From a well-received adaptation announcement and a highly anticipated debut to leading out the 2025 Spring’s anime season,The Beginning After The Endanime is finally here. The story follows the life of history’s strongest king, King Grey, who finds himself given another purpose after he is reincarnated into another world as Arthur Leywin.
With only its premiere episode out yet and its airing schedule set to a weekly basis, the anime will deny fans the thrill of gobbling all of its contents all at once. As such, this piece presents no more than recommendations of the best series for fans and viewers who have taken a liking to theTBATEanime series. These recommended series share not only similarities with the anime series but also commonalities, which is the sheer quality that uniquely distinguishes each from the others. Therefore, below are some of the best anime for fans and viewers who likeThe Begining After The Endanime.
The reincarnation trope is at the forefront of theIn Another World With My Smartphoneanime series, just as in the feature series, as it seems even God is prone to mistakes in this series. The story is centered around the protagonist, Touya Mochikuzi, who is accidentally struck by God’s stray bolt of lightning. Touya is offered the chance to live again in what would seem like an apology from God—however, this time, in a magical fantasy world.
Reincarnated with a single wish of keeping his smartphone with him, Touya begins a new life in a new world and is quickly surprised by how different it is from what he is used to. With his smartphone and the new relationships he builds, Touya finds himself on a journey to unearth the secrets of this new magical world.
Rather than reincarnation,A Returner’s Magic Should Be Specialbrandishes the regression trope as it follows the life of the central character, Desir Herman, who is initially a member of humanity’s last hope of six heroes who are on a mission to save the world from destruction by the Shadow World.
In what would seem like the last attempt for humanity’s success, Desir and his party are thrown into chaos in an unstoppable explosion that destroys what is left of the world. However, rather than death, Desir is mysteriously sent back in time to ten years before. Given a second chance to preserve humanity’s existence, Desir determines to do all that is within his power to prevent the predestined future of humanity.
8Wiseman’s Grandchild
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The premise of a second life is again present inthe Wiseman’s Grandchildanime series, just likeTBATE. However, rather than a previous life of nobility, the story follows the central character, an ordinary salaryman from modern Japan, who is reincarnated into another world as Shin Wolford, the grandson of the legendary hero Merlin.
Retaining the memory of his previous life, Shin grows under the guidance and tutelage of his aged grandfather, displaying unrivaled talent for both magic and martial arts. However, honing just his combat leaves Shin a socially awkward and unassuming teenager— until his 15th birthday. Now able to enroll in school, Shin wishes only to live a normal life like everyone else. However, the Wolford name’s weight is set to ensure his wish does not come true.
The Great Clericpresents a tale of reincarnation of another salaryman from modern Japan in its protagonist, Luciel. Previously the hardest-working salaryman in Japan, Luciel is given another chance at life after overworking himself to death in the fantasy world of Galdardia. Choosing to be a healer, Luciel sets out on an adventure to make more than a few coins.
However, the knowledge of money does not guarantee Luciel knowledge of his new world and its secrets. Determined to make a name for himself in this new world, Luciel’s first stop is the Adventurer’s Guild, which becomes the cornerstone of the legend of Galdardia’s great cleric.
The Eminence In Shadowis another representative of the isekai genre, as it tells the tale of Shadow. Born as a regular human, Minoru Kagenou lives life with only one desire — to be powerful. However, he soon finds that even power is powerless before death, when he dies in a truck accident.
However, instead of dying, Minoru is reborn as Cid of the noble Kagenou family in a world where magic is the norm. His power ambitions are unchanged, but Cid finally has it in his grasp. With it, he establishes the Shadow Garden, an organization with the sole purpose of fighting against the Cult of Diablos, born from his imagination. However, as Shadow Garden grows in influence, Cid soon discovers that the Cult of Diablos may not be as fictional as he once thought.
Ascendance Of A Bookwormpresents a tale of the protagonist, Urano Motosu’s love bordering on obsession for all things literature borders on obsession. Unfortunately for Urano, death calls for her just when she is about to fulfill her lifelong wish of becoming a librarian. Drawing on her last breath, she wishes to be able to read more books in her next life.
Indeed, she gets a new life when she’s mysteriously reincarnated in another world as the frail little five-year-old, Myne. Instinctively, recalling her passion, Myne tries to find anything to read and quickly realises she has been reborn to a period where only the privileged have the opportunity for literature. However, she is unfazed by her problem and only resolves even more to make her wish come true, whether that means handwriting the books herself personally or otherwise.
BothOverlordandThe Beginning After The Endshare the similar trope of reincarnation as both protagonists are reincarnated into new worlds. The former goes from an average adult into the world’s greatest Archamge, and the latter, from history’s greatest king to a boy born with a destiny unlike another.
Overlordpresents the story of its central character, Momonga, who finds himself reincarnated into the world of his favorite MMORPG game, Yggdrasil, the night before it was to shut down its servers. With no possible way back home and now an archmage of unimaginable power, Momonga, now Ainz Ooal Gown, lets himself get immersed in the world Yggdrasil. Nonetheless, there is no better way to sate his curiosity than a conquest of the world itself.
Mushoku Tenseitells a contrasting tale of its central character, a 34-year-old shut-in who did nothing of note throughout his life until the point of his tragic death resulting from a reckless heroic attempt at saving another person.
Rather than die, he is born as Rudeus Greyrat of the Greyrat House and retains the memories and knowledge of his past life. Already with a mental headstart, it is not long before Rudeus starts to show promise, exceeding the expectations of a child. Having lived as a nobody once before, Rudeus makes it his mission to conquer his past and make the most of his newfound opportunity.
Reincarnation is also the order of the day inThat Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime,as it follows the lead character, the lonely Satoru Mikami, an unhappy 37-year-old whose misery ends after he dies at the hands of a robber. However, it seems death will not be the end of him, after all, as he awakens to see that he has been reincarnated as a goop of slime and gains the ability to devour and mimic the attributes of anything it devours.
As if becoming a slime is not enough, he stumbles on the sealed “Storm Dragon” Veldora, a destructive creature sealed away for the last 300 years. The pair sparks an unlikely friendship, and the dragon grants Mikami the name ‘Rimuru Tempest’ in return for a promise to unseal him. Granted a new life, a new form, and a new world, Rimuru sets off on an adventure that will change the course of history.
The top contender for this piece,Solo Leveling, likeThe Beginning After The End,emphasizes the overpowered trope through its protagonist, Sung Jin-Woo, once dubbed the world’s weakest E-Rank Hunter. The story is set in a world where magic and monsters are the norm, while the Hunters are the exception.
As the weakest E-Rank, Jin-Woo can hardly scrape by as a hunter, but with his mother’s medical bills and his and his sister’s living expenses through the roof, death seems a better choice than giving up. Jin-Woo’s luck seemingly runs out when he and his expedition teams stumble into a double dungeon. What begins as a massacre turns out only to be the foundation of the one who will become the world’s greatest hunter.
