'BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-' Anime Season 2 Casts Taisuke Nakano, Hinata Tadokoro

The official website of the new anime of Kazushi Hagiwara's BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- action manga revealed two more cast members for the second season, Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin: Jigoku no Chinkonka-hen (BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- Requiem of Hell Arc), on Tuesday:

Taisuke Nakano as Ida Deesna, a summoner and Sorcerer Shogun

© Kazushi Hagiwara/Shueisha, BASTARD!! Project

Hinata Tadokoro as Vlad Kills, a knight and Sorcerer Shogun

© Kazushi Hagiwara/Shueisha, BASTARD!! Project

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 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
• Daisuke Hirakawa as Ran Di Rhodes Stein Neubauten
• Atsushi Tamaru as Sykes Von Snowwhite
• Wataru Komada as Ross Zaboss Friedrich
• Takahiro Fujiwara as Bol Gil Bol
• Tomohiro Yamaguchi as Zakk Walder

The new season will premiere on Netflix worldwide in 2023. It will feature a returning staff.

© Kazushi Hagiwara/Shueisha, BASTARD!! Project

The anime's first part, consisting of the first 13 episodes, debuted on Netflix last June worldwide. The second part featuring episodes 14-24 premiered on Netflix on September 15.

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.

Sources: BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- anime's website, Comic Natalie