Griffith

Yeah.

Like because we know Griffith also has the name Femto now, but that doesn't mean that that is his true name.

Yeah.

Maybe there's an overarching name that governs being from whatever form it takes, you know.

um but yeah so plot and characters getting some real guts and griffith vibes but to be fair are guts and griffith

copying this or not copying but inspired by

not that you know you can't have the classic like reversal of a the good character being more dark looking in the bad character being more light looking like i feel like that's something you see portrayed in media at times But that's something that is just very similar in Berserk, where Griffith is wearing a very light suit of armor.

Guts obviously ends up wearing the Berserk armor, which is black, dark hair, light hair.

Yeah.

Very similar vibe and similar to where Guts is generally the good guy you're following, and Griffith you would consider the bad guy.

Same thing going on here, where Akira, you're like...

Okay, not even just dark, but straight up a devil.

I would have to say "Cowboy Bebop," "Attack on Titan," and ooh, third place, third place, third place.

This is hard because I liked the drama and the messiness of "Inuyasha," but I like, I like the animation style of "Demon Slayer." But truth be told, I sincerely feel that "Berserk" is gonna have to take that third place because "Berserk" had a kind of depth to it, and Griffith is my favorite villain.

I love to hate him.

He's such a psychopath, and he's a psychopath in so many ways.

From Berserk.

Do you mean Griffith?

Griffith.

[laughs]

I'm like, "Who the fuck is Garth?" [laughs] No, it is not Griffith or Garth.

[laughs] I was so sure his name was Garth.

[laughs]

Hmm.

Guts knows nothing but the weight of his sword.

He is eventually recruited, partly by force, partly by fascination, into the Band of the Hawk, a highly successful mercenary group led by Griffith.

Griffith is this incredibly beautiful, impossibly charismatic, and intensely ambitious commoner who explicitly intends to own his own kingdom one day, no matter the cost.

For the first few dozen chapters, which make up the legendary Golden Age arc, Berserk actually reads like a gritty but grounded historical war story about found family.

Guts, Griffith, and the brilliant unit commander Casca form this incredibly tight, complex, deeply emotional bond.

Guts finally finds a place where his violence serves a purpose other than just his own survival.

But then an event called the Eclipse happens, and suddenly the grounded war story is violently ripped away, revealed to be merely the prologue of a cosmic tragedy that was already written by fate in a place Guts couldn't even see.

If we connect this to the bigger picture, the horrific theology that Miura builds here is staggering.