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* This seems to be the standard for the {{Magical Girl}}s of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''; the loadout seems to be the ability to materialize weapons, boosted physical attributes, a unique ability, and rarely-used energy blasts. To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler:magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler:of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
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* This seems to be the standard for the {{Magical Girl}}s of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''; the loadout seems to be the ability to materialize weapons, boosted physical attributes, a unique ability, and rarely-used energy blasts. To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]].melee. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler:magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler:of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
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* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
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* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
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* A number of magicians in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' are proficient in melee combat, like Kaori, Acqua of the Back and Knight Leader. Some espers would count as well, like Saiai (whose ability enhances her strength and durability).
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* A number of magicians in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' are proficient in melee combat, like Kaori, Acqua of the Back and Knight Leader. Some espers would count as well, like Saiai (whose ability enhances her strength and durability).
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* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': A special breed of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Genestella]] called "Strega" (if female) and "Dante" (if male) can manipulate magic in addition to having enhanced physical abilities. Julis, one of the protagonists, is a Strega with [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]].
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* ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'': Erica and Liliana both use swords and magic in combat. In fact, their swords are magical and sometimes they channel the spells through them.
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* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has several examples.
** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in fights, she also started combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
** Riveria is a real magic knight. She is a high-level adventurer, and she is used to fighting both magical spells and swords, and can use both at the same time in a fight.
** And then there's [[HiddenBadass Ryuu]].
** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in fights, she also started combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
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** And then there's [[HiddenBadass Ryuu]].
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* The Blue Knight in ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma''.
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* The protagonist of ''Kanzen Kaihi Healer no Kiseki'' is a defensive variant: because he's initially given a whooping hundred points in Recovery Magic (for reference, thirty is an accomplished professional and fifty is enough to be a master), he puts all his fifty free points in Evasion, reasoning that a Healer who cannot be hit won't be a liability to his comrades and can focus on keeping them alive instead of worrying for himself. Unfortunately, everyone else thinks a good Healer should minmax, and assume he's useless, so no party wants him.
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* The protagonist of ''Kanzen Kaihi Healer no Kiseki'' ''Manga/KanzenKaihiHealerNoKiseki'' is a defensive variant: because he's initially given a whooping hundred points in Recovery Magic (for reference, thirty is an accomplished professional and fifty is enough to be a master), he puts all his fifty free points in Evasion, reasoning that a Healer who cannot be hit won't be a liability to his comrades and can focus on keeping them alive instead of worrying for himself. Unfortunately, everyone else thinks a good Healer should minmax, and assume he's useless, so no party wants him.
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* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
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* Ashram in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''. Most of the time (OVA and TV series) he's just a normal (if badass) knight, but in "Legend of Crystania", he gets possessed by an evil god...
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* Ashram in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''.''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar''. Most of the time (OVA and TV series) he's just a normal (if badass) knight, but in "Legend of Crystania", he gets possessed by an evil god...
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* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is primarily a wizard, but also has prowess with a sword. Most of the time, though, she relies on her spells to attack. Zelgadis is an even straighter example, being a far better and stronger swordsman than her, and a highly powerful shaman in his own right. Even Amelia gets in on the act being able to cast some quite potent shamanistic spells and a mean hand to hand fighter. Lina's sister is also implied to be this, being both the vessel for the fragment of a god and said to be capable of defeating a plasma dragon with just a kitchen knife. Lina, Zelgadis and Amelia also all have spells that take advantage of their dual skills. Lina has [[CoolSword Ragna Blade]], a powerful spell that takes the form of a sword, Zel has [[SpellBlade Astral Vine]] that temporarily imbues his sword with powerful magic and Amelia has Vizfarank that has a similar effect to Astral Vine on her fists.
* Fay of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', also by CLAMP, looks the part of a SquishyWizard but is a capable fighter even when he swears off using magic.
* Fay of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', also by CLAMP, looks the part of a SquishyWizard but is a capable fighter even when he swears off using magic.
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* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is primarily a wizard, but also has prowess with a sword. Most of the time, though, she relies on her spells to attack. Zelgadis is an even straighter example, being a far better and stronger swordsman than her, and a highly powerful shaman in his own right. Even Amelia gets in on the act being able to cast some quite potent shamanistic spells and a mean hand to hand fighter. Lina's sister is also implied to be this, being both the vessel for the fragment of a god and said to be capable of defeating a plasma dragon with just a kitchen knife. Lina, Zelgadis and Amelia also all have spells that take advantage of their dual skills. Lina has [[CoolSword Ragna Blade]], a powerful spell that takes the form of a sword, Zel has [[SpellBlade Astral Vine]] that temporarily imbues his sword with powerful magic and Amelia has Vizfarank that has a similar effect to Astral Vine on her fists.
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** Fayof ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', also by CLAMP, looks the part of a SquishyWizard but is a capable fighter even when he swears off using magic.
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** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Mei Mei]] explicitly mentions she once believed her technique, [[TheBeastmaster Black Bird Manipulation]], to be weak and offensively useless, so she trained her body to the limit to be able to handle herself in combat – indeed, she is quite dextrous with a [[AnAxeToGrind massive long-axe]] against Spirits and humans alike. That was before she discovered she could compel her crows to perform a binding vow with their own life, briefly making their Cursed Energy near-boundless – and, when such a supercharged projectile [[OneHitKill collides with its target]]…
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** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Mei Mei]] explicitly mentions she once believed her technique, [[TheBeastmaster Black Bird Manipulation]], to be weak and offensively useless, so she trained her body to the limit to be able to handle herself in combat – indeed, she is quite dextrous with a [[AnAxeToGrind massive long-axe]] long-axe against Spirits and humans alike. That was before she discovered she could compel her crows to perform a binding vow with their own life, briefly making their Cursed Energy near-boundless – and, when such a supercharged projectile [[OneHitKill collides with its target]]…
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** [[TheLancer Megumi Fushiguro]] and [[EvilSorcerer Suguru Geto]] both consciously defy becoming a SquishyWizard through mastering close-quarters combat, despite specializing in summoning magic which grants them access to powerful [[{{Familiar}} familiars]] able to fight for them. Megumi can [[{{Hammerspace}} store a number of weapons in his shadows]] and prefers short swords, while Geto was in possession of a Curse with similar properties and his preferred weapon was [[SimpleStaff Playful Cloud]], a powerful relic.
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** [[TheLancer Megumi Fushiguro]] and [[EvilSorcerer Suguru Geto]] both consciously defy becoming a SquishyWizard through mastering close-quarters combat, despite specializing in summoning magic which grants them access to powerful [[{{Familiar}} familiars]] able to fight for them. Megumi can [[{{Hammerspace}} store a number of weapons in his shadows]] and prefers short swords, while Geto was in possession of a Curse with similar properties and his preferred weapon was [[SimpleStaff Playful Cloud]], Cloud, a powerful relic.
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* {{Justified}} in ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades''. An InfoDump during the first session of the "sword arts" class explains that, within a certain range, a physical weapon can strike a mage faster than any mage can cast a spell. Union mages adopted sword training (referring to swords as "athame") a hundred years ago after a prominent archmage was killed by a {{Muggle}} swordsman this way in a duel. Main character Oliver Horn is skilled at both, at least by first-year standards.
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* The magic system of ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' naturally lends itself to this, since the most common application of Cursed Energy is MagicalEnhancement reinforcing yourself or another physical object]] to both resist damage, increase power and affect Cursed Spirits. Therefore, even with an apparently weak Cursed Technique, many sorcerers are able to get by through physical strength and speed alone, and pretty much every character is some form of MagicKnight or KungFuWizard. Even so, a couple of examples stand out:
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* The magic system of ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' naturally lends itself to this, since the most common application of Cursed Energy is MagicalEnhancement [[MagicalEnhancement reinforcing yourself or another physical object]] to both resist damage, increase power and affect Cursed Spirits. Therefore, even with an apparently weak Cursed Technique, many sorcerers are able to get by through physical strength and speed alone, and pretty much every character is some form of MagicKnight or KungFuWizard. Even so, a couple of examples stand out:
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* The magic system of ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' naturally lends itself to this, since the most common application of Cursed Energy is MagicalEnhancement reinforcing yourself or another physical object]] to both resist damage, increase power and affect Cursed Spirits. Therefore, even with an apparently weak Cursed Technique, many sorcerers are able to get by through physical strength and speed alone, and pretty much every character is some form of MagicKnight or KungFuWizard. Even so, a couple of examples stand out:
** [[ChildProdigy Yuta Okkotsu]], the second strongest sorcerer alive, usually fights with only a simple katana and rarely has to use anything besides his [[BottomlessMagazines massive Cursed Energy reserves]] to reinforce his body and blade to ludicrous levels. He can crack concrete, slice through vehicles and blast waves of raw Cursed Energy to vaporize dozens of Spirits at once. Yuta is also in possession of a GuardianEntity, Rika the Queen of Curses, and eventually manages to master his Technique as well, [[spoiler:allowing him to copy anyone else’s technique for five minutes at a time]].
** [[TheLancer Megumi Fushiguro]] and [[EvilSorcerer Suguru Geto]] both consciously defy becoming a SquishyWizard through mastering close-quarters combat, despite specializing in summoning magic which grants them access to powerful [[{{Familiar}} familiars]] able to fight for them. Megumi can [[{{Hammerspace}} store a number of weapons in his shadows]] and prefers short swords, while Geto was in possession of a Curse with similar properties and his preferred weapon was [[SimpleStaff Playful Cloud]], a powerful relic.
** [[GeniusBruiser Kento Nanami’s]] Technique, [[AttackItsWeakPoint Ratio]], pretty much requires him to get into melee to be effective, since his power means he can basically always score a critical hit against his opponents regardless of their defences. He uses a cleaver-like blade wrapped with black-and-white paper bandages for most of his fights.
** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Mei Mei]] explicitly mentions she once believed her technique, [[TheBeastmaster Black Bird Manipulation]], to be weak and offensively useless, so she trained her body to the limit to be able to handle herself in combat – indeed, she is quite dextrous with a [[AnAxeToGrind massive long-axe]] against Spirits and humans alike. That was before she discovered she could compel her crows to perform a binding vow with their own life, briefly making their Cursed Energy near-boundless – and, when such a supercharged projectile [[OneHitKill collides with its target]]…
** [[CowardlyLion Atsuya Kusakabe]] and his pupil [[ButtMonkey Kasumi Miwa]] both lack an Innate Technique and only possess moderate amounts of Cursed Energy each. They are both practitioners of the [[{{Counterspell}} New Shadow Style]], a swordsmanship technique which creates an area of effect that nullifies other Techniques and simultaneously reinforces the user’s own strike. Both of them use a katana (though Miwa tends to [[RunningGag lose hers quite often]]).
** [[ChildProdigy Yuta Okkotsu]], the second strongest sorcerer alive, usually fights with only a simple katana and rarely has to use anything besides his [[BottomlessMagazines massive Cursed Energy reserves]] to reinforce his body and blade to ludicrous levels. He can crack concrete, slice through vehicles and blast waves of raw Cursed Energy to vaporize dozens of Spirits at once. Yuta is also in possession of a GuardianEntity, Rika the Queen of Curses, and eventually manages to master his Technique as well, [[spoiler:allowing him to copy anyone else’s technique for five minutes at a time]].
** [[TheLancer Megumi Fushiguro]] and [[EvilSorcerer Suguru Geto]] both consciously defy becoming a SquishyWizard through mastering close-quarters combat, despite specializing in summoning magic which grants them access to powerful [[{{Familiar}} familiars]] able to fight for them. Megumi can [[{{Hammerspace}} store a number of weapons in his shadows]] and prefers short swords, while Geto was in possession of a Curse with similar properties and his preferred weapon was [[SimpleStaff Playful Cloud]], a powerful relic.
** [[GeniusBruiser Kento Nanami’s]] Technique, [[AttackItsWeakPoint Ratio]], pretty much requires him to get into melee to be effective, since his power means he can basically always score a critical hit against his opponents regardless of their defences. He uses a cleaver-like blade wrapped with black-and-white paper bandages for most of his fights.
** [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Mei Mei]] explicitly mentions she once believed her technique, [[TheBeastmaster Black Bird Manipulation]], to be weak and offensively useless, so she trained her body to the limit to be able to handle herself in combat – indeed, she is quite dextrous with a [[AnAxeToGrind massive long-axe]] against Spirits and humans alike. That was before she discovered she could compel her crows to perform a binding vow with their own life, briefly making their Cursed Energy near-boundless – and, when such a supercharged projectile [[OneHitKill collides with its target]]…
** [[CowardlyLion Atsuya Kusakabe]] and his pupil [[ButtMonkey Kasumi Miwa]] both lack an Innate Technique and only possess moderate amounts of Cursed Energy each. They are both practitioners of the [[{{Counterspell}} New Shadow Style]], a swordsmanship technique which creates an area of effect that nullifies other Techniques and simultaneously reinforces the user’s own strike. Both of them use a katana (though Miwa tends to [[RunningGag lose hers quite often]]).
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* The protagonist of ''Kanzen Kaihi Healer no Kiseki'' is a defensive variant: because he's initially given a whooping hundred points in Recovery Magic (for reference, thirty is an accomplished professional and fifty is enough to be a master), he puts all his fifty free points in Evasion, reasoning that a Healer who cannot be hit won't be a liability to his comrades and can focus on keeping them alive instead of worrying for himself. Unfortunately, everyone else thinks a good Healer should minmax, and assume he's useless, so no party wants him.
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* {{Justified}} in ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades''. An InfoDump during the first session of the "sword arts" class explains that, within a certain range, a physical weapon can strike a mage faster than any mage can cast a spell. Union mages adopted sword training (referring to swords as "athame") a hundred years ago after a prominent archmage was killed by a {{Muggle}} swordsman this way in a duel. Main character Oliver Horn is skilled at both, at least by first-year standards.
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* ''Manga/BusterKeel'': Amongst the many types of adventurers, there are also Magic Warriors (symbolized by a FlamingSword badge) and Magic Fighters (fiery fist badge), warriors who can both use weapons and magic powers of different sorts. Examples include Blue, one of the protagonists (water magic + crescent-bladed axes), Allbra (lightning magic + barehanded techniques) and Yancy (wind magic + axemanship).
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* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' ''VideoGame/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' the magic knight is a magical brawler who makes use of quick melee attacks, or quick magic attacks. Negi becomes this after learning martial arts from Ku Fei, and learns better magic attacks from Evangeline, and Rakan. His father Nagi is the best Magic Knight around.
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* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
* In''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' the magic knight is a magical brawler who makes use of quick melee attacks, or quick magic attacks. Negi becomes this after learning martial arts from Ku Fei, and learns better magic attacks from Evangeline, and Rakan. His father Nagi is the best Magic Knight around.
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* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
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* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': A special breed of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Genestella]] called the Strega (female) and the Dante (male) can manipulate magic aside from having enhanced physical abilities. Julis, one of the protagonists, is a Strega with [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]].
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* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': A special breed of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Genestella]] called the Strega (female) "Strega" (if female) and the Dante (male) "Dante" (if male) can manipulate magic aside from in addition to having enhanced physical abilities. Julis, one of the protagonists, is a Strega with [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]].
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* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has [[spoiler: Laios. He has tried to learn magic in the past several times but his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful and he is able to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training.]]
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has [[spoiler: Laios. He has tried to learn magic in the past several times but his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful and he is able to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training.]]
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* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] A number of magicians in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
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** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in the fight, she also started a combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter, who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
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** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in the fight, fights, she also started a combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter, fighter who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
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* This seems to be the standard for the {{Magical Girl}}s of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''; the loadout seems to be the ability to materialize weapons, boosted physical attributes, a unique ability, and rarely-used energy blasts.
** To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler: magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler: of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
** To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler: magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler: of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
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**blasts. To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler: magical [[spoiler:magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler: of [[spoiler:of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Shinigami are a military of ghostly warriors who protect the balance of souls between world and save humans from hollows. Although their primary focus is on channeling their power through their weapons, they do have the ability to use [[MagicByAnyOtherName kidou]]. Those shinigami that manage to become kidou masters are therefore known for their ability to fight with both magic and weapons in battle. Level 90s kidou has such a mystique among shinigami that anyone who is capable of using it is extremely powerful. Yamamoto, Aizen, Urahara, Tessai and Hacchi are the only Kidou Masters who have so far used such powerful kidou. Aizen, Urahara and Hacchi have further developed their own customized high-level kidou techniques.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Shinigami are a military of ghostly warriors who protect the balance of souls between world and save humans from hollows. Although their primary focus is on channeling their power through their weapons, they do have the ability to use [[MagicByAnyOtherName kidou]]. Those shinigami that manage to become kidou masters are therefore known for their ability to fight with both magic and weapons in battle. Level 90s kidou has such a mystique among shinigami that anyone who is capable of using it is extremely powerful. Yamamoto, Aizen, Urahara, Tessai Tessai, and Hacchi are the only Kidou Masters who have so far used such powerful kidou. Aizen, Urahara Urahara, and Hacchi have further developed their own customized high-level kidou techniques.techniques.
* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* Every Holy Knight in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' can use at least one, inborn type of magic unique to them, and many also learn other spells outside of that.
* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
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* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' - supposedly pure mage with a questionable magical aptitude but makes up with his lack of competence as a mage being what he looks to be: a brawny fighter.
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* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' - -- supposedly pure mage with a questionable magical aptitude but makes up with his lack of competence as a mage being what he looks to be: a brawny fighter.
* Every Holy Knight in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' can use at least one, inborn type of magic unique to them, and many also learn other spells outside of that.
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* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
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* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
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* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha''.''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
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* The Blue Knight in ''LightNovel/RokujyoumaNoShinryakusha''.
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* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': A special breed of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Genestella]] called the Strega (female) and the Dante (male) can manipulate magic aside from having enhanced physical abilities. Julis, one of the protagonists, is a Strega with [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]].
* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Although the Clover Kingdom's military force are called the Magic Knights, most of them fight as regular mages with spells and serve a 'knight' role by defending the kingdom from threats. There are some who fight like actual Magic Knights, however. Asta, despite having no magic whatsoever, wields swords with AntiMagic that can cut through spells, deflect magic, and dispel curses. Yami uses Dark Magic to cover his katana in darkness and launch blasts. Charlotte fights using Briar Magic to transform her sword into a bush of thorns. [[spoiler:Noelle becomes one when she uses Water Magic to create an armor and lance, which she can use to pierce spells and cast spells herself.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Shinigami are a military of ghostly warriors who protect the balance of souls between world and save humans from hollows. Although their primary focus is on channeling their power through their weapons, they do have the ability to use [[MagicByAnyOtherName kidou]]. Those shinigami that manage to become kidou masters are therefore known for their ability to fight with both magic and weapons in battle. Level 90s kidou has such a mystique among shinigami that anyone who is capable of using it is extremely powerful. Yamamoto, Aizen, Urahara, Tessai and Hacchi are the only Kidou Masters who have so far used such powerful kidou. Aizen, Urahara and Hacchi have further developed their own customized high-level kidou techniques.
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has [[spoiler: Laios. He has tried to learn magic in the past several times but his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful and he is able to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training.]]
* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' has several characters who use alchemy in combat, several who are martial artists -- and several who are both: the protagonists Edward and Alphonse Elric, as well as Izumi Kurtis, Scar and Alex Louis Armstrong.
* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has several examples.
** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in the fight, she also started a combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter, who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
** Riveria is a real magic knight. She is a high-level adventurer, and she is used to fighting both magical spells and swords, and can use both at the same time in a fight.
** And then there's [[HiddenBadass Ryuu]].
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' there is the [[{{Miko}} miko]] Midoriko. She was one of the most powerful mikos ever, and unlike the other mikos of the anime, she did not fight with a bow and arrow, but with a sword and armor. At the same time, she also had powerful spiritual powers to fight [[{{Youkai}} youkai]].
** Most monks like Miroku qualify to a degree. Because they can fight with weapons as well as use their spiritual powers.
* The Blue Knight in ''LightNovel/RokujyoumaNoShinryakusha''.
* Almost all mages in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' are capable of some form of close combat or other. Fate and her weapon's [[SinisterScythe Scythe]] form being a prominent early example. Later, the practitioners of the Belkan style of magic are literal Magic Knights (and are even called such), focusing mostly on physical power boosted by magic. Taken even further with the Wolkenritter, who are MadeOfMagic on top of being Belkan Knights.
** The only exceptions (so far) are Hayate (the single, strongest GlassCannon currently exist in universe) who followed SquishyWizard rule for not having [[BeehiveBarrier defensive]] and [[AirJousting melee]] skills ''whatsoever'' (except in the game).
*** It's possible that if Hayate were to try to enhance her physical body, that she'd tear herself to pieces. Her magic has control issues such that her smallest spells require evacuation orders.
* Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' is a possible {{Trope Namer|s}}. The three protagonists are all gifted with {{elemental|Powers}} magic and evolving swords and use both extensively in their mission. The video game adaptation refines their roles to balance the gameplay (Hikaru is a GlassCannon, Umi is a FragileSpeedster, and Fuu is a combination of TheMedic and StoneWall, plus their elemental specialties). In Part II we also have Lantis, a powerful sorcerer/swordsman who has the title of "Cail" which, in Cephiran, means "magic knight but not ''the'' legendary Magic Knights."
* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' shows that physical strength also improves the magical powers. So Aladdin is asked at the school in Magnostadt to physically train there. In fact, his magical powers actually improve enormously. However, he is still not as strong as Alibaba or Morgiana, and in a fight he prefers to use magic rather than weapons.
** Mastering a dungeon and making his djinn his ally is exactly what this trope entails. Because that's how an already good fighter gets the magical powers of a Djinn.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' the magic knight is a magical brawler who makes use of quick melee attacks, or quick magic attacks. Negi becomes this after learning martial arts from Ku Fei, and learns better magic attacks from Evangeline, and Rakan. His father Nagi is the best Magic Knight around.
** Kotarou despises mages because of their squishiness, so he encourages Negi to choose the Magic Knight path instead.
** Kamo calls Setsuna by the trope name [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v04/c030/13.html here]] after he sees her using spell tags to form a defense.
** [[spoiler:[[MilitarySchool Ariadne]] Knight Yue]] is somewhere along the lines of Magic Cavalryman, since her training is based on broom riding for combat. Her sword and armor is also of more textbook appearance of this class compared to Mage Samurai Setsuna and [[KungFuWizard Mage Brawler]] Negi.
** [[OldMaster Evangeline A.]][[OurVampiresAredifferent K. McDowell]] is an odd case. During her initial appearance, she is described as a [[SquishyWizard typical western mage]] and requires [[BattleButler Chachamaru]] to cover her while she prepares [[WaveMotionGun the big spells]]. Recent appearance however shows her to be a ''terrifying'' [[KungfuWizard magic brawler]], capable of executing deadly magically powered up melee skills to complement her bombardment ones. She ''[[BrickJoke did]]'' say early on that as you improved the differences between magic knights and mages grew insignificant, after all.
* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
* Every Holy Knight in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' can use at least one, inborn type of magic unique to them, and many also learn other spells outside of that.
* A great lot of the cast in ''VideoGame/PrismArk''.
* This seems to be the standard for the {{Magical Girl}}s of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''; the loadout seems to be the ability to materialize weapons, boosted physical attributes, a unique ability, and rarely-used energy blasts.
** To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler: magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler: of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
* Sieg Hart, in ''Manga/RaveMaster'' manages to take out 1000+ mages by taking advantage of their preference for long range fights and beating the crap out of them with a magic absorbing sword rather than waste his own magic abilities on them.
* Ashram in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''. Most of the time (OVA and TV series) he's just a normal (if badass) knight, but in "Legend of Crystania", he gets possessed by an evil god...
* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' - supposedly pure mage with a questionable magical aptitude but makes up with his lack of competence as a mage being what he looks to be: a brawny fighter.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Despite being a senshi, Sailor Uranus is strong physically and often prefers to bash rather then magically attack, the enemies. Has a magical sword as add-on weapon.
** The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] makes Venus one: with the others she's prone to physically attack the enemy with melee weapons (usually her chain, but has been shown summoning an energy sword and actually killed [[BigBad Beryl]] with a stone sword) or just kick it into oblivion, and as [[Manga/CodeNameSailorV Sailor V]] she regularly bashed the MonsterOfTheWeek before finishing it with a magical attack, or, in one exception, just beheaded it with a katana.
** Tuxedo Mask is one in the manga as well; he gains some powerful attacks to go alongside his swordsmanship, unlike his [[Anime/SailorMoon first anime]] counterpart.
* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is primarily a wizard, but also has prowess with a sword. Most of the time, though, she relies on her spells to attack. Zelgadis is an even straighter example, being a far better and stronger swordsman than her, and a highly powerful shaman in his own right. Even Amelia gets in on the act being able to cast some quite potent shamanistic spells and a mean hand to hand fighter. Lina's sister is also implied to be this, being both the vessel for the fragment of a god and said to be capable of defeating a plasma dragon with just a kitchen knife. Lina, Zelgadis and Amelia also all have spells that take advantage of their dual skills. Lina has [[CoolSword Ragna Blade]], a powerful spell that takes the form of a sword, Zel has [[SpellBlade Astral Vine]] that temporarily imbues his sword with powerful magic and Amelia has Vizfarank that has a similar effect to Astral Vine on her fists.
* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* Fay of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', also by CLAMP, looks the part of a SquishyWizard but is a capable fighter even when he swears off using magic.
** Later in the same series, [[spoiler: the replacement Syaoran is a strong melee fighter, and then turns out to be a very powerful mage as well (the other Syaoran had no magic.) Turns out he was hiding his magical ability from ''Fai'' so as not to trigger Fai's hidden time-bomb curse]].
* CLAMP uses these characters in Fuuma and Kamui in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' also.
* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Although the Clover Kingdom's military force are called the Magic Knights, most of them fight as regular mages with spells and serve a 'knight' role by defending the kingdom from threats. There are some who fight like actual Magic Knights, however. Asta, despite having no magic whatsoever, wields swords with AntiMagic that can cut through spells, deflect magic, and dispel curses. Yami uses Dark Magic to cover his katana in darkness and launch blasts. Charlotte fights using Briar Magic to transform her sword into a bush of thorns. [[spoiler:Noelle becomes one when she uses Water Magic to create an armor and lance, which she can use to pierce spells and cast spells herself.]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Shinigami are a military of ghostly warriors who protect the balance of souls between world and save humans from hollows. Although their primary focus is on channeling their power through their weapons, they do have the ability to use [[MagicByAnyOtherName kidou]]. Those shinigami that manage to become kidou masters are therefore known for their ability to fight with both magic and weapons in battle. Level 90s kidou has such a mystique among shinigami that anyone who is capable of using it is extremely powerful. Yamamoto, Aizen, Urahara, Tessai and Hacchi are the only Kidou Masters who have so far used such powerful kidou. Aizen, Urahara and Hacchi have further developed their own customized high-level kidou techniques.
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has [[spoiler: Laios. He has tried to learn magic in the past several times but his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful and he is able to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training.]]
* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' has several characters who use alchemy in combat, several who are martial artists -- and several who are both: the protagonists Edward and Alphonse Elric, as well as Izumi Kurtis, Scar and Alex Louis Armstrong.
* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' has several examples.
** The elf Lefiya started out as a [[SquishyWizard squishy wizard]], but because she wanted to keep up with her friends in the fight, she also started a combat training. At the end of the second season, she is a very good fighter, who can also use magic during her battles. However, her magic is still a little more powerful than her martial arts.
** Riveria is a real magic knight. She is a high-level adventurer, and she is used to fighting both magical spells and swords, and can use both at the same time in a fight.
** And then there's [[HiddenBadass Ryuu]].
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'' there is the [[{{Miko}} miko]] Midoriko. She was one of the most powerful mikos ever, and unlike the other mikos of the anime, she did not fight with a bow and arrow, but with a sword and armor. At the same time, she also had powerful spiritual powers to fight [[{{Youkai}} youkai]].
** Most monks like Miroku qualify to a degree. Because they can fight with weapons as well as use their spiritual powers.
* The Blue Knight in ''LightNovel/RokujyoumaNoShinryakusha''.
* Almost all mages in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' are capable of some form of close combat or other. Fate and her weapon's [[SinisterScythe Scythe]] form being a prominent early example. Later, the practitioners of the Belkan style of magic are literal Magic Knights (and are even called such), focusing mostly on physical power boosted by magic. Taken even further with the Wolkenritter, who are MadeOfMagic on top of being Belkan Knights.
** The only exceptions (so far) are Hayate (the single, strongest GlassCannon currently exist in universe) who followed SquishyWizard rule for not having [[BeehiveBarrier defensive]] and [[AirJousting melee]] skills ''whatsoever'' (except in the game).
*** It's possible that if Hayate were to try to enhance her physical body, that she'd tear herself to pieces. Her magic has control issues such that her smallest spells require evacuation orders.
* Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' is a possible {{Trope Namer|s}}. The three protagonists are all gifted with {{elemental|Powers}} magic and evolving swords and use both extensively in their mission. The video game adaptation refines their roles to balance the gameplay (Hikaru is a GlassCannon, Umi is a FragileSpeedster, and Fuu is a combination of TheMedic and StoneWall, plus their elemental specialties). In Part II we also have Lantis, a powerful sorcerer/swordsman who has the title of "Cail" which, in Cephiran, means "magic knight but not ''the'' legendary Magic Knights."
* ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' shows that physical strength also improves the magical powers. So Aladdin is asked at the school in Magnostadt to physically train there. In fact, his magical powers actually improve enormously. However, he is still not as strong as Alibaba or Morgiana, and in a fight he prefers to use magic rather than weapons.
** Mastering a dungeon and making his djinn his ally is exactly what this trope entails. Because that's how an already good fighter gets the magical powers of a Djinn.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' the magic knight is a magical brawler who makes use of quick melee attacks, or quick magic attacks. Negi becomes this after learning martial arts from Ku Fei, and learns better magic attacks from Evangeline, and Rakan. His father Nagi is the best Magic Knight around.
** Kotarou despises mages because of their squishiness, so he encourages Negi to choose the Magic Knight path instead.
** Kamo calls Setsuna by the trope name [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v04/c030/13.html here]] after he sees her using spell tags to form a defense.
** [[spoiler:[[MilitarySchool Ariadne]] Knight Yue]] is somewhere along the lines of Magic Cavalryman, since her training is based on broom riding for combat. Her sword and armor is also of more textbook appearance of this class compared to Mage Samurai Setsuna and [[KungFuWizard Mage Brawler]] Negi.
** [[OldMaster Evangeline A.]][[OurVampiresAredifferent K. McDowell]] is an odd case. During her initial appearance, she is described as a [[SquishyWizard typical western mage]] and requires [[BattleButler Chachamaru]] to cover her while she prepares [[WaveMotionGun the big spells]]. Recent appearance however shows her to be a ''terrifying'' [[KungfuWizard magic brawler]], capable of executing deadly magically powered up melee skills to complement her bombardment ones. She ''[[BrickJoke did]]'' say early on that as you improved the differences between magic knights and mages grew insignificant, after all.
* Yuusha of ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha''. He's quite the swordsman, and famed as such, but he has a handy-dandy teleport spell, is a good enough magical healer that their party didn't need a dedicated one, and is shown in one of the manga adaptations blasting through multiple squads of demons at once with lightning.
* Every Holy Knight in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' can use at least one, inborn type of magic unique to them, and many also learn other spells outside of that.
* A great lot of the cast in ''VideoGame/PrismArk''.
* This seems to be the standard for the {{Magical Girl}}s of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''; the loadout seems to be the ability to materialize weapons, boosted physical attributes, a unique ability, and rarely-used energy blasts.
** To be specific: None of the main five cast spells that are directly offensive. They all summon weapons from {{Hammerspace}} and either strafe with bows, [[SmallGirlBigGun rifles and guns]], or fight [[BladeOnAStick melee]]. [[CombatPragmatist Homura]] is the most triumphant example, using a [[spoiler: magical time machine and HyperspaceArsenal to]] unleash an unholy payload [[spoiler: of bullets and bombs she stole from the {{Yakuza}} and the military]]...
* Sieg Hart, in ''Manga/RaveMaster'' manages to take out 1000+ mages by taking advantage of their preference for long range fights and beating the crap out of them with a magic absorbing sword rather than waste his own magic abilities on them.
* Ashram in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar''. Most of the time (OVA and TV series) he's just a normal (if badass) knight, but in "Legend of Crystania", he gets possessed by an evil god...
* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' - supposedly pure mage with a questionable magical aptitude but makes up with his lack of competence as a mage being what he looks to be: a brawny fighter.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
** Despite being a senshi, Sailor Uranus is strong physically and often prefers to bash rather then magically attack, the enemies. Has a magical sword as add-on weapon.
** The [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] makes Venus one: with the others she's prone to physically attack the enemy with melee weapons (usually her chain, but has been shown summoning an energy sword and actually killed [[BigBad Beryl]] with a stone sword) or just kick it into oblivion, and as [[Manga/CodeNameSailorV Sailor V]] she regularly bashed the MonsterOfTheWeek before finishing it with a magical attack, or, in one exception, just beheaded it with a katana.
** Tuxedo Mask is one in the manga as well; he gains some powerful attacks to go alongside his swordsmanship, unlike his [[Anime/SailorMoon first anime]] counterpart.
* Lina Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is primarily a wizard, but also has prowess with a sword. Most of the time, though, she relies on her spells to attack. Zelgadis is an even straighter example, being a far better and stronger swordsman than her, and a highly powerful shaman in his own right. Even Amelia gets in on the act being able to cast some quite potent shamanistic spells and a mean hand to hand fighter. Lina's sister is also implied to be this, being both the vessel for the fragment of a god and said to be capable of defeating a plasma dragon with just a kitchen knife. Lina, Zelgadis and Amelia also all have spells that take advantage of their dual skills. Lina has [[CoolSword Ragna Blade]], a powerful spell that takes the form of a sword, Zel has [[SpellBlade Astral Vine]] that temporarily imbues his sword with powerful magic and Amelia has Vizfarank that has a similar effect to Astral Vine on her fists.
* [[ActionGirl Kaori]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' was really the only person to beat Touma because she didn't actually rely on [[spoiler:her powers as a Saint]] and instead just used a sword. Granted, it's not actually magic. It's implied to actually be ''better'' than magic.
** Acqua of the Back and the Knight Leader are highly skilled warriors and supreme mages.
* Fay of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', also by CLAMP, looks the part of a SquishyWizard but is a capable fighter even when he swears off using magic.
** Later in the same series, [[spoiler: the replacement Syaoran is a strong melee fighter, and then turns out to be a very powerful mage as well (the other Syaoran had no magic.) Turns out he was hiding his magical ability from ''Fai'' so as not to trigger Fai's hidden time-bomb curse]].
* CLAMP uses these characters in Fuuma and Kamui in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' also.
* Wales/Magic Knights from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''.
* In ''Rain'', the titular Rain vowed to become the WorldsStrongestMan after a gang of brigands murdered a childhood friend and her grandmother while he was powerless to stop it. To this end, he not only became a MasterSwordsman, he even mastered magic. He also wields an InfinityPlusOneSword and absorbed the lifeforce and power of a dragon, granting him an AntiMagic shield as a bonus. He's one of the best (if not the best) warrior in the world and he's a lot better at magic than most dedicated mages. While he's not the only Magic Knight in the series, few if any of the others approach him in ability.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Erza Scarlet uses [[HyperspaceArsenal Requip Magic]] that's known as "The Knight", which allows her to summon various magical weapons and armors to her side for battle.
** Kagura of Mermaid Heel is a swordswoman who also knows how to perform powerful [[GravityMaster Gravity Magic]].
** Gajeel Redfox is the [[ExtraOredinary Iron Dragon Slayer]] whose magic also allows him to create various weapons, such as knives, blades, clubs, ''chainsaws''...
* Ashley from ''Franchise/LapisReLights'' is one in both creed and battle. She hails from Dortdgard which has a strong chivalric tradition and is studying in Flora Girls' Academy to train her magic and how to use it in combat as well.
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