The Bastard!! manga by Kazushi Hagiwara landed back in 1988 in Weekly Shonen Jump and has twenty-seven volumes out for it, with Viz Media having released twenty volumes before giving up on it. The property was always a problematic one because of its use of actual band names in it and it had a six-episode OVA series in the early 90s that Pioneer released years ago.
Warner Bros. Japan announced previously that it’s getting a new anime adaptation on the service where it’ll be a two-cour series coming in at twenty-four episodes total. The first 13 episodes that will make up part one arrived today on June 30th, 2022 with the remaining 11 episodes coming later this year. As it’s now available, Netflix has now streamed the a new hourlong cast event from Japan with English subtitles.
Join five cast members of the series as they talk through their love of the series, share some favorite sexy scenes and reveal top-secret info about upcoming episodes. Watch out for the NSFW bits!
The series has Takaharu Ozaki of Goblin Slayer directing it based on the series composition by Yousuke Kuroda. Sayaka Ono is handling the character designs with LIDEN FILMS handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Kishō Taniyama as Dark Schneider
- Tomori Kusunoki as Tia Noto Yoko
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Gara
- Yōko Hikasa as Arshes Nei
- Kanae Itō as Lucien Renlen
- Tomokazu Sugita as Abigail
- Kensho Ono as Kall-Su
- Nao Tōyama as Sheila Tuel Meta-Ilicana
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Lars
- Ari Ozawa as Sean Ari
- Shizuka Itou as Kai Harn
- Takehito Koyasu as Di-amon
coldrain is handling the opening theme song while Tielle is handling the ending theme song.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: Modern civilization and the world was destroyed by the God of Destruction, Anthrasax, in 7 days, and then is sealed. Hundreds of years later, the sorcerer Dark Schneider leads a group in an attempt to control the world. Dark Schneider, in the end, is sealed in the body of a young baby, Rushe Ren Ren. 15 years later, his group, minus Scheider, attempts the same mission by unsealing Anthrasax so they can redo the world. To save the Kingdom of Metallicana, a girl named Yoko releases Dark Schneider from her friend Rushe. Now, Dark Schneider fights his former comrades, but not for good; he fights to protect Yoko, and to have some destructive fun.
