Recommendations Seeking more female-led isekai/VR/action/adventure with no romance

Hello, I’m seeking more adventure, action, kingdom building or slice- of-life stories with a female lead (gender bender is okay, but not preferred) and that have no or minimal romance. I’m especially looking for RAWs that aren’t listed in Novelupdates yet; also looking for comics/manga, original English works, anything really.

A prime example of what I’m looking for is In the Land of Leadale. Below are other examples of things I’ve already read (and/or watched its anime adaptation) and liked.

Web/light novel examples:

• Ascendance of a Bookworm
• Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter
• Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness
• I Said Make My Abilities Average!
• I Shall Survive Using Potions!
• Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu
• Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
• Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?
• Majo no Tabitabi
• My Daughter Grew Up to “Rank S” Adventurer.
• Reincarnated as the Last of my Kind
• Saving 80,000 Gold in an Another World for Retirement
• Tearmoon Empire Story
• The Novice Alchemist’s Store
• The Villainess Will Crush Her Destruction End Through Modern Firepower

Manga examples:

• A Witch’s Printing Office
• Claymore
• Little Hero
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Original English examples:

• Reincarnated as a Familiar
• Queen in the Mud

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

'I'll live my second life' is really funny. If you like Land of Leadale you'll probably enjoy it. It's similarly low-tension and almost slice of life-y.

It does have a romance tag and the setup for it is there, but I'm 200 chapters in and it's not even slightly important yet. The MC is still just clowning around in knight school.

 

Thanks. I actually had that one on my "Maybe Interested" list, but now I'll give it a try.

 

1. Azarinth Healer
2. Whisper of the Nightingale
3. Nanomancer reborn
4. Free Life Fantasy Online
5. Genocide Online ~ Playtime Dairy of an Evil Young Girl ~
6. The Strategy to Become Good at Magic
7. Guide the Villain Father to be Virtuous
8. Her Majesty's Swarm

Am also alway looking for non romance fls all the time so let's keep expanding each others database ~ GLUCK!

 

Metaworld Chronicles!
It's a isekai ish scenario and it's mainly about adventuring with some business.
I binged all of the chapters recently and really enjoyed gwen's shenanigans!
Romance plays a very minor role/is ingorable

Spoiler: If you're concerned abt the romance here's a little more details (not really spoiler)

It's basically non-existent till ~ch 340, and even then it is basically put on hold for the foreseeable future (the characters agree to put a pin on it lmao). Minor note, it is a GL pairing but again, it plays a very minor role in the story, and again, it can honestly be ignored if you wish.

 

Maybe:
½ Prince (VR, F to M gender bender. The novel already complete if I'm not mistaken)
Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? (Isekai, non-human FMC)
Only Sense Online (VR, M to F gender bender)
Youjo Senki (isekai, M to F gender bender. A.K.A Saga of Tanya the Evil. If you haven't watch this, you don't know what you miss)
Sword Art Online Alternative - Gun Gale Online (VR. Alternative story to SAO's GGO arc w/ different writer & characters)
She Professed Herself the Pupil of the Wiseman (isekai, M to F gender bender. Anime coming Winter 2022)
Free Life Fantasy Online (VR)
Genocide Online (VR)
Housekeeper of the Hundred Blossom Palace (reincarnation, SoL, lots of shipping but so far no real romance & no action)

Other suggestions, if you're looking for FMC(s) w/lots of action, but no VR and/or isekai mangas/animes:
Jormungand (the POV may be from the boy's (Jonah), but the real star is Koko)
Gunsmith Cats
Gunnm (A.K.A Battle Angel Alita)
Black Lagoon (lots of bad ass ladies here)
Appleseed
JJBA Act 6: Stone Ocean (Jolyne Kujoh, daughter of Jotaro, currently on air this season)
Sakura Taisen

Not sure if this count as action for you:
Girls und Panzer
Haifuri
Azur Lane
Kancolle

 

Tori transmigrated( not sure if I spelt that right) might be good. So far, little romance if none at all.

 

Delivery Knight (completed manhwa)

You Didn’t Tell Me the Start of My Transmigration Was a Gate
This one is really fascinating unfortunately there's only 18 chapters. Hopefully someone will pick it up.

 

Thanks for the recommendations, everyone.

I'll add some more that I know of. First, here are three Goodreads lists with examples. The first two are my own list and include many of the works I included in my original post, but there may be more added in the future:

• Isekai novels with female MC and no/minimal romance (23 books) | Goodreads
• Isekai manga/comics with female MC and no/minimal romance (13 books) | Goodreads
• And here is another with LitRPG novels you may be interested in: LitRPG with a female heroine (100 books) | Goodreads

Some original English examples I also liked are Siphon by Jay Boyce and The Dungeon Shop by Chris Ford

A few web novels on my to-read list that look interesting:

• Cinnamon Bun
• Beneath the Dragoneye Moons
  
• Dungeon Item Shop

More translated works I know of:

• Reborn Little Girl Won’t Give Up
• Isekai Shoukan ni Makikomareta Obaachan
  
• The Female Soldier Has Been Told to Infiltrate the Imperial Magic Academy. ~What Otome Game? I Didn’t Hear About It! - Novel Updates
  
• The Weakest Tamer Trash Picking Journey Begins

Thanks again for all the recommendations. I'm looking forward to more of them and I hope my own are helpful.

 

Wow looks good I will add some new then as well:

1. Tanya Degurechaff and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter + Youjo Senki fanfic)
   
2. From Sidekick to Bigshot (Super fun and no romance in the first 450 ch, starts after that, still totally worth the read even till then~)

Also I heared that Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is about mc running for her life no romance but kinda ehh sounds like a simp as they described it
The Weakest Tamer Trash Picking Journey Begins has a manga too. I read some of it, cute and all but not much story to it read if u want some cuteness but that's all to it I'd say

 

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