Previously, Setsu was a hero that was summoned to another world embroiled in a bitter war to save it. With the help of his companions, he managed to succeed, ending a war between humanity and the demon kingdoms and bringing peace to the world.
However, Setsu was betrayed by someone close to him and returned to his original world after saving everyone. What’s more, he was returned as a baby that had to grow up all over again. There, he grew into a gloomy teenager, but one day he and his classmates were summoned, once again returning him to the world he had once saved.
I always try to find at least one positive thing to say about the anime I write recommendations for, even if it wasn’t for me, but I am struggling here. Not because Summoned to Another World for a Second Time is bad, but rather because it is not really doing much of anything that hasn’t been done dozens of times before, and none of it done well. It even wastes its one unique hook – being summoned to another world again. Regardless, I did my …okayest with the recommendations. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, head on down below.
Anime Like Summoned to Another World for a Second Time
For Fans of Apathetic Isekai Protagonists
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.
Both Summoned to Another World for a Second Time and Arifureta focus on people that were summoned to a new world with their classmates. They also have an element of betrayal at the very beginning of the story or, in the case of Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, before the story.
This betrayal sort of shapes the main character towards apathy and definitely makes them a bit more brooding and edgy. Join them on their usual isekai adventures as they travel, save people, and build harems of grateful ladies charmed by their power and general lack of personality.
I’m Standing on a Million Lives
Bored with the world that surrounds him, loner Yotsuya Yusuke is one day transported to a new world with two girls from his class.
There, he finds out that they have been playing a game with ten increasingly difficult rounds. After beating each round, they get to pose a question to the game master before heading back home.
On this, the third round, Yusuke finds himself excited for the first time in a long time, only for his battle class to be rolled as a weak farmer.
Together with his teammates, they struggle to survive and move forward or face certain death.
Both Setsu in Summoned to Another World for a Second Time and Yusuke from I’m Standing on A Million Lives are the same sort of protagonist. They are the type that are a little brooding, a little edgy, and generally pretty tactless when it comes to how they bluntly talk and treat people despite sometimes being nice to them.
Both series also follow men who were isekai’d with their classmates as they go on an action-filled adventure. However, I’m Standing on a Million Lives is not a traditional isekai adventure, but is rather a game-type affair where they return after each round. It can also be surprisingly brutal sometimes.
The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
The greatest assassin on Earth lived only to be a tool by those that wished to wield his mastery. That is, until they decided that he was no longer needed and ended his life.
By the grace of a goddess, this masterful man was reincarnated into a new world where he is asked to kill a hero that will later bring about the end of that world.
Deciding to finally live for himself, this man, now named Lugh Tuatha De, puts his skills as a killer to the test with foes who wield real magic.
Summoned to Another World for a Second Time and The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat are both pretty boilerplate isekai adventures only differing by their unique hooks. However, while Summoned to Another World for a Second Time kind of squanders its hook, The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat leans into it fully.
What you get are apathetic, edgy, but still occasionally nice protagonists that travel, gather a harem, and fight people with their overpowered skills.
For Fans of Former Heroes
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.
What do you do after you save the world? That is the question that both Summoned to Another World for a Second Time and I’m Quitting Heroing work with.
Both series focus on main characters that were some form of betrayed and this essentially causes them to not want to be the big damn hero anymore. I’m Quitting Heroing focuses on the main character going to rebuild the Demon King’s army that he just destroyed while Summoned to Another World for a Second Time is often less clear what the overall goal is for the main character.
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 The Rising of the Shield Hero and Summoned to Another World for a Second Time focus on heroes that were betrayed and are also just kind of over being bright-eyed hero types. What they do instead is travel and fix problems caused by the people that betrayed them.
However, while there is an actual evil party in Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, The Rising of the Shield Hero is often more about how the heroes don’t realize they are harming others and the main character having to clean up their messes.
Cautious Hero – The Hero is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
In the divine realm, Gods and Goddesses are assigned worlds in peril to summon heroes to guide on their quest to save those worlds.
The Goddess of Healing, Ristarte, is assigned a difficult S-class world and told to pick a hero to defeat the Demon King. While her choices are underwhelming, one low level hero with super stats catches her eye!
Seiya Ryuuguuin is indeed a powerful hero, but he also has the problematic quirk of being overly cautious. His desire to stay on the safe side, over-preparing and over-training for all encounters, is a source of frustration for all.
To be candid, Cautious Hero is only like Summoned to Another World for a Second Time in that both are about isekai heroes who are on their second go-around at being an isekai hero. Although, that doesn’t play a part in Cautious Hero until much later in the series.
However, whereas Summoned to Another World for a Second Time is a pretty minimum-effort isekai, a genre well know for its low effort cash-grab plots, Cautious Hero dares to be a legitimately great comedy that is also subversive and surprisingly touching by the end.
For Fans of Diverse Harem Members
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.
The harem in Summoned to Another World for a Second Time is for fans that like an above average amount of demons/beast people in their lady stable. Beast Tamer takes that and makes the harem only made up of beast girls.
While both Beast Tamer and Summoned to Another World for a Second Time feature main characters that were different sorts of betrayed, Beast Tamer is distinctly a more light-hearted and pleasant experience. However, neither anime skimps on the big action.
The Master of Ragnarök & Blesser of Einherjar
Yuuto Suoh and his childhood friend set out to prove an urban legend one day at a nearby shrine. However, when he does, he is transported to another world called Yggdrasil.
In this land of constant war, he is taken in by the Wolf Clan who struggle due to their inferior tactics. However, using his knowledge of tactics (and his smartphone) he gains the affection of both the patriarch of the clan and a group of warrior maidens known as the Einherjar.
Both Summoned to Another World for a Second Time and The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar do something generally inadvisable for some stories, isekai in particular. They skip the meeting and getting to know you bits of introducing the characters.
Both series start after the main character met and gathered their harem. In Summoned to Another World for a Second Time he is reconnecting with them while The Master of Ragnarok is more that it just time skips to the good bits.
Regardless, both series have a strong harem focus and everything else is just kind of mediocre. They are both more isekai stories and pretty average ones at that. However, The Master of Ragnarok does have more of a focus on larger scale warfare.
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.
Even if the harem members in Summoned to Another World for a Second Time are only diverse in that they occasionally have unusual colored skin or fins for ears, it is still attempting to make them monster/demon girls. That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime is a series that does that a little better and a lot more diversely.
However, while many of the monster girls are indeed part of Rimuru’s harem, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime isn’t the same sort of harem anime that Summoned to Another World for a Second Time is. It differs in that it has a detailed and interesting plot that it explores rather than just showing off girls.
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