Light Novel 'Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru' Gets TV Anime

by Vindstot
Dec 11, 2021 6:25 AM | 24 Comments

A television anime adaptation of Bokuto Uno's Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru (Reign of the Seven Spellblades) light novel was announced on the first day of the Dengeki Bunko Winter Festival 2021 event on Saturday.

Synopsis
In the world of magic, there exist deadly irreversible techniques commonly known as spellblades. These sparse and elusive spells, along with their casters, are shrouded in mystery and only their absolute lethality is known to the masses.

Every year, the spring blossom signifies a new intake of students to the prestigious magic school Kimberly. With reactions of awe and bewilderment, a ceremonious parade complete with magical beasts welcomes the newcomers to the institution. Among them is the mysterious Oliver Horn, whose indifference changes to fascination as he notices a peculiar figure—a girl wearing strange attire equipped with a Japanese sword.

From the entrance ceremony onward, Oliver realizes that not all is as it seems at Kimberly, as the emergence of labyrinths, monsters, and other threats endanger the new student body. Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru explores the intertwined fates of two warriors as they uncover the dark truths that lurk within the walls of the academy. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Uno began publishing the action fantasy novel—abbreviated as Nanatsuma—with illustrations by Ruria Miyuki under the Dengeki Bunko imprint in September 2018, approximately a month after ending Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin (Alderamin on the Sky). Kadokawa shipped the eighth volume on September 10 (pictured right). Nanatsuma has a cumulative 300,000 copies of its volumes in print.

Sakae Esuno (Mirai Nikki, Big Order) began drawing a manga adaptation in Monthly Shounen Ace in May 2019. Kadokawa published the fourth volume on May 26, with the fifth volume scheduled for release on December 26.

Yen Press licensed both the light novel and the manga adaptation in English last July and this April, respectively. The publisher released the third light novel volume on July 27 and the first manga volume on November 16.

Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru ranked first in the bunkobon category in the 2020 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings.

Announcement

Novel special site: https://dengekibunko.jp/special/7-maken/

Source: Dengeki Online

Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru on MAL

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Zefyris said:

Hoppy said:
My god the mighty has fallen. Kadokawa has done Dengeki no favors lately, they're choosing pretty much the bottom of the barrel of LNs to adapt to the point that I'm questioning who's in charge of picking the LNs to adapt, it's laziness overall.

dude, this is Alderamin author's new work. Not only is this well written like Alderamin was, but it's nowhere near bottom of the barrel.

MisterIncognito said:
Oh no. Another one of those magic high school anime that were popular about 5 years ago that people tend to forget after one season.
They stopped coming out since a few years ago. I wonder why are they coming back.

This has nothign to do with the usual magic academy anime (though it IS happening in a magic academy, the style is vastly different)
Not that I'm saying you should watch it though. But you're still wrong no matter what.

ninka22 said:
I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

combination of gender is simmilar (not exactly but almost) as the first work from the same author : 3 girls + 3 men as main cast.

Socialloser said:
Is this isekai? The synopsis makes it sounds like normal fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with isekai as long as it's good tho

It's not an isekai, or at least in the way you mean, no.

Zefyris said:

dude, this is Alderamin author's new work. Not only is this well written like Alderamin was, but it's nowhere near bottom of the barrel.

ninka22 said:
I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

combination of gender is simmilar (not exactly but almost) as the first work from the same author : 3 girls + 3 men as main cast.

Socialloser said:
Is this isekai? The synopsis makes it sounds like normal fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with isekai as long as it's good tho

It's not an isekai, or at least in the way you mean, no.

I liked Alderamin a lot so I'm even more excited to watch this now

Dec 15, 2021 1:41 PM by Tokoya

dude, this is Alderamin author's new work. Not only is this well written like Alderamin was, but it's nowhere near bottom of the barrel.

ninka22 said:
I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

combination of gender is simmilar (not exactly but almost) to the first work from the same author : 3 girls + 3 men as main cast.

Socialloser said:
Is this isekai? The synopsis makes it sounds like normal fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with isekai as long as it's good tho

It's not an isekai, or at least in the way you mean, no.

Dec 14, 2021 3:10 PM by Zefyris

Oh no. Another one of those magic high school anime that were popular about 5 years ago that people tend to forget after one season.
They stopped coming out since a few years ago. I wonder why are they coming back.

Nevermind. I figured it out. It's because of Demon Lord Academy which is also an Magic High School anime turned out to be very well received. They should realize that they shouldn't compare themselves to Demon Lord Academy. For one, Demon Lord Academy has a very entertaining, charismatic and confident MC, Anos, who is the furthest thing from those mind numbingly boring and generic MCs who can't pick a clue common on those other Magic High School anime.

Dec 13, 2021 4:34 AM by Raibyou

Fede_5000 said:
GOSH what a so pretentious synopsis that goes into details that surely the series omits just to be another generic story about magic academy FACEPALM

spoiler about the direction the series is going to take. I basically give away the plot twist at the end of the first novel here

Revengezzz, it turned out to be even worse than I thought

Dec 12, 2021 8:55 PM by Fede_5000

stone616 said:

klakson188 said:
Sounds like another generic LN adaptation about magic academy,
Second most common setting after isekai (when talking about LN)

It's complicated. I've read the first 3 volumes and the story has more potential than just being a generic magic academy series but at the same time it's not maximizing on that potential.

At the end of the first novel you're teased with an interesting direction things eventually will go in but don't go in right away.

Also I've never read or watched Harry Potter but the magical academy setting here is pretty ruthless. Does Harry Potter have the students more or less self-govern? A living academy that changes at night into a labyrinth and students kidnapping, experimenting on, and possibly killing each other? Does Harry Potter have the expectation that a majority of the students that enroll in the beginning will probably be dead well before graduation?

ninka22 said:
I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

No, It also up until at least Vol 3 has no romance either.

Sign me the fuck up

Dec 12, 2021 4:19 AM by Tokoya

Awesome. I am happy this get anime adaption. I don t care if you guys call it generic or harem or whatever. This is gonna be good and exciting. Looking forward to this.

This is not isekai by the way.

Dec 11, 2021 8:28 PM by DemonDarknight

Some people still questioning why magic academy with harem elements lns gets adapted all the time while their so called unique LNS dont simple former is super popular there in japan ( i know shocking )

Dec 11, 2021 8:18 PM by AnimeFA78N

Fede_5000 said:
GOSH what a so pretentious synopsis that goes into details that surely the series omits just to be another generic story about magic academy FACEPALM

spoiler about the direction the series is going to take. I basically give away the plot twist at the end of the first novel here

Dec 11, 2021 6:01 PM by stone616

klakson188 said:
Sounds like another generic LN adaptation about magic academy,
Second most common setting after isekai (when talking about LN)

ninka22 said:
I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

No, It also up until at least Vol 3 has no romance either.

Dec 11, 2021 5:54 PM by stone616

Socialloser said:
Is this isekai? The synopsis makes it sounds like normal fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with isekai as long as it's good tho

It's native isekai.

Dec 11, 2021 3:51 PM by ichii_1

I have a question for LN readers. Is this a harem?

Dec 11, 2021 1:14 PM by ninka22

Bought the first volume a while ago, surprised to see it's getting an anime!

Dec 11, 2021 12:22 PM by Taffy_x3

Let's go, my favourite LN getting adapted.

Dec 11, 2021 10:07 AM by removed-user

My god the mighty has fallen. Kadokawa has done Dengeki no favors lately, they're choosing pretty much the bottom of the barrel of LNs to adapt to the point that I'm questioning who's in charge of picking the LNs to adapt, it's laziness overall.

Dec 11, 2021 9:13 AM by Hoppy

Come to think of it the Magical school trend existed longer than isekai did in anime its always among teens and nerdy otaku type adults mostly they took a back seat to isekai but with the recent announcement of this and demon lord in Excalibur academy i think they slowly getting up Good for those who into this I Guess but those people hardly exist in mal so lol

Dec 11, 2021 8:26 AM by AnimeFA78N

Holy fucking yes i knew this one will get anime adaption heck yeah

Dec 11, 2021 8:13 AM by AnimeFA78N

Another fantasy anime....Sign me up

Dec 11, 2021 8:00 AM by Tokoya

More fantasy anime is always nice.

Dec 11, 2021 7:55 AM by MegamiRem

Read the manga for a while. Wasn't that bad, but somewhat boring. Depending on the quality of the adaptation, this might be a lot better as an anime though. Will give it a try.

Dec 11, 2021 6:52 AM by Kami-Koto

Well looks like it's not an Isekai so i'm interested for now, although LN's score is reasonable (which is where the anime will adapt from), manga's is pretty low so let's wait and see

Dec 11, 2021 6:48 AM by ThighsYLover

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