Berserk's Sword of Actuation

[@TheNaughtysheriff]

Seems like Miura had such a deep knowledge of Mysticism and symbolism it’s mind boggling

[@eduardelric]

He literally uses real magick/mysticism in his manga.

[@Spriggan83]

I find it...a bit tiring tbh and treasure hunting for the sake of treasure huinting

[@TheNaughtysheriff]

@@eduardelric yup

[@Cernunnnos]

@@Spriggan83 Digging for more is a key component of the human psyche, we're programmed to look for detail and meaning. The level of detail he managed to hide within his panels is nothing short of incredible, if you find it tiring I don't know what to tell you. Being able to pull apart a piece of media in as much detail as we can Berserk, and have it not feel like we're reaching for depth. Well it's a once in a generation deal I'd say. Miura and Jung both seem to have tapped into some deep truth of the human condition with the exploration of their own depths. And Miura especially translated those depths in such detail and clarity for us all to access, that I honestly don't understand how someone could see all these hidden threads and not want to pull at them.

[@Jonjzi]

The scene where Guts meets with Griffith while he's up late reading books, and explains to Guts how it's necessary for him to be knowledgeable about all aspects of the world (then shows Guts the sex book), I took to be representative of Miura himself studying to understand history, world religions, and psychology.

[@Giggles_iJest]

Sword of Deepthroat Typical translation error

[@BerserkDude]

😂

[@ausgamecollector]

Sword of The Astral Fleshlight

[@brianmerel513]

@@ausgamecollector that made me laugh😂

[@ausgamecollector]

Interesting vid. Well researched. It makes one wonder how much time Miura spent dabbling in philosophy.

[@crozraven]

Not only that, he managed to visualized those thematical aspects fantastically. Hidden in the plain sight of manga panels.

[@rovite359]

@@crozraven world building better than op?

[@crozraven]

While Guts & his dragon slayer may play a role in Griffith defeat, I still strongly believe that Moonlight boi the key factor in all of this. I mean Moonlight boi also have a quite powerful magic, as he also tapped into the astral plane without any connection with godhand rules. That means, not only Guts, Moonlight Boi might be a being that is not connected to causality, certainly not something even Void predicted.

[@BerserkDude]

Being that the Moonlight Boy is akin to the Christ archetype, what do you think of the idea that He will sacrifice Himself for humanities sin of separating good and evil?

[@ausgamecollector]

@@BerserkDude It could be. It could also be that the Behelit is for Casca and she’ll sacrifice her child/ Griffith, inadvertently sacrificing and branding the other.

[@Cernunnnos]

@@BerserkDude Dualism was an incredibly important part of Jung's work. I don't think it's an accident that both Grifith and the moonlight boy have white and black hair respectively. They're yin and yang, order and chaos. So it's safe to say Moonlight boy will be central to the resolution of the story, but I'm not convinced the christ archetype is the right way of looking at it. It might be that Grifith needs to do the opposite of integrating his shadow, seeing as he is his shadow now, he might need to integrate his humanity. Which is what the moonlight boy is probably going to come to to represent. His lost innocence. That's not to say I think he'll have a traditional redemption arc, but I think his final confrontation with Guts is going to force Grifith to confront his lost innocence and actually complete his individuation. I think this will connect the idea of evil to the idea of good, balancing out the world. If I had to guess, the idea of good will probably be represented by a mind that will take in the dark expulsion form the heart of evil and temper it, as if what lies at the heart of all men is their shadow, his mind is what elevates him above those base desires. This could cause the collective unconsciousness of all humanity to integrate it's Shadow. The point of Miura's story could have been an allegory for the awakening of the collective unconscious. That would be my guess anyway.

[@JorikD]

It's insane, looking at that panel 11:40, knowing the guy who wrote the story has passed away and the inspiration for Griffith (Kouji Mori) is now finishing that story....

[@hushgamer92]

dude, this is soo deep!

[@MillenionSweeper]

I see similar themes running through Berserk that also ran through The Legacy Of Kain series of games. In that series Raziel was presumed to be the only bring with free will due to his death and rebirth, he had in effect broken free of the wheel of fate. If the only thing that can even touch the godhand is something that exists beyond causality then yes, it could be either Griffith who has been reborn into the world... or it could be Guts who was in essence born from the dead, a dead mother to be exact. Both might be beyond causality. I’m, as always, looking forward to the continuation of the series.

[@crozraven]

Many IRL cultures also believe that seas/oceans are closely connected with supernatural realm itself. This is also a belief known to my region. So, to me it also make sense when Schierke warn Farnesse to not wander far when they are in the middle of sea, aside from her explanation. I never connected it to a philosophical aspects, but it always make sense to me ever since SK told Guts is a struggler, like a jumping fish in a pool of sea.

[@cloudbloom]

Great idea for a video, I like seeing how translations can change important albeit subtle information

[@hattoripool1533]

Imagine a Dragonslayer version of this sword

[@Ekdrink]

I wanna see that fan art sb

[@Sg6CrossOver]

Wouldn't be very nice watch someone put a huge ass dragon Slayer in the mouth

[@trystdodge6177]

I think i saw that on some fat chick's only fans the other day. 10 out of 10.

[@ausgamecollector]

Imagine if the DS & SoA later fuse into one blade that can leave the deepest layers of the astral realm. Guts might simply sacrifice himself and lose his ego to drive said blade(using the Beast of Darkness as his mode of transport) into the proverbial heart of the vortex aka IoE.

[@kneewizard6246]

Berserk’s resolution will be consistent with the story’s core themes and philosophies. Either guts and gang embody these themes and save the day, or griffith does so and changes his evil ways (or both). I doubt we get a sad/negative curveball ending as this would seemingly contrast with the theme of struggling against fate

[@bignasty4874]

Griffith is keeping the apostles in line. He has provided shelter, safety, and succor to the people. Above all else, he loves Falconia. I strongly suspect that Griffith will sacrifice Falconia (and likely Casca) to gain enough power to destroy the Godhand and scatter the Idea of Evil to the four corners of the realm of the Idea. So even though the Godhand is destroyed, everyone dies, everything is destroyed, Guts is robbed of Casca and his desire for revenge and resolution. Skull Knight disappears into obscurity, and the world of magic is set adrift, becoming evermore distant from the material world until they no longer have any effect upon one another. We finally see Guts as a displaced vagabond who does not belong in this new, mundane, human world.

[@BassManqk]

Well, I mean Void really didn't want to be touched by the Sword of Actuation so it's not like it is a harmless weapon. That being said, Skullknight might team up with Griffith in order to destroy Void and rest of the god hand. Provided Griffith plans to be the one and only on top, or if the moonlight boy becomes more independent as it grows older and tries to destroy the god hand posing as Femto or some shit.

[@ausgamecollector]

Void wasn’t struck with the SoA, SK only had the regular Sword at the time void redirected his strike, which is likely part of the reason SK upgrades the blade.

[@useless1]

Guts Squad will find a way to reverse the crimson behelits power and strip Griffith out of his godly aura. The old band of the hawk will come back to life and fight the new band of the hawk in an epic battle. Guts will get back his arm and eye while Griffisu will be weakened. Guts will swing towards Griffith but then stop close before he would split his head in half. Saying he's done with him and is gonna move on. After that Griffith will kill himself... since Griffith is now an emo boy again after his god powers are gone.

[@thabangsibanda3282]

Berserk is not shonen. Characters coming back to life and Guts regaining his lost eye and hand. Never gonna happen, berserk isn't Dragonball.

[@scumbagjesus999]

I can dig all that except the coming back to life or regained lost appendages

[@doffhaddy5764]

Thank goodness another berk video to satisfy my cravings

[@specialknees6798]

berk

[@GibsonYouTube]

It’s berkin time

[@oogaboogaa21]

dang why this doesn't have thousand views???

[@akidnameAladdin]

It’s great to find new berserk vids and gain new insights on story 🖤💀

[@Charlie.G506]

My question is: if skully chugged a can of nacho cheese and then a bag of doritos, would the doritos be refined with nacho cheese coating?

[@felldoh9271]

When aliens abduct me I’ll remember to ask em

[@hftjyfhy7561]

Nihilist cucks can't handle his gamer energy.

[@WalterGirao]

11:26 - I don't know, man ... Miura's death from an aortic dissection does sound suspicious.

[@TankEpidemic]

I wonder how much of these ideas were recognized by and possibly inspirational to Hidetaka Miyazaki in his works.

[@dominiclodato533]

Dude, best Berserk video I’ve seen in years. A true scholar of this story.

[@Ardamisc]

Doggo in the background had to get them barks off

[@fimmywa]

"If you translate using an online translator" Yeah nah i'm gonna stop you there..

[@LOCKEYJ]

The water connection and the way you describe it makes it sound like ‘beherit tempered sword’ might be a good term.

[@hakimteyar95]

For the unconsciousness part, it's fascinating I read a book called "Strangers to ourselves" it explains, in simple a language, the thoughts process and how we could be slaves to our unconsciousness ... good job btw :)

[@Polo-he2ih]

Welp thanks now I understand more of the world

[@watcher1109]

Not to mention that griffith found his behelit flowing from the ocean on the eclipse

[@aadiraj9860]

Hey take my words as grains of salts but is berserk a manga or a story about unconsciousness vs consciousness Idea of evil is that it is an entity either made out of the human unconsciousness or it is an entity that devoured the whole human unconsciousness and later became what it ate Humane unconsciousness or the concept of unconsciousness itself makes a realm where it all merges and that realm is called Astral realm, a non existent realm that exist on inexistable concept like mirror that shows the existence of the the thing in front of it. Now the mirror just happens to reflect the unconsciousness of humanity of the unconsciousness of the world. Sword of actuation is a sword that uses water to cut ocean that is the Astral realm Guts sword for example may just be a sword that rather than taking the powers of Astral realm it takes the conscious thoughts and will of the people it slayed and put them in reality. Astral realm is a reality where the unconsciousness thrives and physical world is where the reality where the root cause exists. Though the astral Realm is way vaster and stronger than the physical world it's is from physical world/reality that Astral world is shackled to ( note my word choice here underline shackled ). The heart of all existence is the idea of evil the unconsciousness that governs all desire hence the name causality. People that accept the behelt becomes the their pictures from the Astral realm their own pictures. Guts sword can over power even a little bit of Astral realm defines that Guts is Start to realize the point that what in his true him, true picture is ruled by his unconscious self and he is starting to remove/understand it. Dragon slayer the sword of Guts derives power from the the conscious form of Guts and takes the consciousness/will of the one killed by it. DO NOTE THOUGH THAT UNCONSCIOUSNESS WILL ALWAYS BE BIGGER THAN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ANY HUMAN except Guts ....... maybe. Guts character is very amusing, he is an entity that may just be able to overthrow the unconsciousness and hence become the sole bane of unconsciousness The written of berserk does a very good job of maybe describing the upcoming problems that humanity faces and that would be the confrontation of the unconscious self of well oneself

[@aadiraj9860]

Unconsciousness is more like a belief over your life and laws of your world. Ever wondered why the hell everytime I'm hungry I first think of food or eat rather than something like a question 'why do the sea wave ?' Or something Unconsciousness is roughly your exerted experience on dealing with your mindset and thought process/immediate reaction to the instinctual stimulus or any existent phenomenon. Common sense is an bad but rough example of this. Idea of evil and Astral realm takes it all to a whole different level. Like they take all of the unconsciousness form an existing entity and forms a picture of it in Astral realm. The idea of evil is some sort of the heart of this unexplainable phenomenon. If you wondered about each and every decision of your life, the implications, the reasons, the situations you took the said decision, then you will find even a seemingly non important decision like smaking a bug to ginormous decisions like to decide which company to buy or sell in your empire is made by your unconscious self, albeit it heavily changes and influences the decision you took. So here comes the main problem and by problem I don't mean small company crash or loss of your property no I mean EXISTENTIAL LEVEL of question " AM I IN CONTROL OR NOT ? ARE MY DECISIONSMY OWN OR NOT ? DO MY EXISTENCEEVER MADE A DECISIONON ITS OWN ON NOT? DO I EVEN EXIST OR IS IT JUST MY PUPPET LIKE CONTROLLED SELF THAT EXIST IN THE SO CALLED REALITY ? DO REALITY EVEN THE WAY I SEE IT IS ? OR IS EVEN THE REALITY I SEE IS CONTROLLED ? "

[@caedrus1800]

I appreciate Berserk even more now

[@Istruekin]

Your insight and research is a masterpiece. I know your accurate by one piece of evidence from the anime. Griffin finds the demon seed in the river and the baptism begins. "The Actuation Sword of the Evil Primordial Sea" would be the correct name in English

[@partofthetribe3277]

If you knew your vocabulary you would know that sort of residence is a good name for it because it resonates at the same vibration as them on the astral realm

[@sonamtshering194]

The video was both fascinating and entertaining

[@giovanniluisbarrantesl9563]

0:00 awesome pic

[@hab0272]

So when skullknight covered his sword with beherits he became metaknight?

[@anurag5852]

Hey why dont you disect krishna from indian mythology it will be intresting to see carl jung explaination of his character please do one. If you are intrested Also mahabharat is one most influencial stories throughout the world.

[@datrickster8674]

The god hand? No. The 4 chaos gods.

[@usye8802]

I will be watching the video later. I just remembered that the latest panel where Griffith stops the dragon Slayer looks reminiscent of the golden age when Guts was going.

[@mikesSoul789]

How can berserk be so good

[@rberlese]

The waters of life also are the sperm energy, the energy that creates life itself. The energy that rules the world. Also, the mermaids song are the solution to defeat the sea god, what can be understood as the classical music which is used to elevates the bad vibrations and heal the body.

[@antonk.653]

With all respect, this is quite some gibberish you put together. Life, chaos and creation were always associated with femininity and women. And music was also rarely associated with healing.

[@random_shit_online6104]

@@antonk.653 i mean, there are cultures that refer to sperms as the source of life so

[@antonk.653]

@@random_shit_online6104 I have heard of exactly one in particular and it also had human sacrifice. So wasn't very popular.

[@maidgalaxy]

13:07 this didn't age well

[@Madchad6969]

No way I just realized that behelit resemble 💧 red droplet aka blood tears🩸

[@999kaheem]

n can u do a vid like this on guts sword

[@turdferguson9356]

so does Femto still exist? if not, what happened to him? if so, does he exist as a form of Griffith or is he a separate being entirely? I'm still unclear on just what exactly Griffith is now

[@anonymouss1270]

I assume that femto is a form Griffith can take since you do see femto when Griffith defeats ganishka. Skull knight is there too.

[@usye8802]

@@anonymouss1270 But I want to believe that Femto controls Griffith and only on full moon nights Griffith is able to regain a bit of control.

[@anonymouss1270]

@@usye8802 Then feel free. I’m the type of guy who reads and thinks nothing of what I’m reading. And with something as complex as berserk That feeling is increased.

[@ausgamecollector]

@@usye8802 That’s an unlikely theory, seeing that Griffith transforms directly into Femto. The likely explanation for him appearing as Griffith is his re-incarnation from a GH into the mortal world, to be able to exist as both.

[@usye8802]

But.... I don't want to see Griffith die as a villain. ಥ‿ಥ

[@fullxonxincrediable5511]

is there a new chapter out after 367 ? if anyone knows plz let me know

[@dardcplug2915]

u smart nice vid btw

[@MinhNguyen-xr1en]

What happen If they were able to kill 1 of the god hand and have the red once :))

[@Chronepsis]

11:44 griffith killed miura

[@AniSwiftTVRecaps]

ayo i just finished the anime o to the manga lets gooo

[@sxppy-9991]

kinda like rykard in elden ring

[@999kaheem]

so what’s the right name of the auction sword

[@BerserkDude]

Beherit Sword is most accurate. However, Sword of Actuation is fine.

[@random_shit_online6104]

says auction sword, refuses to elaborate further, leaves. you, sir, are gigachad

[@Tekape]

nice video

[@renamon5658]

👍👍👍

[@junky802]

You watch too much Jordan peterson

[@brokestudio_]

hmm wasn't it The Sword of Resonance?