The Exiled Heavy Knight Anime Unveils Second-Part Cast and Theme Songs

Staff revealed a main trailer, key visual, additional cast, and theme songs on Thursday for The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (Tsuihō Sareta Tensei Jū Kishi wa Game Chishiki de Musō Suru).

The television anime adapts Brocco Lee’s manga version of Nekoko’s light novel series. The announcements cover its second cours, or quarter-year broadcast period.

VTuber Tokoyami Towa sings the new opening, “Rewrite the Answer.” Rock band PompadollS performs the new ending, “Contemporary Dance.” The trailer features both songs.

The new cast members are:

• Kōsuke Tanabe as Kelt, a B-rank hunter who joins Elymas on the raid quest.
• Tsugumi Sakuragi as Maebel, a C-rank Priest.
• Misaki Kuno as Hilde, a B-rank Magic Swordsman who describes herself as Carlos’ leading disciple.
• Kengo Kawanishi as Carlos, an A-rank Magic Swordsman known as the “Black Flame Blade.”

The anime premiered July 2 on TBS and MBS’ Super Animeism TURBO block at 24:26 JST, effectively July 3 at 12:26 a.m. It runs for two consecutive cours. Crunchyroll streams episodes as they air and also offers an English dub.

The principal cast includes:

• Takeo Ōtsuka as Elma Edvan.
• Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis.
• Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan.

The production staff includes:

• Shingo Suzuki as general director.
• Katsumasa Yokomine (The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, Momentary Lily) as director at GoHands.
• Takayuki Uchida (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, W’z) as character designer and a chief animation director.
• Keiji Tani (Momentary Lily) and Makoto Furuta (Momentary Lily) as fellow chief animation directors.
• Tetsuichi Yamagishi (key animation on Cowboy Bebop: The Movie) as chief director.
• Hiroshi Ōkubo (K, The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses) as main animator.
• Glovision handling sound production.
• Enji Nakajima and Tetsuya Gunji as sound directors.
• Ludvig Forssell (the BELLE film) as composer.

Kodansha publishes the manga in English through K MANGA. Its synopsis follows Elma, a 15-year-old from a family of Sword Saints. At his Divine Blessing Ceremony, he receives the Heavy Knight class, widely considered defective.

He is berated as worthless for receiving such a class despite being a Sword Saint’s son. Stripped of his place as the Edvan Household’s next head, Elma is exiled.

Heavy Knights supposedly have unbalanced stats and useless skills, and the class carries a reputation for attracting cowards and idlers. Elma, however, recognizes his world as a game he played in his previous life. He knows Heavy Knight is its strongest class.

Using that knowledge, Elma sets out to progress efficiently through the world into which he has been reincarnated.

Nekoko started serializing the story on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let’s Become Novelists) in April 2021. Kodansha released the first print volume, illustrated by Jaian, in June 2022. The fifth volume shipped July 2.

Brocco Lee began the manga adaptation on Kodansha’s Yanmaga website in February 2022. It transferred to Kodansha’s Young Magazine in September 2024. Its 19th collected volume is scheduled to ship October 6.

Seven Seas Entertainment also releases Nekoko’s Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling and Disciple of the Lich light novels in English. It additionally publishes RIO’s manga adaptation of Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling.