20 Best Anime Like Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World You Need to Watch

Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World is a light novel series written by Tappei Nagatsuki and illustrated by Shinichirou Otsuka. Since January 25, 2014 and as of December 24, 2021, twenty-eight volumes have been published. An anime adaptation by White Fox has been on the air since April 4, 2016. Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World is regularly listed as one of the best isekai anime ever and we are going to help you find some similar works if you liked the anime.

To honor the legacy of Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, we have decided to compose a list of the best anime series like Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World that every fan needs to see. The list is going to include a total of 20 different titles which resemble the Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World anime in one way or the other.

1. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Original Run: October 2, 2018 – June 22, 2021
Number of Episodes: 60 (+5 OVA)

Satoru Mikami is a 37-year-old single salaryman living in Tokyo: he would be almost satisfied with his monotonous life, if he could have had a girlfriend. While he meets his younger brother in the street, who introduces him to his fiancée, panic takes hold of the sidewalk when an imbalance armed with a knife rushes through the crowd.

Satoru is fatally injured in the back while intervening to protect the couple. As he conducts a brief reflection on himself during his agony, a “voice” listens to him and interprets his “last words”.

2. The Rising of the Shield Hero

Original Run: January 9, 2019 – present
Number of Episodes: 25

Naofumi Iwatani was summoned to a completely different world with three other boys from parallel Japans to become the “Legendary Four Heroes”, or “Four Ancestral Saints”, of this strange new world. Each of the Heroes was equipped with their own legendary equipment as soon as they were summoned to the strange new world: Naofumi received the “Legendary Shield”, the only defensive equipment of the four, while the others respectively received an offensive weapon.

Due to Naofumi’s lack of charisma and experience, he ended up with only one teammate to accompany him, an attractive young woman, while the others received several: unfortunately, on the second day, Naofumi was betrayed, stripped, and falsely accused by said teammate.

Disgraced and persecuted by everyone in the kingdom, from the king to the peasants, Naofumi’s thoughts are now filled with nothing but revenge and hatred. Thus begins his journey in this world where he will have to progress alone.

3. Fate/zero

Original Run: October 1, 2011 – June 23, 2012
Number of Episodes: 25

The story takes place 10 years before the events of Fate/stay night. During the Holy Grail War, seven great mages (Masters) appointed by the Holy Grail will summon seven mythical spirits (Servants) to engage in a fierce battle until only one remains. After three unsuccessful wars, the fight is about to resume for the fourth time, and the mages rush to join Fuyuki, the battlefield, each praying for victory.

Indeed, the Holy Grail will offer the winner the possibility of granting his dearest wish. Among these seven Masters, one of them, Kirei Kotomine, does not seem to show any determination to acquire this Holy Grail, while on the contrary, Kiritsugu Emiya fights with all his might to obtain it. The rivalry between these two men, as well as the course of the various struggles between Masters and Servants, forms the heart of the story.

This story traces the truth of the fourth Holy Grail War which took place 10 years before that of the famous Fate/stay night video game, where it had already been presented in fragments. Light will be shed on the fight that involved Kiritsugu Emiya, Shirō’s adoptive father and hero of this story, Tokiomi Tohsaka, Rin’s father, and the young Kirei Kotomine, the main antagonist.

4. Sword Art Online

Original Run: July 8, 2012 – September 20, 2020
Number of Episodes: 96

The story of Sword Art Online takes place in the year 2022, when a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing video game – VRMMORPG, for its acronym in English (Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) – called “Sword Art Online” has just been released.

There, players can control their avatars just as they would their real bodies through the NerveGear, a virtual reality headset capable of stimulating their five senses through their brains. However, players find that they cannot get out of the game.

5. Gate

Original Run: July 4, 2015 – March 26, 2016
Number of Episodes: 24

Second Lieutenant Itami, taking advantage of a leave to go to a fanzine convention, finds himself in a station in the Ginza district of Tokyo, while at the same time a giant door appears. Many medieval soldiers, dragons and other wondrous creatures come out of this gate and attack everyone they meet for no reason.

While Itami helps civilians flee, the Self-Defense Forces arrive and quickly neutralize these otherworldly enemies, as the military’s modern arsenal is far more effective than the old-fashioned arsenal of these suicidal enemies. . Later, the Japanese government decides to send its military to the other side of the gate to prevent another attack as well as to assess the potential of this special area.

6. Log Horizon

Original Run: October 5, 2013 – March 31, 2021
Number of Episodes: 62

With the release of its twelfth expansion pack, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Elder Tale, has unquestionably become the most played MMORPG in the world with a user base of several million players. However, following the release of its twelfth expansion, Novasphere Pioneers, 30,000 Japanese players and several thousand more around the world logged in at the time of the update found themselves trapped in the game with no ability to log out.

Among these players, Shiroe, an unsociable young adult and his friends Naotsugu and Akatsuki. In order to overcome the obstacles and dangers of this world that has now become their reality, they decide to team up.

7. Re:CREATORS

Original Run: April 8, 2017 – September 16, 2017
Number of Episodes: 22

At the end of 2016, Sōta Mizushino is a young high school student fan of anime and dreaming of writing his own light novel.

Watching the anime adaptation of mecha Vogelchevalier’s light novel for inspiration, the touchscreen tablet he was watching the series on crashes and pulls him into the anime world, where he witnesses a fight between the character from the anime Celejia Upitiria and a mysterious young girl wearing a military uniform.

After his tablet crashes again, Sōta returns to his world but ends up dragging Celejia with him.

8. Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

Original Run: January 11, 2016 – March 28, 2016
Number of Episodes: 12 + OVA

A boy named Haruhiro awakens along with twelve other people in a world called Grimgar. None of them have any memories of their past other than their own name, and in order to survive they decide to join as soldiers of the Alterna border town’s Volunteer Army. Haruhiro is part of the group composed of Yume, Shihoru, Ranta, Moguzo and led by their leader Manato, who slowly begin to progress in order to survive in this new world.

But just when everything is going its best, Manato is shot to death during a mission, and before expiring he asks Haruhiro to be the new leader of the group. Still upset by the loss of his friend, Haruhiro decides to inherit his will and keep his companions alive.

9. KonoSuba

Original Run: January 14, 2016 – March 16, 2017
Number of Episodes: 20 (+ 2 OVA)

After an untimely and embarrassing death, Kazuma Satō, a Japanese hikikomori teenager, meets a goddess named Aqua, who offers him to reincarnate in a parallel world with MMORPG elements, where he can embark on adventure and combat. against monsters.

Although offered a divine item or overpowered ability to use in this new world, Kazuma, following a taunt from Aqua, chooses her to accompany him to Axel’s town, where he quickly finds that the latter’s lack of judgment is of little benefit to him.

10. Fate/stay night

Original Run: January 7, 2006 – June 17, 2006
Number of Episodes: 24

The Holy Grail War features seven Masters battling it out in the city of Fuyuki in Japan. Using their magical powers and their previously summoned Servants, the last of them will be able to appropriate the Grail and make their dearest wish come true. FATE is the first accessible scenario, but also the most popular.

The story revolves around Shirō and his Servant, Saber. Here, the hero will believe in his ideals until the end, even if he has to deny reality. The popular view sees Shirō, in this scenario, as a child. The first 2006 anime series by Studio Deen is based primarily on this storyline, although it also picks up some minor elements from the other two.

Datto Nishiwaki’s manga is also a mix between this scenario and Unlimited Blade Works. Unlimited Blade Works is only unlocked after finishing the FATE scenario, preventing Saber from attacking Archer. One can also access this scenario by refusing to cooperate with Rin in FATE, but this inevitably leads to a Bad End. The story focuses on Rin, Shirō, and Archer. The past of the latter, of which we knew nothing in the first scenario, is here considerably developed.

Shirō learns to master his abilities and even manages to defeat several Servants. In this scenario, Shirō becomes much less naive but still wants to follow his ideals: purists see in him the vision of a teenager, halfway between adulthood and childhood.

11. The Familial of Zero

Original Run: July 3, 2006 – March 24, 2012
Number of Episodes: 49 (+ OVA)

In the world of Halkeginia, all nobles are born with a gift that allows them to use magic. However, the young Louise Françoise Le Blanc de la Vallière, a student at the Magic Academy of the Kingdom of Tristain, presents such disastrous results in her various attempts that her comrades doubt her powers, hence her nickname of “Louise the Zero”.

Being in her second year, she wishes to take advantage of the familiar ceremony to prove to everyone that she has powers, a ceremony which consists of the summoning of a being who will accompany her mage until the end of her days.

12. Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia

Original Run: October 5, 2019 – March 21, 2020
Number of Episodes: 21 (+ 1 Special)

In 2016, the foundations of humanity were cremated by the Magi King Solomon. Chaldea, a secret organization of mages with a mission to preserve the future of humanity, predicted the extinction of humanity for 2019. Thus began the operation to repair the Oddities of History caused by the Holy Grails scattered in time and space – the Grand Order initiative.

Using time travel technology, the Rayshift, the last Master of Chaldea, Ritsuka Fujimaru, and his half-servant Mash Kyrielight traveled and resolved six Singularities. Upon their return from the Camelot Singularity, they must travel to their most dangerous destination yet: Mesopotamia, in the year 2655 BC. J.-C., during the Age of the gods.

Upon arrival, Ritsuka and Mash quickly discover that demonic beasts are prowling the area, attacking people and towns. Amid the chaos and terror lies humanity’s last defense: Uruk, a fortress city that serves as the frontline for the battle against the beasts. The battlefront is commanded by none other than King Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, who enlisted the help of heroic spirits and took on the role of a mage to protect his city.

They learn that three deities are behind these beast invasions. Ritsuka and Mash must work together to counter the invasion of mysterious beasts in Uruk under Gilgamesh’s orders while investigating the true nature of the three goddesses’ actions against humanity; but without Ritsuka knowing, an ancient entity slowly rises from its slumber.

13. No Game No Life

Original Run: April 9, 2014 – June 25, 2014
Number of Episodes: 12

Sora and Shiro are inseparable brother and sister, both in reality and in video games (they are not actually brother and sister but see each other as such). As a team, their individual skills make them invincible: Sora has a shrewd intuition, great culture, very high intelligence, and unwavering insight, while Shiro possesses an intelligence beyond genius.

In the real world, they are reclusive, antisocial, and hikikomori. In the video game world, they play together as 『 』 (white), a mysterious group of online gamers unaware of defeat, finishing first in every game they participate in. Because character account names are always empty space, they are known as “White”.

14. Grimoire of Zero

Original Run: April 10, 2017 – June 26, 2017
Number of Episodes: 12

In the year 526 of the liturgical calendar, witches and their sorcery are infamous throughout the country, although knowledge of the existence of magic remains complicated. A half-beast, half-man mercenary, his race despised by the population, dreams day and night of becoming human. His fateful encounter one day with a witch named Zero however, makes his dreams come true.

She offers to transform him into a human if he escorts her as his bodyguard for his search for a magic book, because possessed in the wrong hands, this powerful knowledge could cause havoc or even the end of the world. The two begin their journey with this agreement binding them together, with the mercenary serving as a protector for Zero despite despising witches.

15. WorldEnd

Original Run: April 11, 2017 – June 27, 2017
Number of Episodes: 12

It has been more than 500 years since the human population died out in the face of fearsome and mysterious “Beasts”. Today, surviving species build their homes and cities on floating islands in the sky to stay out of reach of all but the most mobile Beasts. Only a large group of children, dubbed “Leprechauns”, can wield the “Ancient Weapons”, called “Chimes”, which are needed to repel the invasions of these dangerous creatures.

In the unstable and ephemeral life of these beings, where a simple call for certain death can happen at any moment, an unlikely character enters the scene: a mysterious man who lost everything in his final battle five hundred years ago and who had been awakened from a long, cold sleep. Unable to fight anymore, Willem becomes the father these children never had, caring for them and nurturing them as he struggles to come to terms with his new life, in which he experiences the pain of waiting for the return of her loved ones after the battle her “daughter” had already felt long ago.

Together, Willem and the young girls will gradually come to understand what family means and what is truly worth protecting in their lives.

16. Fate/Extra Last Encore

Original Run: January 28, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Number of Episodes: 13

Waking up in a strange virtual world with no memories of his past, the main character (Hakuno Kishinami) finds himself forced to fight to survive in a war he does not understand, the price of which is priceless; to have his dearest wish granted. With an enigmatic ‘Servant’ at his side, the protagonist will have to face both friends and foes in life-and-death combat in order to not only gain possession of a mysterious object known as the ‘Holy Grail but also to find the answer to the most important question of all: “Who am I?” “.

17. Princess Connect! Re:Dive

Original Run: April 7, 2020 – present
Number of Episodes: 17

On the continent of Astraea, a man falls from the sky, with no other memory than his name, Yuuki. An elf named Kokkoro finds him, introducing herself as her guide in the world they are about to cross. With Kokkoro’s guidance, Yuuki can learn how this world works, from fighting monsters to handling currency.

To earn money for their trip, Yuuki and Kokkoro decide to go to a nearby guild association to accept a simple mission. On their expedition, they meet Pecorine, a somewhat gluttonous but charming girl who is an expert in battle.

18. Mushoku Tensei

Original Run: January 11, 2021 – December 20, 2021
Number of Episodes: 23

A 34-year-old Japanese NEET is kicked out of his home following the death of his parents. After some soul-searching, he concludes that his life was ultimately useless. Seeing a truck driving at high speed heading towards a group of teenagers, he decides to intervene to try to achieve at least once something significant in his life, and manages to put one of them out of danger before dying.

Waking up in the body of a baby, he quickly realizes that he has been reincarnated in a world of Heroic fantasy, where an atmosphere of medieval Europe reigns. He then sets out to succeed in his new life, discarding his old identity for that of Rudeus Greyrat, son of the minor nobility. Due to his genetic factor and early training, Rudeus becomes extremely skilled in magic.

During his childhood, he became a student of Roxy Migurdia, a demoness, then befriended Sylphiette, an elf. He later serves as a teacher for Eris Boreas Greyrat, his cousin. When a magical cataclysm teleports them far from home, Rudeus decides to escort Eris home. During his journey, Rudeus receives advice from the mysterious Hitogami and becomes friends with Ruijerd Speldia, whose honor he will aim to restore.

19. Fate/Apocrypha

Original Run: July 2, 2017 – December 30, 2017
Number of Episodes: 25

The story takes place in a world parallel to the original Fate/stay night, where the House of Einzbern have summoned Ruler rather than Avenger in the Third Holy Grail War, and the Holy Grail has been removed from the city Fuyuki to send him to Romania after the war. Thus, the events of Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night never happened. The story focuses on the conflict between the two opposing factions, the Reds and the Blacks, each calling on seven Servants and the Grail itself calling on a special Ruler-class servant to mediate the Holy War.

Members of the Red faction are mages sent by the Clock Tower Mages Association, while members of the Black faction are part of a Romanian family of mages, the Yggdmillennia. And so, the curtain rises on the advent of a new era for the Holy Grail War, with its changed system; a great war on an unprecedented scale is about to break out.

20. Overlord

Original Run: July 7, 2015 – present
Number of Episodes: 39 (+ 1 OVA and 34 ONA)

The story begins in Yggdrasil, a very successful online virtual role-playing game, which is about to close for good after 12 years of existence. The main protagonist, Momonga nevertheless finds it difficult to accept it, he has no family, no friends, no girlfriend, and no longer finds meaning in living in “reality”.

He is the leader of one of the 10 best guilds in the game, the Ainz Ooal Gown guild, composed exclusively of “non-human” characters, and whose headquarters is the “Great Tomb of Nazarick”.

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