According to Miura, the series' dark fantasy setting was inspired by the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian and the Elric of Melniboné series. Guts is an angry-looking fellow all dressed in black, with a metal hand and a single eye, and a sword that is way too huge for anyone to wield.

In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first Manga, entitled "Miuranger", that was published for his classmates in a school publication; the manga ended up spanning 40 volumes.

The Lost Children arc is not only arguably the most gruesome of them all, but it also completely wrecks your emotions as well. Flora gives Guts a dangerous relic known as the Berserker Armor, which increases his physical capability with the added risk of being consumed by his inner darkness.

For this reason, Mori initially concluded that it would be impossible to keep the series going without Miura, but he changed his mind after meeting with the members of Studio Gaga, who had worked under Miura, to perfect the unfinished last Berserk chapter that Miura had worked on. A second 24-episode anime television series adaptation was broadcast for two seasons in 2016 and 2017. It peels back the layers and reveals little by little how Guts grew up to be such a mentally broken and morally outraged character.By September 2023, the Berserk manga had over 60 million copies in circulation, including digital versions, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. After her encounter with Guts, she finds it increasingly difficult to resolve her faith with the atrocities she became party to, as Guts, inversely, takes action against something he disagrees with.

In 1992, Monthly Animal House was replaced by Young Animal, [98] [102] where the series resumed publication in October of that same year.After escaping the destruction of Flora's home, during a full moon, Guts' party encounters Moonlight Boy, a small boy who does not speak but expresses a fondness for Guts and Casca. Achievements left by Kentaro Miura's Berserk in the manga world as a cornerstone for the rise of dark fantasy [2]]. A 12-episode second season, which covered the first half of the manga's Falcon of the Millennium Empire arc, [131] was broadcast from April 7 to June 23, 2017. Human resilience is a recurring theme, with many characters coming from traumatic backgrounds, constantly struggling against an unjust world.