Red was once the member of a hero’s party that sought to destroy the Demon Lord Taraxon. However, while Red was powerful at first, his companions soon eclipsed him, and thus, pushed him out of the party.
Hoping for a more laid-back life, he moves to the country with a dream to start an apothecary. He hopes to keep his past as an adventurer a secret, but that becomes increasingly more difficult when an adventurer named Rit from his past asks to move in with him.
While Banished Form The Hero’s Party kicked off the “kicked from the hero’s party” trope in anime, it did it well. By crafting a likable main character and offering romance with progression, it never let the series languish as “another fantasy slice of life” series. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Banished From The Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in The Countryside, head on down below.
Anime Like Banished From The Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in The Countryside
For Fans of Kicked From a Previous Organization
Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
Dariel is a dark soldier in the Demon King’s army – or rather, he was. After the son of the previous demon general took over, he swiftly fired Dariel for a lack of power and supposed usefulness.
Set adrift, Dariel rescues a girl from a monster in the woods and she takes him to her village. There, he discovers that he wasn’t actually a demon, but is a human – and an incredibly powerful one.
Now he pays the village back for all their kindness by helping them out.
Both Banished from the Hero’s Party and Chillin’ in My 30s are about likable guys who were pressured out of their former employment because one guy didn’t like them. Furthermore, both main characters were either raised to believe or gas-lit to believe that they were weak and holding everyone back while actually being quite competent.
After leaving, they end up in a rural town, create a job for themselves, and end up living with and romancing a very attached woman.
Really, Banished from the Hero’s Party and Chillin’ in My 30s are the same story. They are both told from a light-hearted perspective and just focus on the main character’s nice new life. If anything, Chillin’ in My 30s is even more relaxed and comedic, but still also has a light action and adventuring focus.
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.
Like Red, Rein in Beast Tamer was pushed out of the hero’s party for being super helpful, but allegedly, super weak. Throughout both series, they display not just the main character living a happy new life with companions that cherish them, but how much the hero’s party struggles without them there.
However, Beast Tamer is a bit of a different series. It follows a beast tamer who, as it turns out, is the most overpowered beast tamer in the world which allows him to tame beastpeople. As such, Beast Tamer quickly turns into a harem fantasy, which is distinctly different from Banished from the Hero’s Party’s singular romance.
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.
Both Banished from the Hero’s Party and The Strongest Tank’s Labyrinth Raids are about main characters that are pushed out of the hero’s party because their skills are misunderstood as weak. While Red retires to the country, Rud still has something he is looking for in dungeons so he continues his adventuring.
However, as Rud misunderstood even his own skills, much of this series is about him learning how to utilize them in combat.
If you were looking for something more like the pleasant slice of life focus that Banished from the Hero’s Party often has, this is not it. It is definitely more action focused.
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.
Unlike Banished from the Hero’s Party that was about Red being pushed out of the hero’s party, I’m Quitting Heroing is slightly different in that it is about a hero who, after saving humanity, is chased out of the human kingdoms for being too powerful.
Regardless, both series are about the main characters starting a new life in a new place and making all sorts of friends. However, while Banished from the Hero’s Party has its more dramatic and even a few dark moments, I’m Quitting Heroing gets unexpectedly dark as it goes on and reveals some things. So while it starts comedic and pleasant, it shows some fangs later on.
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.
Betrayal in a fantasy world is quite popular in anime these days, and Ningen Fushin essentially takes every way an adventurer can be betrayed, does it to a character, then puts them all in an adventuring party where they need to work through their trust issues.
Ningen Fushin, while it has its moments, is a lot less comedic and light-hearted than Banished from the Hero’s Party. Every character is damaged, and they let that show in the relationship they have with each other. However, it tells a similar story of characters starting over like Banished from the Hero’s Party. It is just that they are still adventurers in Ningen Fushin, which is notably different compared to Red’s desire to start an apothecary.
For Fans of Apothecaries
Parallel World Pharmacy
After dedicating himself to creating medicines as a pharmacist, Kani Yakutani works himself to death at the age of 31.
He awakens in the form of a ten-year-old boy that has been struck by lightning. He discovers that he is the son of a prestigious family as well the host to the guardian deity of medicine. This allows him to immediately diagnose illnesses in others.
While this is a miraculous ability, he discovers the state of medicine in this world is primitive and takes up his previous profession from his past life as a pharmacist once again.
While Parallel World Pharmacy is an isekai, it is a series that doesn’t focus on adventure, but instead focuses on helping people. As a medical-focused isekai, the main character starts a business where he can help people with his abilities and medicine, not unlike Red.
Furthermore, both series look like harem anime with the above average amount of female characters that end up surrounding the main character, but aren’t. Banished from the Hero’s Party pursues its singular romance while Parallel World Pharmacy has the main character be too young and too preoccupied to form a harem.
Management of a Novice Alchemist
After her parent’s death, young Sarasa was inspired to become an alchemist and graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy.
Sacrificing friendships for hard work, she graduates with top marks and under the apprenticeship of a master alchemist.
This master helps her get set up with her first alchemy shop. It is in the middle of nowhere, but surrounded by top-notch alchemy ingredients.
While starting up a new shop is hard work, Sarasa is no stranger to working hard for her dreams.
Both Banished from the Hero’s Party and Management of a Novice Alchemist follow main characters that move to a rural area to start their fist apothecary business.
In Banished from the Hero’s Party, it is Red’s decision to move out there while Management of a Novice Alchemist has her strong-armed into doing it because she can gather better ingredients there.
While both series are slice of life anime focused on them building their business, they are also building relationships with other people. However, while Banished from the Hero’s Party becomes a romance, Management of a Novice Alchemist remains closer to a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime, but treated more seriously.
Drug Store in Another World – The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist
Formerly a corporate slave, Reiji was transported to another world. Using his skills, he started making potions that were effective, and most importantly, didn’t taste like absolute garbage.
Now, Reiji lives a slow life on the outskirts of a village by making potions and running a pharmacy.
Both Banished from the Hero’s Party and Drug Store in Another World are about main characters who start an apothecary. While both are slice of life fantasy anime about a guy running his business and helping people, that is about all they share.
Drug Store in Another World is an isekai anime, much more comedy focused, and has a bit of a harem element to it without a main romance. Furthermore, the main character is a bit more comically scummy than Red.
For Fans of Slower Slice of Life Fantasy With Light Adventure
My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer
After losing his leg, Belgrieve retired from being an adventurer and returned to his hometown in the country. One day while collecting herbs in the mountains, he stumbles upon a crying abandoned baby girl.
Taking her home, Belgrieve raised the child he named Angeline as his own. However, with a talent for swordplay, he sends his daughter off for further training at the Adventurer’s Guild in the capital.
After five years, Angeline has become an S-Class adventurer and guild work keeps her endlessly busy. Unfortunately, all she wants to do is take an extended vacation to finally go home and see her father again.
If Red found a baby in the woods instead of a girl who moved into his house, the story of Banished from the Hero’s Party might have turned out more like My Daughter Left The Nest.
While My Daughter Left the Nest seems like a parenting anime, it is actually more about adventure. His adoptive daughter is a high ranked adventurer in the city and the older male main character lives a nice life in the country until he ends up pulled into smaller scale adventures.
Both Banished from the Hero’s Party and My Daughter Left the Nest are rather slow-paced slice of life anime that still feature main characters who will go on adventures if they need something or someone needs help. If you like nice, mature characters like Red, Belgrieve in My Daughter Left the Nest provides that, but doesn’t form any sort of romantic relationship.
I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level
Dying from overwork, Azusa Aizawa is allowed to reincarnate into a new world as a witch that will live forever.
Wanting to never be overworked again, she leisurely kills slimes in order to pay for living expenses. However, this meager amount of XP stacks over 300 years of doing it, and she finds herself at max level.
Fearing someone will try to thrust work upon her, she decides to try and hide her strength.
While Banished from the Hero’s Party does slow, slice of life fantasy in a enjoyable way without the moe, if you just want more of characters enjoying a peaceful life with friends – and don’t mind the moe – then 300 Slimes may be for you.
While 300 Slimes is an isekai, the only plot it has is a woman actively trying to avoid adventure and doing what she wants. Furthermore, like Red, a series of people end up forcing their way into her house as friends.
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.
While By The Grace of the Gods is an isekai anime, it isn’t one about power fantasy and adventure. Like Red in Banished from the Hero’s Party, the main character in By The Grace of The Gods just wants to live a happy life following his passion. He starts a business, he lives in a small town, and he helps people that leads to the occasional small-scale adventure.
Neither series has a strong focus on action, but has a big focus on likable characters interacting with each other. However, By The Grace of The Gods can be described as a little “softer” than Banished from the Hero’s Party which has its occasional more serious moments as well as a progressing romance.
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent
Sei, a young office worker, is summoned to a new world. However, the people who summoned her to banish dark magic from the world only meant to summon one person they would call Saint. Instead, they summoned two, and Sei discovers that they actually like the other girl better.
Not really caring about that, she ends up making potions at a research institute using her newfound magic. Unfortunately, while she is unexpectedly talented at her work and happy doing it, she begins to think that she is indeed the Saint.
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is an isekai as well as one with a female main character. However, like Red is a pretty grounded and normal male character, Sei is a grounded and mature female main character that is similarly easy to like.
What Banished from the Hero’s Party and The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent have most in common is they follow main characters who essentially make potent medicine that helps people. Furthermore, they both go on adventures and get involved with problems, but none of those adventures are particularly intense. Finally, both series also explore a charming romance with actual progression to it.
If you liked Banished from the Hero’s Party because it was a more peaceful and whimsical sort of fantasy, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent is very much the same and definitely not the boilerplate isekai that many of them are.
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