A review by pudding_uwu
Berserk, Vol. 17 by Kentaro Miura

adventurous challenging informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ• - ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ง

Not Puck blackmailing Guts๐Ÿ˜‚ I love their banter so much and how Guts is starting to engage with Puck more and more!

I kinda want Farnese to be Gutโ€™s friend, I kinda like her. 
Also, I wonder why she couldnโ€™t see Puck!. Does that mean she canโ€™t see gods or demons as well? Itโ€™s interesting.


 ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ— - ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ 

Wow, so much character growth on Farneseโ€™s part, and in a such a short time! The way her storyline is going is giving me hope that sheโ€™ll be a permanent character; Iโ€™d love that honestly!
Also, now it makes sense why she couldnโ€™t see Puck.


๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ - ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก

The end of ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ซ๐œ: ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ข๐ง ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ
I donโ€™t understand Farneseโ€™s character completely but itโ€™s interesting that what sheโ€™s feeling was already there even before she experienced what she experienced with Guts. What she has gone through in this short arc didnโ€™t change her out of nowhere; it just unlocked something in her.  

๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ - ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐Ÿ)

This one was full of symbolisms and foreshadowings. If Death is the plague then what is the white hawk? And why a hawk exactly? It makes me think that it refers to the hawk band.

There was a panel in a previous chapter that showed a white bird being sacrificed for a behelit, and now this chapter showed the ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐‚๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ of this hawk; so my theory for now is that the white hawk refers to Cascaโ€™s and Gutsโ€™s son.

๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ - ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐Ÿ)

In the kingโ€™s hallucinations, Griffith is shown as the white hawk โ€ฆ and Iโ€™m confused; it really made sense to me that it would refer to Cascaโ€™s and Gutsโ€™s son :)
How is Griffith is gonna save the kingdom? Or people just assumed that the white hawk is their saviour?

It seems that in berserkโ€™s world the lines are always blurred when it comes to things like this; just like how gods and demons are the same things in this world.


๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘ - ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (๐Ÿ‘)

โ€œWhen the sky falls down, in the holy place of shepherds it will appearโ€ 
This whole scene with Zodd and the white hawk was interesting. Gutโ€™s son said the same thing the bird said, Iโ€™m officially confused :|


๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’ - ๐‚๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐๐ž

Godu gotta be one of my favourite side characters, Iโ€™ll always love a well written wise old man. I agree with every word Godu said to Guts, but I can also see why Guts left Casca two years ago; I think he wanted to protect her from himself mostly.

๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ“ - ๐…๐ž๐ž๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ž

Rickert is growing on me. I canโ€™t believe heโ€™s still alive somehow; at first glance he looks like the type of character that gets killed off immediately after going through the smallest danger.

Gutsโ€™s monologue was so good and I almost cried because I was overwhelmed with emotions over Gutsโ€™s life. I think once I finish this manga Iโ€™ll reread this volume; itโ€™s full of important symbolisms that I canโ€™t comprehend completely for now; Guts still feels vague to me.


๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ” - ๐“๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‡๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ (๐Ÿ)

โ€œ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ก ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™™๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™๐™ฃโ€™๐™ฉ ๐™—๐™š ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ ๐™š ๐™ข๐™šโ€ โ€” Godu

So thereโ€™s two hawks :) 
 thereโ€™s the hawk of light which is Griffith, and the hawk of darkness which is Guts.


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