It received the Award for Excellence at the sixth installment of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002. A second 24-episode anime television series adaptation was broadcast for two seasons in 20.īy October 2022, the Berserk manga had over 55 million copies in circulation, including digital versions, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. The Golden Age arc was also adapted into a trilogy of theatrical anime films the first two films premiered in 2012 and the third film premiered in 2013. Following Miura's death in May 2021, the final chapter that he wrote and illustrated was published posthumously in September of the same year the series resumed in June 2022, under supervision of Miura's fellow manga artist and childhood friend Kouji Mori and Miura's group of assistants and apprentices from Studio Gaga.īerserk was adapted into a 25-episode anime television series by OLM, which covered the Golden Age story arc, and was broadcast from October 1997 to March 1998. The series began the following year in the Hakusensha's now-defunct magazine Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1992 by the semimonthly magazine Young Animal, where Berserk has continued its publication. Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world, the story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone swordsman, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the 'Band of the Hawk'. Berserk ( Japanese: ベルセルク, Hepburn: Beruseruku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura.

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