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Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy Season 2 was announced on Monday along with the reveal of a new teaser trailer and key visual. The upcoming season is set to air in 2023 and will stream exclusively on Netflix. Studio LIDENFILMS is returning to animate the series. Takaharu Ozaki is returning to direct the new season as is Yousuke Kuroda with the series composition. The first season (24 episodes) of Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy is currently available to stream. The anime series is a remastered version of the six-episode series that premiered back in 1992 with both based on the manga created by Kazushi Hagiwara.
Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy Season 2 Cast
The following is the current cast list for Bastard!! Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy Season 2.
- Dark Schnieder is voiced by Kisho Taniyama (Chuuya Nakahara – Bungo Stray Dogs)
- Tia Nouto Youko is voiced by Tomori Kusunoki (Makima – Chainsaw Man)
- Lucien Renlen is voiced by Kanae Ito (Yui – Sword Art Online)
- Kall-Su is voiced by Kensho Ono (Tetsuya – Kuroko’s Basketball)
- Sheila Tuel Meta-Ilicana is voiced by Nao Toyama (Yui – My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU)
- Abigail is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (Gintoki – Gintama)
- Arshes Nei is voiced by Yoko Hikasa (Rias – High School DxD)
- Kai Harn is voiced by Shizuka Ito (Akeno – High School DxD)
New cast additions were also announced along with their character designs. The new cast includes the following:
- Joshua Berahia — Takuma Terashima (Shiroe – Log Horizon, Klaus Lunettes – Black Clover)
- Nils John Mifune — Sho Hayami (Aizen – Bleach, Wolfwood – Trigun)
- Yngwei von Mattström — Junichi Suwabe (Aizawa – My Hero Academia, Yami – Black Clover)
- Zion Sol Vanderverg — Koji Yusa (Gin Ichimaru – Bleach, Vincent Law – Ergo Proxy)
Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy Season 1 Staff
As previously mentioned, Ozaki is the director of the series. Other directorial works of Ozaki include series such as Girls’ Last Tour and Goblin Slayer. He was joined by Kuroda, who handles the series composition. Kuroda is most notably known for handling the series composition for widely popular anime series such as Trigun (1998), My Hero Academia (including the ongoing Season 6), Hellsing Ultimate, and recently the original anime series Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story-.
Sayaka Ono (Cap Kakumei Bottleman DX) was in charge of the character designs for the first season while Yasunori Ebina is the sound director for the series. Ebina has a lot of notable series under his sound director belt, including the entire Naruto series, the entire Date a Live series, Ranking of Kings, and even the award-winning movie Promare. Other popular series he worked as the sound director for are A Certain Magical Index, Fruits Basket, and Record of Ragnarok.
Others on the staff for Season 1 included Aiko Shinohara (Black Clover) in charge of color design, Raita Sunaga (Yasuke) handling creature designs, Junpei Takatsu (Cells at Work! Code Black) as the photography director, and Kazuhiro Inoue (Fate/Apocrypha) as the art director.
Manga
As mentioned earlier, the anime series is based on the manga created by Hagiwara. The series began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1988, moved over to Weekly Shōnen Jump Specials quarterly magazine a year later, then back again to Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. Eventually, the series was moved to the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2000. The series released a total of 27 volumes with only the first 20 printed in English due to VIZ Media canceling its English publication in 2010.
The manga actually names spells and the like after some of the greatest rock bands of all time including Metallica, Judas Priest, and Guns ‘N Roses. But, after fearing lawsuits, VIZ Media, unfortunately, switched the translations in the English releases to names “similar” to the bands.
The high school dropout Higiwara made his debut with the series Binetsu Rouge in 1987 and Virgin Tyrant in 1988 (both serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump). From then on, Bastard!! became one of the best-selling manga series of all time with over 30 million copies in circulation.
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