Fanfic / Just A Reincarnation Story (Summoning Japan Edition)

Just A Reincarnation Story (Summoning Japan Edition) or JARS is a Japan Summons Peggy Sue Fan Fic written by ngilerjo_.

The life of one Meteos Roguerider has come to an end. As he reminisced about his life, he couldn't help but wish (and envy a certain nation for an era of humiliation) that he could do more to change things. However, waking up in the past as his younger self with his memories intact is the last thing he would expect. But in this, Meteos saw an opportunity to right the wrongs some twenty years in the making.

Different from the mainstream Japan Summons fanfiction format that focuses on the scenario of what if 'Country/Faction X summoned to another world', this Lighter and Softer fanfiction is a drama piece that places a primary focus on a single character and the interactions he made with other denizens of his world in this second life.

However, as it turned out, Meteos Roguerider's reincarnation and the future he is so hellbent to avoid is merely a part of a larger disease that plagues the reality.

This fanfic can also be read at Fanfiction Dot Net here, Royal Road here, Scribble Hub here, and Archive of Our Own here.

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These are the tropes contained in this jar (unmarked spoilers for the first 61 chapters):

• Action Girl: Robin, the local martial artist mage who in the Third Timeline also the Action Mom and War (Ashera Roguerider).
• Adaptation Name Change: Due to the alterations in history surrounding the Parpaldia Empire, the woman known as Remille ends up being born in this timeline as Kyrie.
• Adaptational Villainy: Shamash, also known as Amaterasu. Similarly, the act of summoning itself is always referred to as a wicked act.
• Aerith and Bob: Frequently.
• After the End: The series takes place thousands of years after the end of the Ravernal Empire's rule which devastated Ars Goetia's native ecosystem.
• Alien Invasion: The Ravernal Empire's rule of Ars Goetia is the All-Out Attack-class invasion. During a period known as the "Second Epoch", they wiped this planet clean of several native lifeforms to claim the planet's mana for themselves, while they hunted other species for either sport, meat, or simply because they were too angry at the gods for cursing them with an insatiable feeling of emptiness within their souls.
• Arc Words: "Desire". Not only it is used to describe the motivations of the appearing characters, desire is also the core concept in utilizing magic, the birthright of all sentient beings born in this world. As Victor Legendorga puts it, everything that is advanced in this world (buildings, civilization, and even people) comes to being because they are wanted by someone.
  • In the P[R]OL[OGUE] arc, it's "Dreams, happiness, and an ideal world" and "Rebel against fate".
  • Some variation of "Be better" is often spoken to each other by children of the Roguerider family in the Third Timeline.
• Arch-Nemesis: Just like its canon counterpart, the Ravernal Empire is prophesied to return as the Enemy of All Races.
• Ascended Extra: Meteos and Walman, the supporting characters from the Holy Milishial Empire in the original Japan Summons. Especially Meteos by virtue of being the story's main character.
• Big Good: There are two, in fact. One comes from Ars Goetia's mortal plane while the other is a celestial being.
  • Princess Lugiel of the HME's Imperial Lineage is the most supportive of Meteos' efforts and actively protects him behind the shadows from her fellow Order of the Ancients' more unsavory plans for him out of concern for his well-being. After Meteos uses the Temple of Heaven on her in Chapter 71, they finally get into direct contact with each other.
  • Amatsu-Mikaboshi/Kagaseo, the August Star of Heaven. He gives Meteos boons and defends the change occurring on Ars Goetia and Astarte from being discovered by the Civilization Annihilation Game. Even though it turns out to be a futile endeavor as Pestilence knows about it all along.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The people of the Holy Milishial Empire call their magical cellphones (that's already look like smartphones despite lacking in functionality) "grimoires".
• Cosmic Horror Story: The anomalous events that result in the appearance of a country from another world that can potentially bring suffering to the original inhabitants is a form of entertainment for the higher beings who callously cheer at their misery.
• Crossover: Aside from the occasional references to Kamen Rider, the P[R]OL[OGUE] arc is a crossover to Kamen Rider Geats with the appearance of Transformation Trinkets Desire Driver and Vision Driver, which are used by Meteos and Kagaseo respectively to transform into Rider forms during the fight between Meteos' first death and his rebirth (Rogue for Meteos and Glare-X for Kagaseo). Further cemented by the Scheme and Genesis arcs with the presence of Desire Driver technology and a connection of the Civilization Annihilation Game with the future Earth where the Desire Grand Prix in Geats originated from.
• Deadly Game: The Civilization Annihilation Game is a reality show that punishes both its players and audience with death regardless of victory or defeat, because the whole thing is a setup by the First Horseman of the Apocalypse to punish those who use their free will to choose to take pleasure in genocide.
• Deconstruction: Of the Japan Summons' premise, summoning a country to another world. Countries summoned to another world are in effect used as fertilizers to farm cosmic drugs since their existence alone is a disruption that generates misery. In addition, for all the hardships and struggles that a summoned country will face in the new world and if they can even recover and stabilize, all of it will be meaningless since the ones that summoned them, the Civilization Annihilation Game, will make sure that they will die in the end as the part of the final round of their show. There is nothing glorious about it. At all.
• Despair Event Horizon: Defied. Pre-reincarnation Meteos desires his dreams, happiness, and ideal world so hard that not even getting his ass kicked by a god left, right, and center could make him give those up. He will seize those, even if all his feelings are his sins.
• The Dreaded:
  • For the Third and Outside Civilization Areas surrounding the Philades continent, it's the Parpaldia Empire, the "Dragon of Philades".
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whereas the first three are merely doing their jobs, which is anti-mortal life in nature, Pestilence takes the spotlight for being the one who is actively enforces the demise of many civilizations through his reality show.
• Elemental Powers: The three main characters are shown to possess an affinity toward a particular elemental magic:
  • Blow You Away: Meteos
  • Playing with Fire: Walman
  • Shock and Awe: Robin
• Engineered Heroics: With the revelation of the reason why countries like Japan is summoned to Meteos' world, the entire plot and backstory of Japan Summons is this, at least according to Kagaseo. The Civilization Annihilation Game sets up the Ravernal Empire as the "antagonists" of the latest season while naming Japan as their "protagonist", or more precisely, a whole country of Unwitting Pawns.
• Enigmatic Empowering Entity: Whatever unknown being who gives Kagaseo the jar used to absorb the Civilization Annihilation Game's players he defeated to be converted into his own power and allow him a fighting chance in his one-god war against the entire Game serves as this. Turns out to be Death who has his own agenda.
• Genre Shift: Starts out as a fairly relaxed Urban Fantasy story that focuses on the lives of native inhabitants of the world of the Japan Summons. Turns out to be a Cosmic Horror Story all along as the summoning event is merely a tiny fraction of a contrived multiverse-encompassing extermination program by none other than the harbinger of the Apocalypse itself.
• The Gods Must Be Lazy: Defied with Kagaseo, who juggles between taking care of Astarte, Meteos' world, and acting as a decoy from the Civilization Annihilation Game's enforcers. Played straight with the gods of Ars Goetia, as they were all sold by Shamash to the Civilization Annihilation Games except for the incapacitated Astarte.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Kagaseo, the deity who reincarnated Meteos, and, Astarte, whose prayer saved Meteos' soul during the P[R]OL[OGUE] arc and clearly a force of good that once willingly sacrifice the memories of her in order to save the natives of her world. On the other hand, the entity who granted Kagaseo the power-up tool to survive in his one-man war against the Civilization Annihilation Game is ambiguous.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The Civilization Annihilation Game, the reason behind why entities such as countries are forcibly transferred from their home world to the other, of which Shamash is a member of as an Assistant Producer.
• Kick the Dog: Among the Civilization Annihilation Game's audience, there are some whose definition of 'watching their idol's performance' is to see said idol (in this case, Astarte) get subjected to horrific torture. Sometime after Kagaseo took Astarte away, these Audiences are later deleted by the Executive Producer with impunity for angrily reminding him of their lost entertainment.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Mages affiliated with the MOASEC and the Order of the Ancients are shown to be skilled martial artists as well.
• Lighter and Softer: On one hand, being a character-oriented story, JARS emphasizes more on interactions between individuals, especially scenes of characters showing affection to others in the form of platonic, familial, and even romantic love. Even the story itself cannot start if not for the forgotten goddess Astarte's unconditional love allowing the main character to survive the trials given to him by Kagaseo and reincarnate. On the other hand, it's a Cosmic Horror Story.
• Mana: What the magical energy is called in the story.
• Meaningful Name: Meteos Roguerider. His actions in this story is basically him rebelling against fate by attempting to change history.
  • In the grander scheme of things, the saga of Meteos' second life is really just a reincarnation story.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • All canon characters which only has one known name, such as Walman, receive surnames. For example, Walman Falkenhausen and Candee Calvello.
  • The New World as the world is known in canon is known in this story by three names: Loagaeth, Ars Goetia, and at least one person calls the planet Luciftias.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: Civilization Annihilation Game, or as Meteos put it, a group that promotes competitive Armageddon.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: For Meteos' soul to reincarnate, he must first survive in a duel against the god who proceeds to pummel him to the ground, albeit this said god is Willfully Weak and Fights Like a Normal.
• Off the Rails: Butterfly effect aside, the Civilization Annihilation Game seems to remain unaware of the alterations happening in Ars Goetia because of their mindset focusing on spectacular large-scale events that one mortal soul armed with memories of the future, memories inherited from one of the planets they slaughtered, and an unbridled determination completely went under their radar. Subverted because the Executive Producer of the Civilization Annihilation Game knows about Kagaseo's shenanigans all along and after some time leaving him alone, he decides to get involved directly.
• Older Than They Look: It's implied that HME's upper class and those who can afford it tend to look younger than their real age. Candee, a human mage specializing in cosmetics, takes the spotlight as she's already in her 50s but can easily be confused as her daughter Robin's sister.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two Lucius, two Gabriel, and two Adonis.
• Power of Love: Astarte's love for the world is what allows the soul of Meteos Roguerider to barely even the playing field in the fight against Kagaseo, amusing the Star God enough to grant him reincarnation, thus kickstarting the entire plot.
• Red Baron:
  • "August Star of Heaven", which is shared by three different entities in the story: Kagaseo/Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the meteor that banished the Ancient Sorcerous Empire, and the Holy Milishial Empire.
  • Milishial II, Astra ed Luminem of the "Triumphant Star".
  • Milishial VIII, Lucius of the "Morning Star". Additionally, the dragonoids of the Emor Kingdom bestowed him the title of "Lucifer, the Lightbringer of the Two Lands" for his past accomplishments.
• Shout-Out: There the series is chock-full with references to Kamen Rider. To name a few:
  • Robin's Cool Bike is named Trychaser.
  • The Aikon Corporation CEO Victor Legendorga's habit of shouting "Happy Birthday!" brings to mind a certain CEO from Kamen Rider OOO.
  • The writing system of the Holy Milishial Empire.
  • Victor and his family's surname, Legendorga, is the name of one of the Demon Races in Kamen Rider Kiva.
  • Some of the characters' names, such as Harley Hendrickson and Clara Steinbelt, Daguva, and Commander Armando Olteca.
  • In the P[R]OL[OGUE] arc, Kagaseo declares that "if you don't fight, you won't survive!"
• Terms of Endangerment: Pestilence's nickname to Meteos, "Little Brother".
• Tragic Villain: The Malakh/Light-Winged People, the species that made up the Ancient Sorcerous Empire, was initially a benevolent race that had survived the Civilization Annihilation Game twice yet still had the potential to evolve into a greater good. They became genocidal devils that Meteos' world knew because their souls were corrupted the Game after they were caught escaping the "epilogue" for their species' annihilation saga that rendered their planet inhospitable, which results in a major alteration to the history of Meteos' world and gave the Game an opportunity to start another season.
• Urban Fantasy
• Wham Episode: The chapters with Kamen Rider fight scenes are turning out to be these.
  • The P[R]OL[OGUE] arc (Chapters 40-43) reveals the true nature of why countries from another world like Japan, Mu, and the Gra Valkas Empire is sent to Meteos' world: it is nothing more than a part of the Civilization Annihilation Game, a reality show that caters to bloodthirsty audiences, and the misery born from every entity involved is said to be addictive substances to the higher beings in a similar fashion to narcotics.
  • After what seems to be buildup chapters for Meteos to expand his schemes, the Scheme arc abruptly ended in four chapters when the Executive Producer of the Civilization Annihilation Game who is aware of Kagaseo's shenanigans all along finally decides to crash the party and took the matters into his own hands.
• Wham Shot:
  • The appearance of Desire Grand Prix Rider equipment.
  • The latter part of the Scheme arc is a succession of these, starting with the reveal that the Executive Producer's knowledge of what Kagaseo is doing renders his painstaking effort futile in a single sentence to the appearance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to Death who reset the Second Timeline into the Third Timeline.
• World of Technicolor Hair: The more outlandish hair color is explained by the presence of demi-human genes, such as the green-haired Arkland siblings which hails from bird beastman race. On the other hand, however, Meteos and his mother, as well as the Pendragon ducal family, who are all humans, have white hair.