1. Kentaro Miura was best known for his dark fantasy series Berserk, which began serialization in 1989.
14 Facts About Kentaro Miura
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In 2002, Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
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Kentaro Miura was born on July 11,1966, in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
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At age 18, Kentaro Miura briefly worked as an assistant to George Morikawa, of Hajime no Ippo fame.
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In 1985, Kentaro Miura applied for entrance to the art college of Nihon University.
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In 1988, while working for Buronson on a project titled King of Wolves, Kentaro Miura published a prototype of Berserk in Hakusensha's Monthly ComiComi; the 48-page prototype placed second in ComiComis seventh Manga School competition.
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In 1997, Kentaro Miura supervised the production of a 25-episode anime adaptation of Berserk produced by OLM, Inc.
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Kentaro Miura supervised the 1999 Dreamcast video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage.
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In 2002, Kentaro Miura received the Award for Excellence at the sixth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes for Berserk.
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Various art books and supplemental materials by Kentaro Miura based on Berserk were released.
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In 2013, Kentaro Miura released the short standalone manga Giganto Maxia, published in English-speaking territories by Dark Horse in 2016.
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Kentaro Miura stated that the work that had the biggest impact on his own was Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's manga Fist of the North Star.
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On May 6,2021, Kentaro Miura died due to acute aortic dissection, at the age of 54.
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Kentaro Miura's death was publicly announced on May 20,2021.