Summary
- Unique isekai manhwa explore protagonists’ journeys in other realms, without traditional death or reincarnation elements.
- These manhwa include rich world-building, meaningful characters, and different universes intertwined via towers or VR games.
- Themes of purpose, identity, and connections elevate the traditional isekai genre, engaging both new and existing fans.
Although most isekai manhwa explore the protagonist’s journey after reincarnating, a select few transmigrate into a new world without dying. These manhwa titles explore stories where the protagonist transverses across other worlds, dimensions, and parallel universes, either freely or stuck in one. They also explore these other realms in great detail with meaningful characters and unique lore.
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Most of these universes and worlds exist alongside the modern world, bringing a unique perspective on the isekai genre. They often balance thrilling plots with purpose, identity, and connection themes that provide an immersive reading experience. As a result, these manhwa set in parallel universes challenge the traditional isekai trope while appealing to the existing fans of the genre.
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SSS Class Revival Hunter
Beautiful Lore & Stories From Other Universes On Each Level Of The Tower
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- MyAnimeList Score: 8.26
- Published: Dec 31, 2020
- Authors: Bill K (Art), Sinnoa (Story)
Gong-Ja lives on the bottom floor of the Tower, which had suddenly appeared in his world years ago. Although there are no outbreaks of monsters or anything, the Tower promises a life of adventure and riches to those who wish to climb it. Having the same dream as most others, Gong-Ja hopes to live that life but doesn’t have the necessary skills or aptitude to challenge the Tower. Feeling burdened, his desperate wishes grant him a power that can only activate upon his death. He feels even more humiliated and ventures outside to witness one of the top rankers killing another. As soon as he dies at the hands of the top ranker, he soon comes to understand his power.
SSS Class Revival Hunter is entirely focused on towers where each floor represents a part of a parallel universe. Hence, every floor is different, and no two floors belong to the same universe until the protagonist defeats floor 10 onwards. After that, each of the 10 floors belongs to the same universe connected through portals and gates. Moreover, the protagonist can choose which universe to choose from after a while. With over 100 chapters, SSS Class Revival Hunter has beautiful storytelling where the protagonists meet characters from various worlds and form unique connections.
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Solo Farming In The Tower
Explore The Protagonist’s Farmer Life Within The Ecosystem Of A Tower
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- MyAnimeList Score: 7.94
- Published: Apr 20, 2023
- Authors: sdcknight (Story), Lee, Hakyung (Art)
Sejun is an average person who wishes to live the life of a hunter, someone chosen by the Tower to gain supernatural abilities and challenge each level to become stronger. As he was returning from his convenience store shopping, a portal appeared in front of him but didn’t pull him in. He doesn’t waste a single second and rushes to the portal instead. Soon, he finds himself in a burrowed cave with no level-one monsters around him. Without giving up hope, he tries to secure his means of survival by planting the seeds of vegetables and ends up becoming a dungeon farmer.
Like SSS Class Revival Hunter, Solo Farming In The Tower is another manhwa established within a tower ecosystem. Although the protagonist is stuck in the Tower, he can contact the outside world through a merchant cat. As the story progresses, he contributes to helping hunters become more assertive with the help of his crops. The Tower itself may have monsters, but certain sections within the Tower harbor survivors from worlds that were destroyed long ago.
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Murim Login
Protagonist Can Traverse Between The Murim World And the Real World
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- MyAnimeList Score: 7.92
- Published: May 1, 2020
- Authors: Zero-BIG (Story), Jang, Cheolbyeok (Art)
Jin Tae-Kyung is an F-rank hunter in a world overrun by dungeons and monsters. One day, he picks up an abandoned VR machine that promises to help hunters become stronger. Thinking nothing of it, he accidentally logs into the game while sleeping and wakes up in the murim world as the young trash lord of a martial family. He spends three grueling months in the game to “earn” the logout function as a reward. However, he soon discovers that his training in the game has continued in real life. As a result, he decides to log back in and out of care for his NPC family and friends.
Fans of the popular manhwa tropes will love Murim Login as it involves a mix of hunters, dungeons, monsters, otome isekai, and murim. The protagonist finds himself in a parallel universe through a virtual reality game that is permanently linked to him. The VR game takes him to an ancient murim era where he is the troublesome son of a famous clan. While he hopes not to have anything to do with it, he cannot ascertain the game as a mere game and keeps returning. What’s more, the harsh training and experiences he undergoes in the murim world are carried forward to his real life, making him one of the strongest hunters.
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Healing Life Through Camping in Another World
Protagonist Can Freely Travel To A Fantasy World And Real World
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- MyAnimeList Score: 7.41
- Published: Apr 24, 2024
- Authors: Geumui-haeng (Story), Maengkkan (Art)
Ganghyeon Lee is a star chef who loses his sense of taste due to his overwhelming popularity and the expectations of those around him. As a result, he retreats to his grandfather’s rural home in the countryside to escape from the public eye. While there, he discovers a portal to another world, which sends him to a strange forest. Starting then, he decides to spend most of his time in the forest camping but ends up meeting the inhabitants of the otherworld who keep showing an interest in him.
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Healing Life Through Camping in Another World is a reasonably new manhwa that debuted in 2024 with over 40 chapters. Unlike most isekai manhwa, the protagonist can traverse to the other world and back through a mysterious portal. Hence, he can visit and leave at any moment of his choosing. During his visits, he makes acquaintances with some notable people in that world who wish to help him due to his bond with a white wolf pup.
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I’m a Part-Timer for the Gods
Protagonist Can Travel to God’s Realm For Part-Time Jobs
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- MyAnimeList Score: 6.92
- Published: Feb 9, 2023
- Authors: God Ttingjak (Story), Deany (Art), Mir (Art)
Damduk Yu is unemployed and has to make a living while working part-time. One day, he gets frustrated with his life, vents to the Gods, and curses at them. Just then, he gets struck by lightning and passes out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in the same spot and returns home to recuperate. After that, he suddenly gets a system notification that the Gods are waiting to hire him for their part-time jobs. Thinking nothing of it, he accepts and gets whisked away into the realm of Gods.
I’m a Part-Timer for the Gods, a fresh take on the dungeon/monsters/hunters trope. The protagonist was a simple, non-awakened person trying to land a full-time job. However, he gets struck by lightning, after which he can see jobs posted in God’s realm. He applies for a part-time job as a trial and is teleported in front of the gods. After that, he becomes powerful enough to become a hunter. As a result, he keeps working part-time to complete various tasks to gain divine points and currency to help him become stronger.
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The Gardener in a Hunter World
Hunter Becomes A God-Like Being Of A Fantasy World
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- MyAnimeList Score: 6.75
- Published: Feb 1, 2024
- Authors: Sliber (Story), Tomozo (Art)
Jiha is an ordinary general store owner with working-class skills in a hunter/dungeon/monster world. He is responsible for gathering resources from dungeon raids and selling potions to combat hunters. One day, he takes a nap on top of an ancient book looted from a dungeon and finds himself in a magical forest. There, he finds scarce ingredients for creating high-grade potions and meets up with mythical creatures. Soon after, he becomes a skilled alchemist; even high-level hunters want to win over him.
Set in a hunter/dungeon/monster world, The Gardener in a Hunter World takes a different take on the genre by having a separate non-combat class. Accordingly, the protagonist belongs to a class that allows him to operate a potion/tools/scroll store. He can also identify dungeon loot and help other combat hunters. However, he becomes the caretaker of the world tree after trying to analyze a mysterious dungeon loot. Before he knows it, he becomes something similar to a god of another world, overseeing their development and helping otherworldly beings grow and evolve.
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The Druid of Seoul Station
Explore A Dungeon/Monster Trope Spanning Across Different Planets
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- MyAnimeList Score: 6.59
- Published: Jun 10, 2021
- Authors: Jin, Seolwoo (Story), Hwalseonggom (Art)
Suho Park is whisked away to a foreign planet as soon as an unknown catastrophe strikes Earth. He soon finds himself in a jungle where only wild animals exist. Little by little, he adapts to this new world as he grows stronger by battling with other animals for their territories. However, he is transported back to Earth during one such battle and finds that Earth isn’t what it used to be.
The Druid of Seoul Station gives another fresh twist to the hunter/dungeon/monster genre with the existence of parallel universes. The protagonist is sent to another planet similar to Earth but only filled with wild beasts. After spending thousands of years there, he is transported back to his world again. Although he may have been overpowered, his powers are not comparable to those in the other world. As the story progresses, three other planets are revealed, each with a different species and culture.
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Divine Delivery
The Protagonist Becomes A Delivery Driver For The Gods
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- MyAnimeList Score: N/A
- Published: Apr 16, 2024
- Authors: Badanangja (Story), Jaemkkyu (Art)
Hajun Lee is an average delivery guy trying to make ends meet in a hunter/dungeon/monster world. One day, he receives a delivery request from the Gods and accepts it out of curiosity. Just then, he finds himself in front of Olympus, where he must deliver goods to another place within the God’s realm. Although he meekly completes his job, he soon discovers he can earn big bucks despite the risky deliveries. He can also become stronger by completing each task using the earned money in exchange for skills and abilities.
Like I’m a Part-Timer for the Gods, Divine Delivery is similar, with the only exception that the jobs are stuck to delivering items in the god realm. It has the same hunters/dungeon/monsters trope but less action and is closer to the slice-of-life genre. The protagonist gets a system to help upgrade his services and becomes a hunter, but he is not directly overpowered. Readers can expect some great insights into mythology and discover lovable God characters when exploring the God realm.
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My Avatars’ Path to Greatness
Hunter Can Summon Clones To Visit Other Worlds
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- Published: Sep 24, 2024
- Authors: Silheom Sample (Story), Hansa (Art)
Seonghyeon Han was a victim of a violent crime that left him with a fear of the outside world and impaired legs. Things become more challenging for him when he is chosen by some system to be sent to another dimension. He lives where certain people are determined to visit other worlds to complete certain quests. If they succeed, they can choose to come back to Earth, or they could die if they fail. While Seonghyeon is scared about the invitation, he gets the ability to make clones. Then, he gets the idea of sending the clone instead, and the system accepts it as him. Thus begins the epic adventures of his clones!
Having debuted in 2024, My Avatars’ Path to Greatness is a promising new manhwa that doesn’t exactly take place in a hunters/dungeon/monsters trope. The protagonist’s world exists where people are sent to another world to contribute toward that world, either for good or evil. Accordingly, there is no real danger of monsters in his world, but villains with superpowers exist and are rampant everywhere. When the protagonist gains cloning skills, he can send them to another world instead. Hence, he can become more assertive indirectly and send multiple clones to another world. Therefore, it is one of the few manhwa where the protagonist can have multiple classes instead of being stuck being a mage or swordsman. For example, one of his clones becomes a vampire during the initial chapters.
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Magical Realm Shopkeeper
Protagonist Becomes A Part-time Worker Of A Store In a Different Universe
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- MyAnimeList Score: Unlisted
- Published: May 28, 2024
- Authors: Moon, Seulpeunbang Ulbaem (Story), Kkuljamong (Art)
Chan was unfortunately let go from his previous company after it went bankrupt. After searching for a part-time job, he comes across a convenience store and accepts the part-time job due to its high hourly wages. However, on his first day at work, he starts meeting strange beings and soon realizes that they belong to another world.
Magical Realm Shopkeeper is similar to Healing Life Through Camping in Another World, where the protagonist can freely traverse between two worlds. However, the manhwa mainly focuses on the other world so that it could be a proper isekai exploring a parallel universe instead of reincarnation. Moreover, the protagonist has an anti-magic constitution, which is very rare and attracts the interest of the other world. Being a slice-of-life genre, readers can expect a light read with some great characters and interactions.
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