A year after the disappearance of the Kentaro Miura mangaka, friends and assistants are working on new chapters to offer an epilogue to the manga published since 1989.
Le Monde
A year after the death of its creator, Kentaro Miura, at 54, the Berserk manga will offer a conclusion to its readers. Erratic serialized in the pages of Japanese magazine Young Animal since 1989, the adventures of the Guts warrior, monument to the Dark Fantasy, will deliver new chapters from June 24. The news has been published on Twitter, Tuesday June 7 by the editorial team of the journal owned by the Hakusensha publishing house.
These are not boards left by Kentaro Miura, but the extension of his work by the Gaga studio, which brings together former mangaka assistants, under the supervision of another author, Koji Mori. The latter, a longtime friend and a confidant of Kentaro Miura, assured in the press release of Hakusensha Know the end of the series , as intended by its creator. “I try to restore the story in the most detailed way possible, and only the episodes told by the author will be published, he also specifies, in an attempt to reassure the fans. I will add anything. “According to the artistic team, if it will be based On conversations and memories of discussions with the master, she does not have notes or manuscript.
Berserk, whose erratic publication put to the test of the patience of the fans, currently has 41 volumes and has passed in fifty million copies in fifteen countries. The Kentaro Miura series has influenced many artists and works, like recently Elden Ring, the best -selling video game of the first half of 2022.