» Posted April 1st, 2009 by arke
We here at EG have something momentuous to announce. This has been in the works for quite some time. We have decided that the languid pace of Berserk releases by Kentaro Miura should no longer plague us. Thus, beginning tomorrow, we will solicit donations to fund Miura so he can add more artists to his team to allow for regular biweekly releases. We understand these are difficult times, but please, think of all the pain in the waiting and open your wallets for just a small donation. Every little bit counts. Thank you.
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:22 am
Isn’t this a bit ironic? First you bring free translations of his work. Then you want to pay him? Though I wouldn’t mind paying for his AWESOME manga!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
yeah nice joke
April 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am
april fools lulz
April 1st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Nice joke.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:55 am
Hmm April fool’s , nice one though.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:05 pm
NEVAH!
April 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Happy April fool’s everyone.
April 1st, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Is that it? Miura is to broke to draw? If that is the only reason, sure I’ll contribute. You guys sure he’s not just lazy then? Will a donation make a difference? :/
April 1st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
0.o will that actualy work?
April 1st, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Oh noes! It is the April Fools!
April 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
DUDE EVERYONE GET ON IT! we need more berserk!!!
April 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Also.. where and how can I donate
April 1st, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Tell me how, you plan on contacting miura, and if you can, I will help fund for it. I’m not opening my wallet until I know what you know. I am, though, really interested in this plan. Just p.m me in the forums about all of this and it’ll be no prob money wise.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I totally agree with You. Where can I donate ??
April 1st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I’m poor and i haven’t enough money for myself… can i donate my blood instead?
April 1st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I have extra cash tax back, I could cash in 200$ but where in the hell is the donate link?
April 1st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Guys,
today Miura announced that Berserk will be undefinidetely postponed and more likely cancelled.
What a sad story.
April 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
WE NEED ZETMAN! LET´S DO IT!
April 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Hmmmm.. Today’s April 1st.
And how can Berserk go biweekly if it’s published in an bimonthly magazine?
April 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
April fools everyone
April 1st, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I’m willing to donate as much as 50$ !!!
Let’s do it!
Are the japanese fans donating aswell?
How many people is working on berserk. I’m sure he must get some kind of help?
April 1st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Uhmm, some artists maybe doesn’t need more artists to their team…it’s their way of doing art. I can tell cause I’m a comic artist too(even though I’m far from miura’s level).
Have you ever heard of “Blacksad”? It took 7 years to last, and it is only one volume…but is perfect:D
April 1st, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I bet this is an April’s fool joke. ^_^
April 1st, 2009 at 4:05 pm
nice april fools =)
April 1st, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Just tell me wher to give, ill see what i can do
April 1st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Obviously a joke, gys. April 1st and all that.
But for real, the lack of Berserk updates (or any kind of news) is horrible.
Lately, with the every Berserk new chapter, I have a small ceremony, I get 2 Marlboros, a cup of coffee, 2 toasts with some butter, a nice seat, and 15 minutes on which I can’t be disturbed by the family (I actually lock down the door).
I miss those peacefull minutes.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I’m calling BS on this as an April fools joke.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
“Obviously a joke, gys. April 1st and all that.
But for real, the lack of Berserk updates (or any kind of news) is horrible.”
Even if it is a nice april fools joke, the idea behind it has very sound logic and it should be set into motion so that we can get our berserk releases sometime before 2009 is over
April 1st, 2009 at 4:26 pm
In fact, a great April 1st joke, would have been a fake Berserk update, lol.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Might be right, but berserk is suck a nice comic.
I wanna see what on fairy island so bad loll
April 1st, 2009 at 5:54 pm
That would have been too terrible.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
What better way to motivate the guy and sway him away from that supposed Idolmaster addiction than a money shower from the fans? Go go go go.
I given up hope on Berserk reaching a conclusion with the gaps seemingly growing ever larger. Perhaps he’s just tired of it. That being said, I’ve enjoyed what Miura has put to paper and support it.
April 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
haha that would of been pretty funny but oh so cruel…damn this emptiness…
April 1st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Please God don’t let it be an april Joke
April 1st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
It didn’t sound that bad of an idea to start off with, though. But I was fooled, fooled I tells youz!
April 1st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Awwww.. Awwwww…. Dude you suck. I was hyped. I would have donated $50 and was going to force people to donate to. I Hate You ALl.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
well, actually this joke was better than the one on IGN, a fake berserk chapter with silly drawings would be awfully cruel…. really T_T
April 1st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
hahaha i love this.. my heart is fallin to pieces… m0th3rf00ck3r5 i want my berserk ;__;
April 1st, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Happy april fools!!!
I told my mom that my girlfriend got pregnant!!!
HUAHIAHU!!!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:01 pm
i know that it is a joke but i will really do it and I bet a lot of people also to see berserk out every month
April 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
It is not an april fools joke! i want my berserk!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 am
Heeeey my man arke telling a joke! that was unexpected
And here I thought Psi69a was the only one (remeber the: “griffith! Its so big”) a classic…
heee heee heeee
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 am
must……read……berserk……
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 am
No more ppl , berserk is nice cos only miura make, for this he is the supreme master, no need ppl to destroe this saga, this is only best manga medieval i know. Original is all n only miura can make this
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:00 am
april fools or not there are a lot of people who r willing to support miura financially for berserk…for me(and many more) berserk is a masterpiece and i hate seeing it go down the drain.if it’s lack of money resources that holds back miura i’d be happy to donate,hell if i could i’d pay for the production of a full new anime series…but how the hell can u do that?i mean if people are willing to support miura what’s the hold back??actions people are better than words…
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:12 am
if only a “money shower” were what Mr Miura needed… but it’s not that simple.
I think the idea with the fake berserk ch would have made the prank of the year ! (and a 100,000 downloads)
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 am
Hahaha, he probably got enough assistants… just togashi need some, was a nice idea though, if this could help they release more… ;D
nice jk
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Heh, yeah, a fake Berserk Chapter with a huge “APRIL FOOLS!!!” message upon opening the file would probably cause riots over at Evil genius headquarters.
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I am already buying the manga, got 12 volumes so far. Even though I have read em online already they are even better on real paper.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Back when psi29a was administrating this page the layout worked ok on linux/firefox
. Yeah – i know – i sound like a broken record
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pm
are you any kind of contact with Miura?
what are the guarantees that donations reach to the Miura’s hands?
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Lets make this foolish joke become reality! Let’s photograph our berserk collections, add a couple of dollars and send them to him and woala, GIMMEH BERSERK!
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
You should pay another artist to rewrite the manga and finish it after the second eclipse.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 am
the money all went to me. thanks. I used it on japanese tentacle rape porno.
good day.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
how about buying Berserk volumes? that would give him money
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Hey, if that’s what it takes, count me in for a donation! how’s 1000 trillion? Canada’s GDP, I’ll have it redirected to Miura’s account if you tell me it’s number… that should be enough to get a steady steam of berserk right?
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
hmmmm i didn’t know miura actually had 1 or more artist helping him out, i always thought the actual drawing and storyline was completely his doing.
Either way i wouldn’t want anyone defiling kentaro’s precious master piece.
miura i hate you for starving us like this but love you at the same time for making it this manga something thats actually worth waiting for. Patience is just not one of my virtues …
so get of your lazy arse, and get out of Kabukicho damn u i know japanese women are wonderful creatures but we need you! FANS OVER HOES MAN C’MON! and yeah def take it easy on the boose.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
well buz that is sort of like berserk… glad to see it all went to good use.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Isn’t there an April fools chapter wrote by Miura? would definitely come out with something good..
April 4th, 2009 at 4:37 am
funny, two months ago, i went and bought volumes 16-27 just because i do get around to supporting the good stuff n_n
yay midtown comics
April 5th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I know this is not the thread but…
Dudes!! Biomega is over!! And the end is even more open and abstract than Blame’s!! This Nihei guy is nuts.
April 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
If this wasn’t on April 1st I might have believed it. Well the donation part.
Now the part about Kentaro Miura sure is taking his ever loving time. At the rate he is going, he’ll be dead before he finishes the series.. or well all be dead (old age, vehicular accidents, waiting on Berserk chapters, etc). One or the other.
Zetman looks just about as complex with the artstyle as Berserk, yet Zetman gets out on a timely manner.
This really does suck in an ironic kind of way. Berserk is so good, yet….it’s like well, wanting a fix but not being able to get it.
Thank god for One piece, Naruto, and Bleach.. with a dash of akumetsu, other wise that fix would never be even partially satisfied.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
do Kentaro Miura own a web site where we can send him email? and donation? if yes i hope he got a good traductor lol. i really want to help him.
but when waiting on berserk try some manga !
here some manga i really like (i did not include biomega and zetman)
- Akumetsu
- Eyeshield 21
- First Girl (18 tome)
- Claymore
- The ravages of time
- Veritas
- B Reaction (18 tome)
and a lot more. until berserk, read manga is the only way i got to not comite suicide lol
April 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
cool i mean berserk is the best of the very best but i can wait D:
April 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Nice idea! It’s really a shame that it has to be a joke
Anyway, I think it might be time for Berserk to get his 2nd season anime… That’ll give Miura plenty of time to think about the coming event, meanwhile we’ll be feasting on what has occured in the Manga up until now in both a continuous and refreshing way!
For me THAT would help a ot overcoming these endless cold wait times! *praying*
April 6th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Maybe we could try to assess the amount of money we could raise with a poll. That could be interesting just to know.
How much money would you put down as an incentitive to motivate Miura to accelerate his work ?
5 , 10 ,20, 50, 75, 100 , 150 , 200?
April 7th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Would be nice to see a weekly release though. One can only hope that such a day will come. For now let’s just wait instead !!hoorayy!!
April 7th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Can i donate semen?
April 8th, 2009 at 10:20 am
fuck iam late any way ill donate for the anime work only if they want money to make a 2nd part of berserk anime hell ill donate …thats it.
April 8th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
But youre a women Yoroichi
April 9th, 2009 at 2:45 am
The promised time has come!
http://www.skullknight.net/forum/index.php?topic=10129.0
April 10th, 2009 at 6:54 am
It’s coming on April 24th.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:13 am
” This year’s eighth issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine has confirmed that Kentarou Miura’s Berserk fantasy adventure manga will return from its latest hiatus in the next issue on April 24.
Dark Horse Comics will publish the 29th volume of the Berserk manga in North America next month. ”
Source: ANN
April 10th, 2009 at 7:52 am
finally… after all it was only 4 months of break… not much right? ^_^
April 10th, 2009 at 10:43 am
WOOOOO!!!! 24th! Another chapter!
…
Then another break. Damn you Miura!
April 10th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I’ve already go the ending in my mind. Guts and Caska are reunited at the elf village, they raide griffith’s army and woop Griffith’s ass and then the end. fuck you griffith, you suck, go die forever.
April 10th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
is he lazy or does it take that long to draw the pages, i mean i never seen any other manga that has that much detail in the pages
April 11th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Berserk is back new chapter 24 april 2009.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Well aside from sacrificing the Band of the Hawk, Griffith has only really done good for the world.
April 12th, 2009 at 7:13 am
I hope when he finished Ganishika, he will show his true self, and release the deamons after the humans!:D
April 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
April 24?? Oh boy! Oh boy! Ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy!
Yeah, Griffith has done only good….
Like sending Gatts to murder little Adonis (Griffith told Gatts to kill Julius, I know, but anyone can tell Griffith has foressen the outcoming there)
But still i like Griffith
April 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
God I hope griffith turns evil after most likely defeating the emperor… Then I wouldn’t have this little nagging thought in the back of my mind of Guts as a bad guy.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I was honestly about to re-read the whole series until it came out. I still will do that… I Actually got the dreamcast game to start working. Oh man…best manga ever..
April 18th, 2009 at 10:38 am
oh wow! f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck NEW BERSERK oh man now that i know i cant wait i hope it isnt b*llsh*t lol EXCELLENT!!! BERSERK
April 18th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I would really like for the hiatus in the battle between Griffith and Guts to be prolonged for a few more chapters/volumes with the reasoning that a considerable amount of time should be devoted to the expanded world of Berserk (Elfhelm, not to mention Farnese’s fiance’s nation as well as whatever other lands Miura would have us see) and I would really like to see more time devoted to the relationships between and stories behind members of Guts’ new band. I cannot wait for Caska to be fully conscious again; there will be a few amazing, if not tearjerking or heartwrenching conversations.
I get the feeling that when she regains her consciousness, Caska will try to commit suicide again in her grief of what she, and Guts, has had to go through. I’m guessing that she will feel like she has hurt him, been a burden on him or some such; she never did deal with those emotions very well. Most of all, I want to see if she is inclined to seek vengeance against Griffith and his demonic followers, as judging from what we have seen of her since the eclipse, she may well have been shaped by her exposure to the abyss, much as Guts was.
Will she have a new disposition or nature as a result of losing herself and her mind to the events of the eclipse? Will she hold apathy or antipathy towards Griffith if not all of mankind, or will she be able to forgive? Will she be able to love again, or for that matter would Guts be willing to set aside his pursuit of vengeance for his love of Caska? Perhaps Caska will want to seek vengeance while Guts will want to settle down with Caska. So. Many. Possibilities.
Miura-san has a lot of questions that he can answer before this saga is over; by all means, he should take all of the time that he needs to finish this story.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Word has it that the next Berserk issue posts on the 24th of April
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-10/berserk-manga-to-return-from-latest-hiatus-in-japan
April 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Once caska regains her true self, it is going to be so much easier to fight off demons. But come on, do any of us really think there will ever be a fight bewteen Guts, caska, and Griffith? I want it to happen, but I get this bad vibe that some nasty shit is going to happen. I guess the berserk world is just so dark i don’t see any hope at all. wow, wtf, Griffith, you suck hard. I will kill you!!!!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:01 pm
And yet I’m not really convinced Caska will join forces with Gutts against Griffith…
I mean, that thing is still their son, it isn’t?
April 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
u read alot of bullshit here, makes me laugh the whole time…
lots of u really understand nuthin, thinking of miura is drawing a story like in that stupid marving comics with good heros and bad villains…
this stuff is profound!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Rumor has it that this next chapter will have zero dialogue. So really, can you just release the scans? There’s no work to be done =]
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
next issue of Berserk May 8th! Woo hoo!
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
April 24th? awesome thats my birthday! happy bday to me! i cant wait!
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 am
i don´t think caska will “regain her true self”,
the fuel for gutts´ fire is partially if not mostly based on that.
the drive would lessen, as well as the hate which is probably the very root of the entire plot, if anything i would expect miura to add reasons for gutts hating griffith-not take them away.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 am
oh,
just out of curiosity
could someone point out why for any reason caska will regain her memory?-anything beyond the fact of the whole band going to elfhelm- and of course, no sarcasm intended.
thank you-
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:38 am
I’m not fully convinced Gutts will be there when caska regains her consciousness. I think it would be more fitting with the story line if, having got caska to a safe place, he once again abandons all his comrades and goes off on his own.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
They said maybe the all might elf king could do some thing in order to help Caska
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I hope we soon will see end of this shitty D&D like story.
I think that Gutts will sacrefice his new friends in order to be able to chasing griffth. Now story is just to gently , it’s nothing like the old Berserk.
BTW.
Am I the only one who thinks that Gutts with his armor is just not cool ?
Sorry for my mistakes. If someone feels like to correct what i have wrote , I would be grateful.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
OK folks. The RAW is available on the net. Here we go.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
i think lode mean that, its berserk, when rape, nudity and violence is allowed,
i mean, probably miura dont want her to be recovered, just making our hopes high
who know, maybe elfheim its destroyed already
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Oh man…. -_- We had to wait that long… for this.
I won’t spoil, but don’t expect anything spectacular from this chapter. Next chapter is out May 8.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:00 am
When is the next Berserk coming?!?!?! I need my berserk fix!!
April 24th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Yeah, The skull knight said that with help of the elf king, it’s possible for caska to regain her heart…or something like that.
April 25th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Skully seems to possess a near-omniscient, if not precognitive awareness of events and how they relate to the state of the world. He may be a bit high on the concept of causality, but given his awareness of the world I think it is better to take his comment as a bit of foreknowledge than as a blind stab of a possibility. If he says that the Elf King could restore Caska’s consciousness, I’m betting it’s going to be a matter of time; I remember that Puck could tell somehow that Skully had spent some time in Elfhelm so that leads to further speculation, and as for Griffith’s forces attacking Elfhelm I don’t think that’s likely.
For one thing, Griffith’s focus has been on the mainland, i.e. Midland, Chuder, etc. and logically Elfhelm would be so far from his interests he would have no desire to attack them. For that matter, Ganishka’s attention has been devoted to the mainland as well, So one could ultimately think of Elfhelm as the “Undying Lands” of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth sagas; both areas are out-of-the-way, so to speak, in relation to the main conflict as well as in relation to the geographic focus of the conflict.
I agree with Anon, I’m starting to think that Guts will have left before Caska regains consciousness, after all that would maximize the tragic elements of this storyline. Keep in mind though, Miura HAS said that he wanted to write a “Happy Ending” for Berserk.
Maybe we’ll get REALLY lucky and he will pony up to make a continuation to the anime, if for no other reason than getting the opportunity to hear Hirasawa’s music in conjunction with Berserk again.