Berserk will continue without Kentaro Miura
The Berserk manga is set to continue following the death of its creator Kentaro Miura last May.
Miura’s close friend, Kouji Mori – the only person he told Berserk’s story to from start to finish – will take over the series and write only what Miura told him without any supplementary or filler stories.
In a statement offered on Twitter, the Berserk team said Mori has the “full support” of both the manga’s publishing company Young Animal and the team of assistants that supported Miura on Berserk, though it’s currently unclear how much more of Berserk (which began running in 1989) will be released.
『ベルセルク』が6月24日発売のヤングアニマル13号から連載再開いたします。連載再開に際し、ヤングアニマル編集部並びに森恒二先生からのメッセージを掲載いたします。引き続き『ベルセルク』をご愛読いただけるよう何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます。 https://t.co/XzJk3Wzra8 #BERSERK #ベルセルク pic.twitter.com/gz9TQLfs46
— ベルセルク公式ツイッター (@berserk_project) June 7, 2022
Miura died suddenly from acute aortic dissection, a tear in the aorta branching off from the heart, on May 6, 2021, leaving Berserk unfinished and in the middle of an ongoing story arc.
The series will resume in the next issue of Young Animal’s magazine, and the next six chapters will conclude the Fantasia Arc. A new arc will begin after this, and though the publisher calls this period of Berserk “the last episode that we have put together”, it didn’t say how long the story will go on for, or if this new arc will be the final one.
“Upon resuming the series, our production team decided on a basic policy: Mr Miura said so,” the Young Animal editing department announced on its website. “This is what the production team kept in mind.”
