No Maken Tsukai Free - Seiken Gakuin

is a solid guilty pleasure series. It doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it executes the “overpowered dark lord in a holy academy” premise well. The light novel has stronger worldbuilding than the anime suggests. If you enjoy The Misfit of Demon King Academy or Chivalry of a Failed Knight , you’ll likely enjoy this.

Leonis awakens in a world vastly different from what he expected. It is the year 2040. Humanity is not extinct; instead, it is under siege by mysterious, phantom beasts known as . To combat these, humanity uses gigantic, holy swords called Holy Swords —transforming mecha weapons powered by magical energy. seiken gakuin no maken tsukai