A leak from the next edition of the magazine Monthly Big Gangan confirmed that the manga is written and illustrated by Etorouji Shiono“Ubel Blatt (Evil Blade)”, will have an anime adaptation. The leak did not reveal production details or a scheduled release date, but it is fully confirmed from the magazine’s leaked screenshots.
Etorouji Shiono The publication of the manga began through the magazine Monthly Big Gangan from the publisher square enix in December 2004, and finished it in March 2019 with a total of twenty-three compilation volumes. A sequel titled “Ubel Blatt II: Shiseru Ou no Kishidan” will begin publishing this month in the same magazine in Japan. On the other hand, although this is the author’s flagship work, Shiono has also written other mangas such as “Jinrui Sonbou Cockpit Girls“, “Deep Insanity: Nirvana“, “Winged Mermaids” and “Celestial Clothes“, to name a few.
Synopsis of Ubel Blatt
The story, which begins about twenty years before the beginning of the manga, tells how Koinzell, then called Ascheriit, was a young and prodigious swordsman whose skill granted him the legendary title of Blatt Meister (literally “Master of the Sword”). His exploits made him one of fourteen chosen by the ruling emperor of the Szaalenden Empire to venture on a dangerous mission to defeat a powerful invading enemy known as the evil nation of Wischtech, of which the many powerful engines of destruction and dark sorcery made a dangerous enemy. Armed each with a spear blessed by the Emperor himself, and thus known as the Fourteen Lancers, the chosen ones traveled far into the enemy’s devastated landscape, losing three of their ranks to the dangers of the land, until they reached a forest where seven of the remaining eleven decided to give up their mission, fearing for their lives.
However, Ascheriit and three of those still determined to follow the Emperor’s will continued, and incredibly accomplished their feat, returning victorious. It was then that the seven who abandoned the mission ambushed their companions and massacred them. Returning home, they told the Emperor that the four they had killed had turned traitors against them, and after dispatching them, the seven completed the task. Thus, they were hailed as heroes and nicknamed the Seven Heroes, while the four murdered became symbols of betrayal and received the nickname Spears of Betrayal. Thus, the story narrates the journey of Ascheriit, who did survive the massacre and swore to take the head of his fellow traitors, now powerful nobles and warlords hailed as saviors by the people.
