Kentaro Miura

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Kentarō Miura ( Japanese 三浦 建 太郎 , Miura Kentarō ; born July 11, 1966 in Chiba Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

During elementary school he drew his first cartoon characters in exercise books and wrote his first series, which appeared in 40 episodes in a school newspaper. In 1982 he published his first dōjinshi in a fanzine and took art courses. From 1985 he studied art at Nihon University , in the same year the manga Futatabi won a prize at the 34th competition for new authors of Shōnen Magazine . Miura successfully completed his studies in 1989.

A year later, Berserk appeared for the first time, but initially with moderate success. After the publication of the manga Japan , which was created in collaboration with the author Buronson , Kentaro Miura devoted himself exclusively to Berserk , whose publication in the manga magazine Young Animal was so successful that the first licensed editions were soon published abroad.

In 2002, Kentaro Miura received the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for Berserk in the category Prize for Excellent Manga .

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