The official YouTube channel of the Japanese entertainment company Shochiku has released a new trailer for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Nekoko's The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System light novel series, which was officially announced in September 2024. It was also confirmed that the anime is scheduled to premiere in 2026. Along with the new trailer, the main cast and staff for the upcoming isekai fantasy anime have also been revealed.
The trailer features stunning animation produced by studio GoHands, teasing the anime's epic fantasy world and brilliantly-designed characters. Watch the new trailer for The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System below:
The new trailer introduces the three main leads of the series that includes:
Takeo Otsuka as Elma Edvan
Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis
Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan
You can check out the photos of the main cast alongside their respective characters in the image gallery below:
Credit:
Nekoko, Lee Brocco, Jyaian, Kodansha / “The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System” Production Committee
The main staff of The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System includes:
General Director: Shingo Suzuki
Chief Director: Tetsukazu Yamagishi
Director: Katsumasa Yokomine
Character Design: Takayuki Uchida
Chief Animation Director: Keiji Tani, Makoto Furuta, Takayuki Uchida
Main Animator: Hiroshi Okubo
Sound Director: Enji Nakajima, Tetsuya Gunji
Music: Ludving Forssell
Animation Production: GoHands
What is The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System about?
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System anime is based on the isekai light novel series of the same title, written by Nekoko and illustrated by Jyaian. It initially started serialization on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in April 2021, and Kodansha acquired the series and started publishing it in June 2022. The series also received a manga adaptation with illustrations by Lee Brocco, and it began publication on Kodansha's YanMaga Web website and app in February 2022, and it was transferred to Weekly Young Magazine this month.
You can read the synopsis for The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System from K-Manga here:
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.
For more information about the upcoming isekai anime, visit out the official website of The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System.
