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Blade & Bastard Anime's Trailer Reveals Main Cast (Updated With Trailer)

Warner Bros. Japan unveiled during its Anime Expo panel on Saturday a trailer for the anime adaptation of writer Kumo Kagyu and illustrator so-bin's Blade & Bastard light novel series, and it reveals the main cast:

• Makoto Furukawa as Iarumas
• Tomori Kusunoki as Garbage
• Daiki Yamashita as Raraja
• Saori Hayami as Ainikki
• Shion Wakayama as Berkanan

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 as well? Or will God reduce them to piles of ash on the altar? Either way, Iarumas collects his finder's fee. And though his skills earn him some grudging respect, he's also scorned for this cold, utilitarian attitude. The living keep their distance―Iarumas consorts primarily with the dead. That is, until he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman who's the sole survivor of a massacred party. With Garbage by his side, Iarumas ventures deeper, scouring the dungeon for clues to his past, avoiding monsters, traps, and the inevitability of a permanent ashen demise.

Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) and so-bin (Overlord) launched the light novel series in December 2022. Drecom published the light novel series' fifth volume on June 10

Fugetsu launched the manga adaptation on Drecom's website in June 2023. Drecom published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on June 20. Yen Press licensed the manga and released the first volume in English on October 15.

Update: Added trailer.

Source: Warner Bros. Japan's panel at Anime Expo (Alex Mateo)

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