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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #7: The Truth of the Eclipse—Why Was Casca Drowned in a “Hell of Pleasure”?

Introduction: The Cruel Reality of “Being Drowned in Pleasure” The shocking event that took place between Femto and Casca during the Eclipse in Berserk. For years, fans have debated whether “she suffered purely as a victim” or whether “she gave in to pleasure.” However, in panic and in extreme situations,

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #6: Why Was Casca’s Heart Locked in “an Exitless Darkness”? On Trauma and the Structure of a Psychological Locked Room

As we saw in the previous chapter, Casca does not know the truth of the Eclipse. What remains in her memory is the senseless terror of “slaughter and violation by monsters (Apostles) who appeared without warning”; and even the memory of pleasure with Griffith (Femto), whom she adored, can become

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #5: Why Does Casca See the Same Scenes Every Time She Remembers “That Day”?

Casca, whose mind collapsed after the tragedy of the Eclipse. She has lost her words and wanders the world like a small child. Yet when she faces certain stimuli—the presence of something demonic, or situations that evoke violence—she is seized by violent panic and flashes back to fragments

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #4: “Everything Was Decided from the Start”—The God Hand’s Causality and the Mechanics of “Hacking Fate”

“All is within the flow of causality.” In Berserk, these are words spoken again and again by Void, the leader of the God Hand. Individual will and effort, even love and obsession, are swallowed by the vast currents of the age; every tragedy and every choice, they say, was decided

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #3: The Misconception That “Casca Is Weak”—The Human Strength That Held the Band of the Hawk Together

Casca, the heroine of Berserk. In the second half of the story (from the Conviction Arc onward), her mind is broken by the brutal trauma of the Eclipse. Unable even to speak, like an infant, she is portrayed as someone who must always be protected by Guts and their companions.

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #2: Cutting Off His Own Arm with a Broken Sword—Why That Scene Was a “lucid Decision”

The climax of the Eclipse is among the most shocking moments in all of Berserk. In a nightmarish scene where Casca is held in the jaws of an Apostle and violated by Femto (Griffith), Guts cuts off his own left arm with a broken sword. Scraping bone, severing flesh—a

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Anatomy of Fate and Causality #1: Why Do Guts and Casca Carry On While “Broken”? — On Trauma and “Human Strength”

When you open Berserk, the first things that leap out at you are its extreme depictions of sex and violence and its breathtakingly raw scenes of despair. But what sets the work apart more than anything else is this: after surviving the hell of the Eclipse, both the protagonist Guts