The Blade & Bastard light novel series is getting a TV anime adaptation.
Here’s the plot description for the fantasy title:
What if at the end of your adventure, you were to lose your soul one day?
When that time comes, then the next adventurer will take care of it.
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.
Kumo Kagyu penned the books, which are published under DRECOM’s DRE Novels imprint, while so-bin provided illustrations. Volume 1 was published in December 2022, and there are four volumes as of July 2024. There is also a manga adaptation. J-Novel Club publishes the English translations.
Blade & Bastard is set in the world of Wizardry, the dungeon-crawling RPG series that began in 1981 as a western title, but is currently owned by Japanese company DRECOM. Wizardry had an influence on Delicious in Dungeon creator Ryoko Kui.
Source: @BladeandBastard
