10 Best New Isekai Anime To Watch In 2023

(Last Updated On: January 3, 2023)

Isekai is one of the best genres in the anime world and 2022 has been a great year for Isekai anime lovers. We didn’t just get much new isekai anime, we also got new seasons of some of the most popular isekai anime. As I’m writing this article, many of the anime in this list have already been completed or are still going on. There are also some that haven’t been released yet.

Escape to a fantasy world filled with action and adventure with these Isekai anime of 2022.

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10. Reincarnated as a Sword

A man from the modern world got reincarnated into a fantasy world but instead of being reincarnated as a human, he woke up as a magic sword stabbed on n altar in the middle of a forest with no one around. Unable to move, all he could do was call out for help in the hopes that someone might hear him.

Fran is a young cat girl who was enslaved by humans after they killed many of her kind. While being transported through a forest, they are attacked by a bear, giving her a chance to escape. In the forest, she comes upon a magic sword that can speak. She uses the sword to kill the slave trader and then decides to reclaim the honor of her fellow beast kin that were killed by humans. Follow Fran and the magic sword on this journey.

9. The Eminence in Shadow

This is not the story of a hero. This is the story of someone who interferes and exerts his enormous power from the shadows. The only thing Cid ever cared about was to become “The Eminence in Shadow” – a powerful mastermind who controls everything from the shadows. And he might actually be able to do it after he gets reincarnated in a fantasy world of magic.

Follow Cid as he becomes a powerful person creating a secret organization and plots to defeat the (fake) Dark Order. But he doesn’t know that the fake evil organization he came up with, actually exists and plans to take over the world. Watch other anime like The Eminence in Shadow.

8. Trapped in a Dating Sim

The Male lead’s sister forces him to clear a dating sim game for her. The game is set in a world of matriarchy where women have power over men. Forced to play the game, he somehow managed to clear the game by playing for days without any proper sleep and food.

After clearing it, he heads out to get some food but ends up unconscious by falling down the stairs. Waking up, he found himself in the dating sim game as Leon Bartfort, a mob character. Now, he must use his knowledge of the game to survive in a world where men are not given much importance. Will he be able to clear the game with the odds against him? Anime like Trapped in a Dating Sim.

7. Skeleton Knight in Another World

A gamer chose the only paid avatar in a video game, “The Full Body Skeleton” – a skeleton in full body armor. After he fell asleep while playing the game, he woke in the world of the game as his avatar “Arc”. Stuck with the body of a skeleton, he must survive in this world while making sure that his skeleton face is seen by no one to prevent being mistaken as a monster.

So, he decides to live a simple life without drawing unnecessary attention. As he is looking around the forest he woke up in, he sees an elf and her subordinate about to be raped by a group of bandits. He saves them using his skills. This encounter leads him on an adventure, shattering his hopes of a quiet life.

6. Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

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Hajime, along with his entire class, was summoned to another world but he didn’t get to be the “Strong Main Character summoned from another world”. He had to go along with the crazy rules of this new world just to survive and then even his classmates betrayed him and left him to die in a labyrinth where instead of dying, he became stronger.

The second season starts after he saved his classmates. Now, he plans to help Myuu, a young girl from the Sea-Dweller Tribe, and her mother get back to their home – Erisen. He will do anything to become even stronger and go back home. See best reverse harem mangas.

5. Uncle From Another World

When Takafumi was a kid, his uncle had an accident that left him in a comatose state. Seventeen years later, he is having a hard time in life when he gets a call from the hospital that his uncle has woken up. Soon, he finds out that after the accident his uncle was transported to a fantasy world of swords and magic, and that even when he’s back in the modern world he can still use magic.

Takafumi comes up with a plan to use his uncle’s powers to earn money by uploading his videos on Youtube. So, he brings him to live at his house but the problem is that his uncle doesn’t know much about smartphones and the internet, so, he also has to teach him two decades of history. You should definitely check out this anime if you are bored of the generic isekai anime with a good-looking MC and want something different.

4. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part III

In the third season, as Myne prepares to start her Priestess apprenticeship in the church, her intelligence and talent in the field of magic have gained the attention of many people who have evil intentions toward her. To protect Myne, the Head Priest proposes a solution – get adopted by a noble. But that means leaving her family. Not knowing what lies ahead in her future, she’s only sure of one thing – she will never abandon the ones she loves and would do anything to protect them.

But the Head Priest gives her a warning that if she is deemed unstable, they would have to
consider her a threat and eliminate her.

3. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Movie

Highly popular anime “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” is getting a movie. The movie will have a theatrical premiere in Japan on 25 November 2022. The studio behind this movie is 8bit which also made its anime and other popular anime like Infinite Stratos, The Irregular at Magic High School, and more.

Raja, a small country near Tempest, gets involved in a conspiracy because of the powers of its Queen. Rimuru and his companion Benimaru get involved in the troubles of the country of Raja after they run into a man from Benimaru’s past.

2. Overlord IV

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Ainz has sent Albedo to E-Rantel, the capital city of his kingdom which fears him so much that it’s led to a shortage of goods in it. Meanwhile, Emperor Jircniv Rune is plotting against Ainz and his kingdom by colluding with the Slane Theocracy to overthrow him and take over the Sorcerer Kingdom.

But when Emperor Jircniv Rune reaches the place of the meeting, he sees none other than Ain himself who declares that he is going to challenge the greatest fighter in the empire – The Warrior King. What is Ainz planning? What will be humanity’s future?