How many episodes are in Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs?

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs has 12 episodes in this listed season.

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Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs(2022)

Also known as В симуляторе свиданий: Нелёгкая жизнь мобов • Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai Desu • Otome gē Sekai wa Mobu ni Kibishī Sekaidesu

Archived · AT-X

7.3TV-1412 eps

S02

ComedyAnimeFantasyRomance

ON AIR: JUL 8Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

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Leon does not want to save the world. He wants a small farm and a quiet life, which makes it genuinely funny that the game keeps dropping him into catastrophes he has to survive using nothing but foreknowledge and a deep reluctance to try. The comedy runs on that gap between his ambitions and what the plot demands of him, and his deadpan refusal to treat any of it heroically keeps the tone dry even when the situations spiral into absurdity.

The gender-inverted hierarchy of the game world gives the satire somewhere specific to land. Otome tropes get turned inside out, so the beautiful men angling for romantic favor and the women holding social power become the material the show pokes at rather than takes seriously. Leon wins not through strength but through having already read the walkthrough, which keeps the humor grounded in ingenuity rather than wish fulfillment.

Best for

isekai satire, deadpan protagonist and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Anime

Commitment

Season 2 · 12 episodes

Where

AT-X

Official Premise

Office worker Leon is reincarnated into a particularly punishing dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Watch Leon spark a revolution to change this new world in order to fulfill his ultimate desire of living a quiet, easy life in the countryside.

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Strongest Match

Magical Explorer keeps the same dry, self-aware isekai comedy vibe as Trapped in a Dating Sim, where knowing the rules turns into a weapon. The jokes land on social climbing and low-status problem solving, with the protagonist using game knowledge to wriggle through awkward scenes instead of charging into hero moments.

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Why this pick

Hanaori-san Still Wants to Fight in the Next Life shares Trapped in a Dating Sim’s taste for deflated romance-game energy and deadpan character pressure. A former dark lord tries to keep up a rivalry in everyday school life, so big confrontations keep collapsing into embarrassment and reluctant warmth, with humor that stays sharp and dry.

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Why this pick

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