The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System Anime's 2nd Teaser Announces Cast, Staff, 2026 Debut
The official website for the television anime of Brocco Lee's manga adaptation of Nekoko's The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System (Tsuihō Sareta Tensei Jū Kishi wa Game Chishiki de Musō Suru) light novel series posted the anime's main cast, staff, second teaser promotional video, and 2026 premiere on Wednesday. The anime stars:Shingo Suzuki is the general director, and Katsumasa Yokomine (The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, Momentary Lily) is directing the anime at GoHands. Takayuki Uchida (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, W'z) is designing the characters, and also serving as one of the chief animation directors along with Keiji Tani (Momentary Lily) and Makoto Furuta (Momentary Lily). Tetsuichi Yamagishi (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie key animation) is the chief director, Hiroshi Okubo (K, The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses) is the main animator, Glovision is in charge of sound production, Enji Nakajima and Tetsuya Gunji are the sound directors, and Ludvig Forssell (BELLE film) is composing the music.Nekoko began serializing the story in the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in April 2021. Kodansha published the first print volume with illustrations by Jaian in June 2022, and the third volume shipped in February 2024. Brocco Lee launched the manga adaptation in Kodansha's Yanmaga website in February 2022. The manga moved from Kodansha's Yanmaga website to Kodansha's Young Magazine on September 9, 2024. Seven Seas Entertainment also publishes Nekoko's Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling and Disciple of the Lich light novel series in English, and also publishes RIO's manga adaptation of the Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling novels.Sources: The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System anime's website, Comic Natalie
