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Artwork of Berserk interview - Page 6 part 1

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Interviewer: In this era that's saturated with manga, the most importance is likely to be put on being easy to read and to get into, above everything else.

Miura: As for me, I've always thought that "manga should be more awesome than easy to read!". I became an adult still thinking that being difficult to read can also be part of a work's charm. *laughs* However, I don’t know how my values may change in the future. I myself am not interested at all in so-called trends and it might simply change depending on what I like or not.

Interviewer: Has there been a change in the "things you like" in the past 30 years?

Miura: There are some things I've become fond of that didn’t exist in the past and have been recently created. Namely light novels. But I still like the works that I have liked since long ago. As I've gained life experience, I got to learn the feelings of characters and to understand the meaning of movies which I couldn't grasp in the past. And yet, it seems the parts that make up my bones surprisingly haven't changed.

The reason I like today’s light novels might be because I find elements in them that I liked in the works of Takahashi Rumiko and the like. Of course, SF or fantasy novels already existed in the 1980s. Since that dawning, they've lost more and more of their hardness to become soft. In the end, fantasy stories became familiar, they were transformed into manga about school children or about reincarnation. I'd say that serious fantasy stories aren't in high demand. So maybe today's readers are under a lot of stress.