Regarding the Recent Disaster and Kentarou Miura

I've seen a couple of comment in the last post wondering about Kentarou Miura's safety and such. Apparently he's safe and even drew a small message/advice for people affected by the disaster (featuring Puck). Hit the break for more. 

The drawing mentioned 

A few hours ago, this message got posted on the Berserk Project twitter (hinting that everything is fine on their side as well) :

白泉社の作家さんから、被災地の方に向けて応援メッセージイラストをいただきました。三浦建太郎先生からもいただいております。http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/message/index.html

Here is some support messages from Hakusensha's authors aimed at those struck by the disaster. There's one from Kentarou Miura-sensei too. 


Note : Hakusensha being the publishing company responsible of many manga magazine, including Young Animal (Berserk)


I won't bother translating the picture completely, but if you're wondering about the circled kanjis :

溜 : Means "to collect". In face of the disaster, many Japanese went on reserve/ration buying spree, leaving behind shortage in food, water and commodities in shops. considering the current situation, it is not entirely the best attitude to have. 

過 : "To exceed". For obvious reasons (notably the nuclear crisis), people have been asked to reduce power consumption. As of March 18th, blackouts have been planned.

募 : "Donate". I myself have donated a certain amount to the Japanese Red-Cross. Feel free to do so here : http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html (As you can see, Google as worked on a extremely useful website in response of the crisis).

I do not wish to cover more of the disaster as this is not the purpose of this blog, but if you want to stay up to date, I suggest the excellent media coverage by Al Jazeera over here : http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/japan/ 

I also want to profit of the occasion to give my sincere condolences to everyone that has been  directly or indirectly affected by the tragedy.