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.

What to Watch?

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

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