Funniest Isekai Manhwa

The isekai Manhwa genre – where characters are transported to different worlds – has become a rather popular genre recently, offering readers a good mix of fantasy, adventure and sometimes even humorously absurd scenarios. While most isekai stories focus on high-stakes battles or dramatic quests, a growing number of isekai manhwa simply explore the lighter side of world-hopping.

These stories have their heroes navigating bizarre customs and unknown terrain alongside quirky companions and injecting humor into their actions. As a result, this article ranks manhwa's funniest isekai stories and highlights series that bring humor to the fore. From mishaps and laughable mishaps to characters that use wit to turn these otherworldly adventures into a comedic journey.

10 Villainess flips the script

Alternate Titles: It's Time to Switch Genres

• Creative: Garine, Ken, Garine
• Number of chapters: 115 (in progress)
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Romance

Villainess flips the script presents a humorous story about a sudden reincarnation into the world of the book, which details the shift in reality of the main character of the story, a fan of the novel, in which the main man goes on a bloody revenge to get rid of his enemies.

Things get shaken up when a fan is mysteriously reincarnated in the novel as the story's first minor villain, Judith Maibum, the abusive step-aunt of the supposed protagonist, Lucy Winterwald. Intent on rewriting the already set history, Judith decides to use her knowledge of the future to ensure her nephew's happiness.

9 Becoming the daughter of a dark hero

Alternate Titles: How to Become a Dark Hero's Daughter

• Creative: Lisabel, Pina
• Number of chapters: 40
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Becoming the daughter of a dark hero The rather funny story of a nine-year-old peasant girl, Lae, an orphan who mysteriously managed to retain the memories of her past life as a sick, bedridden child and the memories of a novel she was reading – The Life of a Duke. Lewelton. Reincarnated in the novel now as Lea, the peasant girl finds herself in a position to help the world's protagonist, Duke Kallen de Lewelton, a notorious criminal torturer.

The two agree that Lea is helping the Duke catch criminals, partly out of self-interest and fear. The Duke is grateful for the little girl's well-timed inputs and offers Lee; one that the little girl could hardly imagine—becoming his adopted daughter.

8 Archmage's restaurant

Alternate names: Wizard's Restaurant

• Creative: Bad Boys, Chassi
• Number of chapters: 56 (in progress)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life

Archmage's restaurant presents a very funny but somewhat unusual retirement story of a man who reincarnates into another world. The series follows the life of the central character, Archmage Ellison, who used to live as an ordinary person, who was reincarnated into another world as a 9th class wizard.

After saving the continent that summoned him from the dragon, he retires and decides to open a restaurant. But Ellison's restaurant routine is unlike any other. Together with the black dragon on the second floor, Ellison tries his best to live a warm life.

7 Touch my little brother and you're dead

Alternate Titles: If you touch my little brother, you're dead

• Creative: Cheolmujangmi, Morpho, Toonga
• Number of chapters: 74 (in progress)
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance

Touch my little brother and you're dead presents a somewhat extreme but humorous case of sisterly love in this humorous isekai series. The story focuses on the central character Rosalette, an initially unknown person who is reincarnated in the novel Asterion of the Twilight.

Asterion's sister Rosalette, reincarnated as the protagonist, finds life not so bad until Asterion dies for the first time at age 20 and Rosalette mysteriously goes back in time to her sixteen-year-old self and starts their lives over. After watching Asterion die over several lifetimes, Rosalette decided she would do anything to protect her little brother. But how many lifetimes will it take before he finally reaches his goal?

6 Baby Tyrant

Alternate titles: Born A Princess

• Creative: Lee Huin, Awon
• Number of chapters: 85 (in progress)
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Baby Tyrant details the painful end of Gyeoul Yoon's unhappy life after living a somewhat unhappy life thanks to her alcoholic father. Relieved at the thought of finally dying, even if it was at her father's hands, Gyeoul Yoon only loosens her grip on life when she finds herself in the body of a newborn child, Mabel, Princess of the Ermaneau Empire.

Gyeoul Yoon, now Princess Mabel, gets a second chance as a little princess of an otherworldly realm and is determined not to let it slip away, her newfound peace. However, when she learns of her involvement in a prophecy about the salvation of the world, her new life may not be without tragedy after all.

5 Log in Murim

Alternative Names: N/A

• Creative: Zero-BIG, Jang Cheolbyeok
• Number of chapters: 202 (in progress)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

More of an action series; in all fairness, Log in Murim the series excels in the humor department enough to earn a fairly prominent placement. The series takes place in a time when super-powered humans called hunters manage to hunt down supernatural monsters that originate from mysterious gates that appeared several years ago. The story centers on Jin Tae-Kyung, the central character and a low-level hunter who decides to give up hunting for a while and instead picks up a VR machine.

Jin accidentally logs into a game set in a martial arts world and quickly discovers that he is able to interact with supposed NPC characters and even improve his skills. After several misadventures and getting stronger, Jin finally escapes back to the real world to continue his life as a hunter. However, Jin does something even more surprising – he returns to the Murim world simply to take care of his NPC friends.

4 Villainy in love

Alternate Titles: The Evil Lady's Hero

• Creative: Lee Haron, R Su Eopseum
• Number of chapters: 110 (in progress)
• Genre: Fantasy, romance

Reincarnation meets humor and romance Villainy in love series follows the unknown protagonist, reincarnated as Yunifer Magnolia. Originally a villain who is jealously obsessed with the handsome Duke Ishido Lucrenz, who only has eyes for Yunifer's friend Raelle, he eventually dies after tormenting her friend Raelle for most of his life.

However, with the protagonist now reincarnated a year back in time as Yunifer Magnolia, there seems to be plenty of time to prevent the villain's tragic demise and ensure the perfect love story for the Duke and Raelle.

3 Dungeon Reset

Alternative Names: N/A

• Creative: Ant Studio, Daul
• Number of chapters: 223 (in progress)
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy

Dungeon Reset follows the fun but life-threatening adventures of central character Dawun as his life is turned upside down after he is summoned to the Dungeon to play a deadly and extreme survival game. As if that wasn't enough, Dawun is only summoned with artisan skills and no real offensive abilities.

However, it's not all bleak for Dawun after he mysteriously survives a trap due to a faulty reset, an ability unique only to him. Now able to glitch the Dungeon, Dawun slowly builds his skills along with his bloodthirsty sidekick to fully explore the Dungeon and its near endless possibilities.

2 The dregs of the earl family

Alternate titles: Lout of The Count's Family

• Creative: Elegant Yoo Ryeo Han
• Number of chapters: 134 (in progress)
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

It will be especially hard for readers not to laugh when Cale Henitus is the protagonist of the story, and that is exactly the case The dregs of the earl family series. The series follows the lazy life of the main character, Kim Roksoo, who is reincarnated into the novel Birth of a Hero, which he fell asleep reading.

Unfortunately for him, he was reincarnated into this new world as one of the story's minor villains, Cale Henituse of the Henituse Dukedom. Even worse, Cale is the first villain to die at the hands of original protagonist Choi Han and Kim Roksu; now Cale is trying to avoid that future. Knowing only the beginning parts of the story, Cale decides to become stronger to avoid his fate, but his actions will have unintended effects.

1 The largest real estate developer

Alternate Titles: World's Best Engineer

• Creative: BK_Moon, Lee Hyun-Min
• Number of chapters: 167 (in progress)
• Genre: Comedy, Action, Fantasy, Adventure

The largest real estate developer features his rather exciting reincarnation failures along with his reputation as an illustrative comic. The focus is on the central character Suho Kim, an engineering student who falls asleep while reading the novel and mysteriously wakes up as a character in the book.

He's not just any character, now he's Lloyd Frontera of the noble Frontera Household, a lazy noble alcoholic whose family is bankrupt due to mountains of debt. Lloyd is aware that his family is doomed. However, using his knowledge of engineering, Lloyd begins to design inventions in hopes of raising enough money to pay off his family's huge debts. But whether that's enough to stave off a future seemingly set in stone remains to be seen.