Quote Originally Posted by HolyDraconus View Post
Interesting that you said that. My family enjoyed Knights but if the manga is as bad as you say we dodged a bullet there.
The web novel is, I don't know about the manga adaptation.

If the anime was a straight adaptation of the WN, half of it would be nothing but exposition. Just, wall-to-wall "and that's how this works" and "this is how I, the protagonist, will improve upon it with my out-of-universe knowledge and raw genius".

The anime isn't great really - insofar as it has the same prevalent flaws of the genre - but its adaptation does the work to identify the elements of the story that are potentially interesting to anyone who doesn't care for pedantic magic system fluff and that could be conveyed through visuals rather than lengthy exposition dumps, and its plot in general has been restructured to work within the 13 episodes they were given. It doesn't feel like swimming through molasses to watch, basically.