TOP 20 ISEKAI / Shoujo Manga Recommendations | Must Read

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20. Tensei Oujo wa Kyou mo Flag wo Tatakioru
(The Reincarnated Princess Strikes Down Flags Today as Well)

Year: 2018 - Present

Genre(s): Comedy,  Drama,  Fantasy,  Romance

Synopsis:

I was reborn as a princess in the world an otome game with memories of my previous life.

Wait, what? I'm the heroine's love rival? You're kidding! I have no intention of falling in love with any of those pathetic guys, because the one I like is a support character, the Commander of the Royal Knights.

Except the Heroine, after being reincarnated in this shitty game where the support characters are way better than the love interests, is threatening to bring down my own life with flags, and I am determined to strike them down.

19. Watashi wa Otonashiku Kiesaru Koto ni Shimasu
( I Will Quietly Disappear )

Year: 2019 - Present

Genre(s): Adventure,  Drama,  Fantasy,  Romance

Synopsis:

I was reincarnated as the daughter of Duke Lystil, who has been serving the Royal Family for generations. By using the clairvoyance skill that I possess, I had divination about a battle over the family succession caused by myself in the close future, which would also cause an uproar huge enough to shake the country... To avoid such dispute and live an enjoyable life peacefully, I decided that I will run away from home!

But with the Tsundere Prince ・Self-centered Servant being all over myself, it's quite hard for me to go and disappear!!

18. Watashi wa Akuyaku Reijou Nanka Ja Nai!! Yami Tsukai dakaratte Kanarazushimo Akuyaku da to Omou na yo!
(I’m Not a Villainess!! Just Because I Can Control Darkness Doesn’t Mean I’m a Bad Person! )

Year: 2019 - Present Genre(s): Action,  Adventure,  Drama,  Fantasy,  Romance

Synopsis:

Due to a certain incident, Sakura's life ended abruptly. To think her life amounted to this...

Though depressed for a brief moment, she soon realized she'd reincarnated into the world of a novel she once read! Even so, the person she reincarnated as was none other than the villainess, Claudia.

Under the divine protection of the Dark Spirit King, she finds herself despised by those around her, and, in the end, she's fated to meet a tragic death?! No way in hell she'll let both her last life and this one meet a Bad End! But even when she tries to take action to somehow change her fate......?

The long awaited manga adaptation of a unique villainess' fantasy tale!

17. Lady Rose wa Heimin ni Naritai
(Lady Rose Wants to be a Commoner)

Year: 2018 - Present

Genre(s): Drama,  Fantasy,  Harem,  Historical,  Romance

Synopsis:

Based on false charges, Felicia Swallows who was once admired as the perfect lady, hailed as, "Lady Rose," had her engagement with His Highness annulled and was chased out from both her home and school. Though the person herself only wants to live a rose-coloured commoner's life, there’s nothing but misunderstandings around her. This is the story of the characters from “Nation’s Saviour Lady Rose,” an otome game from her previous life, who disrupt her.

16. Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement
(Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu)

Year: 2017 - Present

Genre(s): Action,  Adventure,  Comedy,  Fantasy,  Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

A legal loli who lost her family in an accident, Yamano Mitsuwa falls off a cliff one day and transferred to a different world with a civilization level of medieval Europe. Mitsuwa who discovered it was possible to go and return to Earth after a deadly fight with wolves decided to live in both worlds.

「For security in old age, I will aim for 80,000 gold coins!」

I will try not to let strange things circulate to not distort the progress of the world, but I won't hold back for the sake of my easy life and safety!
While wearing three handguns along with words and deeds that appear decent, in her head Yamano Mitsuwa is a sly girl. Making an effort to make money even with a small body that looks like a child to Westerners!

Oh, my secrets are too dangerous, is that so? It's all right, it's fine! I'll teleport away when push comes to shove!

15. Isekai de "Kuro no Iyashite" tte Yobarete Imasu
(In Another World, I'm Called: the Black Healer )

Year: 2015 - 2019

Genre(s):Action,  Comedy,  Drama,  Fantasy,  Romance 

Synopsis:

One day, 22-year-old Kanzaki Misuzu is mysteriously dragged into another world. Based on the status screen she can access, it seems she's entered some kind of RPG as a magic user! Luckily for her, she can use the gaming skills she acquired as an otaku to make her way in this new world. But before she knew it, people started calling her "the Black Healer!"

14. Isekai de Café wo Kaiten Shimashita.

Year: 2014 - Present Genre(s): Fantasy,  Romance,  Shoujo,  Slice of Life, Cooking 

Synopsis:

Kurokawa Lisa is an ordinary office worker, who has practiced lots of cooking while living alone. One day, she wakes up in another world, with a concerned little spirit hovering over her! She has apparently been transported to a magical, spirit-filled realm by the will of the goddess, and there is no known way for her to go back. She is taken in by a wealthy couple, and they and her new spirit helper treat her with nothing but kindness. There is one problem, however--the food in this magical world is gross! Lisa insists on helping the household cooking staff prepare a traditional meal from her world, and it is a big hit with her hosts. Soon Lisa knows what she should do in this new world; she should open a cafe and treat everyone to delicious food!

13. Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade Suru Tame ni Ganbattemasu

Year: 2017 - Present

Genre(s): Adventure,  Fantasy,  Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

After various things happened, I got an ability from God and reincarnated to another world! While being watched over by my high-spec family, the super ordinary me fully enjoyed other world life. Using the ability I received from God, I had a daily life of just fluffing and petting fantasy animals. There are some shady movements too, but while being led by the nose by God, I’ll do my best at various things with my cheat-like comrades!

12. Akuyaku Reijou wa Ringoku no Outaishi ni Dekiai Sareru
(The Villiainess Is Adored by the Crown Prince of the Neighboring Kingdom)

Year: 2018 - Present

Genre(s): Fantasy,  Romance 

Synopsis:

With her engagement annulled, Tiararose was supposed to have been exiled from the country.

“This is the otome game I played!” She realized on the day before the story’s ending.

Is waiting for my conviction the only thing I can do? But, I did not do anything too cruel... Thinking so, the ending proceeds.

However, during the judgement, something that was not possible in the game happened. Tiarose was proposed to by the crown prince of the neighboring country.

11. The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent
(Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou desu )

Year: 2017 - Present Genre(s):Adventure,  Fantasy,  Romance,  Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

Sei, a 20 year old office worker, is summoned to a different world after finishing some overtime work. But the person who had summoned her looks at her face and said, “This is not the Saint.” Instead, the other summoned lady is lauded as the Saint, while Sei is ignored.

Offended at being discarded without a second thought, Sei leaves the royal palace and looks for occupation, and she starts working at a laboratory where she makes potions and cosmetics. She uses her magic to grant people’s requests and slowly people begin suspecting that she is the actual Saint…

Can Sei enjoy her slow dreamy different world life without her saint title being found out?!

10. Akuyaku Reijou Nano de Last Boss wo Katte Mimashita
(I'm a Villainous Daughter, So I'm Going to Keep the Last Boss)

Year: 2018 - 2019

Genre(s): Comedy,  Fantasy,  Romance,  Supernatural 

Synopsis:

Avoid the BAD END! That's the goal of the villainess in this plot-twisting story!!

She has been reborn into the world of an otome game as the villainess, Irene. Using her memories of her former life, she recognizes flags indicating she's en-route to the bad end, so she makes a plan to conquer the last boss (the evil king Claude), make him her lover, and see if she can open up a new route!

9. I Shall Survive Using Potions!
(Potion-danomi de Ikinobimasu!)

Year: 2017 - Present

Genre(s): Adventure,  Comedy,  Fantasy 

Synopsis:

Kaoru Nagase was caught up in a mysterious phenomenon and died when returning home from work. It was because of a time-space distortion that a higher life form was cleaning up, but she was able to receive a younger body and the ability to create any potion she wanted in another world!

Kaoru, who's now a rather sharp-eyed 15 year old girl again, will work hard for a peaceful life in another world!

Eh, as a commoner she doesn't understand the thinking of nobles? She's now stuck in a delusional story that she's trying to escape from?

Hey, this is different from what you told me, goddess!

8. The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap
(Fukushuu wo Chikatta Shironeko wa Ryuuou no Hiza no Ue de Damin wo Musaboru)

Year: 2017 - Present

Genre(s): Fantasy,  Romance  

Synopsis:

All Ruri Midorikawa wanted out of college life was an escape from the shadow of her best “frenemy,” Asahi Shinomiya. Despite her best intentions, Asahi has always made Ruri’s life miserable… so it’s no surprise things go sideways when the two of them are summoned to another world together!

Now alone in a completely unfamiliar world and betrayed by the only people she thought she could depend on, our hot-headed heroine swears vengeance…

7. Chichi wa Eiyuu, Haha wa Seirei, Musume no Watashi wa Tenseisha
(Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator)

Year: 2018 - Present

Genre(s): Comedy,  Fantasy,  Supernatural 

Synopsis:

Well, I was reincarnated! And my father is a former hero? And my mother is a queen of the spirits!? With my knowledge of my past life and my powers in this world... I'll protect my family's happiness!

6. Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa Urabosu Desu ga Maou de wa Arimasen
(Villainess Level 99: I May be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord)

Year: 2020 - Present Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance, Magic, Otome Game, Overpowered Main Character, School Life

Synopsis:

I reincarnated into the "Villainess Eumiella" from an RPG Otome game. In the main story, Eumielle's merely a side character, but after the ending, she reenters the story as the Hidden Boss, a character on par to the Heroes with her high stats!! Lighting a fire in my gamer's soul, and taking advantage of being left on my own in my parent's territory, I train! Train! And at the end of my training... By the time I enter the academy, I managed to reach level 99. Though I had planned to live out my days as inconspicuously and peacefully as possible, soon after entering the school, I'm suspected by the Heroine and Love Interests of being the "Demon Lord"...? 

5. Akuyaku Reijou wa, Shomin ni Totsugitai!!
(The Villainess Wants to Marry a Commoner!!)

Year: 2018 - Present Genre(s): Comedy,  Fantasy,  Romance 

Synopsis:

After reincarnating, I found myself as the Villainess in an Otome game I often played in my past life, the world of “Love☆Magical”?!

Although I reincarnated as the Villainess Isabella… Having memories of my past life, if I let the scenario play out as it did in the game, I’d be going down the execution route…?! To free myself from the worst possible ending, my noble battle begins, however…

Can this overly unusual Villainess rewrite the ruin route awaiting her?

4. Ascendance of a Bookworm
( Honzuki no Gekokujou )

Year: 2015 - Present Genre(s): Comedy,  Drama,  Fantasy, Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

Reino, a book-loving college student who just got her librarian certification, was just hired to be a librarian at a large university library. Just before graduating and entering the job of her dreams, she was killed by a massive earthquake crushing her underneath a pile of her own books.
Wishing for reincarnation in order to read evermore, she got reincarnated to a world with a low literacy rate and very few books, limited only to the nobility. As she reincarnated as the daughter of a lowly soldier, no matter how much she wants to read there there are no books within her reach.
If there are no books then what do you do? Why, you make them yourself, of course! Her goal is to become the librarian of her own library! In order to live a life surrounded by books, she starts by making books.

3. Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter
(Koshaku Reijou no Tashinami)

Year: 2015 - Present

Genre(s):Fantasy,  Romance,  Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

Iris, an otome game addict with no time for romance, gets hit by a truck after getting out of work–but instead of dying, she finds herself in the world of a game she'd played just hours earlier. However, she's not reborn as the game's protagonist, the main heartthrob of the harem. Instead, she starts her new life as the antagonist, right at the moment she's being sent to live in a nunnery–for the rest of her life!

2. Jishou Akuyaku Reijou na Konyakusha no Kansatsu Kiroku
(Fiancé’s Observation Log of the Self-proclaimed Villainess)

Year: 2018 - Present

Genre(s): Comedy,  Fantasy,  Romance  

Synopsis:

Crown prince Cecil was so brilliant that everything in life was easy to the point of boring him, then one day, his fiancée Bertia suddenly said "Prince Cecil, I am a villainess!" Claiming that this world is the same as that of an "otome game" from her past life and that she is playing the role of the "villainess" in it, she aims to play her part well and have their engagement annulled. With that goal in mind, she sets about causing turmoil in Cecil's daily life.

1. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
(Otome Game no Hametsu Flag Shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei Shiteshimatta...)

Year: 2017 - Present

Genre(s): Comedy,  Fantasy,  Romance, Slice of Life 

Synopsis:

Katarina Claes, the eight-year-old daughter of a duke, recovered her past memories when she was hit on the head by a rock. In a feverish nightmare, in which the prince's fiancee was determined, she realized that this exactly like an otome game from her previous life.

So, she has turned into a villain that interferes with the romance of capture targets — if the heroine gets a happy end, Katarina would be exiled; but if the heroine gets a bad end, Katarina would be killed.

With no happy ending waiting for her at the end of the road, Katarina somehow has to avoid destruction and reach old age peacefully!