Kirishima Tsubame is 16, the perfect age for putting on an act.
As a high school girl in her rebellious teens, her biggest hobby is letting her hair down, half-covering her eyes with long black bangs, putting on white over-ear headphones, and wearing her school uniform with a blank expression as she pretends to be a gloomy goddess.
Even when delinquents swagger up to the genuinely timid Kirishima Tsubame, she just walks past them expressionlessly, leaving a few of them standing there, stunned by her act.
Though she later gets weak in the knees and breaks out in a cold sweat when she thinks back on it, she still wants to shout: Putting on a show like this is so awesome!
One day, she risks her life to save someone on a busy street just to protect her image, and ends up in the news receiving an award. Even after arriving in the underworld, Kirishima Tsubame has no regrets.
Unexpectedly, because she ended her life early while helping someone in need, King Yama takes a liking to her and grants her a chance to live again. The condition is that she can only be reborn in a Japanese anime, not the real world, and her story will be shown as an anime in the real world.
You've got to be kidding. Just thinking about all the awesome powers in manga makes Kirishima Tsubame's chuunibyou spirit stir.
But the thing that left the deepest impression on Kirishima Tsubame was Naruto, once a huge hit in Japan, known to everyone from senior citizens in their sixties to three-year-olds.
Which internet surfer hasn't heard the word "Amaterasu"? Who hasn't imagined having all kinds of ninjutsu? Who hasn't been awed by Chibaku Tensei?
Sixteen is the age when you don't know how vast the world is.
Without giving a thought to how brutal the world might be, Kirishima Tsubame chooses Naruto without a moment's hesitation.
The thought that all her showy antics would be drawn into an anime makes her ecstatic.
Ignoring the hesitation in King Yama's eyes, she eagerly asks whether she gets any special cheats.
"...Yes, yes, you do." King Yama pauses strangely between the two yeses, then continues, "After you reincarnate, your memories of your previous life will become hazy, but you'll be born with a System bound to you. It will record your actions and project them into the anime."
"Your chakra will be tied to your popularity in the real world. After reincarnation, you'll still be an ordinary person with no kekkei genkai, but as long as you make the audience believe you have a certain ability, you'll really gain that ability."
Putting on an act is my specialty. Kirishima Tsubame isn't worried about losing her memories, because she knows her true nature won't change.
Turning her back to King Yama, she waves jauntily and goes off to be reborn.
This story contains a small amount of forum-style scenes.
At first, the heroine is just a rebellious teenage girl with immature thoughts. She won't consider every possible angle the way an adult would.
The male lead is set from the start. If you want to see the heroine with someone else, I might write it in an extra.
Theme: Use your strength to turn every tragedy around.
