Kazuhi Hagiwara’s BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- official anime website revealed new cast members for the second season of the anime entitled Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Requiem of Hell Arc (Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin: Jigoku no Chinkonka-hen).
The new cast members are:
Asami Seto as Shella E. Lee
Taito Ban as Vai Staebe
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
READ MORE: Live-Action Luffy Actor Reveals His Top One Piece Character
In 2023, the brand-new season will make its global Netflix debut. It will feature a returning staff from the previous season. The first season of the anime consisted of the first 13 episodes, launched on Netflix worldwide on June 30. On September 15, Netflix released the second installment, which included episodes 14-24.
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.
READ MORE: How Did Dimple Survive in Mob Psycho 100?
