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{{trope}}
An emerging genre, seen largely in Japanese web novels, wherein a protagonist from the mundane world dies, usually from an accident, and is [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] in a fantastic world with [[Past Life Memories|memories]] intact.
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Downsides include a usually slow beginning -- an infant isn't going to be able to do much (though some Japanese examples have memories only recovered in early childhood) -- and the fact that some plots simply aren't possible if the protagonist's old identity is to be discarded altogether. These include the aforementioned search for home, a convenient if well-worn goal that provides a natural end-point for the story, and objects from our world being brought into a fantasy setting. It also becomes vanishingly unlikely that a character from the new world will ever go to the old, or even discover its existence.
Usually makes use of [[A Hero Is Born]] and/or [[A Minor Kidroduction]], out of simple narrative necessity.
Compare with [[Truck-kun]], which is one means of causing the starting reincarnation.
Compare/contrast [[Trapped in Another World]].
{{examples|page=Reincarnation Fantasies}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Many of the Japanese examples listed under Literature have received manga adaptations, with ''[[Mushoku Tensei]]'''s being published in Monthly Comic Flapper and a number of others on the website [http://www.alphapolis.co.jp/ Alphapolis].
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* ''[[Dreaming of Sunshine]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]] for the fanfic version.
** The setting of ''[[Naruto]]'' also demonstrates a number of the advantages listed above particularly well. To wield any sort of power, a character pretty much ''has'' to have been trained as a ninja from a young age, and to be wholly trusted by the main characters, it's best to have been trained by their own village. As such, the reincarnation fantasy is almost a necessity for a ''[[Naruto]]'' [[Self-Insert Fic]].
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** ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11218720/1/All-or-Nothing All or Nothing]'' opts to insert its protagonist into the 1920s of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' world, growing up during the rise of Grindelwald. {{spoiler|She falls in with Tom Riddle before he meets Dumbledore.}}
** ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10814626/1/A-Fresh-Bouquet A Fresh Bouquet]'' gives Lily and Petunia Evans a new sister.
* Inverted in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', in that the fictional characters appear in the self-insert characters' home reality. While most of these characters are [[Trapped in Another World]], a few (including some from a couple of [[Joss Whedon]]'s works) are reincarnated into the setting instead.
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* ''[[Mushoku Tensei]]'' is probably the [[Trope Codifier]] for the Japanese version, and possibly the most popular example.
* ''[[Re:Monster]]'', which seems to [[Unbuilt Trope|predate most other examples]] ([
* ''[http://www.alphapolis.co.jp/manga/viewOpening/895000083 Ee?] [http://ncode.syosetu.com/n3791w/ Heibon desu yo??]''{{Dead link}} resembles early ''[[Mushoku Tensei]]'', but with a softer, more shoujo feeling and more technological exchange.
* ''[http://ncode.syosetu.com/n4029bs/ Kenkyo, kenjitsu o] [https://web.archive.org/web/20141226004214/http://kobatochandaisuki.wordpress.com/category/kenkyo-kenjitsu-o-motto-ni-ikite-orimasu/ motto ni ikite orimasu!]'' features the protagonist inhabiting the role of the wealthy ''[[Alpha Bitch|villain]]'' from a popular [[Shoujo Demographic|shoujo manga]]. Her goals largely consist of staying the hell away from the drama surrounding the heroine in high school and preparing for the karmic punishment that came her way at the manga's end.
* ''[http://ncode.syosetu.com/n9194ce/ An Otome Game’s Burikko Villainess]''{{Dead link}} ''[https://oniichanyamete.wordpress.com/index/mysterious-named-bodyswap-otomege-project-x/ Turned into a Magic Otaku]'' is much the same as ''Kenkyo, kenjitsu'', with a more fantastical setting.
* ''[http://skythewood.blogspot.sg/p/gifting-wonderful-world-with-blessings.html Gifting the Wonderful World with Blessings!]'' goes halfway -- the protagonist transfers worlds after death, but he gets to keep his adult body.
* ''[http://ncode.syosetu.com/n8719bm/ The Reincarnated One]''{{Dead link}} ''[http://www.alphapolis.co.jp/manga/viewOpening/535000093 Doesn't Want to Cheat]'' goes meta by having a [[Genre Savvy]] heroine who correctly predicts that her reincarnation has given her some kind of major advantage... and ''doesn't'' want to exploit it.
== Web Animation ==▼
* In ''[[Tori Transmigrated]]'' by "Aila Aurie", forty-year-old career woman Tori Felix is reincarnated as fourteen-year-old Victoria de Guevera, a young noblewoman in the Empire of Soleil, after she is apparently killed in a train crash (and Victoria apparently suffered a fatal fall off a horse). The only problem is that Victoria is slated to become the first villain in a series of Japanese dating sim games, a fate that will result in her torture and death at the hands of sex slavers before she is eighteen, after which her beloved older brothers will become villains to avenge her, and her noble family's thousand-year history of honor and loyalty to the crown will come crashing down. Tori is determined that ''none'' of that will happen... but the world seems to be running on game logic that is not so easily thwarted.
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[[Category:Beginning Tropes]]
[[Category:Memory Tropes]]
[[Category:Rebirth and Reincarnation Tropes]]
[[Category:Tropes of the Soul]]
[[Category:Isekai]]
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