Not all isekai anime and manga feature a single character who gets transported to another world. In these cases, groups of people get summoned.
Highlights
- Isekai stories range from action to daily life, featuring heroes versed in martial arts, creating a dynamic mix of plots and genres.
- Large group isekai narratives add depth by exploring community dynamics, resource management, and leadership conflicts in new worlds.
- High School Prodigies stand out by featuring a team of geniuses in another world who use their skills to improve the lives of villagers.
Isekai is popular for its flexibility in setting and story, a mixing pot of genres and plots that are fun to watch and read. While most are categorized as action and adventure, there are plenty that focus on daily life, romance, and other genres. These stories normally feature one to three protagonists and follow their lives in the new world, and often they work together.
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Sometimes authors decide to transport large groups of people to other worlds, which often changes the dynamic of a traditional isekai that fulfills one person’s wish. With a community experiencing a new environment, conflicts arise that would be impossible if there were a single person. Things like resource management, leadership, and distribution of work are all things that must be considered, which can add depth to both characters and the plot.
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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World
MyAnime List Score: 6.36
- Episodes: 12
- Aired: 2019
- Studios: Project No.9
- Genres/Theme: Isekai, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The victims of isekai are often loners and outcasts in their community, having only one or two friends and maybe living alone. These characters are defined by how normal they are. This is done to make it easier for the audience to insert themselves into the protagonist’s shoes. In this anime, it’s the opposite. Every character is a genius in their field.
A group of highly skilled students are traveling when their plane crashes, and they end up in another world. They are taken in by a nearby village, and in compensation, the students use their various abilities to improve the lives of the villagers, bringing safety, technology, and medical supplies.
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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One In This Other World Stands A Chance Against Me!
MyAnime List Score: 6.30
- Episodes: 12
- Aired: 2024
- Studios: Okuruto Noboru
- Genres/Theme: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai, Parody
While passing through a tunnel on a school trip, a class of third-year high school students find themselves in a vast plain with nothing in sight. They are soon enlisted to become Sage Candidates and provided powers like any other isekai. They’re instructed to go to the capital city to begin training. Unfortunately, Yogiri Takatou and Dannoura Tomochika are left for dead for not receiving powers.
Takatou actually does have powers, but not from this new world. Since he was born, he’s been able to cause death simply by thinking about the target. Using his ability, he and Dannoura must find their way to the other students to get Shion to take them home.
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Arifureta: From Commonplace To World’s Strongest
MyAnime List Score: 6.71
- Episodes: 13
- Aired: 2019
- Studios: asread., White Fox
- Genres/Theme: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Harem, Isekai
When an entire classroom is summoned to an alternate world, they are asked to be the heroes of the kingdom and given skills. Hajime Nagumo is given the skill Transmutation, letting him shape raw materials. After being belittled and ultimately betrayed by his classmates, he’s sent to the bottom of the Labyrinth, a dangerous dungeon full of monsters.
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In the depths of the dungeon, Hajime is able to learn the true power of his ability. Fueled by his revenge and will to survive, he creates gear for himself and starts leveling up. Above everything else, he wants to go home, and he’ll stop at nothing to do it.
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So I’m A Spider, So What?
MyAnime List Score: 7.45
- Episodes: 24
- Aired: 2021
- Studios: Millepensee
- Genres/Theme: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Isekai, Reincarnation
When an explosion occurs at school, the students are reincarnated into another world filled with magic and castles. Many ended up as children of nobility, but others were not as lucky. The main character is reborn into a spider monster freshly hatched from its egg, but things are not peaceful. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and she needs to survive.
Despite being a spider, she still has the perks of being a reincarnated person, namely a status board and a skill tree. However, since she’s a monster, she has an evolution tree as well, a way to change her form and power. The protagonist takes this all in stride, keeping a positive attitude to mask the sheer panic.
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The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want A Fourth Time
MyAnime List Score: 7.04
- Published: 2018 to Present
- Genres/Theme: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Isekai, Reincarnation
- Author: Densuke
- Illustrator: Takehiro Kojima
While out at sea, a class of students die due to an accident, resulting in the boat sinking. Everyone on board is sent to limbo where a strange being offers to reincarnate them. Each person is meant to get two skills, but due to their mistake, Amamiya Hiroto’s skills are given to someone who has almost the same name as him.
As a result, Hiroto spends the entirety of his second life as an experiment subject, facing torturous tests and treatment each day. He ultimately dies at the hands of his former classmates. Hiroto is reincarnated again by the same strange being, but he’s cursed as well due to his animosity. In this third life, he’s determined to live the way he wants.
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Failure Frame
MyAnime List Score: 6.67
- Published: 2019 to Present
- Genres/Theme: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Isekai
- Author: Kaoru Shinozaki
- Illustrator: Shou Uyoshi
When a classroom is suddenly summoned to a new world, the students are met with a goddess asking them to become heroes. Each person is given a status board, rank, and a set of beginner skills. Unfortunately for Touka Mimori, his rank is low, and his skills only produce special statuses. When the goddess learns this, she immediately casts Touka away.
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He ends up in a dark dungeon filled with horrifying monsters with levels over 900. Faced with threats around every corner, Touka is saved by his skills, which were deemed useless. He can paralyze, poison, and put his enemies to sleep 100% of the time. He changes his goal from surviving to getting revenge.
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Loner Life In Another World
MyAnime List Score: 6.48
- Published: 2019 to Present
- Genres/Theme: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Isekai
- Author: Shouji Goji
- Illustrator: Bibi
On a normal day, Haruka is summoned to another world along with his classmates. Before sending them off, God allows each person to pick the skills they want. Unfortunately, these skills were on a first-come-first-serve basis. Haruka, who habitually waited until he was last, only had unwanted skills to choose from.
His skills seem simple, but he’s able to make use of them in creative ways, building a home in a cave and even crafting furniture. While he’s lonely living alone, he can’t form a party with anyone due to his loner skill. However, because he must do everything on his own, he actually becomes stronger than most of his peers.
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Dungeon Seeker
MyAnime List Score: 6.56
- Chapters: 33
- Published: 2016 to 2019
- Genres/Theme: Action, Fantasy, Isekai
- Author: Sakamoto 666
- Illustrator: Seijuurou Mizu
Junpei Takeda is a timid boy who is constantly bullied at school and only saved by his friend Noriko Tatsumiya. During one of his usual bullying sessions, he and Noriko, along with all his bullies, are summoned to another world. They were intended to be heroes, but all their skills were lacking. They are set free to make a living for themselves.
Junpei and Noriko work as farmers, but life is not easy. To avoid being sacrificed, Noriko tricks Junpei into taking her place in the Space Labyrinth, a dungeon famous for its incredible danger. Against all odds, Junpei survives the first floor, leading him to descend into the labyrinth to grow stronger so he can exact his revenge.
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Full Clearing Another World Under A Goddess With Zero Believers
MyAnime List Score: 6.62
- Published: 2020 to Present
- Genres/Theme: Fantasy, Romance, Isekai
- Author: Isle Osaki
- Illustrator: Hakuto Shiroi
After their bus falls down a mountain in a landslide, the students inside are transported to another world. There they are given skills and certain aptitudes. The main character, Makoto Tatatsuki, has low stats and poor aptitude, only able to use beginner water magic. Rather than leave as the rest of his classmates do, he decides to study for a year.
After a year of studying, Makoto still has low magic power, but his proficiency in handling magic has grown significantly. He can manipulate water in ways thought impossible. This garners the attention of a minor goddess who has no followers at the time. After much groveling and begging, Makoto agrees to be the goddess’s first follower.
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Sonny Boy
MyAnime List Score: 7.79
- Episodes: 12
- Aired: 2021
- Studios: Madhouse
- Genres/Theme: Award Winning, Mystery, Isekai, Super Powers
One day, an entire school is transported into a void world where nothing exists. From the windows and doors, nothing can be seen but black space. While there, the students receive special powers of all types, ranging from a cat-based Amazon service to the ability to manipulate gravity. The students must figure out how to behave and live to make it home.
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