S01E01 A Stormy Encounter
Ikta is a brilliant, but lazy and unmotivated boy. His childhood friend, a high-ranking daughter of a noble, offers him an easy position at a library if he can help her get the top score...
Alderamin on the Sky
S01E11: Lazy vs. Unsleeping
The Imperial Army is pushed back, and Ikta is forced to use every trick at his disposal to keep his numerically inferior force from being overwhelmed. The Alderamin army has 12,000 troops, and his unit has only a little over 600. When he's forced to make a tough call to sacrifice his own men and save the Sinack, Suya confronts him angrily. She wants to know why he was willing to sacrifice his own men for the people he was fighting yesterday, and she says he owes her an answer.
Overview
At war with the adjacent Kioka Republic, the Katjvarna Empire. In that region, due to certain circumstances, there was a certain youth unwillingly preparing to take the High Grade Military Officer Exam. His name, Ikta. Disliker of war, lazy, admirer of women. No one predicted that that kind of Ikta would later on become a soldier referred to even as a great commander... He who survived a world embroiled in war with his superior genius, Ikta. Illustrating his dynamic, dramatic life, a splendid fantasy military history, the curtain is raised at last!
Episodes
S01E02 An Unwanted Medal of Honor
Ikta succeeds in a daring plan to cross the Kioka border and return the princess home. But this means he gets a reward, and his reward is the title of Imperial Knight. Now he finds...
S01E03 The Knights of the High-Level Officer's School
Ikta has been appointed an Imperial Knight, and his new life at the High-Level Officer's School begins. The easily-bored Ikta has difficulty fitting in, and its not long before he's picking fights and making enemies...
S01E04 Watchdogs of the Spirit Tree
Ikta leads his troops to grand victory over the forces led by the higher ranking officers. But what was supposed to be a simple training exercise turns deadly serious when a force of men loyal...
S01E05 Two Are One
"Welcome to the world of science!" When Yatori was 9 years old, she was sent to study with the general Bada Sankrein, and met a young boy her age, Ikta. The world he shows her...
S01E06 At the Base of the Stairs of God
Ikta and crew are assigned to a garrison in the far northern region of the empire: a lonely, desolate place at the foot of a massive mountain range. The garrison staff are petty and corrupt,...
S01E07 The Northern Katjvarna Rebellion
War breaks out in the far north, as the Empire's oppression of the mountain people results in a terrifying backlash. With the one competent leader in the Northern Garrison assassinated, the ignorant garrison commander flings...
S01E08 Some Day, for the Third Time...
Ikta and his soldiers are sent to deliver supplies to the struggling imperial armies as the war continues. Unused to fighting in the high mountains, and led by incompetent leaders the imperial soldiers suffer heavy...
S01E09 The Fate of a Small Honor
The war against the mountain people continues, and the imperial forces are about to make one last march to their final staging ground. The incompetent imperial commanders pick a route that leaves their flanks exposed...
S01E10 La Saia Alderamin
The Sinack have been subdued, but the Imperial Army finds that it's been caught in a trap! A huge army from the Aldera nation has crossed the supposedly-impassable northern mountains, and threatens to overwhelm the...
S01E11 Lazy vs. Unsleeping
The Imperial Army is pushed back, and Ikta is forced to use every trick at his disposal to keep his numerically inferior force from being overwhelmed. The Alderamin army has 12,000 troops, and his unit...
S01E12 Ghost Hunter
The Imperial army is continuing its retreat from the numerically superior Aldera forces at the base of the Alafatra mountain range. They've set fire to the forest to buy themselves more time, but after a...
S01E13 In a Twilight Empire
Ikta suffers a serious setback at the hands of the unsleeping, shining officer from the Kioka republic. His lines have been broken and the retreat is in disarray. To salvage an increasingly desperate situation, he...
Cast
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Ikuta Sorouka (voice)
Risa Taneda
Yatorishino Igsem (voice)
Inori Minase
Chamille Kitra Katjvanmaninik (voice)
Haruka Chisuga
Haroma Bekkel (voice)
Junji Majima
Matthew Tetridch (voice)
Ryosuke Kanemoto
Torway Remeon (voice)
Ayumu Akikawa
Suuya Mittokalif (voice)
Eri Suzuki
Kus (voice)
Hisako Kanemoto
Miara Gin (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
Jean Alkiniks (voice)
Jun'ichi Yanagita
Mishuri (voice)
Rie Takahashi
Nanaku Daru (voice)
