In Another World With My Smartphone

異世界はスマートフォンとともに。 (Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.)

7.5(1)

OtakuDen

6.1(376,253)

MAL Score

Ranked #10408

Popularity #398

Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Romance
Harem
Isekai

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jul 11, 2017 to Sep 26, 2017
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Touya Mochizuki’s life ends abruptly when God mistakenly kills him with a stray lightning bolt. To make amends, God grants Touya a single wish and the opportunity to be reborn in a fantasy realm. Touya’s request is simple: he wants to bring his smartphone along as he starts over in an unfamiliar world of magic.

In his new life, Touya discovers he has a natural talent for magic and quickly finds himself surrounded by a growing circle of companions—among them the twins Linze and Elze Silhoueska, Yumina Urnea Belfast, Leen, and Yae Kokonoe. Their travels bring both camaraderie and constant romantic complications as Touya explores the mysteries of his new home.

Otaku Consensus

In Another World With My Smartphone lands as a deliberately frictionless isekai comfort watch: Yuuji Yanase’s straightforward direction and Natsuko Takahashi’s tidy 12-episode structure keep the comedy, magic, and harem beats moving without pretending to be darker or more ambitious than they are. The positive case is that it delivers exactly the low-stress fantasy escapism promised by its title, while the recurring criticism from reviewers is that its ease becomes dullness, with little dramatic resistance or reinvention compared with stronger isekai peers.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want an isekai that removes the punishment loop: no Re:Zero trauma spiral, no Mushoku Tensei density, just a bright, low-conflict fantasy sandbox built around convenience, party banter, and escalating romantic attention. Its appeal is closest to the relaxed side of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody or the wish-fulfillment parts of Sword Art Online, but with even less interest in danger as the main engine. The Anilist tag profile tells you exactly what lane it occupies: 96% isekai, 89% female harem, 83% magic, and a notable 66% anachronism score. If your ideal weeknight anime is a 12-episode, Production Reed-made palate cleanser where the fun comes from magical utility, cute companions, and sitcom-level complications, this is calibrated for that mood.

Key Characters

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Touya Mochizuki(VA: Katsumi Fukuhara)
Touya is the kind of protagonist fans cite when discussing pure low-friction power fantasy: polite, over-equipped, and designed to make obstacles feel like setup for the next convenience.
Y
Yae Kokonoe(VA: Chinatsu Akasaki)
Yae gives the main group a classical swordswoman flavor, standing out in a cast otherwise defined heavily by magic, royalty, and harem dynamics.
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Linze Silhoueska(VA: Yui Fukuo)
Linze’s appeal is tied to the twins’ split dynamic, giving the ensemble a softer magical presence that contrasts with Elze’s more direct energy.
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Elze Silhoueska(VA: Maaya Uchida)
Elze is the more forceful half of the Silhoueska twins, and her pairing with Linze helps make the harem structure feel immediately readable.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Its reputation is unusually quantifiable: a MAL score of 6.09 and rank of #10398 sit beside a popularity rank of #398, marking it as a widely watched title whose audience reach far exceeds its critical standing.
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Production Reed’s adaptation is a single-cour 12-episode TV run from July to September 2017, which makes the season feel closer to a compact fantasy sitcom than a sprawling worldbuilding epic.
3
The tag profile is more specific than the genre labels suggest: Anilist rates it 96% isekai, 89% female harem, 83% magic, 79% medieval, 79% creature taming, and 66% anachronism, a combination that explains its niche better than 'adventure comedy fantasy' alone.
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The romantic setup is not merely implied by fan discussion; Anilist’s 40% polyamorous tag and 66% heterosexual tag show how much of the show’s identity is tied to multi-relationship wish fulfillment rather than a single-route romance.
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The creative pipeline combines Patora Fuyuhara’s original story and Eiji Usatsuka’s original character designs with three credited anime character designers: Toshihide Masudate, Masahiro Sekiguchi, and Miyako Nishida.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime’s first season aired from July 11, 2017 to September 26, 2017, finishing as a 12-episode TV series rather than stretching into a split-cour run.
Fun fact 2: Natsuko Takahashi handled series composition, while Yuuji Yanase directed; that pairing is central to the show’s brisk, uncomplicated episodic rhythm.
Fun fact 3: Its reception split is visible across platforms: MAL lists 376,112 votes at 6.09/10, while Anilist records a 57/100 score and 2,416 favourites.
Fun fact 4: Sound was divided between Takumi Itou as sound director and Maki Takuma on sound effects, a useful distinction for a series where magical actions and everyday comedy cues do much of the tonal work.
Fun fact 5: Contemporary English-language reactions were consistent: Anime UK News described it as genuinely entertaining despite shortcomings, while TheOASG’s review framed the same low-intensity quality as 'incredibly dull.'