Guts' childhood sexual assault is horrific, and it's by no means as subtle as other works may have depicted such a traumatic memory The narrative explores griffith's demonic transformation after forming a pact with supernatural forces, and the profound consequences this has on both characters. However, compared to virtually every other female character's assault scene in berserk, guts' traumatic scene is sparing, and it fades to black.
Imagine being casca and being sexually assaulted by the two men in your life you loved and trusted more than any other Berserk follows the intertwined fates of guts, a solitary mercenary, and griffith, leader of the mercenary band of the hawk Why or how would you ever trust either again, especially with a shattered psyche?
The manga is redeeming but several motifs presented in the series are viciously triggering, worrisome to say the least So much could be done with guts’ sexual assault storyline — we could see how guts’ came to soften, relax into his being and move past his abuse. Where guts' trauma truly begins is during a night in his tent, when guts is ambushed and sexually assaulted by a man named donovan, who later reveals that he purchased a night with guts from gambino.
