BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy‘s second season, BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Requiem of Hell Arc (Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin: Jigoku no Chinkonka-hen) announced two more cast members are joining the show. The new season is set to premeiere this 2023 on Netflix and will feature a returning staff.
Netflix debuted the 13-episode series last June 30, 2022 and the second part featuring 14-24 premiered on September 15, 2022.
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The new cast members include:
Atsushi Tamaru (Ayakashi Triangle‘s Garaku Utagawa) as Sykes Von Snowwhite
Wataru Komada (Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War‘s Asguiora Ebern) as Ross Zaboss Friedrich
The previously announced cast members include:
- Takuma Terashima as Joshua Berahia
- Sho Hayami as Nils John Mifune
- Junichi Suwabe as Yngwei von Mattström
- Koji Yusa as Sol Vanderverg
- Jun Fukuyama as Macalpine Toni Strauss
- Ryūichi Kijima as Schen Karr
- Asami Seto as Shella E. Lee
- Taito Ban as Vai Staebe
- Jun Kasama as Jorg Fishes
- Minoru Hirota as Ba Thory
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In 2023, the brand-new season will make its global Netflix debut. It will feature a returning staff from the previous season. Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- started as a manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It was serialized by Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998 and continued irregularly in Ultra Jump since 2000. The series is Shueish’s all-time best-selling manga series, with over 30 million copies in circulation.
Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- started as a manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It was serialized by Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998 and continued irregularly in Ultra Jump since 2000. The series is Shueish’s all-time best-selling manga series, with over 30 million copies in circulation.
The series is heavily influenced by Hagiwara’s love for heavy metal music and Dungeons & Dragons using both elements in the series evidenced by characters and locations named after his favorite heavy metal bands and the series’ dark-fantasy dystopian theme.
AIC adapted the manga into a six-episode OVA, released from 1992 to 1993 and released in North America by Pioneer (also known as Geneon Entertainment Inc.) in 1998.
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