Escapism and wish fulfillment knows no sexual orientation. Reality is often terrible no matter who you are attracted to. So isekai, as such a popular genre of anime, can often appeal to a wide variety of anime fans.
That said, isekai is firmly entering a phase where it covers not just being sent to another world, but being sent there with a twist, like being a sword or they are a fantasy monster. Only just recently has having LGBT themes or relationships become an emerging twist in isekai. So while there are not a ton of good LGBT isekai anime options right now, it has been growing.
This is actually pretty great news since both yaoi and yuri are rather stagnant genres these days. So even if isekai stories are not what you want, its popularity is netting a few more same-sex romance adaptations.
If you are looking for LGBT isekai anime recommendations, then give these small handful a try!
Best LGBT Isekai Anime
Lesbian Isekai Anime
Lesbian isekai anime, like older girl’s love anime, enjoys playing rather coy with homosexual relationships. There is a lot of inferring to be done and often profoundly little romantic progression. However, of all the LGBT isekai sub-categories, lesbian isekai anime is making the most progress.
Otherside Picnic
There are those that don’t consider Otherside Picnic an isekai anime as they can come and go from the otherworld as they please. However, it is sometimes also hard to consider it a lesbian anime as well.
The source material very much is, but the Otherside Picnic anime often keeps the burgeoning love affair between its two main characters very subdued.
That aside, Otherside Picnic tells the story of two college girls who meet in another world and team up to deal with the dangers there. Both are trying to use the exploration and items procured in that world as a way to make some money, but one is also searching for a girl supposedly somewhere in there.
The romance is frustrating if existent, but the unique spin on an isekai world is worth watching.
The Executioner and Her Way of Life
The Executioner and Her Way of Life is not just a lesbian isekai anime, but a pretty unique take on isekai in general. It tells the story of a fantasy land that was so sick of Japanese teens being sent to their world and causing chaos with their magnificent powers that they set up a group of executioners to find them and kill them.
As such, the main character is a girl that kills isekai protagonists. On her quest, she finds a Japanese girl who is immortal. Together, they set off on a journey to find a way to kill her, happily bonding on the way.
LGBT romance anime tends to do this thing where members of the opposite sex tend not to exist in the world just so you know that it is super gay. The Executioner and Her Way of Life does this too, and because it does, you get a lot of interesting female relationships. They are not always implied to be romantic like the main couple is, but they sure look like it in some fun to watch ways.
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady
Magical Revolution is a great new evolution of not just LGBT isekai, but LGBT romance anime where the main character proclaims early in the series and at an early age that she is romantically interested in woman and only women.
From there, the series is actually rather light on romance. It brings the two characters together, one being hesitant about the main character’s romantic interest, but not adverse to it, but then moves onto serious plot.
Instead of this series just being a gushing romance anime, it is actually plot-driven fantasy with the lesbian romance serving as just a small part. It’s not great from romance anime fans, but it is pretty great for representation.
I’m in Love with the Villainess
Like Magical Revolution, I’m in Love with the Villainess doesn’t mince words and has no ambiguity about the romantic interest of at least one party in this relationship.
It’s right there in the title – She’s in love with the villainess. She doesn’t want to male love interests from the otome game she was transported in, she wants her.
The villainess resists her affections not so much because she is a woman, but more because she is a commoner and a very immune to her usual bullying tactics. However, it isn’t long before you see that affection start to break through and this tsundere starts to thaw.
Gay Isekai Anime
Like is common in yaoi anime, gay isekai anime is wildly sexualized. While the boy’s love genre outside of isekai has recently embraced men having normal relationships with each other, gay isekai anime is not quite there yet. Get ready for a lot of horny here.
The Titan’s Bride
Those that go into this isekai expecting a serious story are going to be disappointed. The Titan’s Bride is pretty horny comedy, but rather quite fun if you just go with it.
The Titan’s Bride follows a high school basketball player that led his team to victory at nationals and retired, looking forward to maybe having time to find love.
He ends up being sent to an another world that is only inhabited by giants. Here, he comes face-to-face with Caius, the Titan King. Caius takes this boy’s appearance to be destiny, and deems that he will become his bride.
What comes after is very lewd comedy and “small hole, large pole” jokes. Let’s just say this is a series that has a censored and uncensored version, which should tell you all you need to know as to if you will want to watch it or not.
Reincarnated Into Demon King Evelogia’s World
Made by the same studio as The Titan’s Bride, Reincarnated Into Demon King Evelogia’s World captures a similar sense of isekai horny.
Reincarnated Into Demon King Evelogia’s World follows a thug who enjoys games in his free time. However, one day he is killed by yakuza. The next thing he knows, he is in the world of his favorite game.
There, he realizes that he is the character meant to assassinate the demon king Evelogia, a character he loved above all others. Rejecting this, he actually goes to ally with Evelogia, who is happy to have an ally for the first time ever.
From there, it embraces the horny where the main character becomes increasingly more obsessed with the demon king, and the demon king’s power begins to run wild.
Kyo Kara Maoh
If you were looking for a gay isekai anime that is a little less sex-driven, you will have to make due with the distinctly “shounen-ai but incredibly vague about it” anime that is Kyo Kara Maoh.
As this is an older anime from from the early 2000’s, the overt gayness is right there, but never acknowledged as such.
Kyo Kara Maoh follows Yuri, a school boy who ends up sent to another world after having his head stuck in a toilet by bullies. There, thanks to his black hair and black eyes, he is deemed the next demon king.
He then proceeds to hone his magic and prove himself a good ruler to his demon kingdom. Therein, he is assigned a fiancee, who is a man. All of his advisors and friends are also beautiful men. In fact, women are particularly rare in this series for no real reason except the usual reason for having one predominant gender in all LGBT anime – to make sure you know that they are saying it without saying it. Again, the gayness is there for all to see, but you never see it officially acknowledged.
Bisexual Isekai Anime
As is typical of bisexual representation in any media, anime creators – isekai or otherwise – tend to choose one side or the other with sexuality, and bisexuality tends to be eschewed off into the void. So while you will find no very clearly bisexual isekai anime, you will find some where feelings are there for both genders.
My Next Life as a Villainess – All Route Lead to to Doom
My Next Life as a Villainess is a celebration of bisexuality, but never in an official way.
In My Next Life as a Villainess, a young daughter of a duke hits her head and suddenly remembers she is reincarnated into an otome game she was playing. However, she is not the heroine, but the villainess of the game who meets a grisly end.
To avoid doom, she decides to just be friends with everyone. This means befriending all the male love interests from the game as well as the female characters. By the end, the men are in love with her, all the women are in love with her, but she is so oblivious to the romantic feelings that she has essentially created a bisexual harem.
There is no romantic payoff here, but if you want to see a likable character enjoy the company of all her many interested male and female paramours, My Next Life as a Villainess is very wholesome.
Transgender Isekai Anime
Anime tends to live in the gender-bender genre when it comes to transgender representation, Wandering Son being the one exception. However, what is the gender-bender anime genre if not an exploration of at least some transgender feelings, albeit it ignoring a good number of the more serious issues.
Reborn to Master the Blade – From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire
Reborn to Master the Blade takes up the topic of isekai being a salve to regret. In Reborn to Master the Blade, a great hero and king is on his death bed. He was a great leader, but this meant he had to give up on martial pursuits. As such, he asks a goddess to reincarnated him so he can pursue a life dedicated to battle.
While the goddess granted his wish happily, he is reborn into the body of a girl.
While Reborn to Master the Blade does the standard gender-bending thing by lingering on some lewd angles at first, despite this hero-king having his old memories, he really isn’t bothered being a girl.
He lives his life happily regardless and it actually has little effect on his adventures.
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout
Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout is definitely a rom-com with a twist. The twist being in the title itself – a guy and his woman-hating male friend are transported to another world by a goddess who also turns him into a woman. Now his friend is repulsed by him, yet they still keep finding themselves in the standard rom-com situations.
That is really where the comedy comes from, and Life With an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout is very much all comedy. Yet, you do actually get a bit invested into the potential for romance too.
She Professed Herself The Pupil of The Wise Man
She Professed Herself The Pupil of The Wise Man starts off as a VRMMO anime where the main character plays a powerful mage that helped found a nation in-game. Things then go terribly strange when he is using up some currency about to expire by changing his avatar into a cute girl. You know, just to see what they would look like.
Well, he falls asleep, his character gets stuck as a girl, and suddenly he finds that he can’t actually log out.
Unfortunately, this anime doesn’t do much with that. It actually ends up being more cute girls doing cute things in a fantasy world than anything else.
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