![]() ![]() Apparently having demons to blame for your suffering is preferable to accepting that your pain is your fault or worse, no one's fault at all. The worst part? The Idea of Evil only exists because humanity subconsciously wants it to exist.Needless to say, Berserk's world is every bit a crappy place to live. The Godhand themselves are servants of the Idea of Evil, a quite evil God that governs the Berserk universe and manipulates events so that behelits get passed down to those destined to use them so that more demons and members of the Godhand get created. ![]() Every one of them were once humans who got hold of a Behelit and sold their souls and sacrificed those closest to them to the demonic gods of the Godhand in exchange for being reborn as demons. The demons of Berserk are quite powerful, diverse and horrific.Thoroughly subverted by Bakuen Campus Guardress.Except towards the end, where he shows himself to be evil.Not so much the good guys as the less evil guys.Among other things, the demons are the good guys. Angel Sanctuary tells the story of war between angels and demons.The forces of Hell and Heaven seem more like rival sports teams than vicious enemies in Ah! My Goddess, but even so the demons can be nasty.'.Demons will be more like administrators than tormentors, often taken to the extreme. The Shinto version of the afterlife is markedly different from the Christian version thus, in anime not influenced by western notions of Hell and demons, Hell acts more Lawful Neutral than evil regardless of how it looks, especially the classic Buddhist and Chinese versions. Heck, if they're in a Hentai work, they may even have tentacles. There may or may not be heavenly equivalents, and either one can be treated in a Crystal Dragon Jesus manner. Sometimes Mooks of Satan, a Satanic Archetype, or a God of Evil (who - depending on the setting and/or the author's worldview - may or may not be the same person/thing), and residing in Fire and Brimstone Hell (or the real deal). They are legion, for their numbers are many, and their powers are diverse. Simply calling it Another Dimension doesn't do it justice. There is a place where they go to, and a place from which they spring. ![]()
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