Issue 18 of this year’s Young Animal magazine, released on September 8, 2023, revealed that the manga Berserk will return with a brand new season after a four-month hiatus.
This will be the first time in more than a decade Berserk there is a new part. It will begin releasing chapter 374 in the next issue of Young Animal on September 22, 2023.
The manga’s previous arc, i.e. the Fantasia arc, which started in the late 2000s, ended in chapter 373, which was released on May 26, 2023.
Furthermore, the 42nd volume of the manga series will be released on September 29, 2023.
Berserk is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a dark fantasy world inspired by medieval Europe, the story focuses on the characters Guts, a lone swordsman, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary group called “ Band of the Hawk”.
Miura debuted the Berserk prototype in 1988. The series began the following year in Hakusensha’s now-defunct Monthly Animal House magazine, which was replaced in 1992 by the semi-monthly Young Animal magazine once, where Berserk continues to publish.
Following Miura’s death in May 2021, the last chapter written and illustrated by him was posthumously published in September of the same year.
On June 7, 2022, the editorial board of Hakusensha and Kouji Mori’s Young Animal magazine released a statement saying that Kentaro Miura’s major work will continue to be serialized.
The manga is overseen by Miura’s longtime friend and fellow mangaka Kouji Mori, and Miura’s studio, Studio Gaga, which includes his assistants and apprentices, is drawing the manga.
Kentarou Miura published a one-shot version of the manga for the first time Berserk in Hakusensha’s monthly Comicomi magazine in 1988. He then launched the magazine Berserk manga in Hakusensha’s ‘Monthly Animal House’ magazine in 1989, then continued to be serialized in Young Animal magazine to this day.
This comic series has more than 40 million copies in circulation.
The manga further inspired an animated television series in 1997 and a film trilogy from 2012 to 2013. Re-edited version of the Berserk: Golden Age trilogy The arc will be broadcast on TV as ‘Berserk: Golden Age Arc Memorial Edition‘in 2022. This will be the first time the trilogy will air on TV.
Source: Young Animals Website
