#also apparently you now can't add a readmore at the beginning of a post? man idk i can't keep up with tumblr's bs

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What do you think about the hints on Flora's backstory? Do you have any theories?

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Idk there’s not much to go on. Maybe it’s a sign that Elfhelm isn’t super great, if whatever Flora got exiled for is something we would consider good. The two ideas that come to mind that could be associated with Flora and controversial to Elfhelm are subverting causality in some way, since we know witches are capable of that and it’s why Griffith killed her, or something to do with Skull Knight and his armour. Like I do kind of wonder what the deal is with SK being so rational yet apparently solely driven by vengeance and rage - when Guts succumbs to the armour he’s basically incapable of intelligent thought. Is Skull Knight somehow a fusion of his armour/inner darkness and his original self, moreso than Beast of Darkness Guts?

Idk maybe Flora brought Skull Knight’s consciousness back from his armour too late so he’s permanently like, a bit monstery, or smthn. And Elfhelm was against it.

Anon 2: I just don't get it, like how the person who wrote golden age could decide to add into the chapter such shitty fillers? I understand he don't want to tell anything related to the main plot, but he could give us some farnesca interactions, or casca with anybody interactions, or maybe a magical lesson, but not f*cking that. Who even want to look under the clothes of a bunch of unnamed characters (also they are kids)?! I hope moonlight boy at least would move the plot.

Anon 3: The way children characters were portrayed in this chapter was more uncomfortable than usual...Miura truly has lost it in that regard, huh. Also the Jar Jar Binks reference...how cringey (and meta given the current state of Berserk, dare I say).

Anon 4: I am still baffled by the new chapter. Instead of doing anything interesting, he decides to induldge in his little witch girl fetish. Sir, you do not publish frequently enough, and have too much unaddressed  issues in your work, to pull shit like that. And can somebody please tell him that every ending of a chapter does not need to be a cliffhanger?

It’s kind of a pain in the ass to post screencaps of asks so I’m switching to copypasting lol. But yeah :/ Man remember the days when I enjoyed the actual content of the manga instead of my enjoyment coming solely from hope for the future of it? This chapter was dire lol, I couldn’t come up with a worse comedic filler scene if you paid me.

Best and most hopeful reasoning I have for that scene’s existence is that it’s a last gasp of Isidro being wacky immature comic relief before Miura kills off Mermaid and he gets more serious. And obviously it still didn’t have to be so awkward and terrible and uncomfortable.

Suddenly have the urge to re-read the first 2 arcs and cleanse my palate lol.