This one grabs you by the wrist and yanks you under the water in the first five minutes, and it never really lets you back up for air. Yuri isn't isekai wallpaper. She gets dropped into the 14th century BCE Hittite court as Queen Nakia's blood sacrifice, and instead of dying she starts commanding troops until an entire empire decides she must be Ishtar walking. The romance with Kail is the engine, not the garnish: he's a prince who needs a throne and a war won, she's a girl who keeps almost getting home and keeps choosing not to, and every kiss is loaded with the knowledge that one of them is going to have to give something up. Shinohara wrote assassins, poisonings, and succession politics with real Hittite names attached, and the show plays all of it straight. The choice at the end of it, old life or this one, is the whole point.

Yuri has just passed her college entrance exam and shared a first kiss with her childhood friend turned boyfriend when strange things begin to happen: water stirs whenever she comes near it. One night, hands rise out of a puddle on the street and pull her under. She wakes in the Hittite Empire of the 14th century BCE, where armed soldiers seize her and bring her to the Queen's palace to be offered as a human sacrifice. Caught up in a deadly fight over the throne, she sides with Prince Kail against assassins and royal plots while trying to survive a land at war. As her deeds win her fame as the goddess Ishtar, Yuri faces a choice between the life she left behind and an uncertain future. The series blends action, adventure, drama, fantasy and romance.