Shows Like BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

If you liked BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (2020), 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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A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
Taichi Tanaka is just an ordinary 38-year-old who enjoys video games. He starts a new virtual reality multiplayer game called One More Free Life Online, naming his character Earth. Unlike his fellow players, he decides…
2
Log Horizon (2013)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive…
3
Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life! (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedy
In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from…
4
She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Kagami Sakamori was one of the top players in the VRMMO Ark Earth Online as Danblf, a veteran summoner with the gravitas to match his elite status. When he falls asleep playing one day, he's transported to a world…
5
Overlord (2015)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image…
6
Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
Just when Masato thought that a random survey conducted in school was over, he got involved in a secret Government scheme. As he was carried along with the flow, he ended up in a Game world! As if that wasn't enough…
7
In the Land of Leadale (2022)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Due to a terrible accident, Keina Kagami is forced to live on life support in order to survive. The only way for her to be free is within the VRMMORPG "Leadale." One day, her life support stops functioning, and Keina…
8
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
29-year-old programmer Suzuki Ichirou finds himself transported into a fantasy RPG. Within the game, he's a 15-year-old named Satou. At first he thinks he's dreaming, but his experiences seem very real. Due to a…
9
Dramatical Murder (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Aoba lives on Midorijima, a small island to the southwest of the main islands of Japan. He lives with his grandmother Tae while working part time at a junk shop. The popular pastimes on the island are the ongoing turf…
10
SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
Yuki plays death games for a living, but when she wakes in a mansion with five other women, can she survive a new lethal maze of locked rooms and traps?
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Demon Lord, Retry! (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Akira Oono awakens in the body of his online character: Demon Lord Hakuto Kunai. With powerful game mechanics and abilities on his side, this gamer turned badass plots his course through a new world filled with saints…
12
I'm Standing on a Million Lives (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives…
13
Sword Art Online (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology…
14
.hack (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also action & adventure and animation
.hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
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How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also action & adventure and comedy
Sakamoto Takuma was so strong in the MMORPG Cross Reverie that his fellow players came to call him the "demon lord." One day, he gets summoned to another world in his avatar form, and meets two girls who both insist…
16
Scarlet Nexus (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Saved by the Other Suppression Force as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists in this elite team formed to fight Earth’s enemy. Meanwhile, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. Kasane’s dreams tell her strange…
17
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
Tomoya Aki is an otaku who has a dream. His dream is to create the best visual novel game ever. The main heroine for this game and the inspiration for this dream is a background character named Megumi Kato who somehow…
18
Princess Connect! Re:Dive (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
In the beautiful land of Astraea where a gentle breeze blows, a young man named Yuuki awakens with no memory of his past. There he encounters a guide who has sworn to care for him—Kokkoro, a lovely swordswoman who's…
19
Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
One day, humanity was invaded by another world. Having experienced that battle, known as Other World War I, humanity moved to marine floats, built for emergency evacuation purposes, as soon as Other World War II began…
20
In Another World with My Smartphone (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Touya Mochizuki was accidentally killed, and as an apology, God allows him to be reborn in a fantasy world and will grant him any one wish he desires. And so, Touya chooses to keep his smartphone in the next world. In…