anime series like konosuba

Anime Like 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.

The progenitor of the ever-increasing comedy isekai sub-genre, Konosuba is able to timelessly tickle funny bones because, like war, isekai never changes. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Konosuba, head on down below.

Anime Like KonoSuba

For Fans of Isekai Parody

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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 Konosuba and Cautious Hero

  • Both are legitimately the top tier of isekai parody comedy, filled with degenerate comedy
  • Gods and goddesses are both wildly, comically flawed in both series
  • This isekai adventure goes awry early and often due to the dysfunction of the party members
  • Both offer one or two actual serious moments of adventure, often swiftly undercut by a joke

Differences Between Konosuba and Cautious Hero

  • Konosuba is about a party made up with the most flawed adventurers imaginable while Cautious Hero only has the hero character being the major roadblock to them having a normal adventure
  • Kazuma is the straight man to his flawed female companions while the goddess Ristarte is the straight man to Seiya’s comical over-prepping
  • Cautious Hero turns the joke serious while Konosuba develops an actual plot
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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 Konosuba and Uncle From Another World

  • Both series are riffing on isekai adventures by making them go horribly awry
  • Both main characters are as attractive as they are repulsive to their party
  • Both series are comical, unintentional harems

Differences Between Konosuba and Uncle From Another World

  • Uncle From Another World is about a guy that came back from an isekai adventure detailing his misadventures while Konosuba still has Kazuma in the thick of it
  • The big overlying joke in Uncle From Another World is that he is ugly and very dense while Konosuba has a larger cast of character flaws to milk for comedy
  • Kazuma is both weak and not attractive, Uncle is at least overpowered
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The Devil is a Part-Timer

Right on the verge of taking over the world, evil Demon Lord Satan was foiled by the hero Emilia and was forced to retreat through a dimensional portal.

He ends up in our modern world where he is without powers and without money. In order to pay his way, he gets a part-timer job slinging fast food.

Similarities Between Konosuba and The Devil is a Part-Timer

  • Both series are comedic spins on the isekai premise
  • While both start comedic, they do get a little more serious as they go on
  • Many parodied fantasy stereotypes

Differences Between Konosuba and The Devil is a Part-Timer

  • The Devil is a Part-Timer is a reverse isekai about a demon lord coming to our world and having to world a part-time job like everyone else. Konosuba is just a normal isekai adventure gone awry
  • While Kazuma is a bit scummy, the Demon Lord in The Devil is a Part-Timer is a pretty good guy
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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 Konosuba and Kemono Michi

  • Konosuba and Kemono Michi have the same author, thus share a similar approach to comedy and storytelling
  • The main characters are both surrounded by comically flawed women in a not-legally-a-harem situation
  • Both series are isekai anime about an isekai adventure gone comically awry
  • Both are light on overall plot and focus instead on small comedic misadventure arcs

Differences Between Konosuba and Kemono Michi

  • Konosuba is about a weak guy surrounded by strong, but flawed female party members. Kemono Michi is about a strong guy that wants to open a pet store surrounded by weak and scummy female friends who mooch off him
  • Konosuba often establishes a goal for the adventures while Kemono Michi is often more random in what he is doing at any time
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My One-Hit Kill Sister

After dying, Asahi Ikusaba was transported to another world. While he tries to enjoy his isekai adventure, he finds that his abilities are rather lackluster. Just as he is about to be attacked, Asahi’s elder sister Maya manifests in his new world and saves him.

As he discovers, Maya is the overpowered one in this isekai adventure! With cheat-level skills, she is the world’s strongest older sister with the world’s strongest brother complex.

Similarities Between Konosuba and My One-Hit Kill Sister

  • Both are isekai comedies parodying the concept of the isekai adventure
  • Women outshine the male main character constantly, much to his displeasure
  • The main character never gets the exciting isekai adventure that he wants and remains wildly weak

Differences Between Konosuba and My One-Hit Kill Sister

  • My One-Hit Kill Sister features just one really strong sister and an OP enemy that fell in love with the main character as the only companions he has
  • Action is always over quickly in My One-Hit Kill Sister
  • My One-Hit Kill Sister often leans on two jokes – his sister is OP and she really loves him. Konosuba has more variety

For Fans of Comically Flawed Misfits

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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 Konosuba and Combatants Will Be Dispatched

  • Both Konosuba and Combatants Will Be Dispatched have the same author, thus share a similar approach to comedy and storytelling
  • Both series feature a comically scummy main character surrounded by powerful women with big personality flaws
  • Both series are comedy isekai following misadventure-type plots

Differences Between Konosuba and Combatants Will Be Dispatched

  • Konosuba is a traditional isekai setting while Combatants Will be Dispatched is more about being teleported to another planet to conquer it for an evil organization, but saving it from the demon lord threat they are facing first
  • You could say that the biggest difference is that Konosuba is fantasy while Combatants Will be Dispatched is fantasy with many sci-fi elements
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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 Konosuba and Tsukimichi

  • Both series are comedic isekai anime that balance comedy and actual adventure so similarly that it is hard to believe they don’t share an author
  • Both main characters have flaws and flawed companions that keep them from the happy isekai adventure they were hoping for
  • Goddesses are a real pain in the butt for the main characters

Differences Between Konosuba and Tsukimichi

  • While the main joke in Tsukimichi is that the main character is considered repulsively ugly by human standards in his new fantasy world, he is at least overpowered, unlike Kazuma who has neither power nor looks
  • Tsukimichi loves grand, flashy action more than Konosuba with is only occasional explosion spell
  • The main character in Tsukimichi is the accidental founder of a beast nation and has an overly attached beast girl harem whereas Kazuma has an unwanted harem, but no nation to lead
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Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

In the fantasy city of Orario, there is a massive labyrinth underneath it. For brave adventurers, glory and fortune can be found within. In order to tackle the challenging monsters inside, adventures join guilds of strong gods and goddesses.

However, for newbie adventurer Bell Cranel, no good guild will have him, except for Hestia, a goddess with no followers. Together they team up to grow strong and find glory.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon

  • Both series follow the “unwanted adventurers” who bond together in one group
  • Both main characters start off as novices to grow their abilities
  • Both main characters are close with goddesses of varying usefulness

Differences Between Konosuba and Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon

  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon is a serious action anime compared to the misadventure that is Konosuba
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon has its lighter moments, but has big action, many characters, and comedy isn’t the focus
  • Konosuba travels the world with its adventures while Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon is limited to crawling just one dungeon
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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 Konosuba and The Legendary Hero is Dead

  • Both series are fantasy anime that definitely don’t take themselves too seriously, but still actually do have some plot to follow
  • The main characters are pathetically weak and just the right amount of perverted
  • Both main characters amass a harem of skilled women with big personality flaws

Differences Between Konosuba and The Legendary Hero is Dead

  • While it goes about it in a lackadaisical way, The Legendary Hero is Dead is following its actual plot more than Konosuba ever does
  • The legendary hero is indeed dead and the main character is only wearing his always-rotting flesh suit in The Legendary Hero is Dead. At least Kazuma is alive-alive, so he has that working for him
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Handyman Saitou in Another World

Handyman Saitou has always been a kind of an unremarkable man. He worked a thankless handyman job where the company prioritized profits and clients often dismissed his work as too simple to be worth paying for.

One day, Saitou is transported to a fantasy land where he takes up with a group of adventurers who, despite having some slight dysfunction of their their own, make his skills feel valuable!

Similarities Between Konosuba and Handyman Saitou

  • Both series feature the adventuring group that no one else wanted to adventure with
  • While everyone has their flaws, they learn to work as a team together
  • Both series are isekai anime that love their occasional dark or perverted joke
  • Both main characters are the weak members of their party and would be best described as thief/rogue classes

Differences Between Konosuba and Handyman Saitou

  • Handyman Saitou switches from comedy to serious isekai a lot, but never forgets to return to comedy to keep things light
  • The personality flaws of the misfit party in Handyman Saitou aren’t as big of a detriment to success as they are in Konosuba
  • Handyman Saitou has a very clear romantic element with progression

For Fans of Degenerate Comedy

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KamiKatsu – Working for God in a Godless World

As his father is the leader of a cult religion, Yukito Urabe is often at the mercy of his whims. One whim sees him tossed into the ocean with the belief that their god, Mitama, will save him. As he drowns, Yukito wishes to be reborn in a world without gods and religion.

His wish comes true when he wakes up in a world completely devoid of religion, but learns that the government carries out an end-of-life system where people regularly are killed and those who do not wish to be killed voluntarily toil away in isolated villages until they are taken by force to be executed.

After Yukito’s new friends from one isolation camp are taken to be forcefully executed, he awakens Mitama with a prayer who descends from the sky and annihilates anyone that hurt him and his friends.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Kamikatsu

  • Both series are isekai comedies where the isekai adventure goes wonderfully wrong
  • Both main characters are accompanied in another world by a pretty useless goddess
  • Mitama and Aqua came from the same school of Goddessry and possibly the same mother given their similar personalities
  • Both male main characters aren’t afraid to be a little underhanded to get ahead

Differences Between Konosuba and Kamikatsu

  • Kamikatsu has a lot more sexual comedy, but isn’t ecchi
  • Kamikatsu does actually have a plot about founding a religion through degeneracy, and it often lets that be a catalyst for the comedy unlike Konosuba that is a bit more random
  • Thanks to a helpfully placed man as a sort of comedic sidekick punching bag, Kamikatsu doesn’t have the harem undertones that Konosuba has
  • The main character in Kamikatsu is more intelligent, cold, and calculating that Kazuma
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Dungeon of Black Company

Kinji has finally perfected his NEET lifestyle through shrewd money management. However, just when he is able to hang out for the rest of his life, he is transported to another world.

There, he is immediately shoved into a harsh mining job for a black company that cares only about profits and quotas. However, as the world’s laziest and most clever NEET, Kinji is determined to be a layabout.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Dungeon of Black Company

  • Both series are isekai parodies that display misadventures rather than a heroic isekai fantasy
  • If Kazuma were an adult, he would be Kinji
  • Both main characters are scumbags for comedy and profit
  • Their companions are both powerful, and powerfully useless

Differences Between Konosuba and Dungeon of Black Company

  • The Dungeon of Black Company is riffing on isekai and black company work culture
  • The Dungeon of Black Company does ha a more compact goal and an occasional plot to pursue
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Asobi Asobase

One day, Olivia – blonde-haired, foreign-looking transfer student – lies to air-headed Hanako about her English skills. Despite her looks, she has actually lived in Japan almost all her life and can’t speak English very well, but succeeded in tricking Hanako.

This bit of mischief sparked a series of small games in the classroom between them, annoying the nearby deadpan Kasumi who hates games after being teased mercilessly by her older sister for always losing.

However, the mischief eventually draws all three of them into the Pastime Club, a club Hanako created just to goof off.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Asobi Asobase

  • Both series are top tier comedies full of characters that – in the situation – shouldn’t be scumbag degenerates, but are
  • Both series feature women being comically flawed

Differences Between Konosuba and Asobi Asobase

  • Konosuba is an isekai parody comedy while Asobi Asobase is a comedy parody of school club slice of life anime
  • Konosuba does have some plot while Asobi Asobase adopts the “new day, new terrible thing to do to each other” approach to storytelling
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Grand Blue

Iori Kitahara is excited to travel to the seaside town of Izu for his first year of college. He moves into his uncle’s scuba shop, Grand Blue, but things don’t go according to plan.

Inside the shop is a bunch of naked and drunk upperclassman who get him drunk. After his cousin walks in, his college life starts to derail, but his work getting it back on track doesn’t go quite as planned either.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Grand Blue

  • Both series are comedy anime that focus on scummy or degenerate characters doing what they do best – degeneracy
  • Both series feature what were normal main character pushed towards scumbaggery by the company he keeps
  • Both series have actual plots that they occasionally engage in, but you mostly watch them for the jokes

Differences Between Konosuba and Grand Blue

  • Konosuba is an isekai comedy while Grand Blue is a comedy about a diving club full of drunk college boys
  • Grand Blue is very realistic and not fantasy in anyway (Other than the fantasy of having friends)
  • Grand Blue has more naked men, more frequently
  • When Grand Blue is serious, it is more serious than Konosuba
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Aho Girl

Yoshiko Hanabatake is an idiot. So much so that even her own mother has given up hope on her.

However, her studious and terrifying childhood friend A-kun is up to the task of shutting down her shenanigans at every turn.

Similarities Between Konosuba and Aho Girl

  • Both series feature a somewhat serious male main character at the the mercy of at least one very dumb girl that is always around him
  • Gender equality is present in both in that the male main character isn’t afraid to smack a woman
  • Both series are comedy anime about one guy and the problem characters disrupting his life
  • The dumb girls are very confident in their abilities – and they shouldn’t be

Differences Between Konosuba and Aho Girl

  • Konosuba is an isekai comedy while Aho Girl is a modern-set comedy, possibly parodying rom-com anime
  • Konosuba does manifest some plot lines while Aho Girl is plotless slice of life comedy with extra violence

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