Audience reviews
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BadDecisionFan
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.
Read at the sourceRESOLVING_POWER
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.…
Read at the sourceAnimeAndy
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 h…
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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,…
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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 reinca…
Read at the sourceIshu-kun
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 va…
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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 whe…
Read at the sourceRajsingh
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 tha…
Read at the sourceMagical_Girl_X_O
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 ani…
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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…
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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 de…
Read at the sourceTyrannicswine117
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 K…
Read at the sourceBriefEd
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…
Read at the sourceChaos234
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 Shilo…
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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 betwee…
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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…
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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 i…
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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…
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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 charac…
Read at the sourceZaber_san
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…
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