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Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist born on the 11th of July 1966, in Chiba, Japan. He is best known for creating the dark fantasy manga series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989 and by 2023 had over 60 million copies in circulation worldwide.
Berserk began serialization in 1989 in Hakusensha's Monthly Animal House. By 2023, the series had been collected into 42 tankōbon volumes in Japan and had over 60 million copies in circulation worldwide, including digital versions.
Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002, awarded for his work on Berserk.
Miura died on the 6th of May 2021, due to acute aortic dissection. He was 54 years old. His death was publicly announced on the 20th of May 2021, following a private family ceremony.
The Dark Souls series drew its monsters and world aesthetic from Berserk, and the character Guts influenced Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII and Dante from the Devil May Cry series. Dragon's Dogma includes armor based on Guts and Griffith, and director Hideaki Itsuno stated in a 2019 GDC talk that Devil May Cry 5's tone was inspired by Berserk. A 25-episode anime adaptation produced by OLM, Inc. aired on NTV in 1997, and Miura also supervised the 1999 Dreamcast game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage.
Berserk resumed publication on the 7th of June 2022, following an announcement by Hakusensha and Kouji Mori. Mori, Miura's closest friend since high school, agreed to continue the series using only plans and episodes that Miura personally described to him, as well as memoranda and character designs Miura left behind. The credits now read: original work by Kentaro Miura, art by Studio Gaga, supervised by Kouji Mori.