Its probably redundant to provide a warning for this manga considering the translation of the title is literally Suicide Circle but I feel the need to do it regardless. This series is centered around the topic of suicide and contains other likely uncomfortable subjects such as selfharm and teenage prostitution so if youre not in the market for reading something unpleasant I would recommend looking elsewhere. 440https://i.ur.com/nJfphxP.png Suicide Circle Im reviewing this manga from the perspective of a person completely unfamiliar with the movie that this was originally based off of. Instead I approached it solely as a fan of Usamaru Furuyahttps://anilist.co/staff/96919/UsamaruFuruyas other manga. I think at this point I definitely do consider him as one of my favorite mangakas. I really really like his gore and I also really respect the almost bizarre variety of ideas for series. 440https://i.ur.com/QuD5iE1.png Every single time I pick up another one of his manga I have absolutely no idea what to expect. And in this case I mean that in a positive manner. Course as Ive already noted this manga is a tiein adaptation of a movie. But apparently the director of the movie insisted that Usamaru Furuya put his own spin on the manga rather than follow the script of the movie as he originally planned. So apparently the only thing ripped straight from the movie wholesale was the opening scene of over fifty high school girls jumping in front of an incoming train. Which to be fair if youre looking for an attention grabbing opening to your movie or manga... 440https://i.ur.com/yVFoco5.png ...theres really no going wrong with that. He doesnt pull any punches either. The next page shows the tracks afterward and theyre just littered with bodies and blood. Plenty of them are just in pieces. But of course of the fifty four that jumped there was one girl who somehow managed to survive completely unhurt. Many would consider such a thing a miracle because I think even if there were fifty four a full speeding train would likely kill all of them but not the survivor in question. Saya Kota was really set on dying. 440https://i.ur.com/REIqJxe.png To make things even worse not only did she not die but she also lost her idol Mitsukosan. She feels that in surviving shes been abandoned. And in her depression she finds a new path to follow. Mitsukosans. She failed in dying with Mitsukosans suicide circle... so she takes the moniker onto herself to start a new one to try again. 440https://i.ur.com/wdQVDXL.png I think my favorite part about this manga is there isnt just one possible interpretation to take away from it. As long as you pretend the part where an apparition of Saya as a child shows up and starts acting all spooky and shit to Kyoko is strictly in her head you can go with the there are no supernatural hijinks going on interpretation. I think it works way better if its just a continuing chain of incredibly misfortunate girls carrying and passing on a suicidal tradition than spooky ghost shit. 440https://i.ur.com/YVk6XBy.png Conclusion Its short and its definitely not my favorite Usamaru Furuya manga but I do like it quite a lot. My favorite bit probably being at the very end where Still I probably could have lived without the depictions of selfharm and teenage prostitution which was just... thoroughly unpleasant but that was obviously the point. So with the unpleasant stuff factored in I give this manga centered around high school girls killing themselves and also some murder a 6.5 out of 10 or 65 out of 100. ...What a cursed line to type. 440https://i.ur.com/lXDYQEE.png