Berserk Long Sword

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About

Berserk Long Sword, also known as Guts Long Sword, refers to a series of memes using video and photo edits that make the iconic sword of Gatsu (Guts), the protagonist of anime and manga Berserk, appear comically oversized with an absurdly long length.

Origin

In Berserk, the main character Gatsu wields a massive two-handed sword. On May 15th, 2016, YouTuber JoshuaO95 posted an edit of a scene from Berserk that they edited to have the camera continuously pan over the length of Gatsu's sword, revealing it to be comically oversized in their edit. The video gained over 456,000 views in nearly eight years (shown below).

Spread

Over the following years, other edits exaggerating the length of Gatsu's sword appeared on social media. For example, on August 2nd, 2021, Redditor amandazerepp posted an edit of Gatsu using the sword and making it appear comically long, gaining over 1,200 points in /r/berserk^[1] in roughly three years. However, they stated they first saw it on Instagram and did not know the original poster.

On August 22nd, 2022, YouTuber Multidimensional Dumpster Phoenix reposted the edit and gained over 119,000 views in 18 months (shown below).

On May 5th, 2020, Redditor sleiptnirhaze posted an image edit that made the sword look comically huge, gaining over 1,700 points in /r/berserk^[2] in almost four years.

Since the image was posted, it has been used on forums and social media platforms as a means to humorously fill a screen vertically, perhaps to expedite pushing a previous post out of a user's home screen (similar to Safe For Work Sasuke).

For example, on February 26th, 2021, Twitter user reddhotriot^[3] posted the image in a tweet that gained over 14,000 retweets and 84,000 likes in three years. On October 20th, 2020, 9GAG^[4] user jar8282 posted an edit of the image that replaced Gatsu with Dio, gaining over 3,900 upvotes in roughly three years (shown below, right).