- #26
Same with Zodd for that matter. While Zodd is certainly not an ally, he doesn't appear to be an enemy in the same sense the God Hand is and their horde of demons are.
This chapter, despite everything, was a soothing respite after all that happened. Knowing Rickert remains alive and well left me with a small sigh of relief too, considering what happened to everyone else...
I gotta say, I wasn't really feeling the mass amounts of praise the Golden Age arc gets -- and even now I still feel it is over-praised -- but since Guts left the Band of the Hawk before the timeskip this has been incredible. And the Eclipse in particular has been a monumental and epic pay off to the huge build up it received. Rarely have I felt such pure despair, trauma, and horror from a series. This climax is going down as one of my absolute favorite moments in fiction.