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Unpublished Guts illustration from 1992
🕑 Added 2025-08-11 15:17:21 +0000 UTCYoung Animal debuted in 1992 with a flagship series called "Japan", written by Buronson and drawn by Kentarou Miura. As Japan's serialization was wrapping up in YA #8, the magazine advertised the return of Berserk in issue #11.
What interests us is that they used an illustration to do so that, for whatever reason, didn't end up in the manga. It was however reused six months later... on a telephone card. In YA #2 of 1993, to mark the new year, 40 cards were offered by lottery among readers who applied. That's the last we saw of it.
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Skullknight.NET
Yeah, this is when Berserk resumed publication after the magazine was rebooted, so that's when the current episode numbering started. That was an approximately 8 months gap between the previous Berserk issue and that new one.
Walter
I looked up when this would have happened in the context of Berserk's releases (1992 YA # 11), and it would have been Episode #001 (Sword Wind). A big one!
