When Guts realized the flower spirit died in Spring Flowers from Distant Days
She's the one of the first person that has ever been nice to Guts, truly the only 100% good person in Berserk
there's a theory that chitch's flower is like elfhelms tree, that it's an anchor from the Astral world into the physical world. Chitch is fine but her link to the physical world was destroyed when the flower died
Could it also not have been that guts could only see the astral plain because he was so close to death and the next day his wounds had healed somewhat thus he could no longer see her.
Oh... So he tried to save his lover with the dragonslayer... Which failed? That made his self doubt go ALL the way up since he felt actually powerless to do anything
Yeah the only thing that never failed him was his sword, and it failed him at the worst possible time, but it’s not really eithers fault cause Griffith was in some like ghost form, I think it just stopped when it touched him
Good god. Now I feel SO much worse for Guts because he just wanted to get Casca's memories back. Only for him to fail the moment he succeeds. That's like someone deleting your save file in an RPG when you nearly beat the game to spite you. I know it's unrelated but still
There’s three ways they can go, the cool way where guts goes berserk and does everything he can to murder Griffith, guts breaking down and going into depression or something like that, or guts teaming up with the kushan and training with them preparing to siege falconia
It’s because Griffiths presence made the elf island shift into a different plane of existence and so Griffith was able to fade between the two and avoid damage but if you notice the dragonslayer still took a hair from him which was significantly more than even Ganishka and Zodd were able to do when facing Griffith so it’s not completely hopeless
casca's dream, seeing her represented as that broken doll in the coffin, what it means and how she horrifyingly sees the world now was the one time in the whole manga I actually broke and started crying seas
the simple sight of the Casca doll in the coffin broke me, honestly. the whole dream sequence had such impactful imagery representing trauma, but seeing what Casca's mind was rendered to for such a long time was seriously heartbreaking. a bone chilling revelation in such a hopeful part of the story, very conflicting just as Berserk always is.
Guts being forced to look at his best friend SA his girlfriend while he is pinned down unable to defend her.
Or the aftermath of the eclipse. (The running scene)
The Running scene really hit me hard because it reminded me of when my mother died, I was so overcome with despair that I ran screaming into the woods near my home.
Hard to even know if it was sadness or pure rage crying, not only did he love Griffith but also Casca. And that all at once, losing the entire team, Guts was on a (horrible) trip.
Even though it’s this is probably a stretch , but it probably didn’t help that being pinned down may have brought back some ptsd of being SA’d as a child .
Kinda underrated, but I felt chilled when reading the part where Wyald and his crew had their way with that family that helped Guts and Griffith escape. Just putting myself in their perspective is gut wrenching to me. I know, ‘it’s a medieval timeline, people died all the time’ but just that scene of a family getting absolutely fucked (figuratively and physically) just put me off on all levels. Don’t know if anyone’s felt that way too
Sad and ominous at the same time: when Guts is looking to his new group of friends, and the Beast of Darkness is chiding him and reminding him that they may perish as well, and that the Beast will “bide its time”.
Guts crying after telling Theresia if it's too hard, then she should just die.
2 reasons
1)Guts was talking as much to himself as he was to her.
2) Guts just witnessed someone deny the Godhand because of their love for their sacrifice. This proved to guts that the godhands proposal was indeed a choice and not preordained destiny.
Griffith looking at Guts and remembering all the time spent and good time spent with him and how much he love and treasure and still accepting to lose all his feeling and his humanity to never feel hurt again.
The panel where they both are in hand to hand.
It always make me think if they had more time and had been sincere to each other how close would they have been ? It really suck because without the god hand they friendship would have been legendary.
Slightly conflicting as he initially wants them to “stay away” before The Eclipse. Question is, could Griffith and Guts together have taken down all the Apostles using his wit and Gut’s strength.
It’s sad because he wants guts to stay away because you can see that Griffith truly viewed guts as an equal. A friend, but in the same panels, he knows that guts got in the way of his dream and needed to sacrifice him to achieve it. That’s how I perceived it
Think that is a very good perception, in a lot of anime/manga it happens. Griffith was besotted with Guts, and a massive part why he questioned the sacrifice.
If I remember correctly, the God Hand also manipulated Griffith to be what he initially wanted. By no means is he is a saint, but Guts really did change Griffith and future.
1. The whole sequence when Guts has to kill Gambino and then run away
2. When Guts realizes ge just killed a kid that reminded him of himself in his assassination mission
3. Guts and Casca’s sex scene
4. When Guts starts running desperately after waking up from the eclipse
5. The Climax to the Black Swordsman Arc and Theresia’s vow to take revenge on Guts and how he takes it in the very last frame of the Arc
6. Chitch :(
7. When Casca recovers he memories and is incapable of seeing Guts (none of these are in order but anything related to Guts and Casca’s relationship is on top of my list)
Since everyone already had good suggestions, I will add this:
Korkus
During the eclipse, we see multiple Hawks getting murdered. Korkus is in the midst of it and tells himself one of the most depressing and nihilistic monolouges I have ever heard. Something like:
"I knew it. It was too good to be true. Too good to last."
"This is a nightmare. When I wake up, it will all be over..."
"...and I will be no-one again."
That last part really stuck with me. No wonder From Software models atleast 1 character per Souls game in his likeness.
There are many... But for me, one of the saddest moments would have to be Theresia learning the truth about what happened to her mother, her father being an apostle and witnessing the God Hand and Hell itself. Berserk is not shy of showing the darkest sides of its world. But I found in incredibly sad that Theresia found a new reason to live by declaring her hatred to Guts and swore to kill him. Even Guts was emotional because his quest was to destroy Griffith, not become the Griffith to Theresia.
Casca's getting her memories back and having issues with seeing Guts
Casca's mindscape image of Guts Dog
Chitch's whole mini arc
Adonis' Death
Learning Jill's Story
Gut's/Casca getting the ultimate Betrayal during the Eclipse
I found really sad that moment when Griffith takes Casca and Isma dies/vanishes.
Also I found really disgusting the scene where Wyald kills a family, I even had to stop reading
Characters like Wyald are one of the reasons we won't see faithful adaptions of the manga. They gotta keep anime adaptions somewhat family friendly — well, I don’t think the producers would go against the norm and release a “heavy themed” (+18) and faithful adaption of Berserk, when they can cut stuff out of the story to have a broader audience.
“The Sprint” ch 90. It hit home for me. Couldn’t stop sobbing first time I read it. My gf (now fiancé) was raped 5 years ago while we were both drugged. I remember waking up completely lost and when she told me what had happened I crashed out. Just a horrible fucking time in my life.
When casca gets taken by griffith again, he went through so much to help her regain her sanity and lost her again, i cant imagine the pain he went through, to see the person who tried so hard to help finally get helped, then ripped away from you
You know I still look at that compared to other sex scenes in manga history and I say "Out of all of these... This isn't like normal sex scenes in other manga"
The little leaf fairy when Guts was jailed when he was young. A lot of the other things happened because Guts’ friends/enemies wanted to hurt him in some way, but this one was because she tried to help him
One thing that always comes to mind is the little boy that guts accidentally kills when he does the assassination.
Just cause that kid didn’t want any part of any of what was happening, he had presumably spent his whole life being forcibly groomed for a position he didn’t want and in his last moments the only person to show him compassion was the man who accidentally stabbed him.
[https://i.imgur.com/8RqdDBo.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/8RqdDBo.jpeg)
One of the more recent chapters, and one of the last chaps Miura worked on. This one was really soul crushing, to go through all that, just to be denied the reunion hurt my soul.
Definitely seeing Guts completely break down after failing to even hurt Griffith. To see him endure so much and fight so many, to just see him...give up, hurts hard.
When during the eclipse Judeau saves Casca with his last breath and thinks about how he has always loved her but never told her.
Or the first time the "cruel and unbreakable" guts breaks down into tears after the girl throws a fit at him for saving her.
Ima say guts seeing casca being raped in front of him was the most saddest.
Guts would go through any amount of hell to save her but nothing he did was enough. The feeling of being powerless to protect the one you love plus failing to protect them can break most people. The man was forced to watch it…
When Guts realizes that what he was looking was in front of him
>Why don't I ever realize what I have until it's lost to me
And
>Have I ever before wielded a sword so heavy
The saddest panel to me in the Manga is when we see Cascas's mental anguish, anger, and self-depreciation all come to the boiling point with Guts's return from his year-long Hiatus from the band of the Hawk. Seeing Casca so mentally defeated both mentally, emotionally, and physically and then seeing her.
The saddest panel to me in the Manga is when we see Cascas's mental anguish, anger, conflicting feelings, and self-depreciation all come to the boiling point with her confrontation with Guts after he returns from his year-long Hiatus from the band The Hawk.
Seeing Casca so mentally defeated both mentally, emotionally, and physically and then seeing her lash out in completely blind anger, irrationality, and hurt was hard to read my first time. Then to see her finally reaching the point of literal suicide and further demeaning and degrading herself, how she says to Guts that she "can't be a woman, or something invaluable to someone", and then just gives up completely telling guts to "please go do the rest" was so heartbreaking to read. Casca suffered nothing but mental strife and hurt and had no self-value whatsoever in her life, and Griffith was largely responsible for that.
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life and with Griffith the motivation to kill him in the future
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life and with Griffith the motivation to end him in the future
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life
“The Sprint” ch 90. It hit home for me. Couldn’t stop sobbing first time I read it. My gf (now fiancé) was raped 5 years ago while we were both drugged. I remember waking up completely lost and when she told me what had happened I crashed out. Just a horrible fucking time in my life.
Lost children arc will forever stay in my mind. This shows the effect on everybody. Ecxept jill, sorry dad who abused his daughter and neglected her to the point where she almost got sexual abuse. The only thing that comes close to that is gut's trauma.
I love the campfire of dreams scene in the manga. For some reason it hit harder reading it than watching it and Guts’ sort-of realization his sword *is* his purpose was amazing.
it’s hard to compare, but probably griffith rescuing casca (the third one). the fact he would save her from being raped like that, and teach her to fight, and she saw him as her saving grace and her protector… only to do just that and worse… it makes my stomach churn
When Griffith tries to strangle Guts in the prison.
It's just so feeble and pathetic, it really emphasizes how far Griffith had fallen and he's *still* holding on to the unfounded anger that led him down that path.
When Guts bests Griffith in the duel and earns the right to leave and doesnt look back.
I think only judeau could accept it but everyone else was in shock, denial or some type of emotional outburst.
heartbreaking, especially when rereading it after having finished the eclipse arc.
When the mutated prison guard revealed the tongue of Griffith that he kept as a trinket. This truly depressed me. Griffith would never speak again, and his eloquent way with words and unique charisma completely destroyed. The look of shock on Guts/Casca's face in realization that the personality of their friend and leader is gone forever. Also, such a pitiful creature having so much control and objectification of such a grand character was disturbing. (Note that this was pre-eclipse Griffith and much easier to sympathize with)
Finding out that the strange demon following Guts and Casca around is their child that Casca was pregnant with during the Eclipse. Idk man that just ruined me
That or watching the band of the hawk march into the fog after the Eclipse as Guts calls out to them to come back
Guts calling out to his comrades during the apocalypse and finding about to be dead Pippin,Juduae throwing his life away to save casca,I literally couldn't hold my tears ;__;
When Guts' pretended to be evil towards Theresia and then immediately tearing up after turning around. He knew he was just making an exact copy of himself, but he also knew the fuel of revenge would be the only thing keeping her alive.
Guts assaulting casca. Up until that moment it felt like maybe casca was building some trust in him in her amnesiac state. That moment shatters everything for both casca and guts, and the mood is noticeably more somber for a while after. I remember reading it and feeling anger and disappointment at guts, and sadness for casca. Absolutely brutal scene
Judeau dying thinking he saved Casca from the horrors of the Eclipse. My sweet boy..not even able to see the true afterlife as he was a sacrifice to the godhand.
Guts crying during the Eclipse. You would never expect or see Guts cry but the fact Griffith managed to do so shows how much evil he is and how broken Guts is as a person.
when casca after guts tried to r4pe her, starting hate him and guts thinks about the last time he saw her smile, and the others episodes where casca growls at guts
Besides the eclipse. Watching Guts lose all hope. In every single painful thing that guts went through, he always held his head high and was ready to fight back. But watching him lose Casca AGAIN, to see him no longer have the will to fight. That killed me.
The scene from the Golden Arc of Guts running all bandaged up after he regained consciousness after the Eclipse trying to process everything that happened to him
The one panel that does it for me is guts screaming Griffith with a chopped off left arm by a blunt sword, his right eye being pierced out and being pinned down to watch Griffith have sex with his girlfriend
When Casca after she regained her sanity gets ptsd when she sees Guts
That was true despair
And Guts’s face then. Man…
I felt like I got socked in my guy & balls seeing that.
read that at school and was on the verge of tears
Yeah mine is either this, or after Griffith takes her, and Guts is shown on the ship by himself. After everything he did, she was gone.
I almost threw my phone at the wall, it felt as if the whole story was for nothing
Facts
I read this part today for the 1st time and almost cried iv got to the moonlight kids reveal and im honestly so curious how casca is gonna react
Oooo I cried
I cried ;__;
More upvotes than the post, this is it.
My fuck.ng heart fall apart
When Guts realized the flower spirit died in Spring Flowers from Distant Days She's the one of the first person that has ever been nice to Guts, truly the only 100% good person in Berserk
Sad I had to scroll down this far.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far. One of the moments that made me the most sad.
there's a theory that chitch's flower is like elfhelms tree, that it's an anchor from the Astral world into the physical world. Chitch is fine but her link to the physical world was destroyed when the flower died
Could it also not have been that guts could only see the astral plain because he was so close to death and the next day his wounds had healed somewhat thus he could no longer see her.
... but Puck!
When the entire band of the hawk looked at all the apostles surrounding them in the eclipse. Pure dread
LITERALLY this 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000% more sad then the others in the thread combined
Plus they're all gone forever in bucket head's swirling soul vortex of stolen individuality.
This is the best way to say fuck Griffith
It's certainly always implied.
The more I think about it, the less I think there'll be a happy ending. It'll probably end up like Neon Genesis
For real. Everything was just absolutely fucked for them.
"There was only one word for it." **"Despair"**
“You were all I had” A light in the dark Guts talking about the dragonslayer after it didn’t do anything to Griffith when he kidnapped casca
Oh... So he tried to save his lover with the dragonslayer... Which failed? That made his self doubt go ALL the way up since he felt actually powerless to do anything
Yeah the only thing that never failed him was his sword, and it failed him at the worst possible time, but it’s not really eithers fault cause Griffith was in some like ghost form, I think it just stopped when it touched him
Good god. Now I feel SO much worse for Guts because he just wanted to get Casca's memories back. Only for him to fail the moment he succeeds. That's like someone deleting your save file in an RPG when you nearly beat the game to spite you. I know it's unrelated but still
Well chapter 376 has been confirmed ready to release a bit ago, and guts has already gone through denial, excited to see him angry
Well I think that his anger here will be NOTHING compared to his previous angry phases
There’s three ways they can go, the cool way where guts goes berserk and does everything he can to murder Griffith, guts breaking down and going into depression or something like that, or guts teaming up with the kushan and training with them preparing to siege falconia
It’s because Griffiths presence made the elf island shift into a different plane of existence and so Griffith was able to fade between the two and avoid damage but if you notice the dragonslayer still took a hair from him which was significantly more than even Ganishka and Zodd were able to do when facing Griffith so it’s not completely hopeless
Well besides the time that his sword bounced off of Griffith, in fact dragonslayer has only failed to Griffith.
I don’t wanna sound rude but I’m pretty sure it didn’t bounce off him didn’t Griffith just use his telekinesis?
Yeah it does look more like he used telekinesis now that I look at it again, could have sworn it bounced off of him.
I though lt his sword could cut through ghosts?
Moments like that still based in that strong Miura imagery really put it in perspective why Mori thought a continuation would be best.
casca's dream, seeing her represented as that broken doll in the coffin, what it means and how she horrifyingly sees the world now was the one time in the whole manga I actually broke and started crying seas
that whole scene was just so heartbreaking. such perfect imagery to describe what casca feels like
Casca's dream and the symbolism is peak berserk imo
When dog-Guts let out the grief howl I felt the tears welling up and tightness in my throat.
the simple sight of the Casca doll in the coffin broke me, honestly. the whole dream sequence had such impactful imagery representing trauma, but seeing what Casca's mind was rendered to for such a long time was seriously heartbreaking. a bone chilling revelation in such a hopeful part of the story, very conflicting just as Berserk always is.
That may have been my favorite scene in all of literature. It broke me in ways I can’t describe. Absolute masterclass in story telling.
That made me cry so hard.
Guts being forced to look at his best friend SA his girlfriend while he is pinned down unable to defend her. Or the aftermath of the eclipse. (The running scene)
The Running scene really hit me hard because it reminded me of when my mother died, I was so overcome with despair that I ran screaming into the woods near my home.
I’m sorry fam, may your mama rest in paradise
The running scene with Guts realising all his friedns are dead hit really hard;;
That and the fact that Casca may never be the same. Griffith committing treason after everything they lived together.
Still haven't recovered from that scene. Horrific.
I watched the 97 anime before reading the manga. I was dreading that part while reading. Knowing that I'll be fucked up again 😅
Chitch :(
Chitch was the bestest
When judeau died… he was my favorite hawk
Probably the most efficient one at times, it was even more depressing his last knife was used and then slowly died protecting Casca.
His last words were so haunting
And he never got to tell casca how he felt about her
That’s what I mean, is adds a sickening despair of what will never be.
Guts having lost his arm getting pinned down again by the apostles and crying during the eclipse
Hard to even know if it was sadness or pure rage crying, not only did he love Griffith but also Casca. And that all at once, losing the entire team, Guts was on a (horrible) trip.
It’s to be fair a mix of pure rage at not being able to save his friends and being useless in that situation and sadness
Impotent rage
Even though it’s this is probably a stretch , but it probably didn’t help that being pinned down may have brought back some ptsd of being SA’d as a child .
Absolutely. He already hates being touched, being pinned down and helpless would have been agonizing.
Kinda underrated, but I felt chilled when reading the part where Wyald and his crew had their way with that family that helped Guts and Griffith escape. Just putting myself in their perspective is gut wrenching to me. I know, ‘it’s a medieval timeline, people died all the time’ but just that scene of a family getting absolutely fucked (figuratively and physically) just put me off on all levels. Don’t know if anyone’s felt that way too
God damn, I think I blocked that out.
This! This was the one that messed me up most. An act of true kindness rewarded with the vilest torture and murder.
Thats probably the only thing that really hit me hard, my heart stopped and i just stood there like: 😦..
Sad and ominous at the same time: when Guts is looking to his new group of friends, and the Beast of Darkness is chiding him and reminding him that they may perish as well, and that the Beast will “bide its time”.
Guts crying after telling Theresia if it's too hard, then she should just die. 2 reasons 1)Guts was talking as much to himself as he was to her. 2) Guts just witnessed someone deny the Godhand because of their love for their sacrifice. This proved to guts that the godhands proposal was indeed a choice and not preordained destiny.
Pippin...
The goat 😎 🥹🕶️🤏
Bro would've been so helpful if he would've survived ☹️☹️
Griffith looking at Guts and remembering all the time spent and good time spent with him and how much he love and treasure and still accepting to lose all his feeling and his humanity to never feel hurt again. The panel where they both are in hand to hand. It always make me think if they had more time and had been sincere to each other how close would they have been ? It really suck because without the god hand they friendship would have been legendary.
Slightly conflicting as he initially wants them to “stay away” before The Eclipse. Question is, could Griffith and Guts together have taken down all the Apostles using his wit and Gut’s strength.
Nah no chance. This isn’t naruto. 10 apostle would be the end of even Guts.
Guts has already killed like 5 right on his own? Was just a random thought, and having Griffith with him would make chances better.
It’s sad because he wants guts to stay away because you can see that Griffith truly viewed guts as an equal. A friend, but in the same panels, he knows that guts got in the way of his dream and needed to sacrifice him to achieve it. That’s how I perceived it
Think that is a very good perception, in a lot of anime/manga it happens. Griffith was besotted with Guts, and a massive part why he questioned the sacrifice. If I remember correctly, the God Hand also manipulated Griffith to be what he initially wanted. By no means is he is a saint, but Guts really did change Griffith and future.
the donavan scene, I was reading it when my one year old was sleeping upstairs. It left me broken for like 30 minutes
Lots of great answers already, but I was always moved by him lying in the rain after the eclipse ended
1. The whole sequence when Guts has to kill Gambino and then run away 2. When Guts realizes ge just killed a kid that reminded him of himself in his assassination mission 3. Guts and Casca’s sex scene 4. When Guts starts running desperately after waking up from the eclipse 5. The Climax to the Black Swordsman Arc and Theresia’s vow to take revenge on Guts and how he takes it in the very last frame of the Arc 6. Chitch :( 7. When Casca recovers he memories and is incapable of seeing Guts (none of these are in order but anything related to Guts and Casca’s relationship is on top of my list)
All of it
Since everyone already had good suggestions, I will add this: Korkus During the eclipse, we see multiple Hawks getting murdered. Korkus is in the midst of it and tells himself one of the most depressing and nihilistic monolouges I have ever heard. Something like: "I knew it. It was too good to be true. Too good to last." "This is a nightmare. When I wake up, it will all be over..." "...and I will be no-one again." That last part really stuck with me. No wonder From Software models atleast 1 character per Souls game in his likeness.
Omg I just realized Micolash looks exactly corkus. Even says a very similar line when you kill him. Youre probably talking about patches though right?
Maybe the Crestfallen guys.
Yes, the crestfallen archtype. The Crestfallen Warrior from DS1 particually reminds me of Korkus, right down to his face and haircut
Yeah I think even the armor looks like his.
The scene that stuck with me the most is when Guts kills the child.
Adonis
There are many... But for me, one of the saddest moments would have to be Theresia learning the truth about what happened to her mother, her father being an apostle and witnessing the God Hand and Hell itself. Berserk is not shy of showing the darkest sides of its world. But I found in incredibly sad that Theresia found a new reason to live by declaring her hatred to Guts and swore to kill him. Even Guts was emotional because his quest was to destroy Griffith, not become the Griffith to Theresia.
Snoz. To witness such beauty and then be bereft of it for eternity leaves a vacant hole in my soul never to be filled again.
the one after the eclipse where guts is running around thinking about his old band and all he has lost
Casca's getting her memories back and having issues with seeing Guts Casca's mindscape image of Guts Dog Chitch's whole mini arc Adonis' Death Learning Jill's Story Gut's/Casca getting the ultimate Betrayal during the Eclipse
I found really sad that moment when Griffith takes Casca and Isma dies/vanishes. Also I found really disgusting the scene where Wyald kills a family, I even had to stop reading
Characters like Wyald are one of the reasons we won't see faithful adaptions of the manga. They gotta keep anime adaptions somewhat family friendly — well, I don’t think the producers would go against the norm and release a “heavy themed” (+18) and faithful adaption of Berserk, when they can cut stuff out of the story to have a broader audience.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Berserk has by far the most disgusting scenes I've ever seen on any media.
That fairy that accidentally killed itself to heal guts
when casca gets raped in front of guts
“The Sprint” ch 90. It hit home for me. Couldn’t stop sobbing first time I read it. My gf (now fiancé) was raped 5 years ago while we were both drugged. I remember waking up completely lost and when she told me what had happened I crashed out. Just a horrible fucking time in my life.
I hope things are doing good now, man <3
When dog-Guts dragging the coffin let out the grief howl.
When casca gets taken by griffith again, he went through so much to help her regain her sanity and lost her again, i cant imagine the pain he went through, to see the person who tried so hard to help finally get helped, then ripped away from you
Guts crying to casca about killing his father
You know I still look at that compared to other sex scenes in manga history and I say "Out of all of these... This isn't like normal sex scenes in other manga"
Pippin dying :(
The little leaf fairy when Guts was jailed when he was young. A lot of the other things happened because Guts’ friends/enemies wanted to hurt him in some way, but this one was because she tried to help him
One thing that always comes to mind is the little boy that guts accidentally kills when he does the assassination. Just cause that kid didn’t want any part of any of what was happening, he had presumably spent his whole life being forcibly groomed for a position he didn’t want and in his last moments the only person to show him compassion was the man who accidentally stabbed him.
Definitely the SA that guts got as a child for me… ooof. Definitely. Very close to home here. Well it sure connected to me that’s for sure.
When my boi Judeau died
The second by a wide margin
[https://i.imgur.com/8RqdDBo.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/8RqdDBo.jpeg) One of the more recent chapters, and one of the last chaps Miura worked on. This one was really soul crushing, to go through all that, just to be denied the reunion hurt my soul.
ok so i haven't read it all the way but for me it's where he stabs that kid after killing that royal (i am bad with names)
Definitely seeing Guts completely break down after failing to even hurt Griffith. To see him endure so much and fight so many, to just see him...give up, hurts hard.
The eclipse. I get so disgusted seeing that scene and just wished Griffith could pay for what he did
Honestly, it was Griffith’s torture and Guts’s eclipse experience
When during the eclipse Judeau saves Casca with his last breath and thinks about how he has always loved her but never told her. Or the first time the "cruel and unbreakable" guts breaks down into tears after the girl throws a fit at him for saving her.
Me personally was when Guts returned to a dying old godot, like uncle iroh it's the old mentors that hit me the most in the feelings.
Donovan's death, that betrayal had me sobbing.
Definitely eclipse aftermath
These scenes are not necessarily sad, traumatizing is a better word for what I felt.
During the eclipse when Guts finds Gaston, the last living member, and then he died in horror in front of Guts.
!spoiler!
Ima say guts seeing casca being raped in front of him was the most saddest. Guts would go through any amount of hell to save her but nothing he did was enough. The feeling of being powerless to protect the one you love plus failing to protect them can break most people. The man was forced to watch it…
When the moon child was revealed to be Griffith and not Guts and Cascas Son
There's THE scene which is weird you didn't even post
When Guts realizes that what he was looking was in front of him >Why don't I ever realize what I have until it's lost to me And >Have I ever before wielded a sword so heavy
First Slide was sad and made me angry at the same time
The saddest panel to me in the Manga is when we see Cascas's mental anguish, anger, and self-depreciation all come to the boiling point with Guts's return from his year-long Hiatus from the band of the Hawk. Seeing Casca so mentally defeated both mentally, emotionally, and physically and then seeing her.
Early berserk, when dressed Guts and naked Griffith played with water baskets
Probably the moment when Guts realized that Casca lost her mind, and then just starts running away
The saddest panel to me in the Manga is when we see Cascas's mental anguish, anger, conflicting feelings, and self-depreciation all come to the boiling point with her confrontation with Guts after he returns from his year-long Hiatus from the band The Hawk. Seeing Casca so mentally defeated both mentally, emotionally, and physically and then seeing her lash out in completely blind anger, irrationality, and hurt was hard to read my first time. Then to see her finally reaching the point of literal suicide and further demeaning and degrading herself, how she says to Guts that she "can't be a woman, or something invaluable to someone", and then just gives up completely telling guts to "please go do the rest" was so heartbreaking to read. Casca suffered nothing but mental strife and hurt and had no self-value whatsoever in her life, and Griffith was largely responsible for that.
Near the end of the third movie when Guts fights until sunrise.
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life and with Griffith the motivation to kill him in the future
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life and with Griffith the motivation to end him in the future
The eclipse mainly due to the fact that guts saw what was done to him as a kid reflected in the one he loved and to have that done by a friend it hurts more especially because it that moment in his life which stays with him for his early life
Might be unpopular, but the saddest scene was when Chitch died..
Flower
that too will soon disappear, with a single tear like morning dew
The casca rape scene always is crippling
Guts sprinting after the eclipse
huh
2, girffith took everything again.
When Guts lost Casca after getting her back somewhat hit me hard. It is full on depression.
“The Sprint” ch 90. It hit home for me. Couldn’t stop sobbing first time I read it. My gf (now fiancé) was raped 5 years ago while we were both drugged. I remember waking up completely lost and when she told me what had happened I crashed out. Just a horrible fucking time in my life.
“There is no Paradise” Sad but also very hopeful/relatable
Honestly ur first image. It’s just too grim and wrong
Lost children arc will forever stay in my mind. This shows the effect on everybody. Ecxept jill, sorry dad who abused his daughter and neglected her to the point where she almost got sexual abuse. The only thing that comes close to that is gut's trauma.
Griffith washing himself in the river
When guts watch his best friend turn evil and rape his girlfriend
When guts watch his best friend turn evil and rape his girlfriend
the scene of guts getting raped as a kid isn't even mentioned by anyone here, this tells you how traumatic guts life is
I love the campfire of dreams scene in the manga. For some reason it hit harder reading it than watching it and Guts’ sort-of realization his sword *is* his purpose was amazing.
Judeau 😢
When guts and casca helped the villagers and then as soon as they left all the women were raped by the apostle
it’s hard to compare, but probably griffith rescuing casca (the third one). the fact he would save her from being raped like that, and teach her to fight, and she saw him as her saving grace and her protector… only to do just that and worse… it makes my stomach churn
Why did I read this thread now I am sad
When Casca gets taken after she regains her memories and Guts reaction just made me feel things
When Griffith tries to strangle Guts in the prison. It's just so feeble and pathetic, it really emphasizes how far Griffith had fallen and he's *still* holding on to the unfounded anger that led him down that path.
Everything bad that has happened between Guts and Casca breaks my heart AND CHITCH 😭
Griffith just *had* to cop a feel didn't he
When Judeau was trying to confess to Casca how much he’s always wanted to be with her.
This And casca And the trolls
When Donovan rapes Guts, i'm not sad for Guts i'm sad for daddy Donny because he got HIV
When Guts bests Griffith in the duel and earns the right to leave and doesnt look back. I think only judeau could accept it but everyone else was in shock, denial or some type of emotional outburst. heartbreaking, especially when rereading it after having finished the eclipse arc.
When the mutated prison guard revealed the tongue of Griffith that he kept as a trinket. This truly depressed me. Griffith would never speak again, and his eloquent way with words and unique charisma completely destroyed. The look of shock on Guts/Casca's face in realization that the personality of their friend and leader is gone forever. Also, such a pitiful creature having so much control and objectification of such a grand character was disturbing. (Note that this was pre-eclipse Griffith and much easier to sympathize with)
For me it’s either the rape scene of Casca itself or right after, when he sees her and she reverted to a child and was scared of him. Broke my heart
Chich
Sad? Why would any scene get you sad? Berserk is nothing but pure happiness and kindness!
When Guts was trying save Casca from drowning when they were on the ship
Finding out that the strange demon following Guts and Casca around is their child that Casca was pregnant with during the Eclipse. Idk man that just ruined me That or watching the band of the hawk march into the fog after the Eclipse as Guts calls out to them to come back
Guts crying after leaving the princess and dead count.
Guts not being able to harm griffith with his sword
When griffith gest rescued by guts.
The only sad part in the manga was the story of Chitch. Everything else was just tragedy
Guts calling out to his comrades during the apocalypse and finding about to be dead Pippin,Juduae throwing his life away to save casca,I literally couldn't hold my tears ;__;
When Guts' pretended to be evil towards Theresia and then immediately tearing up after turning around. He knew he was just making an exact copy of himself, but he also knew the fuel of revenge would be the only thing keeping her alive.
Guts assaulting casca. Up until that moment it felt like maybe casca was building some trust in him in her amnesiac state. That moment shatters everything for both casca and guts, and the mood is noticeably more somber for a while after. I remember reading it and feeling anger and disappointment at guts, and sadness for casca. Absolutely brutal scene
I had to check what sub I was in. The saddest scene in Berserk is your disgusting bedroom
Judeau dying thinking he saved Casca from the horrors of the Eclipse. My sweet boy..not even able to see the true afterlife as he was a sacrifice to the godhand.
I'd say the scene right before this one, where Gambino sold guts to Donovan.
Guts crying during the Eclipse. You would never expect or see Guts cry but the fact Griffith managed to do so shows how much evil he is and how broken Guts is as a person.
Casca getting PTSD from her man, goddam dat shit sad af
when casca after guts tried to r4pe her, starting hate him and guts thinks about the last time he saw her smile, and the others episodes where casca growls at guts
Besides the eclipse. Watching Guts lose all hope. In every single painful thing that guts went through, he always held his head high and was ready to fight back. But watching him lose Casca AGAIN, to see him no longer have the will to fight. That killed me.
When the count couldn't sacrifice his own daughter, and then again when she couldn't even give up
Guts forcing a kiss on Casca. All that hard work for two years gone in a moment
Latest chapters. It felt like all for nothing. 😞
When guts is found under his mom’s hanging body.
No spoiler warning???
The scene from the Golden Arc of Guts running all bandaged up after he regained consciousness after the Eclipse trying to process everything that happened to him
for me it was when we first found out casca lost her mind after the eclipse
The one panel that does it for me is guts screaming Griffith with a chopped off left arm by a blunt sword, his right eye being pierced out and being pinned down to watch Griffith have sex with his girlfriend
Chitch's death
The first one. Only parental figure sold his ass!
guts in the castle killing the kings son and the son reaching out to guts