Dragon Knight (ドラゴンナイト) is an eroge/role-playing video game series by the game company ELF. There are four Dragon Knight games released between 1989 and 1997. There is also a hentai OVA series based on it, as well as some other media including audio CDs, novels and comic books. Dragon Knight is set in a sword and sorcery setting and mostly tell the story of Yamato Takeru (no relation with the historical figure of Yamato Takeru), a wayward young swordsman dedicated to saving damsels and fighting evil.

Game series

An unreleased remake of Words Worth was planned to be released for the Sega Saturn in 1997 as a Dragon Knight game; it is also advertised within Nonomura Byouin no Hitobito.[2] The characters from both series finally met in Dragon Knight V.[3]

Anime series

Dragon Knight
Cover of Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town
ドラゴンナイト
(Doragon Naito)
Original video animation
Directed byJun Fukuta
Produced byYukio Kakei
Written byKinuyo Nozaki
Music byHiroshi Taguchi
StudioJust
ReleasedSeptember 1991
Runtime31 minutes
Original video animation
Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town
Directed byKaoru Toyooka
Produced byYuudai Amachi
Kenji Toyota
Written byRou Hatta
Music byTorsten Rasch
StudioTriple X
ReleasedFebruary 25, 1995
Original video animation
Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time
Directed byHiromichi Matano
Produced byKouichi Amagi
Yuutarou Mochizuki
Written byAkira Takano
Music byHarukichi Yamamoto
StudioDangun Pictures
Released November 27, 1998 – August 27, 1999
Episodes4

Dragon Knight

The first OVA was released by Polystar on VHS and LD in September 1991.[4] Soft Cel Pictures sold the English version in the VHS format. It was also re-released on DVD in 2003.[5] The anime is based on the first game and its cast includes Yasunori Matsumoto as Takeru and Yūko Mizutani as Luna.[4][5]

Dragon Knight Gaiden

Dragon Knight Gaiden (ドラゴンナイト外伝) was released on VHS and LD in 1995, distributed by Taki Corporation. It was re-released in 1999 on VHS, then in 2000 in the VHS and DVD formats ("Sexual Grade Up Edition"), all distributed by FiveWays under the Honnybit brand (BOUKIDOU). Soft Cel sold the slightly censored English version as Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town. The cast includes Mitsuaki Madono as Yamato Takeru, Mikiko Kurihara as Jodis, Nina Kumagaya as Yurius, Yōko Sōmi as Shade, Hiroshi Naka as Runter and Kenichi Ogata as Renaldo. Character design is by Keiji Gotoh.

Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time

Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time is an adaptation of Dragon Knight 4 featuring the same characters. It is a four-part OVA that was originally released in Japan in 1998 and was in the United States on DVD in 2003. The cast includes Kappei Yamaguchi as Kakeru, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Eto and Kaneto Shiozawa as Lucifon.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "ブラウザゲーム「ドラゴンナイト5」のサービスがDMM GAMESで本日スタート。今なら毎日ログインで聖竜石がもらえる" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  2. ↑ "野々村病院の人々". 懐ゲー 思い出語り. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  3. ↑ "「ドラゴンナイト5」，「ワーズ・ワース」とのコラボイベントを本日開催". www.4gamer.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  4. 1 2 MSX Magazine (in Japanese). ASCII. August 1991.
  5. 1 2 Chris Beveridge (November 23, 2002). "Dragon Knight". Mania.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2011.

Games

OVAs

  1. 1991's Dragon Knight (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
  2. 1995's Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
  3. 1998's Dragon Knight: Wheel of Time (OVA) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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