‘Overlord’ is one of the most popular isekai anime out there. It is also one of the best anime which is set in a game world. It revolves around a virtual reality game known as Yggdrasil whose final hours have come and the servers are going to be shut down forever.
Nowadays, Isekai anime are inescapable. For every Sword Art Online and Overlord, there is a great but underrated isekai anime. The rules of the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror universes depicted in many anime can differ from those of the real world in innumerable ways.
Isekai protagonists tend to be overpowered by the nature of that genre, but these characters take that trope to ridiculous levels. A general rule for isekai protagonists is that they tend to be overpowered.
This great list will include a total of 50 isekai anime titles, ranked from 50th to 1st, based on their quality. We are going to give you some basic production information about each series, as well as a short overview of the plot. We tried to be as diverse as possible and to include different types of isekai shows that have marked the genre.
Overlord is a dark fantasy anime based on its Japanese novel counterpart written by Kugane Maruyama. Season 1 of Overlord was a series of thirteen episodes that premiered in Summer 2015 and it covers the first three volumes of the light novels.
Ainz is the only Isekai protagonist not to have died in any way in both his original world or original Isekai world. He's also the only Isekai non-human protagonist unlike Subaru, Tanya, and Kazuma.
The Greatest Isekai Anime Of All Time (June 2022)10 Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. ... 9 Saga Of Tanya The Evil. ... 8 Overlord. ... 7 KonoSuba: God's Blessing On This Wonderful World! ... 6 That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. ... 5 Inuyasha. ... 4 No Game No Life. Japanese Title. ... 3 The Devil Is A Part-Timer! Japanese Title.More items...•
Spirited Away (2001) was one of the first isekai anime films known worldwide, although the term "isekai" was not commonly used at the time. The role-playing adventure game Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (1997), and the Digimon Adventure (1999 debut) and .
Reinhard is one of the strongest characters in Isekai quartet as well as his home series, due to the massive divine protections cast upon him.
Overlord Novel Series Ends With 17th Volume. Kugane Maruyama confirmed in the 14th compiled book volume of his Overlord novel series on March 12 that the series will end with the 17th volume. Maruyama had teased on Twitter last May that he was aiming for the series to end in the 17th volume.
5 Darkest Isekai Anime (& 5 That Are Just Too Sweet)1 Too Sweet: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime.2 Darkest: Rising Of The Shield Hero. ... 3 Too Sweet: Wise Man's Grandchild. ... 4 Dark: Arifureta. ... 5 Too Sweet: My Next Life As A Villainess. ... 6 Dark: Re: Creators. ... More items...•
Ultimately, Sword Art Online is not an isekai anime from a purist standpoint, but it's still easy to see how the franchise got the isekai ball rolling.
The 15 Strongest Isekai Anime Protagonists7 Chihiro – Spirited Away. ... 6 Kumoko – So I'm A Spider, So What? ... 5 Tanya – The Saga Of Tanya The Evil. ... 4 Ainz Ooal Gown – Overlord. ... 3 Sadao Maou – The Devil Is A Part-Timer! ... 2 Shiroe – Log Horizon. ... 1 Azusa Aizawa – I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level.More items...•
9 JUMANJI. Now this is a film that you've got to be familiar with. The 1995 hit starring the late and great Robin Williams is a textbook example of an isekai anime on the big screen.
The anime film Spirited Away (2002) was the first world-wide known isekai anime film, although the term "isekai" was not commonly used at the time.
The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, is as classic an isekai as it comes. Dorothy Gale, her dog Toto and their house are blown away by a tornado that takes them to the Land of Oz and drops the house on top of the Wicked Witch of the East.
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Reincarnated and adopted by the mage, Merlin, Shin Wolford may have zero common sense, but he's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to magic. Having just about every kind of magic under the sun, Shin's strength in the mystic arts is a ridiculous level of overpowered, and it may just be too much for even Ainz.
Ainz Ooal Gown from Overlord is not your typical isekai hero, "hero" might also not be the word to describe him either. The undead Sorcerer King of the Great Tomb of Nazarick was sent to a new world in the body of his in-game avatar, with all the powers and resources he had too, to find his comrades and maybe conquer this new world while he's at it.
He's powerful even by isekai standards, though not entirely invincible to other isekai heroes.
Ainz Ooal Gown is powerful even by isekai standards, though not entirely invincible to other isekai heroes. Here are 5 he can beatーand 5 he can't. By Ethan Supovitz Published Dec 28, 2020. Share.
Despite his unassuming look as a fast-food worker, Maou is actually a Demon Lord, known and feared by the people of Ente Isla who went to Japan and making his story a "Reverse Isekai ."
While Mamako can resist all negative status effects, she doesn't have the same resistance to magic attacks themselves. Ainz is loaded with resistance that has shrugged off stronger skills than hers.
Marcus Damon, a 14-year-old street fighter, meets Agumon, who is also trying to flee the Digital Accident Tactics Squad (DATS), a low-key government organization tasked with defending the real world against threats from the digital world.
A year after the events of Digimon Xros Wars, Mikey discovers an unstable space between the two worlds and learns that Quartzmon is absorbing data, the DigiQuartz. Tagiru, Gumdramon, and the protagonists rise to the lost Digimon. The series ends with Mikey, Tagiru, and their friends projecting themselves into the future.
The Bleach animated series adapts Kubo’s manga but also features several original and independent story arcs. In the town of Karakura, 15-year-old high school student Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a replacement Shinigami when Shinigami Rukia Kuchiki cannot perform her duties after engaging in battle with a, particularly powerful Hollow.
A mysterious red button has suddenly appeared in different universes and the various characters pressing on it are instantly taken to a new world where they have to start school life.
A new generation of chosen children, made up of three new boys, Davis, Yolei, and Cody, and two of the previous generation, Kari and TK, receives a new type of Digivice, called D-3, which allows them to open a gateway that leads directly to the Digital World from any terminal.
Japan, at the time of countries at war, known as Sengoku (before 1600). In these times, humans live alongside “Youkai” or “Mononoke” (also called “demons” or “monsters” or “spirit”). These have different powers and appearances and are very varied; however, most share the same thing in common: the envy of human flesh.
The 12-year-old Takato Matasuki is a fan of the Digimon card game. One day, after a game of cards with his two friends Kazu and Kenta, he discovers a mysterious credit card in his storage box. His reflex is to analyze it in his plastic digivice which starts to shine in a strange way.
A lesser-known series from the creator of Hellsing Ultimate, Drifters is about historical figures thrown together to save (or conquer) the world.
For those that value thoughtful world-building, this series is an exceptional anime. To no one's surprise, The Twelve Kingdoms features twelve kingdoms, each with a distinct culture and government. While it isn't a realistic anime like Higehiro, the series explores its world in a rewarding way.
In isekai, it's common for characters to take on the role of unstoppable warriors, brilliant spellcasters, or uncatchable thieves. Isekai settings are often exaggerated, so realism is rarely the focus. Not so in Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions. Here, the characters receive neither special powers nor regal titles upon entering their new world.
Most of the week, Tokyo restaurant Nekoya is a popular but otherwise ordinary eatery, but on Saturdays, it serves customers from other worlds. For fans of food anime looking for more relaxing, comforting content than an intense series like Food Wars provides, Restaurant to Another World is the answer.
An odd mashup of harem, comedy, and parody anime, Outbreak Company is about the protagonist's quest to spread the news of otaku culture in a fantasy world where it doesn't exist. Treating such a doomed and pointless mission as worthy of a series is hilarious in itself, and Outbreak Company capitalizes on its own absurdity at every opportunity.
Genius can be isolating, separating someone from those who are less capable, something Misato Kurihara knows well. When Misato is given the opportunity to reincarnate in a fantasy world, all she wants is to be like everyone else.
Overpowered main characters often ruin the stories they feature in. After all, what's the point of watching the adventures of a hero when the fate of every battle is obvious before it even begins? In the case of an anime like Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, satire is the story's salvation.
It is quite nice to see that the creators are trying their best to keep things fresh. ‘Youjo Senki’ ha a total of 12 episodes with each episode being 24 minutes in length. This anime is quite fun and entertaining to watch. A man challenges Being X, a self-proclaimed God, to a battle of wits. As a result, he gets reincarnated as a girl into a world in which magical warfare takes place. In this form, his name is Tanya Degurechaff a girl whose ruthlessness and tactical prowess earns her the nickname of ‘Devil of The Rhine’. Tanya wants to quickly get to the top of the military ranks as her country is slowly getting into a World War. To restore peaceful time she once lived in she needs to defeat Being X.
‘Overlord’ is one of the most popular isekai anime out there. It is also one of the best anime which is set in a game world. It revolves around a virtual reality game known as Yggdrasil whose final hours have come and the servers are going to be shut down forever. Momonga, a veteran of the game, decides to stay in the game until the servers are shut completely. But then he finds that even after midnight the game is still going on and it seems he is inside the game. Being quite powerful and experienced he decides to take control of this world.
This anime is set in a world where humans and Gods work together. Bell Cranel who always dreamt of becoming the greatest adventurer might turn his dream into reality after he meets a goddess, Hestia. Together they will venture deep into the dangerous catacombs of the city known as ‘Dungeon’.
The anime is still going on and has amassed a strong fanbase. There will be a total of 24 episodes in this anime with each episode being 23 minutes in length.
This anime revolves around two siblings, Sora and Shiro, who are one of the best gamers in Japan. But they never thought that their exceptional gaming skill will be of use to anyone. One day they receive an email which challenges them to a chess match. Soon, they find themselves in another world by the name of Disboard where the solution to every problem is playing a game. The conflicting parties are pitted against each other in a game and the winner is decided by it. The ruler of this world is Tet, the God of games. Sora and Shiro decide to challenge Tet to become the new Gods of this world.
Tsukasa is the alias of a young Wavemaster. One day he wakes up to find himself in an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) known as The World. He seems to have slight amnesia as he does not remember his activities before waking up here. Also, he is unable to log out of the game.
Youji Itami works as an officer in the Japan Self-Defense Force or JSDF. He is also an Otaku. He was on his way to attend a doujin convention in Tokyo when a mysterious portal in form of a gate suddenly appears out of nowhere. From the gate, supernatural beings and medieval armor-clad warriors emerge. They go on a rampage destroying everything and everyone on their path. Youji tries his best to save as many people as he can. Fast Forward to three months after this attack, the JSDF has created a special recon team with the leader as Youji. Their mission is to enter and explore the other side of the get and befriend the locals. The mission is critical as failure will result in a war.
Easily one of Overlord 's strongest characters, Momonga operates at a higher order of power than nearly everyone else in the series. His abilities are all about knocking out people in a single hit, particularly when they aren’t near his level, and his stats straight up read as off the charts.
The lead protagonist in Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Izayoi spends a ton of time actually holding back from using his full power. When he was younger, he was constantly threatening to rampage if he wasn’t given what he wanted, which usually involved just wanting someone to be on the same level as him.
Isekai protagonists tend to be overpowered by the nature of that genre, but these characters take that trope to ridiculous levels. A general rule for isekai protagonists is that they tend to be overpowered.
Sora and Shiro are overpowered in the world of No Game No Life 's Disboard. They were so powerful they were challenged by the ruler of that world and managed to keep their undefeated record. While in the world of Disboard, everything is decided by someone’s skill with games.
Anno 2126. Yggdrasil è una realtà virtuale MMORPG che, un tempo molto popolare, è ora sull'orlo della chiusura. Momonga, uno dei suoi giocatori più forti e famosi, esegue il login per l'ultima volta per assistere alla fine del servizio, ma durante il conto alla rovescia chiude gli occhi e ripensa a tutti i bei momenti passati con i suoi compagni.
La serie di light novel è stata scritta da Kugane Maruyama con le illustrazioni di so-bin. Il primo volume è stato pubblicato da Enterbrain il 30 luglio 2012 e al 24 marzo 2020 ne sono stati messi in vendita in tutto quattordici. La serie presenterà un totale di diciassette volumi .
Nel giugno 2015, prima dell'uscita dell'anime e del manga, i primo otto volumi della serie di light novel hanno venduto circa 600 000 copie in Giappone. Entro il 1º agosto 2015, la light novel e la serie manga hanno totalizzato 1 milione di copie vendute in Giappone. Il 4 agosto seguente è stata annunciata una ristampa di 600 000 copie dei romanzi.