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.
While a unique twist on the very popular “adventuring party in a fantasy world” set up, Ningen Fushin doesn’t do anything too crazy outside its initial twist. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World, head on down below.
Anime Like Ningen Fushin
For Fans of Misfit Adventuring Parties
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
Thrown into a fantasy land with no memories of their previous life, the strong among this new group of people bind together, while the weak are left to fend for themselves.
Grimgar tells the tale of the struggles of the weak as they pick up combat skills and fight the creatures of the world in order to earn a living.
Both Grimgar and Ningen Fushin follow the unwanted adventurers. In Grimgar, they were shunned due to their lack of abilities, physical weakness, or difficult attitudes while in Ningen Fushin, they were all sorts of betrayed. Essentially, Grimgar has adventurers with limited self confidence while Ningen Fushin has adventurers with a lack of trust.
Regardless, both series follow these unwanted individuals as they start their own team. They also have a similar progression of having trouble working together at first, then slowly becoming quite the powerhouse.
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
In the fantasy city of Orario, there is a massive labyrinth underneath it. For brave adventurers, glory and fortune can be found within. In order to tackle the challenging monsters inside, adventures join guilds of strong gods and goddesses.
However, for newbie adventurer Bell Cranel, no good guild will have him, except for Hestia, a goddess with no followers. Together they team up to grow strong and find glory.
In Ningen Funshin and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, they both follow the characters that nobody else wanted. They were weak, or weird, or useless, so they all started working together. And by the gods, they became the strongest heroes who would rock the world with their escapades.
Both series essentially have that basic fantasyvadventure outline that sets up for a long anime full of action. However, while Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon indeed has many seasons, who knows if Ningen Fushin will make it past season one.
Konosuba
On his way back from buying a new game, Kazuma Satou died a pathetic death.
However, he awakens before the Goddess Aqua who gives him two choices: go to heaven or reincarnate into an actual fantasy world. Naturally, the gamer picks the fantasy world.
Now, Kazuma must deal with defeating an evil demon king, useless party members, and paying living expenses.
Both Konosuba and Ningen Fushin are built upon the basic premise of “what if your adventuring party was strong, but also wildly flawed?” That is essentially what you get in both anime series, but they approach it differently.
In Ningen Fushin, the adventurers are all actually pretty skilled, but the betrayals in their life have made them difficult people to work with. In Konosuba, the adventurers are often powerful in one very specific way, but wildly flawed in every other respect, making them difficult to work with.
The only way any of them can thrive in either anime is if they work together as a group whose large amount of dysfunction adds up to being a fully functional party.
For Fans of Past Betrayals, Present Trust Issues
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The stories tell of four heroes summoned from another world – the sword, spear, bow, and shield heroes who will prevent calamity. With darkness bearing down on them, the Kingdom of Melromarc summons these heroes from modern day Japan.
For otaku Naofumi Iwatani, unfortunately he is labeled the shield hero, the weakest of the group. Worse yet, betrayal sees him labeled as a criminal and outcasted.
With hatred and vengeance consuming him, he sets forth to grow strong.
Both Ningen Fushin and The Rising of the Shield Hero are about adventurers who were excited for their life right up until the wild betrayal that shaped them into the jaded character with trust issues that they soon become.
Unlike Ningen Fushin, which kind of just vomits the four backstories up to you in the beginning, The Rising of the Shield Hero lets you experience the betrayal with the character as it is happening, giving it a bit more sting and really encouraging you to root for the main character’s vengeance.
Regardless, both series follow these main characters who end up in new groups that start to rehabilitate them, but those trust issues never fully go away.
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.
I bet if Leo asked, he could join the Survivors.
Like the adventurers in Ningen Fushion, I’m Quitting Heroing follows a guy so strong that he ends up being betrayed and shunned by the people he just saved. Instead of getting a strange hobby to cope with that, he goes and joins the Demon King’s army.
Both series explore the damaged pasts of the characters and the way their present comrades are starting to mend that wound. They also both find a sweet spot in balancing action, levity, and darker character stories compared to other fantasy anime.
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.
Both Ningen Fushin and Banished From the Hero’s Party are about people that have their trust betrayed by their previous adventuring party. However, while Ningen Fushin often has the characters have their life ruined by that, Banished From the Hero’s Party spins it as a pleasant new beginning.
The big difference here is that Ningen Fushin still has them being adventurers. In Banished From the Hero’s Party, Red essentially retires from adventure to try and open up his own shop. This means the anime is often more slice of life-oriented.
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.
While Ningen Fushin has its more light-hearted moments, it is often dedicated to the serious ones. If you don’t mind something a little lighter and with a lot more animal girls, Beast Tamer is a great option.
Both stories follow adventurers who were sort of kicked out or shunned from their previous groups. However, in Beast Tamer, he doesn’t really have too many negative feelings about it since he believes he is weak just as they said. Regardless, both shows quickly move on to these heroes finding new groups that make them a lot happier.
While Ningen Fushin explores the team learning to work together and building trust, Beast Tamer is often more light-hearted as Rein tames a growing harem of animal girls that are nice to him and value his skills. Although, neither show ever forgets to add in doses of satisfying action.
For Fans of Adventuring to Fund a Hobby
Gate – Thus the JSDF Fought There
Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan.
While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.
Do you enjoy that the only reason to be an adventurer for the main characters in Ningen Fushin is for money that they can spend on the things they enjoy? That is the primary motivator in Gate too.
However, while Ningen Fushin brings things back around to the characters and their hobbies throughout the series, Gate only rarely acknowledges it outside introducing it.
Outside of that, both series are interesting fantasy anime following main characters that are likable leaders and leader their quirky party well. However, Gate and the main character’s party is more of a harem since they are all girls who like him.
The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt
With his father ailing and the responsibility for his small poor kingdom falling to him, genius prince Wein is ready to commit treason. He desires to auction off his kingdom and retire in luxury.
However, his treasonous schemes always conclude with dire consequences, for him, anyway. His plans to fail instead constantly succeed and his kingdom begins to flourish.
While Ningen Fushin works up to having the adventuring party become proper heroes, The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt goes the exact opposite way. He starts off trying to sell his kingdom for money, and that remains his motivation throughout.
Like Ningen Fushin has its characters adventure to fund their hobbies, The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt features a prince trying to shirk his duty leading a kingdom by selling it so he can go lead a leisurely life. However, he keeps “failing upwards” and causing his kingdom to thrive under his leadership instead.
While Ningen Fushin has more serious action over time, The Genius Prince’s Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt is distinctly more of a comedy.
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