Bandai Visual is doing some new promotion for the summer 2017 anime series Knight’s & Magic as they’ve brought out a preview for the twelfth episode that’s due out on September 16th, 2017. The series was directed by Yuusuke Yamamoto based on the series composition by Michiko Yokote. Kenichiro Katsura served as the character designer with Studio 8bit handling the animation production.
Crunchyroll streams new episodes every Sunday at 11:00am ET for their members with it open to members in North America, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Latin America.
The Japanese cast includes Rie Takahashi as Ernesti Echevarria, Ayaka Ohashi as Adeltrud Olter, Shinsuke Sugawara as Archid Olter, Yasuaki Takumi as Edgar C Blanche, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Dietrich Cunitz, and Shizuka Itou as Helvi Overlay.
The opening theme is “Hello! My World!!” by fhána and the ending theme is “You & I” by Ayaka Ohashi.
The light novels come from Hisago Amazaek-no with illustrations by Kurogin and it began under the Hero Bunko label back in 2013. With six volumes released so far and a manga adaptation from Takuji Katou, well, all signs were pointing to potential anime adaptation for a bit.
Plot Concept: A genius programmer and hardcore robot otaku is reborn into a world of knights and magic, where huge robots called Silhouette Knights roar across the land! Now reborn as Ernesti Echevalier, he uses his vast knowledge of machines and programming talents to begin to make his ultimate robot. But his actions have unexpected results…?! The dreams of a robot otaku will change the world!
