Dark Horse Manga announced last weekend at Anime NYC that it will release the 42nd volume of the late Kentaro Miura’s Berserk manga series in English. Volume 42 will contain 192 pages and feature a traditional double-sided bound-in color poster.
The 42nd volume of the long-running dark fantasy manga marks the first entry to not involve Miura, due to his passing in May 2021. After a hiatus, the manga resumed publication in June 2022 with Miura’s childhood friend and manga artist, Kouji Mori, supervising the direction of the series. Miura’s assistant and apprentices began handling the illustrations under the collective name, Studio Gaga. Miura is still credited with the original story.
The original manga series by Kentaro Miura was first serialized in Hakusensha’s Monthly Animal House magazine in August 1989, before transferring to Young Animal in 1992. A total of tankobon volumes were as of December 2021, before Miura’s passing.
Dark Horse describes the synopsis of the 42nd volume as:
The shocking appearance of Griffith on Elf Island has provoked rage and terror in Guts and Casca, and carved a rift into the enchanted isle itself, setting loose a corrosive horde of devourers from beneath the earth! If the Black Swordsman cannot rely upon even his legendary blade, then escape by ship seems the only hope for survival…but not everyone is leaving Elf Island together!
Volume 42 will arrive in bookstores on March 18, 2025 and in comic shops on March 19, 2025.
The manga inspired a 1997 TV anime series, a 2016 TV anime sequel, and The Golden Age Arc anime film trilogy, which also received a remastered Memorial Edition version in 2022.
Crunchyroll streamed the 2016 anime series worldwide, while Discotek Media acquired the license for the 1997 anime series.
Source: press release
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