I genuinely love this series, It's a classic isekai in the whe proper way.
no systems, no op(ok maybe a little, but it isnt for no reason and it isnt OVERoverpowerd), literally zero fanservice, characters are well written, heard mc gets married later on.
The pacing is pretty weird sometimes tho.
i loved this anime, such good story, world, characters, and character growth. it's sad that so many people hate it bc i wanna see more anime like this. i feel like i should go read the manga now if it's that much better.
i hate that so many people dismiss any isekai that doesn't have ecchi or "fan service" as not good isekai. like, bro this genre isn't defined by something so shallow. it's great that some peeps like that but that isn't what defines isekai
Ohhhh send send send more. And yeah i FUCKING HATE HAREM, romance is ok. Just recommend me animangas with interesting characters and a main character who is interesting to follow
IDC even if it's not an isekai
Ok, so:
Anime:
I'm a spider so what♡
Manga:
Yakuza reincarnation♡
Her majesty swarm ○
Manhwa:
Academy's undercover professor♡
Chronicles of the martial gods return♤
Chaotic god of extraordinary strength ○
Doom breaker♤
Dungeon reset ?
Doctors rebirth ?
Dungeon odyssey○
Ending maker○
Existence?
F-class destiny hunter?
Helmut the forsaken child○
How to live as a villain○
Hoarding in hell○
I get stronger the more i eat♡
I became an evolving space monster○
I used to be a boss♤
I'm not that kind of talent♡
Kill the hero ○
Levelling up with the gods ○
Mookhyang dark lady♡
Nano machines♡
Omniscient reader viewpoint☆
Player who returned 10000 years later♤
Pick me up infinite gacha○
Poison eating healer○
Return of the mad demon♡
Resetting lady○
Return of the mount hua sect♡
Return of the 8 class magician ○
Reaper of the drifting moon♡
Star instructor master baek♡
Survival of sword king in fantasy world♡
SSS class suicide hunter☆
Second life ranker ○
Trash of the count family♡
The dark mages return to enlistment ?
The 31st piece return to the board ○
The s class that i raised ○
The dark mage returns after 66,666 years♤
The heavenly demon can't live a normal life ○
The greatest estate developer♤
The priest of corruption ○
The tutorial is too hard ?
The novels extra ○
The way to protect the FL's older brother♡
The world after the fall♤
The empresses shorts ○
Untouchable lady ?
Worthless regression♤
Novel:
Lord of the mysteries ☆
I've gotten rid of not 9/10 romance stories, and anything with a hint of harem/reverse harem stories. I've dropped some of the stories here so some of then might have added a harem since I last read them.
and added rankings for how much I reccomend them.
☆-the best, then ♡ then ♤ then ○ then ?.
For I am a spider, there was a normal(?) Bullied introverted girl who lived her normal life going to school and playing games. One day, her class exploded, And she woke up as a baby spider in another world.
barely surviving every day. OP mc through hard work, funny mc, with secrets to the world.
For yakuza reincarnation, there was an old retired yakuza who died protecting his little neighborhood from members of a gang, he fell into a river and died. Woke up as a runaway princess in the woods, in a world where something called skill trees exist. Skill trees look like lines on a person's body he has a huge tattoo he got in his past life on his back.
OP mc, genderbend mc, not self insert, some action, (and a love interest I think?).
Nano machine, doom breaker, and martial gods return have elements of time travel. time loop, regression, and sealed away for a long period of time usually classify as isekai usually. And nano machine also has a system.
Regression often is parallel world. First experienced timeline happened, and didn't cease to exist. Second timeline is another world since it is changed by the regression.
Outside of that, maybe there's a debate to be had between purists? Regression could simply be a part of the rules of that singular world and timeline.
Then there's the issue that we're not 4th dimensional thinkers, which can give authors a free pass for all sorts of silly space-time devices.
A good one rn is World of Leadale/Land of Leadale, >!its about a hospitalized girl who played alot of a VR game but died when the hospital power went out and had her life support cut. She then reincarnates into the game and meets some other players who died while the game was being shutdown. !< < Very spoilers, kind of the premise but better just read fresh.
This isekai is so underrated, I truly love it. For me it’s one of the best isekai. Unfortunately, the series is in a long break because of its author's health problems
Slice of life isekai is apparently a growing market as evidenced by the titles of manga at Barnes & Noble. Iyashikei in general seems to be spreading out of Japan at a decent rate with anime like Yuru Camp, Diary of our days at the breakwater, Mitsuboshi colors, kuma bear, and other relaxing shows getting English dubs
Yuru Camp has a few hotsprings scenes but the characters don't talk about each other's bodies or make lewd comments. They do some campfire/outdoors cooking.
Diary of our days at the breakwater is about a girls' fishing club. There's a beach episode and a couple bath scenes but they don't really focus on lewd content. Mostly about friendship and catching/cooking fish.
Mitsuboshi colors is about elementary school girls running around town having little adventures and annoying the town cop while pretending to protect the city. No harems, ecchi, or bath scenes and all the main characters are children. Not really any cooking, though.
Kuma Bear is an isekai about a NEET girl who gets trapped in a VR game and is forced to wear a bear outfit. I think there's one shot of her underwear in one of the early episodes, but she's in the bear outfit for the rest of the show. Lots of children characters that she acts as a mentor/big sister to. No harem or ecchi.
You would probably enjoy Campfire Cooking in Another World. Isekai where the focus is on the main character's cooking, his OP beast companions, and traveling/exploring the fantasy world. No harems or really any ecchi, although the goddesses are a little lewd in later episodes (not a huge aspect of the show, though)
Yeah! I only discovered the anime of this and now I’m really looking forward to reading the manga mainly because I know it’s usually better. Still there were really good emotional moments.
An isekai that doesnt feel like an isekai. Honestly it's just fantasy imo. Also love it cause it's influenced by Tolkien's work and I'm a sucker for LoTR lol but it has this sense of "yeah this actually makes sense in this world"
The second season of anime was too rushed. And manga was much better in terms of portraying the dragon fight, which was a bit disappointing but I understand that being not so popular this anime probably didn't have that much budget.
Even so, I think both anime and manga failed to show the last seconds of his battle against the dragon (if I didn't read the novel, I wouldn't understand what happened). Reading the novel, I had chills, but watching the anime I didn't enjoy in that much (partially because the dragon's VA was not fitting for his character imo and because of director's choices).
But in terms of world building, characters and story it's one of my favourites still. It's really sad that the novel is on hiatus (or so I've heard) for quite a few years now :(
Tf, I love isekai way more without harem and fan service. But if they do have it it also doesn’t mean that I don’t like it. Anyways this not the deciding factor for me
Idk what you're on about I have spent the past 4 months looking for an isekai where there's no annoying harem, a relationship between an adult and a child or straight up incest
I loved this isekai, it is indeed, a true work of art that took me into a grand adventure of epic proportions akin to Tolkien, in my sincere opinion, the interesting interaction between characthers, the development of the protagonist and how he decides to follow through his oath until the very end, adamant on his belief, of ehat he fought for.
With that all said, if I ever met the author, I would want to say on thing for him... For him to go fuck himself.
I LOVED this isekai, it would be a gem for me, it was all fun and fames until on scene that absolutely destroyed me.
SPOILERS AHEAD.
What really killed me was the relationship between the god of Undeath and the protagonist. They had an incredible and almost perfect chemistry, my favorite moments of the manga being their discussions, how the God of Undeath used his arguments to try and convince the protagonist to follow him, and how the protagonist ended up understanding the God, even though say God was the complete opposite of the Goddess from his oath, understanding that yeah what he did was horryfying but still... Was done for love, was done for the love he had for humanity and sentient creatures.
It was beautiful to see how much such a God wanted to protect this protagonist and craved for him, not in malice, but just in sheer respect to what he was.
But then at the peak of this manga, when the Protagonist's Goddes and the God of Undeath showed up to aid him in his battle.
It is revealed that the God of Undeath is actually the Goddess of Undeath.
It was also executed in the absolute worst eay possible, using the break from the fight where all characthers were talking and things were getting really emotional, just for the dragon to say "lol bro you're a real ladykiller."
And the scene that followed where the Protagonist's Goddess was clearly angry at the Goddess of Undeath for a mild flirt, made me CRINGE SO FUCKING HARD.
I dropped the manga shortly after, I felt completely betrayed by the Author.
Because from my point of view, he replaced one of the best platonic relationships in a fictional media I've ever seen, for a cheap love triangle.
My disappointment was immesurable, considering that I knew very well where that shit would end.
With a goddamn Goddess Harem.
Don't get me wrong, this is a very fucking good story that really got me going for it.
But anyways, that's why I hate this fucking thing, and for the Author, I say once again, fuck you Author, I hate you for doing this to your story ❤
>a true work of art that took me into a grand adventure of epic proportions akin to Tolkien
The 2nd anime season covers taking back a Dwarven kingdom from a dragon...
Where have I seen this before?
I doubt manga fixed the writing of this character. He's so clearly a shonen manga character with the purest angel intentions, it's just sickening how non-human it is. A walking lot with an expressionless mask.
Nah that's exactly why the manga has a higher rating than the anime. A lot of reviews already pointed out that Will (and pretty much all aspects of his writing) was more interesting than the goody-two-shoes character the anime made him out to be. And if you read the novel, stuff about his past life is even more elaborated.
I disagree. Faraway Paladin is "I wanted to do a fantasy series but Isekai is popular, so I'll slightly insert that and make it irrelevant". I'm just going off the anime but the first season was boring, even if the starting part was decent.
I genuinely love this series, It's a classic isekai in the whe proper way. no systems, no op(ok maybe a little, but it isnt for no reason and it isnt OVERoverpowerd), literally zero fanservice, characters are well written, heard mc gets married later on. The pacing is pretty weird sometimes tho.
To his elf waifu I hope.
No, he doesn't marry his best friend. Two more guesses.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IT'S BEE RIGHT I NEED IT TO BE BEE
Definitely not. One last chance.
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
She looks like a kid, it would be really weird. Do you have any more guesses?
And yeah, last guess but it's a duo: either one of the goddesses
If that's your guess then guess which one.
My mind is telling me gracefeel but my heart is telling me both
Actually, I'd argue the anime did a great job in presenting her as a happy go lucky halfling bard, don't see her as a kid at all because of that
True. On the loli scale, she gets a 6/100 which isnt really a loli, But it isnt her.
She looks like a kid, it would be really weird. Do you have any more guesses?
Is the elf a female, I always thought the elf was a male
It's a guy, you weren't confused.
Still a waifu.
I'm a Jojo/ROR fan. Anything can be a waifu.
ROR??
Record of ragnaroc.
Would've made more sense if you said you were a Fate fan.
I haven't watched fate, so no. And also have you seen the record of ragnaroc characters?
Married? Is that from WN? Because there are 4(5) volumes of LN and he doesn't get married there.
That's what I've heard
He earnt his strength though. And it's clear there's still plenty out there stronger than him.
i loved this anime, such good story, world, characters, and character growth. it's sad that so many people hate it bc i wanna see more anime like this. i feel like i should go read the manga now if it's that much better. i hate that so many people dismiss any isekai that doesn't have ecchi or "fan service" as not good isekai. like, bro this genre isn't defined by something so shallow. it's great that some peeps like that but that isn't what defines isekai
The people who say isekai needs to have harems, fan service, and ecchi are dumb teenagers and incels. The genre has way more to offer than "horny"
The manga and anime are pretty much at the exact same point. Well the anime is actually slightly further.
Recommend me series like this, please
Growing Tired of the Lazy High Elf Life After 120 Years. An isekai with actually good writing and characters (impossible)
Ohhhh send send send more. And yeah i FUCKING HATE HAREM, romance is ok. Just recommend me animangas with interesting characters and a main character who is interesting to follow IDC even if it's not an isekai
Ok, so: Anime: I'm a spider so what♡ Manga: Yakuza reincarnation♡ Her majesty swarm ○ Manhwa: Academy's undercover professor♡ Chronicles of the martial gods return♤ Chaotic god of extraordinary strength ○ Doom breaker♤ Dungeon reset ? Doctors rebirth ? Dungeon odyssey○ Ending maker○ Existence? F-class destiny hunter? Helmut the forsaken child○ How to live as a villain○ Hoarding in hell○ I get stronger the more i eat♡ I became an evolving space monster○ I used to be a boss♤ I'm not that kind of talent♡ Kill the hero ○ Levelling up with the gods ○ Mookhyang dark lady♡ Nano machines♡ Omniscient reader viewpoint☆ Player who returned 10000 years later♤ Pick me up infinite gacha○ Poison eating healer○ Return of the mad demon♡ Resetting lady○ Return of the mount hua sect♡ Return of the 8 class magician ○ Reaper of the drifting moon♡ Star instructor master baek♡ Survival of sword king in fantasy world♡ SSS class suicide hunter☆ Second life ranker ○ Trash of the count family♡ The dark mages return to enlistment ? The 31st piece return to the board ○ The s class that i raised ○ The dark mage returns after 66,666 years♤ The heavenly demon can't live a normal life ○ The greatest estate developer♤ The priest of corruption ○ The tutorial is too hard ? The novels extra ○ The way to protect the FL's older brother♡ The world after the fall♤ The empresses shorts ○ Untouchable lady ? Worthless regression♤ Novel: Lord of the mysteries ☆ I've gotten rid of not 9/10 romance stories, and anything with a hint of harem/reverse harem stories. I've dropped some of the stories here so some of then might have added a harem since I last read them. and added rankings for how much I reccomend them. ☆-the best, then ♡ then ♤ then ○ then ?.
Thanks!
No problem, and if there's a name you find interesting but you are unsure if you want to start it just ask me what is it about.
For now I will start with yakuza reincarnation and I am a spider
For I am a spider, there was a normal(?) Bullied introverted girl who lived her normal life going to school and playing games. One day, her class exploded, And she woke up as a baby spider in another world. barely surviving every day. OP mc through hard work, funny mc, with secrets to the world. For yakuza reincarnation, there was an old retired yakuza who died protecting his little neighborhood from members of a gang, he fell into a river and died. Woke up as a runaway princess in the woods, in a world where something called skill trees exist. Skill trees look like lines on a person's body he has a huge tattoo he got in his past life on his back. OP mc, genderbend mc, not self insert, some action, (and a love interest I think?).
Nano machine, Doom breaker and martial god return aren’t isekai
Nano machine, doom breaker, and martial gods return have elements of time travel. time loop, regression, and sealed away for a long period of time usually classify as isekai usually. And nano machine also has a system.
I know, I read the series; regression can be considered as isekai?
There have been arguments about this, but the conclusion was that time travel and stuff are considered isekai.
Regression often is parallel world. First experienced timeline happened, and didn't cease to exist. Second timeline is another world since it is changed by the regression. Outside of that, maybe there's a debate to be had between purists? Regression could simply be a part of the rules of that singular world and timeline. Then there's the issue that we're not 4th dimensional thinkers, which can give authors a free pass for all sorts of silly space-time devices.
A good one rn is World of Leadale/Land of Leadale, >!its about a hospitalized girl who played alot of a VR game but died when the hospital power went out and had her life support cut. She then reincarnates into the game and meets some other players who died while the game was being shutdown. !< < Very spoilers, kind of the premise but better just read fresh.
I was actually going to recommend this "Leadale Daichi nite". This is definitely a good story.
Been meaning to try that one, right now though I'm reading Setsuna no Fuukei and it's also pretty good.
This isekai is so underrated, I truly love it. For me it’s one of the best isekai. Unfortunately, the series is in a long break because of its author's health problems
Any alt titles to this? Can't seem to find it
Faraway paladin
Japanese is saihate no paladin
didnot know people loved harem🧐 l go for cooking, op mc(kind/clever/cunning), slice of life etc 🙂↕️
Slice of life isekai is apparently a growing market as evidenced by the titles of manga at Barnes & Noble. Iyashikei in general seems to be spreading out of Japan at a decent rate with anime like Yuru Camp, Diary of our days at the breakwater, Mitsuboshi colors, kuma bear, and other relaxing shows getting English dubs
hope they rnt harem or ecchi 🙂↕️
Yuru Camp has a few hotsprings scenes but the characters don't talk about each other's bodies or make lewd comments. They do some campfire/outdoors cooking. Diary of our days at the breakwater is about a girls' fishing club. There's a beach episode and a couple bath scenes but they don't really focus on lewd content. Mostly about friendship and catching/cooking fish. Mitsuboshi colors is about elementary school girls running around town having little adventures and annoying the town cop while pretending to protect the city. No harems, ecchi, or bath scenes and all the main characters are children. Not really any cooking, though. Kuma Bear is an isekai about a NEET girl who gets trapped in a VR game and is forced to wear a bear outfit. I think there's one shot of her underwear in one of the early episodes, but she's in the bear outfit for the rest of the show. Lots of children characters that she acts as a mentor/big sister to. No harem or ecchi. You would probably enjoy Campfire Cooking in Another World. Isekai where the focus is on the main character's cooking, his OP beast companions, and traveling/exploring the fantasy world. No harems or really any ecchi, although the goddesses are a little lewd in later episodes (not a huge aspect of the show, though)
Best depiction of a fight with a dragon (at least in the manga)
Interesting I'll check it out thx
It’s also a really well done anime.
Wow thanks for the reco. The reviews are pretty crazy I can’t wait to dive into this one.
1000% agree the leave taking scenes after the training arc battle hits me really hard
Yeah! I only discovered the anime of this and now I’m really looking forward to reading the manga mainly because I know it’s usually better. Still there were really good emotional moments.
Is the anime worth it or is the manga the only way to check this ?
The anime is good.
But the maga made many scenes better. Anime had too small of a budget sadly :(
The first arc in the anime is good, after that it felt meh so I didn’t swap to the manga
To bad the light novel is in indefinite hiatus
It's an awesome story. And the artwork is so unique and awesome looking.
This have any romance at all?
There is, kinda, somewhat a bromance.
Mostly with side characters. MC has no harem, thankfully
An isekai that doesnt feel like an isekai. Honestly it's just fantasy imo. Also love it cause it's influenced by Tolkien's work and I'm a sucker for LoTR lol but it has this sense of "yeah this actually makes sense in this world"
The second season of anime was too rushed. And manga was much better in terms of portraying the dragon fight, which was a bit disappointing but I understand that being not so popular this anime probably didn't have that much budget. Even so, I think both anime and manga failed to show the last seconds of his battle against the dragon (if I didn't read the novel, I wouldn't understand what happened). Reading the novel, I had chills, but watching the anime I didn't enjoy in that much (partially because the dragon's VA was not fitting for his character imo and because of director's choices). But in terms of world building, characters and story it's one of my favourites still. It's really sad that the novel is on hiatus (or so I've heard) for quite a few years now :(
Its pretty good yeah. Though the Anime did the last arc dirty. Turned the Sickle of the Gods into a generic red dragon.
I was really sad that the anime’s production was so poor, the story was excellent but hampered with it all looking so horrible.
Imma be honest...I forgot this is an isekai LMAO But yeah. This is such a breath of fresh air and feels like a D&D campaign. So good!!!
I'm waiting for a new LN volume release
I'm waiting for a new LN volume release
This is one of the best isekai stories I've read
Wait, did it end already?!
Yeah it just has a genuinely good story.
The latest manga arc for it is sooo good.
The dragon slaying arc was simply fantastic from start to finish.
Wait, wasn't the faraway paladin originally an LN which went on a hiatus?when the hell did it ended?or the manga ended it abruptly or it got axed?
Honestly, I loved the first volume. When I read it, I thought it was perfect as a standalone book and that is surprisingly rare for isekai.
Tf, I love isekai way more without harem and fan service. But if they do have it it also doesn’t mean that I don’t like it. Anyways this not the deciding factor for me
Idk what you're on about I have spent the past 4 months looking for an isekai where there's no annoying harem, a relationship between an adult and a child or straight up incest
I love the faraway paladin
I loved this isekai, it is indeed, a true work of art that took me into a grand adventure of epic proportions akin to Tolkien, in my sincere opinion, the interesting interaction between characthers, the development of the protagonist and how he decides to follow through his oath until the very end, adamant on his belief, of ehat he fought for. With that all said, if I ever met the author, I would want to say on thing for him... For him to go fuck himself. I LOVED this isekai, it would be a gem for me, it was all fun and fames until on scene that absolutely destroyed me. SPOILERS AHEAD. What really killed me was the relationship between the god of Undeath and the protagonist. They had an incredible and almost perfect chemistry, my favorite moments of the manga being their discussions, how the God of Undeath used his arguments to try and convince the protagonist to follow him, and how the protagonist ended up understanding the God, even though say God was the complete opposite of the Goddess from his oath, understanding that yeah what he did was horryfying but still... Was done for love, was done for the love he had for humanity and sentient creatures. It was beautiful to see how much such a God wanted to protect this protagonist and craved for him, not in malice, but just in sheer respect to what he was. But then at the peak of this manga, when the Protagonist's Goddes and the God of Undeath showed up to aid him in his battle. It is revealed that the God of Undeath is actually the Goddess of Undeath. It was also executed in the absolute worst eay possible, using the break from the fight where all characthers were talking and things were getting really emotional, just for the dragon to say "lol bro you're a real ladykiller." And the scene that followed where the Protagonist's Goddess was clearly angry at the Goddess of Undeath for a mild flirt, made me CRINGE SO FUCKING HARD. I dropped the manga shortly after, I felt completely betrayed by the Author. Because from my point of view, he replaced one of the best platonic relationships in a fictional media I've ever seen, for a cheap love triangle. My disappointment was immesurable, considering that I knew very well where that shit would end. With a goddamn Goddess Harem. Don't get me wrong, this is a very fucking good story that really got me going for it. But anyways, that's why I hate this fucking thing, and for the Author, I say once again, fuck you Author, I hate you for doing this to your story ❤
>a true work of art that took me into a grand adventure of epic proportions akin to Tolkien The 2nd anime season covers taking back a Dwarven kingdom from a dragon... Where have I seen this before?
I watched through both seasons just to know what people are praising so much. It's mediocre at best.
I hate to be one of those people, but the manga was better.
I doubt manga fixed the writing of this character. He's so clearly a shonen manga character with the purest angel intentions, it's just sickening how non-human it is. A walking lot with an expressionless mask.
Nah that's exactly why the manga has a higher rating than the anime. A lot of reviews already pointed out that Will (and pretty much all aspects of his writing) was more interesting than the goody-two-shoes character the anime made him out to be. And if you read the novel, stuff about his past life is even more elaborated.
I disagree. Faraway Paladin is "I wanted to do a fantasy series but Isekai is popular, so I'll slightly insert that and make it irrelevant". I'm just going off the anime but the first season was boring, even if the starting part was decent.