Life and Death of Berserk’s author Kentaro Miura Part 1 of 4
Kentaro Miura ( 三浦 建太郎 , Miura Kentarō , July 11, 1966 – May 6, 2021) was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for his acclaimed dark fantasy series Berserk . The news of Miura’s death came out on May 20, the first day of the Ignatian Year on May 20, 2021 on that day, 500 years ago, St Ignatius founder of the Jesuit Order was wounded by a cannonball while defending Pamplona. The Jesuit mission to Japan began in 1549, when Francis Xavier (1506–52) first arrived in the country. Despite the language barrier and cultural differences, Christian teachings were received with enthusiasm. Reliable estimates show that more than 760.000 people had been converted throughout Japan by the early seventeenth century. This mission, however, ended in the harsh persecution begun in 1614. From that year on, the Tokugawa shogunate, the Japanese government of the time, banned the Christian religion. As of 2022 there are 200 Je...