Guts’ Enlightenment Arc! Berserk Chapter 383 Spoilers!

In the previous Berserk chapter, Guts is sealed in a burial chamber to prevent more demon attacks.

Berserk Chapter 383 is titled, “Anādi avidyā”

This chapter has 23 pages.

“Anādi avidyā” (“अनादि अविद्या”, meaning “beginningless ignorance”) is a concept that alludes to the immemorial ignorance that has to be transcended in order to reach wisdom and self-realization.

With such a title to set up Guts’ new arc via meditation, it is possible that we are finally going to see Guts achieve his final transformation, into a stronger, more noble person.

Throughout the series, we have seen Guts struggle, cover himself in blood but through the entire Fantasia Arc, Guts begins to see the possibility of finding peace for himself rather than dwell in revenge against Griffith for the Eclipse.

Now we are seeing a similar event.

Guts is imprisoned, blamed for a kingdom’s misfortune, but this time, this darkness will bring him light.

The chapter begins inside the stupa and we discover that the floor Guts is standing on is not soil or a hard floor but a lily pad floating in water.

A lily pad, a lotus flower in the water, in muddy water.

The lotus flower is key iconography in Buddhism representing enlightenment.

The lotus flower represents the human life floating amidst the impurities and suffering of the muddy world of the world itself.

By floating alone, untouched by the filthy water, human life remains pure and unbound from attachment and suffering.

Guts is no longer “in the world”, where Griffith rules, where his trauma and attachments, sources of his suffering, reside.

He is alone, he has no one, and now he is at the summit of wisdom.

Guts lies down on the lily pad but he stares at the ceiling, whose spiral, circular pattern resembles an eye.

He is beginning to see hallucinations now that most of his vision is deprived by darkness and, by not being able to view the world as he normally does, Guts can now enter his own mind, uninterrupted.

Meanwhile, Silat impatiently asks why the stupa is too quiet, why nothing can be heard.

Daiba attempts to use magic to observe the interior but is unsuccessful, explaining that the chamber is completely disconnected from the external world.

There is nothing else Guts can do but gaze at himself.

Within the chamber, Guts experiences visions of a substance falling in clumps from above. Griffith and Casca are first shown smiling together as they were before the Eclipse.

Notice how this vision comes up after Guts rests quietly and almost smiles, as if the moment of relief brings him back to the Golden Age itself, where he had found family through the Band of the Hawk and with the true friendship Griffith offered, the love he had for Casca.

When the vision fades, their next appearance reflects the scene on Elfhelm, when Griffith departs with Casca on Zodd’s back.

He remembers his attachments and struggles to get out but in the end, the clam forms itself around Guts, fully enclosing him.

This process seems to be similar to how clams create their shells, where they secrete the mantle material to take in calcium and saltwater to scaffold.

By sitting on the lily pad, Guts is now an isolated human life, or rather the naked clam itself, gathering sediment to form the shell, where the end product of this journey will be a renewed man.

This seems to be the difficult part addressed in the recent volume keyword by Kouji Mori, with the man remarking that Miura had a hard time writing this segment, indicating we are finally seeing the payoff to Guts’ arc in Fantasia, during the times Miura experienced health difficulties.

Perhaps here, even if not by a lot, we are about to see an important step in the final saga Miura had planned.

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