What will be the ending of Berserk?

[Hachirō Oka]

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[Hard_Rock]

Griffith dead, probably all remaining god hands too, but being such a dark show I just can't see a complete happy ending, so I think that Guts will die at the end as well.

[JK88]

Griffith dead, probably all remaining god hands too, but being such a dark show I just can't see a complete happy ending, so I think that Guts will die at the end as well.

Yes, I think that it's very probable that the ending of Berserk is this one. My doubts are on the destiny (it seems paradoxical XD) of Idea. Will destroyed (or will it stop acting on the world however) or will it continue, despite even it didn't reenter in his plans that Gatsu destroyed the God Hand, to check the fates of the humankind?

[Hard_Rock]

My doubts are on the destiny (it seems paradoxical XD) of Idea. Will destroyed (or will it stop acting on the world however) or will it continue, despite even it didn't reenter in his plans that Gatsu destroyed the God Hand, to check the fates of the humankind?
I don't think the "idea" will be destroyed, because it would require to change consciousness of all humans, which is unrealistic. I wold say it would be the second, it will continue to exist but don't mess with people's fate in this way.
But, I don't really care too much for that, I'm far more interested in the fate of characters.:D

[CBlitz]

are you implying that Berserk will ever end?

[THM Nindo]

At the end, IF this manga ever ends, it will most likely be a showdown between Gatts and Griffin.

I just have no freaking clue how Gatts can win against a freaking God!
I mean... he's good and he's strong... but he has nothing except his strenght, his sword and his rage...

Will that be enough!?

In the end, I think that the fact that Griffin kinda reincarnate into Gatts and Ceska child will have a huge impact.

We already know that this child protected Gatts and Ceska when he could.
So maybe, it will have an effect on Griffin and maybe that will allow Gatts to win against him...

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But, IMO, since Griffin is the "Last boss", Gatts and the others might have to go against every other villains before (including the other 4 Gods).

So... this manga is still good for another 20 years... :eyeroll

I just hope the Miura actually wrote the ending somewhere, so that if he dies from old age, we can actually learn what was supposed to happen.

[Mushashi]

Griffith dead, probably all remaining god hands too, but being such a dark show I just can't see a complete happy ending, so I think that Guts will die at the end as well.

or guts could lose which would also be an ending suitable that of such an amazing manga, it would really leave it hanging and people asking questions about what is going to happen in the future.

[THM Nindo]

or guts could lose which would also be an ending suitable that of such an amazing manga, it would really leave it hanging and people asking questions about what is going to happen in the future.

Or questions like "Why the fuck did I spent 30 years reading this shit, if the hero lose in the end!?" :tem

[Mushashi]

firstly, beserk has only been published for 20 years and 3 months, not 30 years, second you arent even 30 years old, you were 4 when beserk started getting serielized, 3rd the hero winning is cliche'd and un entertaining, miura has always hated cliche's and done the unexpected. hence guts losing would be an ending the would leave the manga hanging in the air, evryone thinking guts was an unstopple human then him losing.

[THM Nindo]

firstly, beserk has only been published for 20 years and 3 months, not 30 years, second you arent even 30 years old, you were 4 when beserk started getting serielized, 3rd the hero winning is cliche'd and un entertaining, miura has always hated cliche's and done the unexpected. hence guts losing would be an ending the would leave the manga hanging in the air, evryone thinking guts was an unstopple human then him losing.

Thanks for reminding me of my age.
I had forgetten already.

And I know that this manga has been up for 20 years, thanks.
I was referring to the fact that this manga will probably over in another 10 years (thus making it 30 years).

And that if at the end of this 30 years manga, the character just lose... I know that a lot of people will be frustrated about it.

It all depends how Miura manage to do it.

I think a "Happy ending" would not really fit the manga. I agree with you.
But, an ending where the bad guys win and where Gatts dies, would be even worst.

I just want Gatts to get his revenge on Griffin.
If Gatts dies in the end, as long as he got his revenge, I'll be happy.

[Mushashi]

yes i agree with you i want him to get his revenge, sorry if i was slightly rude in my earlier post.

[102jayday]

i reckon guts will die in a hero way by saving the world (but that happens too much.)
all the crap guts has been through he deserves to beat all the god hands and become king of the world! its sooo funny how guts has almost died heaps, his like mr.invincible! well his got the luck of elves on his side.

but it was good to see guts in good health in the last chapter, poor fellow got sea sick, burnt etc lol

[Mushashi]

yeh. if only there was another chapter... >.> mirua

[camwil]

Well many things could happen but i see it going this way, the weakest of the god hand will die, or engage in combat with griffith, i mean griffith seems like he is doing his own thing. i think it will be down to the brain god hand slan and femto, slan will propose that gats joins the god hand. skull knight will kill brain. guts will not join god hand fight femto with a berserker plus armour, heavily damage femto, femto will have a change of heart again and time will reverse ( like ganishka's death), he will die b4 making wish and everything will be restored...in essence

[Black124C41]

Well many things could happen but i see it going this way, the weakest of the god hand will die, or engage in combat with griffith, i mean griffith seems like he is doing his own thing. i think it will be down to the brain god hand slan and femto, slan will propose that gats joins the god hand. skull knight will kill brain. guts will not join god hand fight femto with a berserker plus armour, heavily damage femto, femto will have a change of heart again and time will reverse ( like ganishka's death), he will die b4 making wish and everything will be restored...in essence

I like this idea.

Personaly though I think Griffith will not be content with simply having his own kingdom, after all it has been his only one dream and goal for his entire life, now he actualy has it, will it be enough? I see him challenging the God Hands out of either a desire to be the only one left or from some twisted form of morality and that they are evil.

The ending? Griffith and the Hands either all dead or the Hands dead and Griffith reborn without memories of the events of the manga. Casca healed and either gone or with Guts (assuming hes alive), she will be healed eventualy, either by the elves or through some other means (possibly due to guts nearly dying etc).

Oh and and hopefuly that tosser Serpico dead.

[Mushashi]

i fear we wont see the end :(

[tujuh]

I don't mind waiting, but I'm afraid when the release is this horrible typical of berserk release time, my interest for this manga is already gone and the story itself doesn't seem that interesting anymore because there is already another new manga that has a much much more crazier story and an awesome arts.

Its like Chinmi more than 15 years ago, collect the volume till vol 13 or maybe more and suddenly distribution of this manga stops in my country. Release in 3-4 month a volume, I lose interest for this manga, collect another manga, got lots of works.... and the rest as you can say is history.

[Humanitydisease]

i personaly think of not a happy ending for berserk. There are some hints about guts that he will become a apostel because he is alsway having a behelit with him and the demon dog inside his ego/mind did say something about that one day he will come out so maybe i think in the heat of battle against the hawk that guts will lose hin mind has only the goal of revenge and will sacrifice his companiens to acieve the powe of a apostel to deaft the hawk.

[102jayday]

I think in the final berserk DVD, there is a audio interview with miura, he talks about how he spends 15 hours a day working on berserk, how usa movies like conan were sort of his insipration AND he also says that he will have a nice/good ending for guts. So it looks like its going to be "and they all lived happliy ever after, expect the god hand and apostles"

[MissingLimb]

I think Gattsu's journey will end well, but I don't think he'll kill Griffith or any of the other God Hands. That's skull knight's job. Gattsu needs to overcome fate to truly be happy, and to do that he has to break free of the destiny imposed upon him by Griffith. Griffith condemned Gattsu to a life driven by revenge, so for Gattsu to win he has to beat Griffith not physically, but mentally.
Also I think it's pretty clear that Void is to Skull Knight as Griffith is to Gattsu. But Skull Knight said fate moved in a spiral, so maybe Gattsu won't follow the same path of vengeance. That's how I want this to end.

[RancorX]

ive always imagined berserk ending in a simillar way as gungrave, but who knows what wil happen :)

[benelori]

Guts should die a violent death, but not before he kills the God Hands

[Crisis.]

i say kill guts and griffith making it a tie and then a little soft moment right after that from those 2 thus ending it with guts's and griffith's friends crying over them

ah that would be nice but if guts die before he kills griffith then what would had been the point? one of the main ideals of the manga is guts going through a bunch of shits just to get his revenge if he doesn't get it that would be a huge plot hole

[Bhoot]

Uhm , I think that Griffith will own a kingdom but after a while [like 1-2 years] when every conflict settles down and he is recognized as the king , he will feel a void in his heart coz the only thing that keeps him going is his Dream for which he has sacrificed too much . And as we have read , he does not take anyone his friend unless they r equally powerful as him . He will only be able to think of Gatts who now well doesn't feel anything for him but pity[maybe a little hatred] .

He will feel no use in living any longer . He will go berserk attacking his Generals asking them what to do since there is not anything for him left . He will visit Gatts who will either ignore him / just reject him .

Feeling the errors of his ways , he will commit suicide . Giving the message that you should not sacrifice so much for ur ambition that it ends up consuming u / haunting u .

Gatts on the other hand will live a peaceful life by ending the chain of hatred with Casca and all his companions with Isihi as his successor as guardian for something / just a master of arms [I dont think that they will kill a kid protagonist , so maybe even magic girl will survive , maybe end up Marrying Ishi too *o.o*] .

The God hand on the other hand will most probably have been destroyed in the matter of the journey [or still exist to show that we need to always stay careful of our inner demons]

[crazy_horse1989]

Uh, what...? He had a heart at all? After the Eclipse and the reincarnation, first as Femto, then after taking the body of the child? Isn't he one of the God Hand now? o_O

Sure, there was the case of The Count in the second volume, but that was a lesser demon/superior being...

What you are saying there, my friend, will never happen in Berserk. This is not that kind of manga series.

[Roflkopt3r]

Yeah I don't think that it is a likely ending either. Griffith growing a heart upon realizing that his all-devouring dream was hopeless? No way that's gonna happen.
He doesn't behave "heartless" or anything like that either, he seemed to have a pretty good relationship to his soldiers, the apostles and Sonya. He also has comrades who are on the same level as him, which are the God Hand.

However, it might not be impossible that he turns against the God Hand one day, although I don't think so. I wonder what role the skull knight will take in the later story, he still seems very superior to Guts.

[RDN-567]

I think Gattsu's journey will end well, but I don't think he'll kill Griffith or any of the other God Hands. That's skull knight's job. Gattsu needs to overcome fate to truly be happy, and to do that he has to break free of the destiny imposed upon him by Griffith. Griffith condemned Gattsu to a life driven by revenge, so for Gattsu to win he has to beat Griffith not physically, but mentally.
Also I think it's pretty clear that Void is to Skull Knight as Griffith is to Gattsu. But Skull Knight said fate moved in a spiral, so maybe Gattsu won't follow the same path of vengeance. That's how I want this to end.
I think kind of so too. When the armor was presented, I already had the feeling that it connects his and the Skull knights destiny together somehow.
Maybe skull knight took the same road as Gats did... or from otherview: Gatts is on the same road(fate), and is on his way to their fate connects and he becomes the/a Skull knight. And so he will have the power to fight even against the godhands..
But as we see, skull knight is alone, and Gatts has a team.. maybe he sacrifices also his team (as Griffith did), and so he becomes the SK (or alike of thing).
OR this would be happen normally, but the little witch can keep him by his mind, so he wont sacrifice his friends...

But if the manga will continue for 25 years more.. the end will be, that I'll stop reading it.. :(

(btw sorry for my bad english)

[maddoggnick96]

I just hope the ending is good. I can't imagine how the fanbase will react if the ending is extremely unsatisfying after following the series for 30~ years. Can you say "death threats"?

As for how it will actually end. Guts will kill the God Hand, including Griffith and most likely die in the process. Or he will be so cursed from the berserker armor that he banishes himself from society for their safety and can never see them again. That's just my guess though.

[Josef K.]

For some reason the only characters that I see surviving in the end of Berserk are Puck and Caska, I really can't explain it, but the others pretty much seem like they would die or something. Puck is the one that is going to survive I am fairly sure of it, however Caska I doubt it, but I just have a feeling she will as well.

As for some spectacular ending and the battle between Guts and Griffith I don't really know how it will end, but the survivors will be very few, I imagine a war-like ending for Berserk.

[llamapie]

For some reason the only characters that I see surviving in the end of Berserk are Puck and Caska, I really can't explain it, but the others pretty much seem like they would die or something. Puck is the one that is going to survive I am fairly sure of it, however Caska I doubt it, but I just have a feeling she will as well.

As for some spectacular ending and the battle between Guts and Griffith I don't really know how it will end, but the survivors will be very few, I imagine a war-like ending for Berserk.

Its going to involve Guts killing Griffith. I'm not sure how he will pull it off but something tells me we will get a glimpse of the concept when he reaches elfheim.

[Roflkopt3r]

I wonder if it's really going to end in a straight storyline. So far Miura hasn't really put in any time jumps, but somehow I could imagine one following after another plot turn.
Something like Guts failing again (at killing Griffith this time), then having a time jump and then seeing Guts returning like ten years later, and dying while killing Griffith - because I don't really see the still quite young Guts dying for some reason.

[Josef K.]

Its going to involve Guts killing Griffith. I'm not sure how he will pull it off but something tells me we will get a glimpse of the concept when he reaches elfheim.
Yeah the ending is expected, what I meant sure it can be theri final battle, but apart form that, I think it will end with a war, Griffith already has a huge army. Guts does not have much, but he can gather.

Also @Roflkopt3r

You mean like a time-skip?

[Jammin]

The terrible reality is that Berserk will not ever be finished.

Not unless the human lifespan is increased by like 50 years...at least. It seems like they have been traveling to Elfheim for my entire adult life. I'll consider myself fortunate to even live long enough to see them reach that freakin place.

[Josef K.]

It's just that the arcs in Berserk are long, but that does not mean they do not move the story forward, like:

Golden Age, it took a while to finish that, but the story really progressed, even more so, it established the whole plot.

Conviction or Retribution, the arc with Mozgus and the church also involved Guts dealing with a GREAT power in the world of Berserk.

The falcon arc, that one got Griffith established as an even more powerful person, that now has the power of the people on his side, and even more they believe in him and trust him.

As for this arc it is at the beginning, so it is moving slow, sadly this is when most fans caught up, those who have been reading it for ten years, I can not even image what they are thinking.

But this arc is not the ending, a solid two-three arcs will be the ending where everything is wrapped up.

[mrsticky005]

Guts dies.
Griffith dies.

Rickert is King of Falconia.

[mcd693]

I think that Guts kills everyone and then just walks away.

Every big terrible character throughout the series has been attempting to become a god by gaining more power and more influence. Guts doesn't really care for status or power. He's beginning to get his own little army and in the most recent chapters he has had to rely on them numerous times to beat his ever growing opponents. But he never really instructs them on how to carry themselves... they just kind of do it. I think that similarly to the first arc, guts and co. will continue to win until there is no one left. At that point he'll simply walk away from the potential, "king" or, "ruler" position.

The roman's caesar and successive caesar's would simply take power once their military campaigns were over because they were simply strong enough to do so. Unlike caesar Guts is not a king. He is currently a small leader, but has never shown any content leading more than a handful of people. Nothing is gonna stop guts from killing everyone. The series relies on it.

It's what he choses to do once everyone is dead that I am fascinated to see :)

[Aazholh]

I can't see everyone dying, but I'm sure there will be casualties on the way to taking down Griffith. Guts will probably die, since what he wants most is revenge against Griffith. Prior to the eclipse, Guts just wanted to equal to Griffith and earn his respect as a friend. Maybe he will achieve this dream without even knowing it. It would be nice to see Guts strip Griffith of his power and claim Falconia for himself, but that's just a pipe dream I guess.

[ladylola]

The ending I see is similar to Devilman's ending. Guts will die, and he won't be able to take his revenge.

[Aazholh]

The ending I see is similar to Devilman's ending. Guts will die, and he won't be able to take his revenge.

I hope the ending will be a little more upbeat than that. How about this: the ending shows a thousand years later were Guts is in Skullknight's place trying to take down the Godhand.

[ladylola]

I hope the ending will be a little more upbeat than that. How about this: the ending shows a thousand years later were Guts is in Skullknight's place trying to take down the Godhand.
I don't find that satisfying since that would mean he'll have to lose his humanity in order to take down the Godhand. Besides we don't know what SK is. He might not be an Apostle, but he could be anything, and not necessarily something "holy" .Besides Guts was sacrificed to the Godhand. If he dies he'll just become one of those spirits that we saw in the earlier volumes.So I doubt he'll be able to come back in another form.

[Aazholh]

I think that SK has a vested interest in Guts due to all the times that he has saved him and warned him of things to come. I really think there is more to it than Guts just being a fellow struggler. For now it is just wild speculation by me, but SK knew that Guts was born from a corpse. Princess Charlotte mentioned that although Gaeseric didn't have heirs to his empire, the midland royalty are related to him. So what I'm trying to say is that the reason that SK is always saving Guts is because he is a direct heir to Gaeseric. Flora asked SK (which he never answers) whether he is helping Guts because of empathy or for some ulterior motive.

[ladylola]

So that makes Guts royalty according to you. I'm not saying it couldn't be possible, but I'd rather think SK helped Guts because he's been through a similar situation, and because he sees in him the only person capable of taking down the Godhand. That or he feels guilty because he failed at taking down Void.Either way we'll know more about SK when Miura decides to tell us more about the Godhand.

[Aazholh]

So that makes Guts royalty according to you. I'm not saying it couldn't be possible, but I'd rather think SK helped Guts because he's been through a similar situation, and because he sees in him the only person capable of taking down the Godhand. That or he feels guilty because he failed at taking down Void.Either way we'll know more about SK when Miura decides to tell us more about the Godhand.

Yeah, it's just a pipe dream. And it's not exactly in Guts character to be a king; he's such a loner. Although he's been through a lot of shit, he's still a young man. He left the Band in order to carve a better path for himself which might have led to being a king or something similar. But it would be cool if Skull Knight reveals himself to be Gaeseric and presents Guts as his heir.

[ladylola]

I'm trying to imagine what things would be like if Guts never heard the conversation that Griffith had with Princess Charlotte. And if Griffith wasn't forced to use his behelit. Griff would have prolly married Charlotte, and Guts would have become a lord at his court.
So Guts becoming a king, or even a noble, isn't too far-fetched. I like the idea tbh.

[abuyi]

Griffith sacrifice isnt complete until gatsu and casca are dead. if somehow gatsu dies but the apostles dont get his body then griffith might loose everything. he would end up in his true form of shit. gatsu has enough blood in his hand. i think by far now he has equivalent blood in his hand as Griffith once had. so i be okay if gatsu die but death brings the true vengeance to griffith. the whole world goes to normal. gatsu & griffith becomes myth.

what you guys think of that??

[Desperado]

Casca will sacrifice herself to power Guts Behelit. Guts along with his achieved Buffs will go God Hand strength. Guts kills Griffith and dies in the process. Guts is reunited with Casca in the Abyss.