Berserk’s Revival receives long-awaited official English release

Warning: Contains spoilers for Berserk Volume #42.After Kentaro Miura’s death in 2021, Berserk was officially revived in 2022 by Kouji Mori and Miura’s team at Studio Gaga, and volume #42, the first volume for its revival, was published in 2023. All this was only in Japan, however; Berserk Only receive official updates in English when a new volume is publishedAnd even after a year, there was little news about volume #42’s English release.

Anyone waiting for BerserkThe official sequel in English has been left in the latch for over two years now, but luckily, there is finally a confirmed release date. At the Dark Horse Comics panel at Anime NYC 2024, it was announced that Berserk Volume #42 would be published in English on March 18, 2025About a year and a half after its publication in Japan.

As long as it is, it’s largely consistent with the manga’s release schedule, and overall, it’s great that people now have an idea of ​​when they can continue. Berserk By official means.

Berserk Volume 42’s Story Explained

The first volume of the manga after Miura’s passing

Berserk Volume #42 continues the story of where Kentaro Miura left things before his death with Griffith, now confirmed to be the Moonlight Child, arriving on Elfhelm after Casca regained her sanity. Naturally, a fight breaks out between them, or at least, as you can thanks to the near invulnerability of Griffith as a member of the God Hand. , and at the end of the conflict. Berserk begins to enter a new story arc, The first In almost a decade.

Why Berserk is still exciting to read after Kentaro Miura’s death

Berserk is still as great as ever

Berserk Volume #42 will be the first volume to be released since Kentaro Miura’s death, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. Although there are notable differences between the art of Miura and Studio Gaga in terms of paneling and general visuals, The artwork for Berserk From volume #42 onwards, is still filled with incredible composition and detail in every chapterWhich still leaves it as one of the best-looking manga a person can read. Studio Gaga has done a great job of emulating Kentaro Miura’s art style, so longtime fans of the series will not be disappointed.

More to the point, of course, is the story Berserk Volume #42 tells. Berserk‘s story is still as wonderfully dark and engaging as ever, and most importantly, Kouji Mori had previously said that he would not do anything with Berserks story that Kentaro Miura had not planned in advanceSo even with Muras passing, it will still be his story until the end. Berserk‘s revival has done an excellent job of continuing Kentaro Miura’s legacy, and it’s great that English fans will finally be able to experience this in March 2025.

Source: Dark Horse Comics official X Account.