

This chapter delves a lot into the topic of social outcasts, and the alienation that sets in them due to the ostracization. It stumbles upon the Demon Child, and resumes to take it in itself out of pity. We see the Egg Apostle climbing the Tower of Conviction in preparation for becoming the Egg of the Perfect World. After the opening the series has officially moved unto volume 21 of the manga, covering the final stretch of the Incarnation Ceremony. We have a very brief reintroduction of Zod, which serves more as a cameo than anything of substance. In the spirit of the last few ones, this episode is also quite a fast-paced and action heavy. It's almost insulting.The cold opening retreads the ending of the previous episode, with Casca being set on the pyre. Quality wise, this is as low as low gets. The final 4 minutes are like 40 pages utterly condensed. All of this was also a bit sidelined by a new storyline which tries to correct the fuckup of the first episode by explicitly explaining why is Guts doing the things he is doing.

Neither her fanaticism, nor her disbelief. If you can't pace the events, nothing holds any weight. What happens next should go in line with that. Before she is possessed and tries to mount the DS, she is in completely awe with Guts as he fights all night against demons and ends up resting where she looks at him through the horizon. This episodes are about how being next to Guts shatters the world she thought she lived and the beliefs she had. The first episode was already a complete disservice to the events and the characters and this next two are again big offenders.Ī complete rush over Farnese events that make her rethink everything.

I understand the budget for this is minuscule. I'm not even talking about butchering the artwork and the garbage animation we have to endure. The vitriol comes from what has been an horrific adaptation of Berserk.
