Kentaro Miura Once Explained Why Berserk Had So Much Detail: “I want readers to feel even the layers of air”

Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is renowned for its extraordinarily detailed artwork, from Guts’ armor and weapons to the monsters and environments filling each panel. In a 2019 interview, however, Miura described his obsession with that level of detail in surprisingly blunt terms. “The level of detail I put into my drawings is an illness,” Miura said. “There’s no other way to describe it.” The comments were made during a 2019 interview with the Japanese publication Comic Natalie, later highlighted by Popverse.…