Shows Like The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows

If you liked The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (2025), a action & adventure and animation 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.

1
The Testament of Sister New Devil (2015)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
Toujou Basara is a high school student whose father has suddenly just remarried. His father then departs overseas leaving Basara with two new beautiful step-sisters. Little does he know, his new sisters, Mio and Maria…
2
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…
3
TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- (2021)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Makoto Misumi is just an ordinary high school student living a regular life, but all of a sudden gets summoned to the other world to become a "hero." The goddess of the other world, however, insults him for being…
4
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021)
★ 8.4/10Also action & adventure and animation
When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn't end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he's always wanted. Armed with new…
5
Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedy
The misadventures of a knight and a healer begin in this new fantasy comedy series!
6
Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat Is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight found himself reincarnated as one of the most powerful monsters in the world: a behemoth! Problem is, he has to grow up before he can really strut his stuff…
7
The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedy
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…
8
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
Tigrevurmud Vorn, the young lord of a remote region far from the kingdom's center, is commanded by the king to go fight the war against a neighboring country. The leader of the enemy is Eleonora Viltaria, one of the…
9
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…
10
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedy
Kogarashi Fuyuzora is a "hands on" psychic. Ever since the day he got possessed by an evil ghost, he has been burdened with debt. Needing a cheap room to rent, he winds up at a haunted hot springs inn, Yuragi Inn…
11
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Zagan might be the most feared evil sorcerer, but when it comes to social interactions, he's the most inept. All those days studying the dark arts won't help him when he falls in love at first sight with Nephelia, the…
12
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
For 30 years, thousands have traveled to other worlds. The few that return keep the powers they had in those worlds. Akatsuki Ousawa returns from the world of Alayzard with the defeated Demon King's daughter, Miu. Miu…
13
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…
14
Twin Star Exorcists (2016)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
Rokuro is from a family of exorcists, but he'd rather be a singer, a soccer player or anything but an exorcist! He's forced to own up to his own incredible potential when new arrival Benio stirs his competitive spirit…
15
The Qwaser of Stigmata (2010)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
When Mafuyu Oribe and her adopted sister Tomo rescue a strange wounded man, they have no idea what they’re getting involved with or what the consequences will be. Alexander Nikolaevith Hell is an Iron Qwaser, one of…
16
Kämpfer (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Natsuru is selected to be a Kampfer, a mystical fighter who has to fight other Kampfers. The catch is that all Kampfers are female, and Natsuru is male... at least he was! Worse, Natusru's best friend turns out to have…
17
Maoyu: Archenemy & Hero (2013)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedy
The story is set in a world embroiled by war between Humans and Demons. The Humans’ greatest hero invades the Demon Queen’s castle determined to vanquish her. However, instead of fighting back, the Queen proposes an…
18
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
Beryl Gardenant, a middle-aged swordsman running a dojo in the backwaters, lives a quiet life, until Allucia, former student and Commander of the Royal Order of Knights, appears! Beryl’s life is about to change…
19
Handyman Saitou in Another World (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedy
Handyman Saito has never been anyone special. All his life, he’s had average grades, ordinary athletic skill, a commonplace job… But his unremarkable path takes a turn when he wakes up in another world. Here, warriors…
20
Immoral Guild (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also animation and comedy
The skilled hunter Kikuru Madan has decided to retire out of fear of wasting his youth. One day, a guild staff member suggests that he go on a quest with a new female martial artist named Hitamu Kyan. However, she…