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Dragon Slayer body pillow
Coinciding with the opening of the Great Berserk Exhibition in 2021, Prime1 Studio launched a gimmicky "Dragon Slayer body pillow", or as they call it in Japanese: ドラゴンころし 抱き枕クッション (DORAGON KOROSHI DAKIMAKURA CUSHION). It's being sold for 8000 yen ($54 at th...
Artwork of Berserk interview - Page 3 (part 1)
Now available to Bronze & Silver patrons.Page 1: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Page 2: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Page 3Interviewer: When it comes to “the feeling of the brush”, I guess there can be very unexpected situations.Miura: For brushes, their expression changes each time, so I can find them inte...
Learning Japanese with Berserk: Merrow
The Chapter of the Elf island opens in volume 35 with Guts' group getting stranded on a lone, desolate island after an encounter with a ghost ship. It demonstrates the dangers of the new world our protagonists find themselves in. During the course of this little adventure, they meet Isma, a memb...
Miura self-portrait from 1998
Here is a self-portrait Miura drew in 1998. It was used to illustrate an interview about the upcoming Dreamcast game (released in 1999) that was published in Dreamcast magazine at the time. It's not a very extensive interview, and it's shared with the producer and director of the game, but i...
Learning Japanese with Berserk: Millennium Falcon
Berserk gets a new dynamic in volume 22 with the return of Femto in the physical world, having been incarnated into a new Griffith. This starts a new story arc called 千年帝国の鷹 with ミレニアム・ファルコン added as furigana in Japanese. In English, we follow the furigana and simpl...
Episode 370 translation
Fantasia arcElf island chapterRefugees on the western seaPage 1Serpico: Lady Farnese!!Serpico: Excuse me!Puck: Picorin, there!Page 2Serpico: Lady Farnese…!Serpico: Schierke also remains unharmed!Ivalera: Hey, where have you been?!Puck: Night flyingFarnese: …Serpico…Page 3Serpico: Lady Farnese...
Podcast #21: Kouji Mori's tribute to Miura, Part 2
Second part of our review of Kouji Mori's tribute to Kentarou Miura, who was his best friend for 40 years and to whom he owes his life. Mori goes over the plans they had made for their late life and the manga about their life Miura was pushing him to do.Want more of the podcast? Click here for t...
Isidro & Puck - AOW Platinium exclusive
Here's a relatively rare piece. It's a depiction of a funny scene with Isidro and Puck from the end of episode 238 (The Boy Under the Moonlight), as they fall to sleep before the Kushan familiars attack. It's at the beginning of volume 28. Puck is sleeping like a log... on Isidro's f...
The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 3)
Now available to Bronze & Silver tiersFirst partSecond partInterviewer: Looking back on what you have drawn so far, can you feel some developments or changes in you?Miura: Regarding my drawings, (I get to) to draw as I want… no, that’s not true. Maybe nothing has changed after all. As for me, fo...
Got any burning Berserk questions? Ask away!
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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Dark eyes
Since the recut version of the 2012 movie trilogy – the so-called Memorial Edition – is now airing, I figured I'd highlight a scene they did not feature but that is meaningful to the story. In volume 4, when Casca warms Guts' body as he lays delirious, he has a nightmare about Gambino an...
A look at the early Golden Age in Animal House
From the archives, here's one of Berserk's earlier issues, back when it was serialized in "Monthly Animal House", the magazine that came before "Young Animal". As you can see on the title page, this one is REVENGE 10, which was renamed "Golden Age (2)" in the volume (...
Index of the tributes to Kentarou Miura
For easy reference, here is an index for the translations of all the tributes published in the "Messages to Kentarou Miura" booklet that was included with the memorial issue of Young Animal, released on September 10, 2021.Tamami MomosePart 1Part 2Ena MoriyamaStandaloneSatoru AkahoriPart 1Par...
The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 2)
Now available to Bronze & Silver tiersFirst partInterviewer: When you made your debut, did you expect “Berserk” to be a work that would grow this much?Miura: No, I don’t think even a manga god could have easily envisioned that he would continue to serialize a work even after 30 years. Actually...
Podcast #20: Kouji Mori's tribute to Miura, Part 1
In this episode, Walter & Aazealh go over Kouji Mori's tribute to his best friend, Kentarou Miura. This tribute is both the most expansive as well as one of the most personal ones, going over a friendship that spanned 40 years. In fact it's big enough that we're splitting our commentary ...
Elementals in Berserk
The existence of elementals in Berserk is revealed in volume 24, while Guts' group stays at Flora's place. Four elements are initially presented, corresponding to the four classical elements of the European tradition (dating back to ancient Greece). Their names and symbols are derived from t...
Rare autographed telephone card
This is a unique autograph Kentarou Miura gave somebody a long time ago. I don't have any information about its provenance anymore unfortunately, but it's almost certainly from before 2000. It may have been a special prize in Young Animal.What's rather special about it is that it was don...
Episode 369 translation
Fantasia arcElf island chapterDisappearance on the arc islandNote: The title actually refers to 'bubbles' or 'foam', like with soapy water, and to how that can quickly vanish. "Arc" refers to the crescent shape of what remains of Skellig.Page 1Schierke: …uts! Where are you!...
The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 1)
Now available to Silver and Bronze tiers.Miura Kentarou-sensei passed away in May 2021 due to an acute aortic dissection. This interview is about what Miura-sensei looked back on from "his 30 years (of artwork)" in the fall of the previous year. To deliver his attitude, always enthusiastical...
Learning Japanese with Berserk: Kelpie
Kelpies are originally beings from Scottish folklore. A kelpie is usually depicted as a stunningly beautiful white horse that seduces humans into sitting on its back, then plunges back into the river or lake from which it came, drowning its victims. Miura kept the basic concept alongside the name, b...
A page removed from episode 167
Miura didn't just add pages for the volume release from time to time, he sometimes changed or removed a page from an episode too. This one was removed from episode 167 (collected in volume 21). It was originally the episode's first page.The reason for its removal isn't clear, but it coul...
Messages to Kentarou Miura: Tamami Momose (2)
This marks the end of the tributes to Miura. I hope they will have been as touching for you to read as they were for me to translate.Part 1 of this translation can be found herePage 03Momose: Mi..Miura-sensei～Miura: Sorry for the lateness.Momose: Thank you very much～Miura: Most of all, (I’m ha...
Podcast #19: Influential Works
We recorded this podcast directly following the previous one, where he had some drinks while we talked. We are therefore slightly buzzed as we go over the cultural works that marked our childhoods, be it novels, comic books, TV series, movies or video games —and how they prepared us to fall in lov...
Episode 368 translation
Fantasia arcElf island chapterGnawersPage 1Evil spirits: Sacrifice… san!!Evil spirits: Sacrifice…Evil spirits: …Reply (to us)!Evil spirits: Sacrifice…Evil spirits: Sacrifice…Note: The spirits are using the suffix "-san" even though they refer to Guts as a sacrifice, which is peculi...
Learning Japanese with Berserk: Idea
I've posted about the name "Idea of Evil" before, going over how it is formed and what it means. But the word イデア (IDEA) shows up in two other places in Berserk, and it's applied as furigana to a different word than in 魔の源形 (Idea of Evil).The first instance where it sho...
Apostle doodles from a Berserk fanzine
Berserk had dedicated fans in Japan long before the series was even known in the West. In the early days, some of these fans even made fanzines, like Berserk Freaks, for which three fans visited Miura in his workshop, interviewed him and took some pictures of him that are still widely used on the In...
Unreleased DRIFT sketches
Just saw this on Twitter and I thought it was noteworthy. The Berserk exhibition that's about to open up in Nagoya will feature unpublished creature sketches Miura made for D.RI.F.T. It'll be the first time they're ever shown.D.RI.F.T is an animation project Miura helped with graciously ...
Messages to Kentarou Miura: Tamami Momose (1)
This post is now open to Bronze & Silver patrons.To Miura-senseiPage 01About 23 years ago, I was kindly charged with drawing a “postrecording report” manga for Kempuu Denki Berserk.Miura: I’m Miura.Cool guy !!Miura-senseiThis led me to have a great opportunity to meet Miura-sensei.Though he wa...
Learning Japanese with Berserk: Ogre
In volume 25, while helping Schierke protect the town of Enoch, Guts is confronted by a new fantastical enemy: an ogre. In Japanese: オーグル (ŌGURU). As Miura tended to do, he used a spelling reflecting the pronunciation of the name in its original language (French). In English, it would have ...
Miura's art for Gackpoid
In July 2008 was released Gackpoid (がくっぽいど), a voice pack for the singing voice synthesizer software Vocaloid (ボーカロイド), created by Yamaha. Gackpoid is one of many third party extensions created for Vocaloid over the years. The most famous voice and virtual singer associated w...
