Image: Kentaro Miura, Studio Gaga
After a four-month hiatus, the dark fantasy seinen is set to resume on February 14.
The third issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal Magazine for 2025 has revealed that the late Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is set to resume serialisation on February 14. The manga has been on hiatus since November 8, with the last installment being chapter 378.
Kentaro Miura passed away on May 6, 2021 at the age of 54 due to an acute aortic dissection. Fans at the time believed that Berserk’s story would remain unfinished, but Miura’s lifelong friend and fellow manga artist Kouji Mori, as well as Miura’s studio Studio Gaga, took on the mantle to continue the tale of Guts the black swordsman.
Miura frequently discussed Berserk’s plot to Mori, and as such had enough of an idea about how the plot would go. An official press release by Hakusensha in 2022 stated that: “we will write the manga so as not to deviate from Mr. Miura's own words. We would like to take the ‘Kentaro Miura’ that we knew so fondly through our conversations and work and convey this to all of you in a sincere manner.”
Kouji Mori is currently supervising the remaining chapters of Berserk, while Miura’s apprentice and assistants at Studio Gaga are illustrating. Since Miura’s passing, Mori and Studio Gaga have released a further 14 chapters for Berserk.
Berserk follows the life and story of a lone swordsman named Guts, who in a quest for revenge, hunts down a variety of enemies all connected to his old friend-turned-nemesis: Griffith.
