He really should write a novel for the hxh it would be less work and more in character what he doing in the throne war.
There's several reasons. The job first and foremost is killer. Combined with Japan's workplace culture, these artists can work themselves to death. For example, One Piece's artist is forced by his publisher to take a week off on a regular basis otherwise he'll work himself into the hospital. Unfortunately, not all artists are seen as valuable and don't have the same kind of policy in place for them.
Or there could be a far more mundane explanation like his family has a history of heart disease. I know a guy who's dad and grandfather were both dead at 40 from heart defects and he'll probably die young too.
Either that or he whacked it to too many Chihaya doujins
The poster I'm responding to didn't ask why Miura specifically died. At the moment we have no idea what led to the aortic rupture. They asked why do mangaka seem to have an abnormally high death rate compared to other creative professions.
It's always been that way. There's a story about how Shigeru Mizuki met up with Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori and talked about how much sleep they were getting. The latter two regularly pulled all-nighters, while Mizuki got eight hours of sleep no matter what.
What's even more horrifying about this is that this is considered an "easy" schedule with all the sleep hours reserved. Normal/non-famous Mangaka are lucky to get 4 hours a day. (Usually with 2 all nighters a week.) It's even worse if you're a no name, very low pay and you usually have to part time for shit wages as an assistant to another mangaka. (Miura was one of the very few ones who actually paid his assistants as full time workers. Many were actually able to buy homes and get married under him.)
Stuff like this is one of the reasons why a lot of passionate artists/authors ending up burning up and dying young. Mix of them putting their work above their own wellbeing and companies exploiting that passion to make them meet ungodly deadlines. I remember Bakuman had an entire mini-arc of one of the main characters almost killing himself due to overwork and instead of treating it as a bad thing the authors almost praise that level of dedication (not even touching on how the series also actively praises the uncle for actually dying of overwork in pursuit of his work). There's a real lack of work/life balance in the artist world, not just in Japan.
Another thing is that Japan has an obsession with effort, pain & suffering. This is not a joke. Yes, of course effort is important but in Japan it's a special kind of horror.
Look at this & tell me, the guy ever really lived life peacefully:
Not just Berserk, but his other manga Duranki too. It doesn't even have 10 chapters.
It's depressing that this is the life some lead (if you can even call it a life) and I don't think it's going to be addressed in a major way anytime soon.
One thing that might be a good sign is that there seems to be a trend towards shorter manga with a clear end goal that are expected to finish in 5-10 years. Chainsawman’s only 90 chapters, and while the creator was going to start “Part 2” last December, it obviously hasn’t come yet, presumably because he wants to take some well-deserved time off before getting back into the grind. With shorter stories, if you hit it big you can at least live off the sales and take it easy for a while instead of being obligated to keep grinding toward the finish line.
