A new trailer for the new The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System anime series revealed it will premiere in 2026. The anime’s main cast and staff were announced as well.
The cast of The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System includes:
- Takeo Ōtsuka as Elma Edvan
- Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis
- Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan
The staff of the anime includes:
- General Director: Shingo Suzuki
- Anime Director: Katsumasa Yokomine (GoHands)
- Character Designer: Takayuki Uchida
- Chief Animation Directors: Takayuki Uchida, Keiji Tani, and Makoto Furuta
- Chief Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi
- Main Animator: Hiroshi Okubo
- Sound Production: Glovision
- Sound Directors: Enji Nakajima and Tetsuya Gunji
- Composer: Ludvig Forssell (BELLE film)
Nekoko began the story of the light novel series in April 2021, and Brocco Lee launched the manga adaptation in February 2022.
Lastly, here’s an overview, via publisher Kodansha:
“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.
