Kentaro Miura is a pioneer of the manga industry. His ability to narrate stories that are not just visually stunning but carry the same level of detail in plot and characters is unrivaled. On occasion of his 55th birthday, it's time we take a look back at his journey: A thread

Miura was born on July 11,1966 in the Chiba prefecture of Japan to parents who were both artists. His father did storyboards for commercials and his mother taught art.

At age 7 ,1973 Miura began experimenting with drawing in a notebook and by age 10 while still in primary school, he had already started work on his first ever manga "Miuraranger" which ended up spanning an impressive 40 volumes.

One year later 1997, Miura was working on his next work entitled "Ken e No Michi" or "The Way Of The Sword" - his first work drawn using indian ink. By 1979 and in middle school, he had begun using rasters for his work and had oriented himself to use professional drawing methods.

In 1982, he enrolled in an artistic curriculum in high school, where he met life long friends and fellow mangaka Shizuya Wazarai ("Cestus") and Mori Kouji ("Holyland" and "Suicide island"). Soon after he would publish his first doujin in a fan produced magazine at the age of 16.

1985, Miura applied for and was accepted into an art course at the Niho Daigaku university. Around this time, He started working on "Futanabi" and "Noa" which may have been the work he showed to gain entry to the university. Both the works were submitted to the shonen- (1/2)

- magazine towards the end of that year. Miura was awarded with the "best new author" for Futanabi and Nora was published in the magazine later that year. However they were short lived due to Miura's dispute with one of the editors and no further work was published. (2/2)

1988, This year marked the first appearance of "Berserk". The 48 page manga, we now know today as the "Berserk prototype". His work won a ComiComi Manga school prize. Things were starting to look up from here on (Age 22)

1989, Having finished his course and recieving a doctorate he worked on "Ohroh" or "The wolf king" which is based on a manuscript from Yoshiyuki Okamura, creator of "Hoku to no ken". "Ohroh" is published in the monthly Animal house magazine, in issue no.5 and 7 of that year.

1989- The first installment of "Berserk", Black swordsman was also published in Animal House Magazine later that year in October. (Age 24)

1990- From the 2nd and 6th issues of Animal House, a follow up to "Ohroh" is published titled "Ohrohden" or "The legend of the wolf king", it too being based on a script by Okamura. The work goes on to receive a stand alone volume the same year.

1990-The first volume of Berserk was also released this year, though it enjoyed limited success. It wasn't until a whole year later in 1991 with the release of the story arc entitled "The Golden age" did Berserk find a degree of popularity and success.

1992- Miura and Okamura worked together yet again on a title called "Japan" appearing in issue no.1 through 8 with stand alone volumes following at the end of the year.

1992- The same year Berserk stops getting released only in volumes and is taken by the Japanese Magazine Young Animal where it has enjoyed serialization ever since. This year is also important as Miura decides to solely focus on Berserk from now on (Age 26).

1997- This year saw the release of various art books and supplements by Miura as well as him overseeing the production of a 25 episode animated series based on his work "Berserk" to be aired on Nippon TV in Japan. The show would go on to run from October 1997 -March 1998 (Age31).

1998- A Berserk calendar featuring original illustrations and a 25 page postcard book "WAR CRY" were released this year (Age 32)

1999- Miura served as Executive supervisor for the Sega Dreamcast game, "Berserk chapter of the Oblivion flowers" later rebranded as "Sword of the Berserk: Gut's rage" for Western areas. He wrote the script, created original characters and contributed character designs (Age 33).

2002- Miura was awarded at the 6th Annual Tezuka cultural prize. He received the award for Excellence for his work on Berserk. Pictures of him alongside Inoue sensei, Vagabond (Age 36).

2003- Miura contributed original illustrations for a Berserk trading card game released by Konami. The original set of cards was released on Nov 27, followed by four expansion sets. The last one came out in March 17,2005. Around 450 cards were created in total (Age 37).

2004- Miura collaborated with Sammy on "Berserk: Millenium Falcon, Record of the Holy Evil War", a game for the PS2. The game's development was subcontracted to many companies adapting select events from volume 22-27 along with a new scenario he wrote for the game (Age 38).

2008- Miura worked with the Japanese Musician Gackt, a Berserk fan to create an character version of him for the Gackpoid vocal music synthesizer (Age 42).

2009- Young animal celebrates Berserk's 20th anniversary with an array of Gits in the magazine, including a huge poster illustrated by Miura, an alternate cover of volume 34 and the Berserk character guidebook (Age 43).

2012- Miura contributed original artwork for the disc releases of "Berserk Golden age" , A movie trilogy adaptation of the Golden age arc, produced by studio 4°C. (Age 46)

2013- Published the 7 part sci fi miniseries "Gigantomakhia" which ran from November 2013- February 2014. Miura said it was his way of contributing to Young Animal's 20th anniversary. (Age 47)

2016- Released the Berserk official guidebook which contains lengthy interviews along with new images of his workstation. (Age 50)

2016- Miura served as executive supervisor for a 24 episode animated adaptation of Berserk produced by studio GEMBA and Millepensee, which roughly retells the story from volumes 14-28. He even drew original illustrations for the blu ray releases

2017- Miura drew 10 original illustrations for the first Berserk light novel "Flame Dragon Knight" written by Fukami Makoto. (Age 51)

2019- Miura's team, Studio Gaga launched "Duranki" with him writing the plot and providing key art.( Age 53)

If you've read this far, This is not the end. I'm gonna keep updating this list as we move forward every year. There's a chart in SK net that's exactly all this but I wanted to have it on a thread. Also emit my grammatical mistakes cause you can't just copy paste everything