Shows like The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases (2024) — a animation, action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy series — these 20 shows are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like swordplay, hero and magic. 18 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 2021★ 8.2
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 awakens to the memories of Haruto Amakwa, who died in an accident while dreaming of being reunited with his childhood friend, and Rio realizing he has reincarnated in a world of swords and sorcery.
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The Faraway Paladin 2021★ 7.0
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 priestess, Mary; and the crotchety spectral sorcerer, Gus. The three pour love into the boy, and teach him all they know. But one day, Will starts to wonder: "Who am I?" Will must unravel the mysteries of this faraway dead man's land, and unearth the secret pasts of the undead. He must learn the love and mercy of the good gods, and the bigotry and madness of the bad. And when he knows it all, the boy will take his first step on the path to becoming a Paladin.
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Bleach 2004★ 8.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End 2023★ 8.8
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends' dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
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Dead Mount Death Play 2023★ 6.9
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 fighter off guard, and now he’s a boy named Polka Shinoyama in a whole new world! The showdown between good and evil just got epic.
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I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability 2024★ 7.7
Shares: Animation, 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 or no! But his new life has its own sets of challenges...including being a 10-year-old! What's the 7th prince/sorcerer to do?!
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Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀ 2023★ 6.8
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 knights, Inglis can now focus on mastering the martial arts. A wish has been granted, and Inglis will be on the front lines fulfilling the dream of becoming the strongest knight.
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The Aristocrat's Otherworldly Adventure: Serving Gods Who Go Too Far 2023★ 7.1
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 from the gods...but Cain is unexpectedly blessed with an absolutely enormous, over-the-top cornucopia of magical powers. If his dream of traveling the world as a free spirit is to come true, he can't reveal too much of his potential to the wrong people. A light-hearted, escapist adventure in another world begins!
Stream in India on Netflix
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Chivalry of a Failed Knight 2015★ 7.0
Shares: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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 no magical skills. However, one day, he is challenged to a duel by Stella, a foreign princess and the "Number One" student. In this duel, "the loser must be obedient for life."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 2018★ 8.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 world that’s welcoming to all races.
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The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? 2020★ 7.6
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 navigate the political world, but finds hope in his aptitude for magic. This is the story of that young man earning his keep and his freedom through magic, with no world saving involved, and spending quite a while escaping his solitude. Ultimately, it is also the story of him being unable to escape the shackles of society.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- 2016★ 8.1
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.
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TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy- 2021★ 8.4
Shares: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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 different and strips his "hero" title, before casting him off to the wilderness at the edge of the world. As he wanders the wilderness, Makoto encounters dragons, spiders, orcs, dwarves, and all sorts of non-human tribes. Because Makoto comes from a different world, he is able to unleash unimaginable magical powers and combat skills. But just how will he handle his encounters with various species and survive in his new environment. In this fantasy, Makoto tries to transform the other world into a better place despite the humans and gods having turned their backs on him.
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JUJUTSU KAISEN 2020★ 8.6
Shares: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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 the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 2019★ 8.6
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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.
Stream in India on Netflix, Crunchyroll, VI movies and tv
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Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 2025★ 7.4
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 of Idoragya, which looks just like the game. Takuto meets Sludge Atou, his favorite unit in the game, and decides to build Mynoghra, an evil empire.
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The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 distinguished wizard family, his only wish is to find happiness. But as Seika’s onmyō art exceeds this world’s magic, will he be able to live an easy, happy-go-lucky life?
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Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside 2021★ 7.1
Shares: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
After being betrayed by the Hero’s party, Red hopes to start anew by opening an apothecary in a small town. He wants to keep his past life secret, but it won’t be easy...especially when a beautiful adventurer from his past asks to move in.
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 2021★ 8.4
Shares: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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 friends, some freshly acquired magical abilities, and the courage to do the things he's always dreamed of, he's embarking on an epic adventure—with all of his past experience intact!
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Ascendance of a Bookworm 2019★ 8.1
Shares: Animation, 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 "Who": Urano Motosu, a book-loving apprentice librarian who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Myne's body! And since Myne's world is still in a medieval stage, where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Myne intends to do everything she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left.
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