Kentaro Miura’s Final Berserk Volume Is Finally Coming to America

The manga world was rocked final May when it was introduced that Kentaro Miura, best-selling author and writer of Berserk, had handed away resulting from acute aortic dissection, leaving his extremely darkish magnum opus unfinished. But a minimum of the collection’ many American followers will lastly get their likelihood to see Miura’s closing work on the collection when Dark Horse releases the forty first quantity later this 12 months.

Trying to summarize even the tiniest portion of the epic, which Miura started waaaay again in 1989, is a idiot’s errand. Suffice it to say it stars a swordsman named Guts who joins mercenary group the Band of the Hawk, falls in love with a fellow mercenary named Casca, after which begins to spill an immense of quantity of blood over Miura’s unbelievable art work. Here’s Dark Horse’s official abstract for the amount:

“Though released from the prison of her mind, Casca cannot escape reminders of the terrors she has experienced. And nothing triggers these harrowing memories more than Guts the Black Swordsman, who faced those same horrors in his relentless quest to see Casca healed. But could the reappearance of a strange, mute boy be the key to bringing peace to Casca’s troubled soul?”

The fortieth and most up-to-date quantity of Berserk was printed within the U.S. on September 25, 2019, and a full 12 months previous to that in Japan. Miura was notorious for taking lengthy hiatuses (solely eight volumes have been launched since 2010). Still, Berserk has at all times been one of many best-selling manga on the planet, having offered greater than 50 million copies.

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Volume 41 will arrive in America on November 9 in comedian e book shops and November 22 in common bookstores, and include a two-sided coloration poster. As for what’s subsequent, the editors of Young Animal, the bimonthly anthology which has printed the manga since 1992, mentioned final 12 months they have been nonetheless weighing their choices as to what to do with the collection after Miura’s passing. So for the foreseeable future, Berserk ends right here.

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