Fantasy anime & manga is coming back into a trend as many fantasy anime are getting their adaptations this year after the adaptation of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.
Many viewers are getting interested in exploring the fantasy genre. Since the fantasy genre has been slept on for a while, many amazing fantasy anime & manga have been adapted into anime this year.
Fans are hopeful that they will also get to see their favorite fantasy anime & manga on screen someday. If you are just getting into the fantasy genre, it could be a bit difficult to pick a particular anime & manga.
As there are various options to choose from. Let’s find out what everyone has been reading in the fantasy genre lately.
When all of them are amazing, here’s a list of the best fantasy anime & manga that you can read any day for the best adventure, humor, and romance.
1) Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
The story follows the adventures of a hero named Himmel, a mage named Frieren, a priest named Heiter, and a warrior named Eisen, who defeat the demon king to bring peace to their world.
Frieren decides to go on a new adventure to gather magic and travel around the world for the next hundred years.
But she ended up losing Himmel because he was a human, unlike her, who is an elf. He was not immortal. After losing her fellow adventurer, Frieren decides to learn more about humans to get to know them better.
2) Shangri-La Frontier
Rakuro Hizutome is a second-year high school student and an avid gamer who enjoys playing shitty games. Because they are too easy to win, one day, he ends up getting his hand on a game called Shangri-La Frontier.
But unlike other shitty games. Shangri-La Frontier was a good tier game. He skipped the prologue and went straight into the game, and surprisingly, it had been a year since the game was launched.
However, none of the players were able to beat a single unique monster. Would Rakuro become the first player to beat the monster in the game, or would someone else do it before him?
3) The Eminence in Shadow
Cid Kagenou devoted his entire life to becoming an eminence in shadow. He did many things in his past life to turn into a shadow breaker.
However, he failed every time until one night, he got hit by a truck and reincarnated into another world. Cid mastered the ability of magic in his past life. He used his special skills to fulfill his decade-long dream of becoming a shadow broker.
He made up a fake story about preventing the resurrection of Diablos, the demon. Cid joined hands with an elf after saving her life, but his fake story turned into reality when demons and the cult of the Diablos attacked their land.
4) Witch Hat Atelier
Coco desired to be born as a witch. When she was a child, her mother took her to a festival at the castle. Coco bought a book from a witch that day.
The witch introduced her to the world of magic, and ever since then, she wanted to grow and become a witch one day.
Coco desired to make the world vibrant but later found out that she could not become a witch. Because she was a regular human, and witches were born with special abilities.
Coco had lost hope until one day, she met Qifrey, a male witch. She then discovered a way to practice magic by watching him.
But her half-knowledge turned her mother into a statue, so Coco accepted Qifrey’s offer to become a witch to save her mother and find the magic book.
5) Isekai Walking
Sora Fujimiya, a modern Japanese citizen, was summoned into another world called the kingdom of Elesya as a hero candidate, but instead of doing that.
He did a lot of odd jobs, and the world had not developed modern technology and science. But he could still walk comfortably because of the walking skill that was granted to him when he entered that world.
He was summoned there to defeat the demon king by using his skills. Sora had to defeat the demon king and take his magic stone to return to his original world.
But he had no status like the other six members who were summoned there with him. He decided to use his walking skills to explore the kingdom of Elesya.
6) Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai
Sheena Totsuki lived in an orphanage that raised magic users to serve their country. Sheena Totsuki and her schoolmates were trained to be assassins who specialized in magic.
They were gifted with a mysterious power from birth. One morning, she received the news that her roommate had died because of a casualty.
Sheena Totsuki could not focus on her studies all day, and at night, she ended up meeting Mimi Kagari—a girl who had returned from the battleground with blood on her body. The next day, Mimi Kagari joined Sheena Totsuki’s class as a new student.
7) MamaYuyu
Corleo was two months old when a sigil appeared on his hand after the previous hero passed away. As an orphan child, he was taken in by a demon lord and raised in the Eastern Army dorms until the age of 18.
He lived in a time when fighting was unnecessary, so he was conflicted as he could not find out what it meant to be a hero. He wanted to quit being a hero until, one day, he met Evan All-Green.
A hero who came from a different world to defeat the demon king. Surprisingly, Evan also had the same sigil as Corleo. After seeing Evan in action, Corleo finally understood what it meant to be a hero.
8) Messiah: Isekai wo Sukutta Moto Yuusha ga Mamono no Afureru Genjitsu Sekai wo Musou suru
Takeru Yamato was always bullied by delinquents in his class, but he did not dare to fight back, and he hated himself for that.
Takeru hated his classmates for turning a blind eye to what he was going through. He always wished to get a chance to redo his life from scratch.
Takeru’s wish came true when he got summoned into a different world. He thought that it was his chance to live a better life.
But he found out that the world was being haunted by the existence of a demon lord. Could Takeru defeat the demon lord when he could not even defy his bullies?
9) Shadows House
Emilico, a living doll, serves her master, Kate, as a shadow with no face. She often had a hard time interacting with Kate.
As an attendant, she could not read what Kate wanted to get done with her subtle gestures. Emilico was created for the sake of the shadow house.
Every doll that broke into pieces was thrown out of the house. Even though she was a doll, Emilico often felt pain.
10) Wild Strawberry
Plants engulfed Tokyo; the overgrowth brought the metropolis to a near standstill. People had many theories about what caused it.
People suggested that it was because of global warming. Some thought it was because they were getting punished for continuous environmental destruction.
But no one knew the real reason, but everybody knew that flowers were stronger than guns in Tokyo. The plants had evolved to absorb nutrients from humans.
11) Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc
Magical Girls was a general name for an affiliated organization that examined monsters. The monster phenomenon was a type of natural disaster that suddenly appeared on Earth. Suppressing those monsters and rescuing civilians was the main job of magical girl companies.
12) Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
Leon Fou Bartfort always used to play the game that belonged to his little sister. She once visited the apartment where he lived and made him play the game because he seemed free.
But one day, while playing the game, he dozed off and got reincarnated into the world of an otome game.
13) Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
Everyone had an abnormality or two, and there were people with great creativity. People who could easily draw masterpieces.
Kazuhiro Kitase was an ordinary salary man who fantasized about a fantasy world and admired people who looked perfect without effort. But for some reason, his dreams always seemed too realistic.
14) Kujima Utaeba, Ie Hororo
Arata Kouda met a strange creature named Kujima in the autumn of his first year of middle school. He took the creature to his room since both of his parents were working late.
16) ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess
The princess was not only considered royalty but also the commander of the third legion. She managed to survive countless battles and reap the spoils of as many victories as possible. But she fell into the hands of the hell-horde, and she was being held as a captive.
17) The Savior’s Book Cafe Story in Another World
Tsukina Mizumori, a 22-year-old, got the opportunity to travel to another world. To fight demons with her sword magic when she read about that in books and manga.
Tsukina thought that it would be an interesting experience. But when she got the opportunity, Tsukina considered that it was unreasonable for her to do something like that to save the world.
18) Witch Watch
Nico Wakatsuki, a witch, went to visit her childhood best friend, Morihito Otogi. Nico had always had feelings for her best friend, but she never confessed her feelings to him.
Nico moved in with Mori for high school since they had not met for a long time. Nico and Mori have changed for the better. Now, how will they keep their feelings to each other?
19) Interviews with Monster Girls
Tetsuo Takahashi, a biology teacher, had been teaching in a high school for four years. He wanted to write his thesis on demi-human, but he was not proud of it.
But he desperately wanted to meet one. He was always curious to find out something about them. But he realized that there were too many demi-humans in the school.
20) Am I actually the strongest?
Haruto Zenfis was bullied so much during his third year of middle school that he became a shut-in after five years.
He was living a vague life with no hope for the future. He got lucky, and after a careful screening process, it was decided that he would get reincarnated into a different world.
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