11+ Manga With Leveling System (Recommendations)

Updated on: July 21, 2022
by Ernie

Sometimes I wonder what this world would be like If there was some kind of leveling system, where we can level up by defeating fearsome monsters etc.

This is the list of 12 manga where the MC has some kind of leveling system. So yeah, let’s begin with the list since there is a lot we gotta cover today!

Table of Contents

12. Arifureta

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
10/20	6/10	7/10	6/10	29/40

Our MC, Hajime Nagumo, got transported to another world with his classmates. Everything was going great until one day, Hajime got betrayed by his own classmates and fell in the depths of the labyrinth.

Getting betrayed by someone sucks. Somehow, he survived, and soon, he met a vampire by the name of Yue. His new journey has just begun!

11. 8th Son, Are You Kidding Me?

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	6/10	7/10	6/10	30/40

Shingo Ichimiya, dies and finds himself in another world. As he is 25 years old, he should find himself in a grown-up body, right?

Wrong. He finds himself in a 6-year-old’s body, and it turns out that the 6-year-old boy is from a very poor noble family, and he is the 8th son there.

10. Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
10/20	6/10	7/10	7/10	30/40

Bell Cranel, who has a dream to become a strong and popular adventurer, one day, follows his dreams. After that, he finds a goddess.

He later finds out that the goddess is lonely and has no one she can interact with. He decides to become her friend, and later goes inside a dungeon to fight monsters thinking that life in a dungeon is hard. But what she doesn’t know is that on the surface, life is tough too.

9. Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
13/20	5/10	6/10	6/10	30/40

Our MC found himself with some other people in an unknown land with one objective, that is to eliminate anyone who is a threat. Now that all the stronger people are together, those who weren’t strong enough are left behind.

The ones left behind have created a party, everyone thought before that this was a game world. But now, everything’s different. It’s not a game or something, it’s reality and if you die, it’s game over.

8. Log Horizon

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
12/20	6/10	7/10	7/10	32/40

Elder Tale, which was a popular game, is now getting a new update. Thirty thousand players are excited and join, but soon they find out that there is no log-out button anymore?

Shiroe, who was one of the veteran players in Elder Tale, found it weird and regrouped with his friends. Soon, they found out that a lot of people had started to rob and kill others. That led Shiroe to a plan, he decides to collaborate with other popular guilds and take over the city and protect it.

He collaborates with one of the top guilds and governs over cities and protects the players inside them, giving them hope that they can survive in this world. This is an interesting story, and I am sure that you would like to read it.

7. Overlord

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
14/20	7/10	6/10	6/10	33/40

Momonga, our MC, was an insanely OP wizard. Every game has an end to it, so the end for a popular game called Yggdrasil came.

Momonga decided to spend his final time in the game as the game shuts down. He thought it was over but he was wrong. The game closes, and he is still inside the game? How is that possible?

What’s even weirder is that every NPC now has emotions… This will be interesting! Before the game shuts down, he made some changes to an NPCs code and made it love him. Obviously, it wouldn’t happen in the game but now, the NPCs are in love with him!

6. I’ve Been Killing Slimes For
300 Years And Maxed Out My Level

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	7/10	8/10	7/10	33/40

Azusa Aizawa died due to extreme fatigue. As she dies, she meets a really nice goddess who gives Azusa immortality. As she reincarnates, she decides to live freely, and soon, she bought a house, started protecting the nearby village, and worked on her farm.

She did one more thing and that was she killed slimes each day for 300 years. Finally, after such a long time, she was able to max out her level! She meets some amazing people afterward and if you are into a manga where the MC just goes on a killing spree or something, then this manga is for you!

5. Sword Art Online

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	8/10	9/10	8/10	36/40

Sword Art Online, also known as SAO is an extremely popular manga out there.

SAO follows the story of Kirito, who was a test player of a popular game. One day, the game was finally released, so thousands of players decided to join and were excited to play the game, but who knew that this could turn into a disaster.

The log-out button is removed and it turns out, if someone dies in the game, that person dies in real life. The only way to get out is to beat all 100 levels. Kirito stood up and grinded levels.

4. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	7/10	7/10	7/10	37/40

Slimes are known as one of the weakest monsters in games.

But, it seems to be different in this manga!

Our MC, Rimuru, died and reincarnated as a slime in another world. Right when he found himself in another world as a slime, he started to get skill after skill and even became friends with a True Dragon who was trapped inside a cage.

If you are wondering where the leveling system is, well it’s sort of a Ranking System. There are different ranks that a human/monster can become, when Rimuru became friends with Veldora he instantly became a Calamity-Class entity.

3. So I’m A Spider, So What?

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
15/20	8/10	8/10	7/10	38/40

I am sure that you have already heard about this masterpiece. This manga is top quality!

So I’m A Spider, So What? Follows the story of our MC, Kumoko, who had no friends in high school. One day, while everyone was studying, something strange happened and everyone in the classroom died. They all found themselves in another world.

Everyone basically got reincarnated as humans, except Kumiko. She got reincarnated as a spider!

But that didn’t stop her from surviving in this new world, she gained some amazing abilities while leveling up and became stronger and stronger.

2. The Rising Of The Shield Hero

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
16/20	9/10	8/10	8/10	41/40

Betrayal, it hurts getting betrayed by your loved ones or your comrades.

Naofumi, who gets reincarnated in another world as the shield hero. For some reason, the king hated him. The king’s daughter decides to join Naofumi as no one else did. Later that day, she used him to buy new armor, she never helped him.

And after all that, she framed him for doing something that he never did. He was left alone with rage, so he decides to buy a slave and that changes his life.

He buys a cheap slave and decides to train her each day, because of that, he was able to fight off the waves and stuff.

1. Bofuri: I Don't Want To Get Hurt So I'll Max Out My Level

Leveling System	Character Writing	Plot	Art	Total
11/20	8/10	9/10	8/10	36/40

Maple’s friend has invited Maple to play this new game that has just been released. So, Maple orders the equipment and joins the game.

At first, she knew nothing about what to do. She chose her name and decided to choose the great shield as her main weapon. She goes on to fight the weak monsters and for some reason, even though she was a newbie, she decided to go inside a high–level dungeon.

As she went deeper, she found the main boss room. The main boss’s room was a poisonous dragon so in order to fight her, she decided to make a plan. As you probably have heard, after getting hit by the same attack for a while, you start to get resistance for it.

So, she decided to let the dragon hit her with poison and when she got low, she drank the healing potion. After she became immune to the poison, she literally ate it!

Yes, I am not joking, she ate the dragon since her weapons got burned!

Because of that, she got insane armor and a shield!

Comment Down Below

Some of you out there are probably angry at me and saying, “Why isn’t this one higher than the other one or why is this so low on the list?.”

Well, this is my own list, and all the manga mentioned here are unique and cool in their own way, and I am not trying to say this one is better than the other, they all are really good, and I would recommend you give them a try!