After being executed in her past life for her evil deeds, Elise was reincarnated into our modern world as an orphan where she dedicated her life to becoming a master surgeon. However, after being involved in a plane crash, she treats as many people as she can before succumbing to her own injuries.
Suddenly, she finds herself back in the younger years of her previous life where her precious family is still alive and her kingdom has yet to slide into despair and bloodshed like it did after she became empress.
In order to avoid the deaths of her family and her own execution, Elise breaks off her engagement with the prince and decides to become a doctor instead.
Doctor Elise tells a increasingly familiar regressor story with a fun doctor flavor to it. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp, head on down below.
Anime Like Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
For Fans of Avoiding a Future Fate
7th Time Loop – The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
While being reborn after death once is a magnificent chance at a new life, for Rishe Imgard Wertsner, she is on her 7th reincarnation!
After the crown prince breaks their engagement and she is banished from the country, Rishe always explores a new career. From making a living as a traveling trader to healing people with medicine, she has honed a number of skills in her lifetimes. However, every time, she gets caught up in a war five years later and is killed.
One her seventh loop, she has a clandestine meeting with Arnold Hein, the heir-apparent to a neighboring empire and the man that starts the war that kills her every time. Instead of being enemies, her actions as she is going through the start of her new opportunity at life capture his attention and he proposes that she become his wife.
Both Doctor Elise and 7th Time Loop are about women that have lived more than one life, and by retaining their memories from each version, they have become quite skilled.
However, while Doctor Elise has the main character become skilled as a doctor and surgeon, 7th Time Loop makes the main character even more overpowered. She has skills as a merchant, a doctor, an alchemist, a knight, and several more. Each time loop was a new profession.
As both series make their main characters both highly skilled and beautiful, the plots of both series are pretty similar – they use their skills to help people and earn their endless admiration while a dark-haired ambivalent prince falls hard for them.
Tearmoon Empire
As the people rebel against the royal line that lead to famine and suffering, first princess Mia Luna Tearmoon is imprisoned and eventually publicly executed. After her death, Mia wakes up several years prior when she was still just a child.
At first, she thinks it was all just a terrible dream until she finds the blood-spattered diary she kept in her cell next to her. Using the knowledge of the future, Mia seeks to escape her fate by preventing the poor governance and economic strife that is to come. However, tireless efforts are not something this pampered princess is used to or particularly good at.
Doctor Elise and Tearmoon Empire have a similar “otome game villainess, but never saying as much” setting following women who would come to rule a country with tyranny and indifference, only to be executed and given another shot at their life later.
Both series follow a similar plot of the main characters returning to a time before their death and being given a chance to do things differently so they aren’t executed. However, the big difference is that Doctor Elise has the main character return with skills in modern medicine and use that to help people while Tearmoon Empire has the main character selfishly use her knowledge of the future to (selfishly) make things better in order to not die.
Doctor Elise plays the concept rather wholesomely as she heals people, but Tearmoon Empire is more comedic in that everyone mistakes her selfishness as benevolence and wisdom.
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion
After being pushed off a building to her death, office worker Rinko Hanasaki is reborn as Raeliana McMillan, a minor character in a novel she had once read.
While Raeliana is the eldest daughter of a nouveau-rich baron, Rinko knows that her new life isn’t exactly blessed. Having knowledge of Raeliana’s fate in the novel, she knows that her fiancee, Lord Francis Brooks, kills her to kick off the plot of the book for the actual heroine.
Determined not to die, Raeliana makes moves to break her engagement and save her life. This leads her to the mysterious Duke Noah Wynknight, the male love interest in the novel and general manipulator of politics among the nobility. She ends up blackmailing him, threatening to reveal his secrets, if he does not pretend to be her fiancee so she can break things off with Brooks.
However, while this saves her life for now, Raeliana’s relationship with the Duke grows more complicated by the day.
While they have their slight differences, both Doctor Elise and Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion are about women who came from our modern world and also have knowledge of the past and present history of the world they were isekai’d into.
However, while Doctor Elise has her be executed, reincarnated into our world, die again, and go back to her own world before she would be killed, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is about a woman isekai’s into a novel she enjoyed as the character that was murdered in the beginning whose death kicked off the story for the actual main character.
While both series feature the main character sort of endearing themselves to others, they are also carrying out a slow burning romance with a dark-haired, brooding noble that becomes increasingly interested in them.
For Fans of Doctoring in a Fantasy Land
Parallel World Pharmacy
After dedicating himself to creating medicines as a pharmacist, Kani Yakutani works himself to death at the age of 31.
He awakens in the form of a ten-year-old boy that has been struck by lightning. He discovers that he is the son of a prestigious family as well the host to the guardian deity of medicine. This allows him to immediately diagnose illnesses in others.
While this is a miraculous ability, he discovers the state of medicine in this world is primitive and takes up his previous profession from his past life as a pharmacist once again.
Both Doctor Elise and Parallel World Pharmacy are about medical professionals from our world who end up going to a fantasy world that has medical knowledge somewhat below our own.
While Doctor Elise has her bring her modern surgery and medical skills back with her to a world where she lived before, Parallel World Pharmacy, being a more traditional isekai, is about a pharmacist reincarnating into a fantasy world with his pharmaceutical knowledge as well as magic that lets him diagnose people.
While Parallel World Pharmacy has magic, he still needs to craft remedies to treat the actual illnesses, not unlike Doctor Elise which has no magic.
Snow White With The Red Hair
Shirayuki is an herbalist that lives a normal life in the country of Tanbarun. However, when her beautiful red hair is noticed by the Prince Raji, he tries to make her his concubine.
She then decides to cut her hair and flees into the forest. It is there she is rescued by the second Prince of neighboring country, Wistalia, named Zen.
In order to repay her life debt to him, she sets her hopes on becoming the court herbalist in the capital of Clarines.
While Snow White With The Red Hair is less about any actual doctoring, it does feature a likable female main character who has a passion for herbalism. Unlike Doctor Elise, who is already pretty much a master for her craft, an element of Snow White With The Red Hair is about the main character improving her herbalism skills to help people.
However, while Elise moves out of the royal court to work in a hospital, Snow White With The Red Hair is about a common girl that moves into the royal court to serve as an herbalist. However, they both feature a romance between the main character and a prince who admires them.
Monster Girl Doctor
In the town of Lindworm, monsters and humans coexist. Dr. Glenn, a human doctor, runs a clinic for monster girls with his lamia assistant.
While monster girls present some unique challenges, he does his job with grace, confidence, and professionalism.
Both Doctor Elise and Monster Girl Doctor are about doctors who are practicing in a fantasy world. However, while Doctor Elise has her armed with modern medical knowledge, Monster Girl Doctor is, simply put, just about a normal doctor who cares for his monster/beastpeople clients.
Now, while both series are about doctors treating patients in a fantasy land, there is one important distinction. Doctor Elise is a pretty wholesome shoujo romance while Monster Girl Doctor is pretty ecchi. The doctor himself is a perfectly normal, albeit young, guy, but they definitely lewd up the monster girls, which may be off-putting to those who enjoyed Doctor Elise because it was a shoujo romance.
For Fans of Independent Female Leads
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent
Sei, a young office worker, is summoned to a new world. However, the people who summoned her to banish dark magic from the world only meant to summon one person they would call Saint. Instead, they summoned two, and Sei discovers that they actually like the other girl better.
Not really caring about that, she ends up making potions at a research institute using her newfound magic. Unfortunately, while she is unexpectedly talented at her work and happy doing it, she begins to think that she is indeed the Saint.
While The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is more a standard isekai, both it and Doctor Elise follow more mature female leads who eschew things like becoming a hero or being an empress in order to live their life the way they want to.
They follow their various passions, which in The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is using her magic to make potions that help people, and those passions drive the actual plot of the story.
Furthermore, both series also have an element of romance building, but is not central to the plot.
The Apothecary Diaries
Learning to be an apothecary from her father, Maomao honed her skills in the brothels of her town. However, one day she is kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the rear section of the Imperial Palace that houses the emperor’s consorts.
While trying to stay under the radar until her contract was up, Maomao catches the attention of the emperor’s favorite consort when her skills as an apothecary end up saving the life of the consorts’ baby daughter.
This act leads to her being taken on as the consort’s lady-in-waiting and food taster due to Maomao’s prolific knowledge of both medicine and poisons.
While Doctor Elise takes place in a more standard fantasy land, The Apothecary Diaries takes place in a fictional version of Imperial China. Regardless, both series follow female main characters with very specific, and medical, passions.
While Doctor Elise is about her practicing as an actual doctor, The Apothecary Diaries is more about a girl raised by an apothecary who developed an interest in herbs, or more specifically, poisons. However, while she is passionate about poisons, much of The Apothecary Diaries is about the main character using her knowledge to help cure people and solve various mysteries in the Imperial Palace.
Both series are great for those who like female main characters that have interests outside of romance, and let that drive the plot. However, Doctor Elise does have a more clear romance than The Apothecary Diaries, which is mostly ship-baiting with the potential to eventually turn into something way later.
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Motosu Urano loves books. She recently got her librarian certification and was about to enter her dream job when an earthquake caused her to be crushed by her collection of books.
She is reincarnated into a new world as the five year old daughter of a soldier. Unfortunately, in this world, books are reserved for the elite nobility.
What do you do when your station in life does not afford you access to books? Make your own.
While not a medical anime, Ascendance of a Bookworm, like Doctor Elise, has a main character with a very specific passion. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, she enjoyed books in her previous life, and aims to make them more available to everyone in her new isekai fantasy world.
Similar to how Doctor Elise is very focused on the specifics of diagnosing and treating ailments, Ascendance of a Bookworm dives into great detail when it comes to the many different aspects that go into making books.
However, Doctor Elise does have its romance element, and Ascendance of a Bookworm lacks that.
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