Is Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin (Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy) is a OVA (home-video release) from Summer 1992 by Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.: 6 episodes, about 2.8 hours in total, finished, 6.64/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 2.8 hours for the run, 3 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 6
- Episode length
- 28 min
- Total time
- about 2.8 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 1992
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.
- Score
- 6.64/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, dark fantasy, demons, dragons, drama, ecchi, gore, fantasy, friendship, mythology, historical, isekai, magic, monsters, ninja, nudity, parody, superpowers, reincarnation, revenge, seinen, shounen, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, vampire, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Bastard! Destroyer of Darkness; Bastard!! Destroyer of Darkness.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · dark fantasy · demons · dragons · drama · fantasy · friendship · mythology · historical · isekai · magic · monsters · ninja · parody · superpowers · reincarnation · revenge · seinen · shounen · swordplay · tragedy · zombie · vampire · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin?
- About 2.8 hours for all 6 episodes at 28 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 3 evenings.
- How many episodes does Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin have?
- 6 episodes of 28 min.
- Is Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin finished?
- Yes, Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin is finished (6 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin good for a group?
- Yes. Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin listed?
- Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin is on AniList (id 404) and MyAnimeList (id 404); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists