Bastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (Episode 10) – The Goddess of Thunder

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Arshes Nei returns to Metallicana to defeat Gara and destroy the second seal imprisoning Anthrasax. She has also been infected with the Blue Nail to ensure that she too doesn’t switch sides!

Bastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (Episode 10) – The Goddess of Thunder

What happened?

After Di-amon switched sides, Abigail was determined to make sure that they could count on Arshes Nei. To ensure her dedication, he cast the Blue Nail on her. If she betrayed them, she would die, although Arshes Nei didn’t seem the least bit worried. Even growing up with Dark Schneider did nothing to quell her fury. She wanted nothing more than to see him dead, preferably by her own hand. Anyhow, to get to that point, she would need to defeat Gara who was now protecting Metallicana.

Gara was busy dealing with the Dark Rebel Army when Arshes Nei attacked him from the back of a Griffin. She left her Griffin to fight his Wyvern while they battled on the bridge. As usual, Gara was insanely confident and at one point, it looked like he had won. However, Arshes Nei used illusion magic in the way that Dark Schneider does. Then, Arshes Nei returned the favour, cutting Gara from the shoulder to the waist, however, that was one of his seven clones. He attacked again, but Arshes Nei saw through the deception and blocked his attack.

However, it broke her lightning sword. Gara urged her to surrender. Without a sword, she couldn’t hope to defeat him. Well, when your sword is actually made of lightning, a metal blade is meaningless. She cut Gara down and was just about to finish him off when Dark Schneider returned. Gara would have to wait – the main event had just arrived!

What did you think?

I don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish this series. This episode was pretty much just a fight and even then, it was dull. Both fighters landed a decisive blow only for it to be an illusion or a clone. Both had magical swords that they knew of but didn’t fully understand. And, about the lightning sword that could pass through Gara’s blade. That works both ways. His blade should have been flying at her too. The blades would pass through one another and both land on their opponent. The inability to block with a lightning blade would make it basically useless without a metal component.

There’s too much standing around and laughing or delivering boring monologues. The character designs are about the only thing this series has going for it right now, and the design alone is not enough to make this series interesting. I had to laugh at Yoko referring to Sean Ari as a nice girl given how she tried to seduce and kill Dark Schneider. Then, you had Gara switching sides because he would have more fun on Dark Schneider’s team… It just feels really lazy. We all know that Arshes Nei will switch sides. She’ll probably almost die when the Blue Nail turns red, but then Dark Schneider will lick it or something and everything will be right in the world once more. There are three more episodes in the first part and unless something amazing happens, I’m not sure if I’ll continue with the second part (another eleven episodes).

Bastard Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy Episode 10 Yoko Tia Noto and Dark Schneider go back to Metallicana

Episode highlights

Series Information

English TitleBastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy
Japanese TitleBastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin
MediumAnime
ReleasedSpring 2022
Episodes13
Animation StudiosLIDENFILMS
GenresActionAdventureEcchiFantasy
DemographicSeinen

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