#the godhand berserk

[sweatytyrantobservation]

Content for the 2 ubik fans I've seen on here (I'm one of them)

[via707]

"In this world is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will."

[alliebirb]

THEY ARE ENDGAME TO MEEEE I DONT CAREEEE

[paint-it-dead]

𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓮 😔🥀⛓️

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY!!!❤️

[orcarnage]

GODHAND PASTIMES:

Conrad: selling cocaine to children

Femto: shoveling millet into his mouth while sobbing

Slan: googling "lesbians (real)"

Ubik: stacking nose demons

Void: *twirling phone cord like teenage girl* hiiii skull knightt (you can hear a faint "kill yourself" from the other end of the line)

[alovelyburn]

I think the main takeaways I have from the math run on Berserk's volumes, though, is that we've lost 25 volumes of high quality Guts/Griffith relationship focus and there is, to be honest, no way Miura was ever going to finish Berserk.

I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just saying at the rate he was going there was no way he'd get through 25 volumes in his lifetime, especially since it was slowing down rather than speeding up or even remaining the same.

Also, in an interview... I think it was the one in the back of the guidebook... he said that the whole high fantasy arc with the nakama club/rpg party and such was... a thing he wanted to try doing though it was atypical for the kind of series Berserk is. I get the impression that he basically just wanted to try something new for a while and it took longer than anticipated just because he took a long time to do anything.

But like... aside from the obvious tragedy of anyone dying at such a young age, I'll never get over the fact that he passed right when we were getting back to what I originally loved about the series: dark fantasy, cosmology and Griffith & Guts mess.

[thekingofwinterblog]

So a bit of symbolism I have never seen anyone comment on is what fingers each of the 5 Godhand of Berserk represents.

From left to right, we first have Conrad.

Starting with the Pinky, there is Conrad. The littlefinger unlike the rest has little symbolism behind it.

He is the forgotten member, the one with a very mundane name, who never really does anything to stand out, and who's demonic form is that of a giant bedbug.

Next, the Ring Finger is Ubik.

The ring finger is the mystical finger, the one given higher signifigance than the rest of a mytholical scale, and fittingly, he is the most blantly open and frequent about making use of his magical powers to compensate for his less than impressive body.

The middle finger is Slan, the one who is the embodiment of everything evil and disguisting about sex in all it's forms.

The middle finger is, fittingly enough, the finger of vulgarity, with the raised finger along with a fist used, having become a go to insult due to it's visual similaity to an erect human dick.

The index finger is represented by Femto, the evil messiah of an artifical, false god.

As the index finger he points the way, showing the path for those around him to follow, wheter if be conquest, or helping him destroy his former, closest friends in the worst manner possible.

But despite appearances, he is not in charge.

Symbolizing the thumb, is Void, the real leader behind the Godhand, the leader who the rest intentionally or othervise follows.

They are all under his thumb so to speak.

He is also the most vocal about the groups misson to enforce the "Flow of casuality", or in other words, putting his thumb of the scales of destiny.

[le-tas-d-art]

Ubik, Slan and Conrad of the Godhand from Kentaro Miura's Berserk, each pictured with the novel that inspired their name:

Ubik by Philip K. Dick, 1969

Slan by A.E. van Vogt, 1946

This Immortal (first published serialized as "...And Call Me Conrad") by Roger Zelazny, 1966

Void and Femto are not named for sci-fi novels. The artwork of each character is directly from Miura's Berserk.

[berserkstuffandmore]

Um... so the Godhand is the Dadhand and Ubik is now Gucci

Have Dad Femto

[metaldragoon]

Berserk (1997)

[scumashling]

Incoming Berserk Eclipse meme

[trashcatgallade]

do u guys think he feels like latex/leather. idk he just looks like a living gimp suit to me

[dungeon-vault]

[halekduo]

[sweatytyrantobservation]

Whats wrong with the Internet recently, first im seeing pregnant guts, guts as an apple, a behlit shaped potato and now

THIS MOTHERFUCKER

[thefoilguy]

Femto from Berserk - Aluminum Foil Sculpture