Every Isekai Anime Coming To Streaming in June and July 2026 (And Where to Watch Them)

Every Isekai Anime Coming To Streaming in June and July 2026 (And Where to Watch Them)

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With Summer 2026 fast approaching, isekai anime fans already have plenty of series to look forward to in the coming months. While Spring 2026 was one of the best seasons for the isekai genre, with the premiere of major titles like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 and Ascendance of a Bookworm Season 4, June and July will be no exception, with series that fans have been eagerly anticipating for years.

Although Re:ZERO Season 4 will take a little longer since it won’t continue with its second half until August, Summer 2026 brings several anime gems that no one should miss. From the adaptation of a classic shojo, sequels to popular franchises, and new premieres that could become the next big hits of the genre, the wide range of options suggests that fans will have to adjust their schedules for the many isekai series they’ll be following each week. Coming to Crunchyroll and HIDIVE, here’s every isekai anime expected to premiere in Summer 2026.

Lord of Mysteries Special: Prey

Klein Moretti with the members of the Tarot Club in the visual of Lord of Mysteries Special Prey

  • Release date: June 20, 2026
  • Studio: B.CMAY PICTURES
  • Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll

Although Lord of Mysteries Season 2 won’t premiere until 2027, the donghua is looking to further expand the universe of Beyonders with new episodes. B.C. MAY PICTURES announced that the special release consists of three episodes covering the City of Silver and Qilangos story arcs, which were set up at the end of Episode 10 of Lord of Mysteries Season 1.

















From the Truck-kun to the Tempest Federation · Eight Questions
How Well Do You Know Isekai Anime?
“In another world — with my smartphone.”

AincradDeath-game MMO

Re:ZeroReturn by Death

KonoSubaUseless goddess

Tempest SlimePredator Skill

OverlordAinz Ooal Gown

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The Japanese term “isekai” (異世界) is now the catch-all label for stories about ordinary people transported, summoned or reincarnated into a fantasy realm — from Sword Art Online to Konosuba to Mushoku Tensei. What does the word literally translate to in English?




✓ Correct! “Different world” or “another world.” The word breaks into i (different) + sekai (world). The genre traces back as far as 1990s OVAs (Vision of Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi, Inuyasha) but exploded in the 2010s thanks to Sword Art Online (2009 LN, 2012 anime), Re:Zero, KonoSuba, Overlord and the “Narou” web-novel ecosystem of Shōsetsuka ni Narō.

✗ Wrong. The answer is “Different World.” Isekai breaks down literally to “i” (different) + “sekai” (world). It’s now used as a publishing-industry shorthand for the entire genre of transported/reincarnated/summoned-hero stories that boomed across the 2010s.

02

Re:Zero — Starting Life in Another World’s protagonist Subaru Natsuki is a hikikomori who’s pulled into a fantasy kingdom and given a single, brutal supernatural ability: when he dies, time rewinds to a fixed checkpoint and he relives the same stretch of days, retaining his memories. Name this signature ability.




✓ Correct! Return by Death. Subaru’s ability is treated by Tappei Nagatsuki’s novels as a curse rather than a power — the Witch of Envy locks his memory of it (he physically cannot tell anyone he can rewind), and every “reset” means he genuinely dies. Re:Zero is widely credited with redefining the modern isekai psychological lane and remains one of the genre’s most acclaimed entries.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Return by Death. None of the other names are official. Tappei Nagatsuki’s web-novel-turned-LN coined “Return by Death” specifically and made the death-and-rewind a thematic engine: every reset means a real death and accumulating trauma.

03

In KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, NEET protagonist Kazuma Sato dies and is offered a wish by an obnoxious goddess. He chooses, out of pure spite, to take her with him to the fantasy world. She becomes the party’s perpetually-dunked-on, Drain-Touch-fearing water-and-resurrection priestess. Name her.




✓ Correct! Aqua. The goddess of water, useless and proud of it. Kazuma’s entire character arc is being saddled with three of the most dysfunctional party members in any RPG — Aqua (the goddess), Megumin (the explosion-only Crimson Demon mage) and Darkness (the masochistic crusader who can’t hit anything). Aqua’s mortal terror of Drain Touch and undead is one of the show’s longest-running gags.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Aqua. Megumin is the explosion-magic mage. Darkness is the masochistic crusader. Wiz is the lich shopkeeper. The goddess Kazuma drags into the fantasy world — and the source of about 90% of the party’s problems — is Aqua.

04

In That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Mikami Satoru is stabbed in modern Tokyo and reincarnates in a fantasy world as a low-tier blue slime monster — only to discover his new body has the absurd Predator Skill that lets him absorb anything he eats. He soon names himself after a great storm dragon he befriends in a cave. What name does he take?




✓ Correct! Rimuru Tempest — surname taken from Veldora Tempest, the Storm Dragon Rimuru befriends and absorbs in his first cave. By the time the series gets going, Rimuru is the founder and ruler of the monster nation Tempest, a Demon Lord, and the most powerful single character in his world. Fuse’s web novel started in 2013, Kawakami’s manga adaptation is over 25 volumes deep, and the 8-bit Studio anime is still ongoing.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Rimuru Tempest. Lugh Veleno is the protagonist of The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated. Hajime Nagumo is the lead of Arifureta. Naofumi Iwatani is the Shield Hero. The slime who eats Veldora and names himself Tempest is Rimuru.

05

In Overlord (2015–), the Yggdrasil MMORPG’s servers shut down on the player Momonga, but instead of logging him out, he and his Great Tomb of Nazarick are pulled into a parallel world. He renames himself after his old guild — the same name that gives the show its menacing brand-villain register. What does he rename himself?




✓ Correct! Ainz Ooal Gown. Originally the name of Momonga’s 41-member Yggdrasil guild — the “Nine’s Own Goal” in original Japanese — he reclaims it as his personal alias to honour his absent guildmates. Maruyama’s LNs and Madhouse’s anime treat the protagonist as a slow-burn villain: a skeletal Eldritch Lord trying to figure out what he’s become while his floor guardians worship him as a god.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Ainz Ooal Gown. Albedo and Cocytus are NPC floor guardians of Nazarick. Demiurge is another floor guardian. Touch Me was a famous member of the original guild but isn’t Momonga’s alias. The protagonist takes the guild’s own name, Ainz Ooal Gown.

06

Sword Art Online’s first-arc death game traps Kirito and 10,000 players inside a 100-floor floating-castle MMO — if you die in the game, you die in real life. Each floor is a distinct biome and boss fight, and the only way out is to clear all 100. What is this castle/MMO called?




✓ Correct! Aincrad — the floating fortress designed by lead-developer-villain Akihiko Kayaba. Reki Kawahara’s LN began as a 2002 web novel and was adapted by A-1 Pictures in 2012, kicking off the modern isekai boom. The series moved through other servers/worlds across its sequels (Alfheim Online, Gun Gale Online, Project Alicization’s Underworld) but Aincrad remains the foundational setting and the brand image of the franchise.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Aincrad. Alfheim is the fairy-themed VRMMO of Season 1’s back half. Gun Gale Online is the FPS arc. The Underworld is the simulated world of the Alicization arc. The first-season death game is the floating fortress Aincrad.

07

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021–) is widely cited as the foundational modern isekai web novel — published online from 2012, it’s often credited with defining the genre’s template. Its protagonist is a 34-year-old NEET reincarnated as a baby in a fantasy world, retaining his adult mind. What’s his new-life name?




✓ Correct! Rudeus Greyrat — born to swordsman father Paul and maid mother Zenith in the Buena Village in the Asura Kingdom. Rifujin na Magonote’s web novel ran from 2012–15 on Shōsetsuka ni Narō and is widely credited as the prototype for the modern reincarnation-isekai template. Studio Bind’s anime adaptation (2021–) is one of the genre’s most lavishly produced.

✗ Wrong. The answer is Rudeus Greyrat. Cid Kagenou is the lead of The Eminence in Shadow. Ars Lalatoya is Rudeus’s son later in the series, not Rudeus himself. Subaru Natsuki is the protagonist of Re:Zero. Rudeus is the reborn-as-a-baby protagonist of Mushoku Tensei.

08

A huge proportion of modern isekai (Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, Overlord, Slime, KonoSuba and many others) started as free amateur web serials hosted on a single Japanese user-generated-novel website — effectively the AO3 of the isekai boom — before being picked up by light-novel publishers. Name the platform.




✓ Correct! Shōsetsuka ni Narō (literally “Let’s Become a Novelist”), commonly abbreviated to “Narou.” Launched in 2004, by the early 2010s it had become the dominant funnel for amateur isekai web novels — with publishers like Kadokawa and Shueisha trawling its leaderboards for hits to acquire. So many isekai LNs originated there that “Narou-kei” (Narou-style) became a publishing-industry shorthand for the genre’s tropes (overpowered protagonist, cheat skill, harem dynamics, RPG status screens).

✗ Wrong. The answer is Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Narou). Comico is a Korean-style webtoons platform. Pixiv Novels is a sister site to the Pixiv illustration platform but isn’t the dominant isekai pipeline. Niconico Books doesn’t exist as a major publishing platform. Narou is where the modern isekai boom was incubated.

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Demon Lord-tier — or just a Truck-kun victim?

Titled Lord of Mysteries Special: Prey, the new episodes will finally give the Tarot Club members their moment to shine, as many of the meetings from Volume 1 of the novel were glossed over in the donghua adaptation due to time constraints. The episodes will also delve into Derrick Berg, the Tarot Club’s newest member. In addition to providing a greater understanding of the characters in Lord of Mysteries, these arcs are also vital to the story, as they further solidify Klein Moretti’s image as The Fool.

Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!

Melody from Heroine? Saint? No, I'm an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!
Melody from Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Works Maid (And Proud of It)!

  • Release date: July 1, 2026
  • Studio: EMT Squared
  • Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll

The new anime Heroine? Saint? No, I’m an All-Purpose Maid (And Proud of It)! puts a twist on the premise of most isekai otome anime, as its protagonist, Melody, is unaware that the world she reincarnated into is a game and that she has actually been chosen as a saint. Ignoring her destiny, Melody dreams of becoming the world’s best maid, something that doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

In addition to having all the necessary knowledge of her duties as a maid-lover genius, Melody also possesses a vast amount of magic power that she uses to improve the life of the poor count’s family. Beyond the typical romance or a fight to save a kingdom, it’s a lighthearted and fun isekai about whether Melody will ever realize her true mission. With adorable character designs and a heartwarming story, the anime will leave viewers as satisfied as Melody was taking care of all the household chores.

From Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage

Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage visual
Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage visual

  • Release date: July 1, 2026
  • Studio: EMT Squared
  • Streaming Platform: To Be Confirmed

From Overshadowed to Overpowered is a must-watch for anime fans who love stories about underdog characters rising to power. The story follows Ephtal, a man reincarnated as a talentless mage who reaches a top position through hard work but dies full of regret after realizing his own weakness. Reincarnating again in the same world 400 years in the future, Ephtal’s story begins again, with all his previous life’s knowledge as his biggest blessing.

The anime not only features a protagonist who is reborn twice, which isn’t common in the isekai genre, but also explores how devastating it is to be hit by the reality of one’s own limitations. While EMT Squared isn’t known for stunning animation, From Overshadowed to Overpowered‘s greatest charm lies in the satisfaction of seeing Ephtal eventually being rewarded for his efforts.

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System

Elymas from The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How To Game the System
Elymas from The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How To Game the System

  • Release date: July 2, 2026
  • Studio: GoHands
  • Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll

The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System is the perfect anime for fans who crave another isekai set in a virtual world, as it boasts the best elements of series like Bofuri and Shangri-La Frontier with a protagonist specializing in defense who has to fight his way to the top. The story follows Elymas, who is banished after obtaining the discredited Heavy Knight class. But Elymas knows the true potential of his class because his world resembles a game he played in a past life.

Sung Jinwoo from Solo Leveling Next to Naofumi Iwatani from The Rising of the Shield Hero in front of background of The Exiled Heavy Knight

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Instead of a grippy revenge story, Elymas aims to prove wrong all those who humiliated him. His greatest strength lies in how he exploits video game mechanics, from grinding spots to effectively targeting beasts’ weaknesses and combining attack patterns, which creates dynamic battles. The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System teases stunning visuals and will air in two simultaneous seasons, so it has everything to become one of anime’s biggest hits of summer 2026.

Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Season 2

Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Season 2 visual
Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing Season 2 visual

  • Release date: July 3, 2026
  • Studio: Yokohama Animation Lab
  • Streaming Platform: HIDIVE

Following its premiere in winter 2026, the Hell Mode anime didn’t take long to return with more of Allen’s slow but steady journey to become the strongest summoner. After growing up as a commoner and becoming an attendant to the Granvelle Baron family in the first season, this new installment will cover the Academy Arc from the third volume of the light novel, where Allen officially forms a party and clears dungeons to improve his summoning abilities.

While it isn’t revolutionary in terms of twists or animation, it delivers a surprisingly lighthearted story with compelling character progression that manages to keep viewers hooked. Allen doesn’t become all-powerful immediately but takes his time grinding relentlessly and relying on his hardcore gaming knowledge, which gives him an edge over other isekai protagonists. With solid world-building and charming characters, Hell Mode Season 2 could very well solidify the anime’s place as one of the most entertaining isekai series of 2026.

The Forsaken Saintess and her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World

The Forsaken Saintess and her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World main visual
The Forsaken Saintess and her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World anime main visual

  • Release date: July 6, 2026
  • Studio: EMT Squared
  • Streaming Platform: HIDIVE

For those who miss Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Road Trip in Another World also promises that cozy and comfortable vibe of preparing scrumptious dishes outdoors. Initially invoked as a saint, Rin’s abilities were deemed useless. However, they were just what she needed to fuel her camping spirit, thus beginning her new van life while cooking for the adventurers she meets along the way.

Without battles or dark plot twists, this laid-back isekai shines thanks to Rin, a relatable character with a passion for food that is easy to root for after the way she was treated. Furthermore, the story constantly presents delicious-looking dishes that will not only make viewers want to save the recipes but also ignite their desire to go camping.

Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2

Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2 main visual
Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2 main visual

  • Release date: July 4, 2026
  • Studio: Aura Studio
  • Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll

Skeleton Knight in Another World is a divisive isekai anime. While it features goofy humor and a chill protagonist whose laid-back personality contrasts sharply with his appearance, the anime was criticized during its first season for its abrupt tonal shifts and the simplicity with which it addresses darker themes like slavery and sexual violence.

Even so, as a mostly lighthearted isekai, Skeleton Knight in Another World also offers great battles, a good-natured protagonist, and an entertaining party to follow. Skeleton Knight in Another World Season 2 also dives into political conflicts as the characters aim to take down a slave traders’ network with high connections.

The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker

The World's Strongest Rearguard Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker anime
The World’s Strongest Rearguard Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker anime

  • Release date: July 5, 2026
  • Studio: MAHO FILM
  • Streaming Platform: To Be Confirmed

In The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker, a salaryman exploited by his former boss is reincarnated in a fantasy world where he chooses the “rearguard” class, which, although necessary, isn’t very appealing to many adventurers. From healing and defending his teammates to combined attacks, the anime follows Arihito as he navigates monster-filled labyrinths while developing his skills as a support fighter to become overpowered.

Although the anime is all about team battles with a party where each member has their role, it also explores how Arihito slowly builds relationships, gaining a fulfilling life he couldn’t experience before. The World’s Strongest Rearguard‘s biggest selling point is how it presents a world with an interesting concept and lore. Yet it may not appeal to everyone due to its simple animation and genre tropes.

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2 visual
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2 visual

  • Release date: July 8, 2026
  • Studio: ENGI
  • Streaming Platform: To Be Confirmed

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs Season 2 is set to follow Leon’s growth from just a background character looking to survive. Set to cover the third volume of the light novel and complete the Kingdom arc, this season marks a turning point in the story with a war breaking through and new developments that will shed light on some of the mysteries of the world’s matriarchal social structure.

Subverting otome isekai tropes, Trapped in a Dating Sim takes advantage of its absurd premise by combining political intrigue with a sleazy, tactically minded protagonist, who still provides genuinely funny moments. This makes Trapped in a Dating Sim Season 2 a release that anime fans looking for something different from the typical harem shouldn’t miss.

Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2

Tanya seen playing a piano while sitting in a room engulfed in flames
Tanya seen playing a piano while sitting in a room engulfed in flames

  • Release date: July 8, 2026
  • Studio: Studio NUT
  • Streaming Platform: Crunchyroll

The isekai protagonist with the most striking difference between her appearance and her character, Tanya Von Degurechaff, is a fearsome, egocentric, and ruthless person who has become a true delight to watch. This new season is set after the events of Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie, where, following a scheme orchestrated by Being X, Tanya is sent back to the front lines with a new battalion.

From the way the series builds tension on the battlefield with every strategy to its superb animation and the fascinating conflict between Tanya and Being X that raises all sorts of moral dilemmas, Saga of Tanya the Evil became a breath of fresh air in the isekai genre while also proving bleak enough for fans of dark fantasy. That’s why it isn’t surprising that Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2 is one of the most anticipated anime of 2026, despite the long seven-year gap since its last release.

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