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'BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-' Anime's 2nd Season Casts Daisuke Hirakawa
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official website of the new anime of Kazushi Hagiwara's BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- action manga revealed on Tuesday that Daisuke Hirakawa will join the cast for the second season of the anime titled Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin: Jigoku no Chinkonka-hen (BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Requiem of Hell Arc). Hirakawa will play Ran Di Rhodes Stein Neubauten, one of the Sorcerer Shogun and a swordsman with a mercernary background.
Previously announced cast members include:
- Takuma Terashima as Joshua Berahia
- Shō Hayami as Nils John Mifune
- Junichi Suwabe as Yngwei von Mattström
- Kōji Yusa as Zion 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
The new season will premiere on Netflix worldwide in 2023. It will feature a returning staff.
Hagiwara launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1988. The series has since had irregular serialization in the magazine and later in Ultra Jump starting in 2001. Shueisha published the manga's 27th compiled book volume in March 2012, and the series has over 30 million copies in circulation. Viz Media had released the manga in English, but stopped publishing the series with the 19th volume. The company cancelled its release of the 20th volume in English.
The manga inspired a six-episode original video anime (OVA) in 1992-1993. Geneon Entertainment (also known as Pioneer) released the anime on home video.
Source: BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
