Artwork of Berserk interview - Page 5 part 2

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Interviewer: These kinds of external stimuli have influenced your manuscripts?

Miura: Definitely not anything from light novels, but I think I have (received) influences from works I’ve read or watched a long time ago. I think it’s from a mix of different works rather than one specific work. The reason I like light novels and can enjoy current contents might be that they have something in common with what I liked in the past. Otherwise, thinking the other way around, Berserk might also have been something that today's young people could never follow.

Interviewer: Among the episodes (1) of Berserk so far, which ones stand out the most in your memory?

Miura: Absolutely the days of the Band of the Falcon, the process where the current main characters got together was enjoyable, the "RPG quest"-like journey that followed was also enjoyable… everything was enjoyable.

To answer from a different perspective, it's "the Lost Children chapter". This story is also a series (2) to remind readers of the archetype of Guts when he comes back to the Black Swordsman after (the story of) the Band of the Falcon has ended. The structure is "the Black Swordsman comes from somewhere (unknown) to kill evil beings". And the quintessence of the Lost Children chapter is a golden pattern that Guts is humanlike at first but he ends up looking like a monster when he cuts down a monster, and on the contrary the monster looks human. I could draw it while being aware of this, which left an impression on me that. That episode (1) hasn't been animated yet. Unsurprisingly, it’s ethically difficult (to realize it)… *laughs*



Note 1: "Episode" is written in Katakana (エピソード) and its meaning is unrelated to the term “episode” as a way of denominating issues of the Berserk manga (e.g. 第360話). In this usage, it refers to specific segments within the story that can be large or small.

Note 2: He uses the English word "series" in Katakana, but he refers to that specific segment of the story, not the entire series in general.