Anime & Donghua

I hate when people say this. Yes, obviously that's true, and I gave two examples with the abuse of Guts as a kid and Griffith by that Duke. They are both clearly depicted from a standpoint of the abuse not appealing to the viewer, as far as I remember. I would prefer if you not require me to explain how the staging and what is shown and what isn't distinguishes these things, besides of course that almost none of what Griffith suffered was actually shown.

Yes, I was just trying to continue the conversation and give my point of view. I hate how communication on this site is so all-or-nothing. If I hadn't written that, then it would be incredibly likely that the assumption was that I did think that. I write it and then the assumption is I meant you meant something else. I get so tired of this.

It is. That doesn't make you a bad person or whatever, it just is cope. It's very understandable, since Berserk has many interesting and emotionally compelling elements, so there can easily be an intense desire to have an [over]charitable reading, but we should try to be critical about these things.

Or maybe it isn't. As I said, I will have to reread it to figure it out.

Let us use this as an opportunity to establish you've got some real holes in your memory then

We could also use it as an opportunity to look at the four other times I wrote about not remembering it super well. Seriously this whole response of yours is incredibly condescending, fuck off with that attitude.