Top 100 Best Isekai Anime About Being Sent to Another World

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.

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.

While forming the rear guard for his uncle’s escape, Toyohisa Shimazu manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded himself in the process.

While trying to limp back home, he finds himself transported from the field to a hallway lined with doors. There a mysterious man sends him spiraling into another world.

Dragged into the forest by two young elves, Toyohisa is patched up by two others from the Land of the Rising Sun that turn out to be Yoichi Suketaka Nasu and Oda Nobunaga.

From there, Toyohisa and his fellow historical figures, named “drifters” must save (or conquer) their new world.

Motosu Urano loves books. She recently got her librarian certification and was about to enter her dream job when an earthquake caused her to be crushed by her collection of books.

She is reincarnated into a new world as the five year old daughter of a soldier. Unfortunately, in this world, books are reserved for the elite nobility.

What do you do when your station in life does not afford you access to books? Make your own.

Because of her exceptional abilities, Misato Kurihara never got to live a normal life. However, after her sudden death, she is offered reincarnation and one wish. Her wish is to have average abilities so that she can live an average life.

Unfortunately, reincarnated as a noble’s daughter, she still has impressive magic ability. Determined to still have her normal life, she flees to a far away hunter school and attempts to hide her abilities.

Touya Mochizuki is accidentally killed, and as an apology, God allows him to be reborn into a fantasy world. He also gets one wish.

Touya chooses to use his wish to keep his smart phone that he uses to give him the knowledge to dominate his new world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On one normal day in high school, the lives of many students ended unexpectedly. Some were reincarnated as nobles or strong heroes. Others were reincarnated as wondrous fantasy creatures.

Unfortunately for one girl, she was reincarnated as a lowly cave spider.

No stranger to hardship given her difficult school life, she vows to not give up, and through an RPG system, grows stronger each day.

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.

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.

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.

Will was born into a city that was long dead.

Taken in by three undead, they pour their knowledge into him through lessons as he grows. However, as he does learn about the world and the gods within from them, he begins to wonder who he is and why he was born into this place.

He only has vague memories of a past life in modern Japan, but now faces a world filled with other mysteries to explore.

After a vending machine otaku ironically meets his end due to a vending machine, he is thrilled to find out he has reincarnated in a fantasy land as a vending machine. Unfortunately, he was placed in the middle of the country with no one else around.

After discovering he earns points through selling goods that he can use to change stock, get new abilities, and that are used as his power source, he watches them tick down as he waits for customers.

Luckily, he is discovered by a young woman who enjoys his goods, discovers his sentience and limited communication skills, and takes him to a nearby town. Given the name Boxxo, he helps out various adventurers by – like a true vending machine – offering just what they need.

Yuuji Sano was once an office worker, but one day while finishing up his work he was summoned to another world.

There he discovers that his class in this other world is a Monster Tamer, something not really good for adventuring as a profession.

However, after an encounter with some slimes, he gains a second class – Sage – which allows him to also wield incredible magic.

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.

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 as 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 to go on grand adventures and form pacts with powerful foes.

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.

After his death, a man is reincarnated into a new world. However, his body is not that of a human, but rather he is a legendary sword that, after leveling up his skills, becomes stuck firmly in the middle of a dangerous forest.

Begging for a wielder to come to him, he watches a slave caravan attacked by a two-headed bear. A young catgirl named Fran flees and happens across him with the pair teaming up to slay the bear and break her enslavement.

When she was a young child, Princess Anisphia recovered the memories of her previous life. Despite her having disappointingly no aptitude for magic, she uses the world’s magical capability and her past life knowledge of technology to form the realm of magicology.

One day while testing an invention, Anisphia crashes into a school party where her older brother is publicly breaking his engagement with Euphillia, robbing her of her future as a queen.

Anisphia whisks her away and asks her father to let her have her as an assistant and secretly hopes to make her a lover as well.

After dying of an illness, Machio Hiraku is given the opportunity to reincarnate into another world.

The god grants him a healthy body and his wish to live peacefully. Machio also asks if he can have a talent for agriculture in hopes that he can live a more fulfilling life.

The god grants him all this as well as the ability to summon a farming tool that can turn into any agricultural tool he needs, including one that makes any seeds he can think of.

Machio is sent in the middle of a forest full of dangerous creatures. Without any civilization in sight, he makes his own small farm that slowly accumulates residents that wander the woods.

In his life as the world’s strongest onmyouji, Haruyoshi only pursued power. However, even his immense power couldn’t stand up to the well-played cunning that saw him betrayed and slain.

Using a technique he formed, he is able to reincarnated himself into another world. In this world, he, unlike the other members of his prestigious mage family, has no affinity for magic.

Haruyoshi, now Seika, the son of his father’s mistress, is shunned for his origins and lack of affinity. However, while he lacks in traditional magic, he still excels in spiritual power, allowing him use of his onmyouji techniques.

While once he pursued power, he will now seek greatness by honing his cunning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kouichi Mizuki has finally graduated high school, and on his last day, he is summoned to Eustil, a world of Titans.

It turns out that the man who summoned him, Prince Caius, has brought him to the world in order to become his bride and fulfill a prophecy.

Unsure about the prospect, Caius agrees to send Kouichi home in a month if he is truly unhappy, so he agrees to give it a try.

After finding a sword in her family’s storehouse, Yui is transported to another world. She finds herself face to face with the king of gods, Zeus.

In order to repair the relationship between gods and humans, Zeus created an academy for young deities and chose Yui to be the human instructor of it.

Now, she must educate five young gods on what it means to be human or be trapped in the realm forever.

One day, 25-year-old Shingo Ichinomiya goes to sleep and wakes up a 6-year-old in a medieval noble family.

Unfortunately, he soon comes to learn that his noble family is not only quite poor, but he is actually the 8^th son and looking at virtually no inheritance.

He is, however, talented at magic and decides to work to bring prosperity to his family.

Yuuto Suoh and his childhood friend set out to prove an urban legend one day at a nearby shrine. However, when he does, he is transported to another world called Yggdrasil.

In this land of constant war, he is taken in by the Wolf Clan who struggle due to their inferior tactics. However, using his knowledge of tactics (and his smartphone) he gains the affection of both the patriarch of the clan and a group of warrior maidens known as the Einherjar.

Otaku Hajime Nagumo and several of his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind. However, while his classmates are gifted with great abilities, Hajime only has transmutation skills that have no real offensive use.

He is soon betrayed by a classmate and sent into an abyss filled with monsters. Steeling his resolve to not die to the darkness, he struggles to survive and teams up with an imprisoned vampire to return to the world above.

In the land of Amawakumi, the kingdom is passed down every 30 years to a daughter of the Hime Clan. However, with no females to offer, they send their son Arata who walks into a trap that sees him framed for the murder of the previous princess.

Meanwhile on Earth, Hinohara is feeling a similar sting of betrayal from his classmates. Upon wishing that he would just disappear, he switches bodies with Arata.

Now faced with each other’s problems, the pair try to return to their own bodies and lives.

In Flonyard, a war rages between the dog-like citizens of the Republic of Biscotti and their attackers, the feline forces of the Galette Leo knights. In an effort to save her country, Princess Millhiore of Biscotti summons a champion from another world. This champion is Cinque Izumi, a normal student from Japan.

Agreeing to assist the beleaguered republic, Cinque retrieves a sacred weapons called Palladion. However, he discovers that the “wars” on Flonyard aren’t fought with violence, but are more akin to sports competitions with no casualties.

The main character is sent to a new world. Kokoro, a girl chosen to be the guardian of her lord travels to that specific location, told that she would find her lord.

While teaching him of his new world, she meets several other companions and they decide to form a Gourmet Guild in search of delicious things to eat.

Louise is a self-absorbed mage at the prestigious Tristain Academy. Unfortunately, she can’t cast magic right and her classmates call her Louise the Zero.

One day during a summoning ritual, Louise messes it up again and summons a boy named Saito.

At first she treats him as a slave until she discovers a powerful brand on him, the sign of a legendary familiar known as Gandalfr.

Thrown into a foreign land with no memory of their previous life, a group of strangers must try and survive in a brutal world filled with dangerous monsters.

While the strong quickly band together, the weak are left to make a patchwork group of their own. Slowly but surely this group becomes fighters, finally earning enough to survive each day.

After their plane goes down, seven prodigy children wake up to find themselves in another world.

However, as none of them are just normal students, they set out to improve and take over this world through the use of their specialties.

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 this world where he is without powers and without money. In order to pay his way, he gets a part-timer job slinging fast food.

Taichi and Ren, high school students and childhood friends, are transported to a fantasy world by a beam of light one afternoon.

After narrowly escaping a monster attack, they travel with a group of adventurers to the guild. There, they discover that their magical aptitude is off the charts!

Now in possession of incredibly magical ability, the must familiarize themselves with this world while they search for a way home.

With parents that write light novels and draw eroge, Kanou Shinichi was born to be an otaku.

One day, he finds himself transported to a fantasy world full of elves and dragons.

In this world he is given a quest, not to fight monsters, but to become a moe missionary to teach everyone on the finer points of being an otaku.

The world of Shinga was once peaceful and prosperous under the Himemiko. However, when she disappeared, the warriors, imbued with superhuman powers, began to war with each other for dominance.

Yuzuki ended up in this new land suddenly and finds that her blood has the ability to heal and empower these men, making her a target of all.

Three extraordinary teenagers are blessed with psychic abilities, but are bored with their mundane lives.

Unexpectedly, they are invited to go to a mysterious new place to participate in a high-stakes game using their abilities in order to better the new community they live in.

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.

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.

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 again someday.

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.

Kazuya Souma is summoned to another world rife with adventure. There, the king cedes his throne to the young hero and Souma finds himself saddled with a kingdom in decline.

Now, he shows the true might of his heroism by rehabilitating the country, not through adventure or war, but through rigorous economic administration.

Seiichi Hiragi is a fat loser who has been outcasted and bullied at school. However, one day it was announced by a being claiming to be god that they would all be transported to another world, but had to wait for the summoning to be completed.

The school formed up into groups, but Seiichi was shunned. This caused him to be transported elsewhere when they went to a new world.

Hungry, he ate a fruit that turned out to be the fruit of evolution, spiraling his life to new heights.

On their way home from a mixer, average guy Tachibana and his handsome best friend Jinguuji are attacked by a naked goddess.

When they wake up in another world, she tells them that they are heroes and tasks them with killing a demon lord.

However, much to the chagrin of woman-hating Jinguuji, Tachibana has been transformed into a super cute girl!

For years, the Lost Ones have come from the distant world of Japan to a fantasy land. Not even these Lost Ones know how or why they arrive there, but their immense powers only bring destruction.

In order to secure the safety of their world, Executioners are charged with exterminating these Lost Ones. While on the job, Executioner Menou happens across Akari, a Lost One summoned by an ambitious king.

However, she finds that the girl is immortal and cannot be killed. Traveling with Akari, Menou seeks a way to end her life.

Arumi and Sasshi have been friends since they were children, both living in the waning Abenobashi Commercial District of Osaka. However, things are changing in Abenobashi, due in no small part to the area being slowly being bought out to build a mega-mall.

One day, after an accident, the two friends find that Abenobashi has really changed – into a medieval RPG world, a dating sim game, a space opera, or a film noir movie.

It is one wacky adventure after the next as Abenobashi takes on the form of Sasshi’s otaku interests.

Without realizing his dream of making the world’s best pastry, a promising pastry chef suddenly dies. However, he is reincarnated into a new world as the young noble, Pastry Mille Morteln.

Although he is the eldest son of an impoverished country lord, he is determined to still follow his dreams of being a pastry chef even in his new life. Now, he balances fulfilling expectations as an aristocrat while also gathering all the ingredients he needs to make wonderful confections as he builds his dream kingdom of sweets.

In what started as a normal day as a normal high school student, Nakajima Youko has her reality shattered when a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing his allegiance.

When Youko and her friends are attacked by demons, they are pulled into a different world, one she has never known.

Separated from Keiki, Youko and her friends must do whatever they have to in order to survive this strange, harsh place.

While playing an MMO, Kon thinks he lucks out when he receive a request from a female character in the game, hoping to parlay that into getting himself a girlfriend.

However, when he accepts, he is transported to the world of Mira where he accidentally saves the young princess by landing his computer chair on her attacker.

With no idea how to get home, Kon joins the princess as part of her honor guard as she travels on her way to an arranged marriage in order to save her country.

When a group of kids head to summer camp, things don’t turn out exactly as planned.

In the middle of July it begins to snow and they receive these strange devices that end up transporting them to the digital world.

Inside, the children each receive a digital monster as a companion, but not all monsters in the digital world are as nice as their new friends.

One day while visiting the National Library, junior high students Maika and Yui are transported inside a mysterious book about ancient China called The Universe of the Four Gods.

Within, Maika finds herself with the responsibility of being the priestess of Suzaku, and must gather all his celestial warriors to summon him for three wishes.

However, she is put at odds with Yui when she is manipulated into becoming the priestess of Seiryuu by an enemy nation.

After saving someone from bullies, Yuri becomes their target. When his head gets shoved in a toilet, he is sucked into another world.

There, he is told that because of his black hair and black eyes, he is destined to become the next demon king.

The demons view him as unworthy, but after winning a duel by utilizing his newfound magical powers, he becomes slowly accepted.

In a fantasy world, a legendary hero has set himself to finally slaying the Corpse God, an evil necromancer. When the dust settles from their battle, the hero is victorious, but even he senses something unusual about his victory.

Meanwhile, the Corpse God wakes up in an alley in modern Tokyo, possessing the body of Polka Shinomiya, the second son of a wealthy family who just had his throat slit by an assassin.

After having a face-off with the assassin, this new Polka ends up allying with her to try and find out who tried to kill previous Polka as well as to explore this strange new magic-less world.

During a twist of fate, Hitomi Kanzaki witnesses a boy named Van fall from the sky and kill a dragon. After he defeats it, they are both sucked into a pillar of light and Hitomi is taken to Van’s world where she finds out he is a prince and his kingdom is at war.

After his kingdom falls, they both end up on the run as they try to take his kingdom back and get Hitomi home.

Shu is a typical Japanese boy, but when he sees a mysterious girl atop a smokestack, he follows her and is pulled into a strange desert world.

It is here that Shu is forced to discover a world filled with the tragedies of war.

Genocide, torture, hunger, and thirst are abound, but Shu is determined to try and save the girl that he saw.

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.

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.

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.

Alongside three other heroes, Mukouda Tsuyoshi was transported to a fantasy world to save a kingdom.

However, it becomes very apparent that he was summoned as a mistake when the only skill he has is to be able to open an interface to purchase food items from modern Japan.

Kicked out into the world, Tsuyoshi sets out into the world and his ability to make delicious dishes soon pays off. He attracted the attention of legendary wolf Fenrir who enjoyed the meal so much that he forms a pact with him to be his familiar.

Now employed as a merchant and adventurer, he travels and cooks to earn a living.

Handyman Saitou has always been a kind of 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, Saito 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!

After working at an exploitative company, Ryouta Satou died from overwork, but was reincarnated to a fantasy world. There, he makes the unfortunate discovery that in a world of adventure, he is level-locked at level 1.

While he can’t level up, Ryouta gains access to a special cheat dungeon that shouldn’t exist. Inside, the monsters that don’t drop items for anyone else will drop weapons and items that let him rank up his skills.

After maxing his stats and gathering weapons only he can use, he finds that he is now overpowered even such a low level.

Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan.

While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.

The nondescript Youshoku no Nekoya is a cafe that has been in business for 50 years. However, while it serves salarymen and other workers most of the week.

On Saturdays, it closes down to the public in order to serve special guests, mythical creatures that come from another world looking for comforting cuisine.

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.

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.

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.

With the aid of NerveGear technology, video game players can now experience their playable worlds like never before – in virtual reality.

For Kazuto Kirigaya, his game of choice is Sword Art Online.

After beta testing the game, he logs into the launch and finds himself, as well as ten thousand other players, trapped in the game world.

Thirty thousand Japanese players of the popular Elder Tale game all log in to explore the new update of their game, only to discover they are unable to log out.

The story focuses on the socially awkward college student Shiroe, a master strategist in-game, and his friends as they try to navigate their new reality.

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.

At eight years old, Katarina Claes, the only daughter of a duke, hits her head and suddenly remembers she was once a seventeen-year-old otaku that got isekai’d.

She realizes that she is now in the world of Fortune Lover, the otome game that she had been playing before her death.

Unfortunately, she is not the heroine, but rather the villainess who usually ends up dead or exiled at the end. As such, she endeavors to change her fate and avoid all doom flags.

Suzuki Ichirou is a programmer for a game company, and in order to keep up with demands, he frequently sets his work pace to “death march” in which he works for days straight with little sleep and without going home.

During one of these death marches, he falls asleep and when he wakes up, he is somehow transported inside of one of his games.

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.

Yuna much prefers staying home and playing her favorite VRMMO instead of going to school.

During an update, she receives a strange and powerful bear outfit. It was overpowered, but too embarrassing to wear in-game.

However, she finds herself suddenly transported to the world of the game, and her bear suit becomes her best chance of surviving.

Toshiaki Gozu is obsessed with his favorite game, but he admires the game’s antagonist, the Demon King Evelogia.

After his rough lifestyle catches up with him and he is killed by Yakuza, Gozu finds himself reincarnated into the very same game.

Unfortunately, he finds out that he is the hero destined to kill the demon king. Shunning that completely, he swears himself an ally to the demon king and begins their long love affair.

Kagami is a VRMMMO player of a game called Arch Earth Online. He is a veteran player that helped form a kingdom for mages and plays the wise old man.

However, one day he purchases an appearance change item with currency about to expire and tests out what it would be like if his character was a super cute girl.

After falling asleep, he finds himself still in the body of a girl and the game feels a little more real than it used to.

After an accident put her on life support, Keina took up playing the VRMMO game, World of Leadale.

After a power outage at the hospital, she wakes up fully inside the game as her avatar, Cayna.

Furthermore, it seems that 200 years have passed since she last played and no other player characters can be found.

After falling asleep playing games, a gamer woke up in the game world, but as a skeleton.

While he is equipped well, his appearance is too frightening to live the peaceful life he wants.

Yet, after meeting a beautiful elf woman, he may find himself a different path full of adventure.

After starving himself to beat an otome game for his sister, office worker Leon falls down the stairs and dies. When he awakens again, he is a young son of a minor noble that wasn’t featured in the game.

Looking to live quietly as a nobody “mob” character, he is soon saddled with an arranged marriage he is against where he decides to use his knowledge of the game to get out of the match and reach for his own happiness.

In the MMORPG game simply called The World, a wavemaster by the alias of Tsukasa awakens with slight amnesia and cannot log out of the game.

Believed to be a hacker with the Crimson Knights guild, Tsukasa wanders the game looking for answers and avoiding other players that seek to do him harm.

After reuniting with the Crimson Knights, the players that became acquainted with Tsukasa also seek a reason as to why he cannot log out before the problem becomes worse.

Cyan loves music and desperately wants to join a band, but she is too shy to ask to join one.

One day while playing her favorite rhythm game, she is suddenly sucked inside her phone to the world known as Tokyo Midi City.

There, she finds that music has more than just the power to inspire others, but it can fight monsters as well.

With great musical talent and minimal self-confidence, Cyan finds that her dreams of joining a band are about to come true.

Being constantly ill, a girl passed her time in the hospital playing otome games.

However, one day she wakes up in the world of the game she was playing. What’s more, she wakes up as Aileen Lauren Dautriche, the villainess of the game.

After childhood friend and crown prince Cedric publicly breaks up with her for the game’s protagonists, Aileen makes moves to avoid the tragic future that results in her death.

She decides to propose to Cedric’s half-brother, Demon King Claude who, if left alone, would transform into a dragon and off-handedly kill her in the game.

So begins her quest to tame him.

In the To a Beam of Light With You, the final boss and villainess Pride Royal Ivy committed a number of atrocities against everyone around her to the detriment of her nation.

However, one day a student from Japan wakes up in the body of Pride Royal Ivy when she is eight years old, just after she awakens the power of precognition that gives her the right to inherit the throne.

Not wishing to meet a grisly fate or to see her subjects suffer as they would if she were the villainess, this new Pride uses her knowledge of the game to change events that would lead to suffering in an effort to instead become a benevolent ruler.

After suddenly dying, a salaryman wakes to find himself in another world and in the body of a young teen. Taking up the name of Luciel, he decides to become a healer in order to help people and lead a peaceful life.

Discovering the world is incredibly dangerous, Luciel heads to the Adventurers Guild to try and train his body so he won’t immediately be killed on the road. There, he discovers that healers have a rather poor reputation among adventurers for charging prices so high that adventurers either die due to not being able to afford treatment or trade their life for being sold into slavery.

Working at the Adventurers Guild in return for martial training, Luciel offers his healing skills to wounded adventurers and hopes to someday right the corrupt system.

Previously, Setsu was a hero that was summoned to another world embroiled in a bitter war to save it. With the help of his companions, he managed to succeed, ending a war between humanity and the demon kingdoms and bringing peace to the world.

However, Setsu was betrayed by someone close to him and returned to his original world after saving everyone. What’s more, he was returned as a baby that had to grow up all over again. There, he grew into a gloomy teenager, but one day he and his classmates were summoned, once again returning him to the world he had once saved.

On his graduation day, Itsuki is approached by his cousin and told she is pregnant. At that moment, a gate of light opens and the pair are transported to Granvania.

In this world, impurities are plunging Granvania into chaos, but it is discovered the Itsuki has the power to save them. By meeting Star Maiden and making Star Children with them, his children can help purge the world of impurities.

Frustrated with his lot in life, Zed searches for a place where he can live more fully.

One day, he is invited into a portal that transports him to a war-torn world where magic user called Shard Casters constantly battle each other using spirits.

Intrigued, Zed aims to become a Shard Caster only to discover that he already has a powerful spirit dwelling within him.

After saving some young girls from an attacker, a teen boy died and reincarnated into a world of swords, sorcery, and adventurers. On his third birthday, Cain von Silford, the third son of a noble family remembered his previous life and was determined to make the most of his new one.

However, on his fifth birthday when children traditionally commune with the gods to receive their blessings, he didn’t just receive one blessing, he received blessings from all the gods, and the levels of those blessings were far above what even the most gifted humans received.

With his stats boosted so ridiculously powerful that he has to hide them from everyone, he decides to become an adventurer.

After he was promised to be reincarnated into a new world with cheat-level powers, a man is reborn a royal baby named Reinhart. Unfortunately, his powers are so OP that they can’t be measured by traditional means.

Not wanting a weak member of the royal family, his parents abandon him in the woods. Luckily, the king’s brother seeks him out and takes him home to raise as his own, along with the demon that pledged her loyalty to him after getting a taste of baby Reinhart’s powerful magics.

With endless power at his disposal, Reinhart makes his way through this dangerous new world of adventure.