Remembering Kentarou Miura

Only 3? It feels like it was 10 years ago, at this point. The anniversary itself doesn't hit me much anymore, because I think about Miura almost every day. It's a hard lump inside me at this point, unchanging, unhealing. There's no rationalizations left to make. What I've settled on is that his death is a symbol of this chaotic existence that is unmoved by perseverance or the good one brings into the world.

It's a consolation that diving back into his older material still makes me wonder at how he was so thoughtful about episodes like The Brand, where he was slowly peeling back the layers of the world he was building, even though he was barely 20. Man was a genius.
 
A thought for Miura-sensei, who would have been 58 today. May he rest in peace.
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I felt it was important to jump into this thread to share my own thoughts.

I only discovered Berserk back in January 2025. So this is my first time really experiencing this... its possible that I knew about Miura's passing when it happened back in 2021, but I was too caught up in my own life to understand his influence and his massive importance to anime culture in general.

But now I have different context -- I've already met plenty of new friends over the course of the last few months since I first watched the 1997 anime. And I've begun to write and draw again. It is a strange feeling -- knowing that this man who was already gone by the time I began his story... and yet, what he left behind was become so impactful on me.

I will continue to grow as a person and honor his memory. May we some day meet in the next life, Miura-sensei.
 
4 years have gone by and not one day when I wasn't thinking about Miura.

Thank you for making a story that brought me great friends, great memories, and helped me be a better person.

Will always love Berserk.
 
Enoch said:
But now I have different context -- I've already met plenty of new friends over the course of the last few months since I first watched the 1997 anime. And I've begun to write and draw again. It is a strange feeling -- knowing that this man who was already gone by the time I began his story... and yet, what he left behind was become so impactful on me.

I will continue to grow as a person and honor his memory. May we some day meet in the next life, Miura-sensei.
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It's nice to read your experience as a newer fan of Berserk! It's such a heartwarming thing to see how your experience with the series has mirrored my own (and probably several others' here) almost two decades down the line. Your story, to me, signifies the power of Miura's legacy as a storyteller, and his ability to inspire and bring fans of his work together after his passing.

His work, and his memory, continue to live on.
 
It is a sadness that it was only your passing what led me to discover your masterwork. There is not a single day when I don't find myself daydreaming about what was meant to be, what you would've shared with us if you had stuck around just a little longer.

But you were on this planet just long enough. Just enough that the work you shared has allowed me to continue my life, and better it, as well as hundreds of thousands of other lives.

Thank you Miura.
 
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