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FortuneCookie posted...

What are the politics of Berserk?

I know very little about it beyond the character being plucked from a corpse's womb, the creator of the universe being evil, and the girl who looks like tomboy Lois Lane _____dying_____.

I could presume an antiwar and/or antireligious message from that alone, but I don't want to presume. I'm asking.

Two of the three things you said are untrue. The original chapter showing the "God" of that universe has been de-canonized, so we don't even know if that plot element is still around. But it's a god created by mankind inadvertently that perpetuates suffering in the world, so it's not a creator type of god.

Berserk definitely has some "anti-religious establishment" elements. But despite being probably the grimdark series, it's still mostly about perseverance through adversity and healing from trauma. There's probably other more prominent themes, but I haven't kept up with it since the author passed, so it's been a while.