History Main / NewTransferStudent

%%* Dong-ha in ''Manhwa/ImAtEndOfYourSight'', though whether or not he attends school depends on his personality.

%%* ''Manhwa/ZippyZiggy'': Sung-Hae at the start.

* [[ArtificialIntelligence Autonomously Thinking]] [[MoreDakka Fixed Artillery]]-san and [[ArtificialHuman Itona Horibe]] from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. Since Koro-sensei is not allowed to harm his students, those two special assassins are thrown in by the government to use advantage of that rule. Kaede Kayano is also a transfer student, as she transferred to Class 3-E before the start of the series, a detail that simply serves as {{Foreshadowing}}.

Sometimes, the new transfer student will get an PreMeeting, usually in the form of the main character bumping into them before school starts, one way or another.

Sometimes, the new transfer student will get an EarlyBirdCameo, usually in the form of the main character bumping into them before school starts, one way or another.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' slips seamlessly into Dib's elementary school despite having a PaperThinDisguise that doesn't even change his skin color from its normal green; claiming it's a skin condition and also why he doesn't have ears. Or a nose, for that matter.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has a few in the form of Alya, Lila, and Zoe, who move to Paris over the course of the series.

* Bella Swan transfers to Forks High School to open ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
* Lena Duchannes in ''Beautiful Creatures'' starts out this way. She had also been to many other different schools before finally landing in Gatlin.

** Aelita becomes one in "False Start", which becomes a permanent part of the series in Season 2 Opener "New Order".

%%** Aelita pretends to be one once she is no longer forced to stay on Lyoko.
%%** In Season 2, William is such a transfer student.

* Lots of examples in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}.''

* Variation in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Syaoran (and in the anime, Meiling as well) presumably has all the documentation an innocuous transfer student would need, as he's a human with a past and a family; the most unusual part from a bureaucratic standpoint would be how he joined the class in the middle of the school year. Played straighter with Eriol; while he joins the class at the beginning of the summer session, he's [[spoiler:the reincarnation of Clow Reed, and in the manga is explicitly said to have been a child for years]], so not much chance of legitimate records from his former school helping his transition.* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':

** In the first episode of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', Mai is the NewTransferStudent, having just returned to the area after leaving years ago. Until [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Urara]] a year later, and Kurumi from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5GoGo'' the year after that, Mai was unique among transfer students in the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise in that she does ''not'' start out with a bad attitude, gradually improve while becoming friends with main characters, suddenly turn out to be evil (though the audience knew this all along), fight the main characters, change affiliations during the fight, head off to apparent death, and then reappear near the end of the season. And later on, we would get [[Anime/FreshPrettyCure Setsuna]] and [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Tsubomi]], albeit the former is another [[HeelFaceTurn villain turned good]], then [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ellen]], [[Anime/SmilePrecure Miyuki]], [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Makoto]], [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]] and then [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Towa]]. Of those ten, three are formerly evil and six come from other worlds (there's a bit of overlap there).

* ''WebVideo/WeirdSchoolRulesInHongKong'': Episode 3's final skit is set in a boys' school, where two students discuss how strange it was to have a no-dating rule in place in such a setting. Then, a female student named 'Fian' is transferred to the school and introduced to the class; when the two boys comment that [[TheSmurfettePrinciple having a girl in a boys' school]] is awesome, the teacher reprimands them for "talking about romance" in class, which was against the school rules.

* ''WebVideo/WeirdSchoolRulesInHongKong'': Episode 3's final skit is set in a boys' school, where two students discuss how strange it was to have a no-dating rule in place in such a setting. Then, a female student named 'Fian' being transferred to the school; when the two boys comment that [[TheSmurfettePrinciple having a girl in a boys' school]] is awesome, the teacher reprimands them for "talking about romance" in class, which was against the school rules.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}''
** The comic begins when the titular protagonist transfers to a new school so she can attend as a girl.
** In Chapter 15, two new students transfer to St. Hallvard after Christmas break. Ana Rubina and Brett Desrocher.

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' begins when the titular protagonist transfers to a new school so she can attend as a girl.

%%* Ami Kawashima in ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''.

* Bella Swan transfers to Forks High School to open ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga.]]''

* ''Literature/TheNameJar'': [[TheProtagonist Unhei]] is this. She and her parents moved to the United States from Korea.

** This series is yet another case of the protagonist being the transfer student... however, this is explicitly not a good thing, as the way that transfer students must be treated in Aogami High School turns out to be a very delicate balancing act that could either make the students look like total suck-ups or in the worse case, earn the ire of [[VengefulGhost Shino Misora]].

* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' begins with [[{{Shinigami}} Lisara]] coming to the human world in search of a fabled being of immeasurable power, who may be able to save [[AnotherDimension Grimwald.]] She has reason to believe he may be hidden among the students at Ryosuke's school, so she enrolls in his class the day after forming a contract with him.

* Basara does this in episode 2 of ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'', in order to stay closer to Mio to help protect her against demons trying to kill her. Unfortunately a childhood friend of his also attends the school, and her giving TheGlomp to him in front of their entire class and Mio, stirs some [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy in the latter]], and she tries to forcibly separate the two.

%%* Ami Kawashima in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''.

* Several examples in ''LightNovel/UnlimitedFafnir'':

* In ''LightNovel/ALullabySinister'', the main character, Satoshi Yoshida, is the new transfer student. He'll soon wish he'd transferred elsewhere.

* ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'' begins when the titular protagonist transfers to a new school so she can attend as a girl.

* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', the PlayerCharacter is a teenage wizard who's WelcomedToTheMasquerade late and enters the titular WizardingSchool in their fifth year. Part of the story revolves around them trying to catch up to their peers with a head start on them while also having to WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.

* [[ArtificialIntelligence Autonomously Thinking]] [[MoreDakka Fixed Artillery]]-san and [[ArtificialHuman Itona Horibe]] from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. Since Koro-sensei is not allowed to harm his students, those two special assassins are thrown in by the government to use advantage of that rule. [[TheChick Kaede Kayano]] is also a transfer student, as she transferred to Class 3-E before the start of the series, a detail that simply serves as {{Foreshadowing}}.