The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Anime Unveils Staff, New Trailer
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System anime revealed a teaser trailer and 2026 premiere date. Studio GoHands is animating the series and the staff is as follows:
- Chief Director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi (credited as チーフディレクター)
- Chief Director: Shingo Suzuki (credited as 総監督)
- Director: Katsumasa Yokomine
- Character Design: Takayuki Uchida
- Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Uchida, Keiji Tani, Makoto Furuta
- Music: Ludving Forssell
The cast featured in the trailer consists of Takeo Otsuka as Elymas, Shion Wakayama as Ruche, and Natsuko Abe as Malice.
The anime will adapt The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System series, originally published as a web novel by Nekoko and later serialized as a light novel under the K Lanove Books imprint with illustrations by Jaian. A manga adaptation with art by Lee Brocco is currently being serialized in the Weekly Young Magazine magazine.
Kodansha is publishing the manga in English on the K MANGA app and describes the plot as:
"You useless son of mine! You were supposed to pull master swordsman, but I never thought it would be this tragic!" The day a child turns fifteen, they undergo the Ritual of Divine Blessing. Already descended from a line of master swordsman, Elymas was supposed to succeed his father. However, he pulls the defective class, the Heavy Knight, and not only loses his status as future head of the household, but he's also exiled. With their unbalanced stats and seemingly useless skills, Heavy Knights are spoked of as a class for cowards and the lazy. However, Elymas knows the truth. The world he lives in is the same as the one of the game he used to play... It is the Heavy Knight that is the most powerful class of them all. Using memories from his past life, Elymas has set out to effectively conquer this entire world.
Source: Official Website
© Nekoko, Lee Brocco, Jian, Kodansha / The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Production Committee