>>5888076It's not manga, it's comics. Comicmaking is an insane amount of work. The only way to achieve a quick and regular enough schedule to keep an audience's intention means finding hours somehow, either by sacrificing that time in your own life or hiring people to effectively buy manhours. Both sides of the pond do this, japan's just more focused on the auteur-focused side of it where the author shoulders most if not all of the decision making and oversees all aspects of the production, and handling most of it himself while being bound to a serialization schedule.
Miura's close friend and fellow mangaka, Kouji Mori, made a biographical manga explaining his grief over Miura's death, and he mentions that Miura had been taking it relatively easy on Berserk and living much more heathily in the years leading up to his death, plus he was training assistants so that as a team they could pump out chapters of Berserk more consistently. The reason for Berserk's glacial release schedule is at least in part a direct result of leading a healthier lifestyle, so it's incredibly fucking rich for people who bitched and moaned about how Miura was lazy and busy jerking off to im@s or whatever instead of drawing Berserk to then turn around and cry about how horrible the manga industry is to do that to a man. Can't have it both ways, you gotta pick two of three things in comics: the author's health, a decent release schedule or quality.
And it is pretty soul-crushing, but if you're doing it professionally then it's only because you really, really want to.
