
Né(e): July 11, 1966 – Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist best known for Berserk, a landmark dark-fantasy series exploring violence, trauma, fate, and ambition. Serialized from 1989, Berserk sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and influenced manga, anime, and games. Miura received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize’s Excellence Award in 2002.
Kentaro Miura was a Japanese manga artist and writer whose career combined classical draftsmanship, pulp energy, and unusually serious moral imagination. Born in 1966 in Chiba, he showed an interest in drawing from childhood and began making manga at an early age. As a young artist he developed quickly enough to attract notice before adulthood, and he later studied at Nihon University’s College of Art, where his technical confidence and command of page design became more visible. Early professional work, including collaborations outside his best-known series, helped sharpen his sense of pacing, violence, and psychological tension. The decisive turning point came at the end of the 1980s, when he began the work that would define his life.
"Kentaro Miura was one of the most influential manga artists in the field"
— NPR
"Globally acclaimed mangaka Kentaro Miura created the long-running manga/anime Berserk"
— GamesRadar+
"Kentaro Miura created Berserk, one of the bestselling manga series ever written"
— The Guardian
"Kentaro Miura's influence on modern fantasy writing and art can hardly be overstated"
— The Washington Post
"Legendary manga creator Kentaro Miura was known for stunning artistic prowess and compelling storytelling"
— Screen Rant
"Kentaro Miura was a master artist and storyteller"
— Dark Horse Comics
"Kentaro Miura is one of the greatest mangaka of all time"
— Game Rant