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The publishing giant Hakushensha reported on Thursday that the creator of the worldwide famous manga Berserk, Kentarou Miura died on May 6 at 2:48 p.m. because of acute aortic dissection.

He was of age of 54. His family held a private assistance.

Kentarou Miura was most popular for his acclaimed dark fantasy manga Berserk, which started serialization in 1989 and proceeded until his demise. Starting at 2021, Berserk had in excess of 50 million copies available for use, making it extraordinary compared to other selling manga arrangement, time. In 2002, Miura got the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Miura expressed that the work that biggestly affected his own is the manga arrangement Fist of the North Star. specifically, Miura was impacted by Nagai’s manga Violence Jack. Different impacts refered to by Miura incorporate the Japanese fantasy novel arrangement Guin Saga, Paul Verhoeven films, the Hellraiser arrangement, shōjo manga works, Disney films, and crafted by Hieronymous Bosch, M. C. Escher, Gustave Doré and Pieter Bruegel.


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