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Duranki is the last work written by master Kentaro Miura.
The work has beautiful art, an intriguing premise and well-made characters.
The plot takes place in a fictional world where a baby was born with both sexes, and she was sent by the gods to be looked after by an elderly couple in a region where no one can enter because it is considered that whoever enters there will be cursed.

The story will revolve around Usul getting to know this new world that people live in, and showing their colleagues their inventions. The big problem is that I can't say more than that because the ... author passed away, and there were only 6 chapters that didn't even cover an entire volume of history.
I recommend reading it for anyone who is a fan of Miura, because if not, you will have an incomplete story with a lot of potential.

ART 10
STORY 10
MIURA 10
CONTINUED 0 ;-;

FINAL GRADE 7 (As it will never be completed)

Língua Portuguesa:

Duranki é a última obra escrita pelo mestre Kentaro Miura.
A obra tem uma bela arte, uma premissa intrigante e personagens bem feitos.
A trama se passa em um mundo fictício onde nasceu um bebê de ambos os sexos, e ela foi enviada pelos deuses para ser cuidada por um casal de idosos em uma região onde ninguém pode entrar porque se considera que quem lá entrar será amaldiçoado.

A história girará em torno de Usul conhecendo esse novo mundo em que as pessoas vivem e mostrando aos colegas suas invenções. O grande problema é que não posso dizer mais do que isso porque o autor faleceu, e foram apenas 6 capítulos que não cobriram nem um volume inteiro de história.
Recomendo a leitura para quem é fã de Miura, pois senão terá uma história incompleta e com muito potencial.

ARTE 10
HISTÓRIA 10
MIURA 10
CONTINUAÇÃO 0 ;-;

NOTA FINAL 7 (pois nunca será concluído)

[Spoiler free]
I'll start by saying that i have no idea how i missed the title, i only found it a few days ago randomly.
Saying that berserk is being published at a slow rate would be an understatement , its ridiculous at this point so I’ve never expected Miura to be working on something else simultaneously…. But hey even if its not berserk at least we are getting something. (Note: I’ll be using berserk a lot as a reference)


Art: I’ll start with this one , the art is amazing , perfect , very detailed I expected nothing less from the man behind berserk , ... the art of both titles is very similar and I am a big fan of this style I have nothing to complain about , the only noticeable difference is that Berserk had a dark theme , but Duranki seems to be light hearted and you can tell the world is colourful , similar to Elfhelm in berserk.


Story/World: here as well we are introduced to this fantasy world that’s similar to berserk where you can find different races , species , spirits and most likely magic since we haven’t seen it yet. One thing added to the mix was the introduction of Gods , River Gods , Forest Gods , and so on … the first two presented to us are both Gods of wisdom and they were responsible of giving birth or as they said creating a child who’s “ not divine , nor human , not man , not woman ….” And was given the name “Usumgallu”. The child was given to another God with an appearance similar to Hermes from the Greek myth and was tasked with taking the child to the real/physical world or whatever you call it.
Finally the Child was found by an old couple living near the mountain and they took him and raised him as their own for several years , the story jumps years ahead and the child is already a young kid and the story goes from there.
The child is clearly not normal , not in a bad way , and also not the sex part , but it was how cleaver and talented he was and talented ,as shown when he made several tools , weapons and even structures , ones never seen in his world.
Another thing about him is his appearance, if you have read berserk remember how people looked at Griffith in the latest chapters of the story (as of this review), it the same exact thing and after encounter people become more and more found of him.


Characters : it’s too early to discuss the characters in the story , there isn’t much development the few information we got was from chapter 5 where it talked abit more about the side characters but nothing too noticeable to talk about , any reader will get the same idea when they get that far.
Everything special about the MC iv already talked about at the end of the Story/World part, thought it would be better if I mentioned it there.
Enjoyment: Hm I don’t what to say here , if I didn’t enjoy this title I wouldn’t be writing all this , but apart from that I did enjoy Duranki so far , again the story is still young and there’s a lot of potential here, I wouldn’t call myself a Miura fanboy but I really like his work , I only read berserk after all and if theres anything close to it I’m sure ill enjoy it and I’m sure berserk fans would agree here.


Overall: Duranki seems to be a very promising title , it’s too soon to talk in details about or to even criticize it , I’m not even sure if this is a real project I thought this is just a way for Miura to try and forget that he has a more important title to finish , and I don’t wanna get my hopes up looking at the Berserk release schedule…. But hey im just here for the ride.

Finally , ill just end by saying that if you liked berserk and are a fan of Miura’s works in general you should give this a shot , as of this review ( and probably for the next 10 years) I don’t think theres going be that many updates , so theres no harm trying for yourself.

Duranki – Spoiler Free – Mixed Feelings

TLDR
Story – 4/10 – 4 x 0.275 = 1,1
Art – 9/10 – 9 x 0.2 = 1,8
Characters – 4/10 – 4 x 0.225 = 0,9
Enjoyment – 5/10 – 5 x 0.3 = 1,5
Total: 5,3 -> 5

Story – 4/10
It is art to judge a story that is so clearly unfinished and only has a single volume. Duranki is about the birth and part of the infancy of Usumgallu – a new myth born out of the Serpent gods of Wisdom. It seems to be clearly inspired by ancient Mesopotamian mythology, as Usumgallu is an entity – and also related to ... horned snakes – in the Akkadian mythos.
Unfortunately, the story is highly unfinished, as Miura died before advancing on Duranki beyond the first volume. The story ends in a not-concluded fight scene, which once again only comes to show that it ought to have more development.
From what we have, the story is not brilliant, but it is rather dull and futile to judge a clearly larger project by its first volume alone. It will never make sense with the rest of the story, as the story isn’t like Giganto Makhia, which has a conclusion of its own.

Art – 9/10
Miura’s art is incredible, there is no doubt about it. Characters – or what would have been the characters – are design-rich and are easy to tell apart from each other. The work that Maura made on Usumgallu is nothing short of amazing: for an androgynous character, Usumgallu surely looks really androgynous. The scenarios and backgrounds are impeccable and it is filled with detail. However, it does not deserve a 10 (as a normal late-stage Miura usually would do): page composition is mismanaged, for it is stuffed with panels with little emphasis and ridden with dialogue with small fonts; there is also a proliferation of little panels and definitely not what we are used to in Berserk.
Usumgallu’s birth is an Miura-like panel: awe-inspiring and definitely sets a tone to what could have been a great manga. But it is hard to comment on the art of a one-volume long unfinished manga.

Characters – 4/10
Characters are barely presented, as—once again—this was supposed to be a larger manga that wasn’t concluded. As it happens in the story, it is really sterile to discuss the characters in their present form, for they would make no sense without context and further development.

Enjoyment – 5/10
One would gladly recommend Duranki to any die-hard fan of Kentauro Miura – as is my case. However, and for the sake of honesty, it must be said that this work pales in comparison with his other works – even Giganto Makhia, which is also one volume long. It is simply an unfinished work that only serves as the beginning (and not so great at it) of a more epic story. There is no doubt that it could have been great, but we simply don’t have any more material to work on. For all these reasons, it is more deserving of a mixed feelings stamp than a recommendation: it serves to satisfy the hunger for Miura’s work and the curiosity of all those who follow him, but not much else in its current state.
To what could have been: rest in Peace, Master Miura.