Drecom Media has confirmed that the Blade & Bastard/ Blade & Bastard: Hai wa Atatakaku, Meikyuu wa Honogurai (BLADE & BASTARD: Warm Ash, Dusky Dungeon) light novel series, written by Kagyu Kumo and illustrated by so-bin, will be adapted into an anime. A teaser video and visual have been released for the anime.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iF6jXCP-Hk]
Kagyu (Goblin Slayer, Goblin Slayer Gaiden 2: Tsubanari no Daikatana, Goblin Slayer Gaiden: Year One) and so-bin (Overlord, Yakitori) started the Blade & Bastard novel series in December 2022, and Drecom published the fourth novel in July 2024. J-Novel Club publishes the novels in English simultaneously with the Japanese release.
Fegetsu Makoto (Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Dai-Ni-Shou: Yashiki no Ishūkan-hen) adapted the novel series into a manga on Drecom’s website in June 2023. Drecom published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in October 2023, and the fourth volume will be released on October 25th, 2024. Yen Press releases manga volumes in English. The company published the first volume on October 15th, 2024, and the second volume will be released on March 25th, 2025.
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.
