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Kentaro Miura: the gallery

Forty one covers tell the story by themselves: watch the boy swordsman of 1990 become the scarred figure of the later volumes, panel density rising all the way.

This gallery page gathers the images the Miura hub discusses, organized as the career unfolded. The first wall is the beginning: the Berserk prototype art, the early tankobon covers and the King of Wolves period, where a very young artist's clean 1980s line is already reaching for the weight it would later carry.

The second wall is the evolution sequence, Berserk covers and spreads from the Golden Age through the Conviction and Millennium Falcon arcs into Fantasia. Arranged in order, they show the hatching deepen, the architecture grow and the faces learn subtlety, the same comparison the hub's art evolution entry describes in words. Cover art that includes blood or unclothed figures is presented here as published cover documentation, the way the Library treats all Berserk covers.

The third wall holds the short works: Giganto Maxia's giants, Duranki's sunlit Mesopotamian world and the Studio Gaga credit pages, the images that explain Berserk's continuation better than any announcement. A final case shows the books themselves, tankobon, kanzenban style editions and the oversized Deluxe hardcovers, because for this artist the printing is part of the art.

Every image on this page is marked for verified sourcing before publication, with Japanese and English edition covers compared wherever both exist. That rule matters doubly here: Berserk art is widely reposted without credit, and a gallery in an artist's hub should be the place a reader can trust what they are looking at.

ON THE WALLS

Four sequences
Wall 1: The beginning
Prototype art and the early covers, 1988 to early 1990s.
Wall 2: The evolution
Berserk covers and spreads in order, Golden Age to Fantasia.
Wall 3: The short works
Giganto Maxia, Duranki and the Studio Gaga credits.
Wall 4: The books
Tankobon, large editions and Deluxe hardcovers compared.
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