Visually, I appreciate the medieval (?) look the environments and character designs all play with. You can tell the author and his team had a lot of fun drawing all kinds of interesting looking armors. To hell with realism, it's much more fun seeing creative designs. Every character, even non-important ones, seems to have a unique armor and weapon, even when they share the same general theme (aquatic for the enemy cavalry the cast fights in these chapters).
I think the action is overall rendered pretty well. You can feel the impact of the hits through the panels and how insanely strong Guts is supposed to be, to the point he can go through three heavily armored foes in one swing, with ease. Sometimes, the action panel to panel is not the most coherent, but it's not egregious.
Casca (?) is annoying, and one of those stereotypical characters I was talking about previously. The flashback helped making her more interesting, but you know. The "male character says somethin innocuous -> gets hit in the face by the angry female character" trope can only go so far, and it's not very far. Now she doesn't want to get away from the fight when she's clearly a liability, so Guts gets shot because she doesn't listen
Annoying.
Griffith remains the most interesting. He sold his body to the pedophile for cash
which speaks to his determination. That was interesting how she asks Casca if he was now "dirty". I guess it shows he's willing to get his hands (and apparently everything else) dirty for his dream of power. The fact that he was ripping his skin open with his nails ties that part in nicely with the prophecy of whoever sold him the egg of the King.
He reminds me of AoT's Erwin when it comes to the propensity of sacrificing others to reach one's dream.
He must be in a better position than ever now since Griffith also killed the child of the jealous Lord, who potentially was to wed to the princess. His plan is probably to continue to seduce her and get the kingdom by this mean.
About what he said when it comes to who he would consider his friend (an equal with their own dreams that might oppose him), I guess that means that, in regards to the demon's prophecy, Guts is safe as long as he keeps being his follower, like Casca. He probably won't though, because he seemed hurt by the realization he wasn't a true friend to him. I can't see Griffith's ambition falter so far, though we'll see.
I'm looking forward to see more and how shyt will descend into the madness folks been warning me of.
Forget the tensen this dude terrifies me the most out of all the characters in this cast. Dude has no chill and gonna attempt to kill the whole gang.
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. Well figures she was doing some crazy shyt while she has been away.
Tamiya and Yamada make such a weird but effective duo. Also the two twin Tensen showing more character then the others. Them had empathy def made them more vulnerable to the point where they lost their minds.
At least Nayuta seems to have more emotion then Makima and she has a point that all women try to kill him 
