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* ''I Told You to Reincarnate Me'' '''''in''''' ''a Tool Shop, not'' '''''as''''' ''a Tool Shop''! has a protagonist in our world who dies because the god of another world accidentally dropped a virus on our world which kills him. The apologetic god assures the man that because his body had antibodies to fight the virus, a cure would be found and the protagonist would make the history books. Also, the god wiped his computer and phone, and assured that the the novel the man was working on would be published. As one more measure of atonement, he offers the protagonist a spot in the world he runs, with any cheat bonus he wished. The GenreSavvy protagonist, having read a number of similar stories, says stories about heroes are fun to ''read'' about, not to live. He just wants a nice profitable occupation with maybe three or four hours of work a day of work to . The god suggests a tool shop, which can make its own hours, and the protagonist loves the idea. The god makes a teeny little mistake, though.

* In ''Manga/{{Drifters}}'', dying warrior Shimazu Toyohisa finds himself transported to a corridor of doors, where he is sent through the nearest door to another world. There he meets other great warriors like him who have been transported as well, to be part of a group known as "Drifters."

* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': After a Hero and Demon King use a powerful magic that rips through dimensions and blows up her entire classroom, a quiet lonely girl finds herself reincarnated into their fantasy world... as a spider. Now she has to use all her wits to try and survive this world's deadliest labyrinth. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she never really reincarnated: she was an otherwise normal spider caught up in the explosion that [[JerkassGods Evil God D]] gave some of her own memories (as she had been masquerading as said quiet lonely girl) to make her think she was human. Played straight with the other students who reincarnated, though. Averted as well, as the spider was a resident of the room who's life had been saved by the teacher, and was a known entity to the rest of the class, and in fact DID die in the same explosion that killed the rest of the class. [[JerkassGods Evil God D]] just exploited her presense to throw off everyone else and correct the numbers. She was a spider who got reincarnated as a monster spider, with the additional implanted memories of a god playing hooky as a human]]

* Even ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** They parodied the Isekai genre with ''Manga/DragonBallThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsYamcha'' where a ''Dragon Ball'' superfan wakes up as Yamcha. Turns out Chiaotzu is also a fan from Earth whose been reincarnated several times before.

* In ''Evil Dragon Reincarnation'', an ordinary salaryman is killed in a traffic accident and becomes reincarnated as a powerful dragon. Deemed evil even though he's actually a kind and laid-back creature, he’s approached by all sorts of challengers seeking to slay him. Then one day he eats a tiny orb and magically gains a handsome human form, enabling him to become an adventurer.

* PlayedForHorror in an old ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fic from some time around Generation III or IV: A bunch of kids in a world where ''Pokémon'' is fictional decide to get Pokémon tattoos at a sleepover, and unbeknownst to them, this ''really'' pisses off the intelligent Pokémon from a world where they are the only inhabitants, who are somehow aware of the other world but not vice-versa. So their leader, [[AdaptationalVillainy Mew]], decides the best course of action to take [[DisproportionateRetribution to punish these kids]] is to kill them in their sleep and arrange for them to be reincarnated in a third universe closer to that of the ''Pokémon'' canon, as Pokémon themselves... with them starting to be conscious while still in the egg. Thus, the next several chapters are from the point of view of a traumatized main character who wakes up to find herself trapped in a confined space (since her body hasn’t developed enough yet to break the eggshell) in total darkness (since her eyes haven’t developed yet) while unable to breathe yet not actually drowning (since she’s getting all her nutrients and oxygen from the yolk sac) all while having no idea how long this will last or what she did to deserve this (since she didn’t do anything, really) yet with the horrifying realization that she is not dreaming. When she finally hatches, it’s a relief, only for her to scream when [[TomatoInTheMirror she looks in the mirror and sees a Pokémon staring back]].
* Happens to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] in ''Fanfic/Ben10Reincario''. Lucario, as a reward for his HeroicSacrifice back in ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew'' and to stave off his loneliness, is reincarnated by Arceus to a new world. Unlike other examples, though, Lucario does not change his species, remaining a Lucario upon his resurrection.
* ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': In addition to the canon example of Katarina, Maria is a reincarnate as well. Specifically, she's the reincarnation of one of the most infamous bosses of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', wandering a '''much''' LighterAndSofter world and wondering why everyone considers her fighting skills impressive. The king and the Prime Minister actually deduce that she might be a reincarnate because there's no other obvious explanation for her skills; they advise the Fourth Prince not to bring it up with her, since if they're right she's clearly from a far harsher time or world, and there's no need to remind her of bad memories. And if they're wrong, well, then it just sounds stupid.
* For ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12898654/1/ New Beginnings]]'',[[note]] a ''Manga/LandOfTheLustrous'' fanfic not the [[Fanfic/NewBeginnings MLP one]][[/note]] a long-bullied schoolgirl inexplicably dies in her sleep before being reincarnated as a Gem at the start of the manga’s story. She then meets and tags along with Phosphophyllite to explore the world of the Gems and Lunarians. For the first part of the fanfic, she merely tags along for the canon story, but she meets unexpected characters and unknowingly changes the fates of her and Phos [[spoiler: starting with the Winter Arc.]]
* ''[[Fanfic/LivingTheDreamkickass222urmom Living The Dream]]'': After the [[CaughtUpInTheRapture Rapture]], God gave everyone three choices of where they would like to go. The first two choices were heaven and hell, but the third choice would put you in any world you desired. Naturally, the story follows those who picked the third choice, that being [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]].
* In ''Fanfic/OneToFindAll'', Salem casts a spell to summon her a powerful individual who she can convert into her servant to finally defeat her former lover Ozma. Unfortunately, the spell was too powerful and she ended up summoning more than she planned. Now six members of Class 1-A had their souls exorcised and reborn into Remnant, with no memory of their lives on earth. The gods of light and darkness inform Izuku that while the lives they lived on Remnant are different compared to the ones they lived on earth, they're still the same people Izuku knew deep down. If Deku can get them to remember who they were on earth then their souls will return to their normal bodies when they die; but if they die without remembering, they'll be gone forever. Accepting the mission, the gods reincarnate Izuku into Remnant in a body they specifically created.

* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99IMayBeTheHiddenBossButImNotTheDemonLord'': The protagonist reincarnates into the world of her favorite video game, an [[GenreMashup otome game/RPG hybrid]] and discovers that she's the heroine's rival who randomly becomes an overpowered {{Superboss}} after the Demon King is defeated. Realizing that being the Superboss means she has the highest stat potential of anybody in the world, she does a bunch of solo LevelGrinding to get strong enough that nobody will harm her. But she goes seriously overboard and hits the LevelCap of 99. And since everybody at the Royal Academy gets scanned for their level on the first day, this ruins her plan to disappear into obscurity.

* ''Literature/KonoSuba'' is a parody of this trope, right down to parodying ''Mushoku Tensei'' below. The protagonist Kazuma meets an embarrassing demise from saving a girl from a farm tractor that he thought was a truck and dies of shock. Kazuma gets a choice to go to heaven or be reincarnated in a world with his current body, plus a boon. He's so annoyed at the goddess in charge of his reincarnation that he chooses ''her'' as his boon, dragging her along with him. This proves to be a mistake, since Aqua is [[LoserDeity completely useless]]. He's also not the only person to be reincarnated in this world.

* In ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', BigBad Emperor Dornkirk was originally a man from Earth (heavily implied to be [[spoiler: [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Sir Isaac Newton]]]]) who, upon apparently dying on Earth, awoke to find himself healthy (if still quite elderly) on Gaea.

* In ''[[Fanfic/OneToFindAll]]'', Salem casts a spell to summon her a powerful individual who she can convert into her servant to finally defeat her former lover Ozma. Unfortunately, the spell was too powerful and she ended up summoning more than she planned. Now six members of Class 1-A had their souls exorcised and reborn into Remnant, with no memory of their lives on earth. The gods of light and darkness inform Izuku that while the lives they lived on Remnant are different compared to the ones they lived on earth, they're still the same people Izuku knew deep down. If Deku can get them to remember who they were on earth then their souls will return to their normal bodies when they die; but if they die without remembering, they'll be gone forever. Accepting the mission, the gods reincarnate Izuku into Remnant in a body they specifically created.

* ''LightNovel/IsekaiOnsenNiTensaiShitaOreNoKounouGaTondemosugiru'' has an unusual twist on this - the main character is reincarnated as an ''onsen'' (a hot spring).

* ''LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'': Touya Mochizuki is [[GodIsFlawed accidentally killed by God]], who as a way to make up for it gives him the chance to live in a new world full of magic, and letting him take his smartphone fully functional with him (doing everything to make his existence as pleasing as possible).

* ''Literature/ALilyBloomsInAnotherWorld'' is a LightNovel about Miyako, an overworked wage slave who is reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite ''otome'' game, ''Drop Fantasia.'' But rather than pursue the original LoveInterest of the game, her heart is drawn to her favorite character, Fuuka Hamilton-- the original villainess of the game!

* ''LightNovel/NitosLazyForeignWorldSyndrome'' has an interesting approach due to the main character committing suicide just as his class is summoned to another word. Despite this, he still gets pulled along with them. He arrives healthy and alive but has the "Reincarnate" title on his status screen.

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* ''LightNovel/KnightsAndMagic'' has a HumongousMecha {{Otaku}} who after getting killed in a traffic accident is reincarnated as a (literal) AdorablyPrecociousChild in a medieval fantasy world ...with {{Magitek}}-powered mecha ([[AMechaByAnyOtherName called Silhouette Knights]]). Of course he resolves to become not just a pilot, but also to revolutionize Silhouette Knight design to build his own AceCustom; it helps that as a modern-day human, he was a workaholic, highly-efficient programmer, which translates as him becoming a BadassBookworm ChildProdigy.

* ''[[Fanfic/LivingTheDreamkickass222urmom Living The Dream]]'': After the [[CaughtUpInTheRapture Rapture]], God gave everyone three choices of where they would like to go. The first two choices were heaven and hell, but the third choice would put you in any world you desired. Naturally, the story follows those who picked the third choice, that being [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]].

* In ''The Nonexistent Princess'', [[OffingTheOffspring an eleven year old girl is brutally murdered by her father]], [[who blames her for his wife's death when she was born]]. When she wakes up, she realizes she's a baby, Princess Lunnete Alastaire, daughter of Emperor Gwenheal Alaire, and sister to Prince Laurent, two characters from a fantasy novel she was reading on the day she died, while her character is not mentioned. Since her new father acts coldly towards her, she concludes that he plans to kill her and she becomes obsessed with the idea to run away as soon as she can.

* In the final few episodes of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Edward]] dies and gets sent across the Gate [[spoiler:into 'our' Earth in 1916.]] He gets transported into the body [[spoiler:of his Earth counterpart]] and only is able to go back when he accidentally dies.

* ''Literature/AkuyakuReijouLevel99WatashiWaUraBossDesuGaMaouDeWaArimasen'': The protagonist reincarnates into the world of her favorite video game, an [[GenreMashup otome game/RPG hybrid]] and discovers that she's the heroine's rival who randomly becomes an overpowered {{Superboss}} after the Demon King is defeated. Realizing that being the Superboss means she has the highest stat potential of anybody in the world, she does a bunch of solo LevelGrinding to get strong enough that nobody will harm her. But she goes seriously overboard and hits the LevelCap of 99. And since everybody at the Royal Academy gets scanned for their level on the first day, this ruins her plan to disappear into obscurity.

* ''LightNovel/DadIsAHeroMomIsASpiritImAReincarnator'' Ellen is a reincarnated Scientist reborn into a World of Fantasy and Magic. What's more is that her father is the Hero who saved the Kingdom 10 years ago, and her mother is the Queen of Spirits.

* ''LightNovel/GunotaGaMahouSekaiNiTenseiShitara'': Lute reincarnates in a new world with memories of his life in modern Japan. [[spoiler: There's evidence he's not alone.]] And later [[spoiler: averted, as it turns out the world that Youta reincarnated into is not another world, but rather, the future of our world, and he has no idea at all.]]

* ''LightNovel/BecauseIReincarnatedAsASuccubus'': A teenage boy named Riichi is reincarnated as a succubus, which as a species is able to survive off of "man's life essence" (in other words, sperm). Riichi is straight, so he adamantly refuses, claiming he'd rather starve. Luckily for him, he can also survive off of cow's milk, and is given a superpowered cow to ease his burden.

* ''Literature/AkuyakuReijouLevel99WatashiWaUraBossDesuGaMaouDeWaArimasen'': The protagonist reincarnates into the world of her favorite video game, an [[GenreMashup otome game/RPG hybrid]] and discovers that she's the heroine's rival who randomly becomes an overpowered BonusBoss after the Demon King is defeated. Realizing that being the Bonus Boss means she has the highest stat potential of anybody in the world, she does a bunch of solo LevelGrinding to get strong enough that nobody will harm her. But she goes seriously overboard and hits the LevelCap of 99. And since everybody at the Royal Academy gets scanned for their level on the first day, this ruins her plan to disappear into obscurity.

* In ''LightNovel/DidntISayToMakeMyAbilitiesAverageInTheNextLife'', Kurihara Misato saves someone from being hit by a truck, only to be killed herself. Upon meeting the god set to reincarnate her into a magical world, Misato asks to be an average person, as being top-tier academically and athletically ostracized her from her peers and made her a target of exploitation by adults. However, the god decided that she would be mathematically average in terms of all lifeforms rather than just among humans like she intended, meaning she is half as powerful as an Elder Dragon. Thus Misato, reborn as the noble girl Adele von Ascham (a low-ranking noble family apparently being exactly in the middle of societal hierarchy, thus "average"), tries to live as normal as possible despite being 6,800 times more powerful than a typical human.

* This is the main plot of ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', where an unnamed tomboyish otaku reincarnates into the role of a SpoiledBrat rival from an otome game she was playing before she died. Since the character dies or ends up exiled in every route she plays a role in, she takes precautions to try and avoid her miserable fate. Of course, she's also an idiot, so none of her plans ever go anywhere and she instead ends up stealing the heroine role, along with winning the affection of all four of the love interests, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer the other two rivals, and the heroine herself]] by a combination of [[TheFool sheer dumb luck]] and [[NiceGirl genuine kindness]]. The series is also rather atypical in that it actually shows the effects her death had on Earth, with a side chapter focusing on her best friend Atsuko grieving over her loss. [[spoiler:And for an extra twist, [[ReincarnationFriendship Atsuko also reincarnates into the game as one of the aforementioned rivals]]. Unlike the main character, Atsuko doesn't remember her previous life but she sometimes [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy dreams of it]].]]

* ''FanFic/AClashOfNeets'': The go-to solution for the Seven Goddesses when dealing with any major, world-ending threat is to reincarnate various heroes into the imperiled world, and give them divine-boons to deal with the problem. In most cases, this is a one-off situation for the soul in question, and is generally your typical {{Isekai}} plot. In more ''serious'' cases, however, they'll send a Champion; a Champion is a powerful mortal soul tied directly to a specific goddess; for instance, the [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Puella Magi Holy Quintet are Madoka]]'s Champions, while the [[Manga/SaintSeiya Saints, and Seiya in particular, are Athena]]'s. While a normal hero is only reincarnated for a specific purpose once, and than goes back to the normal reincarnation cycle, Champions are exempt from the cycle and spend eternity fighting for their goddess. Since they're the most powerful servants of the Seven, and can only be in so many places at once, sending them is seen as the "nuclear option" for dealing with a problem. The fact that [[LightNovel/{{Konosuba}} Aqua and Eris]] have reincarnated ''all twelve'' of their shared Champions into [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Westeros]] simultaneously is seen as a very, ''very'' bad sign by those who know something about these things.

* ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'' is a parody of this trope, right down to parodying ''Mushoku Tensei'' below. The protagonist Kazuma meets an embarrassing demise from saving a girl from a farm tractor that he thought was a truck and dies of shock. Kazuma gets a choice to go to heaven or be reincarnated in a world with his current body, plus a boon. He's so annoyed at the goddess in charge of his reincarnation that he chooses ''her'' as his boon, dragging her along with him. This proves to be a mistake, since Aqua is [[LoserDeity completely useless]]. He's also not the only person to be reincarnated in this world.
* ''LightNovel/ALilyBloomsInAnotherWorld'' is a LightNovel about Miyako, an overworked wage slave who is reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite ''otome'' game, ''Drop Fantasia.'' But rather than pursue the original LoveInterest of the game, her heart is drawn to her favorite character, Fuuka Hamilton-- the original villainess of the game!

* ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' starts off with an {{Otaku}} {{NEET}} getting thrown out on the street by his siblings. He then witnesses three teenagers about to be run down by a truck. He successfully saves them, but at the cost of his life. He then reincarnates in a high fantasy world as Rudeus Greyrat.

* ''LightNovel/IsekaiOnsenNiTensaiShitaOreNoKounouGaTondemosugiru'' has an unusual twist on this - the main character is reincarnated as an ''onsen'' (a hot spring).

* ''Literature/TheMagicalRevolutionOfTheReincarnatedPrincess'' is a light novel about someone from our modern world reincarnating as a princess of a fantasy land. Said princess, Anisphia, uses the memories of her old life to create various magical inventions due to her own inability to wield magic. She suspects that her reincarnation may be why she is unable to use magic conventionally, due to her soul being "foreign" in the fantasy world.

* ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' starts off with an {{Otaku}} {{NEET}} getting thrown out on the street by his sibling. He then witnesses three teenagers about to be run down by a truck. He successfully saves them, but at the cost of his life. He then reincarnates in a high fantasy world as Rudeus Grayant.

* In ''[[https://tapas.io/series/tbate-comic/ The Beginning After the End]]'', King Grey dies about five panels in, and the world he's reborn into contains suspiciously similar magic to his previous life.

* ''Did You Think You Could Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?'': After both he and his younger sister had an encounter with Truck-kun, the main character found himself with a goddess, who told him he was to be reincarnated into another world. Reborn as Jack Lieber, in a world where everyone can use magic, he is determined to have a happy life with his new family. There's just one catch: his former sister was also reincarnated into the same world, and she is ''[[BrotherSisterIncest obsessed]]'' with him, and even that ''[[{{Yandere}} is putting it lightly]]''.

* ''Manga/NitosLazyForeignWorldSyndrome'' has an interesting approach due to the main character committing suicide just as his class is summoned to another word. Despite this, he still gets pulled along with them. He arrives healthy and alive but has the "Reincarnate" title on his status screen.