Speed: As the eyes of the trained Kiryuu warriors couldn't keep with her shadow and movement, Infinite with the 7th Spellblade (Her 7th Spellblade can slice through everything she perceives as an obstacle be it the formless space, the passage of time, and even the concept of distance) Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Union seems to be a European Union equivalent, and Azia is obviously Asia.

a b c "Reign of the Seven Spellblades Anime Reveals Academy Staff's Cast". Anime News Network. May 18, 2023 . Retrieved May 18, 2023. Constructed World: The world is fairly transparently a Historical Fantasy version of the Eurasian supercontinent, taking place in an equivalent to the European Union. Azia is Asia and Yamatsukini is Japan circa the Sengoku Period, Yelgland seems to be Britain, and Farnland is probably Finland given Katie's surname Aalto. Other locations mentioned include Ytallia (Italy) and Indus (India). Inverted with Alvin Godfrey, who is considered a possible suspect in the faculty murders based on his own fighting strength and the soft power he wields as head of the Campus Watch (i.e. From a Certain Point of View he basically has his own private army). However, Esmeralda admits he's a poor suspect at best because he has no discernible motive; she's pretty much grasping at straws and tells him to consider his name coming up a compliment.Super Breeding Program: A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages Teen Pregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children and supporting child-rearing. This also leads to Nanao and Pete being approached repeatedly for dates by other students starting in volume 4, since both are Mages Born of Muggles (and thus don't pose any risks of inbreeding) with rare abilities (Nanao's Innocent Color and proficiency with sword arts, Pete's reversiism). Oliver himself comments in his internal monologue when he's forced to admit his feelings for Nanao that he doesn't "want their relationship reduced to reproduction and inheritance", and so declines to specifically answer whether he wants to have children with her. The Talk: Reconstructed in volume 4. After Nanao and Pete are approached a little aggressively in the dining hall by other students, Oliver and Chela host an informal sex ed seminar for the group, focusing particularly on consent and the peculiarities of mage sexual relations. One of the things that comes up is that the Union's mage aristocracy has what amounts to an informal Super Breeding Program, and Nanao and Pete's unique traits are highly sought-after additions to mage bloodlines as a consequence. His true reason for enrolling is the sole purpose of exacting vengeance on those who betrayed and killed his mother. Appearance [ ] Adults Are Useless: By design. As a general rule, the instructors at Kimberly seldom intervene in problems internal to the student body: they're not even allowed to go into the labyrinth after a missing student until the eighth day—at which point it's usually assumed they'll be trying to recover bodies rather than rescue survivors. The students are expected to solve their problems themselves as part of a curriculum meant to foster self-reliance, teamwork, problem-solving, and fighting skill, which is all Training from Hell for Gnostic Hunters. Nanao is a samurai from a warrior family in Tourikueisen, Yamatsukuni located in the continent of Azia. She is a noble and cheerful person who holds honor in high regard and even more a good fight. After fighting in a war and almost dying, she is saved by a passing mage named Theodore McFarlane who takes her to Yelgland and enrolls her in Kimberly Magic Academy, seeing her great talent for swordsmanship.

First-Episode Twist: At the end of the first volume, we learn that Oliver enrolled in Kimberly to kill the teachers who killed his mother, which was shown in the prologue. Bisexual Love Triangle: Chloe Halford had multiple pursuers while she attended Kimberly. Theodore McFarlane recalls having fought a duel with Edgar Groves over their relationships with her. Current Kimberly Headmistress Esmeralda, Chloe's underclassman, was also in love with her, and Chloe didn't tell her when she and Edgar became a couple, not wanting Emmy to think she didn't have a chance just because they were both women. Oliver Horn is her son with Edgar.

Kono Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2020 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. November 25, 2019 . Retrieved December 11, 2021. Chloe Halford: Oliver's mother. Oliver had a good and loving relationship with his mom, she taught him valuable life lessons and skills, and played with him a lot in his childhood. Her murder sent him on the path of vengeance. Diana Ashbury: The star of the Blue Swallows broomsports team, Ashbury took a dislike to Nanao when she was accepted onto the Wild Geese team in 1533. She changed her tune after Nanao made her work for her win in their first match, and started coaching her in broomsports. Nanao also encouraged Ashbury to reconcile with her lost lover Clifton Morgan. Gender-Restricted Ability: Downplayed. Female mages are able to use their wombs as an emergency battery of mana, which can give them an edge in Wizard Duels. It's not a decisive edge, though, since magical strength is very much dependent on the individual and grows with age and training: on average, male and female mages' capabilities are about equal. It's not called Reign of the Seven Spellblades for nothing: the fact Luther Garland initially says there are six is foreshadowing. Nanao spontaneously invents the seventh at the climax of volume 1.

Nanao also has her own suitors, notably Tullio Rossi. It's entirely one-sided: Nanao is 100% Oliver-sexual. Reestablishing Character Moment: Volume 7 does this with several returning characters who didn't appear in the year 2 books:Joseph Albright had a non-magical childhood friend, a serving girl ( named Emma in the anime) who liked to play chess with him. After she managed to defeat him, his parents tortured him for most of a day for losing, and murdered Emma and her entire family. Mage Born of Muggles: Pete and Nanao were both born into non-magic families, which in The Magocracy means a significant bump in socioeconomic status (at least for Pete; for Nanao, it just beats being plain dead). It's unclear if there is any specific mechanism that causes this, but it is known that you have to be born a mage: according to the protagonists, no spell exists that can turn Muggles into one. Neither adaptation includes Chela's suggestion from volume 2 that Pete take advantage of his reversiism to experiment sexually, and episode 13 of the anime cuts Miligan making a pass at Oliver after the Battle of Hell's Armies. Theodore McFarlane refuses to treat Stacy Cornwallis as anything more than another student despite being her biological father, which caused her to also be shunned by her stepfather. In volume 9, though, after she and Fay perform well as a Battle Couple in the Tournament Arc, he promises to make her family allow their romance rather than force them onto the Courtly Love path.