[1] In 1976, at the age of 10, he created his first manga, entitled Miuranger, which was published for his classmates in a school publication; the series ended up spanning 40 volumes.

[4] At age 18, Miura briefly worked as an assistant to George Morikawa, of Hajime no Ippo fame.

[12] The full serialization of Berserk, which would become Miura's most famous and successful work, began in Hakusensha's Monthly Animal House in 1989.

[14] In 1997, Miura supervised the production of a 25-episode anime adaptation of Berserk produced by OLM, Inc., which aired in the same year on NTV.

By 2023, Berserk was collected into 42 tankōbon volumes in Japan, and by September 2023, it had over 60 million copies in circulation worldwide, including digital versions.

In 2013, Miura released the short standalone manga Giganto Maxia, published in English-speaking territories by Dark Horse in 2016.

[19] Miura stated that the work that had the biggest impact on his own was Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's manga Fist of the North Star (1983 debut).

[13] Various manga artists offered condolences, including Kouji Mori, Miura's high school friend,[24] and George Morikawa, who shared a story of their friendship.

[8] People who worked on the Berserk anime adaptations also paid tribute to Miura, including Susumu Hirasawa, composer for the 1997 series;[8] Nobutoshi Canna and Yūko Miyamura, who voiced Guts and Casca, respectively, in the 1997 series;[25] Hiroaki Iwanaga, Guts' voice actor since the 2012–13 film trilogy;[25] and singer Yoshino Nanjō, who voiced Sonia and performed the ending theme for the 2016 series' second season with Nagi Yanagi.

Besides the inclusion of the posthumous chapter 364 of Berserk, the issue featured a special "Messages to Kentarou Miura" booklet and a poster of "famous scenes" from the manga.

"[40] The credits appear as "original work by Kentaro Miura, art by Studio Gaga, supervised by Kouji Mori".