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But as much time as Suzume spends thinking and dreaming about her past, most of the adults in her life — like her loving, slightly overbearing aunt Tamaki (Eri Fukatsu, Jennifer Sun Bell) — have to keep their eyes focused on the future because it’s integral to their idea of productivity and happiness. Most of Suzume’s peers simply don’t have or want to make the time to think about how landslides have led to massive portions of their town being made unlivable and left to crumble into ruins that people don’t really think about because they’re out of sight. But when Suzume
crosses paths with a mysterious and devastatingly handsome out-of-towner named Sōta (Hokuto Matsumura, Josh Keaton) who asks her specifically about a nearby abandoned building, she can’t help but be intrigued and curious about what he’s up to. As tends to be the case in Shinkai’s films, a fledgling infatuation is part of what pulls Suzume’s leads into each other’s orbits. But what gets Suzume racing up a steep hill toward the ruins isn’t a desire to see Sōta; it’s a horrific vision she has of a massive worm-like creature made of smoke bursting into the sky — something that only she can see for some inexplicable reason. Shinkai’s love for Hayao Miyazaki and his approach to fantastical adventure storytelling is palpable and visible all throughout Suzume. But narratively, it shines through most brightly in the way that Suzume’s chance encounter with Sōta brings her face-to-face with a door to another dimension — and a trickster cat deity called Daijin (Ann Yamane, Lena Josephine Marano) who’s more than happy to leave the door open and let the worm monster try to cross over into Japan. In one of Suzume’s first shifts toward action that really speaks to how wondrously studio CoMix Wave Films is able to bring Shinkai’s ideas to life, there’s barely any time for Sōta to explain what the worm is or how he’s part of a long line of “closers” who’ve worked to keep its tendrils from crashing into the Earth and causing earthquakes. Suzume’s a quick enough student, though, and after she and Sōta manage to close the first portal, it isn’t long before she decides that she absolutely needs to accompany him on his journey to close more of them and make Daijin return to his post as a guardian keystone statue. In the same way that it was easy to read Shinkai’s Weathering With You as a reflection of what it means to live in a world upended by extreme climate change, in Suzume, you can clearly see Shinkai grappling with the Great East Japan earthquake of 2011 that killed nearly 20,000 people, injured thousands more, and caused catastrophic damage across the country. Though Suzume never feels fatalistic or at risk of becoming lost in the darkness of its metaphor, it also never lets you forget that each and every single instance of the worm bursting through a portal carries the risk of causing a
calamity like the real-world 2011 quake.
Shimabukuro regained his balance as Ippo motioned his Dempsey Roll. Ippo used the Dempsey Roll and exchanged blows with Shimabukuro until Ippo sent him down with a full-body Dempsey Roll blow. While Shimabukuro took a fighting pose, he was unable to stand up before the count of ten, resulting in Ippo's victory, defending his JBC title a fourth time. After wearing his belt and doing a victory pose, Ippo passed out and was carried to the changing room by Kamogawa. In the changing room, Ippo woke up and wished to thank his mother for telling him long ago that his father would imagine his opponent's face as a fish, which was why he smiled in the seventh round. While walking to the shower room, Ippo came across Shimabukuro, who revealed his plans to leave for Okinawa the
next day and that he was retiring to protect the reefs
from the impending customers as summer was about to begin.
The Hawks encounter a quartet of archdemons known as the "Godhand" who have gathered for a ritual known as the Eclipse, revealing that Griffith has been chosen to become their final member and can only transcend his humanity if he offers his
comrades as sacrificial offerings. Griffith accepts once reminded of the person he has always been. The Hawks are branded with demonic sigils, marking them for sacrifice and are subsequently slaughtered by the Godhand's Apostles—humans like Zodd who attained power by sacrificing their loved ones and humanity. Only Guts and Casca survive the massacre, but Griffith's first act as the fifth Godhand Femto is to rape Casca in front of Guts, with an enraged Guts losing his left forearm and right eye in his attempt to
save her. They are rescued by the Skull Knight, but the ordeal traumatizes Casca enough to regress her mind to a childlike state. Guts learns from the Skull Knight that their "Brands of Sacrifice" makes them targets for specters and other beings of darkness on a nightly basis. Guts leaves Casca in the care of the blacksmith Godo, his adoptive daughter Erica, and Rickert, the last and youngest member of the Band of the Hawk, who survived by not being present at the Eclipse. Godo outfits Guts with a giant new sword, "Dragonslayer", and a prosthetic left arm with a built-in cannon and crossbow. Guts begins hunting down the Apostles to find and kill Griffith while followed by a demonic phantom called the Demon Child, which is actually Guts' and Casca's unborn child deformed by Femto's rape. Two years later, after having killed many Apostles and earning the nickname of "the Black Swordsman", Guts is joined by an elf named Puck. They are captured by Farnese, captain of the Holy See Church's Holy Iron Chain Knights, who believes Guts is a foretold harbinger of the apocalypse.
