#chapter 373

- finally Guts is about to go ham. now all i’m hoping for is that it’s either for a prolonged period of time OR even better, several rpg group characters get murdered before Schierke pulls his consciousness back.

- since they’re on a boat in the middle of the ocean I’m betting it’ll be the latter. I mean she’s in the middle of a different trance right now so you know there’ll be some ‘oh shit we gotta wake schierke up so she can save guts in time to save the rest of us’ tension while Guts slaughters the sudden pirates lol, and it would be the perfect opportunity for her to be 30 seconds too late

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nice. Miura’s legacy of drawing Griffith naked at every possible opportunity and especially in Guts’ imagination lives on

- the pointed parallel to the initial Golden Age fight is interesting. it could be as basic as power levels lol, Guts just remembering an iconic moment where he felt inferior to Griffith and transposing NGriffith onto it, but like, it could be deep? blending of the past and present in Guts’ mind as a representation of his inner turmoil and “it’s not just anger” mixed feelings, or his initial strong compartmentalization between them weakening - his memories painting human Griffith to be as distant as NGriffith, which could lead to a very rude (re)awakening if/when NGriff demonstrates feelings, and a potentially perfect parallel to Guts’ realization in like chapter 72 that it was Griffith’s feelings for him that ruined everthing.

- also yk. homoeroticism.

- also it seems kinda like Guts was lashing out at his vision of the Beast of Darkness, and then he visualized naked NGriff there in its place? potentially interesting, and kinda makes sense to conflate the two as representations of his inner darkness

- timeline seems kinda fucked lol, it feels like we jumped forward for the casca chapter then back for this? last chapter feels misplaced honestly.

Ok spoilers spoilers major spoilers for chapter 373

It’s Kurogiri… Kurogiri is the one who won out

Oh god does this mean Mic will have to fight his own friend?!?! I don’t think Mic would be able to win a fight against Kurogiri, he’s so powerful. But maybe Mic could blow away all the mist?

please please find a way to bring him round, because I am not liking the way this is going. We lost Shirakumo, we lost Midnight, we cannot lose Yamada as well…

And if Aizawa loses anyone else… losing Mic would break him.

Could whatever is left of Shirakumo really be able to hurt Mic?? Maybe he’ll be able to stop himself before he does Mic any harm, or he might not even fight Mic at all. C’mon Oboro, you woke up for Shouta, you can wake up for Hizashi too, he was just as much your friend…