Shirokuma Tensei (Polar Bear Reincarnation)

chrollo

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Full title: Shirokuma Tensei: You became the Guardian God of the Forest Legend

Description
After dying in a mountain climbing accident, a 28-year-old man finds that he is reincarnated in an alternate world… AS A POLAR BEAR. After taking a PAWS to get acquainted with his new body, the MC soon learns that he can fight better than aKUMA from Street Fighter after he BEARs witness to a beast girl being hunted by the army and gets ARCTICked off. The question is: is this new life a blessing, or a curse?

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/shirokuma-tensei-you-became-the-guardian-god-of-the-forest-legend/

Year - 2017
Status - 5 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
Publisher - Hobby Japan
Author - Mishima Chihiro
Artist - Kururi

What I find really appealing about this is how the bear mc uses his carpentry and other practical skills from his previous life in this fantasy world to help others, it has great slice of life moments. Oh yeah and there's also a lot of super bad-ass bear fighting action so that's a plus. Honestly seeing a polar bear main character doing all kinds of cool things is something I never knew I wanted, who doesn't love polar bears?

This has a manga as well so maybe you can also try getting that.

smashman42

Those puns are worse than Brother Bear's, not just beary bad but unbearably bad! Ugh, it's contagious!

Kite-XX

I would mark this series of the top 5 on my list of novels with bizarre reincarnation, with vending machine on top.

Terrence

This and that "Prime Minister and the Pink Panda" one need to make it stateside somehow. Because who doesn't love bears? 🐻🐼

(Isn't there that Kuma Kuma Kuma one with a Moe girl dressed as a bear too? More bears plz).

@kite-xx said in Shirokuma Tensei (Polar Bear Reincarnation):

I would mark this series of the top 5 on my list of novels with bizarre reincarnation, with vending machine on top.

Reincarnated as a whale is my top most wanted

Then Vending Machine (which we got).

Then Reincarnated as a hot spring.

Then this and then Sword Reincarnation (which we're getting).

There's probably some I'm forgetting though... (I don't know if that Mimic Treasure Chest monster one is reincarnation or no).

chrollo

@kite-xx True xD

smashman42

@terrence said in Shirokuma Tensei (Polar Bear Reincarnation):

Reincarnated as a whale is my top most wanted

Is there a bowl of petunias shouting "not again!"?

Terrence

@chrollo said in Shirokuma Tensei (Polar Bear Reincarnation):

What I find really appealing about this is how the bear mc uses his carpentry and other practical skills from his previous life in this fantasy world to help others, it has great slice of life moments.

I think I want more of this. Justification for Isekai setting; people using skills that aren't just "my knowledge of history and politics" (though I like that too, don't get me wrong, I just want more of "I was accomplished in the previous world, I can do stuff here" and less "I'm a fish out of water, what do I do, help me god, give me some insane skill!").

@smashman42 said in Shirokuma Tensei (Polar Bear Reincarnation):