is a Japanese

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

series written by Nekoko and illustrated by Jaian. It initially began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website

Shōsetsuka ni Narō is a Japanese novel self-publishing website created by . It was launched on April 2, 2004. Users can upload their novels free of charge and the novels are also free to read. As of December 2022, the site hosts close to 1,000,000 novels, has over ...

in April 2021.

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

acquired the series and began publishing it under their Kodansha Ranobe Books light novel imprint in June 2022. A

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

adaptation illustrated by Lee Brocco began serialization on Kodansha's ''YanMaga Web'' manga website and app in February 2022 before being transferred to the ''

Weekly Young Magazine is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine started on June 16, 1980, and is targeted at the adult male () demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the second and fourth ...

'' in September 2024. An

anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

television series adaptation produced by

GoHands is a Japanese animation studio located in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka. It was founded in 2008 by Ringo Kishimoto and former members of Satelight. Known for their unique house animation style, GoHands have produced a number of anime s ...

is set to premiere in 2026.

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Media

Light novel

Written by Nekoko, ''The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System'' initially began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website

on April 25, 2021.

acquired the series and began publishing it with illustrations by Jaian under their Kodansha Ranobe Books light novel imprint on June 2, 2022. Three volumes have been released as of February 2024.

Manga

adaptation illustrated by Lee Brocco began serialization on Kodansha's ''YanMaga Web'' manga website and app on February 11, 2022. The manga was later transferred to the ''

'' on September 9, 2024. The manga's chapters have been compiled into fourteen ''

tankōbon A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that w ...

'' volumes as of June 2025. The manga's chapters are published in English on Kodansha's "K Manga" app. In July 2025,

Seven Seas Entertainment Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as w ...

announced that they had licensed the manga for English publication.

Anime

television series adaptation was announced on September 5, 2024. The series is produced by

and directed by Katsumasa Yokomine, with Shingo Suzuki and Tetsuichi Yamagishi serving as chief directors, Takayuki Uchida designing the characters, and Ludvig Forssell composing the music. It is set to premiere in 2026.

Reception

By June 2025, the series had over 3 million copies in circulation.

References

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