Haruka has always been a loner, but his happy life alone is upended when he is abruptly sent to another world with his high school class. Given the chance to allot skill points and pick abilities, Haruka, who was the last to pick, got stuck with a series of skills that no one else wanted.
In the new world, Haruka ends up alone, and prefers it that way. However, when he stumbles upon his classmates struggling to adjust to their new isekai lives, Haruka is constantly pulled away from his loner life to help his classmates on their adventures in another world.
I suppose the fact that he never spends much time alone in this series is the joke, isn’t it? If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Loner Life in Another World, head on down below.
Anime Like Loner Life in Another World
For Fans of Solo Isekai Life
So I’m a Spider, So What?
On one normal day in high school, the lives of many students ended unexpectedly. Some were reincarnated as nobles or strong heroes. Others were reincarnated as wondrous fantasy creatures.
Unfortunately for one girl, she was reincarnated as a lowly cave spider.
No stranger to hardship given her difficult school life, she vows to not give up, and through an RPG system, grows stronger each day.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and So I’m a Spider So What
- Main character isekai’d with their class, but spawned in separate from them.
- Their classmates got all the cool skills, and the main character got terrible ones
- Main character grinds out their power, slowly gaining access to more powerful abilities
- The main character often fights by themselves
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and So I’m a Spider So What
- So I’m a Spider So What features a female main character, who was also isekai’d as a lowly cave spider rather than a human hero/cooler monster like her other classmates.
- So I’m a Spider So What is a lot more focused on the “struggle and growth” aspect of weak to OP isekai stories. The main character is very weak, and each day is a struggle just to survive for her for a long while.
- So I’m a Spider So What doesn’t have the main character interact with her other classmates as much, though they are still just as important to the story as they are in Loner Life.
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 Loner Life in Another World and Black Summoner
- Main character gets to pick their skills for their isekai adventure
- Main character is isekai’d to a new world alone where they learn to use their skills and also would prefer to be by themselves.
- Guild work and wandering into adventure is the plot
- Harem hints in that any female character will likely love the main character and he will pay minimal attention to it.
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and Black Summoner
- Black Summoner allowed the main character to re-roll continuously until he got god-tier abilities, so he isn’t working with terrible skills like Haruka
- The main character in Black Summoner is more shrewd, calculating, and not nearly as innately kind and helpful like Haruka.
- Black Summoner is essentially just wandering to the next powerful thing to fight and turning it into a summon. Loner Life is often more unpredictable with what the main character will wind up pulled into next.
The Fruit of Evolution – Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made
Seiichi Hiragi is a fat loser who has been outcasted and bullied at school. However, one day it was announced by a being claiming to be God that they would all be transported to another world, but had to wait for the summoning to be completed.
The school formed up into groups, but Seiichi was shunned.
This caused him to be transported elsewhere when they went to a new world. Hungry, he ate a fruit that turned out to be the fruit of evolution, propelling his life to new heights.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and The Fruit of Evolution
- Main character is isekai’d with his classmates
- As the main character was an outcast at school, he was isekai’d far away from his classmates with minimal power, but he quickly becomes overpowered.
- Adventures with a more light-hearted tone overall
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and The Fruit of Evolution
- The Fruit of Evolution has the main character eating a fruit that evolves him into the pinnacle of humanity, so he is not making useless skills work like Haruka in Loner Life.
- Haruka in Loner Life is well-liked by his classmates despite being an outcast. The same cannot be said for the main character in The Fruit of Evolution. Mostly he becomes popular with otherworld residents.
- The Fruit of Evolution has a far more blatant harem, and can be ecchi with it for comedy.
- The Fruit of Evolution can be more intense with its comedy to the point where it is far more of a comedy isekai, though it still has moments of action too.
Am I Actually The Strongest?
After he was promised to be reincarnated into a new world with cheat-level powers, a man is reborn a royal baby named Reinhart. Unfortunately, his powers are so OP that they can’t be measured by traditional means.
Not wanting a weak member of the royal family, his parents abandon him in the woods. Luckily, the king’s brother seeks him out and takes him home to raise as his own, along with the demon that pledged her loyalty to him after getting a taste of baby Reinhart’s powerful magics.
With endless power at his disposal, Reinhart makes his way through this dangerous new world of adventure.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and Am I Actually The Strongest
- Isekai anime where the main character would really rather be left alone. He is not left alone.
- Main character thought weak is actually pretty overpowered
- Occasionally aimless plot about solving other people’s problems and getting pulled into things
- Various women are affectionate with the main character in a way he ignores. So harem hints without ever going full harem.
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and Am I Actually The Strongest
- The main character in Am I Actually The Strongest was reborn in his new world, thought a weak baby by his parents, abandoned, and turned out to be super powerful. So he is just overpowered and not utilizing weak skills in powerful ways like Haruka.
- Am I Actually The Strongest eventually manifests a “go to magic school” plot in the later half.
- While Am I Actually The Strongest has a similar light-hearted tone to Loner Life, the main character is pretty casual with just killing people if they threatens his dream to live as a shut-in.
In Another World With My Smartphone
Touya Mochizuki is accidentally killed, and as an apology, God allows him to be reborn into a fantasy world. He also gets one wish.
Touya chooses to use his wish to keep his smartphone that he uses to give him the knowledge to thrive his new world. However, after meeting a pair of other adventurers, he finds that, while his smartphone is handy, his powerful magical affinity makes him one of the strongest mages in the world.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and In Another World With My Smartphone
- Main character isekai’d to another world with what appears to be an initially lame skill (actual useless looking skills, a cell phone)
- They prove to be quickly overpowered
- Aimless plots where the main character often wanders into the next plot point
- Light-hearted tone with occasional serious moments of action
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and In Another World With My Smartphone
- In Another World With My Smartphone has a very clear harem.
- The main character in In Another World With My Smartphone also does have access to legitimately powerful magic too.
For Fans Making Weak Skills Work
A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
Taichi Tanaka is a middle-aged office worker who enjoys playing video games in his free time. Upon the release of a new VRMMO called One More Free Life Online, he decides to give it a try.
In One More Free Life Online, the player is free to do as they like, and for Taichi – now logged in as a player named Earth – he decides to master skills that are deemed to be useless by the player community. However, the skills he picks turn out to be increasingly valuable to not just his character, but others as well.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
- Main character prefers to do his fantasy adventuring alone
- Everyone loves the main character because he helps them
- The main character picks intentionally terrible skills, but makes them work in an increasingly overpowered way.
- Aimless overall plot where the main character often wanders into the next plot point
- Light-hearted tone with occasional more serious moments of action.
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
- A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life is not an isekai, it is really just a guy playing a VRMMO every day after work.
- The main character in A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life is an adult, and acts like it. This means he is a bit more mature and not quite as spastic as Haruka.
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 Loner Life in Another World and Failure Frame
- Main character is isekai’d with his entire class
- His classmates got great skills while the main character has useless ones
- Main character is separated from his class and starts making various allies in the fantasy world.
- Main character quickly learns to use his terrible abilities in an overpowered way.
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and Failure Frame
- Failure Frame has the main character almost murdered because he had the weakest skills. Thus, Failure Frame’s entire plot is a revenge story about going to kill the goddess that tried to kill him.
- Failure Frame is a darker, more brutal series where the main character kills people without a second thought.
- Think of Failure Frame like Loner Life if everyone in his class was an awful person except for the class representative.
Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest
Otaku Hajime Nagumo and several of his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind. However, while his classmates are gifted with great abilities, Hajime only has transmutation skills that have no real offensive use.
He is soon betrayed by a classmate and sent into an abyss filled with monsters. Resolving to not die to the darkness, he struggles to survive and teams up with an imprisoned vampire to return to the world above.
Similarities Between Loner Life in Another World and Arifureta
- Main character isekai’d with their entire class
- The main character has terrible skills compared to his more powerful classmates
- Main character ends up separated from their class
- Aimless adventure story where the main character wanders into different problems to be solved
Differences Between Loner Life in Another World and Arifureta
- As the main character was betrayed in Arifureta, he is very bitter about it. Not just being mean to his classmates, but just being bitter in general as a character.
- Arifureta is a darker, more brutal isekai with a lot less comedy
- There is an obvious harem in Arifureta, though the main character is similarly uninterested in it.
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