Kentaro Miura Biography – Kentaro Miura Wiki
Kentaro Miura was a renowned Japanese manga artist best known for the creation of Berserk which started to serialize in 1989 until May 2021 when he died. At the time of his demise in May 2021, he had over 50 million copies that had been circulated all over the world, thus making it the best-selling manga series of all time. He was a recipient of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002. He started drawing manga at the age of 10. His first manga was named Miuranga and was published in his school’s newspaper. He came up with his second manga in 1977 and he improved gradually and started using professional techniques by 1979.
While in high school in 1982, he enrolled in an artistic curriculum, where he and his classmates started publishing their works in school booklets. His first doujinshi was published in a magazine, with the help of friends, in the same year. At age 18, he worked as an assistant to George Morikawa, of Hajime no Ippo fame. Morikawa quickly acknowledged Miura’s high artistic level and dismissed him, saying there was nothing he could teach that Miura did not already know according to Crunchyroll. In 1985, he applied for the entrance examination to the art college of Nihon University. He submitted his project Futanabi for examination and was granted admission. The project later earned him a nomination as Best New Author in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. His first serialized work, Noa, was published in the magazine, but it was not successful. In 1988, while working for Buronson on a project titled Oro, he published a prototype of Berserk in Hakusensha’s Gekkan ComiComi. This 48-page prototype placed 2nd at the 7th ComiComi’s Manga-School prize. The full serialization of Berserk, ultimately Miura’s most famous and successful work, started in Hakusensha’s Monthly Animal House in 1989. In 1990, a prequel to Oro entitled Oro Den (王狼伝, The Legend of the Wolf King) was published in the magazine. In 1992, Monthly Animal House was renamed Young Animal, where Berserk continued serialization. In the same year, Miura collaborated with Buronson on Japan, also published in Young Animal.
In 1997, Miura supervised the production of a 25-episode anime adaptation of Berserk produced by OLM, Inc., which aired in the same year on NTV. Various art books and supplemental materials by Miura based on Berserk were also released. In 1999, Miura made contributions to the Dreamcast video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage, including co-writing the story’s plot. 2004 saw the release of yet another video game adaptation entitled Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Chapter of the Holy Demon War, which Miura also helped to write. In 2013, Miura produced the short standalone manga Gigantomakhia, which was released into English-speaking territories as Giganto Maxia by the publisher Dark Horse in 2016. By 2018 Berserk has been collected in 40 tankōbon volumes, and had over 50 million copies in circulation worldwide, including digital versions, as of May 2021. The series also spawned a host of merchandise, both official and fan-made, ranging from statues, action figures to key rings, video games, and a trading card game. He is credited for his great work and Miura stated that the work that had the biggest impact on his own is the manga series Fist of the North Star (1983 debut). In particular, Miura was influenced by Nagai’s manga Violence Jack (1973 debut). Other influences cited by Miura include the Japanese fantasy novel series Guin Saga (1979 debut), Paul Verhoeven films, the Hellraiser series (1987 debut), shojo manga works, Disney films, and the works of Hieronymous Bosch, M.C. Escher, Gustave Dore, and Pieter Bruegel.
Kentaro Miura Age
He was born on July 11, 1966,in Chiba, Chiba, Japan and died on May 6, 2021 in Japan. He was aged 54.
Kentaro Miura Death
He died on May 6, 2021, due to an acute aortic dissection. The editorial department of Young Animal Comics announced the news today through the official Berserk Twitter account.
Kentaro Miura Cause of Death
He died on May 6, 2021 due to an acute aortic dissection. A private ceremony was held by his family.
