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''Basutâdo! Ankoku no hakaijin '',more well known as ''Bastard!!!'' is in my top list of favorite anime series. The author, Kazushi Hagiwara is a heavy metal fan and also a RPG player (in special Dungeons and Dragons) and one of the cooler things I see in this anime, is that Kazushi uses many names of his favorite bands in spells or characters in the story.(like Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Anthrax, and Megadeth, Venom and Helloween) Sadly the series until now doesn't have an end, since the creator was arrested.

Bastard!!'s plot is about sorcery, revenge, and other powerful struggles in a world very similar to the RPG ones. (People need magic to survive against the monsters, for example) And there is any other hero who looks Dark Schneider, a guy who is a pervert, cold hearted and the most powerful wizard of the world!

So it's a good 90's anime with the style and how it's illustrated however let's not hide the fact this is on the edge of pedophilia. The beginning episodes of having to kiss a young child as well as him raising nei from a child and then still sexualizing her also the huge inphaisis on virgins.

I don't get what all the rage is about.

Sure, the joke on how every spell (and even the kingdom) is referencing metal bands may be lost on me (I just find it borderline stupid and ruins the experience of this fantasy land).

But the dialogue is downright ridiculous (I felt like I watched a child's tv show - you know, the ones where the dialogue is so dumb you'd rather watch paint dry than listen to that crap)

Also, every episode they plaster it with bouncing breasts and women (a PRIESTESS and PRINCESSE!!!) dressed in almost nothing at all - a 'working girl' sure, I would buy that as an outfit, but these are HIGHBORN LADIES we're talking about - if they think it's perfectly fine, then it's JUST for the sake of showing bouncing boobs and it ruins the immersion, storyline and credibility completely.

Plus the hint of rape ("tell me this information or I'll have some fun" proceeds to lift up her scrap of dress so you can see her underwear while he is drooling) WTH

First I thought the boobs might just have been to wield people (boys) in with the first episode or two, so I gave it a chance, hoping (and expecting because of the ratings here) that it would get better. That was, till the threats of rape got thrown into the mix.

Nope, no and more nope!

I CANNOT fathom how this got so high review!