Top 20 Best Isekai Anime That You Have Not Seen Before

Things are too realistic in our own world? Then let’s take the characters to a fantasy world. Call it cliche, call it a tricky way for writers to do worldbuilding, but you have to admit the isekai genre has some great shows in its arsenal. And out of those, I compiled twenty of the best Isekai/Going to Another World shows you definitely need to watch.

Isekai is a sub-genre of anime where the central premise is that the protagonist is transported or reborn into another world. This is a list of the best and most popular shows in that genre.

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Lesser Known Isekai Anime Series

You may not have heard of these, or just may not have given them a chance. Maybe we can help persuade you that it is something you might be into.

Restaurant to Another World

The nondescript Youshoku no Nekoya is a cafe that has been in business for 50 years. However, while it serves salarymen and other workers most of the week. On Saturdays, it closes down to the public in order to serve special guests, mythical creatures that come from another world looking for comforting cuisine.

This is very much a food anime, but with the added twist of various fantasy patrons coming to out world to eat delicious human food.

The Ambition of Oda Nobuna

High schooler Sagara Yoshiharu has the misfortune one day to time travel back to the Sengoku time period. However, all the powerful feudal lords are actually cute girls. On chance, he happens across Oda Nobuna, and begins to serve her in the place of recently deceased Kinoshita Tokichiro.

This series explore that common historical fantasy of “what if your favorite Feudal Japanese lords were hot ladies?” It’s more fun if you know your Japanese history, if only from the Samurai Warriors version of Dynasty Warriors.

Hack//Sign

After the restoration of the network because of a virus named Pluto’s Kiss two years ago, there is the launch of the online game The World, Tsukasa the main character wakes up in The World without the chance to log out, he doesn’t remember his life in the real world and some people think he is a hacker, he will look for a way to log out from the game. Some people say this anime is a precursor of SAO.

Konosuba

On his way back from buying a new game, Kazuma Satou died a pathetic death. However, he awakens before the Goddess Aqua who gives him two choices: go to heaven or reincarnate into an actual fantasy world. Naturally, the gamer picks the fantasy world. Now Kazuma must deal with defeating an evil demon king, useless party members, and paying living expenses.

Re:Zero

When Subaru Natsuki goes out for a midnight snack run, he suddenly finds himself transported to another world. As a bewildered teen in a land of swords and magic, he wanders around and ends up attacked by thugs. After being saved by a mysterious woman, he agrees to help her get back something that was stolen. Unfortunately, it ends in both their deaths. With his dying breath, he finds that he possesses the power of revival, escaping his death by the repeating the last few hours.

Too Sweet: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

From the very beginning, this series starts out sweet. A cute little slime meets a giant dragon who just wants to make friends. The two of them give each other names, and eventually the slime goes out into the world with the absorbed power of the dragon and starts making a society where monsters and humans can coexist. There’s almost no problem in Reincarnated as a Slime that isn’t approached through discussion over combat first—a refreshing change of pace for the genre.

No Game No Life

In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are the legendary gaming duo. One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games. Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat the sixteen races of this world as well as Tet in order to become the new gods.

The Rising of the Shield Hero

The stories tell of four heroes summoned from another world – the sword, spear, bow, and shield heroes who will prevent calamity. With darkness bearing down on them, the Kingdom of Melromarc summons these heroes from modern day Japan. For otaku Naofumi Iwatani, unfortunately he is labeled the shield hero, the weakest of the group. Worse yet, betrayal sees him labeled as a criminal and outcasted. With hatred and vengeance consuming him, he sets forth to grow strong.

I’m Standing on a Million Lives

Bored with the world that surrounds him, loner Yotsuya Yusuke is one day transported to a new world with two girls from his class. There he finds out that they have been playing a game with ten increasingly difficult rounds. After beating each round, they get to pose a question to the game master before heading back home. On this the third round, Yusuke finds himself excited for the first time in a long time, only for his class to be rolled as a weaker farmer. Together with his teammates, they struggle to survive each round.

This series attempts to do a few new things with the isekai genre. One of those new things is allowing them to return to the normal world. Another is making the main character particularly uncaring to his teammates. Instead of friends, they are very much pawns to him. As it features a sort of respawn system, ti makes their deaths less permanent, but still painful or them.

By the Grace of the Gods

After leading a miserable life, Ryouma Takebayashi passes away at age 39. Three deities, taking pity on him, reincarnate him into a fantasy world with an aptitude for magic, telling him to enjoy life and that they will always watch out for him. With his newfound existence, he spends it studying slimes, amassing a slime army, and learning some magic, but he misses humanity. Being persuaded to join a group of travelers, Ryouma’s new world opens up for him.

Continuing in the brave tradition of being isekai, but cute in order to mix things up, by the Grace of the Gods is just that. The main character is a young-ish child, which makes his harem less sexy and more maternal.

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

After being chased out of his NEET nest, a man instinctively saves some teens from an oncoming car and is killed. He is reborn as Rudeus Greyrat, a baby and new first born son of a local knight. Finding he has great potential for magic, Rudy vows to make the most of his new life even if he is still a perverted otaku on the inside.

The series doesn’t do anything different with the formula, but it is what it does right that makes it great. All the characters around the main character, especially the parents, feel like real people that are important to the world. It’s not just the main character’s show, it does legitimately feel like he is part of this new world and not just the hottest thing to come to it since sliced bread.

So I’m a Spider, So What?

On one normal day in high school, the lives of many students ended unexpectedly. Some were reincarnated as nobles or strong heroes. Others were reincarnated as wondrous fantasy creatures. Unfortunately for one girl, she was reincarnated as a lowly cave spider. No stranger to hardship given her difficult school life, she vows to not give up, and through an RPG system, grows stronger each day.

This series takes the route similar to That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime. It reincarnates a character into a lowly creature and follows them as they thrive. An interesting element is that it also shows what her fellow classmates are up to, which is a refreshing break considering the main character chatters quite a bit, leading to a bit of a manic pace.

No Game No Life

The siblings Sora and Shiro are transported to a world where every battle or fight is decided by a game, but games can become quite challenging and twisted, but these siblings have such an intellect and they remain undefeatable, just loosing against each other.

 Gate Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

When a portal to other world opens in Japan, the protagonist Yōji Itami a member of the Japan Self Defense Forces is sent to explore the new world that has open to this one with a lot of creatures and things that didn’t exist before like elves, dragons, magic but not so developed as the current Japan.

 The Rising of the Shield Hero

Although this anime begins as a typical isekai anime, where Naofumi Iwatami was summoned with other three young men to be the heros that will save this new world, suddenly Naofumi is accused of committing a crime and is rejected by the whole kingdom, so Naofumi commits to end the waves that the monsters that destroy the world bring so he can return to his world. On the way he join forces with Raphtalia a demi-human who got it from the slave trader  and “Filo” a filiolal (bird like monster from an egg). Is an interesting isekai to watch.

Isekai wa Smartphone To Mo Ni: In Another World with my Smartphone

Well in this anime even in the title there is the word Isekai, Touya Mochizuki died accidentally and to compensate that mistake God resurrect him in a world with magic and so on, God asks him if there is anything he can do for him and he just ask if he is able to keep his phone with him in this other world and that’s why the name of the anime, quite simple.

 Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

Well, maybe this anime is the most recent on the list, the story is about Hajime Nagumo, a boy who along with the rest of his class is transported to a fantasy world, all his classmates get powerful magical abilities, while that Hajime only gains the ability to transmute solid materials, which is very common among artisans and blacksmiths, so the group is treated as a weak member who is not respected. During a mission, Hajime is betrayed and falls into the depths of the dungeon, survives and promises to get out of there alive, on the way he gets new skills and meets new allies such as the vampire Yue, Shea with rabbit ears and other characters that are added to the story.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

After a run in with a robber, the 37-year-old Satoru is suddenly killed. However, he finds himself able to reincarnate into a fantasy world as a slime named Rimuru Tempest. This allows him a fresh new life of adventure while being surrounded by a number of other unique beings.

Isekai Quartet

One day, a mysterious switch appeared, and if they press it, these isekai characters were transported to yet another alternative world!
This anime series is essentially anime characters taken from many of the above series, sent to another-another world, and put in a classroom. It is parody and jokes.

 
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