10 Most Shocking Betrayals In Anime History

Gut and Griffith are an interesting duo in the widely acclaimed manga series Berserk, and its three-part movie series adaptation called the Golden Age Arc. The pair are absolutely inseparable, even though they are so different.

Things change between the two when Guts leaves his mercenary organisation, and Griffith is imprisoned by a king for sleeping with his daughter.

Guts returns and saves his best friend Griffith, who is so disfigured he can't even move his body. On the edge of death, Griffith remembers his true goal to earn a kingdom of his own and enacts a dark ritual to summon the god's hand and become a demonic monster.

In order to fulfil his desires and gain immense power, Griffith sacrifices every single member of the Band of the Hawk, including Guts and Casca, allowing them to be eaten by an army of demons.

Guts loses an eye and cuts his own arm off trying to get to Griffith, who is reincarnated as the faith member of God's hand.

Guts and Casca barely escape, and even when they do, the pair are scarred physically and mentally. Griffith's betrayal of everyone close to him is both shocking and classic. Its sheer brutality and cruelty encapsulates Berserk perfectly.