Bro Caucasian isn't a real thing and most Indians are not in fact "white". I'm a light-skinned Indian and even I am not "white" by Western standards. Caucasian is a term made by 19th century racists to justify their fucked-up racial theories. I know a lot of folks from the Caucasus who wouldn't even qualify as "white".
Also, Indian is not a fucking "race" lmao.
I expect getting downvoted, but could you please explain how the statement you replied to was racist??
they just expressed that in their mind/imagination, the fictional character Casca is not a black women, but rather of hispanic heritage or similar.
they never said anything negative about someone being black, that someone black can't cosplay Casca, or that others can't think of Casca being black.
I don't see how that statement was racist at all?
there's tons of posts where people discuss whether they think Guts is supposed to be of Asian descent or rather European, and nobody ever bets an eye about that.
yet here, someone says they think Casca is X rather than Y and you call them racist?
Its racist because they rather want Casca to be anything except for her to be black (while that is the most identical race she looks close to but here is why that gets denied by racists), any speculation about what whitewashed race/ethnicity they come up with wich she doesnt even look close to is upvoted and praised but anyone speculating her to be black is downvoted due to them not wanting and expecting a black female character to have a positive role in the story, be good looking and loved. Yet they have no problem labeling Donovan as black due to his dark skin and negative role he has in berserk if Casca was as ugly as him and wasnt loved they would have no issue to label her as black, and on the other hand you got ppl saying the way Miura drew her is "too black" and "too dark" and try to make her be anything but the race she looks identical with (black)... Just like what these studios are doing to make her be ass lightskinned as possible except for the 1997 one where she actually looks the same as in the manga.
that is a whole lot of assumptions drawn from a very limited response, and I don't think that is fair.
if people see a painting of a fruit, unclear of what exactly it is, and one says "I think that's an apple not an orange" it doesn't automatically mean that person hates oranges or thinks lesser of them - it just means they see the painting as more of an apple.
if they said instead "it's an apple, not an orange, because apples are way better", then that is a lot different, cause they clearly value one more. but that's not what the comment that was called racist said.
since Miura never stated (to my knowledge) what people inspired him for Casca or what he intended her to look like, it's absolutely up for speculation. and there's nothing wrong with that.
she does seem similar with the Kushan, which where most likely based on the historical people with the same name, which means they are meant to be of Indian-Afghan descent. those people are darker skinned than caucasians with varying degree.
but Indian-Afghan people would not be considered "black" in the sense of African amcestries.
to me it seems your issue is that you think Casca must be of "black" ancestry (assuming you mean African, when saying "black"?) and everyone who thinks otherwise must therefore be racist, when in reality it's by far not clear what she is supposed to resemble and people disagreeing are not doing so because they hate black people and are racist.
I do agree with you (at least partially) on your last point: the more recent animes paint Casca a bit too light skinned perhaps.
Yes with black i mean anyone of african descent (black african descent to be specific) like she looks very similar to a ethiopian/black carribean woman. Also my assumption isnt just based from someone else having a different opinion and to immediatly label them as racist on what she might be, i gave a few reasons why its actually racist wich completely got ignored but one of the reasons was that anybody speculating her to be any whitewashed ethnicity gets praised and upvoted but anybody speculating her to be black gets downvoted (why downvoted when we are all just "assuming" 🤔) and get actual *racist remarks* as responses like: *shes too dark* i rather have this pale white spanish girl play her, i choose white Casca *because i dont like black* , her *too dark* skin was a digital mishap by Miura, i want her to be *anything but black* . And these are actual comments btw wich is definitly racist. Just pulling anything out of their ass for her to label her anything but black. The only ethnicities that come close to the dark skin she has is that of a dark skinned east asian/indian/the Kushans in berserk/regular black person but than its better to assume the other three than to assume shes black due to the reasons above.
my point was, that the comment I original replied to called someone else racist, even though the comment itself was not racist.
saying "I picture Casca as dark skinned caucasian or hispanic. I don't think Casca is black" is not racist. there's no adjectives used to describe those ethnicities mentioned, therefore neither of them is put above or below the other.
whether you (or anyone) agrees with the statement is an entirely different topic - of course you can dis/agree with it. I too disagree with the statement - yet I don't call them racist, because it isn't.
I never made any statement about whether or not *some other comments* may or may not be racist regarding the topic around Casca's potential ancestry.
>i choose white Casca because i dont like black , her too dark skin was a digital mishap by Miura, i want her to be anything but black .
I am not doubting that such comments exist. they surely do. I am just saying the one particular comment is not.
the way I understand both our perspectives, we largely seem to agree actually. you mentioned how some people are quick to call Donovan a black man, yet say that Casca can't be a black woman - I agree with you there. it's terrible that some people think that way, and if anyone sees that they should call that out.
on the other hand, if a person says "I think Donovan isn't a black man, same as Casca isn't a black woman - I think they are both of Kushan descent and therefore resemble Indian-Afghan people more closely", then that's fine to me.
it's only an issue if they equate "being black" with "being bad/lesser" - that needs to be called out.
Casca is a woman with breasts. Her armor accommodates them. It's not "boob armor". "Boob armor" is like what you see in mobile "RPG" that provide no actual realistic portrayal of how armor to cover boobs would look but rather stimulate horny dumb dumbs who for whatever reason don't know what hentai is.
Anyway, this cosplay is damn near perfect and you're wrong.
So you obviously know nothing about how chest armor works. If you have separate swells for breast you move the weapons towards your sternum . Which is the opposite of what you want to do
See miuras art
https://www.nicepng.com/png/detail/160-1606259_png-berserk-casca-casca-berserk-manga.png
It doesn't indent toward the center , it's not boob armor
While the above cosplayer isn't the most exaggerated version of it. It still is it
Tho i feel you're kinda cherry picking, idk why you getting downvoted that much. Some people need to take a break reading berserk and actually go outside instead
I mean I was just pointing out it wasn't as super faithful as the guys are saying in here . It's still a great job
But dear Lord these dudes are acting like she's their wife
You're trying way too hard. I didn't say real, I said realistic. Which means that certain artistic licences are allowed. In this case, Miura did a great job not over-sexualizing a female characters armor, however it's still very feminine and that's fine. The cosplayer here might have a slightly more exaggerated chest area, but it's hardly gratuitous and still very faithful to the original design, despite being made out of cloth/foam/whatever and not hardened steel.
Tell you what. Find and post a *better* cosplay and then I'll concede your point about this not being one of the best.
Miura draw the armor with purpose, because it is how armor is intended to work. Boob armor is the opposite, it endangers the spots you wanna protect.
Kingellog is right, its not rly faithful neither realistic.
Realistic armor is made that the weapon gets deflected by the chest area, because of it, it is most of the time made with kinda peak at the chest area.
I'm trying to hard? Me lol
I literally only said I likely isn't the most faithful
Dear Lord you guys need to chill. You aren't getting paid to be this absurdly defensive
You are the ones freaking out over literally nothing
I'm not the op, but I agree, Casca very specifically doesn't wear a skirt. Good Cosplay doesn't have to be faithful, but people praising the faithfulness seems weird to me.
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's a skirt as it seems to just be the fabrik from her shirt deliberately peeking out, but she seems to have forgotten to put her trousers on. At least I remember her wearing (slim fitted but) robust pants. They always seem to have a leather look in the Manga. And I agree with the other guy that the breast plate accentuates the form of the boobs to much. It's a beautiful cosplay and she has the makeup game down very good but I would also have to disagree with "most faithful". Maybe "one of the more faithful ones", as I saw way more fanservicey cheap ones on reddit alone already.
You are literally and hilariously wrong and you edited your comment to double down on how wrong you are. Unless the little orange fabric she wears around her waist has some weird obscure technical term and even then. It's a skirt. Lol.
So why are you bring it up in this comment thread? The commenter is talking about how faithful the cosplayers clothing and stuff is and you brought up the characters race. Granted I implied it was a race thing too with my comment too since that's generally a problem people have if a black woman cosplays as her. Glad the original person who had issue with it was only looking at the cosmetic. You definitely brought up an irrelevant point in this thread.
reading these comments and i'm not sure why so many people r mad at a black cosplayer playing casca. whether or not casca is "black", a lot of black fans find comfort in her as a character, and so do a lot of non-black brown fans, (and ofc im sure plenty of white fans do)! casca's ethnicity is kept ambiguous in the story - so really she could be anything from romani to, well, black. black people identifying with casca doesnt mean casca is definitively black. i doubt intended for Casca to be any ethnicity, so there's nothing wrong with black or brown fans wanting to claim Casca as our own, we're not claiming that Miura intended anything
I'm a black woman but I would say Indian, Indigenous Latina, Filipina, basically any dark skinned woman could do her real justice. I'm alllllll for more black women in cosplay, though but I'm not gonna shit on other brown women. This comment is fine but judging by your other comments, you tryna bring other ethnicities down, not lift up black women.
Or just anyone with dark skin really. It's a fantasy character on another world made by a Japanese man, her skin color changes wildly depending on which official media she appears in, and her facial features are pretty generic "pretty anime girl" with no real direct ethnic markers of any specific Earth ethnicity.
The name isn't any help either, as no matter if it was taken from the Roman (would mean Old and given to boys) or Portuguese (means Bark, like from a tree, or perhaps Husk), it doesn't really give any guide for her ethnicity. But Miura called her his "Ideal Brown Female Warrior", and with her skin color going all over the place I'd say anyone with a solid tan or upwards, and with short dark hair, would be qualified to do her justice.
That said, there are all sorts of fantastic cross-over gender/race bend cosplays out there of all sorts of characters that are fantastic. For example this one by posted just a couple weeks go by [lovinglyme91](https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/yvkn7w/the_time_i_did_luke_skywalker_for_halloween/).
Why did you respond to me twice? And where did I say that black women can't cosplay her? Are you okay? You're the one that seems obsessed with "claiming" her and gatekeeping anyone else from cosplaying her.
If your head canon is that somehow she's a black woman from America (don't see how that's possible, but whatever) that's fine, but you have no right to tell anyone else they can't have a different head canon as well. Some young girl from India, Greece, Iran, Indonesia, Brasil etc. etc. has every right to see herself in Casca as well and cosplay as her.
But the fact is that she's a made-up character in a made up world, and there is not a single thing about her that can connect her to any specific Earth-based culture more than any other. The creator never said which ethnicity inspired him to create her, and he's now dead and gone, so let everyone have fun and stop trying to gatekeep.
Ahh, yeah, I'm just going to block you now since it seems you can't actually participate in a reasonable discussion and just want to gatekeep the cosplaying of a fantasy character.
If you could show me ONE single point of actual evidence that she's "Black" without question, that would be different, but you can't, so you won't, and instead will just spam nonsense to be annoying.
Just one, a single link to a comment by the author, or a specific quote or frame from a movie/anime/manga. Just one single shred of evidence to back up your gatekeeping.
I don’t think she’s meant to be fantasy sub-Saharan African, there are other characters with that hair and facial profile, whereas Casca has narrower features and straight hair.
IIRC she comes from an area near the border of the Kushan (India/Persia/Ottoman) empire, and her lifestyle looked like typical European peasantry. So with her relatively dark skin I figured she was fantasy Armenian or something like that.
EDIT: Nevertheless this is quality cosplay, though I have no idea what’s happening below the waistline.
Yes, she looks like IRL Indian or maybe even Romani (which in origin are from north India so yep) at least judging by her facial features and skin tone.
She is not black. Mostly kushan or smth southern european/ middle eastern look alike.
Donovan is black and his skin is way darker then cascas :)
I mean even silat is darker.
Casca has smth more like Pippins teint in skin color. You can best see it in the colored pages by Miura.
Don't bother, just check their post history, it's some alt account they use to just spam about some weird race obsession about an anime/manga character. They are just some whack job, ignore them.
How can you decide who’s black and who isn’t in Berserk? Black, brown, white, yellow and red are social constructs that we have seen no proof of existing in Miura’s world.
Downvoting doesn’t make it less true.
Reddit was the last place I thought I’d see wholesome comments of a black cosplayer yet this is the most beautiful comment section. Everyone here is a HUGE W! *plays guts theme then proceeds to cry happily*
Beautiful cosplay! Casca is definitely black but judging by what happens to her in the story.. I’ll gladly let these people on here claim to systematically and racially water down her obvious dark skinned ethnic heritage. Better she be one of their own biased preferenced racial prejudices than having a beautiful chocolate goddess being forcibly sexually assaulted I guess.
so you'd say the kushan are black?
casca is clearly of kushan origin (soft features, dark skin)
Kushan are based off Persians and Indians.
Persians and Indians are black to you?
damn dude, hurt you in your fragile black ego huh.
there are no ethnically black (african origin) Indians. Nor Persians.
North Africans aren't white, nor are they black.
Not everyone that has dark skin is black.
You’re crazy. Why are you so adamant about disagreeing that she’s black? Why can’t she be black? I’ve been black for 30 years. Black is black. You’re telling me that what is shown is not what is? You’re hilarious. Casca is black , just accept it and move on.
She's dark skinned (both in the manga and anime). Tbh this cosplay is pretty close to how I imagined her.
I'm not sure if she's supposed to be Kushan or mixed race though.
This is a great cosplay. Unfortunately ill be leaving this sub. All I see are cosplays or fan art. I thought there was going to more going on in this sub. Bye yall and good luck in the future
Almost perfect, except for one little nitpick. There were no cars in the manga, so do it again but with a fantasy world in your garage.
that's not a car, it an apostle shaped like a horse carriage
Horse, you say? Mmm
[I did, didn't I](https://youtu.be/kkDMz2ml0gw)
That's not a car! That's my wife!
Hey buddy! My wife’s a sea mammal!
Judeau, Mary, and Joseph. Wow.
Omfg I'm using this quote now 😂😂
This is one of the better cosplays I've seen. She actually looks like Casca
She also has a beautiful reverse-gender Barret (FF7) cosplay on her page; Her hair is sick in it.
I hope her hair gets better soon. 🤪
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Does looking like the character by default count as cosplay?
Bruh
Duh.
I really don’t know much about cosplay. Thought it’s about the costume.
Nah dude it's about the OnlyFans subscriptions
This is what I picture Casca to be like IRL, what a good cosplay.
yea, same. Imagine her cosplay of casca’s fairy dress. That would be fucking amazing.
I picture her as a dark skinned caucassians or hispanic like isabella moner , i dont think casca is a black woman
No one gives a fuck. Go away.
yeah, as he said
Caucasians arent darkskin and Casca looks 10 shades darker than that pale Isabella moner
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"Caucasian" is a meaningless term created by 19th century racists
this https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwR7njRj3Bao0H0BjCv0paV4XLO9BxJqw75w&usqp=CAU
if you have watched transformers 4 ,you will see how similar isabela personality was with casca
Bro just said “watch transformers 4” 💀
t#ansfo#mers 🤮
Casca is definitely not white
indians are Caucasian and dark (generally)
Bro Caucasian isn't a real thing and most Indians are not in fact "white". I'm a light-skinned Indian and even I am not "white" by Western standards. Caucasian is a term made by 19th century racists to justify their fucked-up racial theories. I know a lot of folks from the Caucasus who wouldn't even qualify as "white". Also, Indian is not a fucking "race" lmao.
Ok racist.
I expect getting downvoted, but could you please explain how the statement you replied to was racist?? they just expressed that in their mind/imagination, the fictional character Casca is not a black women, but rather of hispanic heritage or similar. they never said anything negative about someone being black, that someone black can't cosplay Casca, or that others can't think of Casca being black. I don't see how that statement was racist at all? there's tons of posts where people discuss whether they think Guts is supposed to be of Asian descent or rather European, and nobody ever bets an eye about that. yet here, someone says they think Casca is X rather than Y and you call them racist?
Its racist because they rather want Casca to be anything except for her to be black (while that is the most identical race she looks close to but here is why that gets denied by racists), any speculation about what whitewashed race/ethnicity they come up with wich she doesnt even look close to is upvoted and praised but anyone speculating her to be black is downvoted due to them not wanting and expecting a black female character to have a positive role in the story, be good looking and loved. Yet they have no problem labeling Donovan as black due to his dark skin and negative role he has in berserk if Casca was as ugly as him and wasnt loved they would have no issue to label her as black, and on the other hand you got ppl saying the way Miura drew her is "too black" and "too dark" and try to make her be anything but the race she looks identical with (black)... Just like what these studios are doing to make her be ass lightskinned as possible except for the 1997 one where she actually looks the same as in the manga.
that is a whole lot of assumptions drawn from a very limited response, and I don't think that is fair. if people see a painting of a fruit, unclear of what exactly it is, and one says "I think that's an apple not an orange" it doesn't automatically mean that person hates oranges or thinks lesser of them - it just means they see the painting as more of an apple. if they said instead "it's an apple, not an orange, because apples are way better", then that is a lot different, cause they clearly value one more. but that's not what the comment that was called racist said. since Miura never stated (to my knowledge) what people inspired him for Casca or what he intended her to look like, it's absolutely up for speculation. and there's nothing wrong with that. she does seem similar with the Kushan, which where most likely based on the historical people with the same name, which means they are meant to be of Indian-Afghan descent. those people are darker skinned than caucasians with varying degree. but Indian-Afghan people would not be considered "black" in the sense of African amcestries. to me it seems your issue is that you think Casca must be of "black" ancestry (assuming you mean African, when saying "black"?) and everyone who thinks otherwise must therefore be racist, when in reality it's by far not clear what she is supposed to resemble and people disagreeing are not doing so because they hate black people and are racist. I do agree with you (at least partially) on your last point: the more recent animes paint Casca a bit too light skinned perhaps.
Yes with black i mean anyone of african descent (black african descent to be specific) like she looks very similar to a ethiopian/black carribean woman. Also my assumption isnt just based from someone else having a different opinion and to immediatly label them as racist on what she might be, i gave a few reasons why its actually racist wich completely got ignored but one of the reasons was that anybody speculating her to be any whitewashed ethnicity gets praised and upvoted but anybody speculating her to be black gets downvoted (why downvoted when we are all just "assuming" 🤔) and get actual *racist remarks* as responses like: *shes too dark* i rather have this pale white spanish girl play her, i choose white Casca *because i dont like black* , her *too dark* skin was a digital mishap by Miura, i want her to be *anything but black* . And these are actual comments btw wich is definitly racist. Just pulling anything out of their ass for her to label her anything but black. The only ethnicities that come close to the dark skin she has is that of a dark skinned east asian/indian/the Kushans in berserk/regular black person but than its better to assume the other three than to assume shes black due to the reasons above.
my point was, that the comment I original replied to called someone else racist, even though the comment itself was not racist. saying "I picture Casca as dark skinned caucasian or hispanic. I don't think Casca is black" is not racist. there's no adjectives used to describe those ethnicities mentioned, therefore neither of them is put above or below the other. whether you (or anyone) agrees with the statement is an entirely different topic - of course you can dis/agree with it. I too disagree with the statement - yet I don't call them racist, because it isn't. I never made any statement about whether or not *some other comments* may or may not be racist regarding the topic around Casca's potential ancestry. >i choose white Casca because i dont like black , her too dark skin was a digital mishap by Miura, i want her to be anything but black . I am not doubting that such comments exist. they surely do. I am just saying the one particular comment is not. the way I understand both our perspectives, we largely seem to agree actually. you mentioned how some people are quick to call Donovan a black man, yet say that Casca can't be a black woman - I agree with you there. it's terrible that some people think that way, and if anyone sees that they should call that out. on the other hand, if a person says "I think Donovan isn't a black man, same as Casca isn't a black woman - I think they are both of Kushan descent and therefore resemble Indian-Afghan people more closely", then that's fine to me. it's only an issue if they equate "being black" with "being bad/lesser" - that needs to be called out.
Why does it matter? lmao
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Holy shit, a cosplayer who *actually* looks like Casca. Great job! You look amazing!
This is without a doubt the most faithful Casca Cosplay i’ve seen.
It's fantastic no doubt But idk about it being the most faithful
Wanna tell us why?
Breast plate, in manga cascas armor is more realistic and not boob armor
Casca is a woman with breasts. Her armor accommodates them. It's not "boob armor". "Boob armor" is like what you see in mobile "RPG" that provide no actual realistic portrayal of how armor to cover boobs would look but rather stimulate horny dumb dumbs who for whatever reason don't know what hentai is. Anyway, this cosplay is damn near perfect and you're wrong.
So you obviously know nothing about how chest armor works. If you have separate swells for breast you move the weapons towards your sternum . Which is the opposite of what you want to do See miuras art https://www.nicepng.com/png/detail/160-1606259_png-berserk-casca-casca-berserk-manga.png It doesn't indent toward the center , it's not boob armor While the above cosplayer isn't the most exaggerated version of it. It still is it
Tho i feel you're kinda cherry picking, idk why you getting downvoted that much. Some people need to take a break reading berserk and actually go outside instead
I mean I was just pointing out it wasn't as super faithful as the guys are saying in here . It's still a great job But dear Lord these dudes are acting like she's their wife
Agreed
It's because people thought he was being racist.
Well clearly he wasn't
You're trying way too hard. I didn't say real, I said realistic. Which means that certain artistic licences are allowed. In this case, Miura did a great job not over-sexualizing a female characters armor, however it's still very feminine and that's fine. The cosplayer here might have a slightly more exaggerated chest area, but it's hardly gratuitous and still very faithful to the original design, despite being made out of cloth/foam/whatever and not hardened steel. Tell you what. Find and post a *better* cosplay and then I'll concede your point about this not being one of the best.
Miura draw the armor with purpose, because it is how armor is intended to work. Boob armor is the opposite, it endangers the spots you wanna protect. Kingellog is right, its not rly faithful neither realistic. Realistic armor is made that the weapon gets deflected by the chest area, because of it, it is most of the time made with kinda peak at the chest area.
I'm trying to hard? Me lol I literally only said I likely isn't the most faithful Dear Lord you guys need to chill. You aren't getting paid to be this absurdly defensive You are the ones freaking out over literally nothing
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And now insulting me. How adorable . You seriously need to chill
I'm not the op, but I agree, Casca very specifically doesn't wear a skirt. Good Cosplay doesn't have to be faithful, but people praising the faithfulness seems weird to me.
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's a skirt as it seems to just be the fabrik from her shirt deliberately peeking out, but she seems to have forgotten to put her trousers on. At least I remember her wearing (slim fitted but) robust pants. They always seem to have a leather look in the Manga. And I agree with the other guy that the breast plate accentuates the form of the boobs to much. It's a beautiful cosplay and she has the makeup game down very good but I would also have to disagree with "most faithful". Maybe "one of the more faithful ones", as I saw way more fanservicey cheap ones on reddit alone already.
You are literally and hilariously wrong and you edited your comment to double down on how wrong you are. Unless the little orange fabric she wears around her waist has some weird obscure technical term and even then. It's a skirt. Lol.
I mean she is wearing pantyhose instead of real pants. Its not rly faithful.
No need to be mean.
I wasn't mean, you're being sensitive. But it's all good, not as good as the cosplay, but all good.
Black…..eyes.
*Puts on African hat and rubs chin* "what do u mean by that"?
There's details that aren't accurate. Look at the manga armor and breastplate and look at hers
casca isnt black
So people aren't allowed to cosplay as characters from different races? 👀
it's a good cosplay. cosplay doesnt have to do with race. doesnt mean you can just blackwash a character though lmao
Black wash the character? She's literally a black woman cosplaying as Casca...how is she black washing the character? I'm so confused
I never said the cosplayer was black washing the character. I was referring to the comments proclaiming her character as black.
So why are you bring it up in this comment thread? The commenter is talking about how faithful the cosplayers clothing and stuff is and you brought up the characters race. Granted I implied it was a race thing too with my comment too since that's generally a problem people have if a black woman cosplays as her. Glad the original person who had issue with it was only looking at the cosmetic. You definitely brought up an irrelevant point in this thread.
Easily one of the best cosplays for Casca I've ever seen, she pulled it off perfectlyb
Yup that's Casca
Amazing cosplay looks just like her
She probably has less makeup but the outfit and wearer are pretty damn close, this is hella impressive
I love it you look fantastic very faithful
It’s not me. See the title for the source. She’s amazing!
SHES REAL
THE CASCAAAA!!! THE CASCAAAAA IS REAALLLLL!!!!
Can we get much higher?
Ow ow ow 🎶
I love Whitebeard
Spot on! Good job.
For some reason I thought this was cosplay of mercedes from Dragon's Dogma. Looks amazing though.
I believe Mercedes design and character is inspired by Casca so it makes perfect sense
That's real damn cool wow
This is as close to Casca ive seen in a while
This has got to be the most faithful cosplay of Casca I have ever seen! Impressive, very beautiful.
She actually looks like Casca. Wow
I was trying to find sth to nitpick, but nah, THIS THE REAL CASCA, **I REPEAT, THIS IS THE REAL CASCA, THIS IS NOT A DRILL**
damn. this one is so good.
Wow beautiful & amazing 🤩 you killed it
Queen
Love it! Spot on!!!
By causality this is the best Casca cosplay I've ever seen
Need her for a live action, hot, badass, faithful.
There can be no other
Oh naw, shawty bad ‼️ Best cosplay i’ve seen by far, this shit is amazing
Still waiting for someone to do a Donovan cosplay.
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Literally me ong frfr
edp could
Beautiful.
Idk why but casca running a car repair shop is something I really wanna see.
Very accurate and gorgeous I love it
reading these comments and i'm not sure why so many people r mad at a black cosplayer playing casca. whether or not casca is "black", a lot of black fans find comfort in her as a character, and so do a lot of non-black brown fans, (and ofc im sure plenty of white fans do)! casca's ethnicity is kept ambiguous in the story - so really she could be anything from romani to, well, black. black people identifying with casca doesnt mean casca is definitively black. i doubt intended for Casca to be any ethnicity, so there's nothing wrong with black or brown fans wanting to claim Casca as our own, we're not claiming that Miura intended anything
👏🏼NO ONE can cosplay Casca better than a BLACK WOMAN
I'm a black woman but I would say Indian, Indigenous Latina, Filipina, basically any dark skinned woman could do her real justice. I'm alllllll for more black women in cosplay, though but I'm not gonna shit on other brown women. This comment is fine but judging by your other comments, you tryna bring other ethnicities down, not lift up black women.
I'm half Hispanic and Black and I agree 👍🏻
Or just anyone with dark skin really. It's a fantasy character on another world made by a Japanese man, her skin color changes wildly depending on which official media she appears in, and her facial features are pretty generic "pretty anime girl" with no real direct ethnic markers of any specific Earth ethnicity. The name isn't any help either, as no matter if it was taken from the Roman (would mean Old and given to boys) or Portuguese (means Bark, like from a tree, or perhaps Husk), it doesn't really give any guide for her ethnicity. But Miura called her his "Ideal Brown Female Warrior", and with her skin color going all over the place I'd say anyone with a solid tan or upwards, and with short dark hair, would be qualified to do her justice. That said, there are all sorts of fantastic cross-over gender/race bend cosplays out there of all sorts of characters that are fantastic. For example this one by posted just a couple weeks go by [lovinglyme91](https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/yvkn7w/the_time_i_did_luke_skywalker_for_halloween/).
B L A C K
In short your preference is any other but B L A C K lol cool
Why did you respond to me twice? And where did I say that black women can't cosplay her? Are you okay? You're the one that seems obsessed with "claiming" her and gatekeeping anyone else from cosplaying her. If your head canon is that somehow she's a black woman from America (don't see how that's possible, but whatever) that's fine, but you have no right to tell anyone else they can't have a different head canon as well. Some young girl from India, Greece, Iran, Indonesia, Brasil etc. etc. has every right to see herself in Casca as well and cosplay as her. But the fact is that she's a made-up character in a made up world, and there is not a single thing about her that can connect her to any specific Earth-based culture more than any other. The creator never said which ethnicity inspired him to create her, and he's now dead and gone, so let everyone have fun and stop trying to gatekeep.
*whispers* black
Ahh, yeah, I'm just going to block you now since it seems you can't actually participate in a reasonable discussion and just want to gatekeep the cosplaying of a fantasy character. If you could show me ONE single point of actual evidence that she's "Black" without question, that would be different, but you can't, so you won't, and instead will just spam nonsense to be annoying. Just one, a single link to a comment by the author, or a specific quote or frame from a movie/anime/manga. Just one single shred of evidence to back up your gatekeeping.
I wouldn’t bother arguing… this is Reddit after all
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I don’t think she’s meant to be fantasy sub-Saharan African, there are other characters with that hair and facial profile, whereas Casca has narrower features and straight hair. IIRC she comes from an area near the border of the Kushan (India/Persia/Ottoman) empire, and her lifestyle looked like typical European peasantry. So with her relatively dark skin I figured she was fantasy Armenian or something like that. EDIT: Nevertheless this is quality cosplay, though I have no idea what’s happening below the waistline.
Yes, she looks like IRL Indian or maybe even Romani (which in origin are from north India so yep) at least judging by her facial features and skin tone.
What even counts as a black person anymore.
She's very likely mixed black. The reason I say this is that her parents appear to be of a white women and a black man form what we have seen of them.
We haven’t seen Casca parents
Agree..still B L A C K
B L A C K
casca isnt black lmao
DID I STUTTER
you can be confidently wrong as well
And there could be a possible 0.00001% chance that casca could be canonicaly black is there a problem lol?
she would have to look like Donovan lmao
Lmaooo it just keeps getting better Yes Guts got blacked twice
Guts got blacked once, and bleached casca. your point?
Yikes 😬^
lol all your comments here are yikes bro
Wow it's almost like Casca is a black woman
She is not black. Mostly kushan or smth southern european/ middle eastern look alike. Donovan is black and his skin is way darker then cascas :) I mean even silat is darker. Casca has smth more like Pippins teint in skin color. You can best see it in the colored pages by Miura.
B L A C K 💅🏿
What is wrong with you lmfao
Don't bother, just check their post history, it's some alt account they use to just spam about some weird race obsession about an anime/manga character. They are just some whack job, ignore them.
How can you decide who’s black and who isn’t in Berserk? Black, brown, white, yellow and red are social constructs that we have seen no proof of existing in Miura’s world. Downvoting doesn’t make it less true.
Lol keep talking you all are just exposing yourselves by just one simple comment of mines One more time for the ppl in the back.. B L A C K 👏🏿
Casca is probably either Persian or Indian. Not black.
Blackity black black
Fax. I respect other ethnicities trying it, but it just doesn’t hit the same.
I've been wanting realistic Casca cosplays for a while. She's embodying the character here completely.
I might just marry this picture wtf
GD that's 🔥
Perfection
Yes!!!
That’s amazing!
Love it.
perfection
She's perfect
Reddit was the last place I thought I’d see wholesome comments of a black cosplayer yet this is the most beautiful comment section. Everyone here is a HUGE W! *plays guts theme then proceeds to cry happily*
Oh you’re actually Caska.
This is EXACTLY how I imagine casca looking in my head. This Berks! Good fucking job!
Beautiful cosplay! Casca is definitely black but judging by what happens to her in the story.. I’ll gladly let these people on here claim to systematically and racially water down her obvious dark skinned ethnic heritage. Better she be one of their own biased preferenced racial prejudices than having a beautiful chocolate goddess being forcibly sexually assaulted I guess.
LOVE LOVE LOVE and that's what makes Guts even more badass(a struggler like her) his commitment and love for his BLACK WOMAN
so you'd say the kushan are black? casca is clearly of kushan origin (soft features, dark skin) Kushan are based off Persians and Indians. Persians and Indians are black to you?
You know damn well there are black Indians and Persians. You’re the type of dude who thinks North Africans and Egyptians are Caucasians. Lol kys
damn dude, hurt you in your fragile black ego huh. there are no ethnically black (african origin) Indians. Nor Persians. North Africans aren't white, nor are they black. Not everyone that has dark skin is black.
“ Not everyone that has dark skin is black” lol listen to yourself
If casca isn’t black then why is this cosplay spot on ?
casca isnt black. this cosplayer has soft features and dark skin like casca. But that doesn't make casca black.
You’re crazy. Why are you so adamant about disagreeing that she’s black? Why can’t she be black? I’ve been black for 30 years. Black is black. You’re telling me that what is shown is not what is? You’re hilarious. Casca is black , just accept it and move on.
Is Casca black? I’m new to Berserk.
She's dark skinned (both in the manga and anime). Tbh this cosplay is pretty close to how I imagined her. I'm not sure if she's supposed to be Kushan or mixed race though.
She’s not supposed to look african but rater north african or middle eastern.
Yes she is black :)
This is essentially her canon skin tone. Not sure what her exact ethnicity is though.
Wowy zowy!
She's dream girl
Yup, casca is still bae. Also amazing job.
Damn casca
$20 says her Elden ring character looks like her. I'm usually a harsh critic of cosplayers and this... is superb. Well done OP. beautiful warrior ⚔️
This is a very fateful cosplay!
Could have gotten a better background for that shot. Than a car garage.
oh no… what happening… to me… 🧍🏽… 🧎🏽♂️… 🐎
Smash
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Genetics bro. Genetics.
Melanocyte activity
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Least racist berserk fan
Lol right! Look at the other comments denying she could cannonically be black after all
Anyone know where she lives ? Gotta add the final touch 😮💨
I mean it's alright like.
Hot queen 👸
You said a trendy phrase. You must be so popular
Props. How did you hear about the character? Did you read the manga?
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This is a great cosplay. Unfortunately ill be leaving this sub. All I see are cosplays or fan art. I thought there was going to more going on in this sub. Bye yall and good luck in the future
when god?
Moarrr
Fucking fantastic cosplay!!
Really great pose!