The best anime Isekai with protagonists who are anti-magic

Summary

• Some protagonists Isekai are anti-magic because of the lack of magical abilities that use intellect or skills to overcome magic.

• The characters question the typical Isekai convention by rejecting magic in favor of practical skills or modern weapons.

• They reject magic and rely on intellect, skills and technology to overcome magical enemies and challenges.

The magic is the center of most anime isekai, because in the fantasy world where the protagonists are located, anything is possible, and these protagonists have forces that distinguish them from others. The Isekai genre focuses on the protagonists who are transported or reincarnated to another world, often empires of fantasy, parallel universe or a video game. In these new environments, protagonists discover unique skills, knowledge or skills that separate them and lead them to extraordinary adventures.

Over time, there has been a gentle rise, or rather announcements of the protagonists who are against the core of what anime Isekai is based on magic. For various reasons, these protagonists are anti-magic, which means that they either actively build or are unable to control magic forces.

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Princess Anisphia

Magic Revolution of the reincarnated princess and brilliant young ladies

Birth in the world where magic exists does not automatically mean that it will have magic because Anisphia painfully finds that he cannot use magic. She will not allow her unfortunate fate to stop her as she tries to use magic by unconventional means. Fortunately, she has her memories of her previous life and uses this knowledge to research and develop “magicologists”, creating various magical instruments and gadgets that allow her to communicate with the magical world.

Her anti-magic stems of being born without it cause it to refuse the traditional use of magic and instead build instruments and weapons to replicate or overcome with pure intellect and innovation.

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Saita

Maintenanceman Saitou in another world

Unfortunately, some Isekai protagonists will not fully experience what the genre offers. However, these unusual characters offer a unique twist in the Isekai genre. Saitou was an ordinary maintenance man in Japan before he was transported to the fantasy empire. Unlike the typical protagonists gifted by magical abilities or immense power, Saita lacks them all and the only thing he has is his practical skills.

These skills, such as LockPicking, Equipment and General Maintenance, are what he uses to support his adventure party. Its reason to be Anti-Magic is just because it is missing, but although it does not have magic, it can take advantage of its expertise as a handyman to solve problems that magic cannot solve.

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Kazuya souma

How a realistic hero rebuilt the kingdom

In this anime, fans see another aspect of ISEKAI because the conspiracy focuses on political strategy and economic reform instead of magical struggle. Kazuya is a pragmatic young man who was summoned to the sick kingdom of Elfrieden. Instead of engaging in traditional heroism, Kazuya uses his knowledge of political science and administration of the real world to perform reforms that will revive the economy and infrastructure of the kingdom.

What Kazuya Anti-Magic is doing is his choice of ignoring magic in a world where magic exists. Most of the Isekai characters would use their problems to solve their problems and rely on magic, but Kazuya relies on logical analysis and practical solutions rather than magical interventions.

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Hajime nagumo

Arifureta: From the normal to the strongest world

Although he was not an anti-magic in literal sense because Hajime hated or has no ability to cancel magic, he is he functionally Anti-magic, because it overcomes, resists and replaces magic by science, engineering and brutal force. Hajime gets a low -level skill based on support and ridicules them with classmates to which conventional magic forces are provided. Instead of learning or relying on magic like them, he refuses to rely on the world on traditional magic completely, especially after he was betrayed and left for the dead in the abyss.

Instead, Hajime owes his survival to magic and focuses on transforming minerals and monster materials into weapons, grenades, railways and even vehicles. His strength comes from modern weapons and alchemy, not magic or spells.

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Leon Fou Bartford

TRAPPED IN A DATING SIM: The world of Otome games is difficult for crowds

Leon dies and is reincarnated in the world of playing SIM games, his sister forced him to play. But he is not a protagonist, instead it is a crowd character, an unimportant background of nobles in matriarchal society, where women are dominated by both politics and power.

While others use magical and flashy modern suits, Leon relies on gross strength, strategy and outdated technology that still overloads their magical systems. When he crashed school tournaments, the duels with the prince and unintentionally attract the heroines and villains of the game, Leon reveals the shortcomings of the social and magical hierarchies in the world while pretending to be just a crowd.

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Sora and Shiro

No game, no life

Two half -siblings and non -patent players known as “empty” are transported to the fantasy world after defeating the mysterious individual in the online chess. This fantasy world is a dreamy world for these siblings, Sora and Shiro, because everything is decided on games under the rule of One True God, Aunt.

Although humanity is the weakest race without access to magic, Sora and Shiro use their unrivaled intelligence, logic and fraud to overcome magical races, won impossible games and rebuild the place of humanity in the world.

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Seiya ryuuguuin

Careful hero: the hero is overwhelmed but too careful

It seems that Seiya is a typical protagonist of Isekai, convened into a fantasy world where magic exists to save the world from evil. But what makes him stand out is his almost complete rejection of magic and does not want to rely on it. Others would jump to the chance to use magic, but Seiya approaches magic with deep skepticism, instead prefers obscure and prepares countless physical and tactical unforeseen events, even though it has magical abilities.

His too cautious nature leads him to the maximum of his statistics long before he faces real threats, uses strong equipment redundant and does not trust even the most basic healing spells if they fully verify their effects.