History Creator / KentaroMiura

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'') is a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in 1966 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents met 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''.

He is also a fan of Website/NicoNicoDouga and ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster'', though contrary to a popular rumor he plays other games besides ''Idolmaster'' and is not obsessed to the point of neglecting his work.

* ''Duranki'': Miura's newest manga, a mythology-inspired story about a child by the name of Usumgallu with the ability to "think up unknown things" who is neither a god nor human, and is neither male nor female.

Miura is left-handed, and has done 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, but it's since been discovered he uses good old colouring pencils and watercolors. Since, the 90s he has had 3-4 assistants helping him, and his current group called Studio Gaga consists of about four or five assistants; they come and go every couple of years. One of them, [[Manga/OokamiNoKuchiWolfsmund Mitsuhisa Kuji]], became a mangaka in her own right. Miura keeps vampire hours and puts in 16 hour workdays with no breaks or holidays while he's working on a deadline. Fans speculate about the cause of his increasingly frequent hiatuses, which have made the pace of new releases slow to a crawl, but because he hasn't directly talked about it in interviews the reasons are not entirely clear. One factor seems to be him reaching middle age, which makes 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 is confirmed in the Berserk Official Guidebook.

Miura's primary influence comes from works in different media, with his primary inspiration being Kaoru Kurimoto's long-running ''LightNovel/GuinSaga'' fantasy series, and additional influence being drawn 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 comes up with and draws some ''[[NightmareFuel truly messed up and frightening shit]]''.

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'') is a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in 1966 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents originally 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''.

Miura is left-handed, and has done most of his art with traditional techniques such as the g-pen, Maru pen, and brushes. For his illustrations there was wild speculation about how he did them, but it's since been discovered he uses good old colouring pencils and watercolors. Since, the 90s he has had 3-4 assistants helping him, and his current group called Studio Gaga consists of about four or five assistants; they come and go every couple of years. One of them, [[Manga/OokamiNoKuchiWolfsmund Mitsuhisa Kuji]], became a mangaka in her own right. Miura keeps vampire hours and puts in 16 hour workdays with no breaks or holidays while he's working on a deadline. Fans speculate about the cause of his increasingly frequent hiatuses, which have made the pace of new releases slow to a crawl, but because he is somewhat reclusive the reason remains a mystery. Since 2016 his fans have been speculating about whether he's started to use digital painting techniques.

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

* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles''

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'') is a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in 1966 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents had 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''.

* ''Music/SusumuHirasawa''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40,000}}''

* AwesomeArt: Whether you enjoy his stories or dislike them, you can't deny that the man is dedicated to his craft. Kentaro Miura's art is acclaimed by readers everywhere as some of the best art seen in manga.

Miura is left-handed, and has done most of his art with traditional techniques such as the g-pen, Maru pen, and brushes. Since, the 90s he has had 3-4 assistants helping him, and his current group called Studio Gaga consists of about four or five assistants; they come and go every couple of years. One of them, [[Manga/OokamiNoKuchiWolfsmund Mitsuhisa Kuji]], became a mangaka in her own right. Miura keeps vampire hours and puts in 16 hour workdays with no breaks or holidays while he's working on a deadline. Fans speculate about the cause of his increasingly frequent hiatuses, which have made the pace of new releases slow to a crawl, but because he is somewhat reclusive the reason remains a mystery. Since 2016 his fans have been speculating about whether he's started to use digital painting techniques.

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'') is a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in 1966 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents had gotten 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''.

* ''Berserk Prototype'': A wandering swordsman named Guts happens to save a girl named Fricka from bandits, and fights the monstrous nobleman Vlad Tepes.

Kentaro Miura (三浦 建太郎 ''Miura Kentarō'') is a Japanese ''mangaka'' born in 1966 in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. His parents had gotten 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/SuicideIsland''.

* 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," says 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."
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Has a tendency to base characters on people he knows.

The first volume of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was published in 1990, 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* in 1992 with the publication of the Golden Age arc. Miura's epic tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, horror, vengeance and supreme demon asskicking is still ongoing today, with 38+ volumes and some 40 million copies 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''.

The first volume of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' was published in 1990, 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* in 1992 with the publication of the Golden Age arc. Miura's epic tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, horror, vengeance and supreme demon asskicking is still ongoing today, with 38+ volumes and some 40 million copies 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 recieved second place in the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize of Excellence for ''Berserk''.

* ''Berserk Prototype'': A wandering Swordsman named Guts happens to save a girl named Fricka from bandits, and fights the monstrous nobleman Vlade Tepes.

* ''Ouro Den'' (Legend of the Wolf King)

* ''Ouro'' (King of the Wolves)

* ''Japan''

* 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," says 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."

* ''Berserk Prototype''

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''

* ''Futanabi'' - One of his cyberpunk works (yes, really)
* ''Noa''