Everybody loves it when a totally overpowered badass arrives in a new world to rule it. Isekai anime has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. While watching an Isekai, the viewers can relate to their own fantasy of traveling to the world of their favorite game or their favorite fictional TV series.
In anime, one of the most common traits of the main characters who are transferred from the modern-day world to a new fantasy world is that they are much more powerful than average characters. Whether it be a gift from the god who accidentally killed the hero in the real world or because they were a master of the game that they are transferred to, the abilities of the main characters surely provide an advantage. Here is a top ten list of characters containing such overpowered abilities.
10 Subaru Natsuki
Subaru Natsuki is the main character of the anime Re: Zero which is based on a light novel by Tappei Nagatsuki. He is a high school student who finds himself in a fantasy world after exiting from a convenience store.
Unlike other entries on this list, Subaru did not gain the power of extreme swordsmanship or an overpowered mind-controlling skill. Rather unconventionally, Subaru received power of Return By Death, which as the name suggests, returns him back in time after he dies. This is not all good as it sounds though. As told by the countless screams of Subaru, one who uses this skill has to face horrible deaths time and again.
9 Touya Mochizuki
Touya Mochizuki is the main character of the anime In Another World With My Smartphone. And fear not, the show is as hilarious as the title suggests. Touya is accidentally killed by the God who them proposes to send him to another world with anything of his choice. And like a very relatable character, Touya chooses his smartphone.
But that is not all, it is later revealed that his physical and magical skills are also far superior to anyone in the world. This was due to another favor from the god, who made his body from the materials from the Divine Realm. After this much good luck after his accidental death, Touya was ready to take on the biggest and baddest monster from his new world.
8 Mamako Oosuki
Mamako Oosuki is the mother of Masato Oosuki. The mother-son duo of beta tester for an MMMMMO RPG. And with that many Ms, it can be speculated that the world she and her son are transported to may be a tiny bit big.
Mamako and Masato are the main characters of "Okaasan Online: Do You Like Your Mom? Her Normal Attack Is Two Attacks At Full Power" and the show is as hysterical as the name suggests. While being in an Isekai world was Masato's daydream, he is disappointed by the fact that all the powers he wished for were granted to his mother. Mamako is an overpowered overprotective mother who can defeat anyone with little inconvenience.
7 Diablo
Based on a light novel by Yukiya Murasaki, How Not To Summon A Demon Lord is the story of Tamuka Sakamoto, who was summoned by 2 girls in another world as a slave demon but reverts his position to master with a little help of a magic ring.
He might have been a no-good gamer in his previous life, but now he was the all-powerful demon lord who never loses a fight. Since he grided his character to level up in real life, he is born as a level 150 sorcerer who can level an army with little effort.
6 Shin Wolford
Shin Wolford is yet another main character who died by a truck accident and reborn in a new magical world. But after being reborn as a baby, Shin luck shines as he is taught by the strongest mages in the kingdom. Not only that, but he is also taught martial arts by the strongest martial artist in the kingdom.
Being a disciple of such great people, Shin learns after his 15th birthday, just how overpowered he is. In a world where experts have hard time conjuring a spark, Shin can incinerate whole fields. He can also enchant impregnable armors and is one of the few characters who gets his love interest to like him back.
5 Satou Kazuma
Satou Kazuma is the main character of anime Konosuba. The anime is based on a light novel by Natsume Akatsuki. Satou died after jumping in front of a truck to save a girl, but not because of the reason why one would think. In fact, the truck was a slow-moving tractor and Satou died due to the shock alone.
After that, Satou was able to be born with insane skill points that would even amaze the Gods. Satou became the luckiest human alive and only second to the Goddess of Luck. With his intelligence and skills, he was quick to climb to be an overpowered protagonist.
4 Shiroe
Shiroe is the main protagonist of Log Horizon. He is a Half-Elf Enchanter-Scribe supersmart gamer boy who mastered the game elder-tale. In the new world, his special power, known as Overskill, is the Contact Art Ceremony, which allows him to create contacts to change anything including the laws of nature itself.
With his brilliant strategical mind and the experience to beat anyone, Shiroe can make any opponent fall down in loss whether it be some corrupt players or the biggest of monsters.
3 Naofumi Iwatani
After its burst in popularity on its first season, The Rising Of The Shield Hero is an anime that the viewers can recommend to their non-anime watcher friends. The main protagonist of the series is Naofumi Iwatani. He is one of the four legendary heroes summoned to the kingdom of Melromarc.
Naofumi wields a shield that at first glance may seem like a rarely useful weapon in any anime, but as Naofumi trains more and more, it becomes his insanely overpowered possession. After being falsely accused of very bad things by princess Malty and being shunned by every other hero, Naofumi went on his own journey with his friends to become very powerful.
2 Ainz Ooal Gown
Ainz Ooal Gown is the anti-hero of the Overlord Series. He is the sole ruler of the Sorcerer Kingdom and the Overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
Ainz Ooal Gown is the most powerful magic caster in the world and even his other identity of Momon is the strongest adventurer in the world. This huge skeleton is ruthless and not a hero by any means. But the fact that only one who was able to push him the most was his own subordinate, shows the amount of insane power possessed by this scary undead creature.
1 Rimuru Tempest
Rimuru Tempest, from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime, is a just a small blob of slime reincarnated into a world of demon lords and dragons. Viewers would feel sympathy towards this low-level monster if it was not for his over the top skill known as Great Sage.
Within the first few days of his reincarnation, he was able to slay monsters and even befriend one of the most powerful creatures in his new world, True Dragon Veldora Tempest. He is the king of Jura Tempest Federation and a demon lord. With the power of all-knowing Great Sage, he is quickly becoming the strongest character in his new world.