After his untimely death, Tomokui Kanata was reincarnated into a fantasy world as a goblin that is given the name Goburou. However, unlike his litter-mates, Goburou still retains the memories from his previous life and quickly realizes that he can gain abilities from the monsters that he defeats and consumes.
In a world where only the strongest survive, Goburou continues to fight powerful new creatures, consume their flesh, and evolve into an increasingly powerful specimen alongside his also-increasingly powerful allies.
Well, when you are a monster, you mind as well act like one – that’s kind of the charm of this otherwise pretty simple isekai. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Re:Monster, head on down below.
Anime Like Re:Monster
For Fans of I’m OP, But So Are All My Friends
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
After a run in with a robber, the 37-year-old Satoru is suddenly killed. He is reincarnated into a fantasy land, but not as a man. In fact, he is no longer even human!
He is reincarnated as a lowly slime.
After wandering, he comes across a dragon who he befriends and who gives him the new name of Rimuru. Absorbing this dragon into his slime body, promising to eventually break the seal that has bound him, gives Rimuru great magical ability.
He then continues to inadvertently befriend beleaguered fantasy creatures in the forest who are constantly threatened by humanity. Eventually, he decides to found a nation uniting these creatures in order to help them protect themselves.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime
- Isekai anime where the main character reincarnated as a weak monster, but swiftly becomes OP
- The main character makes friends with other non-humans who also end up becoming OP
- Goblin village origins
- The ladies love him!
- Large main cast of OP characters that start to dominate everything they get involved in
- The main character constantly learns new skills through battle and skill absorb
Differences Between Re:Monster and That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime has the main character less interested in sleeping with every woman he meets.
- Re:Monster has the main character make morally questionable decisions because he is, in fact, a monster. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime has more of a traditional “good guy” main character
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is about building a beast nation rather than the more mercenary-minded Re:Monster.
Overlord
As the final hour approaches in the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off.
However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Overlord
- Overpowered non-human main character
- Large cast of also OP side characters that serve the main character
- The main character fights, but also knows how to delegate to his companions
- The ladies love him!
- They both, at least start, about more of a guild/mercenary group
Differences Between Re:Monster and Overlord
- Overlord has a main character that is more focused on delegating while the main character in Re:Monster likes to fight a lot more.
- Overlord quickly becomes more about political intrigue and nation conquering while Re:Monster spends more time powering up the group and building out their home base.
Tsukimichi – Moonlit Fantasy
Makoto Misumi is just an ordinary boy, but one night after learning his parents were from another world and guaranteed their travel to Japan by agreeing to give up what they care about most one day, he is transported to another world.
Unfortunately, the goddess of that world finds him ugly and in all ways repulsive.
She flings him to the corner of the world with her only gift being the ability to understand, speak, and write monster languages. With gifts from his previous worlds’ god, Tsukuyomi, and enhanced abilities from growing up in a non-magical world, Makoto sets out to make a life for himself.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Tsukimichi
- Isekai anime about a overpowered main character who is not loved by humans
- The main character quickly makes equally as OP monster friends
- The ladies love him!
Differences Between Re:Monster and Tsukimichi
- Tsukimichi, due to its more flippant premise, is often more comical, but still has just as good quality and flashy action moments.
- Tsukimichi has a human main character. He is just shunned by humanity for his OP power and ugly face.
- Tsukimichi keeps its main cast smaller than the many powerful goblins/ogres in Re:Monster.
For Fans of Isekai’d as a Non-Human
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 Re:Monster and So I’m a Spider, So What
- Isekai about a main character reborn as a weak monster
- A not-small portion of the series is about the main character fighting other monsters to level/evolve
- The main character consumes others monsters to get new abilities
- Zero-to-OP fantasy action story
Differences Between Re:Monster and So I’m a Spider, So What
- The main character in So I’m a Spider So What is both a spider and a girl, which means no harem, but also no allies.
- While Re:Monster has a large extended cast, So I’m a Spider So What just has the one spider and some side characters elsewhere doing other things.
- The “grind” to OP takes quite a bit bit longer in So I’m a Spider So What.
Reincarnated as a Sword
After his death, a man is reincarnated into a new world. However, his body is not that of a human, but rather he is a legendary sword that, after leveling up his skills, becomes stuck firmly in the middle of a dangerous forest.
Begging for a wielder to come to him, he watches a slave caravan attacked by a two-headed bear. A young catgirl named Fran flees and happens across him with the pair teaming up to slay the bear and break her enslavement.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Reincarnated as a Sword
- Isekai where the main character is reincarnated as a non-human
- The main character gains new skills with each opponent they beat
- A not-small emphasis on battle in order to get stronger and evolve
- The main characters are best described as “battle maniacs,” meaning action is the big focus
Differences Between Re:Monster and Reincarnated as a Sword
- Reincarnated as a Sword is about a main character reincarnated as a sword. Obviously.
- The “main cast” of Reincarnated as a Sword is really just the sword and the cat girl who wields him, which is much more compact than Re:Monster.
- No sexy times in Reincarnated as a Sword
Skeleton Knight in Another World
After falling asleep playing games, a gamer woke up in the game world, but as a skeleton. While he is equipped well, his appearance is too frightening to live the peaceful life he wants.
Yet, after meeting a beautiful elf woman, he may find himself pulled into a path of building intrigue.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Skeleton Knight in Another World
- Isekai about a main character reincarnated as a non-human
- The main character is OP
- Elves love him!
Differences Between Re:Monster and Skeleton Knight in Another World
- Skeleton Knight in Another World explores a more linear plot than the various arcs in Re:Monster.
- The main character in Skeleton Knight is OP immediately, so no training montage like Re:Monster
- Skeleton Knight in Another World keeps its main cast very compact, so less characters and minimal harem vibes.
For Fans of Skill Steal/Absorb
Berserk of Gluttony
In this world where everyone is born with a special skill, the useful skills find respect in society. Those with particularly good skills are often elevated into noble families and rise through the ranks of the Holy Knights that protect the people.
However, for people like Fate Graphite whose Gluttony skill just means he is always hungry, he struggles through each day just to stay fed.
However, one day Fate discovers the true nature of Gluttony. His skill awakens and allows him to absorb the stats and skills of everything he kills. However, the more he devours, the more he must devour or risk losing himself in a berserk starving state.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Berserk of Gluttony
- Main characters start weak, but their newfound skill absorbs aids them on their very quick journey to being OP.
- Strong, frequent battle focus
- Ladies love him!
- Constantly evolving main character who always gets stronger, and also looks to fight stronger opponents.
Differences Between Re:Monster and Berserk of Gluttony
- Berserk of Gluttony forces the main character to constantly fight or else risk losing his sanity. Alternatively, Rou just likes fighting in Re:Monster.
- Berserk of Gluttony, as it has less characters and less female characters, is less of harem experience
- While Re:Monster often fights against humanity, Berserk of Gluttony is a more traditional experience of a human fighting fantasy creatures like goblins, kobolds, ect.
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 Re:Monster and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- A main character suddenly wakes up as a non-human/undead
- They start incredibly weak, but spend the time to level up
- Ladies love him!
- The main character evolves, multiple times, into different species
Differences Between Re:Monster and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- Unwanted Undead Adventurer has the main character not technically able to absorb skills like in Re:Monster, but with the evolution and frequent battle, it lives in that same space.
- The action in Unwanted Undead Adventurer is more grounded and less flashy than Re:Monster
- Rentt is Unwanted Undead Adventurer, despite his undead predilections, is an ally to humanity while Rou in Re:Monster is… not.
Solo Leveling
When gates mysteriously started appearing throughout the world, they connected the real world to a fantasy land full of dangerous beasts. At the same moment, some humans developed superhuman abilities and are the only ones capable of entering these gates. This gave rise to the age of Hunters, those who can enter gates and combat the beasts within in return for wealth.
Jin-Woo is one such Hunter. However, a Hunter’s skill rank is fixed from their awakening, meaning as an E-rank, he is known as the “World’s Weakest” among Hunters. After what should have been a manageable dungeon goes horribly wrong, Jin-Woo stays behind as a voluntary sacrifice, but at the moment of his death, he is given a chance to enroll in The System, a mysterious occurrence that gives him a Quest Log and the ability to level up.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Solo Leveling
- Main characters are pathetically weak at first, but the focus is on leveling up
- They evolve into… powerful hotties?
- Both main characters absorb abilities and skills from enemies they beat, driving them to fight new, stronger things.
- Ladies love him!
Differences Between Re:Monster and Solo Leveling
- Solo Leveling combines the “standard medieval fantasy world of adventuring guilds” with a modern real world setting, which is unique among all fantasy anime, really.
- Solo Leveling puts more emphasis on the grind of leveling up, moving much slower than the rather speedy progression of Re:Monster.
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 Re:Monster and Arifureta
- Weak main character grinds up to becoming OP
- Main character consumes and absorbs skills from eating creatures
- The main character is inhuman, and acts as such with their questionable mortality
- Ladies love him!
Differences Between Re:Monster and Arifureta
- Arifureta has a main character betrayed and left bitter while Rou in Re:Monster is just an goblin/ogre and is still quite pleasant as a person.
- Re:Monster is telling a fantasy story from the monster’s perspective while Arifureta is more of an edgy “he hates people, yet somehow still protects everyone and is an anti-hero hero” sort of affair.
For Fans of Main Characters Sleeping With Their Entire Harem
Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time
Peter Grill is known throughout the land as the strongest fighter. He also has a girlfriend he is steadily getting closer with. Unfortunately, dozens of women have targeted him for his seed in order to bear strong children.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time
- OP main character who has women yeeting themselves into his bed – constantly.
- The main character sleeps with all girls, all the time.
- Both do actually have an actual fantasy adventurer action story.
- Cute monster girls <3
Differences Between Re:Monster and Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time
- Re:Monster has an above-average amount of moments where his large harem begs to bed him in between the action plot. Peter Grill has that, but in a reverse amount. The “girls begging for him to sleep with them” is more the plot than the action adventure bit in Peter Grill.
- Peter Grill is, obviously, an ecchi anime.
- The poor, beleaguered main character in Peter Grill doesn’t actually want to sleep with all these girls while Rou in Re:Monster is indifferent, if pleased to do so.
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 in 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.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Farming Life in Another World
- OP main character living in the woods with an increasing amount of women
- He’s strong, but his harem is also wildly strong too.
- Technically, both have monster girl harems, but they don’t look like it in Farming Life in Another World.
- Elves love him!
- Sleeps with his entire harem off-screen
- Surprisingly, both series are not ecchi anime.
Differences Between Re:Monster and Farming Life in Another World
- Farming Life in Another World is, probably unsurprisingly, about starting a farm that grows into a village of predominantly women that wandered there and decided to stay.
- Re:Monster is a lot more focused on leveling up and fighting, there is minimal action in Farming Life in Another World.
- Farming Life in Another World is a friendly, peaceful, fantasy slice of life anime.
Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
After being perpetually bullied in school, Michio Kaga is browsing a suicide website when an ad catches his eye. This ad takes him to a site that seems to allow him to create a character for an MMO.
He messes around on the site with it’s roll-based luck element until he gets top-tier stats before clicking accept. However, this website suddenly transports him to a game-like fantasy land.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Isekai anime where the main character levels up and gets a harem
- The main character sleeps with his entire harem.
- Both feature slaves with Stockholm Syndrome.
Differences Between Re:Monster and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World forgets its title and only introduces a second member to the harem it foreshadows in the last two episodes. So mostly it is him sleeping with the slave girl he bought to “adventure with”
- No one is OP in Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World is a lot more graphically ecchi than Re:Monster. In fact, after a certain point, it ends every episode with more bedroom adventures than actual adventures.
Redo of Healer
As a boy, Keyaru awakened the power of a Hero. His specialty was healing. However, by using these powers, he experienced the trauma of the injured person as well. It eventually drove him insane, but he was forced to use his powers anyway.
After enduring torture and abuse by his fellow heroes for years, Keyaru formed a plan to get his vengeance. He was able to turn back time and restart his life with all his previous memories.
Thus his vengeance began.
Similarities Between Re:Monster and Redo of Healer
- Morally dubious main character gets a redo at life with his old memories intact.
- Main characters grinds levels, absorb skills from creatures, and quickly is OP
- Gathers a harem of various ladies and then sleeps with them all the time.
Differences Between Re:Monster and Redo of Healer
- Redo of Healer is an infamous juxtaposition of graphic violent torture and degenerate bedroom activities, which is not for everyone and makes Re:Monster look wholesome by comparison.
- The entire harem in Redo of Healer is magically brainwashed to enjoy whatever the main character tells them to enjoy.
- While Re:Monster has an action adventure plot, Redo of Healer is a revenge plot followed by wish fulfillment for bitter incels.
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