Amanda Waller, head of A.R.G.U.S., has harnessed mysterious magical energies to open a portal to another world. There, the organization intends to strip the world of its resources for profit, but needs to protect their investments and create stability first.
In order to do this, she assembles an expendable team of super villains to send through the breach. Super villains Harely Quinn, Deadshot, Peacemaker, Clayface, and King Shark are freed from their prison cells only to have bombs implanted in their neck and sent through the portal to another world.
Once there, the newly-free inmates run wild only to be captured by Queen Aldora and her knights.
With the the bombs in their necks set to explode after 72 hours if they don’t regroup at the portal, this newly-founded Suicide Squad agrees to help the queen with her war against rampaging orcs, dragons, elves, and other fantasy creatures.
Well, Suicide Squad Isekai is everything it said in the title, and definitely not as bad as some other isekai. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Suicide Squad Isekai, head on down below.
Anime Like Suicide Squad Isekai
For Fans of Villains / Outcasts in Another World
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.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Konosuba
- Both series a “atypical” isekai adventures, but also pretty standard isekai adventures.
- Ineffectual people who don’t work well with others or fit into society somehow start to fail upwards when working with each other.
- Both series enjoy chaotic or crude comedy in between moments of plot.
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Konosuba
- Suicide Squad Isekai is about a group of super-powered criminals while Konosuba is just about people with eccentric personality flaws.
- Suicide Squad Isekai is full of anti-heroes that act like it. Konosuba is more about indifference towards many things and being ineffectual at being heroic.
- Suicide Squad Isekai does have a somewhat serious linear plot to it while Konosuba is more individual adventures that end comically.
Dead Mount Death Play
In a fantasy world, a legendary hero has set himself to finally slaying the Corpse God, an evil necromancer. When the dust settles from their battle, the hero is victorious, but even he senses something unusual about his victory.
Meanwhile, the Corpse God wakes up in an alley in modern Tokyo, possessing the body of Polka Shinomiya, the second son of a wealthy family who just had his throat slit by an assassin.
After having a face-off with the assassin, this new Polka ends up allying with her to try and find out who tried to kill previous Polka as well as to explore this strange new magic-less world.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Dead Mount Death Play
- Both series are isekai anime about misunderstood villains being sent to another world
- The villains find that there are much more evil things than them in this new world.
- Eccentric characters that all have their own eccentric form of combat skill varying from actual superpower to just weapons proficiency.
- Intrigue is building up behind the scenes and often out of sight of the main characters.
- Good guys are bad guy, and bad guys are maybe good guys
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Dead Mount Death Play
- Dead Mount Death Play is a reverse isekai about a necromancer coming to our world and getting involved with assassins and crime families.
- Suicide Squad Isekai focuses on a pretty traditional isekai plot with some twists while Dead Mount Death Play is more about navigating an intricate web of underworld politics through the help of literal magic.
Drifters
While forming the rear guard for his uncle’s escape, Toyohisa Shimazu manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded himself in the process.
While trying to limp back home, he finds himself transported from the field to a hallway lined with doors. There, a mysterious man sends him spiraling into another world.
Dragged into the forest by two young elves, Toyohisa is patched up by two others from the Land of the Rising Sun that turn out to be Yoichi Suketaka Nasu and Oda Nobunaga.
From there, Toyohisa and his fellow historical figures, named “drifters” must save (or conquer) their new world.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Drifters
- Chaotic entities are sent to another world – chaos ensues.
- Each member of the core isekai cast is so skilled to the point that martial skills also seem like superpowers. They also both have characters with actual superpowers, too.
- Just like Suicide Squad Isekai is fan service for DC comic fans, Drifters is fan service for historical people fans.
- Both series eventually become about DC Villains fighting DC Villains or Historical People fighting Historical People with the isekai story becoming less of a focus.
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Drifters
- Drifters is the grittier, gorier, more sinister series while Suicide Squad Isekai keeps things pretty tame.
- Drifters has a more grim isekai world where the common people appear to be suffering much more.
For Fans of Lovable Criminals Working Together
Akudama Drive
The region of Kansai is overrun by powerful criminals known as Akudama.
One night, after picking up 500 yen dropped by an Akudama, an Ordinary Girl finds herself wrapped up in a huge plot to foil a public execution.
Now with a bomb collar around her neck, she and other Akudama must complete tasks given by a mysterious Black Cat.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Akudama Drive
- A collection of individual criminals are forced to work together or die.
- Each criminal has an eccentric personality and unique powers.
- They don’t work together well at first, but grow into teamwork over time
- The plots twist as they go on
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Akudama Drive
- Akudama Drive is a dystopian cyberpunk-set series and not an isekai like Suicide Squad Isekai
- Suicide Squad Isekai is about getting involved in a kingdom’s war while Akudama Drive is about trying to save another more infamous criminal – at least, at first.
- Akudama Drive is the heavier series where people actually die, frequently.
Bucchigire! Bakumatsu Bad Boys
After the rise of a group called the Masked Demons delivering powerful evil swords that corrupted weak individuals, the Shinsengumi stood up to fight them. However, all but one were slain in the battle.
To keep the peace in Kyoto and continue the fight against this organization, seven powerful criminals slated for execution were chosen as replacements for the slain Shinsengumi members.
For Ichibanboshi, one of the seven chosen, he is hesitant to agree due to his hatred of samurai after they killed his family. However, his parents’ death and the Masked Demons may be more connected than he thought.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Bucchigire
- A group of criminals who don’t know each other are forced to work together as a team to do a thing.
- The criminals are chaos at first and struggle to work together
- Each criminal is eccentric with their own unique abilities which range from actual super powers to just martial skills.
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Bucchigire
- Bucchigire is set in historical Japan about a group of criminals not executed in order to take the place of the recently wiped out Shinsengumi, a historical law enforcement force.
- Suicide Squad is guns in a fantasy land while Bucchigire is swords and flashy powers in an historical Japan.
- Suicide Squad is more original with character designs while Bucchigire is a bit lower-effort with its color-coding theme.
Super Crooks
Prisons are filled with super villains who got caught after attempting “just one more” heist before their retirement.
However, Johnny Bolt has come up with a solid plan to make him and his team filthy rich. All he needs to do is get everyone onboard to rob one of the world’s most notorious super villains.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Super Crooks
- Super villains with specific specialties are brought together for a job.
- Each member of the team has an eccentric personality.
- The team works together poorly at first, but grows teamwork over time.
- Both series are anime adapted from Western comics
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Super Crooks
- Super Crooks was a limited series Marvel comics, so not DC like Suicide Squad.
- Super Crooks is about super villains doing heists, and not doing isekai things like Suicide Squad Isekai.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners
Scraping by a living in the rough technologically augmented society of Night City, David’s mother managed to send him to a prestigious school in hopes he could become a Corpo and climb the ladder of the business world.
However, after his mother dies suddenly in a car accident and due to lack of appropriate care, David embraces a cybernetic implant for power and that decision intersects him with a crew of Edgerunners, a group of mercenaries filled with cybernetic implants that do any job and every job to make a living.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- Both series follow snarky criminals as main characters
- Eccentric, interesting looking characters slowly introduced throughout the series
- Guns, guns, and super-powered (or augmented) abilities litter the action.
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- The criminals choose to work with each other in Cyberpunk Edgerunners whereas they are forced to in Suicide Squad Isekai
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a gritty, brutal cyberpunk story about slowly decaying humanity, so it is not the same isekai romp as Suicide Squad Isekai.
Nanbaka
Nanba is the most formidable prison in the world, built to house criminals that were just too slippery for even Maximum Security. In Cell 13 of Nanba are four of the most notorious criminals that have escaped every other prison.
However, while planning their escape, they come to the realization that life in Nanba is actually way better than on the outside, and decide to stay.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Nanbaka
- Both series follow the most eccentric and overpowered criminals in the world
- The criminals are jailed, but start working with their jailors
- Bright colors and a similar sort style and attitude permeate both series
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Nanbaka
- Nanbaka features criminals trying to break out of ultra-jail before deciding jail is actually pretty nice and staying there.
- Nanbaka is strictly a comedy anime first, with the occasional bout of action.
- Nanbaka’s eccentric characters are all “Harley Quinn” style eccentric.
Ningen Fushin – Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World
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.
Similarities Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Ningen Fushin
- Disillusioned people are the heroes of these anime, and they would rather not be.
- Both series put a focus on the characters struggling to work together as a team at first
- Each member has a unique sad story that explains their present trauma and anti-hero attitudes
Differences Between Suicide Squad Isekai and Ningen Fushin
- Ningen Fushin isn’t an isekai. It is a standard fantasy about a party of adventurers with trust issues due to being hurt and betrayed in the past.
- The adventurers in Ningan Fushin are damaged, but they are not strictly villains like the Suicide Squad
- Suicide Squad Isekai has a more compact linear plot that it is following, Ningen Fushin is a small sample of a larger light novel, so it is a bit more drawn out.
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