History Creator / KentaroMiura

* ''Creator/GoNagai''

* ''Creator/KenIshikawa''

* ''MakaiTensho''

* ''Novel/MakaiTensho''

* ''Literature/MakaiTensho''

The first volume of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was published in 1990 (by the then-24-year-old Miura), though it met with little success, and the magazine it was serialized in was in the process of going under. The series would not really take off until it was serialized in ''Young Animal'' magazine in 1992, during the story's famous Golden Age arc. Miura's epic tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, horror, vengeance, and supreme demon ass-kicking continued until his death, reaching an eventual length of 41 volumes and having over 50 million volumes in circulation. Over time it's been adapted into the anime ''Anime/Berserk1997'', the 1999 Dreamcast game ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheBerserkGutsRage''), the UsefulNotes/{{PS2}} game ''VideoGame/BerserkMillenniumFalconHenSeimaSenkiNoSho'', the 2012-13 anime film trilogy ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', the sequel anime ''Anime/Berserk2016'', and the 2016 video game ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk''. In 2002 he received second place in the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize of Excellence for ''Berserk''.

Sadly, Miura passed away on May 6, 2021, due to an acute aortic dissection. This left ''Berserk'' incomplete and facing an uncertain future. The September 10 issue of ''Young Animal'' magazine featured Episode 364, completed by Miura's assistants from the last manuscript he was working on when he died. The chapter was followed by an official statement from the Editorial Department of YA magazine, saying there was unfortunately no information to share about the future of ''Berserk'' at that date.

!!Tropes Associated with Kentaro Miura:
* ActuallyThatsMyAssistant: In Nico Nicholson's 2010 comic short based on interviewing him, one of the gags is that she initially mistook Miura for one of his assistants. Since she was ExpectingSomeoneTaller, she feels shocked that such a mellow-looking guy could draw those epic battle scenes.

* AuthorUsurpation: Ask anyone about manga made by Miura, and ''Berserk'' is the only one they will be able to mention. It's only natural when Miura spent the overwhelming majority of his career making ''Berserk''.

* HumbleHero: "I don’t consider myself a special person doing something that only I can do, though. I think of myself more as pretty much just an ordinary person. It’s not like I’m looking at all kinds of stuff, either — I’d say I take in about as much as the average person. I suppose I do make more use of what I look at, though. I can look at things that most people would get nothing out of — some weird movie or something — and take something away from it, so long as there’s some sort of human drama in there."
* RealMenWearPink: While he was (in)famous for some rather dark work (and in hilarious contrast to a...rather vocal [[TrueArtIsAngsty section of the fandom]]) he was also an open fanboy of ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster''.
* ReclusiveArtist: Miura rarely gave out interviews and there are only a handfull of pictures of him floating around the web: the pictures of him at work from the ''Berserk Illustration File'' (see creator page); one of him accepting the 2003 Tezuka Prize, together with ''Manga/SlamDunk'' and ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'' creator Creator/TakehikoInoue; a picture of him posted by a Spanish translator named Emilio Gallago ([[http://japonicante.blogspot.com/2005/03/kentaro-miura-autor-de-berserk-y-mi.html posted]] in 2005, believed to have been taken in 2003); and an undated picture of him [[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/20/entertainment-news/berserk-manga-artist-kentaro-miura-dies/ wearing a beanie hat]] which was featured in the Japan Times obituary. It's to the extent that in the most extensive and well-known interview he gave out, the one for the DVD release of the [[Anime/Berserk1997 1997 anime adaptation]] of ''Berserk'', he requested that he not be filmed.
* {{Workaholic}}: Contrary to memes that claimed he wasted his time playing ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster'', Miura spent almost all of his time on ''Berserk''. In 2009 he told the members of Skullknight.net, "I start working at 2:00 PM and I finish at 7:00 AM. Of course, the time I spend eating is included. I work 15-16 hours everyday, without holidays."
* [[invoked]]WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: ''Berserk'' was Miura's first big serial story, and he started out with the concept for Guts as the Black Swordsman before he had come up with a backstory explaining why he was out for revenge. The idea for the Golden Age Arc came to him after he was already pretty far into the Black Swordsman Arc, and it ended up being quite a bit longer than he originally intended. "Lately," said Miura, "I’ve come to trust in my own carelessness. In my experience things often pop nicely into place even without having been planned ahead much. I do think it probably wouldn’t go very smoothly if I were to work with stuff that isn’t me, stuff that I’ve borrowed from elsewhere and simply stuck in, but there’s hardly any of that. Even when I do bring in something from elsewhere, I run it through myself and quality test it before using it."
* [[invoked]]WriteWhoYouKnow: Had a tendency to base characters on people he knew.

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'', July 11, 1966 – May 6, 2021) was a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents met each other and got married while they were students at Musashino Arts School: his father did storyboards for commercials, and his mother taught an art class. He credits the artistic environment he was raised in for inspiring him to draw.

Miura was left-handed and did most of his art with traditional techniques such as the g-pen, Maru pen, and brushes. For his color illustrations, there was wild speculation about how he did them; in fact, he used good old colouring pencils and watercolors. Since the 90s, he had 3-4 assistants helping him. His last group called Studio Gaga consisted of about four or five assistants, who came and went every couple of years. One of them, Mitsuhisa Kuji (''Manga/{{Wolfsmund}}''), became a mangaka in her own right. Miura kept vampire hours, and put in 16-hour workdays with no breaks or holidays while working on a deadline. Fans speculated about the cause of his increasingly frequent hiatuses, which made the pace of new releases slow to a crawl, but the reasons remain not entirely clear. One factor seems to have been his reaching middle age, which made it difficult for him to push himself as hard as he used to. In 2016, fans started to speculate about whether Miura had switched to digital painting techniques; his switch to using a tablet and computers for all his art was confirmed in the Berserk Official Guidebook.

Miura's primary influences came from works in various media, with his primary inspiration being Kaoru Kurimoto's long-running ''LightNovel/GuinSaga'' fantasy series. He took additional influence from Creator/GoNagai's two darkest and most violent mangas, ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and ''Manga/ViolenceJack''. Miura's style was at times quite beautiful and emotional, but at other times, he came up with and drew some ''[[NightmareFuel truly messed up and frightening shit]]''.

* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''

* ''LightNovel/GuinSaga''

* Creator/SamRaimi (particularly the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' trilogy and ''Film/Darkman'')

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'', July 11, 1966–May 6, 2021) was a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents met each other and got married while they were students at Musashino Arts School: his father did storyboards for commercials, and his mother taught an art class. He credits the artistic environment he was raised in for inspiring him to draw.

In 1985, Miura created and submitted another manga called ''Futanabi'' for the entrance exam of an art college at Nihon University, which not only got him his admission into the college, but got him a nomination for Best New Author work in ''Weekly Shonen Magazine''. Miura would publish another manga called ''Noa'' for ''Weekly Shonen Magazine'' that same year. Due to a disagreement with one of the editors, ''Noa'' was stalled and eventually dropped, which marked the point where Miura's career would hit a slump.

The first volume of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was published in 1990 (by the then-24 year old Miura), though it met with little success, and the magazine it was serialized in was in the process of going under. The series would not really take off until it was serialized in ''Young Animal'' magazine in 1992, during the story's famous Golden Age arc. Miura's epic tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, horror, vengeance, and supreme demon asskicking continued until his death, reaching an eventual length of 41 volumes and having over 50 million volumes in circulation. Over time it's been adapted into the anime ''Anime/Berserk1997'', the 1999 Dramcast game ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheBerserkGutsRage''), the UsefulNotes/{{PS2}} game ''VideoGame/BerserkMillenniumFalconHenSeimaSenkiNoSho'', the 2012-13 anime film trilogy ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', the sequel anime ''Anime/Berserk2016'', and the 2016 video game ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk''. In 2002 he received second place in the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize of Excellence for ''Berserk''.

Miura was left-handed, and did most of his art with traditional techniques such as the g-pen, Maru pen, and brushes. For his color illustrations, there was wild speculation about how he did them; in fact, he used good old colouring pencils and watercolors. Since the 90s, he had 3-4 assistants helping him. His last group called Studio Gaga consisted of about four or five assistants, who came and went every couple of years. One of them, Mitsuhisa Kuji (''Manga/{{Wolfsmund}}''), became a mangaka in her own right. Miura kept vampire hours, and put in 16 hour workdays with no breaks or holidays while working on a deadline. Fans speculated about the cause of his increasingly frequent hiatuses, which made the pace of new releases slow to a crawl, but the reasons remain not entirely clear. One factor seems to have been him reaching middle age, which made it difficult for him to push himself as hard as he used to. In 2016, fans started to speculate about whether Miura had switched to digital painting techniques; his switch to using a tablet and computers for all his art was confirmed in the Berserk Official Guidebook.

[[caption-width-right:350:Miura, looking more or less how one would expect the guy who came up with [[Memes/{{Berserk}} Rape Horse]] to look.]]

On June 7, 2022, after a long silence, ''Young Animal'' finally announced that ''Berserk'' will indeed resume serialization and be properly completed. Lifelong colleague and friend Kouji Mori is taking over as writer and supervisor, while Miura's assistants will continue to produce the artwork.

* DiedDuringProduction: His premature passing in May 2021 leaves ''Berserk'' (or at least his original vision of it) currently unfinished.

His first manga, ''Miuranger'', was created and published for his classmates in a school publication in 1976 when he was 10 years old. His second manga, ''Ken E No Michi'' (The Way to the Sword) was the first time that Miura would use India ink, and when he went to middle school, his drawing technique would improve greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques, with a {{doujin}} being produced with the help of his friends in 1982. It was in high school that he got serious about becoming a manga artist, and he was close friends with fellow aspiring mangaka Mori Kouji, who would go on to write ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''. When Miura was 18, he briefly worked as an assistant to Jyoji Morikawa of ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo''; Morikawa quickly noticed Miura's talent and released him, saying the boy needed no further teaching from him.

* ''Film/FleshAndBlood''

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'', July 11, 1966–May 6, 2021) was a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents met each other and got married while they were students at Musashino Arts School: his father did storyboards for commercials, and his mother taught an art class. He credits the artistic environment he was raised in for inspiring him to draw. His first manga, ''Miuranger'', was created and published for his classmates in a school publication in 1976 when he was 10 years old. His second manga, ''Ken E No Michi'' (The Way to the Sword) was the first time that Miura would use India ink, and when he went to middle school, his drawing technique would improve greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques, with a {{doujin}} being produced with the help of his friends in 1982. It was in high school that he got serious about becoming a manga artist, and he was close friends with fellow aspiring mangaka Mori Kouji, who would go on to write ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' and ''Manga/SuicideIsland''. When Miura was 18, he briefly worked as an assistant to Jyoji Morikawa of ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo''; Morikawa quickly noticed Miura's talent and released him, saying the boy needed no further teaching from him.

->''"He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy..."''

* ReclusiveArtist: Miura rarely gave out interviews and there are only a handfull of pictures of him floating around the web: the pictures of him at work from the ''Berserk Illustration File'' (see creator page); one of him accepting the 2003 Tezuka Prize, together with ''Manga/SlamDunk'' and ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'' creator Creator/TakehikoInoue; a picture of him posted by a Spanish translator named Emilio Gallago ([[[[http://japonicante.blogspot.com/2005/03/kentaro-miura-autor-de-berserk-y-mi.html posted]] in 2005, believed to have been taken in 2003); and an undated picture of him [[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/20/entertainment-news/berserk-manga-artist-kentaro-miura-dies/ wearing a beanie hat]] which was featured in the Japan Times obituary. It's to the extent that in the most extensive and well-known interview he gave out, the one for the DVD release of the [[Anime/Berserk1997 1997 anime adaptation]] of ''Berserk'', he requested that he not be filmed.

* ReclusiveArtist: Miura rarely gave out interviews and there are only a handfull of pictures of him floating around the web: the pictures of him at work from the ''Berserk Illustration File'' (see creator page); one of him accepting the 2003 Tezuka Prize, together with ''Manga/SlamDunk'' and ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'' creator Creator/TakehikoInoue; a picture of him posted by a Spanish translator named Emilio Gallago ([[[[http://japonicante.blogspot.com/2005/03/kentaro-miura-autor-de-berserk-y-mi.html posted]] in 2005, believed to have been taken in 2003); and an undated picture of him [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/05/20/entertainment-news/berserk-manga-artist-kentaro-miura-dies/ wearing a beanie hat]] which was featured in the Japan Times obituary. It's to the extent that in the most extensive and well-known interview he gave out, the one for the DVD release of the [[Anime/Berserk1997 1997 anime adaptation]] of ''Berserk'', he requested that he not be filmed.

* ReclusiveArtist: Miura very rarely gave out interviews and there are only two pictures of him floating around the web, the one you see on his TV Tropes page and another one of him accepting the 2003 Tezuka Prize, with ''Manga/SlamDunk'' and ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'' creator Creator/TakehikoInoue. It's to the extent that in the most extensive and well-known interview he gave out, the one for the DVD release of the [[Anime/Berserk1997 1997 anime adaptation]] of ''Berserk'', he requested that he not be filmed.

Miura's primary influences came from works in various media, with his primary inspiration being Kaoru Kurimoto's long-running ''LightNovel/GuinSaga'' fantasy series. He took additional influence from Creator/GoNagai's two darkest and most violent mangas, ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and ''Manga/ViolenceJack''. Miura's style is at times quite beautiful and emotional, but at other times, he came up with and drew some ''[[NightmareFuel truly messed up and frightening shit]]''.

Sadly, Miura passed away on May 6, 2021, due to an acute aortic dissection. This left ''Berserk'' incomplete and facing an uncertain future. The September 10 issue of ''Young Animal'' magazine featured Episode 364, completed by Miura's assistants from the last manuscript he was working on when he died. The chapter was followed by an official statement from the Editorial Deptarment of YA magazine, saying there was unfortunately no information to share about the future of ''Berserk'' as of that date.

Sadly, Miura passed away on May 6, 2021, due to an acute aortic dissection. This left ''Berserk'' incomplete and facing an uncertain future. The September 10 issue of ''Young Animal'' magazine featured Episode 340, completed by Miura's assistants from the last manuscript he was working on when he died. The official statement of Miura's colleagues published with the chapter says that the decision whether the manga will continue or not has not been made yet.

Sadly, Miura passed away on May 6, 2021, due to an acute aortic dissection. This left ''Berserk'' incomplete and facing an uncertain future. The September 10 issue of ''Young Animal'' magazine will feature Episode 340, completed by Miura's assistants from the last manuscript he was working on when he died. An official statement that will accompany the chapter has been leaked in advance, which seems to say that a continuation of the manga beyond this point is not currently forthcoming.