Bastard!!, Vol. 8

Bastard!! #8

by Kazushi Hagiwara

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.

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics Manga

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 1990

Reviews

[Antonio Heras · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5

Sube la media de los tomos anteriores. Nuevos personajes, tono algo más serio.

[Leila Anani · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.