Warning: SPOILERS for To Your Eternity season oneFans will soon have the chance to see Isekai reincarnation done correctly when season two of To Your Eternity finally premiers on October 23. While many people understandably don't associate this tragic story with Isekai, how the first season ends implies that a character will reincarnate to help the hero Fushi in his never-ending journey.

Like all other forms of Isekai, reincarnation involves a character getting transported into another world or sucked into a game, except rather than that character continuing on as their normal selves, they are reborn as a different person, species, or sometimes as an inanimate object like the Isekai parody about a vending machine. Sometimes the place where they are Isekai'd is a literal RPG or a real-life world that acts like a game where people can level up. But what's normally key to reincarnation is when heroes are reborn as specific characters in a game, movie, or novel leading them to try to change the fate of the character they were reborn as. That, or they use their knowledge from their former life to help them succeed in their new one, sometimes with the help of a cheat.

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To Your Eternity will be bringing reincarnation to the forefront when the series resumes later this month. In episode 20 of To Your Eternity's first season, Fushi's elderly friend and companion Pioran is dying and right before her death, she beseeches the Beholder who created Fushi to let her be reborn as something that will help Fushi as he travels the world for eternity. And the Beholder grants her request.

How To Your Eternity will innovate reincarnation Isekai

Pioran reincarnating with the Beholder at the end of To Your Eternity season one

It's uncertain what form Pioran will take when she is reincarnated, but what's interesting is that her soul went into a rock similar to the one that Fushi started as. Whether she'll become another everlasting being like Fushi or just take on a new form, it's obvious that Pioran's reincarnation won't include all the aforementioned gimmicks from resurrection Isekai.

Pioran obviously won't be able to see into the future since the world of To Your Eternity isn't something she's read, played or watched. It's also unlikely that she'll be able to use the knowledge from her former life to help her since she specifically asked for a new form that will help Fushi and therefore won't rely too much on her time as Pioran. Moreover, she and Fushi have already lived together for years and traveled together for months, so there's probably not much more from her past as Pioran that she can help him with. And she will most definitely not level up like a character from an RPG. That's what will make To Your Eternity's rendition of reincarnation so much fresher and more innovative than Isekai, which continues to follow all the same formulas with only a few twists to differentiate them.

Ironically, what To Your Eternity fans are hoping for and looking forward to is a return to form that initially attracted them to the series. Fushi will need to experience more loss, and that means he should lose Pioran a second time after she reincarnates as something new. Of course, To Your Eternity already deviated from this formula to some degree when Tonari survived even though three of her comrades died. Regardless, Pioran's reincarnation will somehow be tragic in season two of To Your Eternity, which will only help Fushi evolve and grow into whatever the Beholder planned.

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The second season of To Your Eternity will be available on Crunchyroll starting this Sunday, October 23.