I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

異世界でチート能力を手にした俺は、現実世界をも無双する～レベルアップは人生を変えた～ (Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta)

7.5(1)

OtakuDen

6.3(213,284)

MAL Score

Ranked #8983

Popularity #682

Action
Fantasy
Isekai

Episodes: 13
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Apr 7, 2023 to Jun 30, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Yuuya Tenjou has spent his life treated with scorn by nearly everyone around him, even his own parents. When his grandfather—the one person who ever showed him genuine warmth—passes away, Yuuya is left with nothing but loneliness and years of accumulated hurt.

Pushed to his limit, he stumbles upon a concealed door in his bathroom that opens into an abandoned house in another world. On the other side, Yuuya is granted game-like abilities, gaining stats and skills with startling speed. The house’s former owner was a sage, leaving behind powerful weapons, equipment, and crops with unusual effects—tools that could finally let Yuuya change his fate in both worlds.

Otaku Consensus

Otaku Consensus: Iseleve lands as a glossy, unabashed wish-fulfillment isekai whose strongest hook is not the fantasy world itself, but the way Yuuya’s leveling system rewrites his school life, social status, and self-image in parallel. Shin Itagaki and Shingo Tanabe’s adaptation keeps the reward loop moving with action, animals, romance attention, and visible game-stat escalation, which made it popular far beyond its middling 6.33 MAL score. The consistent criticism is pacing: the series compresses growth, conflicts, and admiration so aggressively that viewers looking for friction, earned progression, or nuanced bullying drama often find the character development too frictionless.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Iseleve if you want the dopamine hit of an overpowered isekai without leaving the real world behind. Its niche is the double payoff: fantasy-world leveling immediately spills into school status, social confidence, and everyday wish fulfillment, so it scratches a different itch than Sword Art Online’s survival-game tension or The Rising of the Shield Hero’s revenge grind. The series is best for viewers who enjoy instant-progression fantasies, visible stat inflation, cheat weapons, animal companions, and harem-leaning attention without a heavy strategic framework. It is also a useful pick for fans curious about 2023’s most commercially visible “comfort power fantasy” titles: despite a low critical rank, it pulled more than 213,000 MAL votes and strong AniList favorite numbers, showing how sharply its audience appeal diverges from reviewer patience.

Key Characters

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Yuuya Tenjou
Yuuya is discussed less as a tactical hero than as a wish-fulfillment case study: a bullied protagonist whose transformation is designed to pay off in both fantasy combat and ordinary social recognition.
K
Kaori Hōjō
Kaori stands out in the franchise ecosystem because she is prominent enough to receive a dedicated spin-off story, signaling her importance beyond the main anime’s harem-adjacent ensemble role.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The anime’s defining structural choice is its two-way power fantasy: progress in the alternate world is not isolated from the school setting, making the real-world segments part of the reward system rather than simple downtime.
2
Millepensee produced the adaptation, with Shin Itagaki serving as both chief director and series composition writer while Shingo Tanabe directed, giving the show a staff structure where overall supervision and narrative assembly were closely linked.
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AniList’s high-percentage tags capture the show’s unusually crowded genre blend: Male Protagonist at 91%, Isekai at 90%, Magic at 85%, School at 79%, Animals at 79%, and Female Harem at 78%.
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The series uses game-like escalation alongside less typical isekai texture, including horticulture-tagged material tied to unusual crops, a detail that separates its fantasy rewards from pure weapon collecting.
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Its reception profile is strikingly split: MAL lists it at 6.33 and rank #8983, yet its popularity rank of #682 and 213,284 votes show that it reached a large audience despite weak critical placement.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The franchise is commonly shortened to Iseleve in English fandom contexts and Iserebe in Japanese, a practical nickname for one of the longest light-novel-style anime titles of 2023.
Fun fact 2: The original story is by Miku with original character designs by Rein Kuwashima; the anime character designs were handled by Hiromi Kimura, while Shinya Ooshiro is credited for the title logo design.
Fun fact 3: The source franchise has expanded beyond the main light novel into side material, including I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too: Girls Side and The Story of Kaori Hōjō.
Fun fact 4: A later TV special was reported for a March 2026 broadcast, extending the anime’s screen presence beyond the 13-episode April to June 2023 TV run.
Fun fact 5: AniList records 3,400 favorites and a 63/100 score, closely mirroring the MAL reception pattern: a sizable committed fanbase attached to a series with notably mixed aggregate ratings.