Season 1
12 episodes
24 min. per episode
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A determined underdog battles self-doubt and magical foes, igniting a fierce rivalry with a royal princess that transforms their destinies.
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After returning to his apartment from jogging, aspiring Mage Knight and flunking Hagun Academy student Ikki Kurogane walks in on a mysterious half-naked girl changing in his room. While being reprimanded and forced to apologize by Academy Director Kurono Shinguuji, Ikki learns that the girl is Stella Vermillion, a famous A-Rank Blazer who is the princess of the Vermillion Empire and his new roommate. When Stella sets up house rules that Ikki cannot agree to, Kurono has them stage a mock battle, with the loser having to obey the winner unconditionally. Ikki agrees to it despite the disadvantages of his low rank, stating that he has to work hard to win the Seven Star Sword Art Festival. During the mock battle, he demonstrates surprisingly strong fighting skills and memorizes Stella's technique, which he uses against her. As a last resort, Stella activates her Noble Art, but Ikki outmaneuvers it and strikes her, winning the battle but collapsing from exhaustion. Later, Kurono visits Stella and explains that despite Ikki's strength, he flunked the academy's evaluations due to his peculiar style. She then recommends her to follow Ikki's style so she could improve. Returning to the apartment, Stella apologizes to Ikki for her behavior. He then reminds her of the deal they made, for the loser to obey the winner from now on, and then orders her to be his roommate.
Ikki's sister, Shizuku, enrolls in the school and causes quite the commotion upon seeing him. With Shizuku's arrival, Stella learns more about Ikki's history.
Shizuku invites Ikki to go shopping, but is annoyed when Stella joins them. Ikki meets Shizuku's roommate, whose device helps the group as they encounter some serious trouble!
During the selection match, Stella, Shizuku, and Alice easily defeat their opponents. Meanwhile, Ikki begins studying Kirihara's Noble Art, which renders him invisible and makes it difficult to even detect him using the other senses. Ikki meets up with Alice and confides in him about him about his match against Kirihara: during the previous school year, when the Kurogane family still had influence over the Academy's superiors, Kirihara had been harassing him with his Device and Ikki refused to fight back, believing it would be used as an excuse to expel him. In the next day's match, Kirihara starts off by activating his Noble Art, which covers the battlefield in an illusory forest. At first, Ikki is able to deduce Kirihara's location by observing the visible arrows he fires, but Kirihara employs a new, improved technique he developed which also allows his arrows to become invisible. He uses this technique to severely wound Ikki and then reveals to the audience that Ikki is required to win the Festival in order to graduate, publicly humiliating him. When everyone joins Kirihara in mocking him, Stella stands up for Ikki and encourages him to continue fighting. Using everything he learned about Kirihara's attacks, a rejuvenated Ikki pinpoints his location with his Noble Art and defeats him, then collapses from exhaustion. At the hospital, Ikki is met by Stella and confesses his feelings for her. Initially embarrassed by the confession, she then kisses his cheek. The two then promise to meet and fight each other in the final match of the Festival.
Two weeks after his battle with Kirihara, Ikki has progressed through the following matches with ease, quickly losing his school nickname of "The Worst One" and gaining the new nickname of "Another One" and becaming popular with the other students, volunteering to mentor them in perfecting their strength using what he learned about swordsmanship. However, Stella becomes frustrated when Ikki isn't paying enough attention to her during the time since they became a couple. Ikki later takes her, Shizuku, Alice and his followers to the local swimming pool for more training. There, Shizuku and Alice discuss about the former's affections towards Ikki despite their biological relation. Meanwhile, after talking about her and Ikki's relationship to classmate Kagami Kusakabe, Stella and Ikki get into a fight after she reveals her misinterpretation that Ikki no longer likes her, which he quickly denies. After the two cool down and settle their problem, Ikki suggests they both blurt out what they want to do right now with each other, and Stella agrees. When the two both want to kiss, they happily do so.
Ikki Kurogane struggles as the worst Blazer, only able to materialize his soul into a weak weapon. His dreams of becoming a Magical Knight are shattered when he meets Princess Stella Vermillion, altering his life's path.