Isekai anime and manga
The guide lists 453 titles tagged isekai. The genre peaked in the 2020s (221 titles). Studios with the most isekai titles: EMT Squared (8), Maho Film (8) and Studio Deen (7). It often comes paired with fantasy, comedy and harem.
Best-known isekai anime
- Overlord 2015
- Digimon Adventure 1999
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2018
- Mushoku Tensei 2021
- Ascendance of a Bookworm 2019
- The Eminence in Shadow 2022
- The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2021
- KonoSuba 2016
- Re:Zero 2016
- Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy 2021
- The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent 2021
- The Faraway Paladin 2021
- My Isekai Life 2022
- Isekai Quartet 2019
- I'm in Love with the Villainess 2023
- Hell Mode 2026
- Aura Battler Dunbine 1983
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! 2020
- .hack//Sign 2002
- The Vision of Escaflowne 1996
- No Game No Life 2014
- Tales of Wedding Rings 2024
- Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra 2025
- Mushoku Tensei: Eris The Goblin Slayer 2022
- Suicide Squad Isekai 2024
- Farming Life in Another World 2023
- Zenshu 2025
- My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's 2025
- Dog Days 2011
- Reincarnated as a Sword 2022
Best-known isekai anime films
- Spirited Away 2001
- KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Legend of Crimson 2019
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie – Tears of the Azure Sea 2026
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond 2022
- Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom 2024
Best-known isekai manga
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2015
- Mushoku Tensei
- The Eminence in Shadow 2018
- The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2018
- Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian! Part 1 – If There Aren't Any Books, I'll Just Have to Make Some! 2015
- Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Do Anything to Become a Librarian! Part 2 – I'll Even Join the Temple to Read Books! 2018
- KonoSuba 2014
- Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy
- The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent 2017
- The Faraway Paladin 2017
- My Isekai Life 2018
- I'm in Love with the Villainess
- Hell Mode 2020
- Dr. Stone 2017
- My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! 2017
- Tales of Wedding Rings 2014
- Fushigi Yûgi 1991
- No Game No Life 2013
- Drifters 2009
- Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout 2019
- Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra 2020
- Uncle From Another World 2018
- Farming Life in Another World 2017
- My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's 2018
- Handyman Saitou in Another World
- I'm Standing on a Million Lives
- No Longer Allowed in Another World 2019
- The Dungeon of Black Company 2016
- From Bureaucrat to Villainess 2020
- Parallel Paradise