Knight's & Magic

Knight's & Magic seemed designed for one purpose and one purpose only: showing off mechs and the battles between them. So in order to fulfil that purpose Knight's & Magic had the brilliant idea of cutting out all the unnecessary "filler" that isn't that. And in the process that made the show devoid to of any real weight in it. Knight's & Magic is one of the many light novel adaptations that have decided to make up for their limited advertising time by speeding up their show. It's really a bad idea. Light Novel Adaptations are designed to sell and while I understand the want to get to the biggest events so they can really sell the show it doesn't make for a good story to rush to those events. Not only does it take away from the plot and character development but it just makes the show feel that much more hallow. Important points are just glossed over. They more often summarize things that happen than they do actually show it happening. And while it at least sets up what is needed to know for what happens later, it fails at being an entertaining work. It's just like history class. Things got a lot more interesting when it was made into a story, and a lot less interesting when it was simplified down to facts. Knight's & Magic try to reduce it down to facts and it makes it less interesting. I'm not sure how making it less interesting is going to end up selling more light novels, but it's what they decided to go with. Every scene that they rush through feels so hallow and unconvincing. It doesn't feel like the narrative being played out, it feels like a poorly done summary play. The character's hearts don't feel in the actions that we see, and they're grazed through so fast that it's impossible to really get a feel or the character's emotions or feel along with them. It also makes things get tied up way too easily or reduces too many lines down to catch-all lines that don't feel natural in the slightest. And then there's the lack of character development. It's really hard to develop characters when their screen time is so minimal. And when all they do while they're on screen is go with the one trait they've been allowed to express they aren't very interesting. It's hard to care about any of the characters when they're that flat, and when one doesn't care about the characters it does kill a lot of the tension of wanting a certain victor. I mean if the audience doesn't care, then where's the weight behind the battles? Only Ernie is able to have time to shine, and at the very least he's distinct. Although he happens to be a typical isekai protagonist who can do nothing wrong. He's unrealistically overpowered and seems to be able to do everything that he ever needs to. And he's still the best character in the show. That's just how bland and one note the whole cast is as a whole. And that is the true problem with Knight's & Magic. The audience needs to somehow find some reason to care about bland flat characters that get very little screentime. It basically relies on Ernie and his charisma to carry the show, and if you're not on board with that, then what drives the tension of the show. What makes all of that summary with it. It basically becomes mech battles and summary. And personally, I don't find that to be a very entertaining. Now if you like mech battles, then you might enjoy Mech Battles & Summary, but if you don't there's really nothing to latch onto here. The mech battles are well done, and at the very least they do pace the action a lot better. Although without caring about the fights this can leave one even more bored. They spend so much more time on battles, it does get tiring and uninteresting after a while if one is not a fan of action. The production values are not bad, and that does make it enjoyable if one likes action, but if someone wants something that stands up on its own or has something to it, Knight's & Magic just doesn't. Poor characters and summarization do not make for a good anime, and that's pretty much what Knight's & Magic is. While there are good ideas in the show they're so poorly executed and so rushed through that it just doesn't work. It's one of the worst adaptations I've seen due to this skipping. It could have fleshed out itself so much more. I could have gave life to its characters. But it decided not to, and because of that, it ended up just a hallow shell of what could have been.

Anime have brought as a variety of shows that base on real life situations. Along with it are life lessons, curiosity, romance and other things that are related to the human world. But also, anime have brought as fictional things or scientific possibility that could be possible on real life like mechas, time travel, monsters, impossible stories, superpowers and fictional characters. This Summer 2017 season line-up of anime have been pretty simple. There's the common romance genre, isekai genre everywhere, action/fighting , Game with psychological and crazy stuffs, and comedy of course. Hidden beneath the sides of it are the ''Mecha'' genre. A genre that focuses on fictional (but soon to be non-fictional on the real world) things called ''Robots''. I welcome you the anime called ''Knight's & Magic''. An anime that is actually an ''in another world'' or isekai but when you watch it to the fullest, you may forget that it's an isekai for some reason and it's all focus on the production of weapons of mass destruction, Robots. Story: 8/10 Pretty simple intro into the anime. A mecha otaku died then got revived as a cute looking child that looks like a girl but its actually a boy then he got used to the new place he lives because there are robots there and then started his dream to make one for himself and ride it. What makes the story interesting is how we actually see it happened. How we see the robots and the MC do the job among with other characters to build the newly improved robots and convinced the king. Art: 10/10 The art on this anime, especially on the mechas, is amazing. I'm not a fan of robots/mecha that much but I can see how much effort the artist did on the art of the anime. Not only the mechas but also the character designs as well.. Sound: 9/10 We can hear the mecha's fighting very clearly with it's extravagant art. Along it, is the sound. The sound really defines how mechas smash to each other. Because of this sound is not an issue on this anime. Some animes that focuses on robots, have cracky/faulty sounds and thats what makes this anime (if you are a mecha fan, or u just want a good anime) to watch. Character: 6/10 What's lacking this anime are character developments. So far only the MC like 80% of the story is about his development. Sure, in some of the few episodes, we can seee the struggle and determination of other characters but the fact still remains that the MC is always stealing the ''developing'' part. Enjoyment: 7/10 The anime is pretty much enjoyable in the fields of enjoyment. You know I'm a simple guy who loves anime if the story is simple and understandable (I also love complicated and twisted stories) and the fights were fine and all. You don't need very well-written story for an anime to get some attention to the viewers. In fact, it's like ''click bait'' and all, though this click bait is enjoyable at it is. Overall.. I would give this anime a good ol' 7/10. The story is lacking some expression though it was a nice story-telling anime where the characters are simple introduced.

So, Isekai, Monster Hunter, and early day Iron-Blooded Orphans, and combining all of these parts together, you get...a terribly mediocre show! That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, this show is a somewhat fun, mechanical, mess! An entertaining but very badly written Isekai show that had a ton of passion for the art of giant robots. That means despite not being very good (to the point where mediocre is giving it a bit too much credit), I can respect and enjoy it to some degree. So, why is it still mediocre, and what about all this really gets me to enjoy it aside from its spirit? Well, let’s find out, shall we? There are...a ton of problems unfortunately with the narrative. For one, a ton of stuff is basically the narrator I explaining story beats or skipping stuff and saying what happened in between. It gives me Gundam Wing flashbacks and that is not ok. For a civilization about creating mechs to fend off beasts, knowing that they haven't made any remote innovation in the past century is rather disconcerting, especially when you consider the nature of a typical mecha show. When Ernesti (back then known as Kurata) dies in that original life, he just died without fanfare and we don't see what happened to him, let alone how he became reborn into this world. It also implies that he just basically hijacked the body of the boy he became; that's kinda fucked up. There are some real asspulls too, like how Ernesti used magic to pilot the Guair out of nowhere and how he was strong enough to pull the controls out despite other characters tugging on them quite hard just to move. I get that these run on magic, but again, this came out of nowhere. There are other errors and dumb moments too, like when Kerhild had a chance to slay Edgar, whose Knight mech had been disabled, she (according to the visual damage since that was offscreen) simply slammed her sword into the cockpit and left instead of thrusting the sword through it to finish him. A potentially cool battle in episode 5 is skipped and given that there is some sort of war that gets ignited, the amount of time skips in development while nothing happens is disconcerting. I do like how they spend a lot of time on the building process and the camaraderie that comes of it though, even if they sorta still gloss over it. Not helping anything is the fact that Ernesti kinda dances near Gary Stu territory, nor is the fact that the pacing is a bit out of whack thanks to the obscene SAO level time skips. That said, there are some moments that are actually pretty good, like with the king and his random duking it out for a flashy mech and showing that they're both the same basically, except one has withered a bit with age. I'm not going to really spoil too much here though despite the overall lukewarm opinion I have on the show. Even still, they can't save this pretty ravaged script that somehow gets crazier and more ludicrous in the second half. The final 5 episodes in particular are far too fast-paced given the contents within, and thus come off as disjointed that they introduce a bunch of holes and errors. I feel like they should've been their own cour to work at all, so that doesn't help matters either. Ernesti is really OP. This kinda cuts both ways. It's nice to see that he takes his skills from his world to this one, so of course he’s knowledgeable about giant robots, but to know that with all this, he also becomes a top tier magic expert who innovates there too, is a stretch. He’s basically a spunky skid, and that's fun enough to see, but he does become unreasonably OP overall despite there being a good reason for some of what he can do. Unfortunately, he comes dangerously close to Gary Stu territory, always making so many advances with mainly his ideas and little outside input, having most of everything revolve around him (and I'll explain those ramifications in a bit), and being the only one to come up with crazy new innovations, as well as some of the other aforementioned things. What’s saving him a bit is his enthusiasm and passion for robots, the fact that some of what he is capable of is understandable right out the get-go, and the fact that even his stuff notably needs work, leading to himself other people being able to modify his ideas. The fact that he is a mecha enthusiast gives me some bias towards him though. The dude has fucking orgasms over this shit. I'm sure many of us can agree that Shirley from Code Geass is not a good character, right? I mean, she’s basically there to kiss up to the MC and always devote everything about her character to him, to some extent at least. Well, Adeltrud aka “Addy” is some next level shit! The only thing separating her from being Miyuki tier shit here is the fact they there is no incest love at all, but it is still a one-sided crush. Thankfully it sometimes gets played to admittedly humorous degrees but this is largely her character. This, in particular, brings us to that whole Gary Stu issue. You see, since so much of this show is focused on Ernesti, his energy, and how awesome he is, we don't really get to see the other characters shine, a common symptom of a Gary Stu character. I'm not even gonna try to list the characterizations of the other character for this reason. I'm just thankful they don't come off as horrendous character archetypes, and some that come close, like the old man rival engineer, do get somewhat subverted (that way he isn't just a senile and jealous old coot character, he’s one that eventually finds passion again, thanks to you know who) or otherwise have something to safe then from being just a bad archetype. Doesn't mean that the cast isn't bad, because it most certainly is, though again, biases to some characters like Ernesti, and the absolutely gorgeous Helvi, even though they're not actually good characters. Besides, I don't even wanna get started in the villain characters, especially the ones from the final arc, which are all terrible and generic. There are some attempts to show some character relationships but they all fall flat too, and when we are often missing useful characters, that's a problem too for an already bloated but lacking cast. Studio 8-Bit was in charge of this show's creation and I must say, they did a good job in the visual department. It seems I'm lucky enough to only see the works of theirs that have CGI because theirs is actually not half bad. The Silhouette Knights do have choppy frame rates in episode 1 and there is a mecha dragon that suffers from bad CGI and frame rates too, and up close, most of these don't always look very good, but the coloring and way it's done here somewhat helps remedy that, and once the kinks are ironed out, they become fun to watch in battle, both in swarming an enemy or in one on one mech combat. Those sequences are insanely fast paced and done very well, especially when we see how they take advantage of the new equipment. They're based on knight armor so they definitely don't look as appealing or potentially iconic as say, a typical Gundam, but these designs are nice enough that I can see decent toy sales of them. Those swords look especially cool. The CGI demon beasts look even better, especially that giant beast that looks like a gigantic blue Avalugg. The giant magic rods don't look nearly as good, unfortunately. Still, the CGI, on the whole, is actually pretty decent, though most kept inconsistent and certainly not great. The actual art is pretty nice too, not just for the characters (just look at the way they did Ernesti’s hair, that looks sick af) but especially for the magic. I especially love what they did with the eyes. The shading for the magic fire attacks looks splendid, really selling how much of a spectacle magic can be, even though it becomes a bit overused and therefore lose its luster. The animation is overall pretty decent too, even with a few minor errors like having one scene show 3 explosion dots towards the center and the moment afterwards having those dots…

Knight’s & Magic is pure escapism for the kind of people that find giant robots cool. The easiest way to know if the show is the kind the viewer will enjoy is to have them watch the first 3 episodes, they are designed in a way to go through all the appealing aspect the show has and will get as it goes on. The first episode establishes the world it’s set in: although a fairly standard one, it heavily goes into pushing the robots and how magic is involved when it comes to piloting them but keeps the specifcs regarding the engine as such a surprise for later. The way it eventually builds on it’s pretty underwhelming though. The other kingdoms are very poorly defined, they’re either good or bad relative to Ernesti’s and the threat that were the behemoths just become something the main character kills to make engines. Ultimately this aspect of the show is probably the weakest in terms of the appeals. The 2nd one has him pilot a Silhouette Knight for the first time, it’s a genuinely moving moment for those the show is aimed at because it pays off what is a dozen years of the main character working as hard as he could to get better with the glee Ernesti feels when riding it, jumping around like no other Knight Runner could and taking down the giant behemoth all on his own. That giddy feeling is basically what is supposed to carry the viewer through the show. Ernesti is represents the mecha fandom arguably pretty well: obsessed with how a mech looks and its firepower regardless of whether or not the mere concept of mechas is practical or not. The show has no qualms about being a pure escapism fantasy for mecha fans which makes it so much easier to ingest: when Ernesti is faced with robots that are based off his designs, he doesn’t mentally break down and realize war is bad, he just claims those machines as his own and salvages them when he defeats them. His disgust towards using units as turrets for a warship is probably one of the most relatable points of the show, his sense of aesthetic which is shared among many of the people having been expressed and challenged might seem like a pretty petty thing to get hyped over, but in the context of this show being for the people who obsess over this, it comes off as an incredibly powerful moment. Ernesti’s wanting to destroy the warships near the end so that they never become popular and eventually the norm is the best sign to tell who this is for: the boy’s effectively trying to hold humanity back for his selfish desire of making mechas look even cooler, if the viewer can not only accept it, but truly get behind it and support it, they’ll know this anime’s for them. The 3rd episode goes into how it’s going to distinguish itself from other Isekai anime: the conception of new Silhouette. The episode is spent on trying to make the Silhouette Knights more efficient and also find more efficient ways to build them, an aspect that is criminally underexplored in the genre. Seeing the different ways he finds to innovate already existing models and what he builds from scratch put at the forefront instead of something you find out more of by looking up the wikis is one of the most entertaining aspects of the anime. The moment ernesti reveals Ikaruga is incredibly cathartic, his dream and ideal that he thought was unachievable in front of him after a dozen years of non-stop hard work and research. The machine before he conceived Ikaruga was conceptually very interesting too, the Toy-box. It was basically a prototype machine that he tried putting any kind of idea that came to his mind, him using everything he learned into making it felt like him getting really close to the finishing line, a very rewarding feeling. This show really isn’t the nuanced and complex military war drama that it seems some people want it to be, it’s a wish fulfillment show for those who care about plastic models and how cool and powerful humanoid robots are. In that sense, I don’t think the fandom would be offended by its honest and faithful portrayal of them, if anything, they’d be happy for any and all the times Ernesti gets closer to his goals and finds a new one at the end.

STORY: 4/10 CHARACTER: 4/10 ART: 8/10 SOUND: 3/10 ENJOYMENT: 6/10 OVERALL: 5/10 Crap!! The anime has a much higher rating than I was expecting!! Well I didn’t hate this anime, but I didn’t like it either and I am not going to watch it again to make up my mind! Anyway, here it goes; the anime starts strong with a cool setup of Mechs run by magic and ridden by humans in a Fantasy-esque world. Add in a nice world building aspect filled with strategies and politics, you are bound to expect a hit, yet the Story and Characters hinder the overall feels of the anime. I didn’t mind the narrative style of storytelling but when they added plot jumps to that just for convenience, I suddenly wasn’t a fan of it anymore! Early on it becomes apparent a lot of stuff are being cut out, so a lot of info delivered feels unnecessary which takes away the fun from the show as more time was needed for viewers to settle in with its story. Add in the fast-paced plotline to an already weak story and you have a show with very little depth to it! Plus, it didn’t even make sense because for a world where science has advanced to such a degree where giant manmade robots are created and can be ridden to battle, yet they can’t manage to solve their monster problem? They could have at least invented something to help give them a chance against those beasts. And our MC here gets reincarnated into this world, but they never really show how or why this happens. So, I am assuming he took someone’s life which is wrong right?? Plus, the fact that the MC is a powerful person with a Mega brain of a genius & loads and loads of magic within him just cause he’s the MC didn’t sit well with me! I wanted more explanations and logic to this! Which is the same reaction I had with the concept of this world’s science and I blame it all on those damn time skips! The final arc is set to a ridiculous pace where the anime is desperately trying to wrap everything up, thus leaving such a giant mess of plot holes that has you questioning “What the hell is going on?” All of this leads to the show failing to connect with you since there is no real weight to it, so the sad or triumphal moments feel empty and hollow, the character motivations and emotions feel and look unreal, as if you are watching a bad play on stage! The characters are just as one-dimensional as it’s story with little or no development despite having a huge cast. Ernesti is our MC who’s unrealistic in every sense! He looks like a girl yet he’s a boy! (Or so we are told……😉) I found this very distracting because it was hard for me to take this guy/girl seriously! I did like fact that the anime pokes fun at this issue by pointing it out. Anyway, he is blessed with plot armour and seems to never make any mistakes which automatically takes away all tension from the situation. He was just too good at everything which made him boring. In other words, he was too OP for my liking because he always seems to be ahead of everybody else. Even though I found his hyper and charismatic nature funny due to his reprising habit of talking nonstop about Mechs, but I didn’t like the fact he wasn’t developed more than a smart nerd. He does have his moments to shine and they mostly come with his obsessive nerdiness to robots! (I think he secretly gets off to it!) This however turned out to be a double-edged sword since the entire show only focuses on Ernesti. So, if you don’t like him, then you probably are going to be bored here. Also, it’s not just the focus of the show, rather the entire anime is arranged from Ernesti’s point of view which does more bad than good in my opinion. Cause while the MC’s ambitions and passion for machines were nice to behold, he is completely oblivious to everything else around him. Meaning when people die, the anime never takes it seriously just cause Ernesti never took it seriously which is a big mistake. The rest of the cast were kept to a minimum and only allowed one type of personality, so they come across bland, making it harder to care about them as the focus of the show is on the MC only. The evil scientist turned out to be a good villain in some respects, (his pokerfaced delivery with some lines were hilarious!) I particularly enjoyed how the fight between him and the MC was really about their ideals, thus they focused only on trying to one up each other! Though I didn’t like the clichéd ending to the last arc and the comedic tone with which the villains were presented. The one area where this anime delivers hard is its art style and animation, both of which were terrific! The CG for the mechs weren’t ground-breaking but they were better than I asked for. I appreciated the efforts put in by the team in giving us one great mech fight after another. I was at awe at the handiwork of all the little details with design, clearly indicating the artist love for Mechs. Now the animation isn’t perfect as some CGI just falls flat and the lagging framerate in some places are noticeable, but the rest of the animation is pulled off in such a fun and frenzy flair, that you can’t help but forgive the errors! Same deduction with its art as well which is well-done, especially the magic portrayed here with all its vibrant colours and shades. And while props to the anime for doing a great job with their Sound Mixing which successfully sucks you in by bringing the action closer to you, the same cannot be said for the rest. Both the OP and ED failed to deliver, I found them very bad as they didn’t fit with the tone of the anime! Overall this isn’t a bad anime, it sets a standard for itself from the beginning and just never rises over it, rather sticks to it the whole time. First time I am seeing an anime where it clearly starts off on a Fantasy element, yet ends as a Mech! But this anime needs a Redo because there are chunks of good stuff in it, it just needs to be organized in a better way. If you enjoy Mech battles then you will find this very entertaining but outside of this, there isn’t much present in the anime as nothing else stands out, so you can’t recommend it to others. The show brings about good ideas but implements them poorly and they bring about many interesting characters but barely give them a chance to make an impact and that is why most of the show feels empty. It’s a good one-time watch if you can get past 3 episodes, otherwise this one isn’t for you.

Oddly satisfying. Tsubasa Kurata a hardcore mecha fan working as a software engineer dies in a car accident, he gets reborn into a world where human piloted mechs called Silhouette Knights are used to fight monsters called Demon Beasts. Here you have your typical isekai copy and paste setting, reborn into a noble family with strong magical potentials and his past life memories. Some outliers are our main character is reborn as a baby allowing mc a chance to create childhood memories. like in ep1 which really nails down the fact this guy is a no joke die hard mecha fan. Also his new name is now Ernesti "Eru" Echavalier, there was no point in mentioning his previous life name. With his love for mechs and drive to piolet one, mc gets studies and trains his magic everyday. During this time, he meets Adeltrud "Addy" and Archid "Kid" Olter, whom he became friends with and ends up helping them learn magic. The three of them enroll into Laihiala Academy to learn more magic. Mc being mc becomes the talk of the town quickly because of his quick wits and knowledge even at the age of twelve. He saves the city and ends up getting to meet the king for being so cool. Typical isekai stuff. Mc goes on to start a project to build a new generation of mechs as well as his own personal mech, but to do this he would need a lot tools and knowledge that he does not possess yet. This is what makes/breaks the show for some people. Mc begins to go threw trials and errors to build and upgrade a new generation of mechs. Some viewers may see this grid tedious, while some others find it oddly satisfying watching our young mc driven by his love for mechs work to build and improve from nothing his very own mech to fight in. Fun short 13 episode that I would recommend if your into world building or progress related plots. You don't need to be a mech fan to enjoy this either.

I watched Knight's & Magic. Here are my thoughts: This anime is about a geeky programmer who gets isekai'd into a fantasy world where he is transformed into an androgynous mecha-fanatic (inb4: wow he's literally me!). The isekai world is like a medieval fantasy setting but with mechs added. Basically, this is a typical isekai show but with a lot of mecha-related content. If you stripped away the mecha theme, this would be an utterly generic medieval isekai. The mecha theme in a medieval setting is the only thing this anime has going for it – there really isn't any other selling point. In general this show feels fun and self-aware of its own silliness. After the first couple episodes I was feeling cautiously optimistic about this anime, but as I progressed further my enthusiasm declined. I wanted to like this but the actual story is quite dull and boring. The story feels better suited for an LN instead of anime, which isn't surprising since this is an LN adaptation. A large portion of the show consists of the MC tinkering around in the mech mechanic shop, which could be interesting but the execution is so underwhelming (it's probably cooler in literature format). This issue is aggravated by the mechs functioning via some kind of nonsensical magic that isn't ever adequately explained. I think all the tinkering and mechanic shop scenes would have been way more interesting if the mechs operated on physical principles, or at least all the engineering aspects were coherently explained. Anyway, when the mech conflicts do occur they feel totally formulaic. This anime fails to deliver any kind of engaging storyline, and the episodes feel like a slog to get through as a result. I never felt the slightest flicker of excitement or suspense while watching this. It should be noted that I haven't read the LN and can't vouch for the quality of the source material nor the fidelity of this adaptation. The characters themselves are rather lackluster; nobody is memorable in any way besides the MC. The supporting cast is tropey, generic, and underdeveloped. I liked the MC though – he was fun and his enthusiasm for mechs was infectious. The MC's VA suited him well, and his clingy female companion (Adeltrud) has some cute voicework too. There are all sorts of bastardized western-Continental-European names for everything that are a neverending source of amusement when paired with the Japanese dialogue in this ridiculous show. Some of the action scenes are decent, although a little crude at times. This is hardly a high-budget blockbuster movie; CGI is frequently used to animate the mechs and monsters. Don't go into this anime expecting mindblowing action scenes, you won't get that here. However, some of the mechs are pretty cool, and there's a decent variety of mech models featured in the show. Furthermore, sometimes the setting looks nice; for example, the medieval castles have a lot of aesthetic moments. Although the OST is nothing special from a musical perspective, it has a unique medieval flavour that suited the setting well (think historic-European instruments like bagpipes and various types of horns). It is a comical juxtaposition to hear music like that playing while the screen is filled with mechs battling. You probably won't be surprised to hear that this show can be fairly juvenile and generally feels catered to a young audience. My personal overall rating: 4/10 Were it not for the mecha theme, this would be a boring formulaic medieval isekai. The story in this is not compelling or interesting at all. Most of the characters are underdeveloped and tropey, with the exception of the MC who is fun and likeable. The show in general is fun and playful, and feels like it isn't meant to be taken seriously even though it involves military conflict. There is a ton of 'mech fanservice' in this, and for diehard mecha fans it might be worth watching. Aside from the cool mecha action, I didn't particularly enjoy this anime. The thing I savoured most about this show was the action scenes, but that's more a consequence of the story, characters and script all sucking. If you just want to chill out and watch mechs fight in medieval castles and shoot lasers at each other, this show is fine for that. Honestly, you won't miss out on much if you just skip all the duller dialogue-heavy scenes. This isn't an anime you should take seriously. I'm probably the wrong audience for this. For diehard mecha fans, I think this show is worth a try. Also, boys around roughly preteen age might enjoy this anime.

The single absolute worst thing about this entire anime is that it's named "Knight's & Magic" instead of "Knights & Magic". Mecha is typically nothing but dull over powered high tech robots that conveniently happen to have some random function to make them win when it counts and everything else in such animes is usually pooped out as a sloppy package just credible enough to impress immature boys. This one however doesn't stop at redefining robots by replacing much of their technological nature with magic, it shows off much of how they are built and how the protagonist tries to remain one step ahead of the eventual opposing forces by tweaking how the robots work and developing clever equipment. One of the biggest deviations from the standard mecha trash is that the characters while having a somewhat smaller roll than usual are roughly a thousand times more believable than usual. Their traits are well defined and often collide in hilarious ways that can be hard for non adults to fully appreciate. The older you are and the more you love big robots the more likely it is you'll enjoy this anime, however younger viewers with lukewarm interest in robots may still find it quite amusing. While the story isn't anything special it's still very enjoyable, I'd rather stories do like this one and stick to things that work than try to be unique and just end up as an incoherent mess. The art is beautiful and the sound is lovely, the only issue with the characters is that they don't get as much focus as some viewers probably want but their screen time is incredibly well spent which more than makes up for it in my book.

As an engineer, this is like some kind of fantasy porn - the idea that I could show up in a new place and get shitloads of R&D done in the here & now AND have it work on the first try was oddly satisfying, not to mention having the stuff go into limited-production without a hitch or the part where I'm beloved by an entire kingdom. I was watching this with a group of friends who read the LN; they were a little less than pleased with how much the plot is excised. Even as someone with no knowledge of the show, I was a little peeved at how often they went with the "exposition dump" to speed through large chunks, and that leads into my major criticism of the show: the lack of character development. Ernesti shows up. Ernesti does good works. Ernesti is beloved. Anything and everything in between is just there to remind us of those three things - Addy's dialogue is basically "GEE ERNIE! YOU'RE THE BEST!" The only two characters who get anything resembling development are Archid and Edgar and it's a shame, because what glimpses we get from these two would make for a much better story. Knight's and Magic (why is the apostrophe there?) somewhat redeems itself in the final arc. It gives us some semblance of character development, but more importantly, it gives Ernesti a challenge requiring more just drawing up some machine and handing the drawings off to the elves. Again, it's a shame we didn't get more of this during the series; it really would have made the show a lot more fun. At least Ernesti is likable. With that said, I will say that it's at least unique. Sure, it's "Yet Another Isekai" but it's not everyday we get a series which delves into the engineering aspects of building a giant fighting robot. And, for the most part, it works. The universe has consistent rules and laws of physics and very real consequences. All in all, I'd say it's a solid 7 (out of 10). A fun and unique concept, but it falls short on execution.

Similar to Ascendance of a Bookworm, a person is reborn in a fantasy world with knowledge of the old world which he uses to become a genius and change the new world. But instead of being obsessed with books, the main character is obsessed with mechs. And so he advances mech technology in the new world. It's interesting to watch at first, seeing the main character be underestimated by everyone around him, then gain the respect of the elites in the world with his innovative thinking. But once he's reached that height, the conflict disappears, things come too easily to the main character, and the story becomes rather disengaging. The characters also feel one note and underdeveloped. They just exist in the space around the main character. There's a lack of drive in the story as events just happen quickly and times passes by with voice over narration. So there is a lack of drama, tension, and not much in the way of feels. Even scenes that act as grand moments feel underwhelming.

I'm having to write a new review as I couldn't edit my old one written mid series. So this series betrayed the faith I placed in it, I initially felt it wasn't that bad and it had promise, so I gave it a fair review and score, however when it ended and the dust settled the end result can only be that this is a dreadful adaptation. Nothing is earned, no time is devoted to the telling of the story, the progression of the story, nor the build up to the big moments. It's like if you took the LOTR films, cut out the journey and most of the rest of the content, and just had a 1hr supercut of what you thought were the highlights, sure it would look impressive, but it would be a jumbled nonsensical mess that would leave you feeling dead inside. That is Knight's & Magic The main problem is when it's good, it's good, it's not amazing, but it shows promise, it could have dropped the whole isekai element to it and worked without it, maybe even been better for it, but that is an issue with the source material. But where it comes good is the design and development stages of the story, when the MC seeks to expand his knowledge in the construction of mechs and we get those moments, including the testing phase. The issue is with the adaptation itself, which is dreadful, the anime decided that we didn't want to spend too much time on that, so the best moments aren't as long as you might want them to be. They also get lost in the all the cuts from moment to moment and place to place all bound together with constant narration. The anime also wanted to rush the story, because it couldn't wait to get to what it felt was the good parts and to wrap up those storylines too. So, huge chunks of the story, huge portions of the LN ended up on the chopping floor, character development is cast aside giving us paperthin characters who you don't really care about. It doesn't take its time to tell the story, instead what you get it constant annoying narration and time skips, which breaks the cardinal rule of storytelling, show don't tell. The audience has to experience these things for it to have any meaning or impact, if they are just given a few lines of lazy narration instead then it not only disconnects you from the story and the moment, but removes any chance of investment that you might have been able to get otherwise. It's an absolute hack job of the source material, which from a small amount of reading didn't seem that bad, as I was willing to pin it down to bad writing, but it does look like it's all down to the studio and a terrible adaptation. It's a shame that this anime is so bad, I had hoped for a decent fantasy mecha anime, but this doesn't measure up. It's one of the biggest disappointments of that year

I am not sure why there are the horrible reviews with under a total score of 7, maybe because the anime wasn't for them but writen then reviews to make this anime bad is inaccaptable, however here is my review of this anime: Hint: Spoilers maybe in this review, even if I try to avoid them but a review can not be out of them so it maybe the best to activated an include the Spoiler-BBCode. The beginning was a bit wired because you are thrown in while he was at work and after that, while it was raining (waht is sometimes in most animes a bad point so smth. bad will happen) he was in a shop to buy robots (note: he is an otaku and loves them). Then the accidant happened to him and *wooooosh* we are now in the world of Knight's and Magic and this isn't still enough; they also shown those Shilouette Knigths rigth at the beginning which isn't that bad but maybe a bit to early for now since the soul from our protagonist just arrived in his new body. This is rly a bid wired because it happends that fast. Would be better if this where splitted into two or maybe three episodes if the LN allows this. However, he has seen the SKs and he fastle remembered where he was rly and this means that the fun begins because he hasn't only his knowledge about programming, he has also his knowledge about robots and that he is an otaku of it. At this point I wondered which direction will it follow since all other chars which are real childrens, are out of his age (to remember: he is 30). Well, a few episodes later I think that his otaku side was a bit to much for this anime, since on the kids seems to have emotins for him but he did not shown any reactions to this maybe because he knewed that he was in real 30 and not smth. arround 12 or 14 but on the other side it is fine for me since we have then not that much edgy like in other animes. However, b2S: I think that there is a bit more stuff which has fit from the NL into the anime because most things are not in it but for this rly nice fights. But I miss the "Magic" in this anime. Well, there are Magic speels and also this secreat reactor uses magic and all those scripts are using magical words or phrases but it is less then what is shown from all those SKs. Also the thruster engine reminds me on Gundam 00 a bit because of those green particel effects but since it isn't that much overused it is fine for me. Ok, so what was also an interesting point? Mabye the time whil he should normaly been in school but what he made there destroyes that for what a school noramly stands so here is one point which I'll remove from 10. It isn't the problem that he skipped some classes ... it is the problem that the hole school time or most of it where left out (I did not made any compares to the NL for now so I dunno what is going on in the NL while he was in school). It would be better if they have spend a bit more in this time. Next thing is that he not rly gets any loses in any fight for now. Well, other ones may now think "wait, but there are a few points which you can count as a lose ..." - No, definitly NO! A lose in such an anime should be a bit more pain as for now. The only point which I would acknowledge as loos will be that one where some SKs get stolen but thats all. And this is the 2nd point which I remove from 10 points to the story. What also has been rly nice is a bit more telling about those monsters. I mean that it seems that there are classifications like smaller ones but also hugh and rly dangerous ones like the behemoth class. But only two or three episodes where made arround it so those monsters hasn't have much todo in this anime which is a bit bad but only a bit. So at the end we have 8/10 points for the Story. Maybe we will get a 2nd Season of it which will have a few more episodes and a detailed story as for now. Ok, so what is to say over the Art? Nothing! Why? Because I don't see anything what should be wrong with it. At the beginning we have a normal city, with buildings and streets and so on. Modern technic as well and all other stuff from the world. At the place where the hole story rly happends we have all things known from the kingdome age. Castles, Coaches, paths and also the clothes are not like real world clothes for our world time. Well, that we have in there modern machines which are used for figths/defensive against those monsters seems not rly to fit into the covered age but since whe have magic used in them it is ok and also they ave a nice look. At the end no point removel: 10/10 For the sound, music and all other things related to it there is nothing bad to say. Effects well known like in most other animes have gotten there correct sound effects and also the music for the intro and for the outro are nice. Makes 10/10 for Sounds. The Chars in this anime are sometimes wired. Well, it is fine for me that our protagonist looks a bit like a girl but what is with his friends? They have had a task todo for there father which they have done so I assumed smth. bad would happend but nothing bad happend. Was this intented? Because they where not rly happy todo this task. A question which will not rly find an answere. Also they are not going to growth. Means they earn knowledge but compared to the years which they are passing they are looking like at the beginning of the story and this is one point where I cutoff one out of 10. Also I haven't had any problems whith the fact that some of them got merried. Since there are many hints that emotions are shown from them. The scound point out of 10 goes to the Chars which are playing the evil guys in the war because they are coming out of nothing. I mean many animes have evil guys but from what I know they are not coming out of nothing. Normaly they are slightly revaled while they are planning there thing so I wondered why there was a spy in our group from our protagonist. Maybe in a 2nd season it will be better. Well, even if I have removed a few points from a few categories I enjoed the anime. For me it was knew to combine magic with machines and maybe some ideas are coming from gundam 00 but not sure since there is for me only this particle things compared to it. With only 13 episods it is one of the shorter animes but it's fine so that I can say in total 9/10 for this anime. Waiting for another season :)

A fun "turn your brain off" isekai that will never see a second season. (8bit is busy cashing in the slime show) It's a rare example of fantasy mixing with mechs. I'm normally not a fan of mech shows because they tend be kind of depressing. (see most popular Gundam shows and spaghetti people politics) This evades that problem by having basically zero stakes and a protagonist that can fix any problem near instantly. The animation is serviceable, but it isn't going to blow you away. The same can be said of the music. It's a good way to kill some time, best enjoyed with friends and/or lacking sobriety. Like I said it's fun, not a masterpiece of high quality writing.

Even if you dont like Mecha Anime watch this show anyway. I never expected to like this Anime but i ended up enjoying it alot. If you enjoy Anime such as "Steins Gate" or "That time i got reincarnated as a Slime" you will enjoy this Anime, do not be put off by the Protagonist looking young it really isnt a factor, even if you dont like Mecha Anime you should give this a watch, Let me explain: The story of the Anime isnt anything fancy or deep it is as simple as: "The Protagonist really likes robots so he becomes and Overpowered engineer and makes them" That being said their are clear story archs that are definitely interesting to watch however there isnt really an overarching main narrative. The Protagonist much like in other Anime such as "Kenji no Mago" and "That time i got reincarnated as a Slime" are extremely knowledgeable and powerful in their own unique way, this creates some hilarious moments where the Protagonist will create something or do something so shocking to everyone around them while they had no idea it was that big of a deal or not knowing how difficult of a feat everyone else perceives this to be, it is much like "Kenji no Mago" in this sense. The art style of the anime is pretty great, the characters are well designed and the Mecha arnt a disgusting CGI fest like in other anime which is always nice, the fight scenes are really well choreographed and dont have an over reliance on lasers flying everywhere like in other Mecha Anime. I've NEVER liked Mecha Anime, im not really into Sci Fi that much so giant robots flying around in space shooting aliens is my perceived notion of what "Mecha Anime" is boy oh boy does that not apply here, i have to say i thoroughly enjoyed this anime when i really didnt think i was going to. One downside of the Anime of which i find extremely irritating is when Characters are obviously crushing on each other but one character (Usually the Male Character) is too dense to notice, its not abundant in this Anime but it does happen on more than one occasion, if this irritates you id still recommend watching this although it frustrates me i didnt find it ruining the experience too much.

I started watching this after many cliche romcoms so it was a very pleasant change. I love isekai and game like links in anime so this was very much like deathmarch and smartphone isekai, just with the addition of robots. Story 10/10 I thought the robot stuff would be boring but the storylike of such a kawaii MC with so much enthusiasm for robots couldn't be called as nothing but excellent. I think this is the king of all mecha type anime as it is able to deliver the emotions of the MC perfectly and instill love for robots in someone who tries to stay away from this kind of genre. The animation 10/10 I think the animation was very well suited to the setting of the anime. If they tried to make it too spectacular and OP like SAO Alicization then it would ruin the setting. The fights of various characters were all on the same level of awesome. Even if the MC was in the air, the ground characters were having a great battle worth watching themselves Characters 10/10 Every character was given enough background for the watcher to be intrigued in their battles and root for them. The different characteristics and their support for the MC was helpful in sseeing them in good light. I was quite thankful that we didn't have the cunning king and evil church kind of characters. The villains too were very well presented so that we don't hate them too much instead we wanted them to be easily defeated by the MC and we could go to the lengths of even accepting the other interesting characters from the other side who changed their intentions. Overall 10/10 I enjoyed this anime and would strongly recommend other isekai/fantasy/magic/adventure lovers to watch this. I tell you THIS ANIME IS NOT ONLY FOR MECHA FANS

Anime on a boy named Ernesti "Mecha Otaku" !! Ernesti is nerd how loves Robot to much !! Recommendation Value: 6 [Made for Mecha Lover] Story: 7 Art: 7 Sound: 7 Character: 7 Overall: 7 Story: 7 Story is mostly fantasy type it start with transfer for "Mecha Otaku" to other world in a boy named Ernesti !! World where there are Robot and their Pilot are called as "Knight Runner" !! Ernesti as Mecha Otaku wants to pilot Robot so he learn everything about knight's and magic which is used to run Robot !! Art: 7 To tell you truth I don't know how to rate art but than also i am giving it a shoot !! Visuals was not that bad just good and the colors are bright and nice looking !! Mecha Designs and ideas where great too !! Sound: 7 [I do know I am rating the sound wrong but I like rating songs than sound] "Hello! My World!!" by fhána - 7 ✪ Song is good as soon as I hear it I remember its form "Knights & Magic" !! Don't think so gona forget it anytime that soon. "You & I (ユー＆アイ)" by Ayaka Ohashi - 6 Music in this Song is great but I couldn't find the lyrics in English so I couldn't understand the meaning of song !! Character: 7

ok I wanna say I grew up with zoids, Gundam, Transformers.. and I love magic ! when I saw the premise of the anime involving knights in huge knight robots using magic I was so in .. it has great action and is perfect for fans of quick pace action or if your looking for something in between a long series and wanna zone out to some good anime action this is perfect for you! the characters are cute and energetic however if your looking for a deep in depth story this is not for you they basically take anything that would be considered filler or long explanations and completely delete that from the show its action action and more action and I loved it im currently in between right now and currently watching a long running series.. so I needed a break I really wanted to zone out to some good anime action fun and this delivered just that I will say this anime is nothing special but I really really enjoyed it alot I would actuallty rewatch this down the road sometime.. its shere entertainment and thats why we watch anime we want to be entertained ! I see so many reviews ripping this show apart and it could be... the story is not strong there is no depth but its a great show to watch if you love anime action I would recomend this to anyone who grew up watching stuff with big mech like warriors this is deffinetely for you sound was good I Loved the opening and ending theme its classic its what you want for a begining or ending animation is done well and knights look great ! and characters are lovable for veteran anime fans I can see there desire to rip it apart because lack of depth but I would say give it a go!

Introduction: Greetings, A few months ago I was browsing through CrunchyRoll looking for something to watch and I stumbled across Knight's & Magic, at first, I was intrigued, however, I stopped watching it half way through the first episode purely because I didn't like the mecha genre. I feel like that was a mistake on my behalf, by no means am I crowning this one of the Top Anime but it was definitely an entertaining watch. Story: 6/10 I don't claim to be a professional at studying Mecha anime, this has got to be the first, maybe second Mecha anime series I have viewed that has drawn me in. The story was weird at places such as at the start. I feel like the writer(s) could've explained exactly what happened when he died, it felt like they rushed the whole start. The other thing that I didn't like would be how many time skips there were, which isn't necessarily bad seeing as it feels like it's from a Narrator's view, however, when you're skipping an excessive amount of time every other episode, it gets redundant. Art: 10/10 The art, I love looking at art and animation in all these different shows and I must say, in Knight's & Magic, the art style is beautiful! The magic is drawn so well that it drags you into the story even more, the clashing of magic, the clanging of swords, it really makes the story three times better! Sound: 7/10 The sound wasn't bad, I just felt it was weird how even in the prelude of episode 1, the Main Character has the same Voice Actor. Other than that, the Voice Actors fit the characters well and the sounds really fit the representation of what they would sound like if it was reality. Character: 8/10 The characters were made very well, seems there were other races such as Dwarves and Alvs etc, but I like how everyone got some screen time and it wasn't just the Main Character who got all the spotlight. Enjoyment: 9/10 Looking at all these massive robots jumping around, slashing at each other and magic flying around in the air is really satisfying. Overall: 8/10 Overall, I'm not much of a Mecha fan but this was definitely entertaining to watch, however, I feel like it could've been produced much better.

Warning possible Spoilers By the time I had started watching Knights and Magic, it had been a while since I saw a mecha anime, especially one that was set in a medieval fantasy, with an MC that seemed like the Tony Stark of building Mecha's. Story (6/10) The story begins a lot like Youjo Senki, where our MC dies and is reborn in another world, the only difference is that one is set in an alternate world war, while this anime is set in a medieval fantasy. Our MC Ernesti basically wants to build the greatest Silhouette Knight ever, so with the help of his friends and many other people he manages to impress, he tries to achieve this dream. The first half of the story has our characters overcoming a few obstacles, which gets them noticed allowing Ernesti to try and build a new Silhouette Knight to impress the King, there's a lot of focus on the building and testing of these new knights, which is one of the stories major strong points, because you don't see many mecha anime's showing the development of how their built, plus there were a few good fights mixed in between all of the development of the silhouette knights. However the second half of the show decided to go down a war route, where a opposing nation decided to attack the nation our characters live in, this is where the story gets a little meh to be honest, because we've seen this before plenty of times, Code Geass being a very good example, it made me feel like the anime had lost the reason for why it existed and wanted to just be another normal mecha anime. Luckily it was still entertaining despite this cliched direction, plus the ending made it seem like it wasn't finished yet, like there's still more to tell. Characters (6/10) The characters were pretty mixed for me, considering only a few characters, if not just one of the characters was still in my memory by the end of the show. Ernesti the male MC is pretty much the main reason why you stick around, because this guy is like the mecha version of Midoriya from Hero Academia, he's smart and really loves to make Silhouette Knights, however unlike Midoriya he doesn't tremble or fear danger, in fact he's more willing to sacrifice himself to make sure his friends survive. He was also pretty funny, because he never really knew when to shut up really and it was funny how this able to defeat some opponents he went up against. Adeltrud and Archid are twins and they are Ernesti's best friends, however their roles in this show was not as impactful as I was expecting, Adeltrud's role is mainly to either hug Ernesti a lot or just get jealous whenever another female character takes an interest in him, however her playful nature does make her a fun character to have around. Archid is actually even more forgettable, mainly because he doesn't do anything memorable other than when a plot device was literally made for his character, that's pretty much it for him other than being the generic secondary male character. There is also the Silhouette Knight drivers, who are Helvi, Edgar and Dietrich, they do provide some entertainment, since they love to bicker and mess around with each other in between the fighting moments, however they can be pretty damn badass during the fighting sequences. Other than these guys, the rest of the characters in the show are pretty much forgettable and don't really do all that much. Art (7/10) Despite the Silhouette Knights and monsters being CGI, it actually wasn't too bad, considering that the design of the Knights and monsters were very well done especially the Knights, they had a lot of variation and looked pretty damn badass in a fight. The characters weren't too bad either and I liked the way the world was set out with the whole medieval look, but having futuristic mechs at the same time, yet despite having mechs, the way they looked to me made it look like they were suited for this world. Sound (7/10) The op actually wasn't that bad, it was kinda catchy, however after a certain point they started adding in sound effects to the op which just made it annoying to listen to, luckily the ed didn't have this problem and was pretty good too, yet I feel like there was a hidden message in there that the show didn't take advantage of, then again Romance isn't really in the genres sadly. Extras: Despite School being in the genres, there really wasn't much for this genre to be there, when only 3 or 4 scenes had the characters in a classroom and usually it only showed Ernesti so really the school genre shouldn't be there. The action however was done quite well, it was definitely more enjoyable than Infinite Strato's action scenes, but that's the furthest I'm going to go, because even though it was fun seeing two giant mecha's going at it with each other or giant monsters, other mecha's like Gurren Lagann or Code Geass have done it miles better and the second half of the action scenes felt like they were trying to hard to be as good as Code Geass. Enjoyment (7/10) Overall (7/10) Even though the characters and story had some problems, most of the show was pretty good and for a mecha it's worth checking out, however there are better ones out there, but if you're looking for an anime that focuses more on the CGI aspect then this might be alright for you.

Should Knight's & Magic be even called an isekai show? Knight's & Magic's premise is on Ernesti Echevarria voiced by Rie Takahashi in which he was an otaku obsessed with robots and was reincarnated as Ernesti but the backstory of him is glossed over instead bringing world building to it's forefront of the fantasy world that Ernesti now lives in. If anything Knight's & Magic is more fantasy mecha show than isekai. Semantics out of the way...so how did Knight's & Magic fare?. Knight's & Magic has the formula of Ernesti going up in the world with his love of robots and mecha-creation driving him, but not for glory or money or power, but so that he can continue to make mecha's and make better ones that aims for his aesthetics. Now Ernesti as a character is a pure wish-fulfillment character especially for mecha fans, however he does face some resistance in the form of other nations' engineers and even Ernesti's own nation engineers wanting to one up him and in the other nation's engineers case to fight him and finally destroy him. The resistance he faces are similar to Ernesti himself just with differing ideals when it comes to mecha-creations and it's THAT reason that Ernesti wants the maligned mecha creations to be wiped out from history as Ernesti wants his own designs to shine in the world.....yeah go for the monopoly Ernesti. In terms of characters, well they get the bare minimum development or screentime as the narrative is ENTIRELY focused on Ernesti's endeavors of mecha-creation. The one thing LA finds funny is that Ernesti's denseness to romance is justified because of his love of mecha's is everything to him even when he has Adeltrud Olter voiced by Ayaka Ohashi glopping him any chance she gets and is in love with him. Besides Archid Olter voiced by Shinsuke Sugawara, Ernesti's childhood friend who gets a love interest in the form of a princess who gets a bit of screentime and Dietrich Cunitz voiced by Kazuyuki Okitsu who was once a cowardly Knight but changed his tune after an incident with Ernesti and some monsters, the rest of the characters are personalities and not much else really. It's the villains who are the more interesting characters in the anime, mainly Horacio Cojal voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura who believes in if mecha's can merely work it's functional, but his mecha designs are "exotic" to say the least that might piss Ernesti off because he's more about aesthetics. On speaking of Ernesti's endeavors of mecha-creation, the world building is plentiful in this anime at the very least in the form of how mecha's are created. The anime does go into geo-political problems in the form of invasion of countries, rebels and royalty in danger but that is more or less a setting for Ernesti's gang than anything. In terms of animation by 8bit, the character designs are exotic and fantasy Grecian-esque (LA is only guessing) costume designs. Ohh and elephant in the room but LA can't be the only one to think that Ernesti was a girl when LA first saw his character design and his androgynous look both costume and character-wise wasn't helping much. Mecha-designs wise, LA did like it for the majority of it and how Ernesti keeps upgrading and making them even flashier. The fighting is pretty decent though it goes through beam spamming and somewhat repetitive mecha sword-play battles were a detriment to the fighting animation. As for voice acting, yeah does LA need to bring up Rie Takahashi crossdressing voices as the main lead, LA doesn't mind Rie's voice acting as she did a pretty good job (and is something of her forte for odd roles for her to do). Aside from the vast voice cast from Yukari Tamura, Shizuka Ito, Ayaka Ohashi, Sayaka Senbongi and Sayaka Ohara...they were greatly underutilized as yeah...Ernesti taking over the entire narrative from the start and everything. Knight's & Magic is your run of the mill fantasy mecha "isekai" anime, it's not great beyond any stretch but it's not absolutely terrible either as it DOES give Ernesti obstacles he needs to overcome, good world building in the form of mecha-creation and the mecha fights are ok enough to watch. Not great, not terrible but run of the mill and "run of the mill" is the best way LA can see Knight's & Magic.