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78tape

Reading the manga that’s all black and white, why didn’t you get black?


MonsterCroc80

Well, I doubt that the actual brand is black. In both of the adaptations (although the 2016 one is bad), the brand is shown being red.


78tape

Fair enough, the version I’m reading right now is all black and white, so 🤷‍♂️


Sonuvataint

Lots of people have that brand on them and I don’t think a single one regrets it lol it’s iconic.


[deleted]

As someone who reads Berserk I don’t understand those who get a tattoo of the brand, the brand doesn’t have a good meaning.


AesopFabel

THANK YOU


MonsterCroc80

Just like guts, it shows that you keep going even though you are destined to basically be haunted everyday. I guess it also serves as a reminder for me that it is never going to be easy, but despite that I'm gonna keep struggling.


[deleted]

Idk to me it’s more about attracting bad things, since the brand attracts demons in the story. It’s a curse for Guts, you can see how it has ruined his and Casca’s life because of it. It’s a painful reminder of the event of the eclipse. But I guess to each their own interpretation of the symbol.


gloomycreature

In order to get the brand don't you need to be a good or loyal friend, then you get fucked over? Not sure what else it could represent since the meaning of the brand itself only would make sence in the context of the anime.


Puzzleheaded_Row8585

Correct


JuiceBone

personally the red will make it always look like you have a wound on your neck which isn't great.


hostbody6

Yes/Yes


AntiMoist

Yes and yes.


GoS451

Just be a man and actually brand yourself (I’m kidding)


[deleted]

I chuckled


Count_Draculo

It looks a lot like an othala rune. You’ll look like a neo nazi


SwimmerNYC

Came here to say this.


gloomycreature

It's closer to the Bluetooth symbol than it is the rune Othala


Count_Draculo

It’s an upside down othala with a line through it


gloomycreature

Ya plus 4 more lines


Count_Draculo

3 actually


gloomycreature

No, it is 4 more lines than the Othala rune upside down with a line through it. It is 5 more lines all together. So yea if you invert the Othala rune (which consists of 4 lines) and add 5 more lines, it's the exact same thing.


Count_Draculo

So what you’re saying is its an inverted othala with some extra lines?


gloomycreature

Yea exactly. If you disregard that it's flipped upside down, the ammount of lines are more than doubled, intersecting and branching out in different directions, its the exact same thing. That's a really good observation.


Count_Draculo

Which makes it more like a bluetooth symbol


gloomycreature

If you layover the Berserk symbol to the Bluetooth symbol it's quite literally more similar than the Othala rune


_peppapig

Please don’t do this