The ten most popular isekai anime, ranked by how many fans follow them.
1. Spirited Away
2001 · 1 episode · Finished. Watch on Netflix, Prime Video.
Stubborn, spoiled, and naïve, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino is less than pleased when she and her parents discover an abandoned amusement park on the way to their new house. Cautiously venturing inside, she realizes that there is more to this place than meets the…
2. No Game, No Life
2014 · 12 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, HIDIVE, Crunchyroll.
No Game No Life is a surreal comedy that follows Sora and Shiro, shut-in NEET siblings and the online gamer duo behind the legendary username "Kuuhaku." They view the real world as just another lousy game; however, a strange e-mail challenging them to a chess…
3. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 2
2017 · 10 episodes · Finished. Watch on Crunchyroll.
When Kazuma Satou died, he was given two choices: pass on to heaven or be revived in a fantasy world. After choosing the new world, the goddess Aqua tasked him with defeating the Demon King, and let him choose any weapon to aid him. Unfortunately, Kazuma chose…
4. Sword Art Online II
2014 · 24 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, Netflix, Crunchyroll.
A year after escaping Sword Art Online, Kazuto Kirigaya has been settling back into the real world. However, his peace is short-lived as a new incident occurs in a game called Gun Gale Online, where a player by the name of Death Gun appears to be killing…
5. The Devil is a Part-Timer!
2013 · 13 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, Crunchyroll.
Striking fear into the hearts of mortals, the Demon Lord Satan begins to conquer the land of Ente Isla with his vast demon armies. However, while embarking on this brutal quest to take over the continent, his efforts are foiled by the hero Emilia, forcing…
6. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
2018 · 24 episodes · Finished. Watch on Crunchyroll.
Corporate worker Mikami Satoru is stabbed by a random killer, and is reborn to an alternate world. But he turns out to be reborn a slime! Thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a world that’s welcoming to all races.…
7. The Rising of the Shield Hero
2019 · 25 episodes · Finished. Watch on Crunchyroll.
Iwatani Naofumi, a run-of-the-mill otaku, finds a book in the library that summons him to another world. He is tasked with joining the sword, spear, and bow as one of the Four Cardinal Heroes and fighting the Waves of Catastrophe as the Shield Hero. Excited by…
8. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
2016 · 50 episodes · Airing. Watch on Crunchyroll.
Subaru Natsuki is transported to a fantasy world where he discovers he can rewind death by dying.
9. Sword Art Online
2012 · 96 episodes · Airing. Watch on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix.
Players trapped in a virtual reality MMORPG must clear the game to escape — dying in the game means dying in real life.
10. Log Horizon
2013 · 25 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, Crunchyroll.
In the blink of an eye, thirty thousand bewildered Japanese gamers are whisked from their everyday lives into the world of the popular MMORPG, Elder Tale, after the game's latest update—unable to log out. Among them is the socially awkward college student…
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