#he also intended to do a skull knight timeline flashback

[alovelyburn]

I think the main takeaways I have from the math run on Berserk's volumes, though, is that we've lost 25 volumes of high quality Guts/Griffith relationship focus and there is, to be honest, no way Miura was ever going to finish Berserk.

I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just saying at the rate he was going there was no way he'd get through 25 volumes in his lifetime, especially since it was slowing down rather than speeding up or even remaining the same.

Also, in an interview... I think it was the one in the back of the guidebook... he said that the whole high fantasy arc with the nakama club/rpg party and such was... a thing he wanted to try doing though it was atypical for the kind of series Berserk is. I get the impression that he basically just wanted to try something new for a while and it took longer than anticipated just because he took a long time to do anything.

But like... aside from the obvious tragedy of anyone dying at such a young age, I'll never get over the fact that he passed right when we were getting back to what I originally loved about the series: dark fantasy, cosmology and Griffith & Guts mess.