Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Vol. 1 (manga) (Reign of the Seven Spellblades (Manga))

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Precursors: Volume 8 explains that the labyrinth underneath Kimberly was built by an ancient civilization called the Parsu, which was destroyed by a Zombie Apocalypse when its army of Undead Laborers went out of control.

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Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: Despite being an openly and proudly dangerous Academy of Adventure where it's expected that about twenty percent of matriculating students will not survive to graduate in seven years, Kimberly Magic Academy does have some school rules, but enforcement is haphazard and usually left up to the whims of upperclassmen (fortunately the current student council is of a mind to run a Campus Watch). Volume 2 makes particular note of the school rules on Wizard Duels, which are a routine way to settle disputes: on the school grounds proper, only upperclassmen are allowed to set their swords' dulling spells at half-strength, but protagonist Oliver Horn is challenged by Tullio Rossi in the labyrinth beneath the school, where there's nobody to enforce the rule, and Oliver is willing to go along.

Reign of the Seven Spellblades ( 七つの魔剣が支配する, Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Bokuto Uno and illustrated by Ruria Miyuki. ASCII Media Works have published the series since September 2018 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Sakae Esuno was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace from May 2019 to November 2023. Both the light novel and manga are licensed in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired from July to October 2023. After he was orphaned, Oliver was adopted by the Sherwood family and was raised alongside his cousins, Gwyn and Shannon. 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.On the way to the opening ceremony at Kimberly Magic Academy, Oliver Horn passes by the mysterious samurai girl Nanao Hibiya, while becoming friends with fellow students Guy Greenwood and Katie Aalto. Outside the school, a student casts a spell that forces Katie to run towards a giant troll that has gone berserk, but she is saved by Nanao. At the ceremony, academy headmistress Esmeralda delivers a speech warning students that 20% of students do not survive to graduation, but are "consumed by the spell". The students attend a mixer afterwards where Oliver, Nanao, Guy, Katie, Michela McFarlane, and Pete Reston introduce each other and become friends. Nanao explains that she was saved from a certain death by one of Michaela's relatives and was recruited to enroll at Kimberly. At night, Oliver walks out of the dorm to investigate the school and meets up with Teresa Carste, who provides him with intel. At daybreak, Oliver meets a mysterious girl named Teresa Carste, sent by his siblings to watch over him. He then sees Nanao bathing her scar-covered body at the fountain nearby the boys dormitory, which Nanao claims is a purification ritual to cleanse herself for all the enemies she killed in war and is told that what she is doing is unacceptable. In the novel (and manga), Luther Garland and Richard Andrews didn't appear until the first day of class after orientation. The anime adaptation gives them both Early Bird Cameos in the pilot episode (Garland briefly introduces Headmistress Esmeralda during orientation, while Andrews appears in a couple of scenes but has no lines), which rolls credits early in the morning before class (the first scene of the novel's second chapter). Oliver's athame resembles a messer: It is a straight-spined single-edged sword with a cruciform hilt.

Nanao appears to be very close to Katie, and the two have even become roommates. The girls have shown great affection for one another, as Nanao accompanied Oliver through the labyrinth to save Katie from Vera Miligan, who had planned to subject the girl to cruel experiments. Katie kissed both Nanao and Oliver on the cheek after Miligan's defeat as a "reward" for saving her. Her bond with Nanao and the others seemed to deepen even more after she found her resolve to make her dreams come true. 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. In the novel, Teresa Carste wasn't introduced until the epilogue of the first volume (chapter 15 of the manga). The anime adds several scenes in the first five episodes where she covertly meets with Oliver on the dormitory quad, as well as having her send an anonymous tip to the Campus Watch to get Godfrey and Whitrow to respond to Oliver and Nanao's raid on Miligan's laboratory. Power Trio: Discussed in volume 9 by the Tournament Arc match commentators, who note how similar the finalist teams are in structure: they each have a leader/planner figure (respectively Oliver Horn and Richard Andrews), a strong physical fighter (Nanao Hibiya, Joseph Albright), and an unorthodox disruptor (Yuri Leik, Tullio Rossi).Pete Reston: Initially, Pete was wary of Oliver's friendliness. However, after discovering that he's a Reversi, Pete started accepting his kindness. Oliver cares deeply about him and strives to protect him at all times. Sometimes he treats Pete like a younger brother, patting his head, to Pete's frustration. Their relationship has improved significantly as Pete now trusts Oliver more often and is more open to him as a friend. Nanao Hibiya: Thank you.As spring dawns in year 1532 of the Great Calendar, fifteen-year-old mages from all walks of life arrive at Kimberly Magic Academy to begin their seven-year-long formal education in the arts of magic. An altercation with a troll at the entrance ceremony forges bonds between six of them that will serve them well, for life at Kimberly is anything but safe. And for series protagonist Oliver Horn, talented mainly at adapting and modifying others' techniques, those bonds—especially with Nanao Hibiya, a samurai of the far east for whom magic is more instinct than thought—are as much complication as boon, for he came to Kimberly carrying secrets darker than the labyrinth that lies below it. Downplayed between Cyrus Rivermoore and Ophelia Salvadori. They've fought many bloody battles in the labyrinth and he's prone to Slut-Shaming her, but it's implied that he just does it to provoke her to fight him. If you look more closely, the series actually implies they're more competitors than enemies: they're shown critiquing each other's newest creations during the fight that that the Sword Roses witness in volume 1, and Cyrus mentions he plans to give condolences to her family after she's consumed by the spell in volume 3. Doesn't make their fights any less dangerous to be around.