Ever since he was a child, Noel had wanted to become a powerful seeker like his grandfather Overdeath. He trained his body so he could slay beasts that emerge from the Abysses and explore the world. However, when he had his job appraised, it turns out he was just a Talker, a support class that is considered the absolute bottom tier in terms of combat abilities.
Although encouraged to continue to aim for his goal by his grandfather, Noel didn’t shy away from reality. Accepting that he will never become a great seeker on his own, he decides to start a clan and staff it with powerful individuals no matter what it takes.
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Anime Like The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan
For Fans of The Weakest Class Was Actually Strong
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The stories tell of four heroes summoned from another world – the sword, spear, bow, and shield heroes who will prevent calamity. With darkness bearing down on them, the Kingdom of Melromarc summons these heroes from modern day Japan.
For otaku Naofumi Iwatani, unfortunately he is labeled the shield hero, the weakest of the group. Worse yet, betrayal sees him labeled as a criminal and outcasted.
With hatred and vengeance consuming him, he sets forth to grow strong.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Main character gets a class that most everyone regards as the weakest class
- The main character masters it and is now the most overpowered person in the series
- Morally gray main character stands up to shitty people who inhabit the world
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and The Rising of the Shield Hero
- The Rising of the Shield Hero has a harem while The Most Notorious Talker has a more mixed gender main cast.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero is an isekai, The Most Notorious Talker is a standard darker fantasy.
- The main character in The Rising of The Shield Hero is made cold by betrayal, and remains bitter about it.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero has more frequent, often more grand action
Failure Frame – I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells
Touka Mimori has been summoned to another world alongside his classmates to act as heroes to protect the world.
While many of his classmates were accessed with magnificent abilities, Mimori only havs weak low level poison, paralyze, and sleep skills that are near useless for their low success rate. Being deemed pitiably weak, Vicius, the goddess who summoned the heroes, states that it has been tradition to dispose of weak heroes so as to not taint their legend.
Mimori suddenly finds himself transported to a dangerous dungeon and face-to-face with creatures that want to kill him. In an attempt to survive, he uses his worthless skills only to realize that they work almost every time. Quickly leveling, he escapes the dungeon and vows revenge on the goddess that cast him aside.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Failure Frame
- Main character gets a class/abilities that everyone regards as the weakest
- The main character masters it and is now the most overpowered person in the series
- Morally gray main character and no shortage of scumbags in the world
- Darker brutal fantasy where the main character has no problem killing
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Failure Frame
- Failure Frame has a romance blooming and, while not legally a harem, his entire party is exclusively female.
- Failure Frame is an isekai, not a standard darker fantasy like The World’s Most Notorious Talker
- Failure Frame’s entire plot is revenge-driven, though he often gets side-tracked by the problem’s of others. The Most Notorious Talker doesn’t have a particularly strong driving narrative other than adventuring and recruiting.
Berserk of Gluttony
In this world where everyone is born with a special skill, the useful skills find respect in society. Those with particularly good skills are often elevated into noble families and rise through the ranks of the Holy Knights that protect the people.
However, for people like Fate Graphite whose Gluttony skill just means he is always hungry, he struggles through each day just to stay fed.
However, one day Fate discovers the true nature of Gluttony. His skill awakens and allows him to absorb the stats and skills of everything he kills. However, the more he devours, the more he must devour or risk losing himself in a berserk starving state.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Berserk of Gluttony
- Main character has what is considered a weak innate class he was born with
- They turn their weak class into a strength, quickly becoming a badass
- Brutal dark fantasy worlds rife with suffering and death
- Plots that are often just the main character getting involved in other people’s problems
- No harem, just occasional girls shuffling in and out of the main character’s life
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Berserk of Gluttony
- Berserk of Gluttony features the main character discovering the true nature of his weak power, which also comes with a huge downside to it. Noel simply mastered being a Talker and uses it in unique ways.
- The main character in Berserk of Gluttony is a nicer guy, though still kills.
- Berserk of Gluttony baits at least one potential romance pretty hard.
The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids – A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero’s Party
Rud is the tank for the hero’s party. However, on their labyrinth raids, despite having the highest defense known to man, one of his unknown skills keeps seemingly putting the party at a detriment.
After being kicked out by the hero, Rud is still determined to raid the labyrinth in order to find a wish-granting treasure said to dwell there for his sickly sister. However, he decides to return to visit his sister in his hometown. On his way home, he saves a rare homunculus that has the ability to appraise and identity skills.
Thanks to her help, Rud discovers that he not only has the highest defense, but has several previously unknown skills that, when used properly, would allow him to be indomitable.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- Main character is told he is weak, but discovers how to fully utilize the abilities of his class so that he is now overpowered
- Both The World Most Notorious Talker and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids are about starting and managing a clan.
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raid has a harem
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raid takes place in a more pleasant, less dark fantasy sort of fantasy world.
- The main character in The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raid is a tank who just didn’t know how to use his own innate abilities. His class is not considered weak or support like a Talker is.
- Even the most dramatic moments of The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids are far lighter and more cheerful than The Most Notorious Talker’s nicest moments. The main character is a nice guy and it keeps the tone much lighter.
For Fans of Merciless, Tactical Main Characters
Saga of Tanya the Evil
Once one of Japan’s most shrewd salarymen, after being pushed in front of a train to his death by a scorned ex-employee, a man is reborn as an adorable orphan girl after pissing off a mysterious being that calls himself God.
While the female form and affinity for magic are not a punishment, being born in a world in the midst of a brutal World War is. Now, Tanya uses her calculating mind from her past life and magnificent magical abilities to spread terror on the front lines of the war, becoming one of the most dangerous people in the imperial army.
This is all in effort to earn a promotion that will see her safely back to a life of comfort on the back lines, showing up the God that put her in this world for humbling.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Saga of Tanya the Evil
- Dark fantasy world full of suffering and death
- Morally gray main character uses their mind and what powers that do have to win
- Main character fights with a magical gun.
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Saga of Tanya the Evil
- Saga of Tanya The Evil takes place in a magic-laced WWI/WWII-themed world.
- Saga of Tanya The Evil is an isekai where a cold-hearted salaryman is reincarnated into the body of a cute little girl so he can suffer the horrors of war, all as a punishment by god.
- Many characters in The Most Notorious Talker are morally ambiguous. In Saga of Tanya The Evil, really only the main character is morally gray.
- Saga of Tanya The Evil has a more clear plot progression, since it is just about fighting a war and going where the military tells you.
Black Summoner
After an accident, a man is killed and the Goddess of Reincarnation is tasked with reincarnating him. In this afterlife, he charms the goddess, gaining the rare class of summoner, and the ability to contract her as a summon in exchange for memories of his past life.
Now thrust into a fantasy world as Kelvin, he hides his ultra-rare class to maintain his freedom in order to go on grand adventures and form pacts with powerful foes.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Black Summoner
- Cunning main characters that aren’t always noble heroes
- There is a party-building/clan-building focus to the plot.
- Darker, grittier fantasy worlds
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Black Summoner
- Black Summoner is an isekai
- The main character in Black Summoner is hiding his class, which is a summoner, not because it is weak, but because it is rare and he doesn’t want to be overloaded with work.
- Black Summoner is essentially just the main character walking around, fighting things, and turning them into summons he can call on.
- Black Summoner, while not strictly a harem or a romance, does frequently have light elements of both.
The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
The greatest assassin on Earth lived only to be a tool by those that wished to wield his mastery. That is, until they decided that he was no longer needed and ended his life.
By the grace of a goddess, this masterful man was reincarnated into a new world where he is asked to kill a hero that will later bring about the end of that world.
Deciding to finally live for himself, this man, now named Lugh Tuatha De, puts his skills as a killer to the test with foes who wield real magic.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World
- Morally ambiguous main characters and a darker world than the standard fantasy action anime
- Main characters that aren’t necessarily physically powerful, but they wield strategy and cunning as a more powerful weapon
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World
- The World’s Finest Assassin is an isekai anime where an old assassin is reincarnated with his mind still intact into a fantasy world in the body of a boy who, conveniently, is the son of noble family that serve as assassins to the crown.
- The main character in The World’s Finest Assassin is actually a very strong fighter, he just also isn’t only overpowering people.
- The World’s Finest Assassin features a harem.
Solo Leveling
When gates mysteriously started appearing throughout the world, they connected the real world to a fantasy land full of dangerous beasts. At the same moment, some humans developed superhuman abilities and are the only ones capable of entering these gates. This gave rise to the age of Hunters, those who can enter gates and combat the beasts within in return for wealth.
Jin-Woo is one such Hunter. However, a Hunter’s skill rank is fixed from their awakening, meaning as an E-rank, he is known as the “World’s Weakest” among Hunters. After what should have been a manageable dungeon goes horribly wrong, Jin-Woo stays behind as a voluntary sacrifice, but at the moment of his death, he is given a chance to enroll in The System, a mysterious occurrence that gives him a Quest Log and the ability to level up.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Solo Leveling
- Main characters that are know as weak, but are actually strong
- They are cold and cunning, or at least become that way.
- The main characters utilize their abilities in interesting ways
- Gritty darker fantasy worlds
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Solo Leveling
- Solo Leveling is set in our modern world, but portals to fantasy dungeons appear and humanity started manifesting fantasy combat abilities to deal with them
- The main character in Solo Leveling was an adventurer well known for being weak. So he goes from weak to strong in the story.
- The main character in Solo Leveling is nice until a series of betrayals makes him less trusting
For Fans of Clan Management
Let This Grieving Soul Retire
With treasure vaults hidden all over the world, those in search of glory, fame, and riches came together in clans to brave the dangers as treasure hunters.
For a group of childhood friends, they made a promise to become treasure hunters together, and did!
However, it quickly became apparent to Krai Andrey that while his friends possessed innate skills for treasure-hunting, he couldn’t keep up. Asking to drop out of the group, his friends instead placed him in charge of clan leadership, which has grown into the most famous and powerful treasure-hunting clan of all.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Let This Grieving Soul Retire
- Allegedly weak main characters start and/or runs a clan
- Main characters can handle problems with their weapons, but often choose to support their other clan members to do it instead.
- Their day-to-day is dealing with issues that affect their clan, which often means going to places and handling a problem.
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Let This Grieving Soul Retire
- Let This Grieving Soul Retire is more light-hearted and not as much of a gritty dark fantasy
- While the clan in Let This Grieving Soul Retire is fairly mixed gender, there are is a fair bit of harem baiting.
- The main character in Let This Grieving Soul Retire is actually weak with almost no innate abilities, getting his power from relics. Noel does have abilities he can wield.
- Let This Grieving Soul Retire is full-on leading an established clan from episode one, The Most Notorious Talker is very much the process of starting a clan.
Log Horizon
Thirty thousand Japanese players of the popular Elder Tale game all log in to explore the new update of their game, only to discover they are unable to log out.
The story focuses on the socially awkward college student Shiroe, a master strategist in-game, and his friends as they try to navigate their new reality.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Log Horizon
- Main character starts and manages a clan
- Tactical-minded main character who isn’t afraid of making difficult choices
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Log Horizon
- Log Horizon is a “trapped in a VRMMO” isekai
- The main character in Log Horizon is a strategist, but not as cold as Noel. Furthermore, as a mage, his class is innately stronger and more desired than a Talker.
- Log Horizon is not a dark fantasy world. It is lighter, though has a more complex narrative to it. This does mean it can be dense on dialogue and not as dense on action at times, though.
Overlord
As the final hour approaches in the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off.
However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities.
Similarities Between The Most Notorious Talker and Overlord
- Main character starts and manages a clan
- The main character and many in his clan are morally gray
- They grow their clan power through violence and cunning.
- Darker fantasy world
Differences Between The Most Notorious Talker and Overlord
- Overlord is a “trapped in a VRMMO” isekai
- The main character in Overlord is overpowered, and famous for being overpowered. No weak Talker class for this lich.
- Overlord becomes more about conquest and politics as it goes on, since his clan was already established when the series starts.
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