Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Season 2 has received a full-length trailer and a key visual ahead of its July 31st Netflix premiere.
The second season’s returning staff include Takaharu Ozaki (Wave!! Let’s Go Surfing!!) as Director, Yousuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia) as series composer, Sayaka Ono (Cross Ange Rondo of Angel and Dragon) as Character Designer, Raita Sunaga (Hortensia Saga co-monster designer) as Monster Designer, Kusanagi’s Kazuhiro Inoue (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni — Sotsu) as Art Director, Aiko Shinohara (Hortensia Saga) as Color Designer, Junpei Takatsu (Child of Kamiari Month) as Composting Director, Yasuharu Takanashi (Talentless Nana) as Music Composer. LIDENFILMS is the animation production company for season 2 as well.
As for the cast, Kishou Taniyama plays Dark Schneider, Tomori Kusunoki plays Tia Noto Yoko, Hiroki Yasumoto plays Gara, and Youko Hikasa plays Arshes Nei. Takuma Terashima as Joshua Belahia, Sho Hayami as Nils Sean Mifune, Junichi Suwabe as Yngwei Von Malmsteen, Koji Yusa as Zion Sol Vandenverg, Asami Seto as Shella E. Lee, and Taito Ban as Vai Staebe will all appear in Season 2.
Bastard!! is based on Kazushi Hagiwara’s 1988 dark fantasy manga published by Shueisha. The first season of the anime was released in two parts on Netflix in 2022, with the first 13-episode batch premiering on June 30. On September 15, the next 11 episodes were released.
Netflix describes the plot of the new season, which adapts the manga’s “Hell’s Requiem Arc,” as:
Another of the Four Divine Kings, the formidable Kall-Su, reigns as High King. He has raised a large army led by the 12 Sorcerer Shoguns and searches for Princess Sheila, who holds the final key to resurrecting Anthrasax. The survivors of the Kingdom of A-Ian-Maide band together around the samurai and form a resistance, clashing with the Sorcerer Shoguns across the land. Among the samurai corps is someone who survived the great war two years prior: Tia Noto Yoko…
The Bastard!! manga first appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump, but it was last serialized in Ultra Jump before going on hiatus, with 27 tankoubon volumes published as of 2012. It had previously inspired an OVA adaptation from 1992 to 1993.
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