The protagonist of the anime “Ascent of the Shield Hero” is Naofumi Ivatani. He is an ordinary second year student.
A simple visit to the library turned out to be that he and 3 more people fell into a parallel universe, where each of them became a hero equipped with great weapons. Their goal is to save our world from destruction.
However, Ivatani became the hero of the shield, and since he was not ready for such a fate, they began to call him a weak hero. But he will do everything to prove to everyone that he is the legendary hero of the shield!
This cartoon has acquired a whole army of fans who would be interested to know which animes are similar to “Ascent of the Shield Hero”. Especially for them, this selection!
10. Legend of the legendary heroes | 2010
Many years ago, humanity was ruled by demons. Dark forces controlled all the processes taking place on the planet.
The existence of people has turned into a real hell. Horrible creatures in every possible way mocked people and impeded the development of human civilization.
But once warriors appeared who excelled demons in power. They took the side of people and drove out evil demons from the planet.
Whether this was really so or all this fiction, no one knows. But this beautiful legend of legendary heroes passes from generation to generation.
9. Goddess blesses this beautiful world | 2016-2017
The young hikikomori Sato Kazuma, who was only doing what he was messing about in his apartment, once went for a walk to the store to buy another online game, which recently went on sale.
Having managed to buy what he wanted, the half-asleep hickey Sato, devoting three days to the game without rest, suddenly sees a truck driving at his classmate with great speed!
He could not leave the girl in trouble, but it would be better if he did not leave the house at all ...
8. Lord of the magic arrows and virgins of war | 2014
Once, God gave a gift of magic bow to a man. All the arrows that he fired always hit the target. Thanks to this man and his magic bow, peace and order were established on the mainland. But this idyll at one moment came to an end.
This man died, and the magic bow disappeared. War broke out again. The seven virgins of the Vanadis war, to which the dragons gave powerful magic weapons, became the head of the seven provinces of the mainland.
And this story begins with a meeting on the battlefield of one of the seven Vanadis and the gifted archer Tigrvrumd Vorn ...
7. Chronicles of the Horizon 2013-2015
Thousands of Japanese players, prisoners in the game "Legend of the Ancients", gradually began to get used to life in the new universe. And what's so complicated? After all, not a flying castle or fire-breathing dragons, but native Japan, only medieval and reduced by half.
Players are not afraid of monsters, but they quickly besieged the various “hillocks” and lawless people, thanks to which the local population began to live a normal life.
In hospitable Akihabara, managed by the Round Table, more and more new residents come. But on the eve of Christmas, the famous magician Shiroe disappeared somewhere ...
6. Lord | 2015-2018
The story begins on the last day of the existence of the famous online game “Yggdrasil”. The main character of the anime - Momonga, decides not to leave his favorite game until its very last moment.
However, contrary to his expectations, the server does not stop its work, and the guy somehow inexplicably gets stuck in his virtual character and ends up in another world.
Now the “Mighty Lord” will have to survive in the world of the game and face a variety of challenges. He has no relatives, no friends, no places to hide, but he will do everything to conquer a new world ...
5. Living in an alternate world from scratch | 2016
This story is about the life of a teenager named Subaru Natsuki. Unexpectedly for himself and the people around him, he finds himself in an alternative reality. This happened when the guy was going home from the store.
Arriving in another world, he almost becomes a victim of the attack of the thugs who dominate this place. An elf with silver hair saved his life.
In gratitude for his salvation, the guy decides to do her a favor and find the thief who robbed her ...
4. Arata: The Legend | 2013
The anime takes place in a parallel universe where gods and humans live side by side. Here every 30 years a new princess is elected from among the members of the matriarchal clan Hime.
And once again it was time to make a choice, but it turned out that there was no one to choose from: of all the members of the clan, only Arata, who was barely fifteen, was best suited for this role. And there is another problem: Arata is a guy ...
3. Gargantes on a green planet | 2013
Humanity has left its icy homeland and rushed to the stars. People moving on spaceships are elements of a single streamlined mechanism.
A typical example is the life of young Lieutenant Red. For many years he was in the cockpit of a robot fighter. He turned into a real killing machine, but in the next battle, luck turned his back on him, and the lieutenant needed to jump.
However, Red woke up not in cosmic darkness, but in an unknown hangar, where carefree children tried using autogenes and crowbars to open the mechanism entrusted to him. Whatever you say, the cradle of human civilization, the Earth, is so outstanding!
2. The warrior of the four elements | 2013
Together with the meteorite, terrible creatures called the Shadows fell to the Earth. They very quickly destroyed almost all of humanity.
The few survivors fled to the last bastion of security - the land of Kairiku. In those parts there is a legend that somewhere in the “Ancient lands” there is a powerful sacred weapon with which you can once and for all protect the perishing world from all Shadows.
However, driven by malice and dark intentions, this weapon is capable of destroying all its inhabitants. Will Ame, the princess of the country destroyed by the Shadows, be able to find these weapons and not destroy her thirst for revenge the whole world?
1. The Twelve Kingdoms | 2002-2003
This anime is a philosophical fantasy storytelling. History makes the viewer think about a human being, which sometimes can take the most unexpected forms.
Here, the viewer is invited, together with the heroes of the animated film bit by bit, to recreate the incredibly fascinating world of illusions, in which you can even get lost.