Beryl Gardinant is a sword instructor for a dojo in a backwater village. While he dreamed of becoming a master swordsman in his youth, he has long since settled into teaching the next generation.
One day, one of his many famous former students comes to visit him and tell him that he’s been chosen to become a special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order. Pushed out of his dojo by his father who wants him to go to the city and find a wife, Beryl accepts.
While in the city, Beryl reunites with a number of his former students as he finds himself increasingly involved with intrigue building in the kingdom.
A lot of suspiciously female ex-students with feelings in this one. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman, head on down below.
Anime Like From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
For Fans of Big Middle-Aged Dad Energy Main Characters
My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer
After losing his leg, Belgrieve retired from being an adventurer and returned to his hometown in the country. One day while collecting herbs in the mountains, he stumbles upon a crying abandoned baby girl.
Taking her home, Belgrieve raised the child he named Angeline as his own. However, with a talent for swordplay, he sends his daughter off for further training at the Adventurer’s Guild in the capital.
After five years, Angeline has become an S-Class adventurer and guild work keeps her endlessly busy. Unfortunately, all she wants to do is take an extended vacation to finally go home and see her father again.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and My Daughter Left The Nest
- Middle-aged male main character with off the charts dad energy despite not being a biological father
- A man lives in the middle of the country, living his life before a woman comes and things start happening that forces him out of it
- The people that the male main character taught to fight are incredible at it. Allegedly better than him, but he never loses a fight either.
- Many women romantically interested in the male main character and him not actively pursuing them as he follows whatever plot or intrigue that is happening at the time.
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and My Daughter Left The Nest
- My Daughter Left the Nest is about a retired adventurer that raised a baby he found in the woods, and that baby grew up to be incredibly strong, famous, and overly attached to her father.
- My Daughter Left the Nest features a diverse array of women of various ages that are in love with the main character, they are not all just his old students like in Country Bumpkin.
- My Daughter Left the Nest features a male main character that is slowly becoming an adventurer again despite physical disability and some mental trauma over his injuries. It has more occasional melancholy, though still pretty much matches the tone of Country Bumpkin.
Headhunted to Another World – From Salaryman to Big Four
Dennosuke Uchimura was a normal salaryman until he was summoned to another world by a powerful Demon Lord. There, he is offered a new job as one of the Heavenly Kings, the high ranking generals of the demon army.
With no indomitable might or magic, Uchimura uses the office worker skills that he spent his whole career honing to serve the demon army’s interests.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Headhunted to Another World
- Middle-aged male main character with big dad energy
- So many younger, wildly overpowered women that get attached to the main character but with a pretty clear main girl
- The male main character is sometimes dense to their affections, and sometimes not.
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Headhunted to Another World
- Headhunted to Another World is an isekai.
- Headhunted to Another World features the main character serving the—surprisingly not very evil—demon lord as a general.
- The main character in Headhunted to Another World is not powerful at all. He’s just a good negotiator and listener.
- Headhunted to Another World features the male main character helping various women, and them loving him for it. So they are not already acquainted with him like they are in Country Bumpkin.
Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
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.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Chillin’ in My 30s After Getting Fired From The Demon King’s Army
- Middle-aged male main character with big dad energy
- The main character discovers that he actually might be pretty strong
- At least one woman who loves him
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Chillin’ in My 30s After Getting Fired From The Demon King’s Army
- Chillin’ in My 30s is about a man fired from the Demon Army moving to the country, so it is a bit of a reverse from Country Bumpkin.
- While the main character in Chillin’ in My 30s has several women with maybe an interest, it is definitely a singular romance with progression.
- Chillin’ in My 30s has a plot that is often just trying to forge peace between humans and demons. It doesn’t have the same level of unfolding intrigue as Country Bumpkin.
Sasaki and Peeps
Unfulfilled and lonely by the corporate grind, middle-aged salaryman Sasaki decides to get a pet for some companionship. He settles on a buying a small bird who, much to his surprise, reveals itself to be a reborn sage from another world who still has his memories – and magic – intact.
Transporting Sasaki to his home world and bestowing some of his magic to him, Sasaki hopes to use his magic and the ability to travel back and forth between worlds to start a new life of peace and comfort.
However, after getting involved economically and politically with the fantasy kingdom and his new magic powers attracting the attention of the government in modern Japan, Sasaki escaped his dull corporate life and now faces endless excitement no matter where he goes.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Sasaki and Peeps
- Middle-aged main character with big dad energy
- Middle-aged man sorts outs everyone’s problems as they get pulled into the plot unfolding around them.
- Women come to love him
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and Sasaki and Peeps
- Sasaki and Peeps is an isekai.
- The interested women in Sasaki and Peeps are all sort of loli-leaning, but also the main character doesn’t show a clear romantic interest in any of them either.
- The main character in Sasaki and Peeps is a bit more shrewd and not a pure nice guy like Beryl.
For Fans of Humble, Powerful Older Men That Get All The Girls
I Parry Everything
After his parent’s death, Noor travels from his country home to fulfill his dream of becoming an adventurer. However, after discovering that he is not particularly skilled in any adventuring class, the guild turns him away.
However, he is told that if he practices a single skill enough, he can unlock others. So he practices his most useful skill that he is adept at – parrying. After years, he can eventually parry a thousand swords in a single swing, but he failed to gain any other more useful skills from that training.
Eventually able to start at a special low rank as an adventurer with the guild, Noor and his parry skill end up thwarting an assassination of a princess that leads to him becoming entangled in the country’s political affairs.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and I Parry Everything
- A guy trained so long and obsessively in the country that he became overpowered
- The main character goes to the city where he immediately gets pulled into kingdom intrigue.
- Women love him because he is strong, nice, and helpful.
- The main character thinks they are weak, when they are actually just wildly overpowered.
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and I Parry Everything
- I Parry Everything features a young adult main character rather than a middle-aged man.
- Beryl seems pretty aware of things happening around him, while the main character in I Parry Everything is just being a helpful guy. They are both similarly as dense to romantic affections, though.
The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible
While he once had the childhood dream of becoming an adventurer to defeat fierce dragon Kaiser Alsapiet who terrorizes the world, reality crushed his young dream and weak Rick Gladiatol resigned himself to being a guild receptionist for the Adventurer’s Guild.
However, after meeting a legendary adventuring group called Orichalcum Fist that shares his goal, they offer to train this now-30-something middle-aged man to become an adventurer.
After being brutally trained to death for years, Rick emerges with S-class abilities despite having to start out as an F-ranked rookie adventurer.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and The Ossan Newbie Adventurer
- Middle-aged main character with big dad energy
- The main character trained for years and years until he was overpowered, but still thinks he has a long way to go
- A least one woman interested in him romantically
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and The Ossan Newbie Adventurer
- Ossan Newbie Adventurer isn’t as much a harem-leaning series. It is a singular romance.
- Ossan Newbie Adventurer has a middle-aged man deciding he wants to follow his dream of being an adventurer, then getting brutally trained. So he is more highly motivated and focused on his task than Beryl.
- Ossan Newbie Adventurer doesn’t have as much of an intrigue plot. It is more about proving that he is now strong and on his group’s goal of fighting an incredibly powerful monster.
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Rentt Faima is an adventurer who has been grinding out low-level adventuring jobs for nearly a decade. With little talent for the job, he is stuck in the low adventurer ranks, killing low-rank monsters just to make a living wage.
While doing a job in the Water Moon Dungeon, he discovers a hidden path and decides to explore it. However, at the end of the path is not treasure, but a legendary dragon that swallows him whole!
Waking up awhile later, Rentt discovers that he is very much dead. He has somehow been revived as a skeletal undead. Armed with just his sword, Rentt fights other weak monsters in the dungeon hoping to experience the Existential Evolution that monsters can go through after killing other monsters so that he may someday become a high enough ranked undead to blend back into human society.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- Middle-age male main character that has thus far enjoyed a middling life of few achievements.
- The main character is or becomes overpowered
- Women love him.
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- Unwanted Undead Adventurer features the main character dying, becoming an undead, and dungeoneering so that he can evolve into a more human-passing undead so he can go outside again.
- Unwanted Undead Adventurer is features less women, and does have more of a hint at a singular romance.
- Unwanted Undead Adventurer doesn’t have a strong linear plot. Mostly, it just follows him trying to become a better undead and/or not an undead at all.
I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths
After being mistreated by his party for five years, Yuke Feldio, a red mage, has finally had enough. He leaves his A-Rank party after getting sick of their ridicule and begins his new unemployed life.
That new unemployed life swiftly comes to an end when he meets an adventuring party made up of his former students. Struggling to make their way through dungeons, Yuke agrees to join them so they can delve deeper and ultimately conquer the world’s toughest dungeon.
Similarities Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and I Left My A-Rank Party
- Male main character doesn’t think he’s all that strong, and constantly proves himself otherwise
- His suspiciously all-female past students that he has recently started hanging around with are wildly attached to him.
- Intrigue plot that is unfolding throughout the series
Differences Between From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman and I Left My A-Rank Party
- I Left My A-Rank Party is a “kicked from the adventuring party for being weak, but is actually overpowered” sort of anime.
- I Left My A-Rank Party has the main character’s past students not being overpowered like Country Bumpkin. Instead, they join his adventuring party and he continues teaching them how to thrive.
- I Left My A-Rank Party is far more focused on dungeon crawling than the more politically-motivated Country Bumpkin.
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