Top 10 manga and anime where mc got transported to another world and used his modern knowledge
When you get transported to another world would you use your knowledge for your old world to batter you struggles in this now life well these guys do, from becoming a hero to forging their own empire to using said knowledge to defeat gods or just living a slow and easy life.
In this article I am going to tell you some manga and anime where mc got transported to another world and used his modern knowledge to make his life easy.
- Arifureta: From Common Place to World’s Strongest
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Drifters
- Drug store in Another world – the slow life of a cheat Pharmacist
- Gate
- High school prodigies have it easy even in other world
- How a realist hero builds the kingdom
- In Another world with my smartphone
- Knights And Magic
- Log Horizon
Arifureta: From Common Place to World’s STRONGEST
Nagumo and his entire class get one way send to a fantasy world where they have to beat labyrinths made by mysterious people called mavericks. Where in this labyrinths Nagumo is sent flying after misfiring magic beam is deemed accident now presumed dead Nagumo has to fight his way out to survive.
After making his way to the end of the labyrinth Nagumo meets a vampire girl named Yuwei, now the last of her kind she decided to stick with Nagumo becoming lovers and travel companions.
Thus, begins Nagumo’s journey to become stronger in order to return to his original world in order for Nagumo to accomplish his mission to survive and return back home he uses his base skill as a synergist to create weapons from his own world like revolver, pistols the minigun, katanas, a motorbike and even a military-grade jeep.
Safe to say Nagumo uses the knowledge he has from the world he came from in order to help him on his journey.
Ascendance of a Bookworm
When a sickly young girl suddenly become obsessed with inventing new things, her family and friends are all puzzled. What is got into Mine they wondered never dreaming that answer is not what but a who Yurino Motosu a book loving apprentice librarian.
Who died in an earthquake in Tokyo who somehow found herself in Mine’s body and since mine’s world is still in a medieval stage where books can only be owned by the elite, the new Mine intends to do every thing she can to bring her beloved books to the masses in the time she has left.
The use of modern knowledge here lies in Mine herself as she uses her knowledge from her previous life that she learned from reading books in order to batter her new life.
The only drawback is the world she’s now in is stuck in the feudal era where the books she loved are rare commodity due to the fact that books need to be written by hand Mine sets her goal to make books that she can read.
Thus, her goal to make books begins with her using her knowledge she learned in her previous life to make her books.
Drifters
The story centers around Shimazu Toyohisa the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history these warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle when it comes to drifters the use of modern knowledge lies in the drifters themselves.
Why is that, well it’s because these drifters are actually people who are experts from there own time in history, whether it’s Toyohisa’s skills as a samurai Nobunaga’s political and military know how to Yoichi skills in survival archery and deception, each drifter brings something to the table.
Drug store in Another world – the slow life of a cheat Pharmacist
Regi Curio was a corporate wage slave who did nothing but work all day every day on a typical day of walking to work with a hallow look on his face he suddenly found himself in a forest of another world. This is the anime where mc got transported into another world and he has two skills appraisal and drug discovery.
Those don’t sound too impressive well except these turn out to be particularly overpowered skills, he is able to produce healing medicines that were sorely lacking in the world one after another leading to an overnight fortune.
No one will ever force him to work like a slave again. He decided to adopt a deliberately slow life and opens a drug store and so a story about following the slow life philosophy while running a drugstore in another world begins.
Gate
The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in tokyo’s ginza district sometime in the 21st century from the gate pours out monster’s knights from middle age Europe and other fantasy like beings and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the ginza incident.
The government sands a small group of soldiers from the Japanese self defense forces a replacement for Japan’s military to the alternate world beyond the gate led by otaku soldier Yuji find that the village in the are being attacked by a dragon and elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon’s rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.
The use of modern knowledge for gate lies in JSDF and the modern-day Japanese government as two worlds with different technology clash, whether it’s knights with swords fighting solders with assault rifles to attack helicopters taking down horse cavalry. The reactions of a world still in feudal era to tech used by people in the modern day is quite interesting to see.
This is what make gate such an interesting manga and an anime because it’s more of a “what if instead of sending one guy we send a modern-day military force”, What could happen.
High school prodigies have it easy even in other world
Seven Japanese high school prodigies have taken the world by storm exercising their mind-blowing abilities in everything from politics to entertainment. But when their plain crashes one day these geniuses awaken to find themselves in a different realm dash one that’s home to magic and beast folk.
While such strange new surroundings might through an average person for a loop these prodigies take their situation in stride and then some with the greatest mind and talents known to earth this dream team is about to turn the other world on its head.
The modern knowledge used is in Tsukasa’s and his friends as each of them bring something to the table. From Tsukasa’s knowledge of politics governing in nation-building Ringo’s inventiveness and abilities to invent new technology.
Shinobu’s ability to gather intel and conduct espionage, Misato’s trade and economic, Henae’s medical science knowledge Aui’s skills as a well-trained warrior Akatsuki’s knowledge of illusions magic tricks and slide of hand. They each bring something to the table in order for them to not just survive but to eventually return back to their world.
How a realist hero builds the kingdom
Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to the princess Kazuya Soma is crowned the new king after providing the royal family with impressive advice, to rule the kingdom he is takin the non-traditional and very human route of administrative reform in a realm of dragon and elves will this revolutionary’s unique path prove effective, in realist hero Soma brings his modern knowledge of the running a country.
From bringing new reforms and policies to cleaning the elf freedom kingdom’s financial problem. Soma himself was studding to be a public servant, before being one wat ascendent to the world he is now. Thus, in order for him to not just survive he rebuilds the nation in order for be able to help this world deal with the problem of the new demon king’s domain.
In Another world with my smartphone
After a freak accident involving some lightning winds up zapping him dead fifteen-year-old Moshizuki Toya wakes up to find himself face to face with God. I am afraid to say that I have made a bit of a blunder laments the old coot but all is not lost.
God says that he can reincarnate Toya into a world of fantasy and as a bonus he gets to bring his smartphone along with. So begins Toya’s adventure in a new anachronistic pseudo-medieval world. Friend laughs, tears inexplicable Deus ex machina he sets off on a journey full of wonder as he absent-mindedly travels from place-to-place fallowing whatever goal catches his fancy.
The curtains lift on an epic tale of swords sorcery and smartphone apps. The use of modern knowledge here is in Toya’s smartphone as he mainly relies on it in order to use the features and apps that God himself gave him. Needless to say, smartphone isekai is pretty generic when it comes to isekai, as the only thing that makes Toya remotely all that interesting is that he uses whatever he knows that isn’t from his damn phone.
Knights And Magic
A Japanese mecha otaku dies in a car accident and his soul is reincarnated into another world as Ernest Echeverria. Aro inherits memories and interest from his previous life and aims to be a pilot of a silhouette knight a large humanoid weapon that really exists in his world. The use of modern knowledge lies in Ernes himself as he uses his knowledge as a programmer to pilot Mecca Robot knights.
Whether it’s excelling in learning about said meccas to piloting and even innovating mechs and creating new model’s knights and magic offers a fantasy with mecca elements to it although the manga and anime itself leaves more to be desired.
Log Horizon
The online fantasy game elder tales is a worldwide phenomenon immersing millions of players in its intricately conceived virtual world. However, the release of the game’s 12th expansion pack makes that immersion all too literal as players from around the world are suddenly pulled into the game’s no longer fictional universe.
Now Shiro his friend Natsugu the beautiful assassin Atsuki and 30000 other players are faced with the daunting task of learning how to deal with an entirely new reality one where the non-player characters are actually alive and the tips and tricks learned while playing with the keyboard no longer apply.
The modern knowledge elements lie in Shiro were in order for new player to be treated fairly and not to be an abused. Shero proposes that Akihabara be made in a city-state with major guilds stand as the leader and rulers to govern the new settlement of Akihabara. This is done not just for the latter reasons but also for them to find a way back home to their world.