Highlights
- Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life in the Isekai genre where characters are reborn in unfamiliar worlds and have to survive using knowledge from their previous lives.
- These Isekai anime and manga explore diverse fantasy-filled plots and tropes, with protagonists becoming inventors and introducing new ideas and technologies to their new world.
- Through reincarnation, characters in these stories are able to apply their knowledge from their past lives, improving agriculture, healthcare, transportation, and more, and ultimately making their new worlds more progressive and technologically advanced.
Death is, in fact, not the end but the beginning of a new life in the Isekai genre. This creative genre unravels the life of a regular character who, by death or chance, is reborn in a new and unfamiliar world where they have to survive.
These Isekai anime and manga explore a diverse array of fantasy-filled plots and tropes. When their protagonists are reincarnated in different worlds, they have to survive with knowledge from their previous lives, apply it, and subsequently become inventors.
8 That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime
MyAnimeList Score: 8.14
One day after work, Satoru Mikami, a regular man living in Tokyo, encounters an unfortunate incident that claims his life. Death is not the end of his journey, as he is reborn as a slime in another world. He becomes Rimuru Tempest, whose previously monotonous life on Earth becomes heroic in the new world.
Rirumu is the protagonist in That Time I Got Reincarnated a Slime anime series. In addition to his heroic feats, he also introduces food, culture, and technologies from his previous world to the city, making it more progressive. What started as a longing for the comforts of his old home becomes a reality as he, along with his comrades, build the great Jura Tempest Federation.
7 Offense And Defense In Daites
MyAnimeList Score: 6.75
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Japanese Title |
Daites Ryou Koubouki |
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Author |
Kanou, Ayumi (Art), Makihara, Nodoka (Story) |
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Number Of Chapters |
36 |
After passing away in a tragic accident, Miu Mizutani is reincarnated as the daughter of the Duke of Daites in a magical world devoid of technology and traces of her previous life. Offense And Defense In Daites is a manga series that illustrates Miliana Daites’s journey as she utilizes the knowledge from her past in the new and unfamiliar world in which she is reborn.
Miliana applies what she remembers, subsequently improving agriculture, transportation, and communication in her new world. With her input, the production of salt from the abundance of saltwater creates revenue for the country. Among her innovations are the cars and trains she invents from the blueprints she remembers. Within ten years of her arrival, Miliana is able to improve the province, making it progressive and technologically advanced.
6 Parallel World Pharmacy
MyAnimeList Score: 7.30
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Japanese Title |
Isekai Yakkyoku |
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Studio |
Diomedéa |
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Number Of Episodes |
12 |
When little Chiyu passes away from a brain tumor, Kanji dedicates his life to studying to cure diseases deemed incurable in honor of his sister. Despite attaining brilliance and achieving success and respect, Kanji persists in the workaholism that eventually kills him. He is given a second chance at life when he is reincarnated as 10-year-old Farma de Medecis.
Despite being a reincarnate in a world where only nobles are entitled to healthcare and snubbing the poor, Kanji treats all with kindness and equality. This and other efficient healthcare innovations are achieved with his profound knowledge of medicine and his newly acquired magical abilities. Kanji is able to apply his knowledge from his past life to the healthcare system in the ancient world, subsequently gaining respect and recognition.
5 Knight’s And Magic
MyAnimeList Score: 7.07
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Japanese Title |
N/A |
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Studio |
8bit |
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Number Of Episodes |
13 |
A genius programmer and robot fanatic, Tsubasa Kurata meets an unfortunate death in a traffic accident before he is reincarnated as Ernesti Echevalier in a different world. In the world of magic, monsters, and knights, Ernesti becomes a knight runner who protects his new world from enemies in the Knight’s and Magic anime series.
His knowledge of robots and programming plays a huge role in his survival. He applies his brilliance to refining old weapons, additionally inventing new ones used in the battle against monsters that terrorize their world. Despite his obsession with robots and weapons, Ernesti cares very much for his friends and fights to protect his new home.
4 Cooking With Wild Game
MyAnimeList Score: 6.56
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Japanese Title |
Isekai Ryouridou |
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Author |
Kochimo (Art), EDA (Story) |
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Number Of Chapters |
N/A |
When his family’s restaurant is set ablaze, Tsurumi Asuta enters the fire without thinking so he can retrieve his father’s knife. Asuta passes away; although not damned to oblivion, he is reincarnated in a new world in the manga series. Before he falls prey to lurking dangers, Asuta is taken in by the huntress, Ai Fa. He subsequently survives when he starts a food stall with Ai Fa, hunting the animals he cooks.
Being of culinary descent, Asuta finds the food in the new world distasteful, focusing on making dishes he can recall with the ingredients made available to him, including the foul-smelling boar-like animal. On the quest for survival in a world of hunting and unappealing food, Cooking with Wild Game details how the apprentice chef introduces new cuisines to the new world.
3 Ascendance Of A Bookworm
MyAnimeList Score: 7.99
A college student, Urano Motosu, loses her life in an earthquake where she is crushed under her collection of books. Urano is the main protagonist in the Ascendence of a Bookworm anime series and a great lover of books. She is reincarnated as Myne in a world with a rarity of books. Her journey to produce books in an unfamiliar world is depicted as the series develops.
Being a lover of books, she tasks herself with creating them so that they can be more accessible. With her previous knowledge of printing and the intricacies of book production, Myne, along with her craftsmen, can increase the availability of books. Her innovations are not limited to books because she is also seen creating shampoos and other items unavailable in her new home.
2 The Black Healer
MyAnimeList Score: 6.88
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Japanese Title |
Isekai de “Kuro no Iyashi Te” tte Yobareteimasu |
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Author |
Murakami, Yuichi (Art), Fujima, Miya (Story) |
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Number Of Chapters |
50 |
Kanzaki Misuzu is the protagonist in theThe Black Healer manga series. She is dragged from her regular life into an unfamiliar world that she recognizes to be a gaming simulation. She is reincarnated as Reene Kanzack and is able to navigate and survive the virtual world, applying knowledge from her previous life.
Despite her weak stomach for violence and gore, Reene treats the injured and illness-stricken knights. She applies her limited knowledge of healing that she remembers from the medical shows she watched in her previous world to nursing people. The compassionate and selfless character also applies her newly acquired magical abilities, subsequently earning the title of The Black Healer.
1 Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More
MyAnimeList Score: 7.04
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Japanese Title |
Madougushi Dahlia wa Utsumukanai |
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Author |
Sumikawa, Megumi (Art), Amagishi, Hisaya (Story) |
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Number Of Chapters |
N/A |
Dahlia passes away from being overworked in her previous life before she is reincarnated in a different world as the daughter of a skilled craftsman. With her previous knowledge of manufacturing, Dahlia began learning under her father, becoming a brilliant craftswoman.
When the main character in the Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More manga series loses her father and suffers heartbreak in her love life, she becomes more passionate about crafting. From what she is able to remember from her past life, Dahlia invents specialized tools, eventually establishing a company that provides services to people in her new home.
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