8/18/2023 0 Comments Tell me why by penpals song![]() 'Sonate pour piano nº 23', the music that plays in Advent during the Eclipse when Femto rapes Casca, is fitting for such a tragic, grotesque, and horrifying moment.From the third film, "Trio F-Dur II", the music played during Guts and Casca's love scene, is in the running for the most beautiful tune in the whole movie trilogy, matching the atmosphere of this interpretation of their scene perfectly.The intensity of track perfectly punctuates the feeling that the war that last for a hundred years is finally over. "Hundred Years War", playing during Midland's victory at the walls of Doldrey.You feel like you're in the front lines with Guts and Griffith in the shadow of Doldrey, about to encounter either death or glory. From the second film, the thunderous "My Brother", a truly awesome example of Ominous English Chanting.The variant "Blood and Guts: Passionate" plays during Guts' major Moment of Awesome.when he single-handedly slaughters 100 men, earning him the title of 'The Hundred-Man Slayer'. Interestingly, if you read the lyrics, they're telling you about his birth and subsequent rotten childhood. "Blood and Guts" is a beautiful piece that perfectly captures the tragic essence of Guts' character (amusingly, the chorus of "Blood and Guts" sounds like "GOD HAND GUTS" to a lot of listeners, though that was probably not intentional).The music helps the scene from the manga come to life. You can just feel Griffith's bewitching charisma and how it draws in Guts who stands in front of him, and Casca who watches from behind a tree. "Des Liens Solides (Strong Bonds)" is a gorgeous, romantic orchestral track that plays when Griffith takes Guts to the top of a grassy hill and asks him to join him.Shiro Sagisu's score for these movies is nothing short of breath-taking in richness, and fits the dark fantasy setting of Berserk while expanding it to epic dimensions.The foreboding and mysterious verses set your expectations on the adventure, romance, and horror that are about to unfold, and the soaring chorus, which so regrettably isn't reached in the opening credits, is perfect for imagining Guts galloping towards the enemy, ready to swing his sword. Hirasawa works his magic again with the opening song "Aria".Madre Assente, another non-Hirasawa track, used during the Queen of Midland's funeral and as we see the snow-filled scenery just before Guts leaves the Band of the Hawk.It's a solemn and haunting piece that captures Casca's sadness of being born in a poor raided village constantly attacked by robbers. In Anno Domini, one of the few tracks not composed by Hirasawa, is used as Casca's theme, or at least, in her flashback sequence.But it's kind of ruined when you have to hear it in the last episode, right after you see Guts screaming in pain and rage at the sight of Casca's rape by Griffith/Femto. "Waiting So Long" has the same effect, only it's slower and more peaceful as the series' Solemn Ending Theme.You may think it's weird as hell at first and you ask yourself, "why the hell is this song in this series?" but then you get to this point that it's so cheesy, that it's good. "Tell Me Why" is super catchy with its Engrish-ness.Need we be reminded of the non-Susumu awesomeness that is "Tell Me Why" by The Penpals and "Waiting So Long" by Silver Fins?. ![]() Made even more eerie with that Ominous Latin Chanting going on. And then there's "Murder", which plays as it's all going to hell for the Hawks. ![]()
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