Real Women Don't Wear Dresses/Anime and Manga/Berserk


 * The fact that Casca becomes Guts' love interest at one point is enough to make even the inexplicably numerous and fanatically loyal Berserk fans to criticise their favorite anime for making the perfect Action Girl into a mere chick whose only purpose is to satisfy Guts' ego.
 * And having her Go Mad from the Revelation after equals to Chickification. Yeah, how dare she completely break over all the Break the Cutie, and let's conveniently forget that  . Noooo, Casca MUST have been Chickificated to Hell and back, how dare she show damage from all of that shit.
 * Even worse are the fans who say she's been Defiled Forever by  and she should've "gotten over it" like Guts. This falls flat on its face for several reasons. Guts was , which did traumatize him to the point where he had a panic attack after sleeping with her for the first time,  . The evil power   was radiating at that point was enough to  , so of course Casca reacts badly when she's touched after that. While the event reduced her to a Cute Mute and The Ophelia, you also have to take into account the kind of character Guts is - before Character Development, he was bloodthirsty, rude, used innocent bystanders as human shields, and abandoned Casca for a long period of time. Some fans call her weak or an idiot for running from Guts, even if he means well and is fighting off the demons who are after them both...but conveniently forget that
 * Let's not even get into the part where some fans use this traumatic experience to turn the tables by saying that Casca was a bitch in order to give Griffith the benefit of the doubt after his Moral Event Horizon by claiming
 * One MORE thing. Remember the brand which signals a free human meal to every apostle in a ten-mile radius? Yeah, people tend to forget that that thing doesn't only bleed - it hurts. Really, really, really, really, REALLY badly depending on how close you are to a power apostle. Guts is overflowing with raw power and muscle and he can just barely stand being in the presence of Femto at the beginning of the story. Now, let's get back to Casca, who was, in all actually, the closest ANYONE has physically been to a Godhand, the most powerful of the apostles. And this all happens when ... needless to say: SHE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ENJOYING THIS!!
 * All in all, some fans seem to mistake a very serious case of Trauma Syndrome with Chickification. Remember people:  This woman has a long road ahead of her. She doesn't need this.
 * Let's not forget how Princess Charlotte is bitched out for being a girly Naive Everygirl, nevermind how her girly girl Ojou status is not portrayed as being necessarily a super good thing.


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