Summary
- Revenge reincarnation anime elevates personal justice, benefiting beyond the protagonists' circle.
- Best adaptations create impactful "wow" moments or reimagine them, engaging new fans.
- The rare combination of reincarnation and revenge genres creates compelling and unique stories.
Anime adaptations of revenge reincarnation manga or light novels elevate the gratification from protagonists or side characters meting out personal justice. Sometimes, that justice may even be in line with the fictional world’s definition of justice and benefit people beyond the protagonist or the people they care about. The best revenge reincarnation anime adaptations put “wow” moments into motion, or reimagine them to make the moment pop even with completely new fans.
The Most Iconic Revenge Anime
These highly entertaining stories capture human emotion in a unique way and show viewers just how obsessive one can get while blindly seeking revenge.
Other adaptations even give more context to why the revenge plot is needed, or animate it in a way that compels viewers to root for the character with the grudge. Revenge reincarnation anime also puts together two genres that are surprisingly rarely put together. There are a slew of reincarnation anime and revenge anime, but an anime focused on the reincarnator exacting vengeance is a little like finding a needle in a haystack.
Upcoming Anime
1 The One Within The Villainess
Anime In Production For Protagonist Who Wants The Villainess To Be Happy
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The One Within the Villainess/Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito follows Emi Kobayashi, an ordinary office worker, and Remilia Rosa Graupner, the villainess of an otome game. When Emi wakes up as Remilia, she strives to give her favorite character the good life she believes Remilia deserves. But when she is broken by the secretly villainous “protagonist”— also an isekai’d girl from Japan— Remilia re-emerges, determined to avenge Emi in turn.
Emi’s feelings of protectiveness around Remilia, and Remilia learning what it feels like to be valued beyond her potential as a royal sow set an impactful start to the series. Although the anime is still in production, Makiburo’s completed web serial novel is on Shousetsuka ni Narou. It also has a light novel and a completed manga version on Pixiv.
2 The Holy Grail Of Eris
Innocent Girl On A Path Of Revenge For Wronged Savior
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Constance Grail lived her entire life as a low-ranking noble with her head down and heart pure. But for all her kindness, she’s nearly framed for a crime she didn’t commit by her fiancé’s mistress. She’s saved by the ghost of Scarlett Castiel, whose execution Constance witnessed, with whom she forms a pact to avenge her wrongful death.
The Holy Grail of Eris was a light novel-turned-manga, and now an upcoming anime with a full trailer by Ashi Productions, Good Smile Film, and DRE Pictures. From the trailer, it appears it’ll follow the light novel’s strong mystery themes and political intrigue. Romance also rightfully takes a backseat, as Eris is strongly focused on Scarlett’s revenge and investigations.
Anime With Full Seasons
3 I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire!
Liam’s Revenge Succeeds, But Not In The Way He Thinks
I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!
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- April 5, 2025
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- Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoushu!
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- Yomu Mishima
Before he was reborn as Liam Sera Banfield, lord of a backwater and heavily indebted planet, he was a truly nice man. However, The Guide loves nothing more than misery, and made sure to inflict a terrible life on him. But when The Guide revives him into Liam to try and extract more misery, Liam unwittingly takes revenge on the cosmic being that made his life hell.
6 Best Anime Like I'm the Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire
This list has similar series like I'm the Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire that fans can enjoy if they love the sci-fantasy mecha genres.
I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! Follows Liam as he unknowingly accomplishes galactic-changing feats by trying to be selfish and evil in space, instead of his moral self on Earth. The anime compresses key events and characterizations to make Liam less OP and fit a little better with isekai anime. Still, it’s a fun way to catch up on the first few volumes of a running light novel.
4 Übel Blatt
Vengeance In Dark Medieval Fantasy Seinen
Ubel Blatt
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- January 11, 2025
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- Übel Blatt
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- Etorouji Shiono
In Übel Blatt, fourteen champions were sent by the Emperor of Szaalenden to defeat the Wischtech. Three died on their journey, and seven fled in fear. When the four remaining slayed the great enemy, the seven returned, killed the four, claimed the glory and title of the Seven Heroes, and framed the four as the Lances of Betrayal.
Ascheriit is reborn from this betrayal as the half-elf Köinzell, possessing all the skills he had as the Blatt Meister/Blade Master, and a thirst for vengeance. The bloody swathe he reaps in the manga is perfectly set up in its first twelve-episode season, which ends at Volume 7, Chapter 63. With the sequel, Übel Blatt II: Knights of the Fallen King, in serialization, the anime is sure to have more seasons in the making.
5 Oshi no Ko
Doctor Reincarnates And Takes Revenge On Killer
Oshi No Ko
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- April 12, 2023
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- Aka Akasaka
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- 8.62 (Season 2)
Oshi ni Ko began as a manga that cemented its place in revenge works within nine chapters. The manga panels were already shocking to fans who had about eight chapters to get ready; having it animated in graphic detail in the ending of the first episode took it to the next level.
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Revenge is the main throughline for Aqua and Ruby in the entire series, and it made for some of the most compelling moments in the manga and anime. Almost every character also had reasons to avenge grudges, small or life-changing. Whether fans enjoy the results or not, Aqua and many others are satisfied with their outcomes by the end of the story.
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