ITT characters that are probably illiterate

>>159096620
he was confirmed literate around the wicker mam chapter

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>>159096620
Incorrect

Forgive the watermark I just searched it up on google for the page.

>>159098075
He's literally looking at Kamasutra pictures in that scene.

>>159098075

I think he was just flicking through it doubt he can actually read. Then again he was briefly a noble so I'd imagine he would've received lessons at one point.

>SOL about Guts learning to read never

>>159098899
>he was briefly a noble
>briefly

You don't learn to read briefly.

>>159099001

Nobles have the best education in all medieval feudal societies so I'd imagine it wouldn't be too much of an asspull for Guts to become literate or semi-literate before all the shit with Griffith being put in the dungeon happened.

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>>159096620
Am I wrong?

>>159098075
>Griffith tells Guts that there is even a book about the Karma Sutra.
>Guts gets it and starts looking at the pictures.
>Oh btw, I want you to kill a man.

Griffith during that moment was actually educating himself.

I think Guts is literate, but not the greatest, as in, I am sure he knew how to read orders.

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>>159096620

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>>159101875
>Single-handedly hacks and pulls specific records from underground cult's website within seconds
>Illiterate
Right

No pic, in the chapter where the crew fights the burning wicker man thing guts says "I've read about these".

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>>159102673
Gotchu senpai

>>159098075
A lot of medieval books had illustrsted art in the margins and on certain pages so he could be looking at the pretty pictures

>>159096620
op

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>>159098075
Why did Griffith shove a porn book in Guts' face? What was he hoping to achieve by doing that? Kinda gay if you ask me.

>>159102673
>>159102931
i think if you look at the pointy end of speech bubble, the second phrase is said by schierke

>>159103581
But in the second speech panel Guts is the only one who's mouth is open.

Also the spike bubbles are sheircke's thoughts being transmitted through her telepathy hair strands she gave everyone during ogre/troll battle.

Id honestly side on the fence it was Guts this time that knew it and that he did read it somewhere

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>>159102931
>>159103581
>>159103653
>CSI zoom intensifies

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>>159103734
>ant.png
Fuck head.

>>159103653
Guts never learnt to read

>born in mercenary troup with father figure who doesn't care about him
>lives fighting as a mercenary
>joins band of the hawk
>leaves band of the hawk to swing his sword in the mountains
>returns
>hunts apostles
>goes to save casca from the tower in albion

he never learnt to read.

>>159102673
>>159102931
It amazes me how you motherfuckers can remember shit like this from a yearly manga

>>159103653
It's neither. You can clearly see here >159103803 that Gut's cape is speaking.

Fantasy authors tend to assume people learn to read by magic rather than spending hundreds of hours studying, or in japans case thousands of hours.

>>159103923
Why didn't anyone teach this poor kid how to read? I know they only cared about his fighting talents but you'd think reading may come in handy for reading orders and shit.

>>159103932
>yearly
Ah, the pain is back

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this thot

>>159098075
He's looking at porn.

>>159104269
I know nothing about the medievil times, but wasnt it common for regular folk to be illetirate

>>159103923
There is plenty of downtime between battles. I'm sure Griffith would spend quality time tutoring his best boy.

>>159105050
This.

>>159099081
>Nobles have access to the best education

fixed

>>159105050
And how did Griffith learn to read when he grew up on the streets and would probably not have been allowed anywhere near the library?

I bet Griffith is secretly illiterate and just looks at pictures and scribbles.

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>>159096620

>>159108033
As funny as that is to imagine, Griffith was a determined genius. He could teach himself to read by using books he found out stole.

Has Goku ever been showing how to read in either DB or DBZ? I really can't remember any specific scenes where he has to read something.

>>159108411
Has any character?

>>159108525

Good point actually. Bulma is probably the only one who can actually read likely, Vegeta is without a doubt also certainly illiterate since he probably never really had time traveling from planet to planet before arriving on Earth.

>>159108605
Veggie would need to know how to read to operate all the tech he used before namek ended. However, I'm sure he isn't actually literate in any earth-language, least of all Japanese.

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>>159108411
FUCKING PLEBEIANS

>>159108987
His learning literacy from porn is strikingly similar to how I'm learning Japanese.

>>159096620
He isn't but it would've been cool if he was and it makes more sense.

>>159103487
One of the positions were the same as the eclipse rape.

>>159109342
>>159109342

I guess it would've been more realistic in that society, Gambino probably didn't care enough to teach Guts anything other than how to use the sword and to sell him as a buttboy.

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At least one of these nerds, just look at them.

>>159109342
When has he ever read anything?

>>159103923

see

>>159102931
Gut's can read, I doubt he can read well, but he can read

>>159110979
nevermind, I'm an idiot who missed the second speech arrow

fucking annoying when mangaka's connect speech bubbles like that if different people are speaking

>>159098075
Flipping through a book and looking at the pictures doesn't mean he is literate.There is absolutely no reason why Guts would know how to read.

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>>159109444
>yfw you realise that Griffith raped Casca because he jerked it to too much perverse noblefag hentai and it gave him unrealistic expectations of women

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>>159099081
I doubt Guts would take the time to learn to read, even given infinite time to do so. He has more important things to do like swing his sword around and stare at the moon.

>>159098023
This answers the thread. Was going to bring it as well, which begs the question, where did he learn it?

I always thought Guts was a pretty keen character. Wouldn't surprise me if he learned the basics pretty quickly in the mid of his mercenary days or one of his journeys.

>>159117231
It seems more realistic for Guts to not just be that HURR SWORDS guy all the time. Maybe him learning how to read made him realize he didn't know anything about the world which made him leave. Or maybe he wanted to fill in his spare time.

>>159117353
The moment Miura used to reveal this is also of high relevance. This is the kind of speach one would expect out of Shierke, yet it's Guts who said he read about them.

It shows he tried to research using his (assumed) limited literacy knowledge of what might have happened with him, Caska and the band of the Falcon, and discovered diverse information about ritualistic sacrifices. It adds yet another subtle but deep layer on his character.

Guts lets out much less than he actually knows or typically speaks. This also reaffirms and goes back to his monologue with Caska in the bonfire of dreams scene, and other moments of his inner introspection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXQcMEtoEw

>>159117692
Pretty sure this thread proved that the bubble was pointing at Schierke, not Guts.

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>>159117692
>>159117353
>>159117231
Nice fanfiction anon, but no >>159103803

>>159121555
I don't see Guts reading about wicker men (his hunt for apostles already took everythin he had), but that doesn't prove Guts being illiterate.

>>159096620
In the newer chapter with the wicker man guts derectly says he read about them.

Also in the golden age ark griffit would have probably tought guts to read as it probably would be necessary for mercenary work.

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>>159121608
There are only two things on Guts' mind (besides Casca) and that's survival, and battle. He's an animalistic beast of a man, that's the point of his character, he's the polar opposite to Griffith who is more of a calculative, scholarly type. That doesn't make him an idiot though, people always point out what a master swordsman he is and he has a brutishly honest worldview that is hard to argue with, especially because it's what has kept him and the party safe until now.

Readers are typically people who have gained their wisdom second-hand, Guts' understanding of the world around him comes from firsthand experience. Guts doesn't necessarily HAVE to be illiterate, but it would make sense for him to be. Remember how dumbfounded he was when Casca was having her period? He isn't exactly a smooth talker, either.

>>159122354
He also felt like he shouldn't limit himself to swing his sword and find a bigger purpose, learn about the world. Reading might have been a part of that decision, although Griffith and the falcons were obviously the main reasons.

Also, Guts is human, I think it's a mistake to strictly reduce him to what we've been shown if it's not inconsistent. He's not SWORDGUY 24/7, even he should have a few quirks and interests.

>>159096620
I remember being slightly bothered during the Sea God arc that he seemed to be relying on a degree of biology/physics-understanding that I didn't think a barely-educated mercenary like him would have, to get through/kill it

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>>159122555
>He's not SWORDGUY 24/7, even he should have a few quirks and interests.
He does quite literally sleep with his sword like a teddy bear, but you're right, he had plenty of time to get up to other things after he left the Hawks. He knows how to treat poison, had to have learnt that from somewhere.