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Bastard!! #8
Bastard!!, Vol. 8
Hell's Requiem ... Dismemberment can't stop Dark Schneider! As the evil priest Abigail unleashes his ultimate weapon to wipe out what's left of his foe, the increasingly limbless sorcerer pours his life's blood into an apocalyptic battle of mage vs mecha! Three years later, a new band of heroes and villains has arisen, but doomsday may not be deferred for long. The ice-wizard Kall-Su, the greatest of Dark Schneider's surviving protégés, is now the mightiest power on Earth, and only one girl stands between him and the evil dog Anthrasax, destroyer of worlds.
- GenresMangaFantasyComics Manga
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 8, 1990
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March 28, 2026
Oof this band is a two parter which I honestly don't know how to feel about. **Second part of this review is for the Mangas 1-8**
The first Arc ends halfway through, starting Arc 2 immediately afterwards. Inbetween them, however, we get a flashback of how the world came to be as it is in the present told in the way of a grandpa reading his grandchild a bedtime story. First Arc ends the long Abigail fight in an explosive manner and second Arc begins with an array of new cast members, with only two familiar faces so far.
The magic/barbaric fighting system has seemingly been replaced with mediocre magic wielding samurai rebels. The story fast forwards two years into the future and they're still trying to win the war, the rebels only major threat presently being the Ice Prince Kal Su. No D.S. so far, I hope he's not too long absent as he's my favorite and I highly doubt he'll be gone forever since he's the mmc.
I can critique some writing choices made here and there, almost as if the author didn't know if D.S. is morally grey or morally black at times. **I still love him lol judge me don't care** However, I could NEVER critique the artwork. It's insanely gorgeous when it wants to be and extremely detailed. The style is very unique and I've never seen anything quite like it before. Even when the artist/author isn't trying to make these drawings serious the talent is undeniable.
Of course being a huge fantasy, metalhead, and DND fan I immensely enjoy every single little reference, which is a CRAZY amount! I've laughed out loud during the reading of the first Arc and even felt for some of the characters in certain scenes, no matter how ridiculous they can be portrayed. I love that this seems to be an enormous fanatic with some originality sprinkled here and there. It's just a fun read, sometimes uncomfortable, and I'd highly recommend checking it out if you love old school rock/metal, fantasy/dnd, have crude humor, and don't mind morally grey/black characters.
The first Arc ends halfway through, starting Arc 2 immediately afterwards. Inbetween them, however, we get a flashback of how the world came to be as it is in the present told in the way of a grandpa reading his grandchild a bedtime story. First Arc ends the long Abigail fight in an explosive manner and second Arc begins with an array of new cast members, with only two familiar faces so far.
The magic/barbaric fighting system has seemingly been replaced with mediocre magic wielding samurai rebels. The story fast forwards two years into the future and they're still trying to win the war, the rebels only major threat presently being the Ice Prince Kal Su. No D.S. so far, I hope he's not too long absent as he's my favorite and I highly doubt he'll be gone forever since he's the mmc.
I can critique some writing choices made here and there, almost as if the author didn't know if D.S. is morally grey or morally black at times. **I still love him lol judge me don't care** However, I could NEVER critique the artwork. It's insanely gorgeous when it wants to be and extremely detailed. The style is very unique and I've never seen anything quite like it before. Even when the artist/author isn't trying to make these drawings serious the talent is undeniable.
Of course being a huge fantasy, metalhead, and DND fan I immensely enjoy every single little reference, which is a CRAZY amount! I've laughed out loud during the reading of the first Arc and even felt for some of the characters in certain scenes, no matter how ridiculous they can be portrayed. I love that this seems to be an enormous fanatic with some originality sprinkled here and there. It's just a fun read, sometimes uncomfortable, and I'd highly recommend checking it out if you love old school rock/metal, fantasy/dnd, have crude humor, and don't mind morally grey/black characters.
June 5, 2024
3,5
Sube la media de los tomos anteriores. Nuevos personajes, tono algo más serio.
Sube la media de los tomos anteriores. Nuevos personajes, tono algo más serio.
September 16, 2012
1st half of this concludes the Omega Abigail fight - a volume and a half for one adversary is a tad excessive. It ends with a mighty destructive blast killing almost everything. The second half promts a real tone change to the series. We get a legendary tale which indicates that Bastard!! in in fact set in a post apocalyptic future and not the Medieval fastasy past we assumed. Weird. Then we move two years after Abigail's destruction - Kall-Su is laying waste to everything and we have an army of rebel samurai (survivors of the blast) to oppose him. D.S is gone, we've got a whole cast of new characters introduced all at once and the swordplay has moved from barbarian fantasy to samurai - as well as all these changes we've obviously got a different translator who is missing the metal references (Metallicana has suddenly become Meta-Rikana and Iron Maiden has become Aian Meide). The two nice things about this are the return of Kai Harn and the artwork on Anthrasax - otherwise a bit disappointing after previous volumes, not nearly as much fun.
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