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Dragon Slayer body pillow

Coinciding with the opening of the Great Berserk Exhibition in 2021, Prime1 Studio launched a gimmicky "Dragon Slayer body pillow", or as they call it in Japanese: ドラゴンころし 抱き枕...

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Artwork of Berserk interview - Page 3 (part 1)

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Merrow

The Chapter of the Elf island opens in volume 35 with Guts' group getting stranded on a lone, desolate island after an encounter with a ghost ship. It demonstrates the dangers of the new world our ...

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Miura self-portrait from 1998

Here is a self-portrait Miura drew in 1998. It was used to illustrate an interview about the upcoming Dreamcast game (released in 1999) that was published in Dreamcast magazine at the time. It's no...

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Millennium Falcon

Berserk gets a new dynamic in volume 22 with the return of Femto in the physical world, having been incarnated into a new Griffith. This starts a new story arc called 千年帝国の鷹  with ...

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Episode 370 translation

Fantasia arc
Elf island chapter
Refugees on the western sea


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Serpico: Lady Farnese!!
Serpico: Excuse me!
Puck:...

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Podcast #21: Kouji Mori's tribute to Miura, Part 2

Second part of our review of Kouji Mori's tribute to Kentarou Miura, who was his best friend for 40 years and to whom he owes his life. Mori goes over the plans they had made for their late life an...

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Isidro & Puck - AOW Platinium exclusive

Here's a relatively rare piece. It's a depiction of a funny scene with Isidro and Puck from the end of episode 238 (The Boy Under the Moonlight), as they fall to sleep before the Kushan familiars a...

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The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 3)

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First part
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Got any burning Berserk questions? Ask away!

Do you have any Berserk or even SKnet related questions? If so, please write them as comments below or send them by private message and we'll address them in a future update!

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Dark eyes

Since the recut version of the 2012 movie trilogy – the so-called Memorial Edition – is now airing, I figured I'd highlight a scene they did not feature but that is meaningful to the story. In ...

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A look at the early Golden Age in Animal House

From the archives, here's one of Berserk's earlier issues, back when it was serialized in "Monthly Animal House", the magazine that came before "Young Animal". As you can see on the title page, thi...

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Index of the tributes to Kentarou Miura

For easy reference, here is an index for the translations of all the tributes published in the "Messages to Kentarou Miura" booklet that was included with the memorial issue of Young Animal, releas...

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The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 2)

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First part


Interviewer: When...

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Podcast #20: Kouji Mori's tribute to Miura, Part 1

In this episode, Walter & Aazealh go over Kouji Mori's tribute to his best friend, Kentarou Miura. This tribute is both the most expansive as well as one of the most personal ones, going over a...

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Elementals in Berserk

The existence of elementals in Berserk is revealed in volume 24, while Guts' group stays at Flora's place. Four elements are initially presented, corresponding to the four classical elements of the...

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Rare autographed telephone card

This is a unique autograph Kentarou Miura gave somebody a long time ago. I don't have any information a...

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Episode 369 translation

Fantasia arc
Elf island chapter
Disappearance on the arc island


Note: The title actually refers to 'bubbles' or 'foam', like with soapy water, and to how that can ...

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The Artwork of Berserk interview - First page (part 1)

Now available to Silver and Bronze tiers.


Miura Kentarou-sensei passed away in May 2021 due to an acute aortic dissection. This interview is about what Miura-se...

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Kelpie

Kelpies are originally beings from Scottish folklore. A kelpie is usually depicted as a stunningly beautiful white horse that seduces humans into sitting on its back, then plunges back into the riv...

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A page removed from episode 167

Miura didn't just add pages for the volume release from time to time, he sometimes changed or removed a page from an episode too. This one was removed from episode 167 (collected in volume 21). It ...

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Messages to Kentarou Miura: Tamami Momose (2)

This marks the end of the tributes to Miura. I hope they will have been as touching for you to read as they were for me to translate.

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Podcast #19: Influential Works

We recorded this podcast directly following the previous one, where he had some drinks while we talked. We are therefore slightly buzzed as we go over the cultural works that marked our childhoods,...

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Episode 368 translation

Fantasia arc
Elf island chapter
Gnawers

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Evil spirits: Sacrifice… san!!
Evil spirits: Sacrifice…

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Idea

I've posted about the name "Idea of Evil" before, going over how it is formed and what it means. But ...

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Apostle doodles from a Berserk fanzine

Berserk had dedicated fans in Japan long before the series was even known in the West. In the early day...

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Unreleased DRIFT sketches

Just saw this on Twitter and I thought it was noteworthy. The Bers...

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Messages to Kentarou Miura: Tamami Momose (1)

This post is now open to Bronze & Silver patrons.

To Miura...

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Learning Japanese with Berserk: Ogre

In volume 25, while helping Schierke protect the town of Enoch, Guts is confronted by a new fantastical enemy: an ogre. In Japanese: オーグル (ŌGURU). As Miura tended to do, he used a spelling...

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Miura's art for Gackpoid

In July 2008 was released Gackpoid (がくっぽいど), a voice pack for the singing voice synthesizer software Vocaloid (ボーカロイド), created by Yamaha. Gackpoid is one of many third part...

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