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A review by frasersimons
Berserk, Vol. 9 by Kentaro Miura
4.0
A pretty wild turn of events. Though, maybe a bit melodramatic, the groundwork is there, so I think it lands mostly as intended. I sure wish we could see Casca not solely a prop for a story beat or purely for the sake of a Guts or Griffith development, but it is what it is.
I think Griffith’s loss and subsequent action of sneaking in to bed the Princess is actually pretty interesting. Hopefully more of it comes to light. There’s some queer theorists that probably got really excited with that development. But we also see Griffith being completely vicious to the king, despite a severe punishment being handed down. This all seems, again, mirrored in the beginning chapters as well. I can’t recall if it’s the same people—I don’t think it is—if it is, it would pretty interesting. We know in a year from his leaving there’s to be this eclipse thing happening, which, with the time jump would be soon/now.
As for the development with Casca, it’s better handled than I expected, what with trauma surfacing, but also, again feels like a device to express Guts, and only Guts. I have mixed feelings about it.
I think Griffith’s loss and subsequent action of sneaking in to bed the Princess is actually pretty interesting. Hopefully more of it comes to light. There’s some queer theorists that probably got really excited with that development. But we also see Griffith being completely vicious to the king, despite a severe punishment being handed down. This all seems, again, mirrored in the beginning chapters as well. I can’t recall if it’s the same people—I don’t think it is—if it is, it would pretty interesting. We know in a year from his leaving there’s to be this eclipse thing happening, which, with the time jump would be soon/now.
As for the development with Casca, it’s better handled than I expected, what with trauma surfacing, but also, again feels like a device to express Guts, and only Guts. I have mixed feelings about it.