Isekai anime & manga set in the world with NPCs

Summary

• The game focused on ISEKAI as a sword art online brought the genre to the mainstream.

• Various anime and mangoes focus on NPC game worlds and expand the Isekai genre.

• The main characters in the ISEKAI range interact with NPC and try to keep the story intact.

The story of a character transported to the fantasy world, also known as the story of Isekai, has existed for years. While the genre appeared different and tricks, it was a game focused on the game like the first season SWORD Art OnlineIt really brought it to the mainstream.

Speaking of Isekai focused on the game, one of the most interesting aspects of this particular brand Isekai is the existence of characters outside the player (NPC) and their interaction with transported characters. With this in mind, there are several anime and mango, which are set in the NPC world, based on their myanimelistic score. By the way, this list focuses on mangoes that have not yet received an anime adaptation.

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To ensure quality in another world

Fixed error, defects and NPC

• Japanese Name: Kono Sekai Wa Fukanzen Sugirura

• Myanimelistic score: 6.54

• Date of issue: July 6, 2024

• Type: Anime

To ensure quality in another world It is the story of the debugger veteran game called Haga, who finds himself stuck in the game he is currently tuned. But rather than panic and be frightened, Haga decides to easily continue working. After all, there are still so many mistakes and defects in this game. But everything is even more complicated when the NPC, which is to die at the beginning of the game – a curious young girl named Nikola – joined his strange adventure.

The main duty of Haga is, as a debugger, to ensure that the game world, gaming mechanics and NPC work as intended. He can interact with the NPC as an ordinary person, but their answer is limited and a story that has been written for them must follow. Therefore, Nikol's existence is such an anomaly. In fact, it may even be a mistake Haga has to fix one day.

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Finding Avalon

Reincarnated as a smaller antagonist

• Japanese name: Saiaku no Avalon

• Myanimelistic score: 6.75

• Date of issue: March 14, 2023

• Type: manga

The main character of this series used to be one of the best players of the very popular game VRMMO called Dunex. However, when he is going to try the latest game update, he is transported to the world of Dunex. Not like him or a hero, but as one of the smaller antagonists in the story.

This is the beginning of his difficult search, where he tries to keep as much as possible from the NPC to maintain the story intact and at the same time use his knowledge of the game as strong as possible.

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SWORD Art Online

Interaction with NPC in the AinCrad tower

SWORD Art Online (SAO) It is the story of Kirit and thousands of other players of the new game Fantasy Vrmmo called SWORD Art Online, who find themselves in the game. What's more, death in the game means death in the real world. The only way to log out the game is to conquer 100 levels of the AinCrad towers, the main environment of SWORD Art Online.

In addition to monster hunting and defeating the boss of each floor, the best thing about the first and probably the best arch in the AinCrad Arc series, the world inside the game itself, especially NPC. The NPCs are an integral part of the online sword experience from the ownership of shops and taverns to the offer of useful tasks.

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Speedrunner can't return from the game

Defeating the Demon King in a record time

• Japanese name: RTA SOUSHA WA GAME SEKAI KARA KAERENAI

• Myanimelistic score: 7.47

• Date of issue: January 31, 2023

• Type: manga

Speedrunner is someone who uses various tricks and defects to complete the game as quickly as possible. What would happen if one of the best Speerunners in the world was stuck in the game he had been practicing for months? Absurdity, chaos and cheerfulness. That happens.

In this series, the hero is convened into the game world, the queen welcomes the hero and gives him a saint sword, ignores the queen and sword, step out of the castle, uses various mistakes and defects to run around time that walks in time that runs and goes straight to a long landscape and uses familiar exploit to kill the demon. All this happens in the first chapter of the manga. Unfortunately, the beating of the Demon King is not enough. Our fast hero must beat every root of evil to return to his original world. This means that it has no choice but to watch the story of the game and interact with every important NPC and solve every task.

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Fede-and-Chancellary Lady Wants to Serve Darelské

Convened as an assistant to the main antagonist

• Japanese Name: Genkai Ol-San Wa Akuyaku Reijou-Sama Ni Tsukaetai

• Myanimelistic score: 7.71

• Date of issue: August 23, 2022

• Type: manga

Natori Midori is on the train home after she was fired from her office work when he was suddenly absorbed by a blinding light. When he opens his eyes, Midori finds himself in the world of his favorite visual novel game. However, he is not convened as a hero of this new but known world, but rather as an assistant to one of the main antagonists in the story.

To ensure quality, Find Avalon, and Fed-up Office Lady It may have different settings and even different subgenres, but the way the main characters treat NPCs is quite the same. Everyone knows how the story is to go and try to stay as best as possible and maintain the story intact and at the same time do its own thing at the same time.

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Overlord

Strong NPC for the newly transported Dark Guild

• Japanese name: Overlord

• Myanimelistic score: 7.90

• Date of issue: July 7, 2015

• Type: Anime

Overlord differs from other titles on this list because it technically combines two types of ISEKAI. Suzuki Sator is a regular Japanese man who finds himself as his main character in his favorite Yggdrasil game. But then Sator, who goes in the game under the name Momonga, is transported to the fantasy world along with his whole guild building, a large tomb of Nazarick and many NPCs created by he and his companions.

As a guild's leader and the only member transported to the fantasy world, Momonga becomes an indisputable ruler and commands the military of the powerful NPC. These NPCs are mostly free of will and can do whatever they want. However, they are still bound by their original programming, such as absolute loyalty to Nazarick and Momong or their duty to defend Nazarick from the attackers.

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Protocol horizon

A new company full of adventurers and NPC

• Japanese name: Horizon log

• Myanimelistic score: 7.90

• Date of issue: October 5, 2013

• Type: Anime

Protocol horizon is similar to SWORD Art Online In fact, both are stories about players who have stuck in their favorite play Vrmmo. Both series included many players who had to accept the reality of life in the new world of fantasy/RPG to which they were transported. In addition, they must also interact with NPCs who can be considered natives of their new world.

The main difference between them is the fact that Protocol horizon It focuses on cooperation rather than an individual event such as in SWORD Art Online. That's why we see an amazing swordsman like Kirito that goes through monsters SWORD Art Online, while Protocol horizon It offers a blowing view of hundreds of players who work together in a massive raid against powerful monsters.

Because of the nature of a story -aiming story, Protocol horizon It also has more NPC interaction compared to other similar rows. From buying tools and food from NPC dealers to arrogant adventurers who annoy them from the superiority complex, play an integral role Horizon of the protocol.