It is set to be announced on Friday that Kentarou Miura’s Berserk manga will be returning from hiatus. The announcement will take place in the sixth issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine. Even though the magazine publishes twice a month, Berserk will only be published on a monthly schedule.
The seventh issue of the magazine will contain a special Berserk booklet, containing over 100 pages of content. Hakusensha has published similar booklets when Berserk returned from hiatus in the past and it looks to continue to do so with this latest return to publication.
Berserk had returned from a previous hiatus in June of 2017, but went back into hiatus status just a few months later in September.
Berserk was a television anime in 1997, running for 25 episodes. It was revisited in a three-part CG movie called Berserk: The Golden Age Arc. A sequel season aired in 2016 and was met with harsh criticism by anime fans for its art style and deviation from the manga. A third season of the anime is slated for April.
MyAnimeList.net describes the story of as follows:
Born from the corpse of his mother, a young mercenary known only as Guts, embraces the battlefield as his only means of survival. Day in and day out, putting his life on the line just to make enough to get by, he moves from one bloodshed to the next.
After a run-in with the Band of the Hawk, a formidable troop of mercenaries, Guts is recruited by their charismatic leader Griffith, nicknamed the “White Hawk.” As he quickly climbed the ranks in order to become the head of the offensive faction, Guts proves to be a mighty addition to Griffith’s force, taking Midland by storm. However, while the band’s quest for recognition continues, Guts slowly realizes that the world is not as black-and-white as he once assumed.
Set in the medieval era, Berserk is a dark, gritty tale that follows one man’s struggle to find his own path, while supporting another’s lust for power, and the unimaginable tragedy that begins to turn the wheels of fate.
