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Miura was born on July 11, 1966 in Chiba prefecture. He made his professional manga debut with the "Futatabi…" (Once More…) story in
Kodansha's
Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1985.
Miura then published the one-shot version of the
Berserk manga in Hakusensha's
Monthly Comicomi magazine in 1988. He launched the full
Berserk manga series in Hakusensha's
Monthly Animal House magazine in 1989, and the series continued in Hakusensha's
Young Animal magazine until now. It has over 40 million copies in circulation.
The Berserk manga follows Guts, a superhumanly strong warrior who wields a large sword, as he wanders a dark medieval world filled with demons, corrupt and decadent nobles, and other horrors. Every night, he is assailed by demons, attracted to the curse branded on him after a traumatic event. He makes his way through the world on a quest to slay a former friend turned demon, who took everything away from him.
Hakusensha published the manga's 40th volume in Japan on September 28, 2018.
Dark Horse Comics published the same volume in North America in October 8, 2019.
The manga inspired a television anime series in 1997, as well as an anime
film trilogy from 2012 to 2013. Another television anime series
premiered in Japan in July 2016, and the second half of the new series
premiered on April 2017.
Miura drew the
King of Wolves (Oh-Roh) manga with famed
Fist of the North Star writer
Buronson in 1989. The story continued with
Oh-Roh Den (Legend of the King of Wolves) in 1990. Miura and Buronson collaborated again on the
Japan manga in 1992. Miura
launched the
Giganto Maxia mini-series in Young Animal in 2013. More recently, he
created and produced the
Duranki manga with his Studio Gaga in the inaugural issue of Hakusensha's
Young Animal Zero magazine in September 2019