“Failed Mage-Knight Ikki must room with genius princess Stella, leading to duel and forced partnership.”
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
落第騎士の英雄譚《キャバルリィ》
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Synopsis
Failed Mage-Knight Ikki must room with genius princess Stella, leading to duel and forced partnership.
In a time and place where one's soul can be morphed into a weapon, there are modern-day magicians called Mage-Knights. Although Kurogane Ikki is a student at an institution that trains Mage-Knights, he has no particular talent in magic and is labeled the "Failure Knight" or "Worst One." Getting way less than average marks in the scorings, he was forced to repeat a year. But with the arrival of a new head of the institution, a new rule was created: knights whose abilities are compatible, as decided by the board, must share rooms and attend practice and training together throughout their school years to bring up their abilities to the max. It is a rule to implement the absolute verdict of ability. Ikki's roommate, Stella Vermillion, turns out to be a princess of another foreign country. Stella is a Rank A knight: the type of genius in magic who only appears once a decade. When Ikki walked in on her while she was changing her clothes, it caused a huge misunderstanding, which eventually ended up in a duel between the two of them. The punishment for the losing side is Eternal Submission to the winning side. Forced to live the same room and practice magic together throughout all their school years, how will Stella and Ikki's relationship evolve? (Source: Baka-Tsuki)
What people say
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Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.24 · split reception
4.3 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.7
↓ 1.60
Running avg · Oct 2015 → Jan 2023
- 7 “School Life battle style storyline revolving around the schools ‘weakest’ mage knight and his efforts to find a means to rise to the top of his class and achieve a win at school tourney which would...”
- 9 “This is an absolute gem, as are the novel and the anime. Just like the anime adaptation, the manga is very faithful to the light novel, of which it adapts the first narrative arc. The story is a...”
- 3 “If you want to waste your time for it to end right before the main tournament arc this is the manga for you! All you need to know is that it is a LN adaptation that they decided to stop making the...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 47 × 11 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 16m approx
- Published Mar 2014 – Dec 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M27408 catalog