“The biggest story with this is that it’s Kentaro Miura’s final volume before his sudden passing.
Which is a huge bummer. There was still so much story to finish.
Now, in the volume, Young Animal (publisher) said they weren’t sure what to do just yet, but since then, it sounds like someone is taking the series over with the plan of following Miura’s notes as closely as possible, not doing anything that’s not specifically laid out by Miura.
It’s beautiful that he managed to do something artistic that touched so many lives, and I find his 30-year devotion to this one storyline really lovely.
I’ve never read many multi-part series, usually because I feel like a series is one long, drawn-out story that could’ve used editing.
Berserk is different.
It’s like a new book every 4 or 5 volumes or so. The feel of volume 1 and volume 41 are completely different, but also satisfying in their own ways.
It’s a true feat, and as a life’s work goes, I can only hope that Kentaro Miura passed with a feeling not that his work was incomplete, but that what he gave us was incredible and unforgettable.
I sincerely wish that his passing was peaceful in that way, that he could look at his work and see it as an amazing construction, technically brilliant, beautifully rendered, rich with story. “