My favorite manga author passed.

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I don’t know if there are a ton of anime fans here, so I can provide some background.

Kentaro Miura was the author of a manga series (Japanese comic) known as Berserk. He worked on it since the 80’s; over half his life. It is a masterpiece with amazing visuals. I wish I can post some panels from the manga as it is truly spectacular. The art is unlike anything you have seen. The writing; heart wrenching, but it always leaves to root for the main character Guts, who constantly struggling against evil and trauma. The manga teaches you that no matter the horrible you were born in and no matter what happens to you, you deserve to have love. You deserve to obtain happiness.

His work went on to inspire the video games Monster Hunter and Dark Souls.

Berserk just happened to be one of my favorite manga. I haven’t kept up, but there was an anime release in 1997 that I hold dear. I often listened to the OST of that anime.

I feel like my heat got pulled out of my chest. This wasn’t supposed to happen. How could this have happened? Life is unpredictable, but not like this. I just...have no real words. I never felt like this before except the day David Bowie passed.

I feel like I lost part of myself. Berserk has meant so much to me for 5 years. Now...I don’t know if it will get completed. I don’t know what will happen. The author didn’t deserve this.

This is probably ridiculous, but I really don’t care. Berserk was something I was passionate about and highly related to the main character and I can’t stop crying.

This is really disappointing. I really like Berserk.

Not as much as Initial D, but close enough.

I'm gonna have to rewatch it now.

I heard that Berserk was on hiatus and incomplete. The fact that the author of such a dark story died before it could be completed and resolved is actually dark and depressing. Essentially that makes the story 10,000 times darker, knowing that all that pain and evil in such a messed up and dark world never got to be resolved in a satisfying way (here I am acting like I know what im talking about when the only manga ive ever read is Naruto....)

But still RIP. Never read Berserk but I heard a lot of people love it and many say its the saddest and darkest story ever written. Having it incomplete seems like a tragedy, but the loss of such a talented author is itself its own tragedy.

I am really shocked to hear this. I became a fan of Berserk back in 2010 and it became one of my favorite mangas. It has some of the best art not just in manga but in graphic fiction in general. I also liked Kentaro Miura’s short manga like King of Wolves, Japan, and Gigantomachia. He had an intense and blood pumping art style that was timeless. His story telling was also spell binding and deep. 99.9% of today’s Marvel and DC artists as well as writers are laughable in comparison to Miura. On a side note - the “woke” people at both companies trying to lecture Japan on how to do their comics need to f**k off. It’s not Japan’s fault manga is outselling your comics.

Even with the irregular chapter schedule, I still looked forward to reading new chapters since they usually were worth the wait. The story looked like it was heading towards the end and some mysteries were finally getting answered. Now, these mysteries and unanswered questions will be in the darkness forever.

Berserk was often compared to Game of Thrones despite how it actually started being drawn by Miura years before the Ice and Fire novels came out. Berserk was my choice when it came to dark fantasy since I discovered it on my own so it was special to me. Partly why I didn’t get into GoT was because Berserk filled the dark fantasy quotient for me.

This is honestly the biggest let down of the decade for me. Manga will not be the same. Rest In Peace, Miura-sama.

That's so sad.

I'm not familiar with the author's work, but I think that I know how you feel on some level since one of my favorite series got discontinued because the author died before she could finish it.

I haven't been reading the manga, only the anime but i am still sad to hear that. May he rest in peace.

Berserk was my favourite manga of all time I know he left an outline left but frankly I don't mind the story ending where it is currently it seems almost fitting.... I think this is the first time I've been sad about a famous persons death RIP Miura

What were your favorite moments from Berserk, honeytoast? Any moment with Zodd, the Godhand, and the Skeleton Knight I enjoyed.

This is my favorite shot in the whole manga:


I hoped maybe there would be a gaiden detailing Zodd’s past and how he became an Apostle for the Godhand. There was also a fan theory maybe he was Guts’ father due to their visual similarities, especially when Zodd is in his baseline form.