Thread by @nah_im_abdulla, this amazing panel from Berserk popped up in my facebook memories a [...]

this amazing panel from Berserk popped up in my facebook memories a few days ago and a few friends who never read the series hit me up to ask about it. so i decided to do a thread on the influences on Kentaro Miura as he wrote and drew his masterpiece of a manga.

Paul Verhoeven's 1985 Flesh And Blood was a major influence on Berserk, and the character of Guts was modeled after Rutger Hauer.

Femto was directly influenced by Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise

Go Nagai (creator of Devilman, Mazinger Z, Violence Jack) has been cited by Miura as the biggest overall influence on Berserk

there is a lot of Giger influence in Berserk but the clearest example is Conrad who is based off his painting Landscape VII (all the members of the God Hand are to some extent influenced by Giger)

Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind is a direct influence on this sequence

The God Hand's staircase is a homage to MC Escher

Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of hell also show up repeatedly in Berserk

references to Gustav Dore show up multiple times in Berserk

the scandinavian landscapes of Tove Jansson have showed up in later volumes as well

almost forgot but Miura's former collaborator Buronson's Hokuto No Ken (AKA Fist Of The North Star, of 'omae wa mo shinderu' fame) is another huge influence on the character of Guts.