Anime Like Demon Lord, Retry!
A middle-aged salaryman gets trapped in his own MMO as an overpowered demon lord and immediately has to figure out how to survive people trying to kill him for being exactly what he looks like. The gap between his actual competence and his reputation does the heavy lifting here, he's powerful enough to accidentally solve every problem, powerless enough that nobody believes he doesn't want to be evil. A show that understands the comedy lives in the space between "I'm trapped as a villain" and "wait, I'm actually good at this," and it never gets tired of that joke.
SYNOPSIS
Akira expected another routine gaming session after work, but when he logs into the VRMMO he helps maintain, something goes catastrophically wrong. He wakes up inside the game world as Maou, his all-powerful dark lord avatar, with no way back to reality. What should be a dream come true immediately becomes a nightmare of complications. The problem: everyone knows dark lords are supposed to be evil. Kingdoms send knights. Holy orders dispatch their strongest warriors. Priests hunt him relentlessly. Yet Akira has no interest in conquest or destruction. He just wants to survive and find a way home. His only companion is Република, a young girl with a missing leg who becomes his anchor to humanity in this hostile realm. Together they navigate a world that wants the Dark Lord dead, constantly fleeing conflict while stumbling into adventure after adventure. Akira's overwhelming power becomes less of an asset and more of a curse, attracting danger wherever they go. Comedy erupts from the constant collision between what people expect him to be and who he actually is.
