Facetious headline aside, we reported in October 2020 about a “Berserk Exhibit Crowdfunding to Install Giant Zodd Statue” Unfortunately much like the manga all plans for the Berserk exhibit must go on a extended Hiatus.
On January 13th 2021, the official twitter account and website for the "Dai Berserk Ten" exhibition announced, that due to new Coronavirus lockdown restrictions the event had to be delayed to February 15th from it’s original event date of January 30th, 2021.
The event was billed to be the first Berserk manga centered exhibition. With plans to create a giant statue of Zodd the Immortal, they launched a crowd-funding campaign with the goal of $10 million yen (about US$96,350) which they completely demolished going over the goal by a whopping 3million yen for a grand total of $13,542,000 yen (about US$130,480)
On January 8th 2021 the government of Japan announced a state of emergency for Tokyo due to growing coronavirus concerns. Barring any new developments the state of emergency is slated to end on February 7th 2021
Sources: Dai Berserk Ten exhibition's website and Twitter account
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