Have You Ever Been Banned/Blocked By An SJW?
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Oh, I’ve been more than just blocked and suspended in my time.
Anyway, I’m not surprised at an SJW being triggered by Berserk: It’s not exactly something you’d show to children (most of these twits can’t get out of bed in the morning without taking anti-depressants, they’re not exactly the most emotionally-stable people). But putting it in the same category as, what I assume is probably hentai which features rape, is extremely erroneous. It’d be like calling an 18+ film pornography just because it has sex and rape in it (I did quick search on “Killing Stalking” and it sounds extremely fetishy: I knew a few tumblrina’s back in the day who would get off on that kinda thing. No, really, “guy on girl rape is wrong but guy on guy rape is hot” is a hill they’re prepared to die on).
To keep spoilers to a minimum, Guts and Casca are betrayed by their best friend in the worst possible way and are the only survivors of cannibalistic ritual. Casca’s mind completely shatters as a result, and while Guts retains his sanity, it’s not as though he comes out completely unscarred, either. The thing about the scene where Casca is raped is that it’s basically earned: It’s not trashy or ham-fisted, it’s implicitly tied into the story’s development and was sufficiently built up in what led to it. There’s a lot of… complicated feelings between the three main characters going on, where one might almost empathize with the villain-protagonist if he hadn’t crossed the Moral Event Horizon from man to outright monster.
It’s also worth mentioning that while she nearly gets raped at number of other points, she is either saved by Guts or fights off her attackers herself (even after being reduced to a childlike state, at one time; her fighting instincts just sort of kicked in). Miura never regarded her as some sort of plaything. While her role does seem like it diminishes after her mental regression, the reason she survived the Eclipse was because killing her off would’ve left Guts without any story arc to continue progressing as a character: She is his moral anchor and gives him a reason to be a better person, without her Guts might not have become a literal monster, but would’ve metaphorically abandoned his humanity and there’d be nothing left but a dark tempest of fury and revenge.
So, yeah, Berserk justifies it’s horrific content through its great writing. It’s not a story of revenge, but a story of hope. Lumping it in with a yaoi as though it’s some sort of “edgy hentai” is the act of an uncultured swine.
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