The GoHands-produced The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System anime has received a second teaser trailer and a 2026 premiere date. The new trailer previews the show’s primary voice cast and also features more scenes with hyperactive camera movement.
The main cast members are Takeo Otsuka as Elma Edvan, Shion Wakayama as Luce Rubis, and Natsuko Abe as Maris Edvan.
Also revealed were the anime’s staff, which include:
• Chief director: Shingo Suzuki (Momentary Lily, K and Coppelion director, W’z co-director)
• Director: Katsumasa Yokomine (Momentary Lily, The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again)
• Character designer and co-chief animation director: Takayuki Uchida (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses [solo chief animation director], The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again)
• Chief director: Tetsuichi Yamagishi (Momentary Lily episode director for episodes 4, 5, 10, and 11)
• Main animator: Hiroshi Okubo (Momentary Lily co-main animator)
• Music composer: Ludvig Forssell (Belle co-composer)
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System is based on Lee Brocco‘s manga adaptation of the light novel series by Nekoko. The premise involves the titular Heavy Knight, who is from a Sword Saint lineage, being exiled and losing his succession rights due to the prejudice against the Heavy Knight class in his world. Fortunately for the protagonist, he is aware that this world is actually a game that he used to play heavily, and that the Heavy Knight is the strongest class.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System was originally a web novel that debuted on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2021. The manga is serialized in Kodansha’s Young Magazine. K Manga has it in English.
Source: @jukishi_anime
