Overlord is one of the best anime shows in the world. These are 11 Anime like Overlord every anime fan should be watching.
Imagine logging into your favourite game and suddenly you are unable to log out. Pretty fascinating, right?
The ‘isekai’ has become a very popular genre in the anime world lately. Why? Probably because idea to be able to live in a different reality, with magic powers is intriguing.
Overlord is one such Isekai anime that has left its audience hooked. It is an anime based on a young man, Ainz Ooal Gown who gets trapped in an online video game permanently.
The anime takes us on his journey as a warrior king and his quest to make his empire in the world of video game.
There are many such isekai anime out there that follow the same idea, but if you specifically enjoyed Overlord for its fun characters and fantasy aspects, we have come up with a list of anime similar to Overlord that carry the same exciting quotient.
Log Horizon
The plot of the anime revolves around a role-playing game, Elder Tale, which becomes a real- life threat because of a glitch.
The series takes us through the journey where thousands of Japanese players are transported into the world of Elder tale game, unable to log out after a new update.
Away from their regular life, trapped together with the protagonist of the show, a socially awkward student Shiroe, they struggle to find their way out.
Log Horizon is a similar anime like overlord, having similar elements of survival and the fear of dying in the real world. Characters depend on their in-game skills and try to make the best out of the situation while enjoying their journey in this new adventure.
No Game No Life
Based on a light Novel by Yu Kamiya, No Game No Life features Sora and Shiro, two hikikomori step-siblings known as incredible gamers in the online gaming world. However, they lack the skills to achieve anything meaningful in their current world.
Their lives takes an interesting turn, when they are challenged to a games of chess by a god from another dimension.
The siblings win this challenge easily and are transported into another world where everything depends on competition and games.
While Overlord is more about overpowering enemies, No Game No Life is more about outsmarting them. Other than that, this is an anime similar to Overlord, where characters are placed in a unique environment.
Sword Art Online
On the launch day of a game ‘Sword Art Online’, 10,000 players discover that they are unable to log out of the game and if they die in the game, they die in real life too.
Their only way out of the game is by defeating the 100-level tower’s final boss.
Kirito, one of the beta players of the game with good fighting skills, meets a girl Asuna and they fall in love in the virtual world. Along with other Guild members, they try to win the game and save everyone.
While Sword Art Online is pretty similar anime like Overlord, the main difference is that the characters know a way out of the situation and they anime has an essence of romance in it.
GATE
The story unfolds in the modern day Tokyo’s Ginza district, when a portal appears letting in monsters and knights from another dimension.
The Japanese Defence Force takes action to turn these creatures back where they came from.
Three months after the attack, a team is dispatched into this dangerous new world beyond the gate, joined by an elf girl in order to learn more about this unknown world.
Gate is a more of a light-hearted comedy but both Gate and Overlord have a strong focus on politics and diplomacy, dealing with both opponents and allies.
One-Punch Man
In a city of criminals, thugs, and super villains, a man named Saitama starts training to become a superhero.
His hard work pays off and he ends up becoming so powerful that he is able to defeat any enemy with a punch. He soon gets bored fighting the enemies as he is too strong for everyone.
I admit, One-Punch Man is not an isekai but it has a similar tone as Overlord.
Momonga and Saitama are both extremely strong but not to the point of being overpowered-lame. The humour in both shows is also great and gripping.
Youjo Senki
Tanya Degurechaff is a young soldier, famous for her mercilessness and eerie tactics.
It is revealed that, beneath her appearance as a little girl lies the soul of a man who challenged the ‘self-proclaimed God’ and was reincarnated as a little girl into a world of magical warfare.
From Japanese common men to powerful characters that are capable of magic, lies the similarity with Overlord.
Both characters end up in a new world, try to adjust and achieve their goals in order to survive.
Obviously, it is evident that Youjo Senki is more about war and violence where Overlord is a bit more adventurous.
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
Ichiro Suzuki, is a young programmer who finds himself teleported into the same fantasy game that he was working on.
First, he thinks it to be a dream but soon realises that it has become his new reality. Satou’s journey begins as he tries to live peacefully within the game but the return of a demon king ends up soiling his plans.
An anime like overlord, a man who is trapped in a game but In Overlord, the character feels more ‘stuck’ in his situation wherein Death March, Satou seems to embrace it in a different way.
Quan Zhi Gao Shou
In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu is widely regarded as a trailblazer and top tier professional player. When forced to retire from the team, leaving his gaming career behind, he finds work at an Internet cafe.
When Glory launches its tenth server, Xiu throws himself into the game once more under a new character, Lord Grim.
His early achievements and skills immediately catch the attention of other players. Even though he posses ten years of experience, starting again without any sponsors or a team, he faces numerous challenges.
The anime similar to overlord, with underlying difference is that in Quan Zhi Gao Shou, the character decides to go back into the game himself while in Overlord the character struggles to find his way out.
.hack//Sign
One of the oldest isekai anime out there, Tsukasa wakes up in a game called ‘The World’, without any memories of his past.
Unable to log out of the game, Tsukasa embarks on a journey with several other players caught inside, in order to explore ‘The World’, find answers, and search the out of the game.
.hack//Sign will make you introspect more than any other isekai series since it addresses why we want to escape into fantasy worlds to get rid of all our problems.
It is quite an anime like Overlord, just a bit more deep and denser.
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
The plot follows a group of strangers with no memories of their past who find themselves immersed in the fantasy world of Grimgar.
Grimgar resembles a game, except it is very real and leaves no chance for deaths or re spawns; it is kill or die.
The characters engage with the Army, learn different skills, try to earn a living and preserve the peace in the fantasy world.
Btooom!
Ryouta Sakamoto is an unemployed man who lives with his mother, his only achievement being that he is Japan’s top player of a popular online video game Btooom!
However, his life turns upside down when he finds himself stranded on an island, with a small green crystal embedded in his left hand and no memory of reaching there.
He is shocked to find that someone has decided to recreate the game he is so fond of in real life, with the stakes being life or death.
The players are asked to kill seven of their fellow participants and take their crystals in order to return home.
Initially adopting non violence, Ryouta resorts to fight when he realises that many of the other players are not as embracing as they may seem.
Teaming up with a fellow Btooom! player, Himiko, he attempt to get off of the island together, coming closer and closer to the truth.
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