The 41st compiled guide quantity of Kentarou Miura‘s Berserk manga, which incorporates the ultimate chapters that Miura had created for the collection, will launch in the USA and France subsequent summer time.

That is the collection’ first quantity since Miura’s passing in Might, and the primary in three years.

The 41st manga quantity shipped in Japan on Friday. Full-page commercials for the quantity appeared in The New York Instances, Le Monde, and Asahi Shimbun newspapers:

The afterword within the 41st quantity from Hakusensha‘s Younger Animal journal’s editorial workers said that the way forward for the manga continues to be undecided. The workers additionally thanked its readers.

The editorial workers had said in September that there was “no info to share in regards to the future” of Kentarou Miura‘s Berserk manga “presently.” The assertion added that the workers’s precedence will “at all times be positioned on him — what he would assume if he have been nonetheless with us.”

The 41st quantity’s launch got here in each common and particular editions, the latter of which incorporates particular canvas artwork and a drama CD. Miura drew the canvas artwork (pictured left) that adorns the particular version of the 41st quantity. The drama CD options the return of the anime’s forged and portrays the manga’s key “Awakening” chapter, which has by no means been seen in any of the manga’s anime diversifications. Makoto Fukami additionally returned to pen the drama CD’s script.

Miura handed away on Might 6 resulting from acute aortic dissection. He was 54. Because the announcement of Miura’s passing, creators in Japan and all through the world have provided their condolences.

The Berserk manga follows Guts, a superhumanly robust warrior who wields a big sword, as he wanders a darkish medieval world crammed with demons, corrupt and decadent nobles, and different horrors. Each evening, he’s assailed by demons, interested in the curse branded on him after a traumatic occasion. He makes his manner by means of the world on a quest to slay a former buddy turned demon, who took every little thing away from him.

Miura revealed the one-shot model of the Berserk manga in Hakusensha‘s Month-to-month Comicomi journal in 1988. He launched the complete Berserk manga collection in Hakusensha‘s Month-to-month Animal Home journal in 1989, and the collection continued in Hakusensha‘s Younger Animal journal till now. The collection has over 40 million copies in circulation. Hakusensha revealed the manga’s fortieth quantity in Japan on September 28, 2018. Darkish Horse Comics revealed the identical quantity in North America on October 8, 2019. Darkish Horse Comics started reprinting the manga within the deluxe hardcover editions in February 2019. Every quantity options three regular compiled volumes of the manga.

The manga impressed a tv anime collection in 1997, in addition to an anime movie trilogy from 2012 to 2013. One other tv anime collection premiered in Japan in July 2016, and the second half of the brand new collection premiered in April 2017.

Sources: Berserk quantity 41, Comedian Natalie