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The anime will air for two consecutive cours(quarter of a year) on TBS and MBS's Super Animeism TURBO programming block and it premiered on July 2 at 24:26 JST (effectively, July 3 at 12:26 a.m.). Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in India as it airs in Japan. Muse India is also streaming the anime in India on YouTube as is Amazon Prime Video's Anime Times.
Kodansha is releasing the manga in English through its K MANGA service, and it describes the story:
"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 the15-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 thenext 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.
Shingo Suzukiis 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 Ōkubo (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.
SPYAIR performs the opening theme song "Awake" forthe first cours.
Nekoko began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō(Let's Become Novelists) website in April 2021. Kodansha published the first print volumewith illustrations by Jaian in June 2022, and the fifth volume shipped on July 2. BroccoLee 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 in September 2024. The manga's 18th volume shipped on July 6.
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.