Trivia / Chivalry of a Failed Knight

• Acting for Two:
  • In the Japanese version:
    • Ryōta Ōsaka voices Ikki Kurogane as well as Kazumasa; this is carried over to the foreign dubs.
    • Hangetsu, Mikazuki and Mangetsu Tsukuyomi are all voiced by Chinatsu Akasaki.
  • In the English dub:
    • Ryoma Kurogane and Sirius Vermillion are both voiced by Josh Morrison.
    • Young Ikki and Renren Tomaru are played by Tiffany Grant.
• All-Star Cast: The anime features Ryōta Ōsaka, Shizuka Ishigami, Nao Tōyama, Shintarō Asanuma, Yuu Kobayashi, Hisako Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Mugihito, Show Hayami and Hideyuki Hori.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Megumi Han and Kalin Coates as Utakata Misogi.
• Directed by Cast Member:
  • In the English dub, the late Chris Ayres was the ADR director and one of the additional voices.
  • The German dub was directed by Birte Baumgardt, Mikazuki Tsukuyomi's voice actress.
• Dueling Works: With The Asterisk War, which has a similar premise of being a light novel series with harem aspects set in an Academy of Adventure where students duel each other with Magitek. Bonus points for their anime adaptations airing on literally the same day and close to the same time slot too. Not only that, for the first two thirds of the season, both series more or less hit the exact same plot points at the same points in the same episodes. Chivalry is more comedic and lacks most of Asterisk War's social science fiction aspects. Its anime was also not as long, running for only one twelve-episode season (Asterisk War got two).
• Hypothetical Casting: Christina Kelly stated on ask.fm that she would voice Stella if the anime would be dubbed into English. However, Luci Christian would end up voicing Stella.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: With Sol Press' 2021 dissolution, the first five English volumes are out of print, and with J-Novel Club primarily being a digital distributor, it is unknown if the series will ever receive another physical printing.
• Milestone Celebration: The anime adaptation marked the 10th anniversary of SB Creative's GA Bunko label along with Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle and Hundred.
• Network to the Rescue: The state of the English license of the light novels was uncertain for over two years after Sol Press's business license was suspended by the state of California mid-2021. It took several months for the Japanese publisher, SB Creative, to realize Sol was no longer an active business entity (and even that was only thanks to the president of J-Novel Club mentioning their demise during a routine conference call) and begin the process to remove the licensed translations from online vendors. And due to the series having gotten far enough in release (5 volumes out), the financial odds of doing a rerelease didn't look good since the overwhelming majority of light novels make their sales in the first few volumes. In spite of all these considerable obstacles, J-Novel Club announced they had rescued the license to the series on November 17, 2023, after over a year and a half of the series hanging in limbo.
• No Dub for You: As of 2022, the only languages the anime is dubbed in are English and German.
• Playing Against Type: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka usually plays Nice Guy protagonists for Light Novel adaptations, which makes the fact that he's voicing Kirihara of all people very jarring. Though one thing Kirihara has in common with many of Matsuoka's other characters is his Chick Magnet status◊. However, this isn't the first time he's done this.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: In the English dub, the non-operative transfeminine Nagi "Alice" Arisuin is voiced by the openly gay Chris Patton.
• Schedule Slip: The series started in July 2013 and published new volumes on a pretty regular basis (with at least one novel per year and up to as many as four a year) up to June 2020 when releases hit a brick wall. In December 2021, Riku Misora tweeted he planned to finish the story by the end of 2022, which did not happen (although he did manage to complete his other LN series, I Kissed My Girlfriend's Little Sister in that year). After over a year and a half of radio silence, the publisher SB Creative announced in a tweet on July 21, 2023 that the finale, Volume 19, would be published on December 15, 2023.
• Screwed by the Network: Sol Press, the original license holder for the English release, published only five volumes before being shut down by the California FTB for failing to pay taxes. These five volumes were subsequently removed from storefronts and the series remained in a state of license limbo until J-Novel Club acquired the license.
• Sleeper Hit: By the time the anime premiered, nobody expected the series to be a hit given that it aired alongside The Asterisk War. Hoo, boy, were they wrong by the time episode 4 premiered; the twist that Stella and Ikki would start a romantic relationship removed all pretenses that this show would be another generic battle harem. From that point onward it only started becoming more and more apparent that it wasn't going to be another generic light novel adaptation and considering the parallels to The Asterisk War, many noticed it was doing what that show did... but better! This show also aired the same season as One-Punch Man and the highly anticipated second seasons of Noragami and Haikyuu!!, making its unexpected success even more surprising.
• Trans Character, Cis Actor: The transfeminine Nagi "Alice" Arisuin is voiced by the cis male voice actors Shintarō Asanuma and Chris Patton in Japanese and English, respectively.
• Written by Cast Member: In the German dub, Rieke Werner is Mangetsu Tsukuyomi's voice actress as well as the ADR writer.