Berserk Tarot Deck Box Set

Born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966, Kentaro Miura showed an early interest in art and comics. His first manga, Miuranger, created at age ten for his classmates, spanned forty volumes. In high school Miura continued to create more manga, including several printed in amateur publications (called doujinshi).

While attending art school at Nihon University, Miura’s Futanabi, a manga he had created in 1985 and submitted for college admission, was published in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine and was nominated for Best New Author Work. Miura’s Noa also saw the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine, but was canceled. During this period, Miura created the introduction to his signature dark fantasy world, Berserk Prototype, winning a prize in the ComiComi Manga School competition.

In 1989 Miura collaborated with writer Buronson, author of Fist of the North Star, on the project King of Wolves, published in Animal House from Hakusensha. In October of that same year, the first chapters of Berserk appeared to little fanfare in Animal House. A sequel to King of Wolves followed in 1990, and Miura and Buronson again teamed up in 1992 for the series Japan, published in the renamed Young Animal.

Berserk’s popularity began to grow with the release of the “Golden Age” story arc and became a major hit, with Miura joining the vanguard of contemporary manga authors. Berserk has seen an astounding forty-one collected volumes in Japan, selling over forty million copies internationally and spawning TV and film anime series, art books, music, games, toys, and merchandise. Miura supervised twenty-five episodes of the 1997 anime television series and contributed to the 2004 Dreamcast video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage. Other works created by Miura during Berserk’s thirty-two-year span include Giganto Maxia and Du-Ran-Ki.

Miura-sensei died unexpectedly on May 6, 2021, at age fifty-four. Fans and colleagues worldwide mourn his loss and will be forever grateful for the incomparable body of work he left behind.

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