History Literature / KnightsAndMagic

''Knight's & Magic'' is an ongoing web novel series by Hisago Amazake-no that got started in October 2010 on the online novel platform Shōsetsuka ni Narō, before Shufunotomo's Hero Bunko imprint picked it up and turned it into a light novel series with artist Kurogin being put in charge with illustrations.

** The basic premise of the series, a world of MagiTech HumongousMecha whose technology is revolutionized by the arrival of a young genius from our world, is remarkably similar to ''AuraBattlerDunbine''.

* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: Erus' personal Silhouette Knight ''Ikaruga'' is designed with this aesthetic in-mind, sporting a more Eastern-Stylized armor and crested helmet.

* EverythingIsBetterWithSamurai: Erus' personal Silhouette Knight ''Ikaruga'' is designed with this aesthetic in-mind, sporting a more Eastern-Stylized armor and crested helmet.

* BoobsOfSteel: Several of the Knight Runners -- most notably Helvi with her ImpossiblyLowNeckline -- are quite well-endowned.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: The first Knight upgrades that Ernesti designs tended to have these problems.

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A manga adaptation by Takuji Kato started in April 15, 2016 on Creator/SquareEnix's Young Gangan magazine. An anime adaptation started on July 2, 2017, directed by [[Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK Yusuke]] [[Anime/WalkureRomanze Yamamoto]] and the animation studio [[Literature/InfiniteStratos 8-]][[Anime/CometLucifer Bit]]. It is available for legal streaming with subtitles on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/knights-magic here]], and with an English Dub on Creator/{{Funimation}} [[https://www.funimation.com/shows/knights-magic/ here]]. The Simuldub started airing on July 30th, 2017.

* NotQuiteFlight: Eru "flies" by using some sort of propulsion spell through the two gun-rods hanging from his hips.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Eru and Horacio's conflict is deeply personal, but the ideals they're fighting over have nothing to do with morality as we'd understand it. Eru considers it a ''moral imperative'' that only a mech can destroy another mech, while Horacio wants the freedom to cruise the skies in a giant battleship. The driving question of the war is whether future conflicts will be dominated by Silhouette Knights or Levitate Ships.

A manga adaptation by Takuji Kato started in April 15, 2016 on Creator/SquareEnix's Young Gangan magazine. An anime adaptation started on July 2, 2017, directed by [[LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK Yusuke]] [[Anime/WalkureRomanze Yamamoto]] and the animation studio [[LightNovel/InfiniteStratos 8-]][[Anime/CometLucifer Bit]]. It is available for legal streaming with subtitles on Website/{{Crunchyroll}} [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/knights-magic here]], and with an English Dub on Creator/{{Funimation}} [[https://www.funimation.com/shows/knights-magic/ here]]. The Simuldub started airing on July 30th, 2017.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: In contrast to the pragmatic ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'' or the satirical ''LightNovel/ReZero'', the world relies on a more idealistic outlook and how reincarnation into [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome another world is technically awesome]].

* BareYourMidriff: Helvi's clothes leave her midriff open to the world.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: In the anime, the movements of the Knights and the behemoth have this special brand of fluidity and weightlesness that makes it obvious they're CG.

* AdaptationDistillation: The anime adaptation compresses large chunks of its paper precedessors into the first episode, dropping several subplots and moving others around to keep the most important events while limiting the number of time skips.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The dwarves in the Light Novel are pretty much the classic version -- short, stout craftsmen who come from the mountains and do a lot of mining, with men who pride themselves on their beards. By contrast, the anime gives them a darker skin tone and eschews the classic dwarf beard for something less likely to get entangled in machinery).

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The dwarves in this world are pretty much the classic version -- short, stout craftsmen who come from the mountains and do a lot of mining, with men who pride themselves on their beards (in the Light Novel, at least; the anime eschews a classic dwarf beard for something less likely to get entangled in machinery).

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The last shot of the anime has Ernesti in his mech giving the viewer a peace sign before flying off into the sunset.

* HamToHamCombat: Ooh boy, there's quite a bit in this series but the biggest one is between Eru and Horacio.

** In the anime, when the Ikaruga reveals it's greatsword, it strikes the same pose as the Strike Gundam does when using the Sword Striker Pack's Schwert Gewehr in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: In contrast to the pragmatic ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'' or the satirical ''LightNovel/ReZero'', the world relies on a more idealistic outlook and how reincarnation into [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome another world is technically awesome]].

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* AdaptationDistillation: The anime adaptation compresses large chunks of its paper precedessors into the first episode, dropping several subplots and moving others around to keep the most important events while limiting the number of time skips.