though I also like very late Berserk for Miura deciding, as he said in an interview, that he wanted to for Guts to “find a way to live,” reflecting his own shifting attitude

And then there’s very very late Berserk wherein Miura said “it is imperative to the plot that they run into this undead pirate chump three times. Bonebeard will be my magnum opus, I give my life for Bonebeard.”