Bastard!!
Sign in to saveis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It began its serialization in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1988, after debuting with a pilot one-shot in that magazine in 1987, and has continued irregularly in the manga magazine Ultra Jump since 2000, with its latest chapter released in 2010. As of 2012, 27 collected volumes have been released. The pilot one-shot was remade by Tatsuya Shihara and published in Ultra Jump in July 2023. The manga was formerly licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media; only the first 19 volumes were releas
Key facts
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- Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy
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- Bastard (manga) vol. 1.png
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- First volume cover, featuring Dark Schneider (right) and Tia Noto Yoko (center)
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- BASTARD!! -暗黒の破壊神-
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- Basutādo!! Ankoku no Hakaishin
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- manga
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- Kazushi Hagiwara
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- Shueisha
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- Jump Comics
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- March 14, 1988
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- present
- Animanga/Print.volumes
- 27
- Animanga/Video.type
- ona
- Animanga/Video.director
- Takaharu Ozaki
- Animanga/Video.writer
- Yōsuke Kuroda
- Animanga/Video.music
- Yasuharu Takanashi
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Liden Films
- Animanga/Video.first
- June 30, 2022
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- 27
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13 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Production
- Media
- Manga
- Volumes
- Original video animation
- Original net animation
- Video games
- Reception and legacy
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It began its serialization in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1988, after debuting with a pilot one-shot in that magazine in 1987, and has continued irregularly in the manga magazine Ultra Jump since 2000, with its latest chapter released in 2010. As of 2012, 27 collected volumes have been released. The pilot one-shot was remade by Tatsuya Shihara and published in Ultra Jump in July 2023. The manga was formerly licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media; only the first 19 volumes were released.
Hagiwara is an enthusiastic fan of heavy metal music and Dungeons & Dragons, using ideas from both of these in the Bastard!! story. Many characters and places in the story, for instance, are named after members of Hagiwara's favorite bands.