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.
While it has some problematic ecchi to it, Jobless Reincarnation is ultimately an exercise that shows if you do the basic aspects of isekai well, you don’t really need a unique hook for it to be good. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Jobless Reincarnation, head on down below.
Anime Like Jobless Reincarnation
For Fans of Strong Isekai World-Building
Overlord
As the final hour approaches in the life cycle of the MMO Yggdrasil, Momonga, a powerful wizard and leader of the dark guild Ainz Ooal Gown, is there to see it off.
However, to his surprise, the servers don’t go down and even stranger is that all the NPC characters have come alive with their own unique personalities.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and Overlord
- Once-shut-in main character now interacting with others
- Isekai anime
- Harem elements
- Vast, well built fantasy worlds that grow more complex over time
- Diverse cast of characters
- Beautiful, if infrequent action
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and Overlord
- Overlord is about being isekai’d into an MMO as his game character. Jobless Reincarnation is a wholly original fantasy world where he starts as a child
- Overlord becomes more about leading a nation then it is about the main character’s story
- While both series have harem elements, the main character in Overlord lacks urges towards those who have urges for him due to his lich physiology
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
After a run in with a robber, the 37-year-old Satoru is suddenly killed. He is reincarnated into a fantasy land, but not as a man. In fact, he is no longer even human!
He is reincarnated as a lowly slime.
After wandering, he comes across a dragon who he befriends and who gives him the new name of Rimuru. Absorbing this dragon into his slime body, promising to eventually break the seal that has bound him, gives Rimuru great magical ability.
He then continues to inadvertently befriend beleaguered fantasy creatures in the forest who are constantly threatened by humanity. Eventually, he decides to found a nation uniting these creatures in order to help them protect themselves.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Isekai anime
- Harem elements
- Diverse, interesting characters in a vast, well-built fantasy world
- Visually pleasing action scenes
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime is about nation building and less about the main characters’ own journey unlike Jobless Reincarnation
- Rimiru is a slime and not a human like Rudeus
- Rudy is reciprocal to his harem’s romantic interest while Rimiru often brushes off affection
Re-Zero
When Subaru Natsuki goes out for a midnight snack run, he suddenly finds himself transported to another world. As a bewildered teen in a land of swords and magic, he wanders around and ends up attacked by thugs.
After being saved by a mysterious woman, he agrees to help her get back something that was stolen. Unfortunately, it ends in both their deaths. With his dying breath, he finds that he possesses the power of revival, escaping his death by the repeating the last few hours.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and Re:Zero
- Isekai anime
- Shut-ins trying to live a better life in a new world
- Vast-feeling fantasy worlds with more effort put into world-building than action
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and Re:Zero
- While the protagonist in Re-Zero has multiple interested ladies, he only has a singular love interest compared to Rudeus and his many future wives
- Re-Zero is more focused on intrigue in the world than the main character story that Jobless Reincarnation is focused on
- Re-Zero gives the protagonist a useful, but not overpowered ability whereas Rudeus grows to be quite powerful
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The stories tell of four heroes summoned from another world – the sword, spear, bow, and shield heroes who will prevent calamity. With darkness bearing down on them, the Kingdom of Melromarc summons these heroes from modern day Japan.
For otaku Naofumi Iwatani, unfortunately he is labeled the shield hero, the weakest of the group. Worse yet, betrayal sees him labeled as a criminal and outcasted.
With hatred and vengeance consuming him, he sets forth to grow strong.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Isekai anime
- Harem of interested women
- Main characters that start weak, but train themselves into powerhouses
- Fantasy worlds filled with unique characters and world-building
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and The Rising of the Shield Hero
- The Rising of the Shield Hero has brooding main character driven by bitterness, betrayal, and revenge
- The main character of Rising of the Shield Hero is kind to his harem, but not especially romantically interested in them
- The Rising of the Shield Hero features more frequent action
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 Jobless Reincarnation and The Faraway Paladin
- Isekai anime, technically
- The main characters start life in a new world as a baby
- Standard fantasy world that is elevated by superior world-building
- Main characters that are trained by highly skilled professionals that grow up to be above average in power
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and The Faraway Paladin
- There is no harem or really romantic element in The Faraway Paladin
- The Faraway Paladin references that it is an isekai very minimally, it really is more just a fantasy anime, whereas Jobless Reincarnation has a huge focus on isekai
For Fans of Many Waifus on Deck
The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
The greatest assassin on Earth lived only to be a tool by those that wished to wield his mastery. That is, until they decided that he was no longer needed and ended his life.
By the grace of a goddess, this masterful man was reincarnated into a new world where he is asked to kill a hero that will later bring about the end of that world.
Deciding to finally live for himself, this man, now named Lugh Tuatha De, puts his skills as a killer to the test with foes who wield real magic.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and The World’s Finest Assassin
- Isekai anime
- Born into a new world as a child
- Trained by world-class individuals as a child and grows up to be pretty OP
- Harem elements
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and The World’s Finest Assassin
- The main character in The World’s Finest Assassin is less romantically interested in his harem
- The main character in The World’s Finest Assassin was also an assassin in his previous life, so skills were transferable
- The action and world aren’t as well thought out in The World’s Finest Assassin
The Eminence in Shadow
Like most kids, Kagerou wanted to be a hero, but unlike most kids, he never grew out of that phase. He constantly trained his body to achieve it. In modern Japan, he was unable to achieve that goal, understanding that he could never reach enough power to be the type of hero he wanted to be.
However, when he was reborn in a new world, he pretends to be just another character in the world. He recruits people into his organization, Shadow Garden, and decides to target a sinister cult that is lurking in the shadows that he wishes to occupy.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and The Eminence in Shadow
- Isekai anime
- Born into a new world, but retains the memories of their previous life
- Harem elements
- Actually visually fantastic action scenes
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and The Eminence in Shadow
- The Eminence in Shadow has a main character less driven by horniness and instead is a chunibyou that is pretending to fight a shadow war that is actually happening
- The main character in Eminence in Shadow hides his power from others
Spirit Chronicles
When he was a child, Amakawa Haruto made a promise to his childhood friend to reunite. However, he could never fulfill that promise both because she had disappeared and because he was killed in a bus accident.
Now, his memories awaken in a young orphan named Rio who seeks revenge for his mother that was brutally murdered in front of him. Confused about these memories of Haruto’s life, Rio ends up saving the kidnapped young princess and awakening a special power in the process.
As reward for his heroism, he is granted a scholarship to the Royal Academy.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and Spirit Chronicles
- Isekai anime
- Harem elements
- OP main characters that, eventually, go to magic school
- Main characters that get entangled in a variety of intrigues as well as their own personal story
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and Spirit Chronicles
- Spirit Chronicles offers a unique isekai set up in that the main character is both an isekai’d teen who is inside the body of a boy who already lived in that fantasy world, creating a persona with memories from both lives
- Spirit Chronicles features a colder protagonist who is less horny
For Fans of Occasionally Lewd Isekai
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
In his MMORPG, Takuma boast overwhelming strength and was referred to as the demon king. However, one day he gets summoned to another world, still in the appearance of his character.
There, he discovers two girls that use the same magic he uses to turn others into slaves. However, due to his magic reflect skill, the spell was turned back on them.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
- Isekai anime
- Harem elements
- A horny, OP protagonist
- Horniness is as much part of the plot as actual plot
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is about a protagonist summoned to another world as his MMO character
- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord is mostly ecchi comedy and very little actual plot whereas Jobless Reincarnation often is the opposite
Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
After being perpetually bullied in school, Michio Kaga is browsing a suicide website when an ad catches his eye. This ad takes him to a site that seems to allow him to create a character for an MMO.
He messes around on the site with it’s roll-based luck element until he gets top-tier stats before clicking accept. However, this website suddenly transports him to a game-like fantasy land.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Isekai anime
- Harem elements
- Horny shut-in protagonist is sent to a fantasy world and creeps on various girls
- Those main characters have sex and the anime puts a big focus on that
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World is about buying slaves to form a harem of adventuring companions
- Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World has minimal plot other than gathering the harem
- After a certain point, Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World is about ten minutes of isekai adventures and ten minutes of sex per episode, so it really is for those into Jobless Reincarnation for all the dubious lewd stuff
For Fans of Modern World Loser to Isekai Luminary
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 Jobless Reincarnation and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
- Ugly nerds turned into hotties by isekai
- Harem elements
- Fantasy stories, but more of a focus on the main character being cool and popular for the first time in their life
- OP protagonist
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
- I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World allows the main character to travel between a fantasy world and his original world
- I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World has the main character get a glow up rather than be reborn like Rudeus
- I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World has diminishing returns in action animation quality as the series goes on
Black Summoner
After an accident, a man is killed and the Goddess of Reincarnation is tasked with reincarnating him. In this afterlife, he charms the goddess, gaining the rare class of summoner, and the ability to contract her as a summon in exchange for memories of his past life.
Now thrust into a fantasy world as Kelvin, he hides his ultra-rare class to maintain his freedom in order to go on grand adventures and form pacts with powerful foes.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and Black Summoner
- Loser main characters get isekai’d to a new world
- Harem elements
- OP protagonist that is also not altogether a very noble guy
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and Black Summoner
- Jobless Reincarnation has great action and intrigue plots while Black Summoner is most focused on just cool action
- Black Summoner has the main character OP due to his rare summoner class
- The main character in Black Summoner tries to hide his power and not earn recognition
No Game No Life
In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are a legendary gaming duo.
One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games. Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat the sixteen races of this world as well as Tet in order to become the new gods.
Similarities Between Jobless Reincarnation and No Game No Life
- Shut-in main characters given a new life through isekai
- Occasional lewd comedy
- Excellent world-building
Differences Between Jobless Reincarnation and No Game No Life
- No Game No Life takes place in a world where all disputes are settled by playing games, so there is no grand combat like in Jobless Reincarnation
- No Game No Life doesn’t have much of a harem, but it has a questionable romance
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