History Manga / GirlsGoAround

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[[caption-width-right:225:"Let's start over our sparkling time of youth!"]]

''No one makes the perfect choice every time. Everyone has regrets. Everyone has those moments where they wish they could turn back time and go back to when they made that decision, to try to alter their path. If you could go back to when you had to pick a path... would you do it? Would you decide differently, this time around?''

''Girls Go Around'' is a 10-Chapter-Long manga created by Chida Eito and was originally released in 2013. Each chapter revolves around a girl who accidentally ends up creating a time loop because she regrets a decision she has or has not made one day and wishes to go back to rectify things.

Unfortunately, nobody even notices the time loop going on except the girl who caused it and Sayama Kyousuke! So Kyousuke has to try and figure out what the girl regrets and help her see which decision is right in order to stop the time loop from continuing.

!! This series contains examples of:

* ArcWords: "Are you... regretting something?"
* ChildhoodFriends: Kyousuke and Chihiro.
* CruelTwistEnding: Though implied throughout the story, the final chapter and its ending comes almost completely out of left-field from the general flow of the series.
* DeadAllAlong: Throughout the chapters, it's hinted at that [[spoiler: even the ''beginning'' of the manga is based on a time loop that Chihiro created, because Kyousuke committed suicide during graduation day]].
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Chihiro is the protagonist, not Sayama. The entire plot is about her trying to save him by continually repeating a three year long time loop.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Chihiro thinks Kyousuke initially committed suicide on graduation day because he never joined a club or made happy memories with many friends in school. The final chapter reveals that the ''real'' reason is more that one of the girls was going to die on graduation day and, since Kyousuke didn't want to abandon one of them, decided to just off himself so they can all live]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Hagiyama Miyabe is mostly referred to as the Class Rep.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The final chapter reveals that [[spoiler: it doesn't matter ''what'' Chihiro or Kyousuke do. One of their group ''will'' die on graduation day in their final year. If Chihiro prevents Kyousuke from committing suicide, Chihiro dies. If Kyousuke prevents Chihiro from dying, Shiina is run over by a car. Saving Shiina results in Hagiyama dying. Saving Hagiyama, Izumi dies. And if Izumi is saved, Ootsuka dies. They ''can't'' prevent a death! So they opt to just continue their loops of three happy years of high school life]].
* GroundhogDayLoop: The girls that Kyousuke interacts with find themselves in this sort of loop, in order to correct a regret that they experience.
** The above mentioned loops are relatively simple and are solved with few loops (the longest mentioned time period was for 4 days with Izumi Hiyori, though Kyousuke only had to loop once to correct this). The real kicker comes in the final chapter when it's revealed that [[spoiler: The Groundhog Day loops end up becoming a fairly complicated StableTimeLoop.]]
* MindScrew: Ho boy, trying to explain the entire story and which time loop is going when and where will make you dizzy!
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Ootsuka's problem is her weird hobbies and her shyness, making it difficult for her to make friends.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All of the protagonists, although they somehow also have the power to create time loops.
* PlotHole: The exact nature of the time loop is never fully explained, and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. [[spoiler: The part that makes it difficult to understand is that there are three distinct timelines that occur. The first one, which is mostly alluded to, is one in which Kyousuke leads a boring high-school life. In the second one, Kyousuke winds up helping Shiina, Hagiyama, then Izumi. In the third one, Kyousuke is somehow already on good terms with Shiina, Hagiyama, and Izumi, and winds up helping Ootsuka first, whom he supposedly never met in the other two timelines, before helping the other three with their regrets. In all cases, he winds up committing suicide, having attempted to time loop back several times trying to save all of the girls, and Chihiro loops back to three years ago, apparently being the only character who keeps her memories of all of her previous loops intact (though never of any that Kyousuke has experienced, so she never understands what he’s thinking). It’s never explained why Kyousuke commits suicide in the timeline in which he finds boring (given that the reason given in Chapter 10 shouldn’t apply to this timeline), or how he managed to flip between two distinct timelines after getting stuck in Chihiro’s GroundhogDayLoop.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The reason why most of the time loops happen. The girls end up doing, or not doing, something and regret it so much, they cause a time loop that keeps repeating until they make a decision again.
** Chihiro [[spoiler: caused a time loop in order to stop Kyousuke from committing suicide]].
* SomeoneHasToDie: [[spoiler: Final chapter reveals that one of them ''will'' die on graduation day. The girls' deaths are all sudden, where as Kyousuke's suicide ''was'' after he did multiple time loops in an attempt to save them and decided to just kill himself to keep them alive]].
* StableTimeLoop: The premise of the story. One of the girls in Kyousuke's class ends up accidentally creating one of these every time they end up wishing to return to a time before they made a decision because they regret the choice they made back then. The chapters revolve around trying to get out of one, generally by choosing differently.
** Hinted throughout the chapters, [[spoiler: the entire manga begins on a time loop of three years created by Chihiro, because she doesn't want Kyousuke to commit suicide during graduation day]].
*** Turns out [[spoiler: the manga ''ends'' by revealing that the time loop initially created by Chihiro resulted in ''her'' death. Kyousuke then began a time loop himself to prevent her death, then continued to loop over and over because one of the other girls died if he saved another until he ends up committing suicide to save all the girls... resulting in Chihiro creating the loop to save Kyousuke...]]
* TrueCompanions: What Kyousuke and the four girls he helps end up becoming.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just look at the tropes on this page. It's kind of difficult to talk a lot about this manga without spoiling ''something''.

* {{Nakama}}: What Kyousuke and the four girls he helps end up becoming.

[[caption-width-right:200:"Let's start over our sparkling time of youth!"]]

* {{Nakama}}: What Kyousuke and the four girls he helps end up becoming.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: All of the protagonists, although they somehow also have the power to create time loops.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Ootsuka's problem is her weird hobbies and her shyness, making it difficult for her to make friends.

[[caption-width-right:200:Four of the Five Girls, Left to Right: Hagiyama Miyabe, Yokoze Chihiro, Shiina Tomoka, Izumi Hiyori]]

*** Turns out [[spoiler: the manga ''ends'' by revealing that the time loop initially created by Chihiro resulted in ''her'' death. Kyousuke then began a time loop himself to prevent her death, then continued to loop over and over because one of the other girls died if he saved another until he ends up committing suicide to save all the girls... resulting in Chihiro creating the loop to save Kyousuke...]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Chihiro thinks Kyousuke initially committed suicide on graduation day because he never joined a club or made happy memories with many friends in school. The final chapter reveals that the ''real'' reason is more that one of the girls was going to die on graduation day and, since Kyousuke didn't want to abandon one of them, decided to just off himself so they can all live].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The reason why most of the time loops happen. The girl end up doing, or not doing, something and regret it so much, they cause a time loop that keeps repeating until they make a decision again.

* {{Nakama}}: What Kyousuke and the four girls he helps end up becoming, after helping them get out of their time loops.

[[caption-width-right:225:Four of the Five Girls, Left to Right: Hagiyama Miyabe, Yokoze Chihiro, Shiina Tomoka, Izumi Hiyori]]

''Girls Go Around'' is a 10-Chapter-Long manga created by Chida Eito and was originally released in 2013. The story revolves around girls in their first year of high school, who regret having done or not done something at one point during the school year. Their desire to go back and rethink their decision is so strong, it creates a time loop until they make their decision again. Unfortunately, no one but the girl and Sayama Kyousuke are aware of the time loop! So it's up to the girl and Kyousuke to figure out where her regret lies and which decision would hopefully end the time loop.

*** Turns out [[spoiler: the manga ''ends'' by revealing that the time loop initially created by Chihiro resulted in ''her'' death. Kyousuke then began a time loop himself to prevent her death, then continued to loop over and over because one of the other girls died if he saved another until he ends up committing suicide to save all the girls... resulting in Chihiro creating the loop to save Kyousuke...]]
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: The entire series revolves around a time loop done by Chihiro and/or Kyousuke because they can't all graduate from high school without one of them dying on graduation day, so they'll continue looping]].