Dariel is a dark soldier in the Demon King’s army – or rather, he was. After the son of the previous demon general took over, he swiftly fired Dariel for a lack of power and supposed usefulness.
Set adrift, Dariel rescues a girl from a monster in the woods and she takes him to her village. There, he discovers that he wasn’t actually a demon, but is a human – and an incredibly powerful one.
Now he pays the village back for all their kindness by helping them out.
Lower key fantasy anime like this tends to get drown out by isekai, but it is always nice to see and generally a great laid-back watch. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Chillin’ in My 30s After Getting Fired From The Demon King’s Army, head on down below.
Anime Like Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
For Fans of Shunned By My Old Organization
Banished From The Hero’s Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside
Red was once the member of a hero’s party that sought to destroy the Demon Lord Taraxon. However, while Red was powerful at first, his companions soon eclipsed him, and thus, pushed him out of the party.
Hoping for a more laid-back life, he moves to the country with a dream to start an apothecary. He hopes to keep his past as an adventurer a secret, but that becomes increasingly more difficult when an adventurer named Rit from his past asks to move in with him.
Alongside both anime having just obnoxiously long titles, they also have the same rough general plot in common. Both series follow a rather average guy who doesn’t have magnificent power, but helped out his organization in a million different other crucial ways. Despite that, they were both pushed out by someone who just plain old didn’t like them.
While they find fulfillment and a clingy cute girl in their new lives, their old organization begins to fall to pieces without them.
Chillin’ in My 30’s and Banished From The Hero’s Party really are quite similar in almost every way. It is just that Chillin’ in My 30’s embraced more comedy in its day-to-day antics whereas Banished from the Hero’s Party is just more the standard wholesome slice of life.
Beast Tamer
Rein is a beast tamer and member of the Hero’s Party. However, because beast taming is rather weak magic, he is used as more of a errand boy for them instead.
That all changes when they finally fire him and he is set adrift. Kicked out of the party, he ends up meeting a girl from one of the strongest species of beast people and tames her.
Together, they become magnificent adventurers while the Hero’s Party begins to realize that their previous success was all due to Rein’s support.
Being kicked out of your organization because you were too weak is a hot recent trend in fantasy anime, and both Chillin’ in My 30’s and Beast Tamer take advantage of that.
Both anime feature nice main characters whose skills were considered too weak, so they were pushed out of their organization. They then almost immediately find a more fulfilling life with great new friends and discover they were actually completely overpowered.
Beast Tamer, however, is a harem anime as he collects his powerful animal girl companions. However, it still remains pretty wholesome aside from that.
Ningen Fushin – Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World
Nick, Tiana, Zem, and Curran are all adventurers who have been pushed away, betrayed, and trampled on by their peers.
One night, these four paths cross in a tavern where they air their grievances to each other as well as the hobbies they took up to take the sting out of the way they were treated.
After a long night of drinking, the morning brings with it a bright idea – they should make their own adventuring party!
Together, they agree to team up, with everyone watching the group finances and an agreement to never interfere with each other’s hobbies outside of their jobs. However, for four people who find it hard to trust others, they now have to adjust to working together.
Ningen Fushin is similar to Chillin’ in My 30’s, but with enough differences to be a more unique watching experience than other anime that use the exact same “kicked out of my old group” story line.
Unlike Chillin’ in My 30s where Dariel is okay on his own, Ningen Fushin is about adventurers betrayed by other people, but finding happiness and companionship in their new adventuring group. Dariel isn’t too hurt being kicked out the the Demon King’s army, but Ningen Fushin is made up of emotionally wounded characters. As such, it is often more about rehabilitation through adventures together.
This does mean that Ningen Fushin has less wholesome slice of life moments, but it does feature a lot more action.
I’m Quitting Heroing
After using his immense power to save the world, Leo finds that there is no place for a powerful hero in a world at peace.
Being too strong to remain in human kingdoms, he seeks a job in the Demon King’s Army, which he defeated and is in need of rebuilding.
While the army has many problems, Leo’s power is boundless, but he finds that the demon king has kinder motives for world domination than he expected.
Both I’m Quitting Heroing and Chillin’ in My 30’s are about a certain lack of gratitude for service. However, I’m Quitting Heroing is a bit of a different set up.
While Dariel was kicked out of the Demon King’s army, I’m Quitting Heroing follows the hero that defeated the Demon King. He finds himself feared and shunned by the people he saved, so he decides to go work with the Demon King to rebuild their army.
Despite the differences, both anime series feature these shunned men finding great joy in their new jobs. However, while I’m Quitting Heroing has slice of life moments and comedy, it can also actually hit quite emotionally hard with the back stories. Unlike Chillin’ in My 30’s, I’m Quitting Heroing isn’t always so upbeat.
For Fans of Thriving in My New Life
Farming Life in Another World
After dying of an illness, Machio Hiraku is given the opportunity to reincarnate into another world.
The god grants him a healthy body and his wish to live peacefully. Machio also asks if he can have a talent for agriculture in hopes that he can live a more fulfilling life.
The god grants him all this as well as the ability to summon a farming tool that can turn into any agricultural tool he needs, including one that makes any seeds he can think of.
Machio is sent to the middle of a forest full of dangerous creatures. Without any civilization in sight, he makes his own small farm that slowly accumulates residents that wander the woods.
While Farming Life in Another World is an isekai anime, it isn’t one aimed at combat. In fact, Chillin’ in My 30’s often has more combat than Farming Life in Another World does even if those fights are over quite quickly.
What Farming Life in Another World and Chillin’ in My 30’s have in common is they are about nice young men who are trying to live fulfilling lives when given a new opportunity. They are both wildly overpowered, but often the plot surrounds them trying to solve an administrative or logistical problem in their village.
However, Farming Life in Another World is about the main character starting a farm that turns into a village, so it has a bit more of a development phase.
I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level
Dying from overwork, Azusa Aizawa is allowed to reincarnate into a new world as a witch that will live forever.
Wanting to never be overworked again, she leisurely kills slimes in order to pay for living expenses. However, this meager amount of XP stacks over 300 years of doing it, and she finds herself at max level.
Fearing someone will try to thrust work upon her, she decides to try and hide her strength.
While Chillin’ in My 30’s and I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years feature protagonists of different genders, they tell a similar story.
Both series follow a protagonist that was often used in their previous life, but through one way or another, they find fulfillment in their new life as well as a whole slew of friends.
The big difference between the these two anime series is tone. Chillin’ in my 30’s is more like a a standard fantasy anime but without a dedication to constant battle. Alternatively, I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years is distinctly more like a cute girls doing cute things slice of life anime. If cuteness were a dial, it turned it up and broke the knob off.
Handyman Saitou in Another World
Handyman Saitou has always been a kind of an unremarkable man. He worked a thankless handyman job where the company prioritized profits and clients often dismissed his work as too simple to be worth paying for.
One day, Saitou is transported to a fantasy land where he takes up with a group of adventurers who, despite having some slight dysfunction of their their own, make his skills feel valuable!
Just as Dariel wasn’t valued in the Demon King’s army until after he was gone, neither was Saitou valued as a handyman. However, both anime series tell how these main characters got a new start, and the fulfillment they found there.
While Handyman Saitou in Another World is an isekai anime, the main character isn’t really great at combat. This means much of the series actually exploring how his adventuring party does value his handyman skills as well as them enjoying fun slice of life moments.
For Fans of Wholesome, Light-Hearted Fantasy
Bofuri – I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense
After receiving an invitation from a friend, Kaede Honjou starts playing the VRMMO game New World Online as a character named Maple.
However, in her desire to not get hurt, she puts all her stats in Vitality. This makes her move very slowly, unable to use magic, and get attacked by even the smallest creatures. However, it does allow her impenetrable defense, and the gear she finds while wandering grants her a one-hit counter skill.
And so, her adventures begin.
While Chillin’ in My 30’s and Bofuri are innately different in that Bofuri takes place in a fantasy VRMMO world she can log in and out of, what they have most in common is a certain attitude between their main characters.
Both anime series follow positive and very nice main characters who seems to be surrounded by less nice people. Regardless, they are the overpowered ones in most scenarios, so you get to see them stomp sour people with smiles on their faces.
If you just want a main character that is wholesome, cheerful, and nice, Dariel and Maple have that very much in common.
By the Grace of the Gods
After leading a miserable life, Ryouma Takebayashi passes away at age 39.
Three deities, taking pity on him, reincarnate him into a fantasy world with an aptitude for magic, telling him to enjoy life and that they will always watch out for him.
With his newfound existence, he spends it studying slimes, amassing a slime army, and learning some magic, but he misses humanity. Being persuaded to join a group of travelers, Ryouma’s new world opens up for him.
While By the Grace of the Gods is an isekai anime, both it and Chillin’ in My 30’s share a lot of the same sensibilities. Both main characters are technically overpowered, but neither really wants to be famous adventurers.
What they do instead is mostly find ways to improve the towns that they live in. By the Grace of the Gods has the main character start a laundry business, and he uses all his talents to improving that.
Both series really create likable and good-natured main characters whose adventures aren’t action-packed, but are actually rather relaxing to watch.
Suppose a Kid From The Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town?
In ancient times, those who saved humanity settled outside of the infamous Last Dungeon. Their descendants have all been strong enough to survive in the area by building a community.
Lloyd is one such descendant, but the weakest in the village.
Hoping to grow strong, he heads to the Kingdom of Azami to enroll in their military academy. However, in this starter zone, Lloyd’s powers seem otherworldly to everyone around him.
While Chillin’ in My 30’s has a sort of laid-back plot that it doesn’t take too seriously, Last Dungeon Boonies has its plot built on comedy.
Both series are fantasy anime built on a specific premise. In Chillin’ in My 30’s, that premise is that he was kicked out of the demon army. In Last Dungeon Boonies, its premise is that he traveled from his village to get stronger, but his village was in an advanced level area and he is the strongest person in the starter zone he travels to.
There isn’t much of a serious plot in either show, but they are the sort of just fun fantasy anime that you turn on to relax and have a laugh.
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