Berserk

Berserk (Japanese: ベルセルク, Hepburn: Beruseruku) is a Japanese manga series created by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe–inspired dark fantasy world, the story centers on the swordsman Guts, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary group called the Band of the Hawk. The series follows Guts's journey seeking revenge on Griffith, who betrayed him and the rest of their comrades.

Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988. The series began publication the following year in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Animal House [ja], which was changed to the semimonthly magazine Young Animal in 1992, where Berserk has since continued its publication. Following Miura's death in May 2021, the final chapter that he worked on was published posthumously in September of that same year; the series resumed in June 2022, under the supervision of Miura's fellow manga artist and childhood friend Kouji Mori and Miura's group of assistants and apprentices from Studio Gaga. As of August 2025, the Berserk chapters have been collected in 43 tankōbon volumes.