Blade & Bastard

Kumo Kagyū, the writer behind Goblin Slayer, teams up with Overlord illustrator so-bin for a dark fantasy light novel series rooted in the classic Wizardry video game franchise. The story follows a party of adventurers exploring the treacherous dungeon beneath the city of Trefl, where death is not the end thanks to the church's resurrection magic. Fallen heroes can be brought back, but each revival chips away at their humanity until the line between life and undeath blurs completely.

A mismatched group including a stoic fighter and a reckless magic-user confronts monsters, traps, and the moral decay of their own repeated deaths. Drecom Media launched the series under their DRE Novels imprint on December 9, 2022, with six volumes published as of early 2026. A manga adaptation illustrated by Makoto Fugetsu began serialization via Drecom Media's DRE Comics website in June 2023 and has since been collected into eight tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation by studio Xingfu is scheduled to premiere in 2027. [edit]