Who Is Guts from Berserk?

Guts is the iconic protagonist of Berserk, the landmark dark fantasy manga created by Kentaro Miura. Born from tragedy — literally from the corpse of his hanged mother — he grows into a towering, relentless warrior who wields the massive sword Dragonslayer against demonic Apostles and the God Hand. His defining arc revolves around his time with the Band of the Hawk under the charismatic Griffith, a brotherhood that ends in the catastrophic Eclipse event, which brands Guts and sets him on his lifelong path of revenge and survival. Alongside companions like the witch Schierke and the fairy Puck, Guts battles both monstrous foes and his own inner darkness — the Beast of Darkness — making him one of the most complex and beloved figures in all of manga and comics.