I'm only comparing it to the popularity of shonen. You would have to admit that more people know about or heard of Naruto. Can't say that about Berserk.
Naruto is an exception to the rule. So many series in Japan don't even sell a fractional amount of copies like One Piece or Naruto or even Berserk do.
Yeah, I don't want people starting retarded threads like "Who do you think is stronger, BlinkityBlink or BlankityBlank?". Berserk readers have to have a little more wits than that, because they are challenged to think about the planes of existence and causality and the subsequent changes to them what with the merging caused by Griffith in recent events.
I actually don't mind when younger people approach Berserk like that. It shows that they have interest in it. It's when they make comparisons between the two like "I can't wait for Guts' next power-up" or "What level do you think Guts is compared to Griffith?" or
Yeah, Slan was only driven back into the astral world. But now that both planes have been merged I don't think the godhand can do that anymore.Fair enough, but obviously something is going to happen to Guts so he can stand up to Griffith. Yeah the Dragonslayer injured Slan, but I was under the impression that you can't really kill a Godhand on this plane of existence, and if Guts happened to defeat Griffith in his Earthly body, it wouldn't kill Femto.
So, that's about as close to a "powerup" talk you're going to get in Berserk then
I always thought the Godhand exist in the Vortex, while what was merged was just the Physical and Interstitial worlds.
I might be wrong, but I think the point from the Fantasia episode was to show that along with other mythical creatures the godhand are also in the "new world."
Well no, not specifics were mentioned yet you're right. But knowing that mystical creatures exist in the Interstice (Flora's Mansion and surroundings) and we know that the Godhand exist in the Vortex and appear in the Nexus during the Eclipse it's not farfetched to assume that they don't exist on the same plane as everyday life does. There would be two different versions of Griffith then, Reborn and Femto. We know that isn't the case because Griffith was the one who caused this merging and went back to his Human body after the planes merged.
The way I understood it, the Physical/Mortal and the Astral/Nexus worlds are now one and the same. Griffith simply destroyed the barrier between both worlds, allowing not only the legendary creatures of the outermost layer to coexist with the mortals, but also the God Hand (as shown during the World Transformation), and they exist in the innermost layer of the Nexus nonetheless. Otherwise, that scene with each member of the God Hand manifesting itself in the physical world would be meaningless, isn't it?
But this new Griffith is simply Femto in the Moonlight Child's body, there's essentially no distinction between Griffith and Femto for two different versions of him to exist at the same time.
The evidence of the Godhand manifesting itself in the Real World isn't new though, since Conrad was seen manifested from rats in the plague-infested town, and Slan manifested herself from Troll guts in the Qliphoth. That all happened before the World Transformation. The reason Griffith became Femto before Skull Knight caused it was because he exists in two bodies.
Although I believe that the godhand now exist exclusively within the new world, I'm still on the fence whether the merging as gone all the way to the Ideal World.
Well he also wouldn't have removed Chapter 83 from v13 if it was something insignificant. I think he said he had it removed because he thought it revealed too much about the machinations of the world.
That's a really heady thing. I think it's too early to tell, considering how even more ambiguous Griffith has been since being reincarnated. We don't know anything about his motives, other than personal ones that he had before he used the Crimson Behelit.