If you’re eager to see what GoHands does with Brocco Lee’s manga adaptation of Nekoko’s The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System novels, you’re gonna have to wait until 2026. That’s the word in a new teaser trailer, which also unveils the main cast and staff behind the production.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Trailer
Leading the charge are Shingo Suzuki as general director, Katsumasa Yokomine as director and Tetsuichi Yamagishi as chief director alongside Takayuki Uchida as character designer and Hiroshi Okubo as main animator. Ludvig Forssell (BELLE) is handling the music.
The main cast unveiled thus far includes Takeo Otsuka as Elma Edvan, Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis and Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan.
The original The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System novels started serialization on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in April 2021, and print editions featuring Jaian’s illustrations followed starting in June 2022.
Kodansha’s K MANGA service publishes the manga adaptation and describes the story:
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Plot
“You good-for-nothing bastard. You are the son of a Sword Saint, yet you dare pull such a defective Class!?”
During the〈Divine Blessing Ceremony〉of the 15-year-old Elma who came from a lineage of Sword Saints, he had manifested a commonly deemed defective class known as the Heavy Knight. He had been deprived of his position as the next head of the Edvan Household and was then exiled. The Heavy Knight class had an unbalanced status and useless skills, to top it off, it was even said to be a class cowardly and indolent people have.
But, Elma knew better—that this world was the world of the game he had used to play before—and that the Heavy Knight class was the strongest class to exist. Elma made full use of the knowledge he had in his previous life and began his efficient walkthrough of the world he was reincarnated into.
Source: Anime News Network