Skeleton Knight in Another World

Skeleton Knight in Another World (骸骨騎士様、只今異世界へお出掛け中, Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekake-chū) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ennki Hakari and illustrated by KeG. It began serialization online in October 2014 on the novel self-publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Overlap, who have published ten volumes since June 2015 under their Overlap Novels imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Akira Sawano has been serialized online via Overlap's Comic Gardo website since February 2017 and has been collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. Both the light novel and manga are licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation by Studio Kai and Hornets aired from April to June 2022.

Synopsis
Upon awakening, an unnamed gamer finds himself in the avatar body and armor that he was using in his online game. Seeing his reflection in a river, he is shocked to discover that his appearance is that of a skeleton due to the special avatar skin『Skeleton』he used. In unfamiliar territory, the gamer decides that it would be best to hide his appearance by never removing his helmet and to search for inhabitants. He spies a band of bandits attacking a group at a distance and springs into action after seeing the bandits about to rape two women, killing the men. The women introduce themselves as Lauren, a noblewoman, and Rita Farren, her maid. Using his game name, the knight introduces himself as Arc and agrees to escort the two ladies to the town of Luvierte. While he refuses a reward (to avoid meeting Lauren's father Viscount Buckle du Luvierte, as it would cause complications should the noble ask to see his face), Rita gives him a copper passport to allow him easier passage through any city in the territory.

While dispatching a group of bandits using a cave as their hideout who had attacked him near the town of Diento, he discovers a wounded green-furred cottontailed fox ("ventu vulpis") being held in a cage. Freeing the creature, he heals its wound with magic and befriends it. The fox indicates that it wants to travel with him, and he names it "Ponta".

Later, Arc encounters a male elf outside Diento and learns from him about the human trade in capturing and enslaving elves. The elf is surprised that Ponta (which he refers to as a "spirit creature") is so attached to Arc and that Arc doesn't seem to share the fear and prejudice against elves that most humans in this world seem to have.

Some time afterwards, Arc stumbles across two elf soldiers, one male and one female, battling a band of human slavers; when their leader uses the captured elf children as hostages, the female elf seems ready to surrender when Arc intervenes and helps the elves wipe out the slavers. After Ponta's presence convinces the elves that Arc is a friend and the captured elves are freed and healed of their wounds by Arc's magic, the female elf, Ariane Glenys Maple, hires Arc to help her free other enslaved elves being held in Diento itself. Meeting up with Danka, another elf soldier who has been scouting inside Diento for information (and the one whom Arc had encountered earlier), the three invade the slave warehouse. During their initial search, Arc encounters a female cat-eared/tailed ninja, who gives him information about humans involved in the slave trade and about other captured elves being held in the local lord's castle. After freeing the captured elves, Arc uses Teleportation magic to get them all away from Diento, then he and Ariane head for the castle while Danka escorts the freed elves home. After they free the two female elves (who then "punish" their captor/tormentor in a particularly gruesome fashion) and escape, Ariane asks Arc to accompany her back to their lands. Arc is reluctant and shows why by removing his helmet, revealing his skeletal form. While initially shocked, Ariane realizes that, despite his appearance, Arc is not evil but under a curse, and promises that the elves will keep his secret.

At the elvish settlement of Lalatoya, Arc meets and is welcomed by Elder Dillan and his wife Glenys, who are also Ariane's parents. At a meeting of Elders, at which the information about human Nobles involved in the slave trade and the clear violation of the Elf-Human peace treaty is discussed, it is decided that while no direct retaliation against the humans will be made, the secret operations to free elf slaves will continue. Dillan offers to hire Arc to continue helping Ariane, and as payment provides him with information about a magic pool in Dragon Lord country that may lift his skeleton curse. Arc agrees, and he, Ariane and Ponta begin their quest to free the captured/enslaved elves and totally end the slave trade. They are joined in their mission by Chiyome,.the ninja Arc had previously encountered and member of the Jinshin Clan of beast people, who is engaged on a similar mission to free her fellow beast people who have also been captured and enslaved by humans.

Meanwhile in Olav, the capital city of the Rhoden Kingdom, King Karlon, who has learned of the possible involvement of nobility in the slave trade in elves thanks to the events in Diento, dispatches his daughter Yuriarna on a diplomatic mission to the Grand Duchy of Limbult (which trades with the elves and where his older daughter Seriarna is the ruler's wife) to arrange a meeting with the elves. However, her older brothers Sekt and Dakares both have ambitions to inherit the throne and are vying with other for power, and Yuriarna suspects Dakares of being involved in the slave trade and Sekt of knowing about it but trying to use it for his own advantage...and that both will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, even if it means destroying anyone in their way.

As Arc, Ariane and Chiyome's quest progresses and they gain friends and allies while traveling to the different kingdoms across the world, they learn that the slave trade is merely the tip of the iceberg and that the Holy East Revlon Kingdom, ruled by the ruthless Emperor Domitianus, and this world's main religion, the Holy Hilk Kingdom, may be behind all the evil they're fighting to overcome.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Novels
The light novel series is written by Ennki Hakari with illustrations by KeG, and has been published by Overlap under Overlap Novels imprint since June 25, 2015. As of May 2021, the series is still ongoing with 10 volumes released. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series on September 20, 2018, and released the first volume on June 11, 2019.

Manga
In February 2017, the first chapter of the manga adaptation by Akira Sawano was published in Overlap's Comic Gardo; though Akira is the author of the manga series, character designs are credited to KeG. Overlap collected the individual chapters into tankōbon volumes; the first volume was released in August 2017. In September 2018, Seven Seas Entertainment announced its licensing of the manga series for localization in North America under the title Skeleton Knight in Another World.

Character
The Main Character who fell asleep during an online game and woke up in a different world similar to an online game, in the same appearance as his avatar. She has a mischievous and good-natured personality. Although it is in a complete skeleton state, it is possible to eat and drink. At first, he planned to hide the fact that there was a skeleton under his armor, but after he rescued the elves in the town of Dient, he revealed it to Ariane. At that time, it was not possible to call it a game character, so it was deceived as a curse. was found out, and a full-fledged way to break the curse was sought.

By touching or drinking the hot springs in the shrine that had a cursing effect, you can temporarily return to your physical form. When I returned, I was in a coma for a week. Since then, I have dealt with it by returning to the living body on a regular basis. When he returned to his flesh, he didn't look like a human, but rather as an avatar before he turned into a skeleton. According to the Dragon King, the original body is in a state in another world, and Ark himself is expected to remain in the original world.

Later, he became a member of the village of Raratoia and called himself Ark Raratoia. Although his own abilities are at the highest level, from the perspective of the other world, his common sense is slightly off, and what he does is out of the norm, and he often carelessly does outrageous things. Since he has no experience of fighting since he was just operating in an online game, he mainly fights by pushing with his inherent power and status. Because the technical side is low, it will struggle against opponents with high technology.

He is very dexterous with his hands, such as making his own furnace and baking pizza, and attaching a saddle that has a suspension function that uses the elasticity of wood to Shiden. He also has a wealth of knowledge, such as making soy sauce modoki using the Maillard reaction. The reason why I made the avatar a "whole body skeleton" was because I was making a setting in my brain that "I was originally a holy knight, but I was cursed and became a skeleton." The aforementioned deception is also based on this. By the way, my friends in the game said, "It's completely meaningless because you can't see it." In addition, although the original human age is not mentioned at all, there was no particular reaction when the elf girl who rescued him from Udoran's elf hunt called him "Uncle ("Armored Uncle" in the anime)". It seems that he is about middle-aged because he was not suppressing it and was not even shocked in his heart).

Abilities
Since the avatar of the game character is a "whole body skeleton", the flesh figure is the skeleton itself. Equipped with the strongest equipment in the game, 【Holy Armor of Belenus】, 【Overcoat of the Night Sky】 , 【Holy Shield of Teutates】 , and 【Sword of Holy Thunder (Caladbolg)】 , and since the whole body is covered with armor, armor and helmet You can't tell it's a skeleton unless you take it off. Arc has incredible kinetic vision. Since his level (255) and stats (PARAMETER) have been raised to the maximum, he has an abnormal amount of power, and can use attack magic, transfer magic, summoning magic, recovery magic, and resurrection magic that he had learned up to the job set in the game, Holy Knight. All are available. As an elf, he has the ability to see spiritual magic, though to a lesser degree. {| class="article-table" {| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Show" data-collapsetext="Hide" style="width:100%; background-color:white; margin-top:1em; border:white; font-size:100%; text-align:left;" ! style="background-color:#10a9db; color:#FFFFFF; padding:0.2em 0.5em;" | 《Summon》 {| class="article-table"
 *  Skills 
 * Wyvern Strike/Flying Dragon Slash: A sword attack that causes a beam of light to emit from the sword and is capable of slicing through several trees. Exclusive to Knight job.
 * Sword of Judgement: A mid-tier battle skill that pierces the enemy.
 * Shield Bash: It was one of the warrior class’s basic skills, meant to push enemies back.
 * Reanimation: A skill from the Bishop class that is able to bring a person back to life but if the body is badly damaged then the person will just die again immediately.
 * Purification: A skill able to dispel curses, damage, and purify undead.
 * Resurrection: A skill that belongs to the high-level job pope, it can revive and fully charge the target's life force, but if the body is too damaged or the person has already been dead for a long period of time, then it won't work.
 * Execution: A can be considered a targeted and Non-Targeted skill from the Holy Knight job; this is considered to be a top-tiered skill.
 * Holy Light Sword Slash: A single-target skill that conjures holy light energy in the form of a sword slash to do cutting and holy damage to a target.
 * Holy Protection: A protection skill that can be used remotely.
 * Luxtorque: A bind chain skill to immobilize the opponent's movement from the bishop's job.
 * Sacred Seal
 * Flame Viper
 * Holy Ray Sword
 * Cross Avent
 * Virox Tempest
 * ⇒ Summon Skill Every summoned beast or Knight only last 1 minutes.
 * ⇒ Summon Skill Every summoned beast or Knight only last 1 minutes.
 * Infernal Demon Ifrit.webp─【Infernal Demon, Ifrit】


 * Ifrit is a five-meter-tall demon. That looked like a cross between a bipedal demonic lion and a bull. He had a mane of fire and two twisting horns that grew from his forehead. His upper body was covered in bright red scales, while the lower part of his body was composed of two half-human, half-bull legs.
 * Ifrit is an early-level summon that generally preferred range attacks. He was able to regenerate fire, breathe fire, and also possessed massive strength.

TV Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on April 17, 2021. The series will be animated by Studio Kai and Hornets and directed by Katsumi Ono, with Takeshi Kikuchi supervising the series' scripts, Tōru Imanishi designing the characters, and eba and Tsubasa Ito composing the series' music. It aired from April 7 to June 23, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, and BS11. The opening theme song is "Aa, Waga Roman no Michi Yo" (嗚呼、我が浪漫の道よ, Ah, My Romantic Road) by PelleK, while the ending theme song is "Bokura ga Oroka da Nante Dare ga Itta" (僕らが愚かだなんて誰が言った, Who Called Us Fools?) by DIALOGUE+. Crunchyroll has licensed the series outside of Asia. Muse Communication announced the license for South and Southeast Asia the day after the anime announcement.

On April 11, 2022, Crunchyroll announced that the series would receive an English dub, which premiered on April 28.

Staff:

 * Original - Ennki Hakari
 * Character draft - KeG
 * Original Comic - Akira Sawano
 * Director - Katsumi Ono
 * Assistant Director - Shigatsu Yoshikawa
 * Series composition - Takeshi Kikuchi
 * Character Design - Toru Imanishi
 * Sub character design - Hideki Inoue
 * Monster Design - Yoshiyoshi Nagamori
 * Prop Design - Tomokazu Sugimura
 * Color design - Chiho Nakamura
 * Art Director - Kenta Tsuboi
 * Art setting - Akihiro Hirasawa
 * 3DCG Director - Norimitsu Hirosawa
 * Cinematographer - Sei Yamamoto
 * Editing - Yuji Kondo
 * Acoustic Director - Satoshi Motoyama
 * Music - eba, Tsubasa Ito
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Music Producer - Teppei Nojima
 * Producers - Shohei Yoshida, Hisato Usui, Guoxiang Yang, Yuki Yamaoka, Kento Yoshida, Aya Iizuka, Teppei Nojima
 * Production Producer - Yasuhiro Uema
 * Animation Producer - Masanobu Hatta
 * Animation production - Studio KAI × HORNETS
 * Production - Skeleton Knight Production Committee (Overlap, Crunchyroll, MUSE, Docomo Anime Store, MAGNET, AT-X, Pony Canyon)

Web Radio
The web radio "Skeleton Knight, now on the way to the radio" will be distributed once a month on Onsen from January 28, 2022. The personalities are Tomoaki Maeno, who plays the role of Ark, and Nene Hieda, who plays the role of Ponta.

Social Reputation
Volumes 2, 3, and 5 of the books were ranked as high as 7th in the light novel weekly ranking by Shosen Book Tower.

This light novel is amazing! In 2017, it was described as "I can't stop being excited about the activities of the good-natured Skeleton Knight, who will lend a hand if there is an incident. It's exhilarating to see how the swordsmanship and magic that you've trained in the game can defeat the villain".

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