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Miura Explains Recent Berserk Manga Break
Date: 2/1/2007
In some of his sidebar comments printed in just about every issue of Young Animal where his Berserk manga serial appears, creator Kentaro Miura often gives some reference to events in his personal life or current goings on with the comic. In recent issues he gave an explanation for the recent 3+ months of lapse in the manga's serialization. In late 2006 he first warned the manga may go to temporary irregular publication format as the coming storyline would deal with a huge army of over 1000 soldiers. After returning to Young animal a few weeks ago, Miura confirmed the break was due to the fact that he was drawing soldiers during that time (he draws each one by hand with no computer aids). Rumors spread online through the Japanese web in 2006 that the series could be coming to a grand finale soon. Those sentiments apparantly sprung from another one of these sidebar comments: "Finally 30 volumes. At first though I was going to end it within 2-3 volumes." "
Source: Anime News Service