Summoned to Another World for a Second Time
異世界召喚は二度目です (Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu)
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Isekai
- Romance
- Harem
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Apr 9, 2023 to Jun 25, 2023
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Once summoned to a fantasy world, a man became its savior—and the kind of celebrated hero who fit in a little too well. But after falling into a “trap,” he’s abruptly sent back to his original world and forced to begin again from infancy.
After growing up into a withdrawn high-schooler, fate takes another sharp turn when he’s summoned back to the very same other world in an unexpected return. The former hero’s second arrival sets the stage for a renewed adventure tinged with comedy and romance.
Otaku Consensus
Summoned to Another World for a Second Time lands as a low-friction Spring 2023 isekai whose clearest asset is its brisk, straightforward pacing: Motoki Nakanishi’s direction keeps the comedy, romance, swordplay, demons, and harem beats moving without asking for much investment. The verdict from critics and viewers is blunt: the second-summoning hook and light political-war texture have more potential than the Studio Elle adaptation ultimately extracts, with limited character development and an underwhelming ending cited as its most persistent weaknesses.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want an isekai power fantasy that skips the training-wheel phase and starts from the premise of a hero who already knows the world, its factions, and the emotional baggage waiting there. It scratches the same easygoing itch as In Another World With My Smartphone or Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, but with a slightly stranger wrinkle: the lead is not discovering the fantasy setting so much as revisiting unfinished business. The show is best for viewers who like compact 12-episode genre comfort food: magic, swordplay, demons, kemonomimi flavor, harem teasing, and romance without dense lore homework. Do not come for reinvention; come for a quick, uncomplicated isekai loop with a protagonist who begins the game already overqualified.
Key Characters
- SSetsu Suzaki(VA: Shunichi Toki)
Setsu’s appeal is the genre-specific fantasy of competence without onboarding: he moves through conflicts less like a rookie hero and more like someone revisiting a save file with all his old stats intact.
- YYuhi Hanabashira(VA: Satomi Amano)
Yuhi gives the cast a human-world anchor, making the show’s school-life residue part of the harem dynamic rather than a forgotten prologue.
- EElka Verso(VA: Kaori Maeda)
Elka represents the returning-hero side of the series: characters whose relationship with Setsu predates the current adventure and makes the fantasy world feel already lived-in.
- LLevia(VA: Fairouz Ai)
Levia is one of the show’s more distinctive fantasy presences, tied to the non-human and magical side of the cast that separates it from a purely school-centered harem setup.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The series was produced by Studio Elle as a 12-episode TV anime and aired from April 9 to June 25, 2023, making it a compact Spring 2023 adaptation rather than a long-running fantasy campaign.
- 2
Its core structural gimmick is not standard reincarnation or first-time summoning: the lead returns with memories and powers intact, letting the show bypass beginner progression and focus on reunion, recognition, and unresolved fantasy-world politics.
- 3
The production credits pair Kazuha Kishimoto’s original story with original character designs by 40-hara, while Mikako Kunii handled the anime character designs, giving the adaptation a clear separation between source design identity and TV-ready model work.
- 4
AniList’s tag spread is unusually revealing: Isekai at 89%, Male Protagonist at 85%, Female Harem at 72%, Magic at 66%, and Demons/Swordplay both at 53%, accurately signaling a genre stack built more around familiar isekai ingredients than a single standout gimmick.
- 5
Its audience profile is polarized in a measurable way: despite a low MAL score of 5.67 and rank around #12551, it still reached MAL popularity #1445 with more than 74,000 votes, showing that many viewers sampled it even while reception remained cool.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The Japanese title, Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu, translates directly to the series’ central hook: being summoned to another world for a second time.
- Fun fact 2
- The staff list is heavily craft-segmented: Hiroshi Gouroku served as art director, Yuusuke Watanabe as color designer, Tetsuya Nishimura as director of photography, Ayako Tan as editor, and Hozumi Gouda as sound director.
- Fun fact 3
- Streaming listings advertised Japanese audio with subtitles in multiple languages, including English, German, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, and French, reflecting a broad international release for a modestly rated seasonal isekai.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList recorded the series at 55/100 with 918 favorites, closely matching the MAL-side impression that it found a niche audience while failing to convert broader isekai viewership into strong approval.
- Fun fact 5
- The online critical pattern is unusually consistent: even negative writeups tend to identify the initial premise as promising, then criticize the execution for becoming generic, overly straightforward, and anticlimactic.
Studios
- Studio Elle
