What is Parallel Universe manga?

Parallel universe/world or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. Because "alternative reality" sometimes implies that the reality is a variant of our own, like for example a mirror world, we'll use the term "Parallel Universe" which is more general, without any connotations implying a relationship (or lack thereof) with our own universe (meaning a fantasy world can just as well have an alternative reality, doesn't need to be our reality). To put it more simply, this category is to show if more than 1 universe/reality/world is present in the anime.

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Soulmate

(Soulmate)

8.16

Description:

Qi closed her eyes and fell asleep in the warm embrace of her girlfriend Yuanzi… only to wake up 10 years in the past! Now back in high school, Qi sees this as the chance to save the love of her life from becoming terminally ill. But little does she know that her teenage self is in her adult body, with no clue about the life she's built and the precious time she has left with Yuanzi. Throughout it all, with each other by their side, can their love conquer every obstacle, in any timeline? (Source: Tapas)
Type

manhua

Volumes

0

Chapters

40

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2020-01-16

Urasekai Picnic

(Otherside Picnic)

7.83

Description:

The original novel is set in the modern world, but there exist doors that can take people to the "other side," where strange urban legends and internet stories prove to be true. College student Sorawo Kamikoshi finds herself exploring one of these doors, and almost dies on the other side, when she is rescued by another girl named Toriko Nishina. Toriko is mysterious but skilled with a gun, and she seems to be searching for someone else on the other side. Together, both girls explore these doors to the other side. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-02-10

Kekkai Sensen

(Blood Blockade Battlefront)

7.69

Description:

A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening. (Source: Dark Horse Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

32

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2009-01-05

Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko

(By the Grace of the Gods)

7.55

Description:

Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins! One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic! Receiving a most cordial and divine welcome from the gods, Ryoma decides to live leisurely on his own in the forest for the time being. Working diligently at magic and hunting, Ryoma’s greatest passion comes to be researching his tamed slimes?! Training a variety of slimes (some newly discovered), the curtain rises on this easygoing life fantasy celebrating a second life with kind people in another world! (Source: J-Novel Club)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-11-29

Inai Boku wa Hotarumachi ni Iru

(I Don't Exist in This Firefly City)

7.52

Description:

Despondent over the death of his best friend, Takeru wishes on a shooting star to meet Takuya one last time. A glimmer of light leads him to an ancient tree stump with a giant hole in it; a hole that impossibly leads to an entire city. It's the same city as his—the same people and places—but, with a key difference: the Takuya in that world is alive and well...while Takeru is not. (Source: Lovely Strange Dark)
Type

manga

Volumes

2

Chapters

10

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2013-12-06

Dead Mount Death Play

(Dead Mount Death Play)

7.46

Description:

A Necromancer called The Corpse God is fighting against the Church, that is trying to subjugate him. Using his last ounce of power against the Calamity Crusher, he gets defeated, but his reincarnation magic activates. Suddenly, he got transported in a world of modern society and in a body of kid Polka Shinoyama. What is gonna happen to him in this world? What will he do?
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2017-10-20

Rougo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-manmai no Kinka wo Tamemasu

(Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement)

7.37

Description:

One day, Mitsuha falls off a cliff and is transported to a medieval Europe–type world! After a near-death encounter with a pack of wolves, she then realizes that she’s able to transport between two worlds—this one and her own. Taking advantage of this ability, Mitsuha decides to live in both worlds and calculates that she’ll need 80,000 gold coins to be able to retire! Mitsuha now has to come up with different ways to collect her gold coins! (Source: Kodansha USA)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-06-14

Sekai Oni

7.28

Description:

Sekai Oni follows the story of a little girl called Shinonome Azuma. With her parents dead or missing, Azuma has been taken into her uncle's family. However her new family has been harshly abusing her, to the point she has become so mentally unstable she developed the rare syndrome of Alice in Mirrorland, which makes her see things that shouldn't be there reflected on mirrors, water, glass, etc. Everything begins when the things she sees start affecting the real world directly, and the barrier between reality and illusion breaks apart. Welcome to the world at the other side of the mirror. Welcome to Wonderland. (Source: Batoto)
Type

manga

Volumes

11

Chapters

110

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2012-07-02

Imawa no Michi no Alice

(Alice on Border Road)

7.19

Description:

The manga follows "another Alice," a female high school student who curses her everyday life. When by chance she loses her way on the "Borderroad," she is forced to participate in deadly survival games with other female high school students. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

31

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2015-08-19

Isekai Death Game ni Tensousarete Tsurai

6.9

Description:

Himi is an office worker who has a habit of saying "I want to die" whenever he feels stressed. One fateful moment his wish was granted and now finds himself in an arena along with a group of people. They were summoned by the Death God Mei to play the Death Game. Only the last one standing can go back. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

18

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2018-01-05

Manuke na FPS Player ga Isekai e Ochita Baai

(When a Stupid FPS Player Falls to Another World)

6.79

Description:

The protagonist is a player of a VRMMOFPS game who ends up falling off the map while playing in PvE mode, and ends up being transported to a fantasy world with his FPS system. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Rating

Status

current

Started

2016-02-09

Mahou Shoujo of the End

(Magical Girl Apocalypse)

6.77

Description:

One day, ordinary high school student Kogami Kii finds himself caught up in a strange kind of zombie apocalypse, involving 'magic girls.' While idly looking out of the school window, Kii sees what looks like a little girl hitting a teacher, causing his head to explode violently. Convinced he's dreaming, he goes to the restroom to get his act together. Unfortunately, its not a dream, and he arrives to find the creepy little girl repeatedly saying "magical" as she slaughters his friends and classmates. Soon, Kii and his childhood friend—a quiet, often-bullied girl called Tsukune—are witness to the resurrection of their friends' corpses into a zombie-like murderous mob crying the single word "magical." Now Kii and Tsukune must try to endure with the other survivors, and try to find out what has happened to their world. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Type

manga

Volumes

16

Chapters

64

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2012-06-12

Goodbye! Isekai Tensei

6.67

Description:

Yuuya Kamigasaki is a normal, 17-year-old high school student. But suddenly, a princess who calls herself Angelia Eight Gransia appears before him from another world. (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

18

Status

finished

Started

2017-12-20

NEET dakedo Hello Work ni Ittara Isekai ni Tsuretekareta

(I'm a NEET but when I went to Hello Work I got taken to another world)

6.57

Description:

The NEET Yamano Masaru (23 y/o) went to Hello Work and finds an interesting job offer. [A test play of the Miniature Garden "Razgrad World." Extended period of time, preferred to be able to live on site. Monthly salary of 250,000 + commission.] Immediately goes to the interview and signs a contract. However, the place of employment is another world. Because of the contract he's taken there, to survive Masaru received a cheat, but he is told the shocking truth. "This world will be destroyed in 20 years." Can a simple NEET prevent the destruction of the world?! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Rating

Status

current

Started

2017-12-01

Sekkaku Cheat wo Moratte Isekai ni Teni shita n dakara, Suki na You ni Ikitemitai

(Might as Well Cheat: I Got Transported to Another World Where I Can Live My Wildest Dreams!)

6.33

Description:

A manga adaptation to a novel of this same name. The protagonist gets transported to another world after dying and god grants him the power of healing any wound, sickness or poison and uses that ability to make potions to sell and enjoy the highest class brothel in the city but he will soon be involved with issues that need his healing abilities aside from just selling pots. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2018-01-01

Your and My Asylum

0

Description:

Our protagonist was one day summoned to another world. The summoner was a slender young girl who could use magic. However, the fate that awaited him there was not a heroic tale overflowing with hopes and dreams. “Do I perhaps have the blood of a hero destined to save this world?” “Bzzt! Nope. Wrong answer! You are a toy with the purpose of being tortured!!” A story of a slightly dangerous 너 (You) and a slightly strange 나 (I) meeting in a slightly lonely place (Asylum). (Source: NU)
Type

novel

Rating

Status

current

Started

2015-01-01

Boku no Hero Academia dj - Deep Forest

(My Hero Academia dj - Deep Forest)

0

Description:

Todoroki Shouto x Midoriya Izuku
Type

doujin

Chapters

1

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2018-02-21

Isekai Transporter

0

Description:

A story about people who are sent to an alternate world... and the people who bring them there.
Type

oel

Rating

Status

current

Started

2018-04-16

Oz no Mahoutsukai

(The Wizard of Oz)

0

Description:

The Wizard of Oz manga adaptation by Igarashi Yumiko.
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

4

Status

finished

Started

1998-11-26

Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko

(By the Grace of the Gods)

0

Description:

Under the protection of the gods, a relaxed life with slimes in another world begins! One day, the life of middle-aged Japanese businessman Ryoma Takebayashi came to a rather sudden and disappointing end. Ryoma had never had a blessed life, but after his death, three great gods sought his cooperation and reincarnated him as a child in another world with swords and magic! Receiving a most cordial and divine welcome from the gods, Ryoma decides to live leisurely on his own in the forest for the time being. Working diligently at magic and hunting, Ryoma’s greatest passion comes to be researching his tamed slimes?! Training a variety of slimes (some newly discovered), the curtain rises on this easygoing life fantasy celebrating a second life with kind people in another world! (Source: J-Novel Club)
Type

novel

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-09-22

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