Anime like Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. 2

also known as BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. Season 2

What is BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. Season 2 about?

Studio: SILVER LINK.
Status: Finished

The second season of Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu.

The best offense is a great defense, and for VRMMO gamer Kaede Honjo, her defense is the best. Under her alias Maple, she and her guild journey through NewWorld Online gaining friends and foes through new battle-filled quests. All those skill points, new defensive techniques, and no pain—Maple can’t be stopped!



Note: Episode 1 was streamed in advance on December 17, 2022 on the KADOKAWA Anime YouTube Channel. The regular TV broadcast began on January 11, 2023.

Tags: Video Games , Virtual World , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Magic , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Animals , Twins , Henshin , Shapeshifting , CGI , Dungeon , Tentacles , Monster Girl , Ninja , Anti-Hero , Vore , Iyashikei

Here is a list of Anime similar to Itai no wa Iya nano de Bougyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu. 2

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Also known as Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.

Studio: EMT Squared , KADOKAWA , Shufu to Seikatsusha , Nippon Columbia , AT-X , Kadokawa Media House , TOKYO MX , Good Smile Company , CREST , Kanon , Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyuujo
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Yuna's not your typical 15-year-old. First, she's crazy rich from playing the stock market. Second, she's a recluse obsessed with a VRMMO game, and she's really good at that too. Her life is pretty much perfect—until she wakes up one day inside the game she loves and back at level one. She has to start over, but this time, she has a powerful bear suit that's guaranteed to take her places!



Note: The first episode was streamed on Abema TV on September 19, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 7, 2020.

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Food , Video Games , Henshin , Virtual World , Animals , Augmented Reality , Iyashikei
I'm in Love with the Villainess

Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.

Also known as I'm in Love with the Villainess.

Studio: Platinum Vision , King Records , Asmik Ace , Ichijinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

The world turns upside down when a corporate drone wakes up as Rae Taylor, the heroine in her favorite otome game, Revolution. Rae is elated at the opportunity to court Claire François, the game’s villainess and the object of her affection. Armed with her knowledge of the game and events to come, Rae sets out to make Claire fall for her. But how will the villainess take Rae’s romantic advances?



Tags: Yuri , Villainess , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Reincarnation , Ojou-sama , Tsundere , Video Games , Magic , School , Maids , Class Struggle , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Politics , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Slapstick , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Crossdressing , Incest , Heterosexual
Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!

Also known as Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!.

Studio: project No.9 , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

When she turns ten years old, Adele von Ascham is hit with a horrible headache–and memories of her previous life as an eighteen-year-old Japanese girl named Kurihara Misato. That life changed abruptly, however, when Misato died trying to aid a little girl and met god. During that meeting, she made an odd request and asked for average abilities in her next life. But few things–especially wishes–ever go quite as planned.



Tags: Isekai , Primarily Female Cast , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Magic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Meta , Parody , Afterlife , Lost Civilization , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Revenge , Primarily Teen Cast
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

Also known as Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , EGG FIRM , Aniplex , Bandai Namco Entertainment , ASCII Media Works , Straight Edge , Genco , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

The story follows Karen Kohiruimaki, a 183-centimeter-tall (6-foot-tall) college student who's insecure about her height, and is bad at dealing with people in the real world. She enters the world of Gun Gale Online with her avatar, Ren, who is less than 150 centimeters (5 feet) tall and wears all pink. She meets a beautiful, brown-skinned female player who goes by Pitohui. They hit it off, but one day Pitohui pressures her to participate in "Squad Jam," a team battle royale variation of the Bullet of Bullets tournament.



Tags: Virtual World , Video Games , Guns , Female Protagonist , Battle Royale , Primarily Female Cast , Military , Yandere , Tomboy , Bisexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Regression , Death Game , CGI , Age Gap , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes
Log Horizon

Log Horizon

Also known as Log Horizon.

Studio: Satelight , NHK , NHK Enterprises , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The online fantasy game Elder Tales is a worldwide phenomenon, immersing millions of players in its intricately conceived virtual world. However, the release of the game's twelfth expansion pack makes that immersion all too literal, as players from around the world are suddenly pulled into the game's no-longer-fictional universe! Now, eight-year ET veteran Shiroe, his friend Naotsugu, the beautiful assassin Akatsuki, and 30,000 other players are faced with the daunting task of learning how to deal with an entirely new reality, one where the Non-Player Characters are actually alive, and the tips and tricks learned while playing with a keyboard no longer apply.



Tags: Virtual World , Politics , Isekai , Video Games , Male Protagonist , Magic , Alternate Universe , Kingdom Management , Dungeon , Ensemble Cast , Anthropomorphism , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Kemonomimi , Love Triangle , Elf , Goblin , Twins , Kuudere , Samurai , Femboy , Skeleton , Episodic
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei

Also known as The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady.

Studio: diomedéa , KADOKAWA , CTW , AT-X , Kansai TV , TVAadvance
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy’s expectations by developing “magicology,” a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom’s next monarch. That’s when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom...and the entire world!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Politics , Conspiracy , Royal Affairs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Vampire , Maids , Swordplay , Isekai , Religion , Reincarnation , Dragons , Drugs
Little Witch Academia (TV)

Little Witch Academia (TV)

Also known as Little Witch Academia (TV).

Studio: Trigger
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

In a time when magic is on the decline amid society, Atsuko Kagari is a cheerful girl who enters Luna Nova Academy in order to accomplish her dream of becoming a witch like her idol, Shiny Chariot. Shiny is a famous witch who disappeared from public view many years ago. On her way to school, Kagari meets the kind Lotte Yanson and the mischevious Sucy Manbavaran and the three become friends as they share a bedroom in campus. At the academy, Atsuko soon discovers she is in serious disadvantage compared to the other girls since she doesn`t come from a magical family and is required to learn the magical curriculum from scratch. Having found an item that once belonged to Chariot, Atsuko must discover how to activate and properly use the mysterious Shiny Rod as she hopes it might lead to finding out what has truly happened to her vanished idol.



Tags: Magic , Witch , School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Boarding School , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Ojou-sama , Super Robot , Swordplay , Kemonomimi
Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online

Also known as Sword Art Online.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Genco , DAX Production , Aniplex of America , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...



Tags: Virtual World , Death Game , Isekai , Video Games , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Female Harem , Artificial Intelligence , Unrequited Love , Travel , Fairy , Tragedy , Incest , Prison , Found Family , Amnesia , Fishing , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Male Cast
Log Horizon 2

Log Horizon 2

Also known as Log Horizon 2.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The second season of Log Horizon.

After struggling to survive in a surreal existence they were suddenly thrown into, Shiroe and his friends have managed to restore order to Akihabara by defending the people against the Goblins in the Zantleaf Region. After six long months with the team gaining the trust of the many guilds that use the city as their home base, they must now prepare for their unforeseen future – and a tough winter ahead. Once shy and a little standoffish, Shiroe has stepped up and shown that he can be a great leader. But can he keep Akatsuki, Naotsugu, and the rest of the gang together as they start to have differing opinions on their future course of action? And will the clique agree to leave the safety of the holy land of Akihabara to head off to one of the other four cities and explore foreign lands of Elder Tale? Whatever they may decide, this world that was once a game for the players is now reality and they must decide what is best for each and every one of the members of the team.



Tags: Isekai , Virtual World , Dungeon , Video Games , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Politics , Magic , Love Triangle , Goblin , Dragons , Kemonomimi , Found Family , Elf , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing , Twins , Gender Bending , CGI , Conspiracy , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

Also known as That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.

Studio: 8-bit , Funimation , Lantis , Bandai Namco Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Satoru Mikami is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a fantasy realm...as a slime monster! As he acclimates to his goopy new existence, his exploits with the other monsters set off a chain of events that will change his new world forever!



Tags: Isekai , Found Family , Reincarnation , Magic , Super Power , Shapeshifting , Kingdom Management , Ensemble Cast , Alternate Universe , Economics , Clone , Politics , Henshin , Monster Boy , Monster Girl , Fairy , Demons , Agender , Goblin , Male Protagonist , Gender Bending , Travel , Swordplay , Acting , Shounen , Dragons , Cannibalism , Female Harem , Gore , Elf , CGI

Comments

User Icon
User Icon