The Berserk Manga Gallery

Forty-three volumes, two cover lives, one unmistakable line.

This is the paper shelf: every Japanese tankobon cover of Berserk, in the editions Hakusensha sells today, volume by volume from 1990 to 2025. Kentaro Miura painted or drew each of the first forty-one. Volumes 42 and 43 carry a new credit line, original work by Miura, art by his studio, Studio Gaga, under the supervision of his friend Kouji Mori.

Berserk is a dark series written for adults, and this page keeps to the covers themselves: the art, the editions, and the publishing record.

THE FIRST VOLUME

Berserk, 1990 and 2016

Volume 1, twice

Same book · two covers · twenty-six years apart

Berserk volume 1 original Jets Comics cover, 1990 — **Jets Comics · 1990**The first cover: Guts and the cannon arm under the original label banner.

Berserk volume 1 current Young Animal Comics cover — **Young Animal Comics · 2016**The renewal cover, drawn for the label change and still in print.

In June 2016 Hakusensha renamed its Jets Comics label Young Animal Comics and reissued the first thirty-seven volumes of Berserk with new cover art. Every cover in the grids below is the current edition, verified volume by volume. The original Jets covers of volumes 2 to 37 are different art; until each one is verified from a real source, this page shows the 1990 original only where it can be checked, starting with volume 1 above.

VOLUMES 1 TO 15

Jets Comics years, current covers

Volume 1

Hakusensha · 26 November 1990.

Volume 2

Hakusensha · 26 February 1991.

Volume 3

Hakusensha · 25 October 1991.

Volume 4

Hakusensha · 26 February 1992.

Volume 5

Hakusensha · 29 March 1993.

Volume 6

Hakusensha · 29 September 1993.

Volume 7

Hakusensha · 29 March 1994.

Volume 8

Hakusensha · 29 September 1994.

Volume 9

Hakusensha · 29 March 1995.

Volume 10

Hakusensha · 29 September 1995.

Volume 11

Hakusensha · 29 March 1996.

Volume 12

Hakusensha · 27 September 1996.

Volume 13

Hakusensha · 27 March 1997.

Volume 14

Hakusensha · 29 September 1997.

Volume 15

Hakusensha · 29 January 1998.

VOLUMES 16 TO 30

The long middle

Volume 16

Hakusensha · 26 August 1998.

Volume 17

Hakusensha · 29 March 1999.

Volume 18

Hakusensha · 1 October 1999.

Volume 19

Hakusensha · 29 March 2000.

Volume 20

Hakusensha · 27 October 2000.

Volume 21

Hakusensha · 29 May 2001.

Volume 22

Hakusensha · 19 December 2001.

Volume 23

Hakusensha · 28 June 2002.

Volume 24

Hakusensha · 19 December 2002.

Volume 25

Hakusensha · 27 June 2003.

Volume 26

Hakusensha · 19 December 2003.

Volume 27

Hakusensha · 29 July 2004.

Volume 28

Hakusensha · 28 February 2005.

Volume 29

Hakusensha · 29 September 2005.

Volume 30

Hakusensha · 29 March 2006.

VOLUMES 31 TO 43

To the newest volume

Volume 31

Hakusensha · 29 September 2006.

Volume 32

Hakusensha · 29 November 2007.

Volume 33

Hakusensha · 24 October 2008.

Volume 34

Hakusensha · 25 September 2009.

Volume 35

Hakusensha · 29 September 2010.

Volume 36

Hakusensha · 23 September 2011.

Volume 37

Hakusensha · 29 March 2013.

Volume 38

Hakusensha · 24 June 2016.

Volume 39

Hakusensha · 23 June 2017.

Volume 40

Hakusensha · 28 September 2018.

Volume 41

Hakusensha · 24 December 2021. The last volume of Miura’s own chapters.

Volume 42

Hakusensha · 29 September 2023. The first volume drawn by Studio Gaga under Kouji Mori’s supervision.

Volume 43

Hakusensha · 29 August 2025. The newest volume, August 2025.

READING THE COVERS

What the grids show

The frame

Every current cover sits inside the same stone frame with the volume number at the upper right: a design system imposed in 2016 over thirty years of very different paintings.

The credits

Volumes 1 to 41 credit Miura alone. From volume 42 the cover credit changes to a team line: Miura as original creator, Studio Gaga on art, Kouji Mori supervising.

The gap years

The dates tell the schedule honestly. Volume 37 is 2013, volume 38 is 2016, volume 41 is 2021, volume 43 is 2025: the covers arrive when the chapters do.