Born ugly, Shigeru Yoshioka still thrived as a salaryman until an incident forced him to become a shut-in. Hearing a rumor online that if you do a ritual at a certain time you’ll be sent to another world, he decides to try it.
When this unlocks a prompt to allocate stats, Shigeru messes around by setting his looks to -255 and making it so he can’t even so much as touch a woman. In return, he is given a godly level of stat points to allocate.
So begins this ugly mug’s adventure in another world as an epic fighter!
When you’re this ugly, you don’t have to try very hard at plot. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Uglymug, Epicfighter, head on down below.
Anime Like Uglymug, Epicfighter
For Fans of Ugly Mugs, Epic Powers, Beloved By Several

Uncle From Another World
Takafumi’s uncle has been in a coma for 17 years after being hit by a truck when he was 17. However, after all this time, he has woken up.
As Takafumi discovers, while his uncle was in a coma in his world, he was transported to a fantasy land and became a great hero despite constantly being confused for an orc due to his appearance.
Now, Takafumi has to room with this man who needs to catch up on 20 years of gaming and anime culture while still possessing literal magical powers.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Uncle From Another World
- Isekai where a character is ugly in another world.
- The ugly character is powerful and tries to help people, but their ugliness is a handicap
- Cute girls fall for the ugly man and he remains pretty obvious to it
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Uncle From Another World
- Uncle From Another World is about a man waking up form his coma and coming back from his isekai adventure, then regaling his nephew with tales from his time there.
- Uncle From Another World is more of a comedy whereas Uglymug does have some actual adventure and action to it.

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 Uglymug, Epicfighter and Tsukimichi
- The main character is isekai’d. He is overpowered, but ugly.
- Despite his ugly handicap, the main character endears himself to women
- Various adventuring and wandering into new events is the plot
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Tsukimichi
- The main character in Tsukimichi is average, but everyone in his new isekai world is so beautiful he is considered ugly.
- Tsukimichi builds a tiny harem (and a nation) of beast people since he can’t interact as easily with humans.
- Tsukimichi is occasionally comedic like Uglymug, but far more of your usual isekai action adventure story.

The Fruit of Evolution – Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made
Seiichi Hiragi is a fat loser who has been outcasted and bullied at school. However, one day it was announced by a being claiming to be God that they would all be transported to another world, but had to wait for the summoning to be completed.
The school formed up into groups, but Seiichi was shunned.
This caused him to be transported elsewhere when they went to a new world. Hungry, he ate a fruit that turned out to be the fruit of evolution, propelling his life to new heights.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and The Fruit of Evolution
- Isekai, but the main character is ugly.
- Despite being ugly, the main character endears himself to women
- Far more light-hearted and comedic than your usual isekai, but also not completely without action
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and The Fruit of Evolution
- The main character is ugly when isekai’d, but eats fruit that both makes him overpowered and into a hottie. So this is a glow-up sort of affair.
- Fruit of Evolution is very much a harem.
- Uglymug has some darkness to it, Fruit of Evolution really does not.

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too
As he was ugly, fat, and disappointing, Yuuya has been the constant target for bullies. Even his parents and siblings treated him like an outcast. However, Yuuya’s grandfather was the only source of affection in his life, but he eventually passed away.
Being left his grandfather’s home, Yuuya discovers a strange door that opens to another world. Inside, he finds himself in the home of a sage and discovers a number of powerful weapons. Using these to defeat dangerous creatures in the surrounding forest, Yuuya discovers that he can level up, gain equipment, and even sell items upon leaving the world for real life currency.
After a day of adventure, Yuuya wakes up to discover that leveling up in the other world has leveled up his body in the real world too.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
- Isekai, but the main character is ugly.
- Despite being ugly, he endears himself to women
- The main character is, or at least becomes, overpowered
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
- Cheat Skill In Another World is about a character gaining access to another world, getting overpowered there, being able to come back to our world at will, and discovering that leveling in the other world has made him hot. So this is a glow up story.
- Cheat Skill In Another World has a lot of “I was ugly, but now I’m hot so I’m going to get girls and some satisfying revenge on those who put me down”
- Cheat Skill In Another World is more action focused and also is building itself a harem.
For Fans of Overpowered Non-Badass Skills

Loner Life in Another World
Haruka has always been a loner, but his happy life alone is upended when he is abruptly sent to another world with his high school class. Given the chance to allot skill points and pick abilities, Haruka, who was the last to pick, got stuck with a series of skills that no one else wanted.
In the new world, Haruka ends up alone, and prefers it that way. However, when he stumbles upon his classmates struggling to adjust to their new isekai lives, Haruka is constantly pulled away from his loner life to help his classmates on their adventures in another world.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Loner Life in Another World
- The main character is average, if ugly, but pretty okay with it
- The main character is isekai’d where he is still ugly, and picks his skills chaotically but ends up overpowered.
- The main character isn’t especially interested in women, but they seem very interested in him because he’s nice.
- The main character wants to set out on his solo isekai adventure, and keeps being pulled back to the people he was sent to another world with.
- Fairly light-hearted and comedic with an aimless plot, but not without action and a bit of darkness.
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Loner Life in Another World
- The main character isn’t strictly ugly or overpowered in Loner Life. He is average and picked leftover skills since all the good ones were gone, but he uses them in overpowered ways.
- The main character was isekai’d with his entire class, and interacts with portions of them throughout in Loner Life.

A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
Taichi Tanaka is a middle-aged office worker who enjoys playing video games in his free time. Upon the release of a new VRMMO called One More Free Life Online, he decides to give it a try.
In One More Free Life Online, the player is free to do as they like, and for Taichi – now logged in as a player named Earth – he decides to master skills that are deemed to be useless by the player community. However, the skills he picks turn out to be increasingly valuable to not just his character, but others as well.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
- A guy has non-opportune skills that make him overpowered
- Pretty laid-back action adventure with a meandering plot
- Normal main character endears himself to others by being nice
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life
- A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life is not isekai. He’s a salaryman casually playing a VRMMO game that he can and does log out of.
- The main character in A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life is not ugly. He is average both in and out of game.
- A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life lacks the darker elements that Uglymug has.
- Shigeru is overpowered because he got big stat boosts for choosing to be ugly and not being able to touch women. The main character in A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life just picked non-opportune skills for fun and ends up using them in strong ways.

Bofuri – I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense
After receiving an invitation from a friend, Kaede Honjou starts playing the VRMMO game New World Online as a character named Maple.
However, in her desire to not get hurt, she puts all her stats in Vitality. This makes her move very slowly, unable to use magic, and get attacked by even the smallest creatures. However, it does allow her impenetrable defense, and the gear she finds while wandering grants her a one-hit counter skill.
And so, her adventures begin.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Bofuri
- Main characters going all in on stats and becoming overpowered because of it.
- Light-hearted and comedic fantasy adventure
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Bofuri
- Bofuri is not an isekai. It is about a girl playing a VRMMO that she can and does log out of.
- The main character in Bofuri is not ugly. She is very much a cute anime girl.
- Bofrui is about the main character going all-in specifically in the defense stat, making her pretty unbeatable. Shigeru is overpowered in all stats to the point of godhood.
For Fans of Protecting a Special Girl

Quality Assurance in Another World
Nikola is just a village girl working in ann inn when her life is upended by dragons attacking her village. During this attack, she meets Haga, a Seeker who manages to defeat the dragons even if he does it in an odd and not particularly heroic way.
However, despite clearing the dragons, Nikola and her whole village are wiped out because they were all just an event in the King’s Seeker Online VRMMMO, and the Seeker Haga was just one of several debuggers who were hired to debug the game and then trapped inside unable to log out.
While Nikola is revived, her character programming seems to malfunction allowing her to remember Haga and even to accompany him as he tries to find a way to log out of the game while resisting the allure of ultimate power from debug mode that so many of his peers have embraced for their own fun.
Similarities Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Quality Assurance in Another World
- Embraces doughy-looking characters in the art style
- Serious isekai plot that doesn’t feel so serious with how some things are resolved in the story. Yet, also not as comedy focused as it seems either.
- The main character is uniquely overpowered in the world, but keeps a lid on it
- The main character protects a special girl with something unique about her
Differences Between Uglymug, Epicfighter and Quality Assurance in Another World
- Quality Assurance in Another World is about a bug tester being trapped in the game he’s testing and joining up with an NPC that has gained sentience.
- Quality Assurance in Another World features more of a linear plot with a pretty established goal
- The main character in Quality Assurance in Another World can be overpowered, but chooses not to be. This leads to more clever problem solving when it comes to fights.
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