Joseph Luster
September 5, 2024 
Last month, listings popped up for an anime adaptation based on The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System, a series of fantasy web novels by Nekoko. The info came from the 11th volume of Brocco Lee’s manga adaptation, and now a teaser trailer has arrived along with the reveal that GoHands is the studio behind it.
Additional details—including the staff and cast behind it, as well as the premiere date—have yet to be announced. You can see the trailer below, which immediately signals that it’s a GoHands production.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Trailer
Novel illustrator Jaian and manga adaptation artist Brocco Lee shared the following celebratory illustrations:
The original The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System novels started serialization on the Shosetsuka ni Naro website in April 2021, and print editions featuring Jaian’s illustrations followed starting in June 2022.
Kodansha’s K MANGA service publishes the manga adaptation and describes the story:
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Plot
“You good-for-nothing bastard. You are the son of a Sword Saint, yet you dare pull such a defective Class!?”
During the〈Divine Blessing Ceremony〉of the 15-year-old Elma who came from a lineage of Sword Saints, he had manifested a commonly deemed defective class known as the Heavy Knight. He had been deprived of his position as the next head of the Edvan Household and was then exiled. The Heavy Knight class had an unbalanced status and useless skills, to top it off, it was even said to be a class cowardly and indolent people have.
But, Elma knew better—that this world was the world of the game he had used to play before—and that the Heavy Knight class was the strongest class to exist. Elma made full use of the knowledge he had in his previous life and began his efficient walkthrough of the world he was reincarnated into.
Source: Crunchyroll News
