Knight's & Magic (ナイツ＆マジック, Naitsu ando Majikku) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hisago Amazake-no and illustrated by Kurogin. The series tells the story of a young Japanese man who dies in a car accident (Truck-kun) and reincarnates as a child in an alternate world where magic and giant robots are real, dedicating himself since then to fulfill his longtime dream of building and piloting his own mecha. It originated as a web novel before being picked up for print publication by Shufunotomo.
A manga adaptation by Takuji Katō is published by Square Enix, and an anime television series adaptation by Eight Bit aired from July to September 2017.
Overview[]
A fantasy work centered around reincarnation in another world, magic, and giant robots.
In 2010, it began to be published in "Let's become a novelist", and it continues to be posted as of February 2020 (the short story described later is February 2019). From 2012 to 2013, the setting until the Great West War period was posted as "Knight's & Magic setting material and memorandum". In addition, three short stories with settings based on the paperback version described later have been posted, two of which, 02 and 03, are reprints of the short stories distributed as a bonus at the release of Volume 9 of Knight's & Magic. Until the Great West War period, Amasakanohyo's self-made phantom knight painting was sometimes included as an illustration in the main part of the web version, and the same illustration was also posted to Mimin・pixiv (including the one that seems to be a knight later).
Since 2013, paperback books with partially changed hero settings and stories have been published sequentially from Hero Bunko. The illustrator is Kurogin. As of March 2021, the cumulative circulation of the series has exceeded 3 million.
From 2016, Takuji Kato began serialization of comicalization in "Young Gangan". This manga version was partly viewable on Shufunotomosha's web comic site "COMICAWA", but Comikawa ended its service on February 20, 2020, and was replaced by the website of Shufunotomo Infos Co., Ltd. Part (the first 5 episodes) has been released. Sequentially published as a book by Young Gangan Comics. The serialization will end in 2022 in the form of the first part.
TV animation was announced in September 2016 and was broadcast from July to September 2017 (described later). In addition, along with the TV animation, the official abbreviation was set as "Nightma".
Synopsis[]
Having died in a car accident, Tsubasa Kurata—an otaku from modern Japan—is reborn in the Fremmevilla Kingdom, a medieval world where powerful mechs called Silhouette Knights are used to fight horrific demonic beasts.
Born into a noble family under the name of Ernesti Echevarria and bestowed with prodigious magical abilities, he enrolls into Royal Laihaila Academy. This school of magic trains young men and women on how to pilot the Silhouette Knights, prepping them to protect the kingdom from threats, both demonic and human. Ernesti teams up with the twins named Adeltrud and Archid Olter with the goal to create his own Silhouette Knight one day, a feat unheard of for several centuries.
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List of Published Books[]
Web novel[]
Hisago Amazake-no began publishing the series as a web novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website on 16 October 2010. As of 1 October 2021, ten novels have been published, comprising a total of 195 chapters.
Light novel[]
Publisher Shufunotomo (JP) acquired the series for print publication, and published the first volume with illustrations by Kurogin under their Hero Bunko imprint in January 2013. 11 volumes have been released as of 30 September 2020.
- First issue issued on February 2, 2013 (released on January 30) - ISBN 978-4-07-288159-0
- First issue issued on June 30, 2013 (released on May 31) - ISBN 978-4-07-289667-9
- First issue issued on October 31, 2013 (released on September 30) - ISBN 978-4-07-292729-8
- First issue issued on May 31, 2014 (released on April 28) - ISBN 978-4-07-296348-7
- First issue issued on April 30, 2015 (released on March 30) - ISBN 978-4-07-412412-1
- First issue issued on April 30, 2016 (released on March 30) - ISBN 978-4-07-416172-0
- First issue issued on April 30, 2017 (released on March 25) - ISBN 978-4-07-424154-5
- First issue issued on October 31, 2017 (released on September 30) - ISBN 978-4-07-427900-5
- First issue issued on November 10, 2018 (released on October 31) - ISBN 978-4-07-435471-9
- First issue issued on October 10, 2020 (released on September 30) - ISBN 78-4-07-445630-7
- First issue issued on December 10, 2021 (released on November 29) - ISBN 978-4-07-450520-3
Manga[]
Artist Takuji Katō began serializing a manga adaptation of the novels in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan on April 15, 2016. Crunchyroll will publish the manga digitally starting on July 5, 2017.
- First edition published on September 24, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5108-4
- First edition published on March 23, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5254-8
- First edition published on June 24, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5389-7
- First edition published on September 25, 2017 - ISBN ISBN 978-4-7575-5484-9
- First edition published on March 24, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5670-6
- First edition published on July 25, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5792-5
- First edition published on November 24, 2018 - ISBN 978-4-7575-5919-6
- First edition published on March 25, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-7575-6071-0
- First edition published on July 25, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-7575-6213-4
- First edition published on November 25, 2019 - ISBN 978-4-7575-6400-8
- First edition published on March 25, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-7575-6573-9
- First edition published on July 22, 2020 - ISBN 978-4-7575-6765-8
- First edition published on November 25, 2020 - ISBN ISBN 978-4-7575-6955-3
- First edition published on March 25, 2021 - ISBN ISBN 978-4-7575-7166-2
- First edition published on July 26, 2021 - ISBN ISBN 978-4-7575-7385-7
- First edition published on November 25, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-7575-7594-3
- First edition published on March 25, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-7575-7836-4
Character[]
The main character of this work. His nickname is "Eru". His age has changed from 9 years old (elementary school) → 12 years old (middle school) → 16 years old (at the time of the Great Western War). He has the nature of pushing straight toward his goal without regard for his surroundings, so much so that he is described as a "madman" many times in the work, and many of his actions are described as "runaway".
Tsubasa Kurata, a Japanese who was a serious robot otaku in his previous life. He is a genius programmer who is called the "last line of defense" and works for K Softworks, a medium-sized software maker in K City, K Prefecture, Kansai It boasted the processing power of However, on his way home from purchasing a plastic model on payday, he was run over by a drunk driver's car in S district of K city and died. He is 28 years old. After that, for some reason, he was reincarnated in another world with the memories and knowledge of his previous life. Reborn as a single seed between father Matthias and mother Celestina in the Echevarria family in Laihiara Academy in the Kingdom of Flemevira.
Because he has memories of his previous life, his knowledge, comprehension, and ability to think are on par with adults, but basically he is a child suitable for his age living in this world, and his previous life consciousness and Elle's consciousness are mixed. In the early days of the web version, Kurata's consciousness was strong and he was in a state like a dual personality, but after the beginning of the web version and the paperback version, mental age, reaction methods, thoughts, etc. have been changed to those appropriate for his age. there is Since the beginning of the story is omitted in the anime version, it is a depiction of an instant flashback of memories of the previous life and ability as an engineer, triggered by being attacked by a monster when he was an infant.
I realized that the logical laws of the programming language I learned in my previous life can be applied to the "magical formula" of this world, and that the "magic calculation area" that living things in this world are born with can be used as a virtual computer. Using the talent of a genius programmer inherited from his previous life, he has become adept at rearranging and improving existing magic, performing efficient operations, and creating new spells. However, by general standards, it is impossible to handle this much processing with only its own calculation domain, and it is described in the work that this abnormal calculation ability is Ernesty's greatest ability. Coding is fast even after the previous life and reincarnation , and there are no descriptions that cause bugs, but the codes of Telestare and Sylphiane KASASAGI III are difficult to read and are evaluated by specialized syntactic engineers (parsers). Aiming to become a knight from the age of Since he has accumulated his own training to improve his physical strength and magical power, his physical strength and magical power have reached a non-standard area, compared to the knights who are said to be first-class. is also outstanding.
After entering the Laihiala Knights Academy, during expedition training, he performed "direct control" to move the Phantom Crystal Knights using only his own magic calculations, and won his first battle with the demon beast "Behemoth". Because of this, he was made known to King Ambrosius, and in order to fulfill his promise to the audience, he created a telestare with new ideas that were not bound by conventional wisdom, making use of his knowledge of robot geeks from his previous life. After a series of turmoil related to this, the "Order of the Silver Phoenix" under the direct control of the king was established and assumed the position of leader. While developing new phantom crystal knights one after another, he became deeply involved in national affairs such as intervening in the war that broke out in a neighboring country and exploring the sea of Bocuse Omori. Due to the numerous achievements he made as a result, he became an exceptional existence with power on par with the king in matters related to phantom knights and magical. His final educational background is Reihiara Knight Academy Middle School Graduate.
After returning from Omorikai, he got engaged to Addy, and instead of an engagement ring, Sylphiane KASASAGI III (third, formal name at the time. Later renamed "Sylphiane KASASAGI III Engage" after this engagement announcement) (It is the first time in human history that a phantom knight was made instead of an engagement ring), announced his engagement to Addy and his surroundings, and married in 1285 of the Western calendar. The wedding ceremony was held as a quasi-state event at the place used for ceremonies of the Knights of the Imperial Guard in front of the royal capital Kankanen Royal Castle, according to the instruction of King Riotamus (officially, he was not present at the wedding ceremony). By the king's arrangement, food and alcohol were served free of charge and were open to the public, and the giants who were visiting the Flemevilla Kingdom at the time attended in full armor, which was considered formal attire, and at El's own request, a group of phantom knights. As a result of Addy's desire to line up around and dress up and Matthias' desire to keep it within the range of common sense, El wore the formal attire of the Silver Phoenix Knight Commander. According to the web version #155, her name has not changed even after her marriage. Addy calls the erotic thing "Eru" (using hiragana).
During the discussion on how to deal with the giants and the survivors of the Forest Expeditionary Force, it was also decided to reorganize the Ginho Knights by order of the king. Along with that, the members of the Knights of the White Heron and the Knights of the Red Falcon, who became the knights under their command, asked how they should call Eru, the leader of the knights, and Edgar confidently asked the members. I calmed down with the way I called him "Grand Commander". At that time, Dietrich laughed out loud at Addy's tweets with the "big" leader, even though he was small, and a super-high-speed chasing match was held with El, who was angry. By the way, in Knight's & Magic's setting materials and memorandum, "he is scheduled to be about 150 cm in the end".
Abilities[]
"Even broken Mechs are beautiful in their own way."
― Ernesti Echevalier
Although he is a man, he is often misunderstood as a beautiful girl due to his petite physique, purple-silver semi-long hair, and beautiful features inherited from his mother. Eru is good at piloting 「Ikagura」, because of his fanatic in Robot in his previous life. Eru's most defining characteristic is that he likes to set up goals to achieve and the harder that goal is, the more invested he is in pursuing it. His dream of creating a Silhouette Knight of his own design is the ultimate goal he sets for himself and every hindrance he clears is treated as simply a stepping stone to his goal.
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His personal aesthetic code is that the only thing allowed to destroy a mech is another mech. So, for example, going into battle on foot (though he's capable of being effective that way) is cheating. Even more importantly, when the Vyver is first deployed, his goal is to prove the superiority of Silhouette Knight technology over battleships and cannons, because if the latter technology wins out, robots will disappear from the battlefield and his aesthetic code will have been meaningless.
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His biggest dream is to design and ride his own personal Silhouette Knight, crafted by his own two hands. After a great many heroic deeds and accomplishments, he gets his wish.
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TV Anime[]
An anime television series adaptation was announced via a wraparound band on the first volume of the manga on 24 September 2016. The anime aired from 2 July – 24 September 2017. It is directed by Yusuke Yamamoto at Eight Bit, with scripts written by Michiko Yokote, and music composed by Masato Kōda. Fhána performed the opening theme song "Hello!MyWorld!!" and Ayaka Ohashi performed the ending theme song "You & I". Crunchyroll streamed the anime, while Funimation had licensed the series in North America. Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the dub was moved to Crunchyroll.
- Staff
- Original Author - Amazake no Gourd
- Original Illustration / Silhouette Night Design - Black Silver
- Director - Yusuke Yamamoto
- Series composition - Michiko Yokote
- Screenplay - Michiko Yokote, Toru Kimura
- Character Design - Kenichiro Katsura
- Effect animation director - Takashi Umeda
- Mechanical Design - Hidetaka Tenjin
- Concept design - Kazuki Miyatake, Takahiro Kishida
- Prop Design - Atsushi Irie
- Art Director - Kenta Masuda
- Art Setting - Kazushi Fujii
- Color design - Yukari Fujiki
- 2D Design - Hirofumi Araki
- CG Director - Eiji Inomoto
- 3DCG - Orange
- Cinematographer - Hiroshi Sato
- Editing - Megumi Uchida
- Acoustic Director - Hitoshi Aketagawa
- Music - Masato Koda
- Music production - Lantis
- Music Producer - Yohei Kisara
- Chief Producers - Nobuhiro Osawa , Haruto Nakayoshi, Takaro Asaga
- Producers - Ryutaro Kawakami, Ryota Ozaki, Emi Kashimura
- Animation Producer - Toshiya Otomo
- Produced by Jenco
- Animation Production - Eightbit
- Production - Knights & Magic Production Committee (Shufunotomosha, Bandai Visual, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Lantis, AT-X, Q-Tech, Genco)
Takahashi, who plays Elle, said in an interview with V-Storage that he was very happy to play the boy, and that he felt that he was similar to himself since he was participating in the audition. Shinsuke Sugawara, who plays Kidd, said in the same interview that he read the original novel after receiving the offer. Sugawara also auditioned for roles other than Kid, but while Kid was the one who got in the best, he was worried that he might not have been able to fully express the boy's unique innocence and honesty.
| No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Robots & Fantasy" | 2 July 2017 |
| Tsubasa Kurata, a company programmer and a mecha model fan, is killed in a car accident(Truck-kun). Tsubasa is reincarnated as a young boy named Ernesti "Eru" Echavalier in the Fremmevilla Kingdom in a world where magic exist. After witnessing his father Mathias defeating a demon beast in a mech called Silhouette Knight, Eru is motivated to be a Silhouette Knight pilot - Knight Runner - so that he too can ride one as well. During his magic training which he excels, he befriends the twins, Adeltrud "Addy" and Archid "Kid" Olter and also teaches them his magic skills. When the trio finally enrolled at Laihiala Academy, directed by Eru's grandfather, Eru learns he cannot pilot a Silhouette Knight as he is too young and short but is allowed to skipped to middle school classes after impressing his teachers with his power thanks to his Gunblade magic rod to compensate a magic rod's short range abilities. As Eru becomes 12 years old, he joins a class training trip between the middle and high school students at Cloquet Forest and meets Stefania Serrati, the Olters' older half-sister who the siblings share a complicated relationship since Addy and Kid are illegitimate children. Later that night, the class camp is attacked by a swarm of demon beasts which Eru, Addy, and Kid rescue Stefania and the rest of the students with help of their high school seniors riding Silhouette Knights. Elsewhere, a surviving Silhouette Knight battles a giant demon beast tortoise. | ||
| 2 | "Hero & Beast" | 9 July 2017 |
| Behemoth, the giant demon beast tortoise, attacks the gates of Cloquet Forest where the guards die fighting it as one runs to the capital to request the Knights for help. Back at the students camp, Eru realizes something big must have scared the demon beasts into going to their camp and witness the Behemoth appearing. As the student's evacuate, the senior students Silhouette Knights led by Edgar C. Blanche, Helvi Oberi and Dietrich Knitz fight and distract the Behemoth. After seeing one of his comrades killed by the Behemoth's fire breath, Dietrich runs away in fear, which Eru follows him, knocks him out and steal his Guair Silhouette Knight. After improvising the Guair's controls and improving its movements using his magic and programming, Eru rides the Guair into battle and rescuing his seniors by stabbing the Behemoth's left eye with a sword. Despite help from the kingdom's Silhouette Knights, the Behemoth is too strong due to its thick armor and fire breath. In order to defeat it, Eru jumps onto the Behemoth's head and casts lighting into its wounded eye, which transmit to its brain, killing it. At sunrise, the surviving Knight Runners are shocked to discover Guair's pilot was not Dietrich but Eru. Having fun experienced riding a Silhouette Knight, Eru tells his friends that he plans to make a custom Silhouette Knight for himself. Meanwhile, the King of Fremmevilla takes an interest with Eru due to his deeds. | ||
| 3 | "Scrap & Build" | 16 July 2017 |
| Eru is summoned by the King who wants to reward him any prize for defeating the Behemoth. Much to the court and his grandfather's shock, Eru asks for the classified schematics of an Ether Reactor, the heart of a Silhouette Knight. When Eru explains he wants to make his dream Silhouette Knight and ride it as his hobby, the King is amused with his answer and agrees to Eru's request if he can built an improved Silhouette Knight first. One of the King's advisers, Marquis Selati, Stefania, Addy and Kid's father, tells his children to report to him if Eru is successful so he may inform the King. Meanwhile, Eru explains his plan to improve a Silhouette Knight's performance to his dwarf friend, Batson, and his senior and Silhouette Knight engineer, David, who is impressed with Eru's idea. Using Helvi's Trandorkis as a testbed, Eru and the Dwarven engineers improves the Trandorkis strength by 30% using stranded crystal tissues and adds two sidearms armed with magic rods behind its back so the Silhouette Knight can fight close range and cast spells at the same time. In the meantime, Eru and Batson also built Silhouette Gears, human size mech suits so that Addy and Kid can learn how to operate Silhouette Knights. With the improvements done, the Trandorkis, now renamed Telestale, performs well in its first test run. Later, Helvi's Telestale battles Edgar's Earlcumber in a mock match and almost win before the Telestale mana runs out. Later that night, the engineers celebrate the Telestale's success and Eru thinks of more Silhouette Knight ideas, unaware that another group is spying on their work. | ||
| 4 | "Light & Shadow" | 23 July 2017 |
| While Eru and the engineers try to find a way to fix the Telestale's high mana consumption, Eru also builds weapons for the Silhouette Gears including an automatic crossbow. Addy and Kid reports to their father about the Telestale's performance which he in turn informs Marquis Dixgard. Under Marquis Dixgard orders, the Order of the Scarlet Rabbit has three Telestale Silhouette Knight brought to Fort Casadesus where the Marquis will inspect and test the Knights personally. During the journey, the Scarlet Rabbit convoy is ambushed by a Shaker Worm demon beast which Edgar, Helvi and Dietrich in their Telestales are able to defeat it which impresses Knight Commander Fredholm of the Scarlet Rabbits. Unaware by everyone, the ambush was set up by Order of the Bronze Fang, the spies who have been observing Eru's work. At Fort Casadesus, Marquis Dixgard, who dislikes Eru for breaking the status Quo on Knight design, meets Eru personally. After telling Eru that he will be reporting all new Silhouette Knight design to the King, the Marquis is flabbergasted that Eru doesn't mind nor is he interested with fame or riches since he wants to make newer and better Silhouette Knight and eventually relents. As Eru's friends head to Fort Casadesus to get him, the Order of the Bronze Fang causes a demon beast attack at a nearby village to lure out the Order of the Scarlet Rabbit so they can attack Fort Casadesus. | ||
| 5 | "Hide & Seek" | 30 July 2017 |
| Edgar and Dietrich accompany Batson, David, Kid and Addy in their Silhouette Knights to Fort Casadesus. Meanwhile, Lady Kerhilt and the Bronze Fang Knights managed to sneak into Fort Casadesus and hijack the Fort's Silhouette Knights including the three Telestales. Despite Commander Fredholm and the Scarlet Rabbit Knights attempts to stop them, Lady Kerhilt and two of her subordinates escape the Fort with two of the Telestales. However, the Bronze Fang Knights encounter Edgar and Dietrich on the way which the latter two tries to stop them with Kid and Addy helping in their Silhouette Gears. Upon learning from Batson and David on what happened to the stolen Telestales, Eru dons a Silhouette Gear and helps Commander Fredholm defeat the intruders in the Fort. Elsewhere, Dietrich, Kid and Addy manages to defeat Lady Kerhilt subordinates while she herself defeats Edgar and escapes to Vendobadahla. Dietrich tries to follow her but he and the others are surrounded by demon beasts until Eru and Commander Fredholm arrives to help them. The next morning, Marquis Dixgard is shocked to discover the intruders that attacked the Fort and stole the Telestale were using cursed bait, a forbidden concoction that attracts demon beasts and turns them crazy and concludes this was the work of another nation. Days later, Eru and his friends are thanked by King Ambrosius for their work who also creates a new Order of Knights called the Order of the Silver Phoenix led by Eru to research and create better Silhouette Knights. A recovering Edgar promises Helvi that he will retrieve the stolen Telestale as it was actually her Silhouette Knight. | ||
| 6 | "Trial & Error" | 6 August 2017 |
| As a Telestale is sent to the Silhouette Knight Laboratory, the Fremmevilla Kingdom top research lab, whose Directors hope to reverse engineer it and make their own mass-produced Silhouette Knights to impress King Ambrosius, Eru and the Order of the Silver Phoenix begin their work on creating newer and improved Silhouette Knights with help from Marquis Dixgard who delivers two Silhouette Knight companies of Kaldatoahs as base models and Nora Frykberg and the Order of the Azure Hawk capturing the spies who help the Bronze Fang Knights and prevent any more leaks of information from the academy. Eru creates Silhouette Gears for the Knightsmiths to ease their workload and new Silhouette Knight designs and improvements to be added. However, David criticizes Eru for being too focus in his work when his test of using rockets on a Silhouette Knight almost gets him killed. After creating a two seater cockpit for Addy and Kid, a Silhouette Knight shaped like a centaur and magical daggers uses as keys to start a Silhouette Knight to prevent another hijacking attempt, Eru and the Order of the Silver Phoenix heads to the capital to face against the Silhouette Knight Laboratory's Kaldatoah Darsch models in front of King Ambrosius and his ministers. | ||
| 7 | "New & Old" | 13 August 2017 |
| The match between the Order of Silver Phoenix and the Laboratory Team ends in a draw, as with the new units' increased power they reached a stalemate against units less advanced, but with more experienced pilots. Some time later, Eru and his friends graduate from Laihiala and move with the rest of the order to Fort Orobesius to dedicate themselves to Silhouette Knight development, and King Ambrosius decides to retire and leave the kingdom to his son, Leotamus. He then approaches Eru and asks him to develop new, exclusive Silhouette Knights for him and his grandson, Prince Emrys. The order then produces two units with the same capabilities, one colored silver, Jilbariga and the other colored gold, Goldleo. When both decide to choose Goldleo, Ambrosius and Emrys decide to settle it with a duel, with Emrys claiming the victory and Ambrosius accepting Jilbariga. Eru soon realizes that Ambrosius was actually testing his grandson's skills. | ||
| 8 | "Secret & Quest" | 20 August 2017 |
| When a large group of Shellcased beasts head for Alfheim, the city where the Ether Reactors are developed and home of the Alvs, the Order of Silver Phoenix is dispatched to help defend it, along with Ambrosius and Emrys. With the power of the new units, Eru and co. easily defeat the attackers, with Eru killing the Shellcased queen by himself. After the battle, Ambrosius finally accepts Eru's request to let him learn the secret of how Ether Reactors are created, and takes him to Alfheim, where he is granted permission from the Great Elder Kitley, the leader of the Alvs. He then spends three months there to learn the process and returns with Ambrosius's permission to use the catalysts of the Behemoth and the Shellcased Queen he killed to create a custom Ether Reactor and use it to complete his own, personal Silhouette Knight, Ikaruga. | ||
| 9 | "Force & Justice" | 27 August 2017 |
| The Zaloudek Kingdom starts a war to conquer the entire western continent. Using their newest models of Silhouette Knights and transport airships, the forces of Zaloudek easily bypass the defenses of the Kingdom of Kuschpercha. With defeat inevitable, the king requests a duel with the commander of the Zaloudek forces, Prince Cristobal, to buy enough time for his daughter, Princess Eleonora, to escape. The king loses and is killed, but Eleonora ends up captured by the enemy forces, along with her aunt Martina and cousin Isadola, who are also King Leotamus' sister and niece respectively. In response, Leotamus sends the Order of Silver Phoenix along with Emrys to investigate the situation, and after easily defeating the enemies guarding the border, they discover that their Silhouette Knights have the same technology as the Telestale stolen from Fort Casadesus, concluding that the thieves were tied with Zaloudek. Upon hearing that Eleonora is being forced to marry Cristobal, Eru and co. start making plans to rescue her, but news about their presence reach Cristobal, who sends Gustav Mardonnes to track them down. Upon meeting Eru's party, Gustav attacks them, but when they prove themselves too strong for him, he retreats, assisted by Lady Kerhilt. | ||
| 10 | "War & Princess" | 3 September 2017 |
| Using special Silhouette Gears, the Order of Silver Phoenix successfully rescue Eleonora, Martina and Isadola. Cristobal sends a party to chase after them, but their pursuers are easily defeated by Eru's Ikaruga and forced to flee. Once reaching safety, Eru's party establishes a base at Nishirie, and agree to provide the remaining Kuschperchan forces with upgrades to their Silhouette Knights in exchange for the scraps of all enemy units defeated by them. With these new upgrades, the Kuschperchan easily fend off an enemy attack on the city, and Lady Kerhilt is ordered to launch a surprise attack on the Silver Phoenix's base to recapture the Princess, in exchange of having her family's name restored. However, Eru and his friends were prepared and easily defeat and capture the Bronze Fang Knights, with Lady Kerhilt killed in a battle against Edgar. | ||
| 11 | "Hit & Away" | 10 September 2017 |
| Cristobal leads a large force of Silhouette Knights and airships to crush the Kuschperchan forces at their stronghold and capture Eleonora. However, he falls into a trap made by the Order of Silver Phoenix who now possess Javelin missiles to take down their airships. With his forces routed due to the Silver Phoenix's superior Silhouette Knights, Cristobal's airship tries to escape only to be confronted by the Ikaruga. Eru easily defeats Cristobal in battle which the latter tries to bribe Eru to join his side. But when Eru admits of no interest in nobility, Cristobal falls to his death rather than suffer humiliation of being captured, demoralizing his forces and making them retreat. Eleonora becomes Queen of Kuschperchan and declares the rebirth of their nation. As the combined Silver Phoenix and Kuschperchan forces retake their lands, Oratio Gojass, Zaloudek's top scientist, promises Princess Catalina that he will build a new weapon to avenge her brother's death. Months later, the Silver Phoenix and Kuschperchan forces finally retake a fortress held by Zaloudek, but Oratio's new weapon, a giant airship shaped like a Drake, attacks them. | ||
| 12 | "Knight & Dragon" | 17 September 2017 |
| The Vyver, Zaloudek's newest weapon, battles the Ikaruga, whose Captain Doloteo Mardones wants to avenge Cristobal's death. Meanwhile, a Zaloudek force led by Doloteo's son, Gustavo, battles Dietrich and his men but Gustavo is forced to abandon his Silhouette Knight after Dietrich tricks him into exhausting his mana supply. Eru is unable take down the Vyver due to its defenses and is forced to land the Ikaruga after the Vyver's chaff smoke damages its jet engines. The Vyver is forced to withdraw after exhausting its mana trying to destroy the Ikaruga. As Eru and his allies withdraw, Oratio repairs and installs a bigger Ether Reactor in the Vyver to give it more power and Gustavo receives the Zaloudek's Royal Family Silhouette Knight, Alkeloryx, by Princess Catalina. Meanwhile, after discussing their battle plans, the Silver Phoenix and Kuschperchans agree to Eleonora's strategy where she will lead the entire Kuschperchan army to recapture their capital Delvancul while Eru and the Silver Phoenix Knights battle the Vyver. As the Kuschperchans fight the Zaloudeks at the last fortress that leads to Delvancul, the Vyver arrives, with Oratio onboard, to attack Eleonora's position only to discover Eru has repaired and improved a captured airship to fight them. | ||
| 13 | "Heaven & Earth" | 24 September 2017 |
| After drawing the Vyver away from the battlefield, Eru's party launches an attack with Javelin missiles loaded with oil that once ignited, surrounds the enemy ship in flames. In response, Doloteo activates the Vyver's Dragon Blood reactor that surrounds it with a massive energy shield. Meanwhile, on land, an infiltration party hijacks the drawbridge controls, allowing the Kuschperchan forces to invade, while Gustavo is defeated by Edgar with Emrys' help. Back to the sky, Eru breaks through the Vyver's energy shield and attacks it directly, defeating it. In a last effort, Doloteo takes control of the Vyver and attempts to ram it on the Kuschperchan base camp to kill Eleonora, but Eru and Kid stop him, taking down the Vyver for good. After the battle, the Kuschperchan forces take control of Delvancul and Catalina poisons herself to death to avoid capture, thus ending the war with Zaloudek's defeat and Eleonora recognized as Kuschpercha's de facto ruler. Once returning home, Eru is watched by far from Oratio, who survived the Vyver's destruction and departs to look for another country to sell his services to, longing to face Eru in battle again. Back to Flemevilla, Ambrosius commends the Order of Silver Knights for their efforts, and awards Eru with his own laboratory, while the airship's technology is spread along the neighboring countries, ushering a new era of trade and transportation across the continent. | ||
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Reception[]
The manga and the light novels had a combined 1.5 million copies in print as of 16 March 2018.
Product Commercialization[]
From Bandai's robot figure brand "ROBOT SPIRITS", in October 2017, two phantom knights (Earl Cumber, Guerre) were commercialized. A prototype was shown at an exhibition in May of the same year.
Also, Good Smile Company has announced that Ernesti Echevalier will be made into a Nendoroid.
External Links[]
- Knight's & Magic ー Web-Novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic (Material and Memorandum) ー Web-Novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic (Side Stories) ー Web-Novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic ー Work information (Light Novel Website) | Hero Bunko (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic ー Manga | (Crunchyroll simultaneous publication)
- Knight's & Magic ー Anime | (Crunchyroll simultaneous publication)
- Knight's & Magic ー Special Site | Hero Bunko (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic ー Work information (Manga Website) | Young Gangan (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "Knight's & Magic" Official website
- TV Anime "Knight's & Magic" Official (@naitsuma_anime) - Twitter
- Knight's & Magic ー Wikipedia (in Japanese)
- Knight's & Magic ー Wikipedia (in English)
See Also[]
- Kuro no Shoukanshi, is another light novel series with the same illustrator.
Trivia[]
- Ernie is hailed as a genius. But all his "rAddycal" innovations could have been thought up by anyone; since the inspiration is all around them in the world.
- it's more surprising that Ernie never said anything along the lines of "not my fault they lacked the imagination" when the Marquis was left flabbergasted by Ernie making these advancements.
- Married at 18 after returning from the land of the giants. (Vol 8-9)
- Because Ernesti's childhood prior to his training wasn't fully adapted, many viewers incorrectly believed Kurata immediately got reincarnated into the 3-year-old Ernesti.
- Both when he was Kurata and since being reincarnated, Ernesti has a habit of touching his chin when he's thinking.