Best Isekai Anime To Watch If You Like Loner Life in Another World

Key Takeaways

• Loner Life in Another World & Trapped in a Dating Sim use humor to show protagonists with bottom-barrel abilities.
• Banaza and Haruka’s powers go from useless to overpowered, leading to unique struggles in their respective worlds.
• Characters in I’m Standing on a Million Lives & So I’m a Spider make strategic decisions while wrestling with loneliness.

The Isekai genre is becoming more popular in the anime community, with anime such as Konosuba and That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime paving the way for others such as Loner Life In Another World.

Loner Life in Another World is an upcoming series that, while following the Isekai theme, has its own unique twist. The anime tells the story of Haruka, a young man who is transported to another world along with his classmates and ends up with abilities considered that are to be bottom-barrel, but are actually very useful. Now, he has to survive this new world while aiding the classmates who once ignored him.

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Underdog Humor Amidst Insecurities

An ordinary man was blackmailed into grinding a dating simulator game to completion. Although he was able to clear the game, he was suffering from a lack of sleep and hunger. To solve one of his problems, he loses consciousness and awakens in the game as the Mob, Leon Fou Bartfort. Now he has to survive with the knowledge he has in a world he detests.

Alongside the insecurities the protagonists face, both series play with humor in their own unique ways. The protagonists of both shows often find themselves playing major roles in important events despite regarding themselves as nobodies in their own worlds.

9 The Laid-Back Life In Another World Of The Ex-Hero Candidate Who Turned Out To Be A Cheat From Level 2

Useless To Over-Powered Ability

Banaza gets summoned to the Magical Kingdom of Klyrode, along with other heroes, to protect them from the Dark One and his demons. However, something is amiss — he is average with no magic, no strengths, nothing. Failing as a hero, he gets rejected and stranded in this new world. Little did he know the changes would come once he entered level two.

Both Banaza and Haruka have similar experiences. Not only did they both get the short end of the stick by being stuck with abilities said to be useless, but they also ended up figuring out that their abilities were overpowered. However, unlike Haruka, Banaza just wants to enjoy the benefits of being extremely strong while living a laid-back lifestyle.

8 Demon Lord, Retry!

Beautiful Companionship

Akira Oono, creator of an MMORPG infinity game, decides to shut down the servers for the game after 15 years of existence. However, at exactly midnight, he somehow gets transported into the body of the game’s Demon Lord, Hakuto Kunai. He becomes more puzzled when he begins encountering characters he did not create in his game.

Questioning whether this is his game or not, he decides to uncover the events that led to this transportation. Despite being tyrannical, Kunai is generous to his companions and is always willing to help them whenever they are in need, a trait that Haruka also possesses.

7 I Got A Cheat Skill In Another World And Became Unrivaled In The Real World Too

Obliviousness Towards Women

Yuuya Tenjou has always been a loner, and not by choice. Despite life being cruel to him, he still does his best to do good to people around him — but even kind people have their breaking point. Just as he is nearing it, he finds a door that leads to a house in another world with a game-like progression and incedibly strong magical items. Surprisingly, he can also go back and forth between both worlds while maintaining his stats. Life was not looking so bleak after all.

While both characters are extremely strong, they both also have difficulty interacting with women. Just like Haruka finds it challenging to converse with women who are affectionate toward him, Yuuya has a hard time believing women even see him in that light due to his low self-esteem.

6 Re: Monster

A Desire For Tranquility

After an unfortunate death, Tomokui Kanata gets reincarnated into the weakest character in the weakest race: goblins. However, he retained memories from his previous life and also gained the ability to grow stronger through eating. Now going by Gabiru, he decides to live life to the fullest in a world where only the strong survive.

Even with so much potential to become strong, all Gabiru wants is to keep his peace while enjoying what life has to offer. That is exactly what Haruka also desires in his own fantasy world, wanting to keep to himself as much as possible while adventuring at his own pace.

5 I’m Standing On A Million Lives

Both Are Strategic Decision Makers

• Japanese Title: 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru
• Number of Episodes: 12
• Studio: Maho Film

One day, Yuusuke Yotsuya, a student who hates people and prefers to live in virtual reality, suddenly enters a free-fall state and ends up in a game world where he has to complete a quest in the next 14 days. Transported with his classmates Shindou and Hakozaki, the three travel as a party to decipher the mystery behind the game world while trying to survive.

Yuusuke and Haruka both take pragmatic approaches to their missions in their respective worlds. Yuusuke is always ready to make tough decisions, such as deciding between objectives or people. This is the same as Haruka, who always picks survival and safety over heroism.

4 So I’m A Spider, So What?

Genuine Selflessness Even In Solitude

After an unfortunate school incident, a few lucky students were reincarnated into another world as people of importance. However, one of them is not so lucky. She was reborn as a spider — and not just any spider, but the weakest kind. Awakened in the dungeon of monsters far stronger than her with nothing but hope and knowledge, she tries her best to survive and evolve.

Her battles and her struggle with loneliness mirror those of Haruka as she grows stronger. Although Haruka enjoys his life in solitude and loneliness, unlike Kumoko, they both are always ready to put themselves on the line for others, even if they do not normally converse with those characters.

3 Arifureta: From Commonplace To World’s Strongest

Both Reject The Heroic Limelight

The life of otaku Hajime Nagumo turns upside down when he and his classmates get summoned to a fantasy world to save humankind, and he ends up with the weakest ability. He gets betrayed by his classmate, ends up in the hands of menacing monsters, and has to fight his way through to survive. With the help of Yue and other allies he meets, he is determined to find a way home, moving from commonplace to the world’s strongest.

Both Hajime and Haruka prefer independence to heroism. Hajime refuses to fight battles that are not his, such as helping the inhabitants of Tortus against Ehit’s manipulation. Haruka also declines the hero title, preferring to be alone and avoiding meddling in conflicts.

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Similar Power Systems

Things begin to get serious for loner Touka Minori when he realizes that he and his classmates were transported to another world where the weakest get disposed of, and he is the supposed weakest of the lot. Using his skills considered useless in a fight or flight situation, he realizes they are not so useless after all and decides to exact his revenge on the goddess that disposed of him.

Unlike Haruka, Minori decides to follow the path of revenge. However, the two both experience a drastic change in the potential of their abilities, which were once considered useless by the rest of the world.

1 Tsukimichi Moonlight Fantasy

Unconventional Use Of Abilities

After being promised the life of a hero with a goddess, the life of Makoto Misumi did not go as expected. The goddess, vain as they come, deemed him unappealing and banished him far away from human civilization, revoking the title of hero. Compensated with the ability to understand every language apart from those of humans, Makoto develops connections with the demi-humans and becomes extremely strong, but yearns to connect with humans again.

Like Haruka, Makoto does not get the mainstream abilities typical of most adventure Isekai anime. Instead, Makoto uses his unconventional abilities while trying to establish connections with people who do not appreciate him.