Yamai Zenjirou is your everyday office worker in modern Japan. One morning, he suddenly finds himself summoned to a tropical world where dinosaurs roam the land. He is told that this is the kingdom of Capua and the person who summoned him - its monarch, Queen Aura - wants him to marry her and leave his old life behind for a life of carefree extravagance as her prince consort. The reasons for her offer are many and varied, but she needs an heir, and she wants him to be the one to provide it! If he accepts, he'll never have to work again, lazing around in luxury with no worries other than securing the kingdom its next monarch. Certainly, sleeping with the buxom beauty is far from a hardship, but is everything really as it seems? He'll also need to give up everything he knows on Earth. Is he ready to drop it all at a moment's notice for her sake? And how well will he be able to navigate the politics, people and culture of this new world if he does?
The Ideal Sponger Life It is also Known as: 理想のヒモ生活, Risou no Himo Seikatsu
Genres: Thriller , Fantasy , Drama , Romance , Magic , Politics , Isekai
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Top 5 Light Novel Like The Ideal Sponger Life (Risou no Himo Seikatsu) [2026 List]
5. Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Mou Ichido dake, Aemasu ka?
It's been five years since the battle at Corna di Luce on Sky Island 11 and the situation has gotten worse. 5 years ago, about two days after the battle at Corna di Luce on Sky Island 11, the Elpis Mercantile Federation accidentally lost control and released two beasts, Materno: The Fifth Beast Who Spreads Widely and Croyance: The Eleventh Beast Who Remains Rooted both onto Sky Islands 13 and 39 respectively. The result was catastrophic. In the end, both Sky Islands fell to the Beasts and many lives including those of the Elpis Mercantile Federation were lost.
5 years later, Feodor Jessman, a young 4th Grade Officer whose step-brother was at the head of the Elpis Mercantile Federation attacks, spends his days training on Sky Island 38, hoping to climb up the ranks of the Guardian Wings Military to achieve a mysterious goal. One day, while skipping training to buy some doughnuts, he meets a young Leprechaun girl named "Tiat Siba Ignareo" who mysteriously asks him to forget her after a brief conversation. The next day, Feodor is assigned to be the caretaker of visitors from Sky Island 11. As the group arrives, Feodor is surprised to see Tiat among them, along with Lakhesh Nyx Seniorious, Collon Rin Purgatorio and Pannibal Nox Katena.
Little do the two know, their meeting will change the very fate of the Sky Islands; as Sky Island 38 is set to be attacked by Croyance who is steadily approaching the island in Sky Island 39 even now; and a secret conspiracy lurks in the depths of the Guardian Wings Military.
Do you have what THE END? May I meet you once again? has finished publishing and it has 55 Chapters. It is also Known as: 終末なにしてますか？もう一度だけ、会えますか？, SukaMoka
4. Grancrest Senki
On a continent ruled by chaos, the Lords have the power of a holy seal that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each others' holy seals to gain dominion over one another. Shiruuka, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, make an everlasting oath to work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.
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Record of Grancrest War has finished publishing and it has 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: グランクレスト戦記, Grancrest Senki
3. Salaryman ga Isekai ni Ittara Shitennou ni Natta Hanashi
Uchimura Dennosuke is just an ordinary Japanese salaryman, until he’s sent to work in Vietnam where he dies in a hit-and-run accident. Uchimura is reincarnated and summoned to another world by the Demon King, who offers him a new job–as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of his army! Uchimura is faced with an offer he can’t refuse, but can he do the job?
Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: サラリーマンが異世界に行ったら四天王になった話, Story About a Salaryman Who Became one of the Four Heavenly Kings When he Went to Another World, Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Heavenly King!
2. Log Horizon
"Elder Tale" is a long-established and popular online game: but the day in which was introduced the 12th expansion pack, 30,000 Japanese users have been confined to the world of the game. In the world that is a fusion of reality and the game, our hero Siloe begins his fight from the city of Akiba.
Log Horizon is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ログ・ホライズン, Log Horizon
1. Risou no Himo Seikatsu
One day, average salaryman Yamai Zenjirou has an out-of-this-world experience, literally! He's pulled from Earth and dragged to another world where magic thrives and a gorgeous, powerful queen needs a consort. Now he's being pressured to marry that very monarch and help her bear a child. Will Zenjirou accept this life of lazy, luxurious love at the cost of leaving his home behind?
The Ideal Sponger Life is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 理想のヒモ生活, A Fantasy Lazy Life, An Ideal Lazy Life
