Berserk’s Latest Volume Offers Cryptic Hints About a More Complex Final Saga
Will we get an Eclipse-type event in the upcoming chapters? Or a reverse Eclipse, judging from the enlightenment route Guts is currently taking.
On August 28, 2025, Berserk Volume 43 was released and this came with a tantalizing transcript from Kouji Mori hinting at an interesting future for the Berserk storyline.
The transcript is as follows:
Despairing Guts
Thank you again, dear readers, for picking up this new issue.
We are trying our best to tell you the story that Miura told us, but I know it is impossible to do so as long as he is not here… so I thought I would add a few words about what he told me and what his intentions were for the chapter *(chapter means current arc) in this postscript.
When Miura spoke of this chapter, he repeatedly said, “Guts is in despair. He has lost everything.” Since ‘that day’… Guts has risked everything in his desperate journey just to strike a blow at Griffith. Guts’ sword cut through the air without being able to fight or even touch him.
Also, his life, in which Guts had risked everything, came crashing down in this moment.
As Guts himself said, the sword is everything to him.
Thus, he could not feel anger, sadness, or even hatred… he was in a state of emptiness.
“This despair is something absolutely necessary for Guts,” Miura said.
In the next volume, we will enter episode(s) which Miura also found troubling.
The chapter is to be difficult, but we at Studio Gaga will give it our all! Thank you very much for your support.
Kouji Mori
Afterword
We also receive a short comic in the afterword dedicated to Kouji Mori and Kentaro Miura’s relationship
This confirms how both authors helped each other with the creation of their respective series, with Mori having a hand even in the early days of Berserk while Miura helped out with Mori’s works, such as Holyland (2000-2008) and Jisatsutō/Suicide Island (2008-2022).
Kouji Mori has worked on Destroy and Revolution (2010-2016) and his ongoing series, Sōsei no Taiga (2017-present) while doing both Jisatsutō and its sequel Muhōtō, so it is likely that this conversation has taken place during the 2010s.
Source: Twitter
Mori & Kentaro – Volume 43 Afterword
TL by: @morganstedmanms pic.twitter.com/0VYR0kYIXw— Kentaro Miura Art ⚔ (@berserkartvault) September 2, 2025
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