Spirit Circle

Spirit Circle (Japanese: スピリットサークル, Hepburn: Supiritto Sākuru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Mizukami. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from May 2012 to March 2016, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. The manga received a digital simultaneous publication release in English by Crunchyroll Manga, while Seven Seas Entertainment later licensed the series for a print release.

Spirit Circle
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Rune (left) and Fuuta Okeya (right)
スピリットサークル (Supiritto Sākuru)
Genre	Science fantasy, supernatural[1]
Manga
Written by	Satoshi Mizukami
Published by	Shōnen Gahōsha
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment Manga Planet (digital)
Magazine	Young King OURs
Original run	May 30, 2012 – March 30, 2016
Volumes	6

By 2022, Spirit Circle had sold 250,000 physical copies.

Plot

Fuuta Okeya is a high school student who can see ghosts and has a strange mark on his cheek that he hides. When Kouko Ishigami, a new student, arrives in his class with a scar on her forehead and accompanied by a ghost named East, Fuuta's tranquillity ends. After a failed attempt by Fuuta to make friends with Kouko and after she sees his mark, Kouko declares him to be her enemy, attacking him with a mysterious spiritual circle made of flames. The hostilities between the two date back to their reincarnation, and Fuuta will have to discover his past and his links with Kouko, East, and Rune, the spirit of a girl who suddenly appears.

Characters

Fuuta Okeya (桶屋 風太, Okeya Fūta)

A fourteen-year-old with the ability to see and communicate with ghosts.

Kouko Ishigami (石神 鉱子, Ishigami Kōko)

Fuuta's deadly enemy. She recovered her past life's memory after a car accident that left a scar on her forehead.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Satoshi Mizukami, Spirit Circle was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs from May 30, 2012,^[2] to March 30, 2016.^[3] Shōnen Gahōsha collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from December 10, 2012,^[4] to June 10, 2016.^[5]

The manga was first licensed for a simultaneous publication in English by Crunchyroll Manga in 2014.^[6] In January 2017, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America.^[7] Manga Planet added the series to its digital service in May 2020.^[8]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	December 10, 2012[9]	978-4-7859-3983-0	October 10, 2017[10]	978-1-626926-01-1
2	July 30, 2013[11]	978-4-7859-5097-2	January 9, 2018[12]	978-1-626926-80-6
3	April 3, 2014[13]	978-4-7859-5255-6	April 17, 2018[14]	978-1-626927-29-2
4	November 29, 2014[15]	978-4-7859-5433-8	July 10, 2018[16]	978-1-626928-32-9
5	August 29, 2015[17]	978-4-7859-5433-8	October 9, 2018[18]	978-1-626929-24-1
6	June 10, 2016[19]	978-4-7859-5793-3	January 8, 2019[20]	978-1-626929-86-9

Reception

Spirit Circle was nominated for the 48th Seiun Award in the comic category in 2017.^[21]

By 2022, the manga had sold 250,000 physical copies.^[22]