Berserk Was Based On Author's Real Life! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Did you know that Berserk wasn't
2. 0:02entirely fictional, but rather some
3. 0:04parts were inspired by the life of its
4. 0:05creator, Kentaro Miura? Shockingly,
5. 0:08even the Guts and Griffith angle. Today
6. 0:10is Day 99 of 100 Days, 100 Anime Facts,
7. 0:12and I’m talking about
8. 0:13Kentaro-sensei’s school days.
9. 0:15Kentaro-sensei mentioned in several
10. 0:17interviews that he incorporated the
11. 0:18Band of the Hawk element from his own
12. 0:19life into his series. When he was in
13. 0:22high school and college, he had such a
14. 0:23tight-knit group that he created the
15. 0:25Band of the Hawk by observing their
16. 0:26group dynamics. And he also shared that
17. 0:29the complex relationship between Guts
18. 0:31and Griffith is actually based on
19. 0:33himself and his lifelong friend and
20. 0:35rival, manga artist Kouji Mori, who
21. 0:37wrote Holyland and Suicide Island. But
22. 0:39not in the way that it is shown to us
23. 0:41in the manga. He said that when they
24. 0:42were young, Kentaro-sensei felt a sense
25. 0:45of inadequacy whenever he looked at
26. 0:47Mori. Because Mori-sensei had so much
27. 0:48natural charisma and early talent.
28. 0:50Exactly like Guts 'initial feelings
29. 0:52toward Griffith. And let me tell you
30. 0:54something. After Kentaro-sensei’s
31. 0:56death, it is Mori-sensei who is now
32. 0:57supervising the Berserk manga. To make
33. 0:59sure that his lifelong friend's work
34. 1:01isn't just forgotten. And to do that,
35. 1:03he even left the manga he was working
36. 1:06on himself. But did you know that a
37. 1:08manga artist who wrote a manga as big
38. 1:10as Naruto and Bleach in his time died a
39. 1:12hero while trying to save a kid?
40. 1:14Let’s meet again on this page
41. 1:16tomorrow for the final fact of this
42. 1:17series. So follow me for that.