History Manga / Bastard

** [[PointyEars Pointy-eared]] adopted daughter Nei bares a resemblance to [[PointyEars pointy-eared]] adopted sister Nei of PhantasyStarII, which was released right around the time that Nei was introduced.

''Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy'' (subtitled ''Ankoku no Hakaishin'' in Japanese) is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

* NighInvulnerable: You need some serious firepower to take down even mid-ranked Angels/Devils. Then there's the title character himself, who took this trope and ran a triathlon with it. His primary means of defense seems to be a shield spell called "Dispel Bound", which produces a number of shields to block any attack aimed at him. Each shield can take up to the force of a nuclear blast before breaking. And they can only be targeted one at a time. And they auto-regen. And he can repair them manually at positively absurd speeds. And in the unlikely event that you manage to get through that, you have to deal with his durability which allows him to take attacks that can destroy ''galaxies''. And should you somehow manage to pierce these defenses, he possesses [[HealingFactor obscenely powerful healing abilities]] (of the sort that makes {{Wolverine}} look like a girl scout) and finally, he '''''still''''' can't be killed unless you destroy his body, spirit and soul in three different dimensions at the same time. What's truly scary is that ''there are people powerful enough to accomplish this'' (such as the Dragon Knight that killed him in the BackStory).

* OneManArmy: Dark Schneider

* SexSlave: Darsh wanted to make [[ArchangelMichael Mich]][[GenderFlip ael]] his SexSlave when she was weakened. He even says the Trope name outright when Gabriel tries to stop him..

* PullYourselfDownTheSpear: In episode 6, a one-eyed monster captures Arshes Nei and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales Gara]] using CombatTentacles that harden into stone, but Gara pulls himself down the length of the spike in his gut to free her.

* PowerataPrice: Using the The Dragon Knight Lucifer takes a severe toll on Dark Schneider's body, spirit and soul. Overuse of it will completely destroy him, leaving nothing left, completely erasing him from existence.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: According to Arshes Nei, Dark Schneider has slept with several women before, even during the years he was in a relationship with her.

* TechnicalVirgin: Tia mentions she's only about 80% virgin. Evidently, that's virginal enough to break the seal on Dark Schneider.

* DeadlyRoadTrip: The PS1 game is an odd variety of this in dungeon crawler form. Yoko gets kidnapped by a blue skinned DS imposter and put the four kings under his control, it's up to DS to travel around pick up all of his, Kal's and Nei's generals (who all are apparently alive and somewhat willing to work together) and travel to a bunch of weird places to save the day.

-->-- '''Per Arne''', ''Encyclopedia Obscura''

* AnIcePerson: Kall Su specialises in Ice Magic. Results in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he freezes a hundred foot tall Giant using only a litre of water as a base.

Add in the other villains who turn into antiheroes when defeated by Dark Schneider, and the amusement value of many of the spells and locations which are named after 80s metal bands (Dark Schneider himself was named after Udo Dirkschneider from Music/{{Accept}}, the country of JudasPriest, the samurai of the IronMaiden who are fighting to avenge King Harris, knights named {{Bon Jovi}}na and [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ul Metallicana]], the extremely powerful spells Music/{{Exodus|Band}} and [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Megadeath]]...) and you get a romp. It's six episodes long, and only goes through the first three collections of the manga (which is currently up to volume 26), so it ends with a "hey, what now?" (Because of a potential blatantly ludicrous licensing fee to use them all, these names had to be all changed in the American release.) However, the manga has also been released in the US (with quite a good translation) up to volume 19 (Though at present, it seems Creator/VizMedia has [[OrphanedSeries abandoned]] the series).
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''Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy'' (''Ankoku no Hakaishin'') is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

'''Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy''' is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

'''Bastard!!: Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy''' is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

'''Bastard!!''' is a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara. Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where monsters and magic are the rule of the day, the main setting is the kingdom of Metallicana, threatened by a vast army of mages and their pawns who are trying to wake the sleeping god of destruction, Anthanthraxus.

** [[PointyEars Pointy-eared]] adopted daughter Nei bares a resemblance to [[PointyEars pointy-eared]] adopted sister Nei of PhantasyStarII, which was released right around the time that Nei was introduced in Bastard!!.
** And vampire Count Dai Amon, who's a dead ringer for Music/KingDiamond.

* HandsomeLech: Heck, he could be the ''poster boy'' for this trope.

* PunnyName: Dark Schneider, named after Udo Dirkschneider, a German heavy metal singer. Most definitely not a MeaningfulName - while "Schneider" does mean "tailor" in German, it's also a perfectly normal surname.

** Of particular note, in a redrawn volume DS has put several characters from other series in his harem, including [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi, Mikuru]], [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Rider, and Tohsaka Rin]].

* GenreSavvy: See the above quote about how the ugly guy never wins.

* GroinAttack: The second episode had a ninja master named Gara infiltrate the castle of where the protagonists were currently staying from. Upon entering into the room of where both Luche and Yoko were sleeping in, Gara is quite surprised to see that Yoko is able to detect his presence and that he decides to introduce himself to her in an instant, but Gara is immediately cut short of his own introduction speech when Yoko throws a quick back mule kick to his groin from within an unexpected and surprising manner.

--> "'Dia Amon'": "First, I'm going to drink the blood of you and your virgin friends, AND THEN, I'LL FEAST ON THE BLOOD OF DARK SCHNEIDER!!!"

--> Dia Amon: "First, I'm going to drink the blood of you and your virgin friends, AND THEN, I'LL FEAST ON THE BLOOD OF DARK SCHNEIDER!!!"

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->''"[[MonkeysOnATypewriter Give a million monkeys a million typewriters and infinite time]], and you'll get the complete Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Serve them piña coladas, and you get ''Bastard!!''"''