A couple more new cast members have been announced for the BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- anime’s second season. Asami Seto is playing Sorcerer Shogun Shella E. Lee while Taito Ban is playing the samurai Vai Staebe.
BASTARD!!‘s second season, subtitled Jikoku no Chinkonka-hen (Hell’s Requiem Arc), was announced last month with Takuma Terashima, Sho Hayami, Junichi Suwabe, and Koji Yusa among the initially revealed additional cast members. They are playing Joshua Belahia, Nils Sean Mifune, Yngwei Von Malmsteen, and Zion Sol Vandenverg, respectively.
The first season of BASTARD!! was released on Netflix in 2022 in two batches. The first 13 episodes premiered on Netflix on June 30 while the 11-episode second cour was released on September 15. The anime is based on the Shueisha-published dark fantasy manga by Kazushi Hagiwara, which began in 1988.
Viz Media describes the manga as:
In a post apocalyptic world of heavy metal fantasy, the only thing able to save humans from orcs, lizard men, and other monsters is something even MORE evil. Sealed within a 14-year-old boy, the chaotic wizard Dark Schneider is unleashed to fight four mighty generals and their plot to resurrect the evil god Anslasax.
Like the first season, Season 2’s staff includes Takaharu Ozaki (Wave!! Let’s Go Surfing!!) with 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 creature 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 photography director, and Yasuharu Takanashi (Talentless Nana) as music composer. LIDENFILMS is again the animation production company.
The cast includes Kishou Taniyama as Dark Schneider, Tomori Kusunoki as Tia Noto Yoko, Hiroki Yasumoto as Gara, and Youko Hikasa as Arshes Nei.
The BASTARD!! manga begin serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump but was last serialized in Ultra Jump before entering hiatus, with 27 tankoubon volumes published as of 2012. It previously inspired a 1992 to 1993 OVA adaptation.
Source: BASTARD!! website
