Male Gaze: In episode 8 of the anime, while Oliver is making small talk with Ophelia Salvadori, the camera lingers on her ample bosom in a several shots. Camera Abuse: In episode 6 of the anime, when Nanao invents the Seventh Spellblade, her cut is depicted as shattering the camera lens when it lands.

Leonine Contract: Subverted in volume 3 (episode 12 of the anime). Katie offers herself to Vera Miligan, who previously attempted to vivisect her to figure out how she was able to get Marco the troll to talk, in hopes of getting her help rescuing Pete after he's kidnapped by Ophelia Salvadori. Oliver and Chela naturally object, but Miligan makes the much more acceptable counterproposal of having Katie become her research assistant (de facto apprentice, though she frames it as an equal partnership). Fire Stolen from the Gods: According to Demetrio Aristedes in volume 5, fifty thousand years ago, an alliance of humans and demihumans slew this world's god and took its authority for their own, which is what we now call "magic". The Multiverse: In volume 5, Professor Demitrio Aristedes explains the Constructed World's cosmology by introducing the concept of a "tír": a world distinct from our own that obeys different physical laws, with different environments and ecosystems, many of them controlled by a God-Emperor of sorts. The earth the protagonists live on is an "atheosphere" because God Is Dead, and what mages call magic was originally the authority invested in a god until an alliance of humans and demihumans killed it. Every star in the sky is said to be "a glimpse of a tír", and the brighter the star, the easier it is to reach. Eight tír in particular come into conflict with our world on a cyclical basis, allowing alien creatures to migrate to it and "apostles" of the tír gods to come and try to establish cults among humans and demihumans, called Gnostics. The Magocracy, in turn, created the Gnostic Hunters to defend against such incursions. For information on the manga adaptation of the novel series, please see Reign of the Seven Spellblades (Manga).

Single-Stroke Battle: Oliver's duel with Darius Grenville. In all but one possible future, it ends with Oliver dead, but Oliver uses the Fourth Spellblade to reach the other future, where he avoids Darius's blade by the skin of his teeth and severs the man's sword hand. Half-Human Hybrid: Mages sometimes interbreed with certain species of demihumans hoping to breed more powerful mages. a b c d e f "Reign of the Seven Spellblades Anime Reveals 6 New Cast Members". Anime News Network. April 27, 2023 . Retrieved April 27, 2023. Oliver Horn and Shannon Sherwood were drugged by her family and he was made to impregnate her, in the interest of producing a pure-blooded heir. And it was All for Nothing: the baby was stillborn. Sink or Swim Mentor: The general ethos of Kimberly teachers. Students are given instruction but are largely expected to resolve the consequences of their mistakes themselves or by helping each other, and as long as nobody actually dies in an incident in the labyrinth, the teachers will turn a blind eye to it. Even when students go missing in the labyrinth, the teachers are forbidden to get involved until eight days have gone by. That said, even by that standard, some teachers take it to extremes: Vanessa Aldiss finds it amusing when students are injured in her classes, and Enrico Forghieri is Ax-Crazy and doesn't care. The two notable exceptions to the rule are the younger teachers, Luther Garland and his old friend Ted Williams, who pointedly try to provide better instruction and intervene in classroom incidents before they get out of hand.

First-Episode Twist: At the end of the first volume, we learn that Oliver enrolled in Kimberly to kill the teachers who killed his mother, which was shown in the prologue. Tullio Rossi, who sees himself as a class rival to main character Oliver Horn, makes several passes at Oliver's Love Interest Nanao Hibiki. He has absolutely no success at this because Nanao only has eyes for Oliver. Tai, Anita (November 27, 2023). "Reign of the Seven Spellblades Manga Ends". Anime News Network . Retrieved November 27, 2023. Myth Arc: The long-term throughline of the series is Oliver's quest for revenge against his mother's murderers. However, the meat of most books is focused much more on the relationships between the characters and intramural conflicts between various students. Spells can be counterspelled if you synchronize to their elemental cores. Nanao can do this instinctively with just her sword.Gravestone: A skill performed through "earth stance" that summons a stab of earth to propel the caster's movement with a burst of momentum. Can be used trip opponents up. Ophelia Salvadori was made a de facto Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and carried multiple pregnancies, and was once Forced to Watch her mother rape a man. That plus the Slut-Shaming she endured from other Kimberly students led to her descent into villainy. Inverted with Alvin Godfrey, who is considered a possible suspect in the faculty murders based on his own fighting strength and the soft power he wields as head of the Campus Watch (i.e. From a Certain Point of View he basically has his own private army). However, Esmeralda admits he's a poor suspect at best because he has no discernible motive; she's pretty much grasping at straws and tells him to consider his name coming up a compliment.

Adaptation Distillation: The manga adaptation of the first volume's story skips a few scenes in the Sword Roses' investigation of the incident at the entrance ceremony to speed things along, among them the group interrogating the student who made Katie run towards the parade of magical creatures, and trying to trade for information with the talking plants by the entrance by making them laugh. It also cuts most of the first alchemy class with Darius Grenville. a b "Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Vol. 1 (light novel)". Yen Press . Retrieved December 11, 2021. Reign of the Seven Spellblades ( 七つの魔剣が支配する, Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Bokuto Uno and illustrated by Ruria Miyuki. ASCII Media Works have published the series since September 2018 under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Sakae Esuno was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace from May 2019 to November 2023. Both the light novel and manga are licensed in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired from July to October 2023. a b c d e f g h i Dempsey, Liam (July 20, 2023). "Reign of the Seven Spellblades English Dub Reveals Cast and Crew, Release Date". Crunchyroll . Retrieved July 20, 2023.Nanao: No, she is largely correct. Was I infatuated with your blade or the man behind it? Perhaps there is little difference between the two.

Nanao also has her own suitors, notably Tullio Rossi. It's entirely one-sided: Nanao is 100% Oliver-sexual.Grave Soil: A Lanoff-style "earth stance" skill which makes the ground semi-solid. This spell makes the enemy lose their footing.