Blade & Bastard Voice Actors Discuss Iarumas and Raraja at Anime Expo 2026
The two leads frame the series less as a hero's rise than as dungeon survival, which is the pitch this adaptation is being carried on at Anime Expo 2026.
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At Anime Expo 2026, Makoto Furukawa and Daiki Yamashita, who voice Iarumas and Raraja in the upcoming fantasy anime Blade & Bastard, spoke about their characters. Furukawa described Iarumas as relaxed, intelligent, and defined by amnesia, and said familiarity with the RPG Wizardry adds insight into the role. Yamashita called Raraja the most normal character and said he looks to Iarumas for survival before seeing his human side.
Blade & Bastard adapts Kumo Kagyu's light novel series set in the world of the RPG Wizardry, which released in North America in 1981 and in Japan in 1985. The story follows dungeon exploration and the cost of surviving it rather than a conventional quest to grow stronger. At Anime Expo 2026, the two lead voice actors, Makoto Furukawa and Daiki Yamashita, discussed how their characters relate to that setup and to each other.
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