Anime like Shinmai Ossan Bouken-sha, Saikyou Party ni Shinu Hodo Kitaerarete Muteki ni Naru.

Ore wa Subete wo [Parry] Suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai

Also known as I Parry Everything.

Studio: OLM , Mainichi Broadcasting System , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , NetEase Games , Earth Star Entertainment , MAGNET , TOKYO MX , Bandai Namco Filmworks , BS11 , OLM , AQUA ARIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The Kingdom of Clays faces a dire crisis: an assassination attempt has just been made on its own Princess Lynneburg, and its neighboring countries eye the aftermath like starving vultures, plotting the Kingdom’s downfall. The ensuing conflict will shape the face of the continent for centuries to come...but Noor doesn’t have a clue about any of that! Having freshly arrived at the royal capital after over a decade of rigorous, isolated training at his mountain home, he’s dead set on achieving his childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, even if the only skills he possesses are useless ones. Sure, he can [Parry] thousands of swords in the span of a single breath, but everybody knows you need more than that if you want to be an adventurer! Our hero’s road to making his dream come true will be long(?) and arduous(?)—but if there’s one thing Noor’s not afraid of, it’s some good ol’ fashioned hard work!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Magic , Time Skip , War , Orphan , Dragons , Survival , Goblin , Disability , Isekai

One Punch Man

Also known as One-Punch Man.

Studio: MADHOUSE , TV Tokyo , Bandai Visual , Viz Media , Lantis , Shueisha , Banpresto , Asatsu DK , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Saitama has a rather peculiar hobby, being a superhero, but despite his heroic deeds and superhuman abilities, a shadow looms over his life. He's become much too powerful, to the point that every opponent ends up defeated with a single punch.

The lack of challenge has driven him into a state of apathy, as he watches his life pass by having lost all enthusiasm, at least until he's unwillingly thrust in the role of being a mentor to the young and revenge-driven Genos.

Tags: Superhero , Super Power , Parody , Male Protagonist , Satire , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Urban , Cyborg , Primarily Adult Cast , Kaiju , Seinen , Aliens , Cultivation , Primarily Male Cast , Gods , Martial Arts , Demons , Henshin

Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

Also known as The Unwanted Undead Adventurer.

Studio: CONNECT , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , OVERLAP , Marvelous , Docomo Anime Store , Pony Canyon , BS Nittele , NatsumeAtari
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Rentt Faina has hunted monsters for the last 10 years. Sadly, he’s not great at his job, stuck hunting slimes and goblins for a few coins each day. His luck turns when he finds an undiscovered path. At the path’s end, he meets his demise in the maw of a legendary dragon. But, he wakes up as an undead bag of bones! He sets out to achieve Existential Evolution and rejoin the land of the living.



Note: Each episode streamed 3 days early on some streaming sites. The original TV broadcast started on January 8th, 2024.

Tags: Reincarnation , Dungeon , Magic , Swordplay , Monster Boy , Skeleton , Alchemy , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Found Family , Tragedy , Time Skip , Zombie , CGI

Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru

Also known as From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Hayabusa Film , Passione , TV Asahi , BS Asahi , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Drecom , KLOCKWORX , Nippon Columbia , Fujishouji , Square Enix , Nikkatsu , Passione
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days are long behind him. Out of the blue, he receives a visit from a famous former pupil who brings him world-shattering news—he's been appointed as special instructor for the knights of the Liberion Order! With his life now turned upside down, Beryl travels to the capital and reunites with some of his former students: elite knights, an ace wizard, and even an adventurer who's attained the highest guild rank possible. But why do they all want his tutelage?! As far as he's concerned, they clearly don't need him anymore.

Can Beryl live up to his new position? And will he ever get a moment's peace away from his adoring students?!



Tags: Medieval , Female Harem , Seinen , Swordplay , Age Gap , Teacher , Magic , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , CGI , Family Life

MASHLE

Also known as MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Shueisha , ADK Marketing Solutions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy

This is a world of magic. This is a world in which magic is casually used by everyone.

In a deep, dark forest in this world of magic, there is a boy who is singlemindedly working out. His name is Mash Burnedead, and he has a secret. He can’t use magic.

All he wanted was to live a quiet life with his family, but people suddenly start trying to kill him one day and he somehow finds himself enrolled in Magic School. There, he sets his sights on becoming a “Divine Visionary,” the elite of the elite.

Will his ripped muscles work against the best and brightest of the wizarding world? The curtain rises on this off-kilter magical fantasy in which the power of being jacked crushes any spell!



Tags: Magic , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Parody , School , Fitness , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Super Power , Primarily Male Cast , Kuudere , Aromantic , Adoption , Asexual , Battle Royale , Bullying , Food , Medieval , Cult , Unrequited Love

Seija Musou: Salaryman, Isekai de Ikinokoru Tame ni Ayumu Michi

Also known as The Great Cleric.

Studio: Yokohama Animation Lab , CLOUDHEARTS , TBS , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , BS11 , MAGNET , Micro Magazine Sha , Nichion
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Can a former salaryman become peerless in another world?!

A salaryman was shot to death just before earning a promotion, and a god decided to reincarnate him in another world as a fifteen-year-old healer named Luciel. On top of all that, the country he was born into seems to hate healers. Feeling that he's in danger, Luciel visits the adventurers' guild in hopes of keeping himself safe. But the training is much harder than he expected, and every day he's forced to drink a mysterious beverage called "Substance X." Wait, this life doesn't seem to have anything to do with being a healer...

The day-to-day life of a super-masochistic, back-from-the-dead healer begins, with his very survival on the line!



Note: Each episode streams one week early in Japan on ABEMA.

Tags: Magic , Nekomimi , Work , Time Skip , Isekai , Medicine , Tsundere , Cultivation , Martial Arts , Reincarnation , Dungeon , Anthropomorphism , Slavery , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Dragons

A-Rank Party wo Ridatsu Shita Ore wa, Moto Oshiegotachi to Meikyuu Shinbu wo Mezasu.

Also known as I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths!.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Nippon Television Network , Kodansha , Bandai Namco Pictures , Bandai Namco Music Live , Crunchyroll , Sammy , ADK Marketing Solutions
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Yuke, a red mage, angrily declares that he's leaving Thunder Pike, the A-rank party he's been with for five years, because he's fed up with being insulted and ridiculed by the other members.

While searching for a new party, he runs into his former students Marina, Silk, and Rain, and decides to join their party, Clover. Encouraged by their admiration of him as their teacher, Yuke leads them in completing several quests that show off his own extraordinary magic and skills while bringing out the girls' abilities to their fullest.

Then, through an "adventure broadcast" by an artifact known as Camelot, Clover becomes well-known throughout society. The party's dream is to conquer Achromatic Darkness, the most challenging dungeon of all, but as they take on other dungeons in hopes of eventually achieving that goal, they gradually become entangled in chaos that threatens the whole world...



Tags: Female Harem , Dungeon , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Body Horror , Archery , Swordplay , Elf , Heterosexual , Marriage , Kemonomimi , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Curses , Medieval

Maou Gun Saikyou no Majutsushi wa Ningen datta

Also known as The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord's Army was a Human.

Studio: studio A-CAT , Happinet Phantom Studios , Asmik Ace , Pony Canyon , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Futabasha , BS Asahi , KLOCKWORX , studio A-CAT
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Ike is a powerful magician and the leader of the Immortal Brigade, part of the Seventh Corps of the Demon Lord’s Army. He single-handedly conquers fortresses and pushes back the armies of humanity. Neither Dairokuten, the Demon Lord, nor Ike’s loyal soldiers know his darkest secret—he is a human in hiding! But can he keep his secret safe and bring peaceful coexistence to demons and humans?



Tags: War , Demons , CGI , Male Protagonist , Succubus , Guns , Politics , Conspiracy , Witch , Ships , Maids

Kaiko sareta Ankoku Heishi (30-dai) no Slow na Second Life

Also known as Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army.

Studio: Encourage Films , bilibili , Kodansha , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

After losing his job as a Dark Soldier of the Demon King’s Army for his lack of magic ability, 30-ish-year-old Dariel has found himself in a village of humans to spend his early forced retirement. But this unemployed magic-less demon has found a new calling as an adventurer! His second life might just be not so bad after all, as long the villagers don’t find out he’s not human.

(Source Crunchyroll)

Tags: Male Protagonist , Magic , Rural , Demons , Heterosexual , Family Life , Found Family , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Adoption , Dragons , Archery , Time Skip , CGI , Isekai

Boukensha ni Naritai to Miyako ni Deteitta Musume ga S Rank ni Natteta

Also known as My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer.

Studio: TYPHOON GRAPHICS , bilibili , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Earth Star Entertainment , AT-X , Good Smile Film , Bushiroad Move
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

The young adventurer Belgrieve retires to a quieter life after losing his leg to a beast. While gathering herbs in the woods one day, he rescues an abandoned child. Angeline trains with her father and later achieves S-Rank in the capital’s adventurer guild. Five years later, she decides to return home. Will Belgrieve get another chance at being an adventurer? Will Angeline return home unscathed?



Tags: Swordplay , Adoption , Magic , Rural , Female Protagonist , Disability , Found Family , Foreign , Elf , Cult , Dungeon , Religion , Kemonomimi , Zombie , Demons , Family Life