Hakusensha’s Young Animal Magazine revealed on Jan 24, 2025 that Kentaro Miura’s Berserk manga will finally publish a new chapter after 3 months.
Berserk‘s chapter 379 is set to come out in the fourth issue of Young Animal magazine on Feb 14, 2025. It will be getting a front page color-lead in the issue.
The preview for the fourth issue also teased a major announcement for the manga.
“The long-awaited latest chapter!
Rakshas suddenly appears in the Kushan lands, causing carnage as he closes in on Guts…!?
Plus, a major announcement included!!”
The previous chapter was published on Nov 8. 2024.
Berserk manga had entered a new arc with the release of Chapter 374 on Sep 22, 2023. The manga’s 42nd volume was also published in the same month. The English version of the volume will be released by Dark Horse on March 18, 2025.
Berserk is set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world. The story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone swordsman, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the “Band of the Hawk”.
Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988. The series began the following year in the Hakusensha’s now-defunct magazine Monthly Animal House, which was replaced in 1992 by the semimonthly magazine Young Animal, where Berserk has continued its publication.
Following Miura’s death in May 2021, the final chapter that he wrote and illustrated was published posthumously in September of the same year.
On June 7, 2022, the editorial department of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine and Kouji Mori had released a statement saying that Kentaro Miura’s magnum opus will resume serialization.
The manga is being supervised by Miura’s long time friend and fellow mangaka, Kouji Mori, and Miura’s studio, Studio Gaga, which comprises of his assistants and apprentices, is drawing the manga.
Kentarou Miura first published a one-shot version of Berserk manga in Hakusensha’s Monthly Comicomi magazine in 1988. He later launched the Berserk manga in Hakusensha’s Monthly Animal House magazine in 1989 which later continued in Young Animal magazine till date.
Source: Young Animal Magazine
