Crashers Knight & Ran is a 4-part CD drama series, planned by Koyasu after Weiß disbanded, and went for more than a
year until it saw a sequel in October 26th, 2000. According to the after-recording for Crashers 2: Umi ni Nemuru Yume,
there will be a third CD drama incoming, and a fourth was tentatively mentioned.
Except for Koyasu and Kosugi Juutarou, Crashers works with an entirely different cast than Weiss Kreuz.
Koyasu enlisted the help of Shimeno Tsukasa for the character designs and various art for Crashers.
Crashers Knight & Ran concerns the short year or less before Ran joined the Weiß assassin unit in Tokyo.
In order to understand what happened before Crashers, however, it is necessary to recap the events leading until
he joined. Two years before he joined Weiss, Ran's sister Aya was knocked into a coma by Reiji Takatori's car
or the explosion of the Fujimiya office building. Either way, Ran was alone after putting Aya into a sanitorium,
and looked for work that would both pay her bills and facilitate getting revenge on Takatori.
Either he discovered Kritiker or Kritiker discovered him, but he enlisted and was
sent to Kyoto for training with the Kritiker unit stationed at the Aoba Shrine. Because of treachery
from within, everyone in the unit was killed or missing, and Ran wound up in Tokyo somehow, heavily
wounded. Which is where the first drama begins.
Crashers, he finds, is a party-crashing unit designed to bust criminals
that the cops just can't get their hands on. Usually, their jobs include invade and rescue, old-fashion
framing and assorted mayhem, which leaves the criminals ripe and juicy for the cops to nab. Crasher's
only real restriction is that the members cannot kill.
KNIGHT
Real name: Honshou Yuushi
Age: 20
Weapon: Whip Sword
PAWN
Real name: Uhyou Naru
Age: ca. 17
Weapon: Demolitions Expert
ROOK
Real name: Tanuma Masato
Age: 20
Weapon: Kind of a Pike
BISHOP
Real name: Shirasagi Reiichi
Age: 20
Weapon: Mission Planner