Isekais are fun in and of themselves, but recently, reverse-isekais, where mythical creatures from another world come into Earth and live everyday lives among humans, are gaining even more traction. With the surging popularity in the reverse-isekai genre, the studio SILVER LINK gave us Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! This year (2021). It was adapted from a manga with the same name, authored by Wakame Konbu. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at the best animes similar to Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!
The English name of the anime is The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! It tells the story of a powerful aide of the Demon King, Jahy. Once revered and feared for her powers. However, after the demolition of the Demon realm due to the attack of a magical girl, Jahy finds herself powerless in the human world. Now, Jahy must accustom herself to life as a human. She will have to bid her time in order to collect mystic gems that will finally allow her to restore her own power and the Demon Realm. If you’re looking for more reverse-isekai anime or just some anime with a cute loli character like Jahy, this list has got you covered.
10. The Devil Is A Part-Timer!
The Demon Lord Satan is on a quest to conquer the lands of Ente Isla. However, he faces defeat by the Hero Emilia, who attacks his forces with a strong rebellion. As a result, he is forced to retrieve into a dimensional portal with Alsiel, his loyal general, which lands him in the human world. Here, he learns the ways of the modern man, and with a new name, Sadao Maou begins to work in a local fast-food restaurant.
However, it isn’t going to be easy to survive here. Maou will have to work hard, please his managers, pay his rent on time, handle groceries and housework. He now plans to become the ruler of the Earth as he climbs up the corporate ladder. This anime is as close as you get to Jahy-Sama.
9. Jashin-chan Dropkick
- Episodes: 11
- Studios: Nomad
- Genres: Comedy, Supernatural
- Aired: Jul 10, 2018, to Sep 17, 2018
Jashin-chan, a demon, is summoned to Earth by Yurine, a girl who likes sorcery. Unfortunately, she doesn’t know how to send Jashin back to her world. The only way for Jashin-chan to get back to her world would be by killing her summoner. However, her incompetence keeps her back from being able to do so. Yurine, on the other hand, doesn’t hold back from torturing Jashin-chan for her murderous schemes. As the Demon is immortal, Yurine is free to use any number of methods to kill her.
As a result, Jashin-chan must reluctantly live with Yurine as her roommate. This wonderful comedy anime has many cute loli characters. The situation becomes even more entertaining when other friends of Jashin-chan from the demon world come to meet her.
8. The Demon Girl Next Door
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: J.C.Staff
- Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
- Aired: Jul 12, 2019, to Sep 27, 2019
Yuuko, a high school student, has a weird dream. She wakes up to find out that she has grown demon ears and a tail. When she tells about this dream to her mother, she learns of her family’s mysterious ancestry. She is a descendant of the Dark Clan, who were left powerless by the attack of their mortal enemies of the Light Clan, magical girls. This has led them to a terrible livelihood in poverty.
She further learns that the only way to get rid of this curse is by killing a magical girl. Moreover, Yuuko soon comes across a magical girl who saves her from a truck accident. Unfortunately, this girl is her classmate, Momo, who is much stronger than her physically. Momo, feeling pity for the condition of Yuuko, decides to train her and help her unlock her dormant power. Will Yuuko then be able to kill Momo after all this? This is an exciting anime that, just like Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!, tells the story of a demon girl struggling to survive on Earth and living a normal life.
7. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Episodes: 13
- Studios: Kyoto Animation
- Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life
- Aired: Jan 12, 2017, to Apr 6, 2017
Kobayashi is your average employee. She works as a programmer and drinks away her boredom occasionally. One day, when she is off to work, she is appalled to find a dragon face staring at her from the other side of her house’s door. The dragon transforms into a cute girl wearing a maid’s outfit. Her name is Tooru.
In her drunken stupor the last night, Kobayashi had gone to a mountain, where she met Tooru, and after finding out that she had no place to stay, offered the mythical beast a place in her house. Tooru has come over to redeem this kind offer and is ready to become Kobayashi’s maid while she lives at her home. Filled with regret and guilt, Kobayashi allows Tooru to stay at her place. But she soon finds out that Tooru has various abilities that she uses to do the housework. However, more often than not, these abilities prove to be troublesome. With Tooru staying at her house, Kobayashi also begins to attract other mythical beasts. While this means trouble for her, it means lots of hilarity for us.
6. Gabriel DropOut
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: Doga Kobo
- Genres: Comedy, Supernatural
- Aired: Jan 9, 2017, to Mar 27, 2017
It is mandatory for all young angels to spend time on Earth, living and learning the ways of human life, before they begin working in heaven. One such young angel who lives among humans is Gabriel. She had a bright future ahead and was regarded as the best in her class. It was her duty to become a Great Angel and spread happiness throughout Earth. However, Gabriel has become addicted to video games on Earth and declared herself a Fallen angel. Moreover, she has become a shut-in, uninterested in anything else.
Gabriel’s demon friend, Vignette, has taken it upon herself to change the hikikomori’s lifestyle and make her back into an angel. However, this isn’t going to be a piece of cake. Hilarity further ensues when other ecstatic personalities come into the mess, like Raphiel, Gabriel’s sadistic classmate, and Satanichia, the clumsy demon girl who hopes to rule the underworld someday.
5. Himouto! Umaru-chan
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: Doga Kobo
- Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
- Aired: Jul 9, 2015, to Sep 24, 2015
Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai! is an anime with a great combination of cute characters in an anime that is really funny. Himouto! Umaru-chan is another such anime. It follows the story of a studious high school girl, Umaru Doma. However, she has a side to her personality that most people are unaware of. When she reaches home, she is a lazy otaku who wears a hamster hoodie and eats junk food all day long.
The anime follows the hilarious adventures of Umaru and her friends, Nana and Kirie. With her lazy attitude at home, Umaru’s brother, Taihei, is responsible for all the housework. Watch the craziness that Umaru gets herself into with a bunch of cute loli characters and an exciting premise!
4. Yusibu: I couldn’t become a hero, so I reluctantly decided to get a job.
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: asread.
- Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Ecchi
- Aired: Oct 5, 2013, to Dec 21, 2013
Raul Chaser hopes to defeat the demon king someday. In order to train for this, he enrolls in the Hero Training Program. However, before he could accomplish much, the demon king is defeated by another hero, and the world is at peace again. The Hero Training Program is suspended, and two years later, Raul works at an electronics shop called Magic Shop Leon.
While Raul is disappointed to settle into a mundane lifestyle in the workforce, his life begins to get more interesting. It turns out that a new employee at the shop, a really handsome guy is revealed to be the daughter of the Demon King, masquerading as a regular employee. There’s a lot more in store for Raul, just as he (and we) hoped for!
3. ENDRO!
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: Studio Gokumi
- Genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life
- Aired: Jan 13, 2019, to Mar 31, 2019
In this anime, we’re taken to a magical fantasy land, Naral Island. Here, every generation has a Demon Lord and a hero whose job is to defeat the Demon. Juulia is the hero of this generation. Having completed most of her responsibilities up to this point, the girl tries a risky spell along with her aides, a priest named Seiran, the mage Meiza, and the mighty warrior Fai Fai. However, when the spell goes wrong, they are sent back to a time before the Demon Lord. Their memories of the future are wiped, and they have to begin their adventures all over again.
However, the Demon was also transported with them back in time. With her memories of the future still intact, she decides to infiltrate the heroes’ school as a teacher. Thus begins the adventure of our heroes. They’re training once again to defeat the Demon Lord, who is actually just beside them all the while!
2. The Squid Girl
- Episodes: 12
- Studios: Diomedéa
- Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
- Aired: Oct 5, 2010, to Dec 21, 2010
This anime follows the fantastic adventures of a squid, Ika Musume, who comes to Earth, enraged by the pollution by humans in her house, the sea. The powerful squid girl has various abilities and finds her first target at Lemon Beach House, a restaurant handled by two sisters, Eiko and Chizuru. In order to dominate Earth, Ika Musume shows her abilities to the girls and ends up destroying a wall of their beach house. However, things don’t turn out as she had hoped for, and instead, the squid girl finds herself working for the sisters as a waitress.
We follow her life as she works in the beach house and finds much more love and adventure than she had ever hoped for. Upon facing defeat at the sisters’ hands, Musume’s plans for world domination have been paused, but her wacky journey hasn’t.
1. Blood Lad
- Episodes: 10
- Studios: Brain’s Base
- Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural
- Aired: Jul 8, 2013, to Sep 9, 2013
Staz, a powerful vampire of the Demon World, is misjudged to be dangerous and ruthless when really he is just a lazy otaku who has fallen in love with Japanese culture. When a Japanese girl, Fuyumi Yanagi, accidentally enters the Demon World through a portal, he is ecstatic. However, his territory is attacked, and the girl is killed.
Now a wandering ghost, Futumi travels with Staz, as he has promised to give her back her body. For Staz, this would mean venturing out into the Human World. Something he had always dreamed of. Thus begin their unusual adventures in the human world.
Honorable Mentions
- Re:Creators
- Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle
- Beelzebub
- KonoSuba
- Blue Exorcist