Publisher's Synopsis
University Press returns with another short and captivating portrait of one of history's most compelling figures, Kentaro Miura.
Kentaro Miura was one of the world's most popular manga artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Best known for his long-running, best-selling manga series, Berserk, Miura draws his readers into a bleak, dark fantasy world, and introduces them to a hooded stranger. A lone mercenary. He is missing one eye, and one of his hands is a metal prosthetic, rugged and robotic. He carries a large sword the size of a surfboard, strapped to his back. And he is on a rampage of vengeance, leaving a trail of gore and death in his wake wherever he goes. Born in Chiba, Japan on July 11, 1966, Kentaro Miura created his first manga at age ten, honed his skills with his high school classmates, trained with a legendary manga artist, mastered his craft at Nihon University, created an iconic dark warrior character with a giant sword, wrote one of the best-selling manga series of all time, and forever changed the worlds of manga, anime, video games, movies, and literature. Tragically, Miura died of an acute aortic disruption on May 6, 2021, at the age of 54. But he inspired a new generation of manga artists, and his trained assistants carry on with his work for his millions of devoted fans around the world. This short book tells the intensely human story of a man who changed the world in a way that no one else could.
