Warner Bros. Japan on Tuesday unveiled a teaser promotional video, main staff lineup, and a 2027 premiere window for the television anime adaptation of Blade & Bastard, the dark fantasy light novel series written by Kumo Kagyu and illustrated by so-bin. Streaming platform HIDIVE simultaneously announced it will carry the series as an exclusive simulcast as part of its 2027 lineup.
Staff & Studio
The anime is being produced at Xingfu Entertainment under the direction of Tomoki Kobayashi, known for Akame ga KILL!, Summer Pockets, and Utawarerumono. Naruhisa Arakawa (Kingdom, Let’s Make a Mug Too, There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless…) is handling series scripts.
- Character Design: Rina Iwamoto (Akuma no Memumemu-chan, Magical Suite Prism Nana)
- Sound Director: Kisuke Koizumi (Anne Shirley, Chainsaw Man, My Happy Marriage)
- Music Composition: Hayato Matsuo (Heaven’s Design Team, The World God Only Knows)
Cast
- Makoto Furukawa as Iarumas
- Tomori Kusunoki as Garbage
- Daiki Yamashita as Raraja
- Saori Hayami as Ainikki
- Shion Wakayama as Berkanan
Synopsis
Set in the world of the landmark computer RPG franchise Wizardry, the story is described by simultaneous English publisher J-Novel Club as follows:
Deep in the unexplored reaches of the dungeon, a corpse is discovered — one that shouldn’t exist. After Iarumas is resurrected, his memories of life before death are gone, and he spends his days delving into the dungeon to retrieve the bodies of dead adventurers. Can they be revived? Or will God reduce them to piles of ash on the altar? Either way, Iarumas collects his finder’s fee. Scorned for his cold, utilitarian attitude, he consorts primarily with the dead — until he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman and the sole survivor of a massacred party. Together they venture deeper, searching for clues to Iarumas’s past while evading monsters, traps, and the ever-present threat of permanent ashen demise.
Source Material
Kagyu, best known for Goblin Slayer, and so-bin, the illustrator of Overlord, launched the light novel series in December 2022. Drecom released the sixth volume on March 10.
A manga adaptation by Makoto Fugetsu launched on Drecom’s website in June 2023; its eighth compiled volume also arrived on March 10. Yen Press has licensed the manga in English, releasing the fourth volume on June 23.
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