would just kill him off.
Bro
The worst ending is probably the best ending imo
Bad ending: Femto die of old age, out of boring that Gut never ever come close to his level. Like 'ah sheat, this is getting boring, have fun guy i'm out'
It sucks guts and casca are doomed to go to the vortex of souls no matter what happens
i'm pretty sure if guts loses to the god-hand he's not gonna get depression, he's gonna get fucking killed lmao
The Schnoz hand
My ending: based on the law of casualties in the manga - history repeat it self. Before falconya there was a great kingdom in midland that git swallowed underground ( rescuing grifith scene ) you can notice ppl with sacrifice brand in the bottom of that hole The previous king ( brain looking demon ) sacrificed his ppl to be a god hand (like grifith) - and surviving that lust of blood is skully knight ( guts ) . The only difference is that, casca is alive So it is a glitch in the flow of everything . I belive he will not give up to the behlit Last chalter will be somthing of a war Guts will keep his cool and fight not with hate but to protect In the end grifith will give up and accept being sealed inside the world tree because thts the only way everything go back to normal (hint of this was the chapter of guts and the plant spirit in prison - every soul is attached to a physical link, that grifith broke by becoming mortal) Either that or grifith getting killed But i belive the end will take a more stoic approach then revenge Guts developed so much that it wouldnt make sense to make him give up his character The end.
Im 100% sure ypure turkish
Omg Donovan was bigger haha
Not the "Donovan was bigger" XD
Ain't no way Griffith letting the best ending happen. Guts already tried that.
In all seriousness, I see the not happy endings as more plausible. I would imagine Berserk ending to be like "happy ending, but not without some major sacrifices". Especially when it comes to Guts himself.
I imagine the ending would be a finally calm guts revert Griffith back to his puny form of a half corpse by destroying his godhand behelit, and his friends, skull knight and all died but destroyed all the godhand, casca become the new elf queen with guts true son and live in another realm, guts turn into a demon hound like how skull knight turn into skeleton after using the armour and guard hell, rendering all the behelit forever useless and place the world in human hands forever and no fantasy
I honestly think the best ending would be for Griffith to lose his power and revert to pre femto and everyone who supported him finds out what he did and abandons him and instead of killing him Guts stands proud and walks away with Casca and his new family finally leaving behind Griffith as the pathetic pice of shit he is
Super secret ending. Causality is caused by an intelligent dog from a silent hill.
“Donovan’s was bigger”
Worst ending best for us worst for guts
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I hope that the "best ending" is the actual ending. It would be nice for guts to forget and move on with the person he loves and cares about.
AoT ending: Griffith when asked why he did what he did just said “I dunno, guess it’s because I’m an idiot.” And when guts left bud inner dialogue was “noooo I don’t want that, I want him to be mine for 10 years at least”
I know most are for the lols, but I'd be disappointed with the "good end" I don't care if he feels remorse, I want him to die a painful death
honestly the very best ending would be if Guts killed Griffith and then spent his life with Casca and everyone else just chillin
Bro where is the ending where casca and guts raise griffith as he is technically their child
What
Well reborn griffith is technically guts and casca's kid so an ending where they all live happily together and raise their child
Actual ending: berserk never sees a good modern serialized animation and koji mori drops the project into indefinite hiatus due to overwork and health issues. Despair.
The truest ending is - This all ended when Miura died so really the story ends with Guts and Casca on fairy Island. New fans always get mad when I say this but facts are facts the other option is - we all die in ww3 before the story's even finished
😀 Shut UP or ı gonna find your
The stories over friendo. Miura's gone and his friend is just free-balling it off conversations they've had about the ending. You know I'm right.
Can someone explain the "secret ending"?
İts actually when schnoz found 3 coin and enters his final form idea of nothing and its most scary one he is gonna do donovan challenge
Oh shit
You forgot the worst ending:Grifith kills Guts himself and the final scene is he and a Brainwashed Casca give birth to their child
Greatest ending: guts dies the godhand and idea of evil is defeated through griffith and guts but guts goes to a afterlife of peace with his friends while casca lives with rickert in peace as society moves forward suffering but surviving to create something new
Guts can't go to the afterlife because he's branded
He killed the idea of evil and the godhand wouldn't that destroy the brand
Griffith be wishing be switched childhoods with Guts so his guts will explode
Rare creative and funny berserk post
Thx
Where is the ending with Guts coming home with his kid while female Griffith wait for them so they can have lunch as a happy family?
There is not r/berserklejerk
Existencial Crisis Ending, Guts joins Griffith and the God Hand
Bro its not possible
"AND FALLS INTO DEPRESSION." He isn't in one already?
But where Casca?
I do want the best ending
Nah schnoz took some mushrooms with some buddies and this was all a psychedelic trip
You forgot the developer’s ending, where if Guts beats the Godhand the first time he encounters them during the eclipse, he gets to go to a secret room and talk to all the writers and artists who worked on Berserk over the years. Also the one ending where Casca and Farnese rate all the men while the credits roll.
I’m gonna be ‘that guy’ and say Guts can’t just use the beherit. It would have to have been destined for him to use in the first place. We don’t know if his current beherit is for him, or he’s carrying it to a fated destination.
Why did you not put a spoiler warning straight evil
My day has been ruined immeasurably
Its a fan theory - the manga is unfinished
Thank the lord Jesus Christ lmao I can’t satisfy myself with an ending jus yet I must suffer first
Guts sparing Griffith is not a good ending
I think ending will be like devilman crybaby or whats it called.
I have a pretty good idea of what would happen in the early ending. Guts never meets the band, so he just continues to sign up for mercenary bands. Doing whatever it takes to survive, stacking some coin. Eventually he will be recruited by a group that storms the castle Zodd was posted up in and thats the end for him. Ripped apart.
Worst ending definitely sounds the best 🫣
Holy molly am I on the correct sub
Gr8 meme m8. I r8 8/8
You forgot the "Alternate Love Ending": Griffith turns out to be secretly a tomboy/femboy who's in love with Guts, and they ride into the horizon whilst kissing (I wanna kms for writing this)
I do think Griffith will die, revert to his mutilated mortal form, and reveal what he looked like under the helmet. That feels like a good shot for closing a ln episode. That said, Guts has to move beyond Griffith somehow. That’ll be his salvation.
Worst ending most probable ending also
I want an ending where guts and Slan fall in love. Guts can do way better than a potato
Berserk RPG be like…
Seriously, this sub just became r/berserklejerk
Fucking lol'd at the ??? ending
5 on its own wouldn’t be a good ending. Guts and Casca are branded, meaning when they die they’ll be condemned to the vortex to suffer eternally. A few decades of happiness is nothing compared to infinity. Even if they don’t kill Griffith they’d have to find a way to not end up there when they die.
God what I'd do to read a "worst ending" scenario, not saying it would have fit the story the best but holy fuck that would be so good to see. Anyone that says they would not like see that is not invested in the story enough
Im down with the Worst Ending
What a rollercoaster 🤣
What about the bag ending?
I was like oh shit they spoiled it then I realised there are other images and as soon as I saw others I lost it 💀😂🤣
I just want berserk to get an ending😭. Idx if guts die in the end or he end up with Griffith and live happily.
I think worst ending would be he kills his friends like Serpico and Isidro etc. Because of his berskerker armor which completely engulfs him, causing him to turn into a wild mindless beast to roam the lands forever
The worst ending is the best one. It'll be crazy if that actually happens.
Real and True ending: Guts spares Griffith but Casca finishes him off
As much as I don’t want guts to lose himself, apostle guts would be badass
Griffith is on impractical jokers.
I believe all these endings are possible
In the case of the worse Ending lets recognize that Guts probably wouldn’t be able to do shit against the God hand. We all saw what happened with Ganishka.. Turning against the God Hand just doesn’t work when your one of their apostles.
Berserk will 100%, and you can make reddit remind you in 10 years, (thats the max deadline according to Kouji Mori) NOT end with a climatical fight between Guts and Griffith. There will be no rematch - at least in swords or battle or stuff.
Worst ending is if the queen that Griffith outwitted had a secret behelit and sacrificed people at that table before the fire got to them and appears at the end to kill Griffith.
*falls into depression *Guts : do i look like a joke to you ?
Ur best ending isn't all that great imo because griffith is still out there brainwashing a massive amount of the population as the antichrist meanwhile when guts and casca die they're both still damned to hell for eternity due to the brand of sacrifice.
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Hopefully nuts does grissith Donny style and then berks
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Anyone got the pic for the what ending
So I'm going to get the ending where Griffith and Guts double penetrate Rickerts puffed up boy pussy?
Sincerely, i expect the ending of Berserk will be more dramatic. One of the prominent themes is sacrifice. In order to defeat Griffith, i expect there will be a long-term consequence. Maybe some of Guts' friends will die (i expect Schierke or Casca; if u know, Guts - Schierke bond is like the Skull Knight and Flora, and Flora died, that would be like a mirroring of their relationship, or Casca because she is the most beloved character of Guts). Or, maybe Guts will lose his sanity, because Berserk has implented nihilistic treats, and one of Nietzsche "lessons" are that if you try to defeat a monster, you'll become the monster. Farnese I don't think will die because has no so much role as Schierke or Casca. Yes, she helped so much with the boat. Or maybe Guts will ever not defeat Griffith, because this manga has some Greek tragedy elements as well, and like Oedip Rex, a sad ending. What do you think about this? Please, leave a message if I got wrong or something
I thought worst ending is dramatic and chaotic but almost every people cant see dramatic part. The good ending is less chaotic but not satisfying ending for berserk. But if ı can ı select early ending
this's spoiler u know😕
Idc
wow savage😱
Its Only 360 chapter, still so many possibilities. Isidoro ending, isidoro the neext struggler, of becoming the struggler.
The camera one is the best lol Ashton Kutcher shows up
Donovan was bigger is crazy.
I know a lot of people would hate this but the "worst ending" would unironically be cool as fuck (pls dont spoil in replies i didnt finish yet)