Manhwa’s isekai genre— where characters are transported to different worlds— has recently become a rather beloved genre, offering readers a good mix of fantasy, adventure, and sometimes hilariously absurd scenarios. While most isekai stories have their focus on high-stakes battles or dramatic quests, a rising number of isekai manhwa simply just explore the lighter side of world-hopping.
These stories have their protagonists navigating bizarre customs and unfamiliar terrain alongside quirky companions while infusing humor into their actions. As a result, this article ranksmanhwa’s funniest isekai stories, highlighting series that bring humor front and center. From laugh-out-loud mishaps and misadventures to characters who, through wit, make these otherworldly adventures a comedic journey.
10The Villainess Flips The Script
Alternative Titles: It’s Time To Change The Genre
The Villainess Flips The Scriptpresents a humor-filled tale of sudden reincarnation into the world of a book, as it details the shift in reality of the story’s protagonist, a fan of a novel where the male lead goes on a bloody revenge mission to rid himself of his enemies.
Things get shaken up when the fan mysteriously reincarnates into the novel as the story’s first minor villain, Judith Maibum, the abusive step-aunt of the supposed protagonist, Luca Winterwald. Intent on rewriting the already set history, Judith resolves to use her knowledge of the future to ensure the happiness of her nephew.
9Becoming The Dark Hero’s Daughter
Alternative Titles: How To Become The Dark Hero’s Daughter
Becoming The Dark Hero’s Daugtherpresents the rather funny story of a nine-year-old peasant girl, Lae, an orphan who mysteriously managed to retain the memories of her past life as a sickly bedridden child and those of the memories of a novel she read— The Life of Duke Lewelton. Having reincarnated into the novel now as Lea, the peasant girl finds herself in a position to help the world’s protagonist, Duke Kallen de Lewelton, the infamous criminal torturer.
The two come to a deal where Lea helps the Duke catch a criminal, partly out of self-interest and fear. Grateful for the little girl’s well-timed inputs, the Duke makes Lea an offer; one that the little girl could have hardly imagined— to become his adopted daughter.
8The Archmage’s Restaurant
Alternative Titles: The Wizard’s Restaurant
The Archmage’s Restaurantpresents a very funny but rather unusual retirement story of a man who gets reincarnated into another world. The series follows the life of the central character, Archmage Ellison, who previously lived as an ordinary person who was reincarnated into another world as a 9th-class wizard.
Having saved the continent that summoned him from a dragon, he retires and decides to open a restaurant. However, Ellison’s restaurant routine is unlike any other. Together with the black dragon on the second floor, Ellison tries his best to live a warm life.
7Touch My Little Brother, and You’re Dead
Alternative Titles: If You Touch My Little Brother, You’re All Dead
Touch My Little Brother and You’re Deadpresents a rather extreme but humor-filled case of sister love in this funny isekai series. The story focuses on the central character, Rosalette, initially an unknown person who reincarnates into the novel Asterion of the Twilight.
Reincarnated as the protagonist, Asterion’s sister, Rosalette, finds life not so bad until Asterion first dies at the age of 20, and Rosalette mysteriously goes back in time to her sixteen-year-old self, restarting their lives again. After watching Asterion die over several lives, Rosalette decides she would do anything to protect her little brother. However, just how many lives will it take for her to achieve her goal eventually?
6Baby Tyrant
Alternative Titles: Born A Princess
Baby Tyrantdetails the miserable end to the miserable life of Gyeoul Yoon after having lived a rather unfortunate life thanks to her alcoholic father. Relieved at the thought of finally dying, even if it was at her father’s hands, Gyeoul Yoon’s grip on life is yet to let go as she finds herself in the body of the newborn baby, Mabel, the princess of the Ermaneau Empire.
Given a second chance as the baby princess of the empire of another world, Gyeoul Yoon, now Princess Mabel, is determined not to let it slip from her hands, her newfound peace. However, upon learning of her involvement with a prophecy involving the world’s salvation, her new life may not be free from tragedy after all.
5Murim Login
Alternative Titles: N/A
More of an action series; in all fairness, theMurim Loginseriesexcels in the humor department enough to earn a rather conspicuous placement. The series takes place at a time when superpowered humans called hunters thrive on hunting supernatural monsters that came from the mysterious Gates that appeared some years before. The story focuses on Jin Tae-Kyung, the central character and low-level hunter, as he decides to give up hunting for a while and instead picks up a VR machine.
Accidentally logging into the game, which is set in a world of martial arts, Jin quickly finds that he is able to communicate with the supposed NPC characters and even level up his skills. After several misadventures and getting stronger, Jin finally escapes back to the real world to continue living as a hunter. However, Jin does something even more surprising— he returns to the murim world simply out of care for his NPC friends.
4Villainess In Love
Alternative Titles: The Evil Lady’s Hero
Reincarnation meetshumor and romancein theVillainess In Loveseries, as it follows the unknown protagonist, reincarnated as Yunifer Magnolia. Originally a villainess jealously obsessed with the handsome Duke Ishid Lucrenze, who only has eyes for Yunifer’s friend, Raelle, the villainess eventually dies after tormenting her friend, Raelle, for much of her life.
However, with the protagonist now reincarnated a year back in time as Yunifer Magnolia, there seems to be enough time to prevent the villainess’s tragic demise and ensure the perfect love story for the Duke and Raelle.
3Dungeon Reset
Dungeon Resetfollows the funny but life-threatening adventures of the central character, Dawun when his life is flipped upside down after he is summoned to the Dungeon to play a deadly and extreme game of survival. As if that is not enough, Dawun is summoned with only the skills of a crafter and no real offensive abilities.
However, it’s not all gloom for Dawun after he mysteriously survives a trap due to a glitched reset, an ability unique only to him. Now able to glitch the Dungeon, Dawun slowly builds up his skill alongside his bloodthirsty assistant so he can fully explore the Dungeon and its near-endless possibilities.
2Trash of Count’s Family
Alternative Titles: Lout of The Count’s Family
It will be especially difficult for readers not to have a few laughs when the protagonist of the story is Cale Henituse, and this is exactly the case for theTrash of The Count’s Familyseries. The series follows the lazy life of the protagonist, Kim Roksu, who gets reincarnated into the novel, The Birth of a Hero, to which he fell asleep while reading.
Unfortunately for him, he has reincarnated into this new world as one of the minor villains of the story, Cale Henituse of the Henituse Dukedom. Even worse, Cale is the first villain to die at the hands of the original protagonist, Choi Han, and Kim Roksu; now, Cale is bent on avoiding this future. With knowledge of only the initial parts of the story, Cale decides to get stronger to avoid his fate, but his actions will have unintended effects.
1The Greatest Estate Developer
Alternative Titles: The World’s Best Engineer
The Greatest Estate Developerpresents its rather exciting misadventures of reincarnation alongside its reputation for illustrative comic relief. At the center of attention is the central character, Suho Kim, an engineering student who falls asleep while reading a novel and mysteriously wakes up as a character in the book.
Not just any character, he is now Lloyd Frontera of the noble Frontera Household, the lazy noble alcoholic whose family is in decline due to their mountains of debt. Retaining his knowledge of the novel, Lloyd is aware of the doom awaiting his family. However, using his knowledge of engineering, Lloyd begins to design inventions, hoping to raise enough to pay back his family’s huge debts. However, it remains to be seen if this is enough to avert the future seemingly set in stone.
