That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Series Similar to That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

If you enjoyed That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Sword Oratoria: Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden

   2017 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Sword princess Aiz Wallenstein. Today, once again, the strongest female swordsman heads to the giant labyrinth known as the "Dungeon" along with her allies. On the 50th floor where mysteries and threats such as a decayed dragon's corpse that crumbles to ash and an irregularity that creeps ever closer to the party loom, Aiz calls for the wind and heads deeper into the darkness of the Dungeon. Eventually, she finds herself meeting a boy for the first time. In the Labyrinth City of Orario, the contrasting stories of the boy and the girl intersect.

2. The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far

   2023 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   After dying in the act of stopping a crime in modern Japan, our hero is reincarnated as Cain von Silford, third son of a noble family in a world of swords and sorcery. In his new life, all children receive a blessing from the gods...but Cain is unexpectedly blessed with an absolutely enormous, over-the-top cornucopia of magical powers. If his dream of traveling the world as a free spirit is to come true, he can't reveal too much of his potential to the wrong people. A light-hearted, escapist adventure in another world begins!

3. The Ossan Newbie Adventurer, Trained to Death by the Most Powerful Party, Became Invincible

   2024 · Action, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Anime profile, hidden gem.

   It is common knowledge that it is best to become an adventurer when you are as young as possible because the magical power that is the basis of an adventurer's strength will hardly grow if you don't train it while you are young. But this man, Rick Gladiator, who became an adventurer when he was over thirty years old, had the combat power of an S-rank adventurer, the highest rank in the world. In fact, Rick has lived an unimaginable life with the members of the legendary Orihalcon Fist, a party of the continent's strongest adventurers. From dragons to vampires, Rick's fighting prowess, trained by his literal "monster" mentors, allows him to defeat elite adventurers one after another who try to underestimate him.

4. Gate

   2015 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   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 to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Yōji, 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.

5. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

   2016 · Drama, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   Why are we here? Why are we doing this?Before Haruhiro had realized what happened, he was surrounded by darkness. Why was he here? Where was here? Even now, he still didn't know. Those around him were the same as him, no one remembered anything other than their own names. And when they emerged from the darkness, the world that awaited them seemed like something out of a video game.In order to survive, Haruhiro forms a party with the others, learns fighting skills, and as a soldier in the reserve force, takes his first steps into the world of Grimgar. What awaits him there, he doesn't know...This the story of an adventure born from the ashes.

6. Sword Art Online

   2012 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · returning

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   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...

7. Skeleton Knight in Another World

   2022 · Comedy, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · returning

   Recommended for similar Adventure / Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   Upon awakening a gamer finds himself in his avatar body that he uses in his online game. Seeing his reflection in river, he is shocked to discover that his facial appearance is that of a skeleton due to the special avatar skin『Skeleton』he used. In unfamiliar territory, the gamer decides that it would be best to hide his appearance and search for inhabitants. He spies a band of bandits attacking a group at a distance. While contemplating whether or not to get involved, after he sees the bandits about to rape two women, he springs to action, killing the men. 

8. Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

   2019 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · returning

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   Seventeen-year-old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They're treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku's wet dream quickly turns into Hajime's nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime's job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith's level of strength?

9. Itai no wa Iya nano de Bōgyoryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu.

   2020 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Fantasy · returning

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   Honjou Kaede is invited by her friend Shiramine Risa to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.

10. Overlord

    2015 · Action, Anime, Fantasy · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Anime profile.

    When a popular fantasy MMORPG shuts down its servers, one guild leader, the skeleton mage, Momonga, finds himself transported to a real fantasy world trapped inside the body of his avatar. His guild's fortress has been transported to an unfamiliar world and the inhabiting NPC characters gain sentience and look to Momonga as their supreme ruler–an overlord as it were. With his extensive knowledge of magic and powerful, fanatic minions following his every whim, Momonga continues to roleplay the part of the evil overlord to the extent that domination of this new world is not an entirely unappealing option.