Berserk is a complete masterpiece and the best manga I’ve read. It has its flaws and up and downs, but when it reaches its heights no other manga is even close. As decades will pass only a 5% (being generous) of mangas and authors will be remembered. Of those Miura and his creation Berserk will stand the test of time and will be the example of the heights that manga could achieve, a work that will remain forever.

The creation of the world, how everything interlaces, the richness of each character, the drawings, the battles and then and most specially those quiet, calm and reflexive moments that make Berserk something else.

As an example how crazy is the power of Griffith's mentality and determination.
To have someone as strong as Gatsu following him blindly, first because he defeated him in the duel that decided so, but after that because of Gatsu admiring and realizing that Griffith was superior to him as a whole and his leader is impressive.

While Gatsu is strong in the physical, survival and estoic field, Griffith is in all, he has a conqueror mentality as Mike Tyson talked some times about that concept, to be so extremely driven by ambition that you think the world is gonna be yours and nothing could change that destiny, you feel you are the center of the world so what you decide will become. One can't be around people like him thinking you are his friend, because all their life they were fitting pieces to that final objective they had, and if you are one of his pieces even if you are his friend that piece will be deleted when it stands in front of his path.

Griffith is not a struggler, he is an achiever. The only time he struggled he reverted that situation to his definitive step, becoming a god.

One of the best character ever created. One of the greatest virtues of Berserk is to have an antagonist as good as him, something is as good as the bad guy is; and that's what creates in the main character a need to grow, to oppose him and to become someone with a really rich background and personality.

The people who were reading Berserk up to date in a really slow pace may had lost focus and thought this had a lot of pace issues that are not really that clear if one reads this without stops, as I did rereading it after Miura’s death. It sure has some mini arcs as the pirates and the Sea God who were a bit boring but they didn’t felt as long as if one stays for years in the same situation. Also, this didn’t ended in the time for Guts revenge towards Griffith. Right now Guts is no match at all for Griffith, if so he could try with Zodd and other apostoles under him in the new band of the hawk.
A lot of things need to happen for Guts to be even able to touch him at this time. When the Skull Knight couldn’t and is already miles ahead of Guts in experience and power, saving him a lot of times and guiding him through a path that he already walked due to his history.

Also, after Casca regained her memories comes the time when Guts wanders if the way to go is to kill Griffith or to stay with her now that she could be better. The Skull Knight talked about that in the last chapters, about the void he faced for a thousand years, because of a vengeance he seeked after he had lost everything, Guts is not in that situation and following that vengeance could end feeling meaningless and making him lose all that he has now and his soul on the process. It all depends in what is the next objective of Griffith and how that could affect Guts and the world.

I’m not saying what will happen but that if Miura was here things would not be as clear, and also that the end of Berserk is far from being near, there is a lot of things to explain and resolve in ways that couldn’t be a shounen fast powerup by god’s will.
I really doubt this could have ended in a satisfactory way in at least less than 10 more volumes. Where the fantasia arc is headed, the new reality of Guts, Casca, and the group, the wizards of Elfheim, the wedding of Griffith, Falconia, The God Hand, their stories. I’m sure this is not still at the conclusion and many things need to develop.

And here comes the problem, sadly Miura is not here anymore. One could think the best way is to stop Berserk and end it at the point it is now. It looks like the respectful way to him, to respect his legacy, his work and don’t continue his creation without him. But at the same time Berserk was the work of his life, this can’t compare to someone who was in the middle of making a movie or a book, Miura wasn’t for one or five years immersed in this project but his whole life. Also making really detailed double page pannels so one could understand the time he took for that. He was increasing his workload and level of detail with the passing of years instead of decreasing it as it usually happens.

Berserk was his life project, at a level that we could imagine but can’t really understand the importance it had. I think someone in that situation couldn’t rest thinking all that effort he put didn’t had a proper ending and developing of everything that he created.

The issue is to know if he left a document, or talked with his assistants or a friend about the direction this was heading, if that didn’t happen then the way to go is to left Berserk as it is, since this was Miura’s creation and nobody can’t be entitle to create a continuation in another way. If it was the contrary and someone of his team knew more or less where this was headed then I think the deepest show of respect is to continue it, even if it doesn’t have that extremely high level due to Miura’s touch, and those details that can’t be teached to others or told about that at the end make a difference. But it’s a huge responsibility that one may not want to face and it’s understandable. Let’s see what time decides.

Rest in peace Miura, thank you for sharing your dream, you are a true and real legend.