Kentaro Miura

Based on where his inspiration is coming from.

We've seen Kentaro Miura pay homage to other media properties in the past, especially stuff like Star Wars.

It's

weird where this stuff comes in.

Basically, if you got past the end of the eclipse, you're reading Berserk to the end, aren't you? No one's putting it down between there and here.

No, they sure aren't, unless...

They're reading it in real time and the time gaps just get too long or they choose not to go on after the death of Kentaro Miura, which is an understandable position.

But that hasn't happened yet.

[laughs] What?

... what's the name of the spaceship that's the crew's home base? In Neon Genesis Evangelion, what is the name of the organization that operates the EVAs? Berserk, one of the most influential dark fantasy manga ever, was created by which artist? Is it A, Yoshihiro Togashi? Is it B, Kentaro Miura? Is it C, Hajime Isayama? Or is it D, Tsugumi Ob- O- Oba? In Bleach-

Okay

... what is the name of Ichigo Kurosaki's Zanpakutō?

Which leaves only one, the absolute peak of fantasy manga, combining an unmatched standard of drawing, a high tolerance for moral damage, and a decades-long meditation on ambition, friendship, and fate.

We are talking about Berserk by the late Kentaro Miura.

It is the ultimate dark fantasy epic.

It began in 1989, and, uh, it is a towering achievement.

Guts finally finds a place where his violence serves a purpose other than just his own survival.

But then an event called the Eclipse happens, and suddenly the grounded war story is violently ripped away, revealed to be merely the prologue of a cosmic tragedy that was already written by fate in a place Guts couldn't even see.

If we connect this to the bigger picture, the horrific theology that Miura builds here is staggering.

Griffith's grand dream requires him to treat people as literal stepping stones.