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 no responsibilities, which is a genuinely funny premise for an isekai because the genre usually demands the opposite. His complete memory of the dating sim he has been dropped into gives him an absurd informational edge, and he uses it not for glory but to deflect, survive, and escape notice, a plan the story keeps cheerfully destroying by throwing him into increasingly ridiculous intense situations.

The gender-inverted hierarchy of this world, where women hold power and beautiful men are the social currency, gives the otome game parody real satirical friction. Leon's deadpan resistance to every romantic and political crisis that lands on him is the engine of the comedy, and the show keeps that tone dry even as the chaos escalates. There is no sincere romantic swooning here; the romance-game trappings exist mostly to be punctured.

Best for

deadpan isekai comedy, otome game parody 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

Skeleton Knight in Another World keeps the same dry, self-aware isekai comedy vibe, with a protagonist who tries to live on his own terms while the world keeps forcing awkward social pressure. Leon’s deadpan resistance to otome-game chaos matches the way this show milks identity concealment and polite misunderstandings, but it stays lighter and more episodic than the romance-game grind.

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Why this pick

Kaiju Girl Caramelise turns romance-adjacent embarrassment into a running gag, where personal vulnerability triggers bigger and bigger messes, just like Trapped in a Dating Sim. Leon’s meta, deflationary approach to forced dating energy lines up with the monster-transformation punchlines and quick emotional spikes, though the comedy stays more intimate and bodily, not system-battling.

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