I remember when I first heard about the series and decided to not read it because it was unfinished and I wanted to wait for it to be done because I feared the author would die and bullshit ghostwriting would take over just like what happened with Wheel of Time.
Berserk is well worth reading even without an ending.
Miura had plans to finish it tho. I read an interview (forgot the source) where he said he had the ending finally figured out.
Kinda cute how he is moved by the events he himself created. His heart belonged to Berserk & its characters and he felt with them, regardless of gender.
I'm somewhat reminded of Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler, a movie the man spent over 30 years trying to animate, and it still wasn't finished by the time the film's backers finally wrestled the cels out of William's hands and cobbled them together to make an Aladdin knockoff. The thing is, what we have of the movie is some of the most fluid, highly detailed animation ever created without CG. It's a masterpiece, but looking back at the whole affair, it's clear that if it's taking you 30 years to make a 2 hour movie, that maybe you have to trim back some of your ambitions, simplify some aspects of your work, and learn the value of brevity. While the artwork for Berserk is jaw-dropping, it might have been worth Miura's while to scale some of the detail back so that he could get his actual story out - then, once that's done, maybe go back and do a "special edition" with hyper-detailed artwork. I dunno. All artists have to create a balance between "View attachment 2191998
Look, I deeply feel for everyone who stuck it through and cared so much. It also scared me to see how young he died. However, let this be a wake up call for all of us, a memento mori:
If you are working on a project and it's your great passion: FINISH IT
You can always add more to it later on, or do other things later on, or whatever. Just finish it. Especially writers, you don't want to be a lazy slob like George RR Martin and you don't want to die grasping between a work bench and Idol M@ster like poor Miura. Whatever you do, whatever you plan to do, whatever relies on you to see it through--FINISH IT
Finish it, guys... For Miura
factor" and "amount of time needed to get a work finished," and some just choose to burn large parts of their lives cramming as much " factor" into their work as possible, damn the consequences.
In my opinion Berserk should end there. Everything that follows that's not done by Miura will never be as amazing and beautiful. Guts reached his goal, Casca is sane again & she and the rest of the group are safe, he even meets his son at the end. Even Griffith got what he wanted. The rest is left to the readers imagination.
Jesus fucking Christ what a bunch of vultures.
I agree but I want to disagree because i have become attached to guts and friends. Also would be cool to see the witches do witchy things against apostles. >meteor rain on a nigga
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There is a notable progression in Berserk, the very first arc is pretty rough and his art isn't quiet as polished, i actually didn't thought much of Berserk at first, just an buff edgelord with a big sword killing stuff but then you keep going and can feel Miura getting better and better at themes, subverting expectations and adding in all the depth to the story as well as the illustrations getting more confident and ambitious. You could tangibly see him working like a madman to get better and improve his craft and mature alongside the manga, thats the most inspiring thing of all about it
He sounds like he's on Xannies, and his kind words pretty much amount to "welp, he's dead, no crying over spilt milk."
I get why they would want to continue but on the other hand Berserk without Miura means the quality will drop and this will upset tons of fans. But it will most likely still sell.
Yeah. I mean, it sucks it didn't get an ending. But at least it can end in a decent place. Just imagine if it ended and they were all stuck on the fucking. boat. That would be the real tragedy. I don't know if he had a will or anything but it will probably be unfinished. A lot of epic works by great creators go unfinished. Sometimes the fact that the work is unfinished cements them in history forever.
I don't see Miura as being a dumb faggot troll like Isayama who wants to play in his urine infested onsen. Nor do I see his assistants shitting up the work of a legend. I think if they try to end it, it'll be very disappointing. I honestly think they should try to craft something out of the chapters they were working on to end it openly at the bittersweet crossroads with Guts and Casca and everything. Not try to finish it. Let people's imagination take it. That'd be a beautiful way to close it off. Readers would still get something and Berserk would still get crafted with a little bit of an ending. Not something total.
