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** Makoto was also a new transfer in the first season; she [[Huge Schoolgirl|could not]] wear the girls's uniform because they didn't have any in her size. She stays this way the entire series until they finally graduate to high school near the end and their high school carries uniforms she can actually ''wear''.
*** In [[Fanon]], Ami is mistaken as one. She has been going to the same school as Usagi since the start. [[Intelligence Equals Isolation|Just no-one liked her because she was "too smart".]] [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl|She was just shy, though.]]
** 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 uniforms -- Haruka actually dresses in male and female clothes, and wears ''both'' uniforms (''seifuku'' AND ''gakuran'') in the manga's run.
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** 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.
*** Yeah, but Rangiku Matsumoto constantly being [[Gag Boobs|one deep breath away from exploding her top]] is hot.
*** Shinji Hirako did this in order to recruit Ichigo to the ranks of the Vaizards. When he finally succeeds, he disappears from school and nobody ever wonders where he went.
** Or too young. It's [[Lampshaded]] with Hitsugaya when others ask him why an elementary schooler is hanging out with Ichigo's crowd.
** There was also a flashback episode about Ichigo and Chad transferring to their current high school, and meeting with Keigo and Mizuiro.
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* 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.
* Negi Springfield from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is essentially a New Transfer ''Teacher''.
** Many of the students refer to Evangeline as a transfer student, even though she's been stuck in that class since before any of the other students (or the teacher, for that matter) were even born.
*** It never was stated that she was in junior high all time, which would be highly visible... Actually opposite was stated as Takamichi was her classmate, which could be happend only in highschool or university. So it's only her 2nd or 3rd time in junior high for that 15 years. And she can change visble age and appearance. So for the sake of [[Masquerade]] she is a transfer student.
** Yue herself becomes a transfer student, as she joins another school late in the manga.
* This particular trope is a major plot device in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]''. Not only is Keita Itou a transfer student as there is a lot of speculation concerning his particular transfer to Bell Liberty.
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' starts with two transfer students. Chiyo is introduced right away, but Osaka's entrance is delayed until the first episode afternoon to give Chiyo some screen time.
* Both ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' and ''[[Sumomomo Momomo]]'' feature new students transferring in without delay throughout the series, as the main cast slowly accumulates not just into the same school, but also the same class.
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** 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]].
** Asuka's first week of school is played and shot like the "hot new girl in school" from countless romantic comedies and love sims, more specifically a "returned overseas student" (someone who lived abroad because of daddy's job). Actually, she was born overseas (given her citizenship, in the USA most likely), and has never lived in Japan. It immediately becomes clear that Asuka doesn't care anything about "fitting in" or academics, and all those star-struck boys are just dirt under her shoes. Interestingly, the story never tries to make this an [[Aesop]]. She does [[Pet the Dog|show a little humanity]] by making friends with [[Class Representative|Hikari]].
** Rei doesn't get her transfer day until Shinji's dream in the last episode. This time it's the "love triangle from out of town" bit (with Rei moving in between Shinji and Asuka). This lets Gainax show how much broader they could have played some of their already broad humor and let [[Megumi Hayashibara]] really cut loose. She's also the only one to wear a [[Transfer Student Uniforms|different fuku]].
* ''[[Loveless]]'': Aoyagi Ritsuka begins as a transfer student both in the manga and the anime.
* Ai Haibara in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' is introduced as "the first transfer student since Conan arrived". It's not a coincidence. Conan seems to have picked up on this as he is immediately suspicious when he hears of a new exchange student in Ran's class who soon becomes the focus of his plot investigations.
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** A better example would be Hanyuu. She drops in, and is immediately [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|taken home...three times.]]
* Both Cab and Minerva in ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]], though in their cases, it was revealed soon after they were introduced that arrangements had been made to send them to the International School. In fact, Cab was initially reluctant to attend until he met Shuta.
** Later, Jean transfers to a new school upon landing on Earth in ''[[Transformers Victory]]''.
* Himari in [[Omamori Himari]], with a little help through [[Undead Tax Exemption]].
* Largely averted in ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Even though Ranma himself is a transfer student, nothing is ever made of it after season one/volume 2.
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* ''[[Midori Days]]'' with Lucy, an American transfer student who has as much of an idea of Japan as your typical anime fangirl. Acts like one, too, not surprisingly.
* Amuro Ninagawa of ''[[Umisho]]''
** And in a later episode of the series, Maaya Nanako.
* Tatsuma Hiyuu from ''[[Tokyo Majin]]''. Subverted (a bit), however, as the series begins [[In Medias Res]], following up with [[How We Got Here]].
** Not so for the game though as this trope firmly applies since Tatsuma is the protagonist of the game and apppears right at the beginning as a transfer student. Later on however a prologue can be unlocked which tells of Tatsuma's past at his previous school but this was omitted from the anime.
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* [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'s Inheritance Ceremony Arc begins with [[Arc Number|seven]] new transfer students to Tsuna's school. {{spoiler|It turns out that they are members of the Shinmon Family, sent by the Vongola as guests.}}
** The Arcobaleno Trials [[Filler Arc]] also had two new transfer students ({{spoiler|they were actually Belphagor and Mammon from the Varia}}). After the arc is over, they leave and nobody questions what happened to them.
* At the beginning of volume 2 of ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', this is how Ana becomes introduced to Matsuri (having already encountered Chika and Miu).
* Lampshaded in ''[[Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya]]'' when Illya shows just how [[Genre Savvy]] she is for [[Magical Girl]] tropes:
{{quote|'''Illya:''' That Girl seemed to be about the same age as me, didn't she?
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* Homura Akemi in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' is one, although she doesn't transfer for educational reasons, but rather to keep and eye on and protect Madoka.
** {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop|In the beginning]], though, she was transferred for a legitimate educational reason-- [[Ill Girl|she has been previously hospitalized long-term due to heart disease]], and was in the process of mainstreaming.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Wandering Son]]'' the protagonist and his sister are transfer students to an elementary.
* ''[[Otogi Matsuri]]'': Shortly after Yousuke and his friends meet Yomogi Inaba, the strange new priestess of the town's temple, they discover that she will be the newest member of their class.
{{quote|'''Teacher''': "We have a new student joining us. She came to town on some family matter. Please introduce yourself."
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'''Yousuke''': "Such a predictable development..." }}
* ''[[Super Dreadnought Girl 4946]]'' has this a lot.
* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' has Inori popping up in Shu's class, right after he rejected the rebel group Undertaker's offer.
* ''[[Tsuritama]]'''s plot kicks off with Yuki's transfer to Enoshima.
** ...and Haru a couple minutes later.
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== 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
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== Video Games ==
* Appropriate for the school setting of ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', your [[Player Mooks]] arrive in your classroom as transfer students upon creation. Princess Sapphire is a main character example, though she didn't transfer with the intent of being a student.
* 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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== Web Comics ==
* Alistair transfers to ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''... for a week. He doesn't even bother with a uniform.
** It's mentioned in passing that Antimony also came to the school late. ([[Word of God]] puts the time at about halfway through the first year.)
** 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.
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