Humanity’s tenuous relationship with the demons saw their continent divided in two. While peace remained for years, suddenly the Demon King launches on all-out attack on the other kingdoms. One by one, nations fell to his might until—at great cost—the hero Kyle Leonard and his companions sacrificed themselves to defeat him and end the war.
However, during that final deadly mission, Kyle, on the brink of death, finds a mysterious gem that transports him back to his youth before the war has even started. With the memory of losing everything he wanted to protect, he starts off to become even stronger to defeat the Demon King and save his loved ones.
Let’s do the time warp again—this time with less dead friends along the way. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like New Saga, head on down below.
Anime Like New Saga
For Fans of Getting a Redo

A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special
After a devastating ten-year war with the shadow world event called shadow labyrinth, the heroes of humanity, including Desir Arman, one of the last mages standing, face off against their final foe. While they defeat it, a self-destruct spell sees them wiped out as well.
Just as the end consumes him, Desir wakes up back in the early days of his study at Hebrion Academy. Realizing he now has a second chance at what will be a brutal future, Desir is determined to save not just himself, but all the friends he had lost along the way in the past.
Can his knowledge and power cultivated from the future help steer the course, or is calamity doomed to repeat itself?
Similarities Between New Saga and A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special
- Regressor stories about the main character defeating the great evil at a high cost, then ending up back at his youth where he has a chance to do it better.
- Trying to change the future and reacting to the new future you created is the plot.
- The main character kept his old power level from the past, and now has to sometimes hide how overpowered he actually is
- Romance presented as an old fling that died tragically
- Diverse companions that are not just all women.
Differences Between New Saga and A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special
- A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special has a singular love interest
- The main character’s companions in A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special start off as super-weak students.
- A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special is more of a “magic school” affair as they are training for the grim future to come.

Ragna Crimson
Humans live in constant fear of dragon attack, the species that really rules the world with overwhelming power. To keep human populations safe, a number of hunters track and kill dragons as their job. Ragna was one such dragon hunter, though as weak as he is, he is often carried by the prodigal talent of his companion, Leonica.
One day, Ragna gains an influx of power that came from his fallen future self. He learns that after Leonica’s brutal death in the future, Ragna’s future self labored for years hunting dragons in revenge, losing comrade after comrade and building his strength ever higher.
While his new body struggles to hold all the power he gained, his future self tells him that the key to finally killing all dragons, including the Dragon God, lies in him finding Crimson, a Dragon Lord who also seeks to end their entire species.
Similarities Between New Saga and Ragna Crimson
- Regressor stories about the main character defeating the great evil at a high cost, then ending up back at his youth where he has a chance to do it better.
- Trying to change the future and reacting to the new future you created is the plot.
- The main character kept his old power level from the past.
Differences Between New Saga and Ragna Crimson
- The future in New Saga was a brutal one, but the series isn’t actually that dark. Ragna Crimson, by comparison, is dark, brutal, and bleak throughout. It is very much a dark fantasy series.
- Ragna Crimson plays in shades of morally gray. Any heroism will be tainted.
- Ragna Crimson is more compact and non-traditional with any companions for the main character.
- The main character in Ragna Crimson has trouble housing his immense power, and as such, he cannot use all of it immediately.

Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
During a great war where five rival races battled for supremacy, humanity emerged victorious thanks to the hero, Sid. However, during a time of unprecedented peace after the war, the world got re-written right before the eyes of Kai Vento.
Kai’s peaceful world is upended and he is thrown into a new reality where the hero Sid never existed and humans are on the brink of extinction.
After encountering a mysterious girl named Rinne, Kai helps the remnants of humanity rise up with Sid’s powerful sword to defeat the enemy races that now dominate the world.
Similarities Between New Saga and Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
- Demons toppled the nations of man, but humanity struggled to fight back to the very end
- Regressor stories about the main character defeating the great evil at a high cost, then ending up back at his youth where he has a chance to do it better.
- Trying to change the future and reacting to the new future you created is the plot.
- The main character kept his old power level from the past, and gains some new tricks
- The main character connects romantically with old flames in new ways
Differences Between New Saga and Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
- With its many female companions, Why Does Nobody Remember Me In This World is more harem-adjacent.
- Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World is distinctly more sci-fi with its plot.
- Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World is a regressor series, but there is also something clearly odd happening in the world that the main character is trying to unravel, which will serve as the cause for why he regressed.
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For Fans of Heroic Journeys

The New Gate
The New Gate is an VRMMO where thousands of players became trapped inside the game and risked real death if they died in the game. Thanks to veteran player Shin who defeated the final boss, the player base is finally able to log out of the game.
However, after waiting for everyone to log out safely, Shin finds himself engulfed by a mysterious light. When he comes to, he is still in the game world, but 500 years have passed.
Similarities Between New Saga and The New Gate
- The main character is back in a familiar world, and trying to figure what is happening, what has changed, and what remains the same.
- The main character connects with past loves and starts a present relationship.
- Old companions join him on his adventure.
Differences Between New Saga and The New Gate
- The New Gate is a “trapped in a video game” sort of affair, but with the added layer of him beating the game, thinking he escaped, and ending up back in again where things are a bit different.
- Lacking the token bro, The New Gate is more harem-adjacent with the main character and his beautiful female companions.
- New Saga has a clear goal for the plot, at least at first, while The New Gate is about figuring out what he needs to be doing and what is going on.

The Faraway Paladin
Born into a new world, Will awakens as a baby that has been taken in by three undead guardians of a long-dead city.
As he is raised, he is taught magic and swordsmanship, but also learns of the world that surrounds him. A world that was once ravaged by a powerful warrior that the three undead guardians only just managed to seal away.
As they are bound to that city, they can’t say for sure what became of the world or humanity after their death and undeath, but they prepare young Will for when he will eventually have to venture out into the world.
Similarities Between New Saga and The Faraway Paladin
- The main character sets off on a journey
- Traveling from place to place and dealing with various events is the plot
- Robust traveling companions that are not useless and have stories of their own
- Diverse array of companions and not just all women
Differences Between New Saga and The Faraway Paladin
- New Saga baits its romance far more frequently while The Faraway Paladin gives it a vague, infrequent nod.
- The Faraway Paladin has far less women
- The Faraway Paladin is more about wandering into problems and fixing them rather than knowing the future like in New Saga.
For Fans of Standing Against The Demon King

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Ken Usato is an average high school student, but one day while walking home with the high-achieving president and vice president of the student council, he is summoned along with them to another world.
It seems that the king of that world meant to summon his two classmates as heroes and Usato got summoned by just being close to them at the time. Accepting that he is now stuck there, he has his abilities accessed along with his new friends. He discovers that he has the rare ability to heal others – which makes him the immediate target for training by the fiercesome leader of the Rescue Corps, Rose.
Dragging her new candidate to their headquarters, Usato’s brutal training begins!
Similarities Between New Saga and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- The demons are coming, and the main character and his companions must deal with it
- Training, and adventuring with purpose that can be treated as training
- A diverse group of friends and companions that aren’t just a harem (but yeah, there be some romance set up, too)
Differences Between New Saga and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is an isekai, so the main character has aptitude, but needs training to gain skill.
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic spends longer on the training aspect and only really gets serious about the encroaching demon army near the end.
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is about a healer… but a very overpowered one.

Tales of Wedding Rings
Ever since they met mysteriously as children, Satou has has a crush on his childhood friend and neighbor, Hime. After mysteriously appearing with her grandfather 10 years ago, he learns that Hime is moving away.
Mustering up all of his nerve to confess his feelings before she leaves, he discovers that “moving away” means going back to the fantasy world she came from in the first place to get married to a fiancee she never met.
Not giving it a second thought, Satou follows her through the portal, confesses his feelings, and marries her instead of the fiancee that her kingdom chose for her.
Now, not only does Satou have a beautiful new wife, but he discoveres that she is the bearer of one of five powerful rings that the Ring King will don to fight the Abyss King that threatens the world. However, the new Ring King Satou must now obtain these rings by marrying four other women.
Similarities Between New Saga and Tales of Wedding Rings
- The main character is destined to fight the evil demon king that threatens the world
- He travels with his companions to various places of importance to quell threats along the way.
- Multiple women with romantic feelings for the main character
Differences Between New Saga and Tales of Wedding Rings
- Tales of Wedding Rings is an isekai, and the main character is actually pretty weak and slow to get stronger, relying more on his battle waifus.
- Tales of Wedding Rings, as they all become his wives, is a harem, and an extremely ecchi horny one.
- Tales of Wedding Rings has a more straight-forward progressing action plot. Expect no surprises and lots of horniness instead.
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