# Top 40 Fantasy Isekai Anime

> Reborn heroes, summoned gamers and cursed outcasts all get a second shot at life. Cozy cooking tales share the shelf with war epics and dark power fantasies.

*By YPB Team · Published October 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-40-fantasy-isekai-anime*

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1. **Re:Zero** — score 1000/1000
   Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, a 2016 dark fantasy where a shut-in dies and relives the same days to save the people he loves.
2. **Mushoku Tensei** — score 694/1000
   Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, a 2021 epic about a reborn recluse who grows up in a magical world and tries to live without regrets.
3. **The Saga of Tanya the Evil** — score 626/1000
   A 2017 war fantasy about a ruthless salaryman reborn as a child mage commanding a battalion in a world at war.
4. **Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy** — score 626/1000
   A 2021 fantasy about a boy cast out by the goddess for his looks who finds a new life among demi-humans.
5. **The Rising of the Shield Hero** — score 607/1000
   A 2019 fantasy about a summoned hero who is betrayed and left with only a shield, forced to rebuild his name.
6. **The Twelve Kingdoms** — score 587/1000
   A 2002 epic about a schoolgirl pulled into a feudal world of kingdoms and kirin who must find her place as a ruler.
7. **No Game No Life** — score 491/1000
   A 2014 comedy fantasy about a pair of genius gamer siblings summoned to a world where every dispute is settled by games.
8. **The Devil Is a Part-Timer!** — score 491/1000
   A 2013 comedy where a defeated Demon Lord flees to modern Tokyo and works at a fast food restaurant.
9. **Drifters** — score 491/1000
   A 2016 action fantasy where historical warriors from Japan's past are drawn into a world of war against the Black King.
10. **The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent** — score 491/1000
   A 2021 romantic fantasy about a woman summoned as a saint whose healing skills make her the kingdom's secret weapon.
11. **Uncle from Another World** — score 491/1000
   A 2022 comedy about a man who wakes after 17 years in a fantasy world and now stuns his nephew with retro gaming talk.
12. **Wise Man's Grandchild** — score 491/1000
   A 2019 comedy about a reborn boy raised by a legendary sage who has no idea how overpowered he is.
13. **KonoSuba** — score 434/1000
   A 2016 comedy about a hapless adventurer and his useless goddess, mage and crusader party in a fantasy world.
14. **Reincarnated as a Sword** — score 434/1000
   A 2022 adventure about a man reborn as a talking sword, wielded by a beast-girl on a mission of revenge.
15. **Re:Monster** — score 434/1000
   A 2024 story about a man reborn as a goblin who evolves by eating foes and gaining their skills.
16. **How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom** — score 434/1000
   A 2021 political fantasy in which a summoned student becomes king and reforms a struggling realm.
17. **Overlord** — score 434/1000
   A 2015 dark fantasy about a player trapped in his game as the skeletal ruler of a guild, now commanding an undead empire.
18. **Skeleton Knight in Another World** — score 434/1000
   A 2022 series about a gamer who turns into a skeleton knight in the game world and wanders for fun and heroics.
19. **Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody** — score 434/1000
   A 2018 adventure about a programmer who wakes in a game-like world as an overpowered level 310 character.
20. **Ascendance of a Bookworm** — score 434/1000
   A 2019 story about a book lover reborn as a sickly girl in a world with few books who sets out to make her own.
21. **Dog Days** — score 434/1000
   A 2011 light fantasy about a boy summoned to a land of beast-eared people to fight in a friendly war.
22. **In Another World with My Smartphone** — score 367/1000
   A 2017 light adventure about a boy who is granted a smartphone and a free life in a sword and magic world.
23. **Isekai Quartet** — score 367/1000
   A 2019 crossover comedy that drops the casts of Overlord, Re:Zero, KonoSuba and The Saga of Tanya into one school.
24. **Failure Frame** — score 367/1000
   A 2024 dark fantasy about a boy cursed with a 'failure frame' who becomes the strongest after being cast out.
25. **Cautious Hero** — score 367/1000
   A 2019 comedy about a hero who is so careful he trains endlessly before taking on even the smallest foe.
26. **Magic Knight Rayearth** — score 367/1000
   A 1994 series in which three schoolgirls are summoned to Cephiro to become the magic knights who save it.
27. **Campfire Cooking in Another World** — score 367/1000
   A 2023 cozy adventure of a man who can order modern groceries and cooks for a fenrir and his travelling party.
28. **The Eminence in Shadow** — score 289/1000
   A 2022 action comedy about a boy who role-plays as a hidden mastermind in another world that really has a secret cult.
29. **The Vision of Escaflowne** — score 289/1000
   A 1996 fantasy about a schoolgirl whisked to the planet Gaia, where she is drawn into war, mecha and destiny.
30. **GATE** — score 289/1000
   A 2015 military fantasy where a portal opens in Tokyo and Japan's army marches into a medieval realm.
31. **Restaurant to Another World** — score 289/1000
   A 2017 slice-of-life series about a diner whose door opens to a fantasy world once a week for hungry customers.
32. **Black Summoner** — score 289/1000
   A 2022 dark fantasy about a gamer summoned to another world who commands a growing army of powerful servants.
33. **Banished from the Hero's Party** — score 289/1000
   A 2021 slow-life fantasy about a support member who is kicked out and builds a peaceful life elsewhere.
34. **Fushigi Yugi** — score 197/1000
   A 1995 romantic fantasy about two girls drawn into a book of ancient China to find the priestess's celestial warriors.
35. **That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime** — score 197/1000
   A 2018 adventure in which an office worker becomes a slime and builds a nation of monsters.
36. **Log Horizon** — score 197/1000
   A 2013 series about thousands of players stuck in an MMORPG world, who build a society instead of just fighting.
37. **Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest** — score 197/1000
   A 2019 dark fantasy about a boy who is betrayed in a dungeon and claws his way back as a feared fighter.
38. **The Faraway Paladin** — score 197/1000
   A 2021 fantasy about a boy raised by undead mentors who sets out on a gentle but ambitious quest as a paladin.
39. **Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash** — score 0/1000
   A 2016 grounded story of amnesiac newcomers struggling to survive as low-level volunteer soldiers.
40. **Parallel World Pharmacy** — score 0/1000
   A 2022 fantasy about a pharmacist reborn in another world who uses modern medicine to treat patients and win trust.

Tags: fantasy, adventure, animation, japan, isekai