Shows Like The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases

If you liked The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases (2024), a animation and action & adventure series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
His past life and current life are intersecting--a boy with memories of two lives faces his destiny! After his mother was killed at an early age, the orphaned Rio fought his hardest to survive in the slums. One day, he…
2
The Faraway Paladin (2021)
★ 7/10Also animation and action & adventure
In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he's being raised by three undead: the hearty skeletal warrior, Blood; the graceful mummified…
3
The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
After dying in the act of stopping a crime in modern Japan, our hero is reincarnated as Cain von Silford, third son of a noble family in a world of swords and sorcery. In his new life, all children receive a blessing…
4
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
After living a life devoted to serving his country and people, Inglis’ one wish to be free of a king’s burden and to train was actually heard, but as a beautiful girl! Reborn in the far future as a daughter to renowned…
5
Bleach (2004)
★ 8.4/10Also action & adventure and animation
For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound…
6
Dead Mount Death Play (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
As a legendary hero nears victory against a necromancer known as The Corpse God, things take an unexpected turn with the dark sorcerer’s final gambit—reincarnation magic. This last-ditch effort catches the brave…
7
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)
★ 8.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity's mortality. She takes…
8
I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Prince Lloyd wasn't always a prince...in fact, his previous life is one he remembers perfectly: he was a sorcerer, of sorts. So when he was forced to reincarnate, he decided to continue his studies, prince of the realm…
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Chivalry of a Failed Knight (2015)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Magic Knights are modern magic-users who fight with weapons converted from their souls. Ikki Kurogane goes to a school for these Magic Knights, but he is the "Failed Knight" or "Worst One" who is failing because he has…
10
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
In Eternal Nations, a fantasy strategy game where players manage an empire, Takuto Ira is a legendary player who sits atop the leaderboard. Takuto goes unconscious during a hospitalization and awakens on the continent…
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also action & adventure and animation
Corporate worker Mikami Satoru is stabbed by a random killer, and is reborn to an alternate world. But he turns out to be reborn a slime! Thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a…
12
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
In his past life, he was known as Demon Lord Varvatos, an all-powerful magic user and ruler. But he was lonely after the loss of his friends and loved ones during his rise to power, so in his dying moments, Varvatos…
13
Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Noa’s past life as a young adult villager was nothing to write home about. But now he’s reborn as the 13th prince of an empire! His stats screen reveal that he’ll grow stronger proportionately to the number of people…
14
Black Summoner (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he's bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration. Heading out into a…
15
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World (2023)
★ 7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Betrayed and on the brink of death, genius exorcist Haruyoshi Kuga still has an ace up his sleeve—a reincarnation spell. With a successful incantation taking him to a new world reborn as Seika Lamprogue into a…
16
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know…
17
JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking…
18
Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
When a sickly young girl suddenly becomes obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. "What has gotten into Myne?" they wondered, never dreaming that the answer is not a "What" but a…
19
The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ichinomiya Shingo, an everyday twenty-five-year-old office worker, wakes up as Wendelin, the 8th son of an impoverished noble family out in the sticks. He soon despairs at his lack of succession rights and knowledge to…
20
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
After a demon attack leaves his family slain and his sister cursed, Tanjiro embarks upon a perilous journey to find a cure and avenge those he's lost.