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'''Sara:''' New? I don't like the sound of that.
'''Jerri:''' He's really nice!
'''Sara:''' Most ''new'' people are, until provoked. And then they turn out to be... ''different''.
|''[[Strangers with Candy]]''}}
If a show has scenes featuring a school, the easiest way to drop a new character into the cast is to have that character enter as a
▲If a show has scenes featuring a school, the easiest way to drop a new character into the cast is to have that character enter as a transfer student. This is usually done by the [[Second Episode Morning]]. If the transfer student is the main character, the series will usually begin on his or her first day at the new school and deal with his struggle to [[Friendless Background|make friends]]. This will always happen around mid-semester, so the other characters can exposit at them.
Often this ignores the inherent problem of characters with no credentials or information (since a lot aren't even human) being able to sign up for a school within a week or so after getting the idea. See [[Undead Tax Exemption]].
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Mone in ''[[Yumeria]]'' is registered and attending Tomokazu's high school almost within minutes of exiting the dream world and showing up in his bed.
* Eiru and An in the "Makaiju" [[Story Arc]] of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' effortlessly masquerade as normal middle schoolers.
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** Also, in the last season all three Sailor Starlights transfer to Usagi's school.
*** So does Minako, who actually was in a different junior high.
** In the manga, Haruka and Michiru transfer to Juuban High since their old school was blown up at the end of the Death Busters arc. They both have to wear their new
* Arika's enrollment in Garderobe Academy in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' isn't exactly a transfer, but it has all the other symptoms of the trope, including having the one student who knows (and dislikes) her being assigned as her roommate and guide around the school.
** ''[[
** In the [[Mai-HiME (manga)|Mai-HiME]] manga, Yuuichi transfers in at the start of the series, and later on, Shiho and several students from Searrs do so as well.
*** In the [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|fake movie trailer]], Arika transfers in this way. She is also seen discussing enrolling at Fuuka Academy with Mashiro and Fumi at the end of the manga.
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* In ''[[Zatch Bell]],'' the character Shion (partner to the momodo Nia) is introduced as a transfer student to Kio's high school. When her mini-story-arc is completed, she exits with the excuse that her transfer stay was over.
* [[Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora|Shattered Angels]] more or less depends on this trope to get the story started.
* The ever-[[Genre Savvy]] Haruhi from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' goes ''looking'' for a "mysterious transfer student" to complete her [[Five-Man Band|club]]
* Rukia did this on the [[Second Episode Morning]] of ''[[Bleach]]''. This one's more plausible than normal, as she has no problem altering the memories of others to suit her purposes.
** Including the new characters in the filler arc, eight more Shinigami have since posed as transfer students, though many of them are clearly [[Dawson Casting|too old]] to be in Ichigo's class.
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** There was also a flashback episode about Ichigo and Chad transferring to their current high school, and meeting with Keigo and Mizuiro.
* "Tessa" Testarossa from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'', a Whispered prodigy and submarine captain, decides to take a holiday as a transfer student at Sōsuke and Kaname's school. Sōsuke (himself an ostensible transfer student) nearly has a total breakdown ensuring she comes to no harm.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Happened to both Bakura and Kaiba in the manga and first series of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!''. (Kaiba is already a student at the beginning of the second series)
* Happened to Tenchi, the "main character", in ''[[Tenchi in Tokyo]]'', after he moved to Tokyo.
* ''[[Kanon]]'',
* Sara in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'', who managed to get into military school under a false name and raise no eyebrows.
* Aiko and Onpu came in to the first ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' series as transfer students. In the ''Motto'' series, Momoko would come in this way as well.
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** In the latter series, Koshi wonders how a dimwit like Momoko passed the entrance examination. Turns out she went to an interview with a school official and her [[Battle Aura]] frightened him so much that he admitted her immediately.
** In [[Seto no Hanayome]], it helps that San's family has effectively taken over the school by the third episode.
* In the first episode of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'', Mai is the
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' subverts this trope, while touching all the normal bases with impressive grace. Each of the children/pilots has a different "first day" and covers a different "transfer student" plot.
** Shinji gets the "main character is starting a new life bit". He's ignored, worshiped and beat up by turns on his first day. Most conventionally, he becomes friends with [[Those Two Guys]].
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** ...and Haru a couple minutes later.
*** ....and soon after Akira, who is ''25 years old.''
== Fan Works ==
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** We present a Chinese publisher's unauthorised attempt to cash in on ''[[Harry Potter]]'' with: ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/opinion/10potter7.html Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]''.
** Precisely one fanfic offers a legitimate excuse for this: written prior to the series conclusion, the transfer students are the twin children of the new Defense professor (who is from Australia). Of course, the author's writing chops sure didn't hurt.
* [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena Tenjou]] plays this role when she arrives at WPI at the very beginning of ''The Symphony of the Sword'', a major story arc in the Future Imperfect era of ''[[Undocumented Features]]''. Over the next year or so, half the Ohtori Student Council unintentionally follows in her footsteps.
▲== Films ==
* The "transfer students" in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' are two guys voluntarily participating in the game. For Kazuo Kiriyama, this only applies in the film version, with the character being a gang leader (the role assumed by Numai alone in the film) in the novel and manga. For Shogo Kawada, he's a transfer in all three versions.
* [[Charlie Bartlett]] is about a rich but troubled boy (the title character) who is kicked out of every private school he attends until he has to resort to a public school. The film opens with him transferring.
* ''[[The Hairy Bird]]'': Odette "Odie" Sinclair
== Literature ==
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* Bella Swan transfers to Forks High School to open ''[[Twilight (novel)|The Twilight Saga.]]''
▲== Live Action TV ==
* That new girl from L.A., [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy Summers]].
* Delia Fisher in ''[[My So-Called Life]]''.
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* {{spoiler|Blaine Anderson}} in season three of ''[[Glee]]''
* ''[[Saved by the Bell]]: The New Class'' had at least one (often more) every season.
== Manhwa ==
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** Later Si-Hoo transfers to her school as well.
* Sung-Hae at the start of ''[[Zippy Ziggy]]''.
== Video Games ==
* Appropriate for the school setting of ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', your [[Player
* Kori Twelves in ''Time Hollow''. Interestingly, {{spoiler|she actually is from that school, just decades in the past.}}
* Happens three times in ''[[Persona 3]]''. First with the main character, second with a party member (implied to have been done by the company in charge of the school), and a third time with another plot-important character. By the time this happens, the homeroom teacher for said students is [[Genre Savvy|beginning to get a little suspicious]].
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* Mayu Suzumoto of ''[[Corpse Party]]'' is an inversion. She's transferring ''out'' of Kisaragi Academy. The festival is supposed to be her last day. {{spoiler|[[Retirony|If only she'd transferred out sooner...]]}}
=== Visual Novels ===▼
▲== Visual Novels ==
* Too many visual novels to list have transfer student heroines: ''[[Princess Waltz]]'', ''[[Muv-Luv]]'', ''[[Da Capo]]''...
* And probably even more visual novels have transfer student protagonists: ''[[Kanon]]'', ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', ''[[Sumaga]]'', ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]''...
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** This is also how all of the sequel's new characters are put into the game. Yoshitsune, Benkei, and Yoichi transfer into 2-S, Seiso transfers into 3-S, Monshiro and [[Battle Butler]] Hume transfer into 1-S, and Tsubame drops into 3-F shortly thereafter.
* Hisao of [[Katawa Shoujo]]; after having a heart attack, his doctors decided it would be best for him to go to Yamaku Academy, and he transferred in early on in his third year. All the other characters, however, most likely have attended Yamaku since they entered high school.
== Web Comics ==
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** You could say practically everyone attending the Court is a transfer student, as most of them (such as Zimmy and Gamma) are brought to the school to be studied for their powers or conditions, leading to several students coming and going.
* In ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', Summer starts at her new high school in the middle of her freshman year. Uma just started a few weeks before her, so they're paired in biology lab. Nice to have somebody [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=107230 normal] to hang out with.
* In ''[[Shan Shan|The Adventures of Shan Shan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807014102/http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=008&chapterid=1 Cassiopeia's arrival] happens with a lot of other events. Not to mention that she's quick on the uptake.
* ''[[Rain]]'' begins when the titular protagonist transfers to a new school so she can attend as a girl.
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' has the male lead [[Genre Savvy]] enough to [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/mysterious_transfer_student recognize] when "[[Deal with the Devil|his]]" succubus is about to pose as "mysterious transfer student" to try and "help" him. Then she promised not to pose as a student... not that this changes much.
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* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]''... where do we begin? Adam Dodd, Ken Lawson, Erick Rischio, Dacey Ashcroft and Kallie Majors, among others. (and that's only ''V3'')
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], Bladedancer and Carmilla and Heyoka all started at Whateley Academy late in fall term, at different times. Then Seraphim started winter term.
** [[Justified]] in that Whateley is specifically a school for young mutants, whose powers may spontaneously manifest and necessitate a sudden transfer from whatever school for 'baselines' they previously attended at any point in the school year. It would have to be a pretty atypical semester in which ''no''
== Western Animation ==
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