5/16/2023 0 Comments Guts and goals review![]() The young Guts we meet in the Golden Age arc still has scars but is a lot more open than the one we meet in later chapters (Photo by Dark Horse Comics)Īnd then we see another major development. He still has the qualities that constitute a badass, for example, at one point he holds off a hundred soldiers on his own but we see a character that is working through the trauma he suffered in his earlier days and opening up to the people around him, establishing relationships with the likes of Casca and the other members of the Band of the Hawk. Here we see a man completely in contrast to the completely cold and cruel individual who greeted us in the initial pages. At last, we have evidence that there is something more to this man than meets the eye.Īfter the initial prologue (the Black Swordsman Arc) that takes place at some point in Guts' future, the first chunk of the series is dedicated to the Golden Age arc in his past. The contrast from the Guts we knew prior is devastating. The reader sees a downtrodden swordsman, a quivering brow, and eyes stinging with tears. It’s not until the Black Swordsman Arc that the readers are exposed to a simmering glimpse of Guts’s deep-seated pain and trauma.Ī wordless pane evokes a thousand feelings. The Cosmic Movement detailed best the contrast back in 2021, saying in their article about the character of Guts:įor a lot of first-time readers, and even upon retrieval, his portrayal is jarringly “edgy” - easily mistaken as a two-dimensional trope, rather than masterful character building. Not much more can be said other than Guts embodies looking like a badass (Photo by CBR) ![]() So Guts doesn’t have a specific model.”įrom just this image he is the definition of ‘a badass anti-hero’ and Miura probably could have created a successful manga just off the back of that, but despite his simple beginnings, what he created was a much much deeper character that was made to feel human. His actions and state of mind depend on the situation. So Guts’ personality isn’t always based on one person, but it’s more abstract. And sometimes I use my close friends as examples. “If it’s about Guts’ personality or his belief… I guess some of it comes from myself. In regards to his personality Miura stated he used a composite of both himself and people he knew. ![]() In terms of the design he looks very similar to Mordred from Arthurian legend with his distinctive black armour, though this is just speculation on my part and Miura seems to maintain he wanted a distinctive medival swordsman with no clear influence in most of his interviews. Thought not a direct influence, the moto-punk madness of Mad Max’s world does have parallels with the madness that is present in Berserk (Photo from Imgur) So grab your headphones and click start on the video before and listen along to ‘4 Gatsu’ or ‘Guts’ Theme’ from the 1997 series while you read. Now if you’ve not heard of Berserk, it is not what you call light reading, the imagery is gross and perverse and it doesn’t shy away from showing both the horrors of humanity and also the monsters Miura created on its pages.īefore we get started I want to make this an interactive experience. That was Kentaro Miura’s answer when asked by an interviewer how he came up with the motivations and mindsets of Guts, the main character from his legendary work, Berserk. ![]() ![]() I focused on how to make him angry, how to make him get revenge, and how to effectively display his appearance and gimmicks, and what resulted after that struggle was the original Black Swordsman.” Like Max in Mad Max or Kenshiro in Fist of the North Star. “At first I envisioned Guts as a hero who can get angry. Kentaro Miura’s ‘Berserk’ is a masterpiece of dark fantasy (Photo by Dark Horse Comics) ![]()
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