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A common sub-genre of harem anime is a setting which incorporates the mechanics of {{Dating Sim}}s or VisualNovels, such as making choices that cause members of the harem to fall in love, sometimes with the mechanics themselves manifesting in the "real world".

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' [[TropeMaker created]] the "RealRobotGenre", as unlike the giant robot stories before it, the [[HumongousMecha Mobile Suits]] are not unique weapons exclusive to the protagonists. It dealt with the consequences of a world where battles between giant armored mechs is a commonplace occurance. However, {{The Hero}}'s mech (the titular "Gundam") is still a SuperRobot that is a cut above the rest. At first; over the course of the series it strays further form its SuperRobot roots as eventually technology catches up with the Gundam and it's no longer all that species compared to the mass-produced enemy mecha, let alone their AceCustom units.

* ''Literature/AnObservationLogOfMyFianceeWhoCallsHerselfAVillainess'' has the protagonist reincarnate as the villainess who's the prince's fiancé. Rather than try to escape the villainess's fate in the game, she decides to embrace the role and push the prince toward his fated heroine from the game. But since she's [[PokeThePoodle terrible at being evil]], the prince finds her amusing instead and ends up actually falling in love with her. The actual villain of the story is [[{{Irony}} the heroine of the otome game]], who's also reincarnated from an Earth girl who played the game and thinks this makes her {{entitled to|have you}} the prince's love.

* ''Literature/TheHeroLaughsWhileWalkingThePathOfVengeanceASecondTime'': This story asks the question of who would be willing to [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude summon/abduct an untrained teenager]] and make them fight what is essentially {{Satan}}. The protagonist is used to kill the Demon Lord of this world and is then betrayed, hunted for over a year, and killed brutally by his sadistic former "companions". Afterward, he is suddenly reborn at the start of his journey with all of the memories of his previous life. He thus embarks on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the people who wronged him, which in turn reveals just how twisted and corrupt the world around them really is.

* ''Literature/TheHeroLaughsWhileWalkingThePathOfVengeanceASecondTime'': This story asks the question of who would be willing to summon/abduct an untrained teenager and make them fight what is essentially satan. The protagonist is used to kill the Demon Lord of this world and is then betrayed, hunted for over a year, and killed brutally by his sadistic former "companions". Afterward, he is suddenly reborn at the start of his journey with all of the memories of his previous life. He thus embarks on a mission of {{Revenge}} against the people who wronged him, which in turn reveals just how twisted and corrupt the world around them really is.

* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the protagonist is reincarnated as a small slime--albeit with a ''very'' powerful [[CannibalismSuperpower ability to copy the powers and properties of any monster or person it devours]] (as well as an unseen "[[ArtificialIntelligence Sage]]" that provides other useful powers and information). It is one of the major popularizers of the "reborn as a non-human" sub-genre.

One SubGenre of isekai has emerged which has the protagonist reincarnate as something non-human; usually a monster, but [[NearlyNormalAnimal animals]] and sentient inanimate objects are also common choices.

* Many harem stories either end with the protagonist ending up with just one girl, or having NoRomanticResolution. Not so much in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' - not only does Rentarou gain more than one soulmate, he decides to date ''[[{{Polyamory}} all]]'' of them at the same time. Also, all of the girls are perfectly willing to share him with each other, and in some cases, themselves with each other as well.

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' blends the conventions of a {{Shonen}} action fantasy involving Demons vs Devils vs Angels with that of a HaremGenre, with the main character determined to be come [[HaremSeeker a "Harem King"]]. The [[MarryThemAll "harem ending"]] thus becomes a ForegoneConclusion, as (aside from the {{Fanservice}}), it's the entire draw of the series.

* ''Literature/TheHeroIsOverpoweredButOverlyCautious'' introduces a standard StockLightNovelHero who behaves the way a typical MinMaxing gamer would, carefully grinding all of his most powerful abilities, crafting or buying bulks of the most powerful items, and over-leveling to the point of demolishing the setting's challenges. However, the demon lord himself correctly predicts that the hero will initially be summoned in the area with the weakest monsters, so one of the demon lord's most powerful minions is lying in wait and would have swiftly slaughtered any normal hero. Also, it turns out that [[spoiler: the hero has been isekaied before, but it didn't work out, and this is why he's such a cautious min-maxer. His previous isekai life also went against the usual mold by having him rush to beat the demon lord as quickly as possible (on the premise that the longer he takes, the more people will die in the interim...resulting in him skipping "story events" that he assumed were just filler. Which caused his failure because one of those skipped story events would've told him about the demon lord's OneWingAngel form]].

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': Even before "Isekai" was coined as a genre, The manga already provided a twist to the TrappedInAnotherWorld formula: What if the summoned heroes were there to SaveThePrincess and the world... [[spoiler:by killing the very same princess while believing that her kidnapper was a straightforward EvilOverlord like every other fantasy SaveThePrincess scenario (in truth, he had less-evil, just desperate reasons that [[PoorCommunicationKills he felt he couldn't share with others]])?]] This results in [[spoiler:the heroines, formerly being perfectly happy and normal girls, [[BreakTheCutie returned to their home world utterly traumatized from their quest]].]]

* The protagonist of ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'' is a {{Sentai}} hero who still possesses his Ranger abilities - which don't always mesh well with his current setting.

* Many harem stories either end with the protagonist ending up with just one girl, or having NoRomanticResolution. Not so much in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' - not only does Rentarou gain more than one soulmate, he decides to date ''all'' of them at the same time. Also, all of the girls are perfectly willing to share him with each other.

* ''LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: an isekai where the protagonist is allowed to take a fully-functioning smartphone with him. This gives him access to tools and information that supplement his ridiculously high power.

* ''LightNovel/KnightsAndMagic'' can be loosely described as the Isekai genre, [[RecycledWithAGimmick But With Mecha]]. The main character reincarnates into a fairly standard fantasy setting with {{Magitech}} robots added on top, and begins revolutionizing the [[AMechByAnyOtherName "Silhouette Knights"]] by taking inspiration from the mecha anime he used to love back on Earth.

* ''LightNovel/MyEntireClassWasSummonedToAnotherWorldExceptForMe'' is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - the protagonist is the only member of his class ''not'' isekaied, but he gets a NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus anyway.

* In ''[[LightNovel/ImABehemothAnSRankedMonster I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet]]'', the protagonist is a knight who is reincarnated as a baby behemoth. Although behemoths are universally feared, it turns out baby behemoths look like friendly creatures called elemental cats, and rather than being hunted, he manages to become a pet for the elf girl adventurer who finds him.

* ''LightNovel/TheHeroLaughsWhileWalkingThePathOfVengeanceASecondTime'': This story asks the question of who would be willing to summon/abduct an untrained teenager and make them fight what is essentially satan. The protagonist is used to kill the Demon Lord of this world and is then betrayed, hunted for over a year, and killed brutally by his sadistic former "companions". Afterward, he is suddenly reborn at the start of his journey with all of the memories of his previous life. He thus embarks on a mission of {{Revenge}} against the people who wronged him, which in turn reveals just how twisted and corrupt the world around them really is.

* In ''LightNovel/JKHaruIsASexWorkerInAnotherWorld'', female protagonist Haru and her male classmate Seiji are both [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnated in another world]], but while Seiji becomes an adventurer and goes out to slay monsters, Haru discovers that women are not allowed to have special powers in the new world, so she is forced to become a sex worker.

* ''LightNovel/TheHeroWhoReturnedRemainsTheStrongestInTheModernWorld'': The story starts after the Isekai'd hero has been summoned back to his home of Japan, and as he comes to find out, the boring old world he thought he'd finally take a breather in is actually brimming with adventure of its own.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' blends the conventions of a {{Shonen}} action fantasy involving Demons vs Devils vs Angels with that of a HaremGenre, with the main character determined to be come [[HaremSeeker a "Harem King"]]. The [[MarryThemAll "harem ending"]] thus becomes a ForegoneConclusion, as (aside from the {{Fanservice}}), it's the entire draw of the series.

* ''LightNovel/DidntISayToMakeMyAbilitiesAverageInTheNextLife'' has a protagonist who doesn't like her NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus because she was a former friendless ChildProdigy who just wanted [[IJustWantToBeNormal a normal life with friends]], but her wish was misinterpreted, and instead of actually being average by human standards, her abilities are halfway between the weakest and strongest possible examples. Thus she goes out of her way to pretend she is a normal human in the world, despite the fact that she is magically 6800 times more powerful.

* ''LightNovel/TheHeroIsOverpoweredButOverlyCautious'' introduces a standard StockLightNovelHero who behaves the way a typical MinMaxing gamer would, carefully grinding all of his most powerful abilities, crafting or buying bulks of the most powerful items, and over-leveling to the point of demolishing the setting's challenges. However, the demon lord himself correctly predicts that the hero will initially be summoned in the area with the weakest monsters, so one of the demon lord's most powerful minions is lying in wait and would have swiftly slaughtered any normal hero. Also, it turns out that [[spoiler: the hero has been isekaied before, but it didn't work out, and this is why he's such a cautious min-maxer. His previous isekai life also went against the usual mold by having him rush to beat the demon lord as quickly as possible (on the premise that the longer he takes, the more people will die in the interim...resulting in him skipping "story events" that he assumed were just filler. Which caused his failure because one of those skipped story events would've told him about the demon lord's OneWingAngel form]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'' is built upon the premise that the ReincarnateInAnotherWorld trope isn't inherently a dream come true. What if it doesn't provide a NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus, if the "cheat item" was an annoying [[TheLoad Load]], and the UnwantedHarem ''actually IS'' "unwanted"?

* In ''LightNovel/MyRoomIsADungeonRestStop'', the protagonist rents a surprisingly cheap apartment, then discovers that it is magically connected to the dungeon of another world. Exploring the dungeon, he finds a beautiful female adventurer in danger, then brings her back to his apartment and convinces her he is a mage.

* ''LightNovel/BecauseIReincarnatedAsASuccubusIllSqueezeOutMilk'' has a protagonist who is reincarnated as a succubus. Rejecting the species ability to survive off of "man's life essence" (in other words, sperm), he is given a superpowered cow so that he can survive off of its milk.

* ''LightNovel/RebornAsAVendingMachineINowWanderTheDungeon'' has a protagonist who is reincarnated as a vending machine in a fantasy world, due to having been obsessed with them in his previous life. Although he's a magic vending machine that can restock himself with any food or beverage he tried when he was human, he's completely unable to move and his communication is extremely limited, so he's forced to rely on a kind adventurer to carry him around on her back.

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord|2012}}'' asks the question: what if [[MaouTheDemonKing The Demon Lord]] which gets summoned to a fantasy world was merely an {{Otaku}} playing the avatar of said Demon Lord? It was one of the first of its kind.
* ''LightNovel/HowNotToSummonADemonLord'' has the twist that the protagonist is only ''pretending'' to be a Demon Lord. He ''is'' exceptionally powerful in the new world, but being called a Demon Lord in the first place was only an AppropriatedAppelation he used while playing his MMORPG. However, he has crippling social anxiety that he can only circumvent by roleplaying his Demon Lord persona.
* ''LightNovel/DemonLordRetry'' asks "What if the {{Otaku}} created the game in the first place?".

* ''LightNovel/AnObservationLogOfMyFianceeWhoCallsHerselfAVillainess'' has the protagonist reincarnate as the villainess who's the prince's fiancé. Rather than try to escape the villainess's fate in the game, she decides to embrace the role and push the prince toward his fated heroine from the game. But since she's [[PokeThePoodle terrible at being evil]], the prince finds her amusing instead and ends up actually falling in love with her. The actual villain of the story is [[{{Irony}} the heroine of the otome game]], who's also reincarnated from an Earth girl who played the game and thinks this makes her {{entitled to|have you}} the prince's love.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' has the protagonist reborn as the main villainess of a game she played, doomed to either get killed or exiled for harassing the game's heroine. Regaining her PastLifeMemories a few years before the events of the game, her primary goal is simply to avoid getting a "bad ending", but because she's far nicer and friendlier than the original villainess she ends up unintentionally stealing the "main character" position by charming all of the game's love interests -- [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer as well as all the other love rivals, and even the original heroine herself]].

* ''LightNovel/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'': This series takes place from the perspective of the native people of the other world and how humans summoned from Japan has affected their world. In this series, said Japanese people (known as "Lost Ones") are gifted with unbelievably powerful magic but can easily become a PersonOfMassDestruction and go mad with power, especially because they lose memories of who they were and suffer severe mental degradation the more they use their abilities. The protagonist of the story, Menou, is an Executioner for the Church whose duty is to murder Lost Ones as quickly as possible after they appear in the world to prevent disasters.

* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The protagonist Kumoko and her entire class are all killed simultaneously and then are reborn in a typical fantasy world. While most of them are reborn as your standard isekai characters (heroes, nobles, etc.), Kumoko is reborn as a dog-sized ''spider monster''. As the title implies, though, Kumoko is ThePollyanna and decides that if she's going to be a spider, then she's going to be an ''awesome'' spider.

* ''Saving 80,000 Gold In Another World For My Retirement'': The protagonist finds herself in a fantasy world and her only real power is being able to teleport, but it lets her freely travel back to Earth whenever she wants, giving her access to modern weapons for self-defense and various goods that she can sell for a massive profit. As the title suggests, her main goal is to save up enough money for her retirement.

* ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'': The protagonist learns he has a powerful healing ability, and is quickly made addicted to drugs and sold into slavery where he is used and abused by adventurers who covet his power. Four years later, he accidentally gains the skill "Drug Resistance", and when the team of "heroes" finally confront the Demon Lord, instead of healing them, he leaves them to die. He also learns to use his powers for more than simply "healing", defeats the Demon Lord himself and uses her power to "heal" by rewinding time to four years prior with his memory intact. Armed with new knowledge and new abilities, he thus sets out to look for {{Revenge}}.

* ''LightNovel/AccomplishmentsOfTheDukesDaughter'' has a tax bureau employee wake up in the body of the villainess of a game she played at the point where the villainess already lost her fiancé to the heroine. The reincarnation makes the best of the situation, avoiding the villainess's fate of exile to a monastery and instead getting confined to her family's territory. The reincarnator then opts to use her knowledge of modern economics to change how things are run, making her former fiancé look like a fool for abandoning her for a lower-rank noble.

* ''LightNovel/HowNotToSummonADemonLord'' has the twist that the protagonist is only ''pretending'' to be a Demon Lord. He ''is'' exceptionally powerful in the new world, but being called a Demon Lord in the first place was only an AppropriatedAppelation he used while playing his MMORPG.

* ''Manga/UncleFromAnotherWorld'' takes place ''after'' the events of the typical isekai plot, with the hero's physical body having been comatose in the real world for the 17 years he was adventuring in the other world. When he finally wakes up back on Earth, it turns out he still possesses the magic he learned while there, which he uses to become a Youtuber. He recounts his time in the other world through flashbacks.

* ''LightNovel/IfHerFlagBreaks'' has a protagonist with a unique power to see various types of {{Event Flag}}s and the instant knowledge of what he needs to do to keep it (such as a Story Flag) or break it (such as a Death Flag). In the course of using these flags, he gains the affection of multiple girls, usually after [[RescueRomance breaking their death flags and saving their lives]] in some way.

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'' creates a world in which the mechanics of a {{Dating Sim}} are real, and justified because kissing the [[WorldOfActionGirls Spirits]] which menace the world is the only way to seal their powers without killing them. Thus, going on dates with various (and sometimes simultaneous) girls is required to save the world.

* ''LightNovel/ReMonster'' has a human mercenary in a sci-fi setting who dies and gets reincarnated into a fantasy world as a goblin. However, he has a unique ability that lets him absorb the abilities of monsters and people he eats, which he uses to obsessively empower himself to GameBreaker levels. He also overthrows the goblin tribe's old leader and forces his own morals onto everyone so that they can peacefully coexist with humans, but also uses his paramilitary training from his previous life to train the goblins so they can take down enemies that would normally be well beyond their abilities.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The protagonist Kumoko and her entire class are all killed simultaneously and then are reborn in a typical fantasy world. While most of them are reborn as your standard isekai characters (heroes, nobles, etc.), Kumoko is reborn as a dog-sized ''spider monster''. As the title implies, though, Kumoko is ThePollyanna and decides that if she's going to be a spider, then she's going to be an ''awesome'' spider.
* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the protagonist is reincarnated as a small slime--albeit with a ''very'' powerful [[CannibalismSuperpower ability to copy the powers and properties of any monster or person it devours]] (as well as an unseen "[[ArtificialIntelligence Sage]]" that provides other useful powers and information). It is one of the major popularizers of the "reborn as a non-human" sub-genre.
* In ''LightNovel/WoofWoofStory'', the protagonist is reincarnated into a giant dog and becomes a beloved family pet, before being thrust into several adventures, including becoming a king.

* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'' asks the question: what if [[MaouTheDemonKing The Demon Lord]] which gets summoned to a fantasy world was merely an {{Otaku}} playing the avatar of said Demon Lord? It was one of the first of its kind.

* ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' twists the premise by inverting it entirely: the main character '''starts''' as a powerful Demon Lord in a fantasy world, only to get stranded on Earth as a powerless human. The story's main comedy beats come from the juxtaposition of powerful fantasy characters in utterly mundane situations, like the demon lord working at a burger joint or the legendary hero being a call center operator.

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' has a male protagonist who reincarnates as a background character who is unseen in the game. As such his goals are to build a comfortable life for himself and keep away from the events of the game. However, circumstances lead him to attend the academy where the game takes place, where he discovers a reincarnated girl who plans to take the heroine's role for herself and gain herself a ReverseHarem of all the love interests, forcing him to intervene. The story is more {{Shonen}} in tone compared to other otome isekai, with the protagonist battling monsters in dungeons and enemy knights in a MiniMecha.

* ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': The main character Hajime is summoned to the fantasy world alongside his entire class, and they are tasked to raid several deadly dungeons to save that world and make their way home. However, Hajime is one of the weakest of his group and furthermore winds up betrayed by one of his classmates and is left in one of the lowest and most dangerous floors of the dungeon to die. After losing an arm and eye to the monsters inside, he happens to find a safe corner of the dungeon with a magical substance that instantly heals life-threatening wounds. Driven only by thoughts of survival and revenge, Hajime slowly tortures his body until he gains several levels and abilities that allow him to defeat the dungeon monsters, crafts new weapons, and escapes alongside a MysteriousWaif he finds. By the time he reunites with his old classmates, they are shocked by both his physical and mental transformation into a grim, sinister AntiHero that won't hesitate to kill even ''them'' if they cross or betray him.

* ''LightNovel/ReZero'' asks the question, what if the GenreSavvy Hikikomori was given a power that's [[BlessedWithSuck closer to a curse than a blessing]]? From there, a full on DeconstructorFleet occurs where the protagonist's [[OvershadowedByAwesome lack of power]] and [[ThisLoserIsYou unsavory personality traits]] are closely examined, even as he is forced to go through significant CharacterDevelopment on his personal quest to be a hero.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is simply "What if the Isekai Hero had a JokeWeapon?", but it takes this premise and creates a unique {{Deconstruction}} of the genre. Also, the reasons for why the hero is mocked and hated by the populace are fleshed out to explore a CrapsackWorld full of racism and zealotry where the standard genre tropes are definitely not what they are cracked up to be. It was the GenrePopularizer of the "Dark Deconstruction" sub-genre, with many examples following its lead or upping the ante in some way.

* In ''LightNovel/TheHeroAndHisElfBrideOpenAPizzaParlorInAnotherWorld'', the protagonist misses the opportunity to become a wizard or a swordsman, so he opens a pizza parlor, assisted by the elfen daughter of a demon lord.

* Even before "Isekai" was coined as a genre, ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' already provided a twist to the TrappedInAnotherWorld formula: What if the summoned heroes were there to SaveThePrincess and the world... [[spoiler:by killing the very same princess while believing that her kidnapper was a straightforward EvilOverlord like every other fantasy SaveThePrincess scenario (in truth, he had less-evil, just desperate reasons that [[PoorCommunicationKills he felt he couldn't share with others]])?]] This results in [[spoiler:the heroines, formerly being perfectly happy and normal girls, [[BreakTheCutie returned to their home world utterly traumatized from their quest]].]]

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!!! "Post-Demon-King" Sub-Genre
A number of anime have explored the classic [[TheHero "Yuusha"]] vs [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon Lord]] setup, but set the story ''after'' said war or conflict is over.
* ''LightNovel/AestheticaOfARogueHero'' is a combination of both the {{Isekai}} and ExtranormalInstitute tropes in which people from the mundane world are so commonly summoned into other worlds that they then return with new powers which don't allow them to fit back into normal society. They are thus mandated to enter a special school for people with their credentials. The protagonist was a hero summoned to such a world but, after killing the Demon King, respected the man's dying wish by taking his daughter back to his world with him, where she can live a new life.
* ''LightNovel/ICouldntBecomeAHeroSoIReluctantlyDecidedToGetAJob'' asks: what happens to all the other Heroes in the world after a Demon King is defeated? Raul is one of the thousands of Heroes who don't know what to do after the war against the Demon King suddenly comes to an end. He thus starts to work at a department store, where he's later joined by the Demon King's daughter as well as others from his past. However, many Heroes never really coped with [[NoPlaceForAWarrior losing their purpose in life]] and have become [[OutdatedHeroVsImprovedSociety antagonists seeking to ignite a new war]].
* ''LightNovel/ImQuittingHeroing'' begins with the Hero, Leo Demonheart, having already defeated the Demon Queen Echidna and sent most of her army packing and fleeing back to the Demon World they came from. However, when Leo returns to human society, he finds that much of humanity has deemed him as too powerful and dangerous to exist and tries to kill him. Becoming disillusioned with humans, he goes back to Echidna's castle, where she and her top generals are still smarting from the humiliating defeat he inflicted on them mere weeks ago, and asks to join her army instead, much to her outrage. HilarityEnsues.
* ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}'' opens as the hero is about to confront the demon king and end the war between humans and demons. However, the demon king ([[SamusIsAGirl who turns out to be a woman]]) convinces him that neither slaying her nor ending the war will actually fix most of the world's problems and that only the two of them, together, can hope to turn things around for the better. Thus, the story actually becomes a socio-political-economic thriller about how the advanced ideas she has envisioned will improve the world. Complicating things is that since [[ForeverWar the war has been raging for centuries]], both the humans and demons have built their entire economies around sustaining the war and thus it takes a lot of effort to transition to a peacetime economy. And powerful factions on both sides ''want'' the war to continue forever.
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* ''Literature/IWasASwordWhenIReincarnated'': The human protagonist died and is reborn as a talking magic sword with human intelligence. Luckily, he can use telekinesis to move himself, and discovers that absorbing magical stones from the monsters he kills lets him obtain their special skills, as well as "evolution points" he can use to level himself up. He ends up getting helped out of a serious situation by a young orphaned CatGirl who dreams of becoming an adventurer, and he forms a party with her, becoming both her weapon and adoptive father.

* ''LightNovel/IWasASwordWhenIReincarnated'': The human protagonist died and is reborn as a talking magic sword with human intelligence. Luckily, he can use telekinesis to move himself, and discovers that absorbing magical stones from the monsters he kills lets him obtain their special skills, as well as "evolution points" he can use to level himself up. He ends up getting helped out of a serious situation by a young orphaned CatGirl who dreams of becoming an adventurer, and he forms a party with her, becoming both her weapon and adoptive father.