Bastard!!

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==Overview==
Bastard!! is a long-running cult manga written by Kazushi Hagiwara that began in 1988 and is currently ongoing with 26 completed volumes. Volume 27 is currently in the process of being published. The series was inspired by Hagiwara's love of Heavy Metal music and fantasy tropes (Dungeons & Dragons is considered an influence, but Hagiwara supposedly never mentions it in any interviews).
The story focuses on the exploits of Dark Schneider, the most powerful wizard in the Bastard!! world. He takes on fellow magician warlords that used to be his top generals (eventually winning them back to his banner), the "god" of destruction Anthrax, and eventually the highest angels and demons. While this is going on, Dark Schneider's real goal is only to defeat his enemies so he can take over the world for himself and have a worldwide harem. Whether he'll be successful is yet to be seen.
==Power of the Verse==
Bastard!! is one of the more powerful manga series out there. All major characters are on Tier 7 even at the beginning of the series, with its later volumes being littered with many Tier 6 characters via scaling to Anthrax. This is also where the verse started to have a huge leap in power level due to the appearance of "Higher Dimension" residents: Angels and Devils.
It turns out the fearful Anthrax is nothing more than a lower-order Angel on the hierarchy. The majority of most powerful Angels/Devils reach Tier 5 even in their base, with some attacks were capable of reaching Tier 4 while Ultimate Forms (Augoeides) being vastly stronger than all of that, effectively making them become causal Stellar Busters. Tier 3 was hit by Top/God-Tiers of the series thanks to later proper statements. One ultimate being-God, supposedly created the whole cosmo potentially granting him Tier 2.
Regarding special abilities, Bastard!! possess a quite plentiful amount of decent hax above what most people would be expected from a hand-to-hand combat verse. Even as early as the first half of the manga, characters already had numerous abilities like: Magic, Elemental Manipulation, Soul Manipulation/Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Mind Manipulation, Power Nullification, Absorption, Black Hole Creation, Matter Manipulation (On a atomic/sub-atomic level),... etc. More infomation can be found on the verse spells list.
The later arcs, however, completely trivialized the first half with the debut of beings from the Astral Plane. The basic abilities list of every angel/devil includes: Abstract Existence, Intangibility, enhanced Magic, Empathic Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Dimensional Travel and Resistance to pretty much anything could be done by far. Top-tier beings possess a full combination of the three essential concepts of the verse: Eternal Atoms, Dispel Bounds and Augoeides, which grants them even more notable hax such as: Multilocation (Spatial), Godly-level Regeneration, Existence Erasure, Transmutation, Reality Warping, Regeneration and Resistance Negation... On top of countless layers of hax nullification, resistance and things alike. As a whole, Bastard!! is an extremely tough franchise to deal with.
The series is still ongoing, though currently on hiatus, so its power is likely to increase.
The power of the OVA universe is different by a large amount. It is vastly weaker. Its best feat is City level but doesn't even scale to Dark Schneider who is only Small Town level.
===Explanations of verse specific powers:===
* Everything regarding magic.
* Souls in-universe.
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*TISSG7Redgrave
*PainKiller07
*Chritin060
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
===Humanity===
File:Darsh2.jpg|Dark Schneider|link=Dark Schneider
File:arshes2.png|Arshes Nei|link=Arshes Nei
File:Gara.jpg|Gara the Ninja Master|Gara|link=Gara the Ninja Master
File:Kall.jpg|Kall-Su|link=Kall-Su
File:Abigail.webp|Abigail
File:Lars1.jpg|Lars Ul Meta-Licana|Lars|link=Lars Ul Meta-Licana
===Angels===
File:Uriel5.png||Uriel|link=Uriel (Bastard!!)
File:Michael5.webp|Michael|link=Michael (Bastard!!)
File:Gabriel5.png|Gabriel
File:Raphael5.png|Raphael
===Demons===
File:Satan6.jpg|Satan|link=Satan (Bastard!!)
File:Porno7.png|Porno Diane|link=Porno Diane
File:7DK.webp|The Seven Demon Kings
File:konron6.png|Konron|link=Konron
===Others===
File:anthrax2.webp|Anthrax|link=Anthrax
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Category:1980s
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