Looking for a Dark Fantasy/Isekai requests where MC gets completely cast out, seeks vengeance, and has a dedicated female partner who loves him back.
Looking for recommendations where the main character gets completely abandoned, betrayed, or cast aside by everyone, hardens his heart for revenge/payback, but finds a girl who genuinely loves him back (and he returns those feelings).
I need the romance to be highly visible, mutual, and out in the open—please no unrequited love, no dense MCs who ignore the girl for 5 seasons, and no background, unseen romance.
Since I have watched basically the entire mainstream anime catalog for this trope, I am highly open to Manga and Manhwa recommendations too!
If you do recommend an anime, please try to give me some 2 seasons or above recommendations. However, I'm completely fine with 1 season anime too.
Please do NOT recommend these, as I have already watched/read them:
- The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
- Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy
- Failure Frame
- Chilling in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
- Re:ZERO
- Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch
- Banished from the Hero's Party
- Wistoria: Wand and Sword
- Beast Tamer
- I Got A Cheat Skill in Another World
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
- Eminence in Shadow (doesn't really fit the vibe but its a honorable mention)
Here are the anime I found uninteresting or boring:
- The Fruit of Evolution
- Seirei Gensouki / Spirit Chronicles
- Guilty Crown
- Redo of Healer
Posted Jul 6, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC