Griffith deduces that Julius is the culprit and sends Guts to assassinate the noble in secret during the festivities that occur that night. Luckily, Griffith's Beherit took the arrow. The king's brother general Julius is furious about this as he and Minister Foss plot Griffith's murder with a poison arrow during the upcoming hunt.ĭuring the hunt, Griffith and Charlotte grow close before the former is shot in the chest with a poisoned arrow. Griffith and Guts continue to have success in battle and Griffith is made Count. Guts and some of the Hawks feel that Griffith is pulling away from them. Though he and Guts are still injured from their encounter with Nosferatu Zodd, Griffith uses it to get closer to the King of Midland and his daughter Charlotte. Zodd then sprouts wings and flies off while telling Guts that his doom will come when Griffith's dream dies.
Zodd almost kills Griffith, but he sees the Beherit around Griffith's neck. While the monster is distracted, Griffith attempts to get Guts to safety before Zodd notices them and blocks their escape route. When Guts manages to actually hurt him, an excited Zodd decides to stop holding back and transforms into a monster that nearly kills Guts before Griffith arrives to aid with a few men. Inside he finds the bodies of his men, and clashes with the inhuman Zodd. When only one of Guts' men barely makes it out alive before dying from his horrific injuries, Guts decides to enter the keep himself. When Guts leads his men to raid a castle under Tudor occupation, Judeau reveals the keep to be overseen by a legendary warrior known as Nosferatu Zodd who is said to be immortal. Guts saves the Hawks in battle, to Casca's chagrin. Eventually, to the nobles' dismay, Griffith is knighted as a viscount in the Midland court. He keeps taking risks in battle, and although he succeeds, Casca reprimands him for his recklesness. Guts is now a commander in Griffith's army.
He was forced to kill him, however, when Gambino tried to kill the boy, as he blamed Guts for all the bad things that had happened to him ever since they found him. Guts remembers his childhood, being raised by his adoptive father and mentor Gambino. Three years pass as Guts and the Band of the Hawk gain in skill and fame. The Hawks go on a midnight raid and Griffith chooses Guts for the most important position of rear guard, Guts succeeds and the band hails him as a hero. Griffith defeats Guts, and makes him a member of the Band of the Hawk. When Guts wakes up days later, he challenges Griffith who instead wishes to enlist the swordsman to his group. Griffith orders Casca to lie with Guts during his convalescence to keep him from freezing.
Guts defeats her, but is then grievously injured by Griffith. In a flashback, Corkus attempts to rob Guts, and Casca is drawn into the battle. Soon after, Guts remembers the events in his past, how he killed the knight Bazuso, and his encounter with the group that would change his life: The Band of the Falcon. Guts later finds and kills the Baron and removes a demonic relic called a Beherit from around his neck. He kills all the assailants but one and orders him to tell his master, the Baron, that the Black Swordsman is coming. The sex scene between Casca and Guts was cut down, as well as Femto's rape of Casca.Ī girl is being harassed in a tavern when Guts walks in. The Count's story, Guts' fight with Wyald and many explicit scenes have been edited heavily, removing much of the gore in favor of heavy blood splatter instead of eyeballs, brains, innards and otherwise flying all over the place. Characters like Puck, Donovan, Skull Knight, Theresia, The Count, and Wyald were removed, as well as the opening scene with the Female Apostle was omitted (though she still exists during the Eclipse).
T.N.T. 1997 CAST SERIES
To make the animated series fit within 25 episodes, changes had to be made. Volume 11 is omitted entirely in the anime to remove the character Wyald, but the events of the volume are instead replaced with a similar (but much shorter) scenario involving human characters. The Anime covers Volumes 1 (Chapters 1 and 2, though fused into Chapter 1 along with reference to later Chapters in Volume 2), the end chapter of Volume 3 (where Gambino discovers Guts at a tree of execution), Volumes 4 through 10 and then Volumes 12 and 13 in the manga. The anime series was directed by Naohito Takahashi and produced by Oriental Light and Magic, airing on Japan's Nippon Television starting from Octoand ending on March 31, 1998.
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