灰と幻想のグリムガル | L32 is the opposite of a power fantasy. It’s a party of 5 who are basically the worst adventurers around, and struggle to get by and make their daily living. Mostly serious tone, with the exception of one character who’s annoying… @Naphthalene and I discussed them a bunch a while back, and even made a separate thread eventually. I’ll warn that in Book 16-17 the tone of the series really changes a lot.
It’s above the difficulty level, but ソードアート・オンライン | L33 or ソードアート・オンライン プログレッシブ | L35 would also be my recs.
The former is the original/main series and will cover a mix of virtual worlds, with fantasy and sci-fi. The latter reads much more like straight up fantasy, but with video game elements (since they’ve been trapped in a VRMMO). That said, it’s by far the more fun of the two. The first 2 books of the original series have a heavier tone, a more limited supporting cast, and are written in a non-linear form (4 stories per book, not chronologically ordered). After that it’s a linear story like one would expect.
The only other series I have is 『人斬り』少女、公爵令嬢の護衛になる | L28 which was fun yuri fantasy, but only 3 volumes
