Chivalry of a Failed Knight
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@village-idiot what kind of changes and what were the Cringy moments? if the Cringy moments were some Romance moments then I would not care. I was spoiled on a joke that happens in this series that is pretty funny and tells us something about the characters, this makes me want to read the series.
The Joke
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@hyferzftw
For example, in the last arc of the anime,The LN's narration is also filled with the underdog "woe is me" at times.
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@village-idiot I do not see anything wrong with that. this is a Romance between two Teenagers. People, especially Teenagers, are Horny; It would be weird if two lovers (especially teenage lovers) did not have some horny moments with each other. When it comes to the Romance, I am fine with it, in fact, I think it is better than most teenage romances (maybe not the best of the best but better than most). I also think they did have that moment in the anime.
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I'll need to re-read that part.
I remember at the time cringing at the narration.
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@village-idiot Here is a link to the Cabin Scene in the anime
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@drone205
Huh, I don't remember seeing that scene in the anime. Wonder if I missed an episode, thanks. -
I like this one too. It has interesting characters, a fun romance and some suitably dastardly villains.
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Yeah. Sadly, I hear that the publisher does not like Digital Only, so we're unlikely to get it unless their stance changes.
But I can keep hoping.
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@drone205 I don't remember that joke. When does it show up?
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@steelblaidd IDK just heard that joke happens from somewhere. probably after Ikki and Stella go public.
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@drone205 May not have happened yet in my reading as my understanding was they were holding off till Ikki had a chance to make his intentions clear to Stella's dad.
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I absolutely love Chivalry. I do agree that there are some very cringey moments (there is the occasional sexual harassment comedy and this gets VERY bad at a certain point in volume 4), but on the whole I find it actually refreshingly positive about the topic of maintaining relationships, dealing with sex and even kink! The vast majority of sexual shenanigans are entirely believable because not only are Ikki and Stella horny teens, but their respective upbringings haven't really left them with a very good education on the matter. There is an incredible payoff to this when Stella figures herself out a bit, though.
As for the abstinence thing:
EDIT: Also, while the anime did tighten up a few things here and there, it also added its own cringey fanservice, like "OH NO I DROPPED MY TOWEL", or turning the bathing scene in episode 2, which was originally kind of a sad scene and an early indicator of Stella's warped view on sexuality, into a really stupid scene where her bikini top falls off for literally no reason and it's somehow Ikki's fault.
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The anime for this series has been on my "To watch" list for ages, so the books? Hell yeah!
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@rosiero That explains it as I haven't got that far yet.
Also I always thought being cringey was kind of the point of harassment as comedy.
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Please, please, please license this light novel series. I loved the anime and what I know about the light novel thus far has been great as well. It would be a nice addition to some of the good titles that J-Novel offers already. I know at least 5 other people that would sign up for a membership were it to get licensed (and I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows someone, lol). So here's to hoping that this get licensed soon!
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I really liked the anime of this one and started reading the fan translations of the LN. Unfortunately, like most fan translated LNs, the translation and editing is kinda rough :/
I'd really like to continue the story tho and see Stella and Ikei's relationship grow :)
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It still pains me to this day that Asterisk got licensed instead of this.
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@eternal-wanderer I would rather read Asterisk than some of the other titles I've seen licensed lately, like something about a girl who attracts penguins? I am really hoping that Chivalry of a Failed Knight gets licensed at some point. It has an awesome story. I just saw Classroom of the Elite and Mushoku Tensei got licensed, so Chivalry DEFINITELY deserves to be licensed as well. I'll go back to praying for it to happen now, since J-Novel has multiple other upcoming announcements, at least one with 10+ volumes (which Chivalry does), so heres to hoping! So J-Novel Club, please license Chivalry of a Failed Knight!!
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@ironman628 said in Chivalry of a Failed Knight:
girl who attracts penguins
U mean Penguin Highway?
I am pretty sure it's better than Asterisk, it's a general literature novel written by Tomihiko Morimi (author of Tatami Galaxy and Eccentric Family)
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I was just bringing up Asterisk because both shows have similar premises but Chivalry executed everything way better, I will acknowledge though that some resent licenses have been odd though I reserve judgement until they come out. After all one reason I like Japanese content like light novels, manga, and anime is that they can take weird out there premises and make them work. Like one recent example, though I will admit I haven't read this one personally, is Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon. Despite the incredibly weird premise I have heard nothing but good things about this book. Though I will give you that there are plenty of misses as well where a weird premise just doesn't' work.
