This is why no anime has ever done the manga justice. In fact, Berserk is more known to passing observers and potential fans by its art than by its characters.
His writing is saved for, and concerned with, the dialogue and story surrounding Guts, while the world itself is presented to us through painstakingly detailed artwork. While most fantasy worlds, like those of Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire rely on context to slowly and steadily build their world - which includes landscapes, architecture, language, food, economics, politics, fashion, the list goes on - Miura draws all of this.
The beauty of the Berserk manga commes from how Miura realises its world through his art. In terms of longevity and scale alone, Miura’s work, dedication, and legacy are all on par with those of Japan’s most famous mangaka, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda. And when he was just 22 years old he began writing Berserk, the manga he is now famous for across the world. If Miura showed this much promise, ambition, and raw talent at the age of ten, he was always going to be a success. Just one year later, Miura wrote another manga series, Ken e no Michi (The Way of the Sword). It also spanned a whopping 40 volumes, though was never serialised publicly since he was a child. This manga is hyper detailed, beautifully realised, and demonstrates an artist’s hand far more mature than his age.
At the age of ten, Miura created his own manga series, Miuranger (a clever mix of his own name and the English word ranger, which is a very ten-year-old-boy move). The evidence for this comes from Miura’s childhood. What we know about Miura’s life and habits points to a man who has never done, nor ever wanted to do, anything except draw manga.
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