Berserk Vol. 13: Berserk Volume 13
- ISBN
- 9781593075002
- Publisher
- Dark Horse
- English release
- Pages
- 240
- Chapters
- 80–91
Berserk Volume 13 places the Hawks against supernatural enemies for whom the company's military reputation offers little protection. The publisher's premise centers on Griffith, the Crimson Behelit and the Godhand rather than another campaign between kingdoms. This is material to read in sequence, with the previous volume's crisis already understood. It begins Deluxe 5's collection of standard Volumes 13 through 15; a new hardcover does not make this a new starting point.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The Hawks' strength has been collective, but the publisher now describes the company itself as the proposed price of Griffith's transformation. That changes the position of the soldiers from participants in an ambition to resources available for sacrifice. Guts's resistance is consequently more than an attempt to outperform an enemy army. He is resisting a transaction in which other people are being assigned a value without their consent. Treating that violence as a general lesson about adversity would erase the soldiers' position: they are people being spent on somebody else's promised future.
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