“ After getting off the boat and announcing an anime, "Berserk" manga will be taking a break ”

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After the better part of a decade, Kentaro Miura's medieval horror/action manga Berserk got off the boat at Elf Island. Then, a new anime project was announced for 2016, with promotion at the Kokusai-Tenjijō Station railway station on December 25th that will lead into a new teaser movie presented at NBC Universal's Comiket 89. But, it couldn't all be good news as it's hiatus time again.
Along with the anime, the January issue of Young Animal magazine also announced that the series will be sporadically taking a break until a summer time frame.

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Well, the author's pushing 50 years old, not to mention he does all the art (in all its detail) himself.

I'd say he deserves a break.

It took him 2 years to finish volume 38...I don't think he's overworking himself.

"It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

Considering the fact that its not uncommon for manga artists to be overworked, I wouldn't be so quick to make that claim.

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Considering the fact that its not uncommon for manga artists to be overworked, I wouldn't be so quick to make that claim.

Miura? Hahaha...wait you're serious?

This hiatus isn't surprising one bit. Did anyone actually expect him to consistently release chapters? I'm just grateful that they're at least off that god forsaken eternal boat journey.

Miura only "took time off" from Berserk once is his adult life and that lead to a standalone new manga. Gigantomakhia´s epilogue chapter wasn´t even pre-planned but a bonus and calling him "slow" is uneducated nonsense as he is one of the hardest working people in the manga business if you consider his A level status and his 49 years of age.
MORI Kaoru´s art is nearly as good as Miura´s work but she isn´t faster and SAKAMOTO Shinichi is the only mangaka i can name who can artistically keep up with him.
He is even twice as fast but exceptions only prove a rule.

A level US comic artists who can do 12 issues a year are basically nonexistent in the 21st century, Greg Capullo currently stand out here, and i can name a few album´s with a fidelity of art that can equal a Miura but these only give you about 50 pages a year. If even that!
Disliking Miura´s writing is fine but not appreciating his art is childish dribble.

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You know what... I'm not mad, I'm not even surprised. As sad as it is, I've already accepted the possibility that I may not see the end of this story. Maybe the life of a mangaka is way more demanding then I thought (if so I apologize for my past complaints 😳 ). Or maybe Miura is simply bored with Berserk; dragging his feet? I don't know; it has taken up a huge chunk of his life. Or maybe its good old fashion writer's block? Either way I pray Berserk doesn't miss out on the ending it deserves due to the writer's untimely death. Yeah, it sucks that Berserk is going on another hiatus (I'm a fan, so I get to be disappointed, but I choose not to complain because, again, I am not surprised), but at least a new anime is coming out. I don't care for CGI in anime, but at least they've moved past the Golden Age Arc. 😀

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but not appreciating his art is childish dribble.

Obnoxious much?

(I'll take the post below me as a "Yes".)

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Not surprised, and I don't care anymore. He's become a joke. Maybe I'll give it a read in 10 years or so. Well, if he has completed the current arc by then, that is.

I am back to clarify that i don´t consider Miura to be the best comic artists alive. A case can be made for Alex Ross too but Frank Quietly is certainly my eternal No.1.
His and Morison´s latest opus (that part is a deconstruction of Watchmen!) The Multiversity: Pax Americana may be THE best looking single issue i ever read and i have a near encyclopedic knowledge of the medium. It´s certainly one of the most complex and they could have rushed it out in 2010 as originally scheduled but they instead decided to work on it (and the whole event) for about 6 years while obviously doing other projects at the same time. It ended up being one of the most discussed and acclaimed comics of the decade when it continued to come out about a year ago. But i agree. They should have just shat it out! And what Apocalypse Now, a 16+ months shoot, or Eyes Wide Shut, a 15+ months shoot. Nobody remembers those! Did people even tune in after the Sopranos came back form the hiatus while we are @ it? And who cares about games crafted by Blizzard. They take way too long out come out to be successful! It lastly took Leonardo da Vinci at least 4 years (but maybe even 14) to finish the Mona Lisa but it would have been better remember if he cranked it out on a weekly deadline instead. Certainly!

I am actually glad that that we are back on a hiatus as i started to notice a few slightly rushed panels. Especially in ch. 343 which is destined for a slight redraw in the tankoubon despite the 10/10 quality. Miura does that a lot actually. What a lazy hack indeed...
Here is SK´s Hiatus Chart to cement his utter dedicated to throw away his life for the manga (his interviews are downright depressing) and see you all in half a year. Let´s hope that the new anime won´t hurt me too much but it will at least boost sales of Vol. 38.

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fanboys will be fanboys

the problem is that he took 4 years to make 20 chapters
2011/2015 - 323-343
one chapter/5 month
that is not ok

and the change in tone now is so very obvious
before it was a dark fantasy borderline horror
now it is about a group of uninteresting freaks going to a silly island[filled with witches and not fairies apparently] for more lolis... sexualised lolis of course thanks again miura
im sure someone have the power to "heal" with their pee

im glad that age have done nothing to tame this mans craving for nude/half nude peeing underage girls
or am i

Haters are gonna hate?
I agree though it took a very long time for that amount of chapters, in which it shouldn't have really happened. I can understand if he released maybe 12 Chapters a year, but 20 for the span of 4 years is pretty bad. It shows he does need help to keep up his schedule, I'm curious as to why he doesn't have any at this point.
I'm actually ok with the way the story has evolved in terms of the characters, it shows that they're all growing in some way shape or form, and that Griffith isn't the only person to get people and weirdos to follow him. my only wish is that the story does move on at a faster pace, cause again 20 chapters in 4 years makes the story seem like it's fallen hard...

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Is first grade math really that hard? 🤢
He drew 25 chapter in the selected time period as my link proves. He also completed an entire one-off-manga and over a dozen paintings (!) in the meantime.

Edit: He has multiple assistants. A basic google search, the credits in the actual volumes (support your creators) or the art easily prove that. Their numbers is even at a peak and solo acts are nearly nonexistent in the world of manga. A burned out creator woulnd´t keep on coming back too or continue to work like a horse. A schedule would only burn him out and is the death of creativity anyway. Careers as long lasting as Miura´s aren´t as common in the world of manga as one might think but he even managed to become the face of his anthology magazine as the sales spikes/drops prove. He thus has my permission to step away for multiple years if he wished and to actually chip in his vacation time. Yet he won´t...
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He is 100% doing the right thing and more established mangaka need to follow his example. Every new chapter is an event. Every volume is a treasured piece of art. 'Nuff Said.

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Quote from residentgrigo

Is first grade math really that hard? 🤢
He drew 25 chapter in the selected time period as my link proves. He also completed an entire one-off-manga and over a dozen paintings (!) in the meantime.

Didn't click your link, sorry about that, so save the snarky comment for some other person.
Now for the rest, no one is arguing his skill as an artist. He makes great work, but you've aleready stated his age, he needs help. Judging from your comment about him doing a dozen other paintings and a complete one-shot, shows that he's either:

1. Tired of working on Berserk
2. Stretching himself too thin to keep up with a deadline
3. His age is affecting his ability more than he thought it would
   There could be many more on the subject to what's going on, but it still doesn't take away from the fact that he does help to continue on with what he's doing. If he wants to be the sole person behind the line art, being for both the character and background art, then that's totally fine and his call. But let's be honest, he could use an assistant, to help him out, maybe even for the inking, to lighten his load. If he's running the story and doing the art, it's already tough as is, which can be seen as to why he needs so many breaks, it shows he wouldn't meet deadlines, and that in itself is like poison for an artist.

Google fu aside, if he has that many assistants why is his breaks so frequent? It's like I stated before, he's going by one of the problems listed. If he's losing interest in his own work then that is a major problem. If he can't keep up with what he's doing then he needs help. No one is asking for rushed work, but we are seeking consistent releases aside from the random drops we get every now and then. It's nice quote you placed and it's true, but also consider that if you wait too long for something to be seen people lose interest. And an artist is not out there to have people lose interest in their work. It defeats the purpose entirely.

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I don't blame manga-ka for not being workaholics. Oda has to be forced to take breaks by WSJ because when he was avoiding breaks for too long, his health started deteriorating.

With that said, you can't seriously claim that Miura is one of the most productive artists out there. You can argue that he's one of the best, but his output measured in ink or any other objective measure is far, far lower than any manga-ka who does a weekly series.

Berserk

This year's 19th issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine is announcing on Friday that Kentarou Miura's Berserk manga will go on hiatus until early 2017. The manga had just returned as a monthly series in June from an earlier hiatus.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-09-21/berserk-manga-goes-on-hiatus-until-early-2017/.106725
The chapters / tankōbon now release to coincide with the anime season(s). Makes sense and the last batch of chapters was pronominal too.

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