Toto is a powerful Hero, but his extreme shyness has left him unable to form a party.
One day, he is approached by three women that are looking for a Hero to join their party, and Toto is ecstatic when they ask him. However, what he doesn’t know is that each of these three women has been hired to kill him for different reasons.
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Anime Like The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses
For Fans of The Adventuring Party Is Flawed

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.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Cautious Hero
- The hero is powerful, but mentally flawed.
- The hero’s adventuring party is mostly normal people that are baffled by the hero’s mental quirks, but impressed by his strength and occasional good nature.
- Unexpectedly deep character stories.
- Fantasy comedy not afraid of dark and/or sexual jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Cautious Hero
- Cautious Hero is an isekai anime about an OP hero who over-preps for everything.
- The hero in Cautious Hero is not a morally unflappable good guy like the hero in The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses. He sometimes does some messed up shit to people.
- Cautious Hero starts as an episodic comedy with a vague overall plot, but it develops a much stronger plot with some surprising emotional impact in the second half.
- There’s no harem in Cautious Hero. It does hint at a singular romance, though.

Kemono Michi
Shibata Genzo is both a professional wrestler and an animal lover. One day, he is summoned to another world by a princess. She makes the mistake of asking him to rid her kingdom of these evil beasts.
Instead of doing that, Genzo suplexes her and heads off to start a monster pet shop.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Kemono Michi
- Ridiculously strong, thick-bodied hero and the dysfunctional, scummy women that surround him
- The main character has noble motivations, but he’s the only one.
- Episodic fantasy comedy not afraid of dark and/or sexual jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Kemono Michi
- Kemono Michi is an isekai anime about an animal-loving wrestler who ends up in another world, declines being a hero because it means he would have to kill monsters, and starts a monster pet shop instead.
- The women in Kemono Michi are, ostensibly, shop employees or women who just hang around the main character. They are not in a party together.
- Kemono Michi isn’t a harem affair since the main character is too dense to notice the charms of the women using him and the women don’t have any particular affection for him.

No Longer Allowed in Another World
Just before finally realizing his fondest dream of committing double suicide with the woman he loved, 20th-century author and gloomy legend of Japanese literature Osamu Dazai is hit by a truck and transported to another world.
However, instead of a pleasant life full of hope and adventure, Dazai is most interested in finding a poetic way to meet his end. Unfortunately for him, his demise is often thwarted by, if not his companions, then the poison that runs through his body. So begins the hilarious tragedy of how Osamu Dazai saved another world from villains and rampaging isekai heroes.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and No Longer Allowed in Another World
- An adventuring party is formed, and it is made dysfunctional by its male leader’s eccentricities and the motives/feelings of the female party members.
- The women in this party are, if not trying to kill the main character, then are at least observing him for plot reasons.
- The female companions in the adventuring party are endeared to the male leader’s good points over time.
- Fantasy comedy not afraid of dark and/or sexual jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and No Longer Allowed in Another World
- No Longer Allowed in Another World is an isekai anime about Japanese author Osamu Dazai getting isekai’d after he, historically, committed double suicide.
- The male main character in No Longer Allowed in Another World is the exact opposite of a hero, so his good side is not immediately apparent.
- No Longer Allowed in Another World is not a harem. The party is two girls, two boys.
- If The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses is murder comedy, No Longer Allowed in Another World is suicide comedy.
- No Longer Allowed in Another World does have a bit of a plot that pushes things forward. Just not a particularly robust one.

Combatants Will Be Dispatched
On Earth, the villainous Kisaragi Corporation has finally conquered everything, but they have their eye on the entire universe. Having finally created a transporter, they send agent Roku-gou to the kingdom of Grace where he is to infiltrate and eventually conquer the kingdom for the corporation.
Of course, to ensure the success of one of their more disposable agents, they send with him Alice, an exceptional android, to make sure the mission is carried out.
Finally arriving, Roku-gou and Alice end up infiltrating the inner circle of the kingdom and helping them secure victory against an invading Demon Lord.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Combatants Will be Dispatched
- A party of dysfunctional people is formed
- One man, at least three women.
- At least some characters in this party are evil-aligned and have secret motivations for getting close to others.
- Fantasy comedy not afraid of dark and/or sexual jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Combatants Will be Dispatched
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched is an isekai fantasy, but the main characters works for an evil organization trying to conquer another planet that just happens to be styled as your standard fantasy world.
- The male main character in Combatants Will Be Dispatched is a scummy degenerate for comedy, this also means this series is not a harem despite looking like one.
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched focuses more on arc-based stories instead of being a more episodic comedy like The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses.

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 The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Konosuba
- An adventuring party of the most dysfunctional members possible is formed
- One guy, three girls. The girls start to warm up to the main character’s good points as he helps them through their problems.
- Adventures that are often comedic and go off the rails, but ultimately end up successful
- Fantasy comedy not afraid of dark and/or sexual jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Konosuba
- The male “leader” of the adventuring party in Konosuba is the weakest of the lot and also a bit comically scummy. This also stops the series from being a harem despite looking like one.
- The women in Konosuba are powerful, but distinctly flawed in personality, which makes it so normal parties can’t work with them. The Assassin Princesses only flaws are that they’re trying to murder their party leader and have some emotional damage.
- Konosuba can be episodic, but it often follows arc-based adventures as it goes on. It gives more of a feeling of plot, despite being a comedy.
- Konosuba is an isekai fantasy. So the main character is from our world.
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For Fans of Violence and Evil for Comedy

Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
Being an adventurer is considered a desirable job and an honor. Wanting to make a name for himself, a warrior named Alvin is exploring low level quests to get started.
However, on his quest, he is confronted by a magical bear. Luckily, a dark elf healer named Karla offers her assistance, but instead of healing him, she accidentally casts a curse. Now, if she strays too far from Alvin, he will die!
Forced to adventure together until the curse is broken, Alvin remains steadfast in his desire to be an adventurer despite Karla’s eccentric whims.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
- Normal, sweet guy forms and adventuring party with at least one girl who is some sort of sociopath.
- The adventuring party is highly dysfunctional for comedy
- Dark jokes done with all the normal cheer of your standard plotless comedy anime
- Characters forced to party together for various reasons
- Extremely low effort plot, character designs, and character personalities, but excellent jokes
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
- Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer isn’t a harem. It’s just a male-female duo.
- The main character in Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer are accidentally cursed, so they can’t be physically too far apart, thus that is why they are stuck in a party together.

A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
Satoko Kusagakura is a female ninja who ran away from her ninja village with her comrades for no especially good reason. Having split up to avoid detection, Satoko finds herself alone in the city until she meets Konoha, an assassin who was caught on the job.
Konoha initially hopes to use Satoko’s ninja skills to her advantage. However, the only useful thing Satoko can do is turn bodies into leaves. Deeming that good enough, Konoha invites Satoko to live in her house in exchange for cooking and doing clean up after assassin jobs.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
- Cold-blooded killers teaming up with the sweetest, most innocent person in existence who will do anything to help them.
- Dark jokes done with all the normal cheer of your standard plotless comedy anime
- The murderers are slowly won over by the sweet, innocent cinnamon roll that they spend time with.
- Episodic plot that is only tied together by the gradual character development
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
- A Ninja and Assassin Under Once Roof is indeed about a ninja and assassin living together in modern Japan.
- A Ninja and Assassin Under Once Roof isn’t a harem, but it is a yuri romance, though romance is a strong word. It’s a yuri comedy.
- A Ninja and Assassin Under Once Roof isn’t about the main characters trying to kill each other, it’s about a ninja that cheerfully helps the assassin hide the bodies.

The Legendary Hero is Dead
Far to the north, the Demon Lord used Hell’s Gate to invade the human realm. However, he was stopped by legendary sword wielding hero Shion and his companions.
While the portal was sealed, the seal was incomplete and now with it weakening, the demons have begun to attack again. Worried about his village, the young perverted farmer Touka Scott dug a series of pitfall traps for protection around town. Unfortunately, legendary hero Shion finds one of these traps, falls in, and dies.
Trying to cover up the accident, Touka buries the hero secretly in the forest. While that was to be the end of it, Touka’s soul is taken from his body and stuffed into Shion’s rotting corpse by Shion’s companion and necromancer, Anri Haynesworth. Now, he is forced to travel to Hell’s Gate in order to attempt to seal the portal for good and save the world.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and The Legendary Hero is Dead
- The hero is flawed, as is his adventuring party
- Party of (mostly female) dysfunctional degenerates go on a journey/adventure
- Occasional sexy comedy, but definitely not ecchi.
- Occasional serious action, but mostly light comedy with occasional dark jokes.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and The Legendary Hero is Dead
- The legendary hero is indeed dead in The Legendary Hero is Dead. He is a boy stuck in the rotting corpse of the hero he accidentally killed.
- The Legendary Hero is Dead has a plot-driven journey rather than being about an adventuring party, but because it is still a comedy series, it just means they will move on from various locations eventually.
- While the party in The Legendary Hero is Dead is a man in a party full of women, you can’t call it a harem if most of the women don’t actually like the main character all that much.
For Fans of Overpowered and Overly Dense

I Parry Everything
After his parent’s death, Noor travels from his country home to fulfill his dream of becoming an adventurer. However, after discovering that he is not particularly skilled in any adventuring class, the guild turns him away.
However, he is told that if he practices a single skill enough, he can unlock others. So he practices his most useful skill that he is adept at – parrying. After years, he can eventually parry a thousand swords in a single swing, but he failed to gain any other more useful skills from that training.
Eventually able to start at a special low rank as an adventurer with the guild, Noor and his parry skill end up thwarting an assassination of a princess that leads to him becoming entangled in the country’s political affairs.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and I Parry Everything
- Ridiculously overpowered man, thinks he’s pretty weak, the sweetness man you’ll ever meet, and not a single inkling that anyone has ever flirted with him in his life.
- Male main character is surrounded by a women who dislike him at first, but come to adore him.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and I Parry Everything
- I Parry Everything is less harem-coded since his party is just two women and a boy.
- I Parry Everything takes itself more seriously and does have a pretty serious intrigue plot it is following.

From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
Beryl Gardinant is a sword instructor for a dojo in a backwater village. While he dreamed of becoming a master swordsman in his youth, he has long since settled into teaching the next generation.
One day, one of his many famous former students comes to visit him and tell him that he’s been chosen to become a special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order. Pushed out of his dojo by his father who wants him to go to the city and find a wife, Beryl accepts.
While in the city, Beryl reunites with a number of his former students as he finds himself increasingly involved with intrigue building in the kingdom.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
- Ridiculously overpowered man, thinks he’s pretty weak, the sweetness man you’ll ever meet, and not a single inkling that anyone has ever flirted with him in his life.
- Male main character is almost immediately surrounded by a harem of women who adore him.
- You watch him earn and grow their affections by being a nice guy, helping them with their problems (sometimes unintentionally), and fighting to protect them.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
- Old Country Bumpkin works with a whole bunch of age-gap relationships, as every woman that loves him was one of his former students. As the main character is a legitimate good guy, the series keeps him dense to their feelings or at least willfully ignoring them.
- Old Country Bumpkin has its comedy moments, but it is a serious fantasy story with an intrigue plot going on.
- Old Country Bumpkin is less about magic and more about sword craft. It puts in a decent amount of effort into depicting the art of sword craft as well.

The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids – A Tank with a Rare 9999 Resistance Skill Got Kicked from the Hero’s Party
Rud is the tank for the hero’s party. However, on their labyrinth raids, despite having the highest defense known to man, one of his unknown skills keeps seemingly putting the party at a detriment.
After being kicked out by the hero, Rud is still determined to raid the labyrinth in order to find a wish-granting treasure said to dwell there for his sickly sister. However, he decides to return to visit his sister in his hometown. On his way home, he saves a rare homunculus that has the ability to appraise and identity skills.
Thanks to her help, Rud discovers that he not only has the highest defense, but has several previously unknown skills that, when used properly, would allow him to be indomitable.
Similarities Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- Ridiculously overpowered man, thinks he’s pretty weak, the sweetness man you’ll ever meet, and not a single inkling that anyone has ever flirted with him in his life.
- Male main character starts an adventuring party and is instantly surrounded by a harem of women who love him
- At least some of these characters are evil-aligned, but have been tamed by his good nature.
Differences Between The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids starts as a “kicked out my party for being weak, but he’s actually wildly strong” sort of affair.
- While there is affection from all the women, there is a clear main love interest in The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids.
- Not everyone is evil in The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids, and no one is actively trying to kill the main character either.
- The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids takes itself a bit more seriously when it comes to action and plot, but it is still pretty light as far as fantasy adventuring anime goes.
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