The staff of The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System released the anime’s second main promotional video, confirming that ReoNa will perform the ending theme song “Lv.1 Class: Human.” A new exclusive US key visual for The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System was released as well.
ReoNa also commented on her ending theme song for the anime, “I am honored to be performing the ending theme for the TV anime ‘The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System.’ Even when it looks to everyone else like he has lost everything, even when he is mocked, he himself holds unshakable knowledge. There is something almost exhilarating about the path Elymas walks, and it fills me with excitement. Ending Theme ‘Lv.1 Class: Human’ just like Elymas, the song is brimming with playfulness, too. Ah, I hope that someday I, too, can become somebody. I hope you enjoy the song along with the anime!”
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System premieres on July 2 on TBS and MBS’s Super Animeism TURBO programming block at 24:26 JST / July 3 at 12:26 a.m. JST. The anime will run for two consecutive cours.
SPYAIR will perform the anime’s opening theme song “Awake.”
SPYAIR said, “‘Awake’ doesn’t just mean ‘to wake up,’ but it’s a song that embodies the feeling of wanting to move forward even while carrying doubts and pain. We tried to capture the moment when stagnant emotions start moving, and set it to a fast-paced sound. We hope this song can help encourage people to take a new step forward.”
The cast of The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System includes:
- Takeo Ōtsuka as Elymas 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.
