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Viewster Streams Chivalry of a Failed Knight in Canada, UK

Media distribution service Viewster announced on Tuesday that it will simulcast the Chivalry of a Failed Knight anime in Canada and the United Kingdom as it airs in Japan.

The series premiered in Japan on October 4 and has 12 episodes planned. Sentai Filmworkslicensed the series in North America and is streaming the series on Hulu.

The "school sword action" story revolves around Magic Knights, modern magic-users who fight with weapons converted from their souls. Ikki Kurogane goes to a school for these Magic Knights, but he is the "Failed Knight" or "Worst One" who is failing because he has no magical skills. However, one day, he is challenged to a duel by Stella, a foreign princess and the "Number One" student. In this duel, "the loser must be obedient for life."

Shin Oonuma (Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, WATAMOTE) and Jin Tamamura (Invaders of the Rokujyōma!?) are serving as director and series director, respectively, at the anime studios SILVER LINK (Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, WATAMOTE) and Nexus (Santa Company, Wakaba Girl). Shogo Yasukawa (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Terraformars) is in charge of the series scripts, and Sei Komatsubara designed the characters. Jin Aketagawa of Magic Capsule is the sound director.

Riku Misora launched the light novel series with illustrations by Won in 2013, and SoftBank Creative published the seventh volume in May. Megumu Soramichi has been drawing the manga adaptation in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine.

Thanks to Jesse Betteridge and Adit Ponto for the news tip.