I'm Standing on a Million Lives

A detached middle schooler is transported into a game-like alternate world, where he joins two classmates on a dangerous quest that tests his cold logic against party survival.

Synopsis

The Anime Lad

Yotsuya keeps his classmates at a distance until a game-like alternate world removes that option. Shindo and Hakozaki arrived earlier and now share a dangerous quest with him. His detached logic may help the party. His willingness to treat their lives as variables creates a separate administrative concern.

Super Eyepatch Fox

A detached middle schooler is pulled into a game-like fantasy realm where two classmates already face a dangerous quest. Monsters and hostile enemies make survival a group problem, while Yotsuya approaches every choice as a calculation. The party needs his logic without becoming pieces on his board.

Gigguku

Yotsuya lands in a fantasy quest with two classmates already fighting to survive, and he starts calculating before the shock has time to settle! That cold focus can be useful when monsters attack. It also makes every party decision tense, because his idea of the logical move may include people.

Father's Basement

The alternate world and game rules are familiar scaffolding, while Yotsuya's coldness can read as adolescent performance. The useful tension is already present in the premise. Two classmates need him to help protect the party, but his detached calculations may treat their lives as another resource to manage.

Aloof and logical middle school third-year Yuusuke Yotsuya is transported to a game-like alternate world. He becomes a third player and takes on a dangerous quest with his classmates Iu Shindo and Kusue Hakozaki, who were transported there earlier.

What defines it

A dark, cynical isekai. Grim and body-horror-tinged.

Watch path

Watch the numbered main seasons in order. Announced continuations follow the released entries. Optional titles are not included in this main-series path.

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