Second Chance
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, volume 1
By Rifujin Na Magonote
13 May, 2026
Translation
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Volume 1 is the first volume of Rifujin Na Magonote’s secondary-universe-fantasy light novel series. The 2021 revision of the 2019 translation1 is by Kevin Frane and Paul Cuneo.
A NEET hikikomori discovers that his siblings have a limit to their tolerance of his worthless ways when he is beaten and then ejected into the streets. Scarcely has he begun to realize how dismal his prospects are when he sees a trio of teens about to be struck by an out-of-control truck-kun. He selflessly pushes the teens to safely, at the cost of placing himself in the truck’s path.
He survives being thrown back into a brick wall…. Until the truck, still moving forward, squashes him against the wall like a tomato.
The NEET is astonished to regain consciousness.