After being hit by a truck and killed, a young man was reincarnated into a new world as a baby. He was found and raised by a legendary sage named Merlin and given the name Shin. However, while Merlin taught him his skills and Shin grew in to an extremely powerful mage, living in the forest failed to teach Shin common sense and other people skills.
This is…an isekai for the Spring 2019 season. It has divisive opinions, but it is typically more of what you love to gobble up.
Anime Like Wise Man’s Grandchild
For Fans of Isekai’d in a Weird Way
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.
Being sent to another world as a baby or as a slime does not seem practically beneficiary to the person it is happening to. However, in both shows you see the main character make the best of it in a variety of ways. They get crazy powerful, but have some distinct character flaws.
Overlord
As the final hour approaches 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.
Both series feature a main character sent to another world in another form. They retain their memories from the previous world and it is this knowledge that helps them to navigate the world. However, Overlord features a main character with wild power right away while it needs to be learned in Wise Man’s Grandchild.
Saga of Tanya the Evil
Once one of Japan’s most shrewd salarymen, after being pushed in front of a train to his death by a scorned ex-employee, a man is reborn as an adorable orphan girl after pissing off a mysterious being that calls himself God. While the female form and affinity for magic are not a punishment, being born in a world in the midst of a brutal World War is. Now, Tanya uses her calculating mind from her past life and magnificent magical abilities to spread terror on the front lines of the war, becoming one of the most dangerous people in the imperial army. This is all in effort to earn a promotion that will see her safely back to a life of comfort on the back lines, showing up the God that put her in this world for humbling.
In both series, a Japanese salaryman is reincarnated into a different world as a child. From there the series take wildly different routes, however. This is particularly true in tone. While Tanya has some funny moments, it does tend to air on a more serious side.
For Fans of Extra Overpowered Main Characters
In Another World With My Smartphone
In a blunder, God accidentally strikes down Touya Mochizuki. As an apology, he allows him one wish and the chance to live again in a magical fantasy world. He accepts, and uses his wish to be able to keep his smartphone when starting over.
While Wise Man’s Grandchild has the fact that he started as a baby to make it different, this series has the main character keep his smartphone. Regardless, aside from those two tweaks and minor differences in plot, these are pretty much the same.
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.
Both series are light-hearted isekai comedy with a bit of a twist added on to make it different from the rest. However, what these series have in common most is the main character. While they have different personalities, they are both very powerful and incredibly dumb at common sense issues.
Seven Deadly Sins
In this feudal world, the realm is protected from those who seek to spread their evil by the Holy Knights. However, in the kingdom of Liones, a small group of Holy Knights known as the Seven Deadly Sins sought to overthrown the king only to be driven off. Now, ten years later, the world hunts for the Seven Deadly Sins, but the Holy Knights have now turned their blades on the king and taken control of the kingdom. Now it is up to his third daughter, Elizabeth, to find the Sins and help them take back control.
Did you like the fact that Shin could just stop anything and everything without even trying? Then you’ll enjoy Seven Deadly Sins where the main characters are ridiculously overpowered. Obviously, it has points where this is challenged to make it interesting, but there is some impressive stomping.
For Fans of Mage Worlds
Knights & Magic
After a car accident buying Gunplay kits after work, Tsubasa Kurata – a passionate mecha otaku – is killed and reborn in another world. In the medieval kingdom of Fremmevilla, he is reborn as Ernesti Echevarria, grandson of the principal of the Royal Laihaila Academy. While Fremmevilla is rife with dangerous beasts, Ernesti is thrilled to discover that to combat these beasts and other threats, the kingdom deploys Silhouette Knights, giant mechs piloted by specially trained individuals called Knight Runners. Realizing his new life has made his otaku passions a reality, Ernesti dives into the world of Silhouette Knights in order to bring his mech designs to life.
Both series are isekai in which the main character is very strong compared to those around him. However, despite the distinct mecha bint in Knights & Magic, this is indeed a magical world in which visual effects get thrown around everywhere.
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Sistine is a dedicated student at the magical academy where she hones her skills. She eventually hopes to solve the great mystery of the Sky Castle, but when her teacher retires, the replacement, Glenn Radars, turns out to be a lazy bastard. How is it that this incompetent man was hand-picked as the best magician in the academy?
While only Wise Man’s Grandchild is an isekai series, both of these shows are classified as what one would call magical comedy. They are light-hearted and funny, but when it comes time to throw down, there is some great magic to be seen.
The Irregular at Magic High School
After magic, once thought to be folklore, was turned into a technical skill, schools to teach it opened all over. At one such school are siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba. While Miyuki excels, her brother is placed in a lower class due to his seemingly magical ineptitude. However, he has rather unique abilities that make him quite irregular.
While Irregular at Magic High School differs from Wise Man’s Grandchild by having a modern setting and a non-isekai plot, it is very much a world of magic. If you enjoyed the flash and sizzle in Wise Man’s Grandchild, there is plenty in this series and a main character that is leaps and bounds more powerful than others.
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