Anime like Youjo Senki

Overlord

Also known as Overlord.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Funimation , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The story takes place in the year 2138 when virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.



Tags: Isekai , Anti-Hero , Skeleton , Ensemble Cast , Virtual World , Male Protagonist , Medieval , Magic , Kingdom Management , Necromancy , Demons , Primarily Adult Cast , Succubus , Video Games , Politics , Yandere , Villainess , Maids , Monster Girl , CGI , Butler , Female Harem , Elf , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Monster Boy , Vampire , Twins , Femboy , Crossdressing , Goblin , Dragons , Tomboy , Zombie , Swordplay

86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.

Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.



Tags: War , Class Struggle , Military , Tragedy , Dystopian , Survival , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Proxy Battle , Robots , Guns , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Real Robot , Conspiracy , Primarily Teen Cast , Memory Manipulation , Artificial Intelligence , Achronological Order , CGI , Necromancy , Unrequited Love , Gore , Suicide , Lost Civilization , Travel , Body Horror , Kuudere , Super Power , POV , Nudity

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Studio: WHITE FOX , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , Media Factory , AT-X , TV Tokyo , Magic Capsule
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

In the story, Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student who is lost in an alternate world, where he is rescued by a beautiful, silver-haired girl. He stays near her to return the favor, but the destiny she is burdened with is more than Subaru can imagine. Enemies attack one by one, and both of them are killed. He then finds out he has the power to rewind death, back to the time he first came to this world. But only he remembers what has happened since.



Notes:
The first episode aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
In the Winter 2020 season, Re:ZERO was rebroadcast and re-edited to fit into an hour time-slot. This edit included the first OVA and added slight modifications to certain scenes throughout. It also added an additional scene at the end of the final episode.

Tags: Isekai , Time Manipulation , Time Loop , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Seinen , Witch , Curses , Magic , Cult , Gore , Medieval , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Cohabitation , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Maids , Elf , Politics , Primarily Female Cast , Demons , Twins , Travel , Butler , Interspecies , Coming of Age , Femboy , Assassins , Kemonomimi , Kuudere , Tomboy , Body Swapping , Crossdressing , CGI , Dragons

Overlord III

Also known as Overlord III.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

With his foundations now set in this new world, the first steps of Ains Ooal Gown's master plan apparent begin to come to fruition. The value of Carne village and especially the political value of his alter ego Momon are reaffirmed; the “hidden” genius of his actions is continuously met with shock and awe by Demiurge, Albedo, the rest of his guardians, and even Ains himself at his “great wisdom.” His attempts to act in a way befitting the ruler of Nazarick, continuing to further cement his guardian’s loyalty, push him ever further down the path of not-so-intentional world domination. Without human conscience due to being undead, he is motivated only to continue searching for other players from Yggdrasil and to gain power to better protect the children and home of him and his forty former companions. Lord Ains Ooal Gown maintains his mantle of Overlord and leads the Great Tomb of Nazarick unto the world stage, directly into a vicious power struggle between two great empires.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Kingdom Management , Isekai , Anti-Hero , Magic , Medieval , War , Skeleton , Super Power , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Demons , Tomboy , Monster Boy , Succubus , CGI , Goblin , Villainess , Vampire , Twins , Kaiju , Femboy , Yandere , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Monster Girl , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Artificial Intelligence

GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

Also known as Gate.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Genco , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the gate pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the Ginza Incident.

The government sends a small group of soldiers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (a replacement for Japan's military) to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Youji, they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.



Tags: Military , Isekai , War , Alternate Universe , Politics , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Reverse Isekai , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Anachronism , Dragons , Tanks , Elf , Medieval , Language Barrier , Otaku Culture , Kemonomimi , Slavery , Aviation , Kuudere , Female Harem

Isekai Quartet

Also known as Isekai Quartet.

Studio: Studio PuYUKAI
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The button appeared out of nowhere. There weren't any signs NOT to push it... so the solution is obvious, right? Is it a trap or the start of something new and exciting? The crews of Re:Zero, Overlord, Konosuba, and The Saga of Tanya the Evil will find out when they go from their world to another and get stuck in... class?! See what adorable chaos they'll get up to in this collection of shorts!



Tags: Crossover , Isekai , Chibi , Ensemble Cast , School , Parody , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Military , Anti-Hero , Demons , Maids , Male Protagonist , Skeleton , Succubus , Elf , Gods , Kuudere , Monster Girl , Female Protagonist , Twins , Vampire , Crossdressing , Flash

Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin

Also known as Alderamin on the Sky.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The Katvarna Empire is at war with the neighboring Republic of Kioka. In the Katvarna Empire, the lazy, woman-admiring Ikuta hates war, but due to certain circumstances, he grudgingly takes the High Grade Military Officer Exam. No one would have expected that this 17-year-old young man would eventually become a soldier called a great commander by others. Ikuta survives this world engulfed in war with his superior intellect.



Tags: Military , War , Guns , Swordplay , Politics , Male Protagonist , Anachronism , Philosophy , Gore , Foreign , Ojou-sama , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Female Harem

86: Eighty Six Part 2

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX Part 2.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Having bid Lena farewell, Shin and the surviving members of the Spearhead squadron continue into the heart of Legion territory. There, they endure countless hardships until they're rescued by the Federal Republic of Giad, a reformed nation that offers them a second chance at a peaceful life. But it isn't long before a sense of duty calls the Eighty-Six back to the battlefield. Choosing to enlist in the military, they willingly walk back through the gates of hell, this time joined by a peculiar new ally-Frederica Rosenfort: a haughty young girl with a rare ability and wisdom far beyond her years.



Note: The last two episodes were originally set to air in the first two weeks of January 2022, but were postponed to the second and third week of March due to production issues.

Tags: Military , Dystopian , War , Tragedy , Class Struggle , Robots , Politics , Male Protagonist , CGI , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Philosophy , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Guns , Necromancy , Female Protagonist , Ghost , Real Robot , Suicide , Super Power , Gore , Time Skip , POV , Unrequited Love , Post-Apocalyptic

HELLSING OVA

Also known as Hellsing Ultimate.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Satelight , Funimation , StudioRF Inc. , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, has long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...
A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, the dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Tags: Vampire , Gore , Seinen , War , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Religion , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Military , Urban , Guns , Monster Girl , Body Horror , Noir , Cannibalism , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Butler , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Tomboy , Slapstick , Age Regression , Nekomimi , Kemonomimi , Demons , Gender Bending , CGI , Chibi , Werewolf , Time Skip , Philosophy , Nudity , Super Power , Bisexual

Shuumatsu no Izetta

Also known as Izetta: The Last Witch.

Studio: Ajiado , Asahi Production , Shouchiku , TOKYO MX , flying DOG , AT-X , I0plus , JTB Entertainment , Ray , Wargaming Japan , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

If I am promised to the princess, then I will fight for her sake.

In 1939 C.E., the imperialist nation of Germania invaded a neighboring country. All at once, that war spread throughout Europe, and the era was dragged into a spiral of a great war.

Then, in 1940, Germania's attack turned towards the Principality of Eylstadt, a small Alps country abundant with beautiful water and greenery.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Foreign , Witch , Politics , Magic , Military , War , Aviation , Anachronism , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Tanks , Tragedy , Rural , Yuri