Isekai anime covers storylines in which a character is reincarnated into a new life and world. As we all know it always begins with a struggling protagonist or one who is seen as a failure, discouraged, devastated or a weakling but eventually in a new awakened life becomes a hero with unique abilities. Furthermore Isekai anime is sub-divided into two "transition into another world" (Isekai Teni) and "reincarnation into another world"(Isekai Tensei) and also there is also "reverse isekai".
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Isekai anime has a way of portraying true facts about life struggles and how it is conquered. Aside the means of learning how to survive in this new world there is also the display of skills, romance, tactics and power which is fascinating. We would go through some Isekai anime that you should watch probably before the year runs out.
10. No Game No Life
Genre: Comedy.Fantasy.Ecchi
Sora and Shiro are two hikikomori stepsiblings who are known in the online gaming world as Blank, an undefeated group of gamers. One day, they are challenged to a game of chess by Tet, a god from another reality. The two are victorious and are offered to live in a world that centers around games. They accept, believing it to be a joke, and are summoned to a reality known as Disboard.There a spell known as the Ten Covenants prevents the citizens of Disboard from inflicting harm on one another, forcing them to resolve their differences by gambling with games whose rules and rewards are magically enforced.
In-game rule enforcement only occurs when the method of cheating is acknowledged and outed by the opponent, allowing players to cheat through tactful methods. Sora and Shiro negotiate to Elkia. the nation inhabited by humans, and befriend the duchess Stephanie Dola. Learning about Elkia's decline, the two participate in a tournament to determine the next ruler; after winning the crown, they earn the right to challenge the Disboard's other species as humanity's representative.Their next goal is to conquer all sixteen species in order to challenge Tet to a game; as of the sixth volume, five of the sixteen are under their control.
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09. So I'm A Spider, So What
Genre: Action.Adventure.Comedy.Fantasy
A mysterious event happens and an entire class finds themselves reincarnated in a RPG-game-like fantasy world.The world where the Hero and the Demon King continue to oppose each other. The grand magic from the Hero and the Demon King cross over worlds and exploded in the classroom of a certain high school. The students who died in the explosion were eventually reincarnated in a different world. While a handful were fortunate enough to become royalty, nobles, and other kinds of influential people. The main character, a girl named Kumoko finds herself reincarnated in a spider form. Kumoko who has the lowest reputation in the class, was reincarnated into the form of a spider.
Nevertheless, she adapted quickly to the present condition with strong willpower she is forced to experience extreme hardship. Even so, armed with nothing but her human knowledge and overwhelming positivity, she continues to press on and survive against creatures much stronger than herself.It takes a while, but she is eventually able to hold her own amongst the strongest monsters in the cave before encountering humans for the first time. This deadly encounter, for the humans, ends with her gaining the moniker of "Nightmare of the Labyrinth". She uses the humans who escaped her slaughter to lead her to the surface, but she encounters the Demon Lord and needs to fight off her mother, who bursts out from the Labyrinth to chase her down. After a long, drawn out battle, Kumoko is finally able to escape.
08. Parallel World Pharmacy
Genre: Fantasy, Med-fiction
In his life-long passion to develop new medicines to help people, Kanji Yakutani, a Japanese medical researcher, dies from excessive stress. To his immense surprise, he finds himself reborn in another world with a medieval (dark-age) culture, in which proper medical treatments are not affordable and only opportuned to the wealthy only. In his new life as Farma de Médicis, a 10-year old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, who had attained inhuman skills ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction. he discovers that he has been granted a divine blessing from Panactheos, the God of Medicine.
With his divine blessing and his retained knowledge of modern medicine, Farma decides to revolutionize the other world's medical advancements and make proper treatments affordable for the common folks. He decided to use his knowledge to change the world. He was recognized by the Empress of the time and got permission to open a Pharmacy at the corner of the town. But as one medical emergency follows another, He decided to wipe out the fraud that swept the world and deliver to the commoners a truly effective medicine that was developed using present-day pharmacology.
Thus, the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create original medicines while helping the people of the parallel world.
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07. The World's Finest Assassin
Genre: Action.Drama.Fantasy
When the world's greatest assassin reaches the end of his life, he is sent by a goddess to be reborn in a magical world and use his skills to save that world.
The world's greatest assassin had sworn lifelong allegiance to the organization that raised him. However, despite his loyalty, that very same organization takes action to silence him, ultimately leading to his demise. Overwhelmed in frustration and regret he can no longer suppress his emotions, he finds himself in an audience with a goddess attracted by his extraordinary skills. The goddess offers him reincarnation into a magnificent world of swords and sorcery so he can perform a crucial mission; Prevent the world's destruction by slaying its hero. He has to eliminate a super-powerful hero who will bring about the end of the world unless he is stopped.
Now known as Lugh Tuatha Dé, the master assassin certainly has his hands full, particularly because of all the beautiful girls who constantly surround him. Lugh may have been an unparalleled killer, now he has to face foes with powerful magic and stop the world destruction.
06. Dead Mount Death Play
Genre: Action.Fantasy.Supernatural
In another world, a hero named Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid is about to finish off a powerful necromancer known as the Corpse God. However, the Corpse God uses a unique magic skill to reincarnate themself into another world, and ends up in modern-day Shinjuku, in the body of a boy named Polka Shinoyama who has just had his throat slit by an assassin. Thinking that this new world could provide the peaceful life he wished in the last one, In the process of trying to adapt to his new physical body, he gets targeted by various groups that deal with the supernatural. Among them is Misaki Sakimiya, a high school girl who can see spirits and is out for his blood from the very moment they meet.
The Corpse God takes on Polka's identity, and soon captivates himself with the Shinjuku underworld under a woman named Clarissa and her underlings. Polka eventually meets Takumi Kuruya, a contractor skilled in surveillance and hacking, and Lisa Kuraki, a crime boss operating out of Shinjuku. Alongside these and other unanticipated allies, Polka braves danger to reveal the truth of his reincarnation and the fate awaiting the world he now lives in.
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05. Overlord
Genre: Action.Adventure.Fantasy
In 2126, a Full-Dive Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (DMMORPG) called YGGDRASIL was released, standing out among all other DMMORPGs due to its unusually high ability for the player to interact with the game. After an enormous twelve-year run, the game servers are about to be shut down. Within the game exists a guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, once consisting of forty one members and imputed as one of the strongest guilds in the game. Now only four of the members remain, the other thirty seven having quit the game, and only one, a skeletal Lich "Overlord" character named Momonga, continues to play as the guild leader, maintaining their headquarters in The Great Tomb of Nazarick.
In the minutes before the shutdown he invites the remaining guild members, but of those only one turns up and only for a short while before leaving. While disheartened by this, he accepts the reality that his friends have their other lives to take care of and decides to stay logged in until the servers shut down.
When the shut-down time arrives, Momonga discovers that the game hasn't dissipated; instead, it appears as if Nazarick has been transported to another world altogether and its various NPCs becoming actual living beings. Momonga has been trapped in the form of his game avatar, leaving him unable to use the normal player functions such as General Message, or even log out. With no other option, Momonga decides to learn if any players like himself are in this new world.
Taking on the name of the guild, Ainz Ooal Gown, as a message to any other remaining players, Momonga begins exploring the world in an attempt to figure out what has happened while searching for anyone or anything that could help him solve this mystery, also while ensuring the safety of Nazarick. Ainz Ooal Gown seems to have modifications made to his behavior by in-game mechanics, because he demonstrates no moral concern with killing and other actions that are taboo in the real world.
04. The Rising of The Shield Hero
Genre: Action.Adventure.Drama.Fantasy
A gamer is magically summoned into a parallel universe, where he is chosen as one of four heroes destined to save the world from its foreseen doom.
Stories of old tell of four other worldly heroes - wielding the sword, spear, bow, and shield - who defended the land from wave after wave of calamity. With the fate of the world in balance, the kingdom of Melromarc summons these legendary figures; in modern-day Japan, the call is answered, and the unknown heroes are transported to this fantasy universe. Thrust into Melromarc and given the title of "Shield Hero,"
Otaku Naofumi Iwatani is tagged the weakest due to his lack of offensive capability and apparent inexperience. When the heroes part ways to start their journeys, he only has one willing companion: the beautiful princess Myne Melromarc. However, she soon betrays him, steals all his money, and accuses him of taking advantage of her. For his alleged crimes, Naofumi is branded a criminal and made outcast of society. Out of frustration and hatred, he sets out alone, vowing vengeance against those who wronged him.
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03. Gate
Genre: Action.Adventure.Drama
In modern-day Ginza, Tokyo, a portal from another world suddenly appears and a legion of Roman-styled dark-age soldiers and monsters emerge to attack the city. Using modern weaponry and tactics, the Japan Self-Defense Forces easily repels the enemy and passes through the Gate to establish a forward operating base and start off peace negotiations with the Empire of the other world. However, Japan's exclusive access to the Gate is envied by the other nations of the world, who wish to exploit the Tokuchi for their own purposes. Also, the JSDF's activities are closely monitored by their government, which delay to involve itself any further into the Special Region's affairs out of fear of public disapprobation.
Yōji Itami is a reserve JSDF officer sent to investigate the other world, where magic, dragons and elves are real, using his knowledge of fantasy stories to navigate through in this new environment. While touring the Special Region, he ends up selflessly aiding its people, including Imperial Princess Piña Co Lada, against an ancient dragon and a group of bandits, thus enabling the way for negotiations, However, when he humiliates Imperial Crown Prince Zorzal in order to rescue a Japanese prisoner from his grasp, as a result of this he decides to go to war, seizing power as a dictator and preparing for an all-out war. Thus the JSDF is eventually forced to engage in aggressive combat action to maintain the status of peace and bring negotiations with Zorzal's father, Molt Sol Augustus, to a peaceful conclusion.
Following the JSDF's liberation of Princess Piña, the Emperor and the anti-war senators from the Imperial capital, Zorzal goes into hiding and engages in a radical war, having his men, wearing imitation camouflage uniforms, and monsters commit terror acts against the civilian population in order to discredit the Japanese and draw them out; but the JSDF's allies and sympathizers rally to their side to defeat the reprobate prince. However, as the goddess Hardy relates to Itami, the Gate itself poses another serious problem. Initially opened by Hardy, but enlarged and stabilized by the Empire's magicians, it begins to cause a series of disastrous disruptions as the Special Region and Earth begin to drift away from this mutual anchor point. Thus, the Japanese must struggle to both end the civil war and close the Gate in time before both worlds rip each other to pieces.
02. Eminence Of Shadow
Genre: Action.Comedy.Fantasy
The captivating anime series follows the story of Cid Kageno, a young boy with desire to rule the world from the shadows, Ever since he was a child, he wanted to become a shadow broker. He trained up his body, doing practically everything possible in the world to encounter magic. However, his dreams are cut short when he dies during his training after getting hit by a truck. But his story takes an unanticipated twist when he is reincarnated into a fantasy world as Shadow. After rescuing a girl, the girl swears her allegiance to Cid and so, he builds his organization, the Shadow Garden. Cid creates an elaborate plot about how he was the leader of an ancient organization, sworn to fight the Cult of Diabolos. With season 1 already enticing fans with its unique storyline and well-crafted characters and display of power, the highly anticipated season 2 is expected to continue the journey with even more excitement and thrills.
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01. Reincarnated As A Slime
Genre: Action.Adventure.Fantasy
Satoru Mikami is an ordinary 37-year-old corporate worker living in Tokyo. He is almost content with his tedious life, putting aside his relationship status. During a casual encounter with his colleague, a mugger pops out of nowhere and stabs him. While succumbing to his injuries, a mysterious voice echoes in his mind and recites a series of commands of which he couldn't make account of.
After regaining consciousness, Satoru discovers that he has been reincarnated as a Slime in an unfamiliar world. At the same time, he also acquires new-found skills, particularly the ability called "Predator," which allows him to devour anything and mimic its appearance and skills. He stumbles upon Veldora, a powerful 'Storm Dragon', who has been sealed for the last 300 years for reducing a town to ashes. Satoru befriends the dragon, promising to help him in destroying the seal. They gave each other names, Veldora bestows upon him name Rimuru, and receives name Tempest in return. Rimuru then swallows the dragon together with his prison in order to analyze the spell inside itself and eventually free Veldora.
The disappearance of Veldora's aura creates a power vacuum which eventually makes Rimuru the leader of all beings alongside inhabiting the Great Forest of Jura, who accept him as a ruler and together they found the nation of Tempest. With Rimuru's strength, wisdom and idealistic vision the new nation quickly grows in strength and influence. Soon Rimuru and his subjects draw the attention of the nearby foreign powers, from monarchs and legendary heroes to demon lords, some seeking to become their allies, while others intending to take advantage of or destroy them completely. The anime is really fascinating with the showcase of wisdom and power it's worth watching, this is one Isekai anime that you can't get bored.
Where To Watch
All the anime's mentioned here are available to be streamed on Crunchyroll and Netflix.
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Conclusion:
Isekai anime is enticing with it's way of giving its patagonist a chance to have a renewed and fulfilled life that they had never foreseen. Aside the list of anime above there are other Isekai animes that are also fascinating as the ones listed above. So try to at least cover some of these animes before the year runs out.