What a gigantic can of worms you opened. Here's my favorite 3 anime series as of late
Ascendance of a Bookworm. It's about a girl who loves books and wants nothing more than to be a librarian and live surrounded by books. She dies and is reborn into the body of a peasant child in a medieval-like world with no printing press, no plant-based paper and only expensive animal parchment. Her family cannot read/write, they are extremely poor and the girl has a sickly body that falls into fever for days by walking down the street. She decides she'll do whatever it takes to get her wish of living around books.
Mushoku Tensei / Jobless reincarnation. Loser dies and gets a second chance in a world of swords and magic. Sounds generic but it doesn't rush through his youth, you care about the characters, and women have actual personalities. Best classical adventure isekai I've seen yet.
I'm a spider, so what? Girl gets transported into a nightmare subterranean world as a spider monster, has to claw her way out through fighting and suffering. It's fun to see her do her thing.
Overlord did that for me, the LN is actually really good as well. The anime for Bookworm made me wanna read ahead and I noticed how good the story got. Friend of mine recommended it to me for ages and I feel bad for not giving it a go sooner.
The problem with the Overlord LNs is how much time one has to read about humans. After a couple of volumes I started skipping whatever wasn't about Ainz or the guardians.
What a gigantic can of worms you opened. Here's my favorite 3 anime series as of late
Ascendance of a Bookworm. It's about a girl who loves books and wants nothing more than to be a librarian and live surrounded by books. She dies and is reborn into the body of a peasant child in a medieval-like world with no printing press, no plant-based paper and only expensive animal parchment. Her family cannot read/write, they are extremely poor and the girl has a sickly body that falls into fever for days by walking down the street. She decides she'll do whatever it takes to get her wish of living around books.
Mushoku Tensei / Jobless reincarnation. Loser dies and gets a second chance in a world of swords and magic. Sounds generic but it doesn't rush through his youth, you care about the characters, and women have actual personalities. Best classical adventure isekai I've seen yet.
I'm a spider, so what? Girl gets transported into a nightmare subterranean world as a spider monster, has to claw her way out through fighting and suffering. It's fun to see her do her thing.
Seconded Bookworm. Probably my favorite worldbuilding story ever to the point where I am owning every single media I can get my hands on about it.
Got me intro LNs.
Overlord did that for me, the LN is actually really good as well. The anime for Bookworm made me wanna read ahead and I noticed how good the story got. Friend of mine recommended it to me for ages and I feel bad for not giving it a go sooner.
The problem with the Overlord LNs is how much time one has to read about humans. After a couple of volumes I started skipping whatever wasn't about Ainz or the guardians.