Crazy is one of the best manga of all time, but since the last chapter, the future of the series looks awfully bleak. The quality of Berserk after Kentaro Miura's death in 2021 wasn't exactly stellar, but the story explored interesting material while setting up a truly impressive ending. Unfortunately since chapter 384 Crazy went full on the shark with a plot that could legitimately destroy the entire story.
Guts has always been exceptional in how strong he is, but other than that he was considered an unfortunate cursed by his mark and the laws of causality. From Crazy In chapter 384, it is revealed that Guts is actually the Chosen One, whose birth not only mirrors Griffith's birth, but also makes him the only person capable of stopping his rival. It's always been that way, but it's a fact Crazy highlights Guts as a once-in-a-lifetime oddball who does a grave injustice to the manga's narrative up to this point.
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By making viscera special, Berserk destroyed what actually made viscera special
The gut was never ordinary, but there was never anything there Crazy imply that he was a chosen or fated child like many other fantasy protagonists. Guts is stronger than the average anime character, but that's a basic necessity Crazya story about how dangerous the world is. The only thing that made Guts special was the fact that he was branded and existed outside the rules of causality. Even then, this unique attribute is a detail that made Guts' life hell and came after intense trauma.
Everything that made Guts special before the recent chapter was due to something terrible that happened to him or a power he gained through a lifetime of training. Even the Berserker Armor has huge drawbacks, while the Beast of Darkness was conceived as a more metaphorical idea and literary device, rather than a way to show how special Guts is. Unfortunately, Crazy Chapter 384 retcons Guts' birth reveals that being born from a corpse means he's always existed with one foot in Interspace, bound to fate in a way he never was before.
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Guts & Griffith are now literally two sides of the same coin
Guts' character was defined by the fact that he exists outside of causality and is No destiny or destined for any set future. This is the main topic Crazytelling stories. For chapter 384 to clarify that Guts' birth is actually extremely strange and to place him somewhere between life and death is a betrayal of the manga's themes. Worse, the moment seems to exist purely to contrast Guts with Griffith. Griffith's rebirth came from a stillbirth in the Tower of Conviction arc, while Guts is a child born to a dead mother. Both are men born of death, but where this connection was once purely thematic, it is now literal.
Guts is the chosen one, whose fate has always been tied to Griffith, and now he'll go after his rival because fate says so—not because fans of the bond have watched them form and break over hundreds of chapters and decades of storytelling. Worse, the guts always associated with Interstice don't make sense. The interstice is the part of the astral world in which the dead dwell. If Guts was indeed this child of destiny as the latest chapter suggests, he would have seen ghosts all over the Golden Age arc. There's no way to rationalize this twist other than a plot that fundamentally misunderstands what Kentaro Miura was doing Crazy.
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Berserk wasn't the same without Kentaro Miura
This is no secret Crazy it just wasn't the same without Miura. Kouji Mori is a great mangaka with amazing series like Holyland under his built, but his run on the series failed to live up to the manga's previous heights. Which makes sense – Crazy was Kentaro Miura's magnum opus and clearly a labor of love. Mori claimed that Miura struggled for years with the twist and reveal of chapter 384, and it's not hard to see why: it doesn't work or make sense thematically.
It's hard to believe that binding Guts to fate was Miura's plan all along, especially in a way that completely invalidated his journey up to this point. If this was indeed Miura's plan, there's no doubt he'd handle the reveal with a metaphorical hand rather than a literal one. Or he didn't do it at all! Miura famously removed the Eclipse chapter because it gave away too much of the story. This is an author who could literally kill his pets, especially if they didn't serve the story. As it is, Guts' character has effectively been destroyed. Future Crazy looking grimmer than ever.
