Reincarnation Colosseum (2024)

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Reincarnation Colosseum is a manga written by Harawata Saizou and illustrated by Zunta, first available to the west via scanlation on January 15, 2023. The story features 15-year-old Mikagami Kouji coming home from school and enjoying his computer game but just before he goes to bed, he finds himself being whisked away to another world and face to face with High-priestess Zayd, She seems pleasant enough at first, until he's determined to have the despised "Copy" skill and nothing else. Zayd goes into a complete and total meltdown and then just summarily tosses him into the colosseum's prison where he learns from fellow prisoner Zulu the real-low down, how he's about to be sent into gladiatorial combat, expected to lose horribly, and even if he dies, he'd just get revived, so he can be gender-bent, enslaved to the woman who beat him, and she'd be magically given male genitals just so she could rape him, all sanctioned by the local law. Mikagami, however, is not an idiot. He's a pro, hard-core gamer, and against all odds, wins the fight, claiming the gladiatorial champion for himself, but this humiliates Zayd, who swears unholy vengeance and sends even worse opponents at him. Can Mikagami beat all of the [Holy four] and then get even with Zayd? Or will he wind up losing and getting both physically and sexually abused the rest of his life?

Tropes used in Reincarnation Colosseum include:

• Assumed Win: Zayd never, ever anticipates losing. So when Mikagami wins, she completely loses her composure and throws tantrums as if he's personally attacking her.
• Bleached Underpants: Zunta is an h-doujin artist who specializes in drawing very athletic and muscular women. This story technically isn't an h-doujin, especially since the sex scenes are behind closed doors.
• Death Is Cheap: Revival magic is apparently so prevalent that the sponsors don't even care if the gladiators are killed. They can just easily revive the loser and then hand said loser over to the winner as a Sex Slave.
• Fantastic Racism: In this new world, the magical skills you own determine your lot in life. Your personality, character, etc. are pretty much meaningless, unless you're somehow wealthy enough to hire people with powerful skills to work on your behalf, but... good luck with that.
• Gender Bender: If the loser of a bout is a man, he is fed gender-changing potion(s) that turn him into a woman, and until "her" new owner is defeated in a bout, is going to stay that way. What happens to sex slaves whose owners lose a bout and then become slaves themselves has yet to be revealed, but they certainly do not get added to that other guy's reward.
• Gladiator Games: The entire plot of the story revolves around Mikagami being forced to fight for his life and chastity in a colosseum, and the audience betting on who would win. Death is not an escape, as dying just means being revived as the loser.
• Legal Jailbait: The third gladiator Mikagami has to face is Alice, who looks like she's maybe 12, tops. She's actually 24, and is very, very sensitive about her age, in addition to being a card-carrying misandrist.
• Love Potion: After the bout, the receptionist at the after-bout backstage provides "Secret Drugs" that are advertised as exceptionally powerful aphrodisiacs, to the point that women are instantly aroused to the point they can barely walk and men, in a few minutes, become so aroused that they become feral beasts who can't think of anything but sex and totally ravishing the women in front of them.
• Obstructive Code of Conduct: Gladiatorial slaves like Mikagami are branded off-screen with a magical leash that makes it physically impossible to leave the capital city of Bumbledoll, where the story takes place. They can wander the city between bouts, presuming they're the victors, and can otherwise live normally, but even thinking about leaving the city proper has nasty unseen consequences.
• Sex Slave: The fate of anyone brought to the colosseum, willingly or otherwise, and winds up losing the fight.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Mikagami is summoned against his will at the cost of 1000, supposedly very expensive, magic stones. He turns out to be a bog standard teen, no inherent magical skills, and the skill he got from the Goddess of the world is [Copy], which isn't as great as it sounds. Enraged, Zayd throws him into the colosseum to make a public spectacle of his loss to try and regain at least some of the cost of the summoning. Being a clever [gamer] who almost never loses, Mikagami actually wins the fight, and puts the female gladiator through her own favorite form of humiliation. Zayd goes totally postal and sends an even worse gladiator at him, after his legally mandated week-long break between bouts, fully expecting to crush him.... and just keeps going.

Category:Ecchi