500https://i.ur.com/A7wwYDW.jpg Joshikousei ni Korosaretai is a psychological manga by Usamaru Furuya.https://anilist.co/staff/96919/UsamaruFuruya Ive read as well as reviewed several of his other series prior to this one and let me just tell you... I might not give all of his series great scores but hes probably one of my favorite mangakas. His series are always just so wonderfully weird in ways I just really love. In addition he really seems to have no... restraint? 440https://i.ur.com/W6Qv3iq.png Thats probably not the right word to use. It just seems like hell do a series on anything he feels like. From a crazy high school club building a horrific robothttps://anilist.co/manga/35709/LycheeLightClub to the Childrens Crusade.https://anilist.co/manga/47020/InnocentsShounenJuujigun The skys the limit with Usamaru Furuya. Though... that kind of led to... I dont want to say disappointment but I definitely was expecting there to be a bit more to this one than I ended up getting. 440https://i.ur.com/Y6srP1Q.png The primary idea of this manga is that a male teacher is really really obsessed with thoughts of being killed by a high school girl. He just really wants to be strangled to death. By a high school girl. Emphasis on the high school girl. Italics on the high school girl. Bold too on the high school girl. Header as well on the high school girl. 440https://i.ur.com/ezZzxSu.png ...What was I saying? Ah yes. Our main character this really weird but normal on the surface high school teacher really wants to be killed by a high school girl. And I really loved that core idea because we see all these different interactions between him and the other characters who have absolutely no idea what is currently going on through this guys head. But we the readers of course have already been shown clearly what this guy has been fantasizing and dreaming about. Which makes the teacher even more disturbing when hes just normally interacting with our strange cast of characters. 440https://i.ur.com/hl4M9rh.png Speaking of which I was fine with how strange the other characters were when they were introduced because I thought the teachers plan of getting his high school girl of choice to kill him was going to convoluted and actually involve these other characters orbiting around the main girl. Instead the teachers plan turned out to be the most disappointing part of the manga. Which brings into question why are the other characters so weird? Like the main girls friend is... for one she has Aspergers. Thats not me making a poor joke against this character or anything she genuinely has Aspergers. 440https://i.ur.com/F1s8Qwc.png But also shes clairvoyant? Or rather she can sense future events? She can sense in advance when earthquakes are about to happen and she happens to have a really bad feeling about a certain teacher... Then you have the male student character who is romantically interested in the main girl... perhaps... a bit too romantically interested. Like okay maybe making an effort to get into the same high school as her is passable. 440https://i.ur.com/teMncHx.png But like he also hunted down the exact shampoo she uses?? Might want to... I dont know dial it back a bit? 440https://i.ur.com/zSabSmK.png But yeah I definitely expected at least him to somehow be incorporated into the teachers plan to get this girl to kill him. Instead he just happens to be along for the ride because hes also obsessed with this girl. Granted his intentions are admittedly purer than the teachers. Then you have the clinical psychologist who joins the schools staff who turns out to be an exgirlfriend of Mr. I Really Want to Be Strangled By a High School Girl and I was like okay well how is she going to fit into things??? How is she going to fit into this weird tangled mess of characters? 440https://i.ur.com/QMjTF6Q.png Then you find out how she actually fits and then you go oh. Thats it? Really? Conclusion Usamaru Furuya manga just seem to draw me in like a black hole. 440https://i.ur.com/zIhOsYO.png Theres no use in fighting the pull. The weird ideas and the weird characters just make me jump right in fascinated yet desperately wondering where the hell the series is gonna go. However Joshikousei ni Korosaretai is unfortunately a misfire. I really have no better way to put it than that. But its an interesting misfire nonetheless. And I still really like the character of the teacher. Hes just so genuinely creepy and driven by this weird obsession and he is just putting on a facade to everyone he interacts with and I loved that part of this manga. 440https://i.ur.com/tf3p56s.png I give this particular Usamaru Furuya manga a 5.5 out of 10 or 55 out of 100. This isnt his best manga and it sure as hell isnt his best written one. The following spoiler contains some of my issues with the ending. I keep it relatively brief. It definitely does spoil it though so dont look at it. It wouldnt be an Usamaru Furuya manga if it didnt cause me to react like this at some point. Part of the charm I suppose. 500https://i.ur.com/ot3jiDQ.jpg