Netflix Anime has released a new full length trailer of the upcoming BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- anime series. The first 13 episodes are scheduled to premiere on the streaming service on June 30, 2022, while the latter 11 episodes will be released sometime later this year. 

The voice cast for the anime consists of Kishou Taniyama as Dark Schneider, Tomori Kusunoki as Tia Noto Yoko, Hiroki Yasumoto as Gara, Youko Hikasa as Arshes Nei, Kanae Itou as Lushe Renren, Tomokazu Sugita as Dark Priest Abigail, Kensho Ono as Kall-Su, and Nao Touyama as Princess Sheila. Additional cast members include Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Lars, Ari Ozawa as Sean Ari, Shizuka Itou as Kai Harn, and Takehito Koyasu as Di-amon. 

Takaharu Ozaki (Wave!! Let’s Go Surfing!!) is directing the new anime series. Yousuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia) is the screenwriter, Sayaka Ono is the series’ character designer, Yasunori Ebina (BORUTO) is the sound director, and Yasuharu Takanashi (ZOMBIE LAND SAGA) is the music composer. LIDEN FILMS is handling the animation production.

Kazushi Hagiwara ran the original manga series from March 14, 1988 to May 19, 2010, when it entered an indefinite hiatus. Shueisha has published it periodically since its debut in its Weekly Shonen Jump and Ultra Jump magazines. 27 tankoubon volumes have been published in total. 

Viz Media describes the original 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.

Source: Netflix Anime