Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha

While exploring a labyrinth, Rentt Faina, an adventurer with lots of experience but little to show for it, is killed by a dragon upon discovering its lair. Shockingly, he wakes up to find himself turned into a skeleton, the lowest class of undead monsters. As Rentt fights against the other monsters of the labyrinth, he discovers that slaying them gains him experience towards higher stages of undead evolution—even ones with flesh! With this revelation in hand, Rentt obtains a new objective in his undeath: keep evolving in the hope of eventually becoming a vampire, the highest form of undead that is nearly indistinguishable from human beings.

Despite being forced to hide his past identity and monstrous nature under an unremovable mask, Rentt manages to return to a semblance of his former life. Granted shelter by Lorraine Vivier, an elite researcher and retired adventurer, Rentt assumes her surname and starts over from scratch as a rookie. Determined to pursue his childhood dream and become a mithril-class adventurer, Rentt must be cautious not to disclose his new bodily circumstances, lest the adventurers’ guild seek to exterminate the monster he has become.

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Vivie, Lorraine Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Faina, Rentt Main

Suzuki, Ryouta Japanese

Ibarss, Sheila Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Latuule, Laura Supporting

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Rupaage, Rina Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Mysterious Woman Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Jinlin Supporting

Inui, Natsune Japanese

Hart, Isaac Supporting

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Dario Supporting

Watai, Kanato Japanese

Umberto Supporting

Nanba, Yuuma Japanese

Soyama, Takashi Producer

Yoshida, Satoshi Producer

Danno, Yoshito Producer

Nanbara, Mitsuhiro Producer

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Mar 28, 2025

GamingWing

Recommended

Cool little concept, lots of characters with distinct designs and looks, pretty badass looking main character and for the most part decent animation.

Unique take on the design of the "dragon", it's not what comes to mind when someone describes the typical appearance of a dragon. Still unsure if I like it or not, but it's different for sure.

It was a pretty fun watch, it's just that everything was sort of basic and there are so many animes that are similar (in the sense of the main character dying then coming back to life as something else.)

I'll likely watch season 2, but the story itself seems ... very predictable and I'm 90% sure of the way it's going to end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 26, 2025

Zilchbiades

Mixed Feelings

I have to admit, if it weren't for Solo Leveling I wouldn't watch this ever. I think I enjoyed Solo Leveling so much that I wanted more of it and this is one of the recommendations that I looked up, "The Unwanted Undead Adventurer".

The story starts with Rentt the MC as a lvl 1 mafia that ended up discovering a lvl 1000 type dark souls boss. Unfortunately Rentt was easily defeated but wakes up as one of the "lowest class of undead monsters" which is a skeleton. I'm not going to lie, the story really starts so slow that I felt like passing out but ... I don't think the story is really that bad.

Since you hopefully read the sypnosis, Lorraine Vivier helped Rentt to live rent-free literally. Lorraine's design is obviously for fan-service and I'll admit that that it helped me with at least having some interest with her character. The other characters are actually pretty wholesome or the "forced" kind of wholesome. This anime should've at least have the slice of life tag because that's how it felt throughout the whole show.

As the story progresses, you will see common trends of helping people and the MC not getting much in return. At this point in my life, I'm used to seeing these things in a lot of anime and shows. Slice of life anime will show good life lessons but each of them will have different executions and this anime is just your average type of slice of life.

The problems I have with this anime are:

Story pacing - It's so slow and like I've said before I felt like passing out.
Characters - It focuses too much on Rentt, it would've been better to have at least balance out the storylines.
Story - It's not bad but it feels repetitive despite the different approaches that actually surprised me.

Final thoughts:

I did come here expecting something like Solo Leveling but if there's anything I learned, it's better to not have any expectations at all. I don't think there's much to gain in this anime, I do think it's story is similar to Solo Leveling but not as emotional or impactful. This anime is basically a slice of life instead of action. The ending music is great but the opening song is questionable. It felt like there's a reason why the MC's name is Rentt, it felt like the author was due in rent (Okay this was a bad joke). Don't compare this to Solo Leveling since that is on a different league of its own compared to this show.

If you loved watching something like this, maybe I would recommend something like "Banished From The Hero's Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside" and yes that's an actual anime from 2021.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 5, 2024

Benx2019

Not Recommended

Started out semi-interesting, but then the pacing took a nose dive and just became kind of a chore to get through after that. The action is pretty basic, the level detail in the characters and backgrounds too. The characters are lacking and so it the depth of the story. At least it had the common sense not to make it an isekai for no reason like every other anime of this genre. The pacing was insufferable after the first few episodes and really never recovered. The voice acting was pretty mid, not the worst, but really not very moving. The soundtrack was fine, but the ... scenes the tracks were used for were ill fitting and overall a bit cheesy. The op was alright, and I thought the ed was pretty good. Overall, I was a little disappointed by it all around. Immediately it was apparent that the animation wasn't going to be the highlight, but the pacing and story were interesting enough to hold my attention. That soon changed though and it just became a chore to get through. 5.35/10 Dubbed

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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