Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is a world-renowned phenomenon and has stolen the hearts of every dark fantasy otaku. His iconic art style is loved by fans and is very rare. Very few people know how to blend a gritty manga with an equally gritty art, but, Miura has been a great success in the field.
Be it his tragic characters or wonderful world setting, Miura has created a masterpiece via Berserk. Of course, several other works of art surprised and inspired the mangaka to create his classic manga. In an interview, the author admitted the person whose art style he has idolized.
Kentaro Miura Fesses Up His Biggest Influence
In an interview, Kentaro Miura was asked about the greatest cartoonist, director, or movie that had inspired him. In response, the author confessed that he is a fan of Go Nagai, the pioneer of the mecha robot genre.
Go Nagai is a Japanese mangaka who has created some of the most classic anime. He is also the mangaka behind Devilman, which later inspired the Devillman Crybaby anime series. In fact, a complete Go Nagai Wonderland Museum was also dedicated to him in 2009.
Kentaro Miura was extremely vocal about his favoritism toward Go Nagai:
I like Mr. Go Nagai, I believe he’s very famous in the U.S. He has a big influence on me. I love his dynamic style.
Kentaro Miura is known for his signature gritty style in Berserk. It is partly because of his extremely hard-to-attempt art style that fans have still not received a true anime adaptation of Berserk yet. According to Miura, he loves the dynamic art style of Nagai, which perhaps had an impact on Berserk as well.
Both Go Nagai and Kentaro Miura have a shaded drawing style where characters are given a lot of depth through extensive use of shadows. Both prefer to fill their subjects rather than to leave more blank areas.
Of course, due to Go Nagai’s works, he had already made a name for himself in the US. Go Nagai was famous for the franchises that were spun from his original works.
Go Nagai’s Biggest Mistake
Throughout the last few decades, Go Nagai presented us with his creative expertise. His creations have become phenomenal in Japanese literature. Some of his most famous creations are Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z. Each of his works stands apart for its exclusivity.
2018 ONA, Devilman Crybaby is also inspired by Go Nagai’s manga Devilman. The release of the series was a much-anticipated event, but the episodes were not able to satisfy fans. The biggest problem includes the fact that it has some glaring plot holes.
Many fans have also pointed out pacing issues with the anime. It is not entirely faithful to the manga because it is just an inspired series. However, many fans were expecting a truer adaptation, which made people displeased when it turned out that Devilman Crybaby’s story did not resemble the original series.
Other complaints against the adaptation included late pickup of the plot and underdeveloped characters. Apparently, it did not live up to the extreme hype it was preceded by.
You can watch the Berserk and theDevilman Crybaby anime on Crunchyroll .
