There were no words in May to describe the emptiness created by the death of Kentaro Miura. Obviously, those who felt the Berserk author’s disappearance most were his loved ones, including one character in particular: the Mangaka Kouji Mori. As he recently revealed in an interview, he is said to have written a manga about Kentaro Miura.
In a very long statement, Kouji Mori had announced the work on MK, a manga that will bring back some scenes from the lives of the two authors, who have known each other since school. This manga, which tells of the friendship between the author of Berserk and that of Holyland, has not yet taken shape except in a series of previews and a first chapter of a manga that has just been published in Japan.
Kouji Mori’s point of view is predominantly e the story begins with the funeral of Kentaro Miura. From here a number of memories are triggered that go back to the beginnings of the friendship between the two and unfold in the initially different life decisions of the two. It was only thanks to Miura and her family that Kouji Mori was able to get back on track by choosing to become a mangaka. Between jokes, details and comparisons, Kouji Mori brings his first memorial for Kentaro Miura into the world and closes this short story of around 20 pages the announcement of the MK project.
ONE moving tribute to the author of Berserk, from the eyes of his longest-lived and dearest friend, who shows us phases of the author’s everyday reality and not just projects his image from his most famous manga.
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