Garn's Guides: 30 Isekai anime shows, part 1
This anime subgenre has become quite popular in recent years. Isekai, meaning another world, usually involves people transitioning to another place, time period, reality, etc. that is radically different from their own where they must learn to survive and often do quite well due to their outside knowledge and perspective.
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- CreatorShirakome RyouStarsToshinari FukamachiYûki KuwaharaMatt ShipmanHajime Nagumo and his high-school classmates are suddenly summoned to a fantastical land as heroes.English Title: Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
- CreatorJunya InoueStarsTyler GalindoBrittney KarbowskiKanata HongôA young man gets transported into a video game he plays called Btooom. A plot is uncovered involving an organization that aims to conquer the world by dominating the virtual world.
- CreatorAinana HiroStarsShun HorieJustin BrinerHiyori KonoA computer programmer is transported to a fantasy world where life is an adventure that's fun and full of girls.
- CreatorsKurone KanzakiAmaru MinotakeStarsJessie James GrelleKenjiro TsudaNatalie HooverOn the night of his favorite game's shutdown, Akira Oono awakens in the body of his online character: Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai.
- StarsRyôta ÔsakaYôko HikasaNao TôyamaHilarity and fun ensues when Satan ends up in modern day Japan without any magic to return, and starts working part time in a fast food joint.This would actually be a reverse isekai with the main character coming to Earth from another dimension. It's quite good.
- StarsYûsuke KobayashiManami NumakuraGen SatôHigh schooler Taiju awakens from petrification millennia after a blinding light turned humanity to stone. He finds his scientific genius friend Senku working on a plan to rebuild civilization using science.English Title: Dr. Stone. Bit of a different take on the isekai theme, I'm really liking it.
- CreatorKohta HiranoStarsMitsuki SaigaNaoya UchidaYûichi NakamuraVarious historical fighters are summoned from across time to wage war on each other, with the fate of the world in the balance.
- StarsRie KugimiyaSatoshi HinoCristina ValenzuelaWhen Saito, an ordinary teen living in Japan, is suddenly whisked away to the magical kingdom of Halkeginia, he becomes the familiar servant of Louise, a young girl enrolled in an academy for aristocrat magicians.English Title: The Familiar of Zero. The first season is the only one ever dubbed in english.
- StarsJun'ichi SuwabeNao TôyamaHisako KanemotoA gate appears in modern-day Tokyo which allows access to a fantasy world. A Japanese military squad is formed to establish ties between both worlds.English Title: Gate
- StarsYoshimasa HosoyaMikako KomatsuHiroyuki YoshinoHaruhiro suddenly wakes up, with no memory but his name. There are a lot of people around, but noone seems to know anything. Haruhiro forms a party of some of the people and start exploring.English Title: Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
- CreatorMurasaki YukiyaStarsMasaaki MizunakaYû SerizawaAzumi WakiAn elite player is summoned by two maidens to save a fantasy game.English Title: How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
- CreatorFuyuhara PatoraStarsKatsumi FukuharaMarika KônoMaaya UchidaWhen a boy is accidentally killed by God, he is resurrected in another world as recompense with his magically enhanced smartphone being only the first of his gifts there.English Title: In Another World with My Smartphone
- CreatorRumiko TakahashiStarsKappei YamaguchiRichard Ian CoxSarah HauserA teenage girl periodically travels back in time to feudal Japan to help a young half-demon recover the shards of a jewel of great power.
- StarsYûsuke KobayashiErica MendezSatoshi HinoThe worlds of isekai sagas collide and cross over, resulting in comical chaos.This is a comedic crossover series where characters from Re:Zero, Overlord, KONOSUBA, and The Saga of Tanya the Evil get transported to yet another world and have to interact with each other. Season two adds characters from The Rising of The Shield Hero.
- CreatorAmazake no HisagoStarsRie TakahashiShinsuke SugawaraAyaka OhashiErnesti, a programmer and mecha fan in his previous life, is reincarnated in a fantasy world where he sets out to pilot a humanoid weapon.
- StarsJun FukushimaSora AmamiyaRie TakahashiIt was a happy day for Kazuma - right up to the moment he died. A goddess intervenes and offers him a second chance in a magical land.
- CreatorToshizô NemotoStarsJad SaxtonMike YagerJôji Nakata30,000 Japanese players trapped in MMORPG, unable to log out. Veteran gamer Shiroe leads exploration of this new reality, negotiating with NPCs to bring order to the virtual city of Akihabara.My favorite of all the trapped-in-a-game isekai. And we're finally getting a third season in 2021.
- CreatorSeiichi TakayamaStarsBrandon McInnisBryn ApprillAmaLeeSuou Yuuto was transported into another world called Yggdrasil. after one year he became the wolf clan leader. now he must wage war against neighboring clans and simultaneously search for a way Back home.English Title: The Master of Ragnarok and Blesser of Einherjar
- StarsYoshitsugu MatsuokaAi KayanoYôko HikasaSiblings Sora and Shiro make up the most feared team of pro gamers in the world, The Blank. When they manage to beat God himself in a game of chess, they are sent to a world where all disputes are settled with games.
- CreatorOsoraStarsDaiki YamashitaAkari KitôTakuya SatôAkatsuki Iride is a popular live streamer for the game The Ones Within - Genome. But what was once fantasy quickly becomes reality when he and seven others are transported into a game world that livestreams their every move.English Title: The Ones Within
- CreatorIchirô SakakiStarsNatsuki HanaeMaaya UchidaJuliet SimmonsOtaku Shinichi, has been sent as an ambassador to a parallel world, where what we believed to be only fantasy is reality.
- CreatorKugane MaruyamaStarsSatoshi HinoChris GuerreroElizabeth MaxwellWhen a popular MMORPG is scheduled to be shut down permanently, veteran player Momonga refuses to log out. As NPCs begin to develop personalities and minds of their own he decides to put his skills to use as the game's new overlord.
- CreatorTarô TatsunokoStarsBrittney KarbowskiJessie James GrelleNancy NovotnyA trio of recruits from Earth are enlisted to participate in the Gift Games that decide a group's wealth and reputation.English Title: Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?
- StarsYûsuke KobayashiSean ChiplockKayli MillsAfter being suddenly transported to another world, Subaru Natsuki and his new female partner are brutally murdered. However, Subaru awakens to a familiar scene, meeting the same girl again. The day begins to mysteriously repeat itself.English Title: ReZero: Starting Life in Another World
- StarsChristopher SabatJill HarrisCharles C. CampbellA chef runs a restaurant that serves as a Portal between our World & a Fantasy land every 7 Days, where he serves Western Style Food to Elves, Demons, Dragons & more.English Title: Restaurant to Another World
