After an accident, Ryo Mihara is reincarnated into another world. Waking up in a remote forest, he discovers he has an affinity for water magic, and decides to live a slow life slowly honing that magic.
One day, he finds a shipwrecked adventurer named Abel who requests that Ryo help him pass through a dangerous area in order to return to town. Once there, Abel convinces Ryo to register as an adventurer where he can hone his magic further.
Of all the isekai I’ve seen, this is indeed another. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Water Magician, head on down below.
Anime Like The Water Magician
For Fans of Wandering From One Adventure to The Next
The Faraway Paladin
Born into a new world, Will awakens as a baby that has been taken in by three undead guardians of a long-dead city.
As he is raised, he is taught magic and swordsmanship, but also learns of the world that surrounds him. A world that was once ravaged by a powerful warrior that the three undead guardians only just managed to seal away.
As they are bound to that city, they can’t say for sure what became of the world or humanity after their death and undeath, but they prepare young Will for when he will eventually have to venture out into the world.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and The Faraway Paladin
- Isekai fantasy where the main character is in a new world, blessed by a deity, and also in the middle of nowhere.
- He spends his youth honing his various skills until heading out in the world
- He meets another young man, who becomes one of his most stalwart companions
- The main character often just wandering into the next event is the plot
- Fairly detailed and dense world-building
Differences Between The Water Magician and The Faraway Paladin
- The Faraway Paladin has the main character reincarnated as a baby, not really remembering his old life, and being raised by three undead who train him.
- The main character in The Faraway Paladin is more of a physical fighter than a mage.
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
Ever since she was born, Ivy has been able to hear a little voice in the back of her mind that she learned is likely the voice of her previous self in a previous life. While she had to hide that from her family, she grew up relatively happy until the day her star abilities were accessed.
In this world, a person’s soul is examined to determine their future career and given a star value of how good they will be at it. However, it was discovered that while Ivy was a Tamer, she has no stars in the ability.
Labeled a starless, she is chased out of her home by her family like an abomination to live on the outskirts of town. After the woman helping her survive passes away, Ivy is ran out of town as a bad omen by the villagers.
Deciding to travel the world, Ivy starts by befriending a very weak rare slime and helping them survive, eventually making friends both beast and man all over the world.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
- Isekai fantasy
- The main character goes on a journey, where they meet new friends who still come and go as if they are living their own lives
- The main character has unique magic to that world and is hyper-fixated on the ability
- They main character wandering into the next event is the plot
- Fairly detailed and dense world-building that doesn’t shine through in the anime quite as well.
Differences Between The Water Magician and The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
- The Weakest Tamer features a girl not having any knowledge of her previous life except a whisper in the back of her head who is chased out of her village for having unique magical circumstances. She then faces discrimination for her magic as well.
- The Weakest Tamer is a more melancholy story and more about the main character finding a place she belongs
- The Weakest Tamer is about a monster tamer, who is allegedly weak. So she is not outwardly overpowered.
Frieren – Beyond Journey’s End
After the Demon King’s defeat, the victorious hero’s party returns home. After disbanding, the elven mage Frieren continues journeying to indulge her hobby of collecting spells. However, being a long-living elf, fifty years pass in the blink of an eye for her. Now, she finds her old companions and friends slowly passing away from age one by one.
Before his death, Heiter the cleric manages to foist his young ward, Fern, onto Frieren as her apprentice mage. Together, they travel to collect spells, but after visiting many locations that Frieren had once visited with the hero’s party, she begins to ponder the missed opportunity to form deeper bonds with her now-dead comrades and cherish the new opportunities she has with her current ones.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and Frieren
- Eternally young protagonist living life
- The main character is a powerful mage who wanders
- Gender-diverse group of friends and companions who also have their own stories, wandering in an out of the main character’s life
Differences Between The Water Magician and Frieren
- Frieren is not an isekai. It is just a normal fantasy story
- Ryo’s eternal youth is a rather small part of the story. Frieren puts more effort into how good and bad being long-lived is.
- Frieren is the more emotional story and often more personal for the core characters.
New Saga
Humanity’s tenuous relationship with the demons saw their continent divided in two. While peace remained for years, suddenly the Demon King launches on all-out attack on the other kingdoms. One by one, nations fell to his might until—at great cost—the hero Kyle Leonard and his companions sacrificed themselves to defeat him and end the war.
However, during that final deadly mission, Kyle, on the brink of death, finds a mysterious gem that transports him back to his youth before the war has even started. With the memory of losing everything he wanted to protect, he starts off to become even stronger to defeat the Demon King and save his loved ones.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and New Saga
- Overpowered main character joins a group of gender-diverse adventurers
- The main character travels the world, getting involved in various events
- Something is happening within the demon kingdoms that is building up.
Differences Between The Water Magician and New Saga
- New Saga is a regressor fantasy, which is where he dies then resets to an earlier time period with all his memories and power intact so he can try to change the outcome.
- New Saga is far more focused on the main character being with his adventuring party. Ryo and the adventurers occasionally part ways and do their own things
- New Saga’s main character is more serious and more of a martial fighter
- New Saga has a distinct love triangle where two girls love the main character
Jobless Reincarnation
After being chased out of his NEET nest, a man instinctively saves some teens from an oncoming car and is killed. He is reborn as Rudeus Greyrat, a baby and new first born son of a local knight.
Finding he has great potential for magic, Rudy vows to make the most of his new life even if he is still a perverted otaku on the inside.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and Jobless Reincarnation
- Isekai fantasy
- The main character is gifted with magic and spends years honing it
- The main character travels into various events alongside characters also living their own lives
- Fairly detailed and dense world-building
Differences Between The Water Magician and Jobless Reincarnation
- The main character in Jobless Reincarnation is powerful, but flawed. He’s not quite the good guy that Ryo is.
- The main character ages over the course of the series in Jobless Reincarnation. No eternal youth here.
- Jobless Reincarnation has both a harem, and also some questionable sexual content.
- The magic is more diverse in Jobless Reincarnation
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For Fans of Hype-Fixated Magic
By the Grace of the Gods
After leading a miserable life, Ryouma Takebayashi passes away at age 39.
Three deities, taking pity on him, reincarnate him into a fantasy world with an aptitude for magic, telling him to enjoy life and that they will always watch out for him.
With his newfound existence, he spends it studying slimes, amassing a slime army, and learning some magic, but he misses humanity. Being persuaded to join a group of travelers, Ryouma’s new world opens up for him.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and By the Grace of the Gods
- Isekai fantasy where the main character is beloved by deities and starts alone in the middle of the woods where they hone their magic for years and years.
- The main character hyper fixates on one specific type of magic that they get overpowered in.
- The main character is literally the nicest guy that everyone loves immediately. This leads to friends and a singular love interest whose relationship progresses slowly.
- The main character enjoys his life and often wanders into the next plot point
Differences Between The Water Magician and By the Grace of the Gods
- The main character in By the Grace of the Gods doesn’t have eternal youth, but he is very young.
- By the Grace of the Gods is lower on plot and higher on pleasant slice of life.
- The main character in By the Grace of the Gods is a slime tamer and breeder.
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Ken Usato is an average high school student, but one day while walking home with the high-achieving president and vice president of the student council, he is summoned along with them to another world.
It seems that the king of that world meant to summon his two classmates as heroes and Usato got summoned by just being close to them at the time. Accepting that he is now stuck there, he has his abilities accessed along with his new friends. He discovers that he has the rare ability to heal others – which makes him the immediate target for training by the fiercesome leader of the Rescue Corps, Rose.
Dragging her new candidate to their headquarters, Usato’s brutal training begins!
Similarities Between The Water Magician and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- Isekai fantasy
- The main character is gifted in one specific type of magic that he obsessively trains
- Something is happening in the demons kingdoms
- Gender-diverse adventuring party and a single love interest
Differences Between The Water Magician and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- The main character is a healer in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- The main character was isekai’d with his classmates as kind of a mistake in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic.
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is far more focused on his training, and then on dealing with the demons. It isn’t quite as diverse or complex in its plot like The Water Magician.
The Great Cleric
After suddenly dying, a salaryman wakes to find himself in another world and in the body of a young teen. Taking up the name of Luciel, he decides to become a healer in order to help people and lead a peaceful life.
Discovering the world is incredibly dangerous, Luciel heads to the Adventurers Guild to try and train his body so he won’t immediately be killed on the road. There, he discovers that healers have a rather poor reputation among adventurers for charging prices so high that adventurers either die due to not being able to afford treatment or trade their life for being sold into slavery.
Working at the Adventurers Guild in return for martial training, Luciel offers his healing skills to wounded adventurers and hopes to someday right the corrupt system.
Similarities Between The Water Magician and The Great Cleric
- Isekai fantasy where he starts in the middle of nowhere
- The main character is gifted with a specific magic that they train excessively
- The main character makes friends in the adventuring guild, but often just wanders around doing his own thing
- The main character is the nicest young man you’ll ever meet and everyone loves him.
Differences Between The Water Magician and The Great Cleric
- The main character in the Great Cleric is a healer.
- The Great Cleric is more about him slowly trying to right the injustice in the world (which is that healing is prohibitively expensive and discriminatory due to greed)
- The Great Cleric is a bit sillier at times.
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