When Does The NTR Plot Line Kick In? (possible spoilers)

YorozuyaGinSan said:
I wouldn't say rape is prevalent throughout the series, just that the effects of said rape have permanently changed a certain character. It happens to a single major character and occasional background characters that nobody remembers anyhow.

The rape scene is at the very end of the Golden Age arc, around chapter 109.

There's a certain scene before that (very early on) that I won't spoil for you and an attempted rape with another major character and a horse later on.

YorozuyaGinSan said:
I wouldn't say rape is prevalent throughout the series, just that the effects of said rape have permanently changed a certain character. It happens to a single major character and occasional background characters that nobody remembers anyhow.

The rape scene is at the very end of the Golden Age arc, around chapter 109.

There's a certain scene before that (very early on) that I won't spoil for you and an attempted rape with another major character and a horse later on.

IntroverTurtle said:

Uriel_The_Fourth said:
I understand people finding it uncomfortable but honestly I think it's kind of ridiculous to get so hung up on the rape when far worst things happen in that manga. That said, the rape isn't there for gratuitous reasons it's there to give you a sense of how fucked up their world is. The author doesn't sugar coat things he tries to make it as realistic for the time as possible. Lets face it back in the dark ages women were seen as objects and people lived very short and violent lives, even children where subject to horrible things. Even though Berserk is fantasy, it's low fantasy because it tries to tether itself to some semblance of reality. That's probably one of the reasons I liked the manga so much, back during the golden age and the revenge arcs the things that happened where brutal.

Also as YorozuyaGinSan said, the rape of certain main characters is a part of their development and in Guts case it's very much part of his drive for vengeance.

tsudecimo said:
There is a lot of rape and unnecessary gore and nudity, sex etc, so I would stay away from this manga if those things turns you off.

johnyjohny said:
OP got bad experience with rape or something?

MaceTheDon said:

This.

IntroverTurtle said:
Yeah me too. I tried to put it behind to read a good manga though. Watch out for the Casca scene though, it's like a whole chapter long, fingers cannot click fast enough.

ToG25thBaam said:
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ToG25thBaam said:

Read Wolf Guy. :p

MaceTheDon said:


Thanks for the contribution guy &/or gals, this will help me a lot.


I get why you think it's ridiculous why I find one crime worse than the other, when in the real world it'd be the opposite in the minds of the masses, but frankly I can't help what turns me off or not, now can I, also you talk about realism, but I've read there are countless different types of monsters in this, hardly realistic now is it.


That's my predicament you see, this manga is very highly rated by nearly everyone (I mean it's even ranked #1 on here), so I really want to read it even if it has something that is a turn off for me & that's basically the reason why I even started this thread.

Uriel_The_Fourth said:
I respect your opinion, and by the way I found the rape horrifying as well. Especially all of the chapters with Wyald he was an exceptionally cruel and disgusting character. That said you should take that as a part of the whole, if it bothers you too much then I guess you should drop the manga. No reason to force yourself to read something that makes you uncomfortable. Also my comment on the realism wasn't meant to say that all of Berserk was realistic I stated that it's low fantasy. The thing that is realistic in some regards is the way people behaved in that kind of setting, the dark ages/middle ages where brutal.

YorozuyaGinSan said:
I wouldn't say rape is prevalent throughout the series, just that the effects of said rape have permanently changed a certain character. It happens to a single major character and occasional background characters that nobody remembers anyhow.

The rape scene is at the very end of the Golden Age arc, around chapter 109.

There's a certain scene before that (very early on) that I won't spoil for you and an attempted rape with another major character and a horse later on.