By: Nicole Castro on: February 10, 2022 at 20:24 PHT (GMT+8)
Netflix has released a promotional video and cast and staff information for the upcoming anime adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara's heavy metal and Dungeons & Dragons-themed dark fantasy manga series, BASTARD!!
The anime will be released on the major streaming platform in two cours (a total of 24 episodes) within 2022.
The series features protagonist Dark Schnedier (CV: Kishō Taniyama) who has lived for over 400 years fighting monsters, evil wizards, and gods of destruction. He is a wizard and former leader of the Riders, resurrected within the body of 14-year-old Lucien Renlen.
The series features an all-star cast of seiyuu:
Cast
Kishō Taniyama (谷山紀章) as Dark Schneider
Tomori Kusunoki (楠木ともり) as Tia Noto Yoko
Kanae Itō (伊藤 かな恵) as Lucien Renlen
Hiroki Yasumoto (安元洋貴) as Gara
Yōko Hikasa (日笠陽子) as Arshes Nei
Tomokazu Sugita (杉田智和) as Abigail
Kensho Ono (小野賢章) as Kall-Su
Nao Tōyama (東山奈央) as Sheila Tuel Meta-llicana
Staff
Original work: Kazushi Hagiwara (Shueisha Jump Comics)
Director: Takaharu Ozaki
Story editor: Yosuke Kuroda
Character design: Sayaka Ono
Creature design: Raita Sunaga
Effect layout: Tatsuo Yamada
Art director: Kazuhiro Inoue (Kusanagi)
Art setting: BARNSTORM DESIGN LABO
Color setting: Aiko Shinohara
Special effects supervisor: Kumiko Taniguchi
Special effects: Ayumi Arahata (Team Taniguchi)
3D CGI: Felix Film
Director of Photography: Junpei Takatsu
Editing: Mai Hasegawa (editz)
Sound director: Yasunori Ebina
Music: Yasuharu Takanashi (Team-MAX)
Produced by: Warner Bros. Japan
Animation production: LIDEN FILMS
Opening theme song: coldrain (Warner Music Japan）
Ending theme song: Tielle (Warner Music Japan）
About
Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (Japanese: BASTARD!! -暗黒の破壊神-) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It began its serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1988, and has continued irregularly in Ultra Jump since 2000, with its latest chapter released in 2010. Twenty-seven collected tankōbon volumes have been released as of 2012. The manga was formerly licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media; only the first nineteen volumes were released.
Source: BASTARD!! official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
