How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord continues to show promise now on its Season 2 with How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord Ω (Omega) as Diablo and his friends venture into Cross Reverie to learn more about the game. If you like this anime series, here are 8 anime shows like How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord you should start watching.
Based on the shōnen manga series of the same name, and the Japanese light novels by Yukiya Murasaki illustrated by Takahiro Tsurusaki, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord is animated by Tezuka Productions with 10 episodes bringing the pages to the screens.
Table of Contents
- 8 Anime Shows Like How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord You Should Start Watching
- 1. Log Horizon
- 2. Overlord
- 3. Full Dive
- 4. No Game, No Life
- 5. In Another World With My Smartphone (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni)
- 6. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku)
- 7. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!)
- 8. The Devil Is A Part-Timer! (Hataraku Maou-sama!)
Streaming online on both Crunchyroll and Funimation, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lordis both its original Japanese audio with English subtitles on Crunchyroll and its English dubbed version is on Funimation. Those with a premium access subscription for $9.99 a month, or $79.99 a year for Crunchyroll, and $5.99 per month or $59.99 a year for Funimation get the episodes one week earlier before the free release the week after.
8 Anime Shows Like How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord You Should Start Watching
1. Log Horizon
Like How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, the protagonist on Log Horizon got transported into the game as he was doing really good in playing it. Shiroe got into the MMORPG he is playing, Elder Tale, and he is one of the thirty thousand people who got trapped inside of it. Shiroe has to team up with other players to find how to get out of the game, or so he thought, he has to make sure that the world he is in becomes stable.
2. Overlord
Before the MMORPG game, Yggdrasil, closes for good, Momonga tries to retain his glory in the game as the most powerful player that there is. He then decides to change the code to be able to stay with the character he is in love with. Little did he know, his actions would transfer his consciousness to his character and he has to remain in his almighty dark lord illusion despite having no real-like skills and while figuring out how he got transported into the game.
3. Full Dive
Full Dive is a rather new anime but it is quite the same as How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord in the sense that it involves a character having to play a game that would alter the course of his life. A too-realistic VRMMORPG, Kiwame Quest, is played by Hiro who realizes that the game is much more than what he expects it to be as it translates to real life as if he transports himself into the game.
4. No Game, No Life
Revolving around the game of Disboard, Shiro and Sora who were superior to other gamers received an invitation to play the said game. They would have to finish 16 races and would be challenging a god, Tet, to become ultimate masters of the game and with this, they found a new purpose in life inside the Disboard.
5. In Another World With My Smartphone (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni)
A god intervening to reincarnate a character into the game, how exciting is that? Touya was accidentally killed by a god and he gets reincarnated in a fantasy world where he is one of the most powerful characters there is. He has a magical smartphone with him and he has to learn magic while finishing the quests in the game.
6. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku)
Ichirou is a game developer and he had a death march to finish tons of game alterations where he fixes bugs under the name of Satou. One morning, he wakes up, not in his usual self, but as Satou in one of the RPG games he developed. Given his knowledge of the game, he levels up faster than anyone, but more than figuring out how being in the game would help him develop it, he also tries to look for a way out and get home.
7. KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! (Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!)
Another character with the name Satou, Kazuma Satou only cares about life when it has video games. He died an embarrassing death only to be reborn in an RPG-like world thanks to the goddess Aqua after giving him the choice of either going to heaven or being in a fantasy world. In a twist, he chooses an item to support him while in the fantasy world and he chose Aqua only to find out she is quite useless.
8. The Devil Is A Part-Timer! (Hataraku Maou-sama!)
Satan is the supreme leader of an alternate world lorded by demons. He gets defeated by heroes and he has to teleport to Earth with Alsiel, his assistant. Upon arriving on Earth, they realize that they lost all their powers and had to live the life of a human. The Demon King has to work part-time in a restaurant where he works his way up the ranks.
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord Season 2 releases new episodes every week on Funimation and Crunchyroll at 1:28 AM JST/ 9:28 AM PT/ 11:28 AM CT/ 12:28 PM EST/ 5:28 PM BST.
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