Kentaro Miura

Time line of Miura's life:

• 1966 -Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
• 1976 -At young age of 10 Miura published his first manga for his school classmates. The year later he published another series for his classmates
• 1982 -In Highschool he met his friend Koiji Mori, whose friendship would later inspire the character, "Griffith", in Miura's dark fantasy manga, Beserk.
• 1984 -Began working briefly with Jyoji Morikawa, of Hajime no Ippo fame, as an assistant. Miura proved to be very skilled and was dimmised soon because Morikawa belived Miura did not have much more to learn.
• 1989 -Seriliaztoin of Miuras best known manga, "Beserk", began serialization.
• 1997 -Anime adaption for Beserk airs in Nippon TV
• 2002 -Miura received the Award for Excellence at the 6th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes for Berserk.
  (Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞, Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō) is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun.)
• 2021-Kentaro Miura dies to acute aortic dissection.

Established as one of the best-selling manga of all time,[17] Miura's series Berserk impacted the manga medium and beyond, with journalist Jade King stating: "[It] is difficult to overstate the tremendous impact his work has had on the world of games, manga, film, anime, and even literature." The image of Guts and his massive sword is attributed to inspiring characters like Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII and Dante from the Devil May Cry series, with the overall aesthetic of Berserk inspiring the monsters and world of the Dark Souls series. Video game director Hideaki Itsuno and producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi are fans of Berserk, and the role-playing hack and slash game Dragon's Dogma included armor based on Guts and Griffith's. During a GDC talk in 2019, Itsuno stated that the tone and style of Devil May Cry 5 was inspired from Berserk. Many authors have cited Miura and Berserk as influences, including Blue Exorcist author Kazue Kato, Baccano! and Durarara!! author Ryōgo Narita, Black Butler author Yana Toboso, Black Clover author Yūki Tabata, and Attack on Titan author Hajime Isayama, who called it "tremendous, just magnificent [...] I got the impression that it was very well organized like a movie". Yoko Taro stated that the protagonist of Drakengard, Caim, was inspired by Berserk's protagonist Guts.

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