Knights and Magic is a Japanese light novel series written by Hisago Amazake-no and illustrated by Kurogin. It follows the story of a Japanese salaryman named Tsubasa Kurata who died in a car accident and is reincarnated into a fantasy world where magic and giant robots called Silhouette Knights exist. Upon his reincarnation, Tsubasa retains his knowledge of mecha and becomes determined to become a knight pilot. With his knowledge, he aims to revolutionize the world of Silhouette Knights and lead his own knight order. In this fantasy world, mage knights fight using magic and piloting giant robots. Tsubasa, now named Ernesti Echevalier, quickly becomes a prodigy in mecha technology due to his knowledge from his previous life.
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Tsubasa, now named Ernesti Echevalier, quickly becomes a prodigy in mecha technology due to his knowledge from his previous life. He attracts the attention of many influential figures in the kingdom, including the royal family, and is offered lessons in magic and knight training. As Ernesti progresses in his training, he befriends other knight apprentices and mages, forming his own group of like-minded individuals who share his passion for mecha.
Knight's & Magic (TV)
Plot Summary: A Japanese mecha otaku dies in a car accident and his soul is reincarnated into another world as Ernesti Echevarria. Eru inherits memories and interests from his previous life, and aims to be a pilot of a Silhouette Knight, a large humanoid weapon that really exists in his world.
User Ratings: 222 ratings have been given [details] Masterpiece: 13 votes (sub:12, raw:1) Excellent: 27 votes (sub:23, dub:4) Very good: 58 votes (sub:45, dub:9, others:4 2 Spanish subtitled1 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed Good: 54 votes (sub:44, dub:9, raw:1) Decent: 35 votes (sub:32, dub:2, others:1 1 Portuguese subtitled So-so: 17 votes (sub:15, dub:2) Not really good: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1) Weak: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1) Bad: 1 vote (sub:1) Awful: - Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 374 users, rank: #2568 (of 9377)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.068 (Good), std. dev.: 1.7137, rank: #3327 (of 9480)
Weighted mean: 6.984 (Good), rank: #3697 (of 9480) (seen all: 7.07 / seen some: 7.00 / won't finish: 4.32)
Bayesian estimate: 7.013 (Good), rank: #3234 (of 7123)
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Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
Script:
Michiko Yokote (eps 1-5)
Noboru Kimura (ep 6)
Storyboard:
Shinsaku Sasaki (eps 2, 5)
Shōgo Kōmoto (eps 4, 6)
Yūsuke Yamamoto (eps 1, 3)
Unit Director:
Atsushi Nakayama (eps 1, 6)
Katsuya Shigehara (eps 2, 5)
Yoshihiro Mori (ep 3)
Music: Masato Kōda
Original creator: Hisago Amazake-no
Original Character Design: Kurogin
Character Design: Kenichirō Katsura
Art Director: Kenta Masuda
Chief Animation Director:
Kenichirō Katsura
Tomoko Fukunaga
Yūko Yamada
Mechanical design:
Hidetaka Tenjin
Kurogin
Art design: Kazushi Fujii
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Cgi Director: Eiji Inomoto
Director of Photography: Hiroshi Satō
2D Design: Hirofumi ArakiAssistant Production Advancement: Norikiyo Fujita (ep 13)
Color design: Yukari Fujiki
Conceptual Design:
Kazutaka Miyatake
Takahiro Kishida
Editing: Megumi Uchida
Effect Animation Director: Takatsugu Umeda
Production Advancement Assistant:
Ouri Yasukawa ( 8 episodes eps 1-2, 5-6, 8, 10, 12-13 )
Yukiyo Yamashiro (eps 12-13)
Production Desk: Kensuke Tamura
Prop Design: Atsushi Irie
Theme Song Performance:
Ayaka Ohashi (ED)
fhána (OP)
Rie Takahashi as Atsushi Imaruoka as Ayaka Ohashi as Hidetaka Tenjin as Kazuyuki Okitsu as Masaru Ikeda as Natsumi Fujiwara as Sayaka Ohara as Sayaka Senbongi as Shinsuke Sugawara as Shizuka Itō as Yasuaki Takumi as Ai Kakuma as Arisa Sakuraba as Asuna Tomari as (ep 1) Atsuko Tanaka as Atsushi Taniguchi as (ep 9) Ayaka Asai as Daichi Hayashi as (ep 2) Daisuke Ono as Daisuke Sakaguchi as Harumi Sakurai as Hideyuki Hori as (ep 9) Hiromichi Tezuka as
(ep 10)
(ep 6)
(ep 11) Hironori Saitō as
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(ep 9) Hiroyuki Kinoshita as (eps 2-3) Ikuji Nose as (ep 1) Jun Inoue as
(ep 11)
(ep 13)
(eps 9, 12) Jun Kasama as
(ep 3)
(ep 2)
(ep 12) Junichi Yanagita as (ep 1) Junji Majima as (young) Kazumasa Fukagawa as Kazumasa Nakamura as Keiko Han as Kenta Sasa as (ep 6) Kentarō Kumagai as (ep 2) Kikuko Inoue as (ep 3) Kōhei Amasaki as
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(ep 1) Kōichi Sōma as
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(ep 13) Makoto Furukawa as
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(eps 4, 12)
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(ep 1) Makoto Sahara as
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Mariko Higashiuchi as (young) Masaya Matsukaze as Mugihito as Naoya Nosaka as (ep 11) Ryōkan Koyanagi as Ryōta Takeuchi as (eps 4, 7) Satoshi Inomata as Sayaka Ohara as (ep 1) Shinobu Matsumoto as (eps 1-2) Shizuka Ishigami as
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(ep 4) Shuuichi Nishitani as
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(ep 9) Susumu Chiba as Takaya Hashi as (ep 3) Takayuki Sugo as (eps 2-3) Taketora as (ep 1) Tarō Kiuchi as
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(eps 9, 11-12) Tatsuhiro Kikuchi as
(ep 12)
(ep 13) Tetsu Inada as Yasuhiro Mamiya as (ep 2) Yoshihito Sasaki as
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(ep 13) Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as (eps 6-7) Yūichi Nakamura as Yukari Tamura as Yūma Uchida as (ep 8) Yuna Yoshino as
(ep 1)
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(ep 7) 3D Graphics: Orange
3D Modeling Cooperation:
Graphinica
WELZ Animation Studio
Animation Production: 8 bit
Backgrounds:
Green
GREEN Qiqihar Studio
CG Animation: Chiptune (ep 1)
Editing Studio: Chiptune
Key Animation:
Artbox (eps 3, 7, 11)
Studio Gram (ep 4)
TAP (ep 4)
Triple A (ep 4)
Photography: Chiptune
Production Cooperation:
Marvy Jack (ep 9)
Studio Pastoral (eps 3, 7, 11)
Studio VOLN (ep 4)
Video Editing: Q-Tec
ADR Director: Anthony Bowling
Script: Josh Grelle
Translation:
Adam Lensenmayer
Nora Stevens Heath (Additional Home Video Translation)
Executive producer: Gen Fukunaga
ADR Supervisor: Peter Hawkinson
Assistant ADR Director: Brad Smeaton (eps 6-7)
Assistant producer:
Samantha Herek
Zach Bolton
Editing: Alicia Ashby (Subtitles)
Head Writer: John Burgmeier
Language Asset Coordinator: Kaitlan Estes
Language Asset Manager: Sarah Alys Lindholm
Lead ADR Engineer: Xavier Earl ( 11 episodes eps 1-4, 6-7, 9-13 Materials Coordinator: Trenton Jons
Mix Engineer:
Andrew Tipps
Gino Palencia (ep 1)
Neal Malley (eps 2-13)
Production Assistant:
Jordan Dreasher
Sally Haden
Sharon Randall
Victoria Keller
Quality Check: Emily Martha Sorensen (Subtitles)
Senior Video Editor:
Daniel Mancilla
Jeremy Jimenez
Special Thanks To: Gregory Lanson
Subtitle Timing: Henry Lin
Talent Coordination: Tara A. Williams
Translation Check: Michelle Tymon
Video Editing:
Aya Spann
Brittany Smith
Issa Currie
Josh Tyler
Video Post-Production Director: Clarine Harp
Justin Briner as Aaron Roberts as Brandon McInnis as Christopher Wehkamp as Christopher R. Sabat as Cris George as Jeannie Tirado as John Swasey as Josh Grelle as Morgan Garrett as Rachael Messer as Ryan Reynolds as Sarah Wiedenheft as Stephen Fu as Tia Ballard as Aaron Dismuke as Alejandro Saab as (ep 7) Alex Moore as Alexis Tipton as (Child) Anastasia Munoz as (ep 3) Barry Yandell as (ep 3) Ben Phillips as Blake Shepard as Brandon Potter as (eps 2-3) Charlie Campbell as
(ep 7)
(ep 2) Chris Thurman as (ep 2) Clifford Chapin as Daman Mills as (ep 8) David Trosko as (ep 8) David Wald as David Wilson-Brown as (ep 10) Dawn M. Bennett as Derick Snow as Eric Vale as Felecia Angelle as Greg Silva as (ep 2) J. Michael Tatum as Jacob Browning as (ep 2) Jamie Marchi as Jarrod Greene as
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(ep 2) Jeremy Inman as (eps 10, 12) Jerry Jewell as Joe Cucinotti as (ep 7) Kyle Igneczi as (ep 9) Marcus D. Stimac as (ep 5) Monica Rial as Natalie Hoover as Quinn Angell as (ep 8) Rachael Messer as (ep 1) Ricco Fajardo as (ep 9) Sonny Strait as (ep 9) Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment
Dubbing: FUNimation Entertainment
Licensed by: Crunchyroll
Encoding:
Charlotte Colart
Olivier Cervantes
Publication:
Jelizaveta Stolarova
Olivier Cervantes
Relecture: Adam Plaza
Spotting:
Charlotte Colart
Justine Cocquyt
Supervision: Justine Cocquyt
(none)
Internet Streaming: Wakanim
(none)
Distributor: Yamato Video
Internet Streaming: YouTube (Yamato Animation)
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Esther Brandt as Jan Langer as Jo Jung as Katharina Lichtblau as Markus Haase as Nataša Rikanović as Sam Bauer as Stefan Müller-Doriat as Antonio F. Lopes as (eps 10-13) Chantal Busse as (eps 9-13) Diana Gantner as (eps 3-5, 9-10) Frank Lienert as (eps 1, 3-4, 6) Johannes Bahr as (eps 6-7) Judith Raab as (eps 9-12) Kevin Kasper as
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(ep 1) Mathias Förster as (eps 1, 6) Raik Singer as (eps 9-13) Stella Goritzki as (eps 9-12) Sven-Marcel Voss as (eps 9-11) Yasmin Röckel as (eps 9-13) Distributor: Anime House
Internet Streaming: Anime on Demand
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Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.068 (Good), std. dev.: 1.7137, rank: #3327 (of 9480)
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Together, they work towards advancing the technology and capabilities of Silhouette Knights. Ernesti's ultimate goal is to create his own Silhouette Knight, surpassing the existing ones and revolutionizing the world of magic and mecha. Throughout the series, Ernesti and his group face various challenges and adversaries. They participate in knight battles and magic competitions, showcasing their skills and technological advancements. Along the way, they uncover hidden truths about the world's history and the origins of the Silhouette Knights. The main idea of Knights and Magic revolves around Ernesti's ambition to create a better future for himself and the kingdom by combining his knowledge of mecha and magic. The story highlights his journey of growth, as he works tirelessly to achieve his dreams and bring about innovation in a world filled with tradition and ancient magic. Knights and Magic is a captivating light novel series that combines elements of fantasy, mecha, and adventure to deliver an engaging plot filled with action and intrigue..
Reviews for "The Power of Imagination in Knights and Magic Light Novel: Unlocking the Secrets of Sorcery"
1. Emily - 2 stars - I found the plot of the Knights and Magic light novel to be incredibly predictable and lacking in originality. The main character, Ernesti, is portrayed as a genius mecha pilot, but it felt like he never faced any real challenges or setbacks. The story felt like a continuous string of Ernesti effortlessly overcoming every obstacle in his path, which made it hard for me to become invested in his journey. Additionally, the world-building felt shallow and underdeveloped, with little explanation given to the workings of the magic system or the political dynamics of the world. Overall, I found the plot to be quite underwhelming and it didn't live up to my expectations.
2. Michael - 3 stars - While the concept of combining knights and magic in a light novel intrigued me, I felt that the execution of the plot in Knights and Magic fell short. The pacing was inconsistent, with long stretches of time dedicated to Ernesti's tinkering and building of mechas, while the actual battles and conflicts were rushed and lacked depth. The character development was also lacking, as Ernesti felt like a one-dimensional character with little growth or relatability. I was hoping for a more engaging and immersive experience, but unfortunately, the plot didn't deliver.
3. Sarah - 2.5 stars - I had high hopes for the Knights and Magic light novel, but I ended up being disappointed by the plot. The story felt overly focused on the technical aspects of mechas and lacked a compelling narrative. There were moments where it felt like I was reading a manual for building robots rather than a captivating story. Additionally, the side characters were underdeveloped and their motivations and actions often felt unrealistic. While the concept of knights and magic had potential, the execution fell flat for me. I wouldn't recommend it to those looking for a gripping and well-paced story.