SPIRIT CIRCLE 01 (Spirit World) - Softcover

..".a cast of characters that allows Mizukami to once again couple his own deep understanding of the ambiguities of emotion and desire and loneliness with his totally particular brand of wry humor to tell a story authentic and revealing." --Austin Price, Anime News Network "Satoshi Mizukami's Spirit Circle is about destiny and reincarnation. More meaningfully, it's about forgiveness and compassion--how to heal your blood rift. It's a series that warns the reader implicitly against binge reading, while also acknowledging that the reader, like the main character, will be way too invested to listen." --Claire Napier, Comics Alliance

Fuuta Okeya can see dead people. Besides that - and the bandage he always keeps on his cheek - he's a perfectly normal 14 year old boy who thinks the new transfer student is pretty cute. But to his dismay, Kouko Ishigami wants little to do with him. Strangely enough, it's the ghost that follows her around that seems glad to see Fuuta. Just when Fuuta thinks he's won Kouko over, she catches a glimpse of the birthmark beneath the bandages on cheek, and has a change of heart. Not only does she denounce him as her enemy, but she claims that the birthmark is a curse she engraved upon his face during one of the many past lives they shared together. Just what does Kouko have against him - and who is her enigmatic, ghostly shadow?