New 'Bastard!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin' Anime Reveals Additional Cast, Staff, Teaser Promo

by DatRandomDude
Feb 10, 2022 6:00 AM | 14 Comments

The special program for the Bastard!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin (Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy) anime series revealed additional cast, staff, theme song artists, and a teaser promotional video on Thursday. The new anime adapting Kazushi Hagiwara's action fantasy manga will stream in 24 episodes worldwide on Netflix in 2022.

Cast
Rushe Renren: Kanae Itou (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun)
Abigail: Tomokazu Sugita (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu)
Kall-Su: Kensho Ono (JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken Part 5: Ougon no Kaze)
Sheila Metallicana: Nao Touyama (Granblue Fantasy The Animation)

Staff
Creature Design: Raita Sunaga (Kokkoku)
Effects Design: Tatsuo Yamada (Natsume Yuujinchou creature design)
Art Director: Kazuhiro Inoue (Kusanagi) (Hanebado!)
Art Design: Barnstorm Design Labo (Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou)
Color Design: Aiko Shinohara (Mugen no Juunin: Immortal)
Special Effects Supervision: Kumiko Taniguchi (Kami no Tou)
Special Effects: Ayumi Arahata (Team Taniguchi) (Sabikui Bisco)
3DCGI: Felix Film
Director of Photography: Junpei Takatsu (Hataraku Saibou Black (TV))
Editing: Mai Hasegawa (editz) (Killing Bites)

Rock band Coldrain (Enen no Shouboutai) is performing the opening theme, while singer Tielle (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096) will perform the ending theme.

Takaharu Ozaki (Goblin Slayer) is helming the anime at LIDENFILMS. Yousuke Kuroda (Hellsing Ultimate) is handling the series composition and Sayaka Ono (Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo) is designing the characters. Yasuharu Takanashi (Jigoku Shoujo) is composing the music.

Hagiwara originally published a one-shot in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1987 and began regular serialization the following year. The manga then ran in Weekly Shounen Jump's special quarterly edition between 1990 and 1996 and returned to the original magazine from 1997 to 2000. Ultra Jump began serializing the manga in 2001 and published the latest chapter in 2010 before the manga entered hiatus. Shueisha released the 27th volume in March 2012.

Teaser PV

Source: Press Release

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Finally some Dark Schneider greatness

Feb 11, 2022 5:47 PM by SmokeyOneKenobi

Manga is on hiatus like HxH. Mediocre overall but the character design makes up for it.

Notice that later story becomes crazy and reaches hellish proportions

Feb 11, 2022 11:41 AM by removed-user

I have to say that is pretty rich when the trailer says... "The long-awaited anime". Seriously, people have been waiting for this Anime just as much as they were awaiting for the "Battle Athletess Daiundoukai " remake.

"The long-awaited anime"... Who the hell been waiting for this Anime anyways?

Unless you grew up watching obscure Anime in the early 90's, barely anyone knew about this Anime to begin with until just about a week ago when they announced it was getting a new series.

Feb 10, 2022 5:33 PM by ColourWheel

The first adaptation was 90s eyecandy: good aesthetic but everythign else was uninteresting. cant tell if its a matter of direction or the source material is already that bad, but Im giving this adaptation a chance.

Feb 10, 2022 2:43 PM by MichaelJackson

Not surprising that Netflix and Liden Films go hand-in-hand, especially that the studio was one of the backers when Netflix first gave a shot on licensing anime that wasn't so hot back then.

If anything, expect Blade of the Immortal-like animation, especially for a 2-cour series that came out a wedge earlier than Kentaro Miura's Berserk of classic greatness.

Maybe it's time to whiplash the classics out for a modern reboot.

Feb 10, 2022 10:30 AM by KANLen09

As a dark fantasy it gives me Berserk vibes and the characters even looked similar to Guts/Griffith. Another similarity I found is that both manga ended after a very long time from their initial release (lol). Anyways it looks like something I can look forward to.

Feb 10, 2022 10:09 AM by Full_anime_Fan

looks pretty good, although they could prove me wrong

Feb 10, 2022 9:22 AM by spectrojan

Gives Redo of Healer vibe

Feb 10, 2022 7:13 AM by ZXEAN

Man, Lidenfilms chara designs looks so bland

Feb 10, 2022 6:49 AM by Ronninn

A few bad eggs amongst the extended staff, but that PV was sick as hell. Gets to the point quickly and strongly, which really fits with the tone of the original work, and thankfully shows that it may have dodged Netflix's ruinous grasp. Exceedingly hyped for this one.

Feb 10, 2022 6:27 AM by O_T_T

Netflix, LIDENFILMS........ okay.

Though that voice cast.

Feb 10, 2022 6:22 AM by Softhenic03

This looks so good, LIDENFILMS is one if my favorite studios they are hated for no reason everything they made is amazing and looks great 😫

Feb 10, 2022 6:22 AM by Sphealz

This doesn't look bad visual wise at all....I'm just praying that they don't censor this to thy kingdom come like they did with Terra Formars

Feb 10, 2022 6:21 AM by Tokoya

This looks pretty cool though LIDENFILMS still concerns me..

Feb 10, 2022 6:08 AM by CQLLIST