Manga / Fukushuu Kyoushutsu

"I made a choice, to get my revenge on everyone! I'll let everyone experience the same hell as I did!"

"Why do they have to go this far? As I was almost killed, I realized that... they don't really have a reason. It just so happens I was caught in their web. A web known as malice. Whether you put up with it or put up a fight, it makes no difference. In the end, you get killed. If you don't like that... risk your life... and retaliate."

— Fujisawa Ayana

Fukushuu Kyoushitsu ("Revenge Classroom") is a manga by Yamazaki Karazu, with art by Kaname Ryu.

The manga follows Fujisawa Ayana, a girl who gets bullied and abused on a daily basis by her classmates. After surviving a murder attempt by an unknown classmate, she realizes that it's kill or be killed, so she starts a plot to take revenge on everyone in her class.

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Tropes:

• Aborted Arc: In-universe, Ayana throws some of her revenge plans away after situations change, such as the splitting up of the class between schools or the increased focus on Ren.
• Abusive Parents: Both Ayana and Yuuko have a set, but Yuuko's are far worse. While Ayana's parents are content to basically consider her a failure and a shame, Yuuko's parents are an EXTREME case of Education Mama AND papa. Whenever Yuuko fall short of her parents expectations, they lock her up in her room and keep her there, studying, until they forgive her. But once Yuuko's clubbing is exposed, her parents decide that because she goes outside and is now “corrupted”, they decide never allow to to leave their home and hire a private tutor until they enroll her into an all-girls private school deep in the mountains.
• Accomplice by Inaction: Ayana will take revenge on everyone in her class, even those who did nothing against her, because they did not help her either.
• Accuser of the Brethren: It's too late to apologize to Ayana, it does not matter your intentions or regrets.
• All for Nothing: Mari wanted to get revenge on Ayana's father for her father's suicide, and so she goes after Ayana via Revenge by Proxy with the hopes that it would put him through the same pain she felt. Ayana tells her point blank that even if she did, her death would be meaningless to him since both her parents never cared for her anyway, consider her a failure, a shame on the family, and have already disowned her.
• All the Other Reindeer:
  • Ayana is heavily bullied in school, she gets help of Shouta and Ai by convincing them that, when she is gone, they'll seek other targets and they are the most likely ones.
  • Apparently, the entire class, once disbanded has been singled out by the students of the schools they are sent to, out of fear they are cursed.
• Ax-Crazy: Ayana and Ren, particularly, but Yamase seem to have traits of it.
  • Holy shit, do Shiori and Mao got it bad! Just about anything can set them off, especially if you answer to Ayana Fujisawa.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Yamase can get pretty dangerous when mad. He also turns out to be the one that set up everything in the classroom for Mari and Ayana's confront. Just For the Lulz.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Miho Tsukamoto seems to be up to something weird, to the point where even Ren does not mess with her.
• Big Good: Miho turns out to be this. She had been secretly trying to protect Ayana and put an end on her revenge that would also make Mari pay for her crimes. She was also the one to figure out and make plans against the real Big Bad, Yuuya
• Black-and-Grey Morality: The people who are not outright evil jerkasses, are at least welcoming of the use of violence.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Some revenges are bloody torture and accidents, some are not. Particularly, Kawamoto (being throw in a pit with a board pinned with nails) compared to Igarashi (threatened by muggers).
• Book Ends: Invoked by Mari. She kidnaps Miho and calls Ayana to come find her in the 3-3 classroom where their revenge battle started, as she thinks it's fitting that it would also end there.
• Bookworm: Miho, who quotes Osamu Dazai and can put even Ren in his place.
• Bully Brutality: Ayana's bullying is truly horrendous, up to and including multiple counts of rape and even being thrown under a car, with the bullies expressing actual disappointment that she survived. It's little wonder that she decides to go on her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Central Theme: The Cycle of Revenge is endless, continuous and fruitless. Nothing comes out of revenge aside from violence, from revenge, you will not find happiness, satisfaction or justice, just possibly some catharsis before someone else tries to get revenge on you.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Ai starts to go completely on board with Ayana's ideas no matter how bloody, due to slowly accept her ideals.
• Creepy Loner Girl: Ayana is a middle school aged girl with messy black hair and HEAVLY ostracized and bullied by her entire class while her parents emotionally abuse her at home.
• Cycle of Revenge: Ayana was a target of violent bullying from Mari, as she was trying to get revenge from the suicide of her father, whose death she blames on Ayana's father. The violent bullying ultimately leads Ayana to unleash revenge on everyone. After the "Revenge Classroom" Case is made public, several stories of violence between minors due to bullying and revenge sprout nationwide as a surge of crime between minors happen.
• Delicate and Sickly: Miho is noted to have health problems.
• Despair Event Horizon: Yuuko and Emi's death, to Ayana. After that, she is even more roary rampagy and revengy than before.
• The Dog Bites Back: Ayana’s been horrifically tortured by her classmates, and decides she’s had enough when one of them nearly kills her. She goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge not just towards her bullies, but against everyone since they did nothing but ignored her sufferings.
• Downer Ending: Much of the class is dead, and everyone who survived experienced a lot of mental or physical trauma (if not both). Ayana ends the series in a coma from falling from the 4th story of the school. And Yamase, who was ultimately the instigator of the entire plot, gets away scot free, as apparently Ren is unable to bring himself to kill him, even knowing everything he's done. This IS because the damage has already been done and nothing would change if he killed Yamase. And news of the events has lead to a chain of copycat cases of students violently attacking each other in revenge for bullying across Japan.
• The Dreaded: Ren Tokiwa. A notorious delinquent that even the teachers wouldn’t dare cross, he’s also Ayana lead rapist and would brutalize anyone that dares cross him, but woe to anyone should someone so much as touch his “toy”. It’s telling that for Ayana’s desire for revenge and outright hatred for her classmates, she’s still deeply terrified of Ren.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Yuuko, after spending too much time in her parents' punishment.
  • It's implied in one chapter that Ayana intends to do this after she has gotten revenge on all her classmates. Though at the end she decides that a better fate would be to live with her crimes the rest of her life than simply die. She changes her find by the final chapters, deciding to face her punishments under the law.
• Enemies List: All volumes of the manga have a picture of each member of the class. Those that Ayana already took revenge appear with a mark on their photos.
• Exact Words: Ayana promises Yuuki that his girlfriend, Rino, won't freeze to death. Ayana then burns down the place they were locked inside.
• Final Boss: Ren is compared to one, being the most powerful member of the class. In the end though, Ai manages to catch him off guard and incapacitate him right before the finale, making it seem like it is Mari and her gang who will become the final obstacle... only for Shouta to show up with a chainsaw.
• Foreshadowing: In hindsight, Miho's quotes of Ningen Shikkaku hints that she despises herself for failing to protect Ayana and plans to die.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Ayana realizes she is causing just as much harm as it was caused to her. She doesn't care at all, she is completely ok with it and is ambiguously the point of her revenge.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: To everyone who bullied Ayana.
• Hypocrite:
  • Mari claims that she's a "good girl" whose trying to get rid of someone evil, despite the fact that she's the one who set Ayana up as the target of constant bullying that resulted in her revenge schemes.
  • Mao and Shiori horrifically torment Ayana, but whenever they proclaim their endgame plan to outright murder their favorite punching bag, they immediately switch to not kill her but make her kill want to kill herself, because murder is beneath them and don’t believe anything they do wrong will land them in prison. And they try to justify their actions by the logic of how society itself functions. And to that point the two bullies, especially Mao, beat Anaya black and blue, nearly drown her, and even hires some thugs to rape her! Why? Because Ayana tried to burn two of their classmates alive, so that makes her a monster but not them, so she deserves to die! Out of all people, it's Ren that comes by and saves Ayana, but then Mao pulls out a knife threatens to kill him. Ren outright calls her out on her hypocritical logic and dares her to come at him. She doesn’t and takes out her frustration on one of the would be rapists and repeatedly shouts out "die!"
  • it gets even more messed up when it’s revealed that they're horrified that their mutual friend Mari tried to kill herself because she was suffering, but at the same time relish at other people's suffering and desire to drive anyone to suicide.
• I Shall Taunt You: Heavily mourning Emi and Yuuko, Ayana outright tells one of her rapists, Daisuke, that he should have been the one who died. Even when he beats her up and threatens to rape her unless she apologized, Ayana refused and continued to repeatedly declare You Should Have Died Instead. When Daisuke leaves, Ayana pulls out her phone and reveals she recorded the entire assault. This inspires her to go back to her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Insane Troll Logic: Two of Ayana’s most bloodthirsty bullies, Shiori and Mao, live up to this trope. They firmly believe they’ve done nothing wrong and wish to drive Ayana into a corner just so that she’ll be Driven to Suicide. They strongly believe this is how society works. But whenever they declare they want to murder Ayana, they quickly proclaim murder is beneath them… but being Driven to Suicide isn’t by their book.
• Insistent Terminology: Mao and Shiori hate Ayana with a passion, to the point of outright declaring their intent to kill her. Only to switch it to not kill her but make her kill herself.
• It's All My Fault: In the past, Ryou confessed his feelings towards Ayana, but she turned him down. And to drive to point home, she kisses Naoto in front of him. Ryou's friends suddenly come foward and declare they will never forgive her for this. It was around the point did her bullying began, with Ryou's friends making sure he was never around her when the bullying took place. In the present Ryou finds out that it was Ren that forced her to reject him, kiss Naoto, and had her raped by his underlings. In his phone call to Yuuma, he laments that had he never confessed his love for Ayana, then perhaps she wouldn’t have gotten bullied.
• I've Come Too Far: After Emi saves Ayana from some bullies and shows her that even though Yuuko has been ignoring her, she regrets it and wants to make it up to Ayana, it seems Ayana is truly considering giving up her revenge, at least on them. However, her already committed plans causes Yuuko and her parents to think Emi sold her out. Yuuko kills herself and Emi accidentally falls to her death. Ayana is horrified but decides to continue her revenge plans. However it’s clear she has lost it since her plans start being rather lethal than just humiliating. Daisuke raping her not too long after the tragedy inspired her to be even more ruthless against the rest of her classmates.
• Kissing Cousins: The only woman that Ayana's father ever truly loved was his ill cousin who turned out to be Yuuya's mother. The family, however, exiled her and made Ayana's father marry Ayane's mother into a Loveless Arragned Marriage. He's hated both women ever since. Yuuya and Ayana are if fact half-sibilings.
• Lesser of Two Evils: How Kawamoto sees Ayana: he agrees to do everything she orders because she has a recording of him raping her, which was against Ren's rules, and facing her revenge is better than facing his wrath.
• Nice Guy: One of Ayana’s classmates, Ryou, is one of the few people to never torment her. Part of this is because he has a crush on her, but he always had a strong belief in justice. When he confessed his love towards her, Ayana cruelly rejects him because of Ren’s threats. Ryou was heartbroken over this, but made it clear to his friends that he doesn’t hold any ill feelings towards Ayana. But his friends would always discreetly lure him away while Ayana was getting bullied since they hated her for hurting Ryou’s feelings. Ryou is relieved to find out the truth of her rejection and shames Ren for forcing Ayana to comply. You can image his reaction once he finds out what Ren and his underlings did to Ayana.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • Ren chooses not to kill Yamase when he has the chance out of some sort of kindness. It turns out that Miho had actually asked Ren to kill Yamase, as she knew that he was the instigator of literally the entire plot, and by leaving him alive, Yamase goes on to free Shouta who had gone insane from his imprisonment. Through Yamase's manipulation, Shouta takes a chainsaw and kills one student, severely maims another, and causes Ayana to jump out of a window multiple stories up, putting her in a coma that she does not come out of before the end of the story. If Ren had killed Yamase like he had others without issue, the story may not have had a happy ending, but at least a happier ending.
  • Flashbacks revealed that Ayana first meets Ren after he got into a fight with seniors. She saw how badly injured he was, took him to the nurse’s office while shutting down his protests, and heals him herself. In the present day, Ren would make her his “toy” and would have his underlings rape her as he watched.
  • One time, Rino stood up for Ayana while she was being bullied by Mao and Shiori. The two bitches eventually get Rino alone and reveal that unless she leaves Ayana alone, they’ll threaten to alert the teachers that the soccer club that she’s managing will shut down due to the members smoking and reveal a lot of used cigarettes at the club room. Rino realizes that Mao and Shiori planted the cigarettes, but agrees to stop protecting Ayana. When Rino reveals this to Ayana as she’s torturing her and her boyfriend, Ayana refuses to forgive her for this.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Ayana's ideals.
• Rape and Revenge: So far, a total of 4 men have already raped Ayana, 3 of them did that together, and Ren considers her his toy. And Ayana makes sure they suffer the consequences.
  • When Daisuke escapes from Ayana’s torture and shouts out into the sky that he’s sorry for assaulting her and claims he was Just Following Orders from Ren. Little did he knew, Ryou, who’s in love with Ayana, was just behind him and immediately pushes him over a bridge. He decides to go out and hunt down Ren for what he did to Ayana.
• Revenge: The whole base of the plot, it's in the title.
• Revenge Before Reason: Downplayed in Ayana's case: she realizes her revenge will forever haunt and keep her away from a normal life, but doesn't believe that there's anything else for her and that she has gone too far.
• Revenge by Proxy: Ayana was a target of violent bullying instigated by Mari, as she was trying to get revenge for the suicide of her father, whose death she blames on Ayana's father.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The very base of the manga is Ayana taking revenge on her class.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Ayana suffers this after Yuuko's suicide and Emi’s death. Daisuke forcing himself on her slipped her off the deep end even more.
  • Ai does this later on, as Ayana's beliefs worm their way into her head.
  • Mari after being told that Ayana's death wouldn't mean anything to Ayana's father and that she'll live with her crimes instead of taking her own life.
    • To be fair, she already seemed to be going overboard with her delusions of believing that she's a "good girl" trying to get rid of someone so evil.
• Self-Serving Memory: Mao and Shiori reassure Mari once her vengeance is completed, everything will be like the old days and be happy. Miho calls them out on this, since their idea of being “happy” revolved around making Ayana’s life a living hell. Miho recalls every date and event of their bullying, which started off as the traditional Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics, until Yuuko told them to back off. They went off the deep end and decided to secretly pimp her out online. The men who read this would often confront her at her home and harass her. Daisuke eventually found out about it, which led to Ayana becoming a Sex Slave to Ren’s gang. Miho also reprimands their Thou Shall Not Kill standards since Mari is the one who pushed Ayana into a truck in the hopes she’d get killed. This proved her point against their claims that murder is beneath them while expressing their bloodlust to murder Ayana under the guise of making her kill herself.
• Ship Tease: Ayana has these moments with Ryou. He once confessed his love towards her, but got rejected. Little to Ryou’s knowledge at the time, Ren forced Ayana to reject Ryou and kiss another boy in front of him. Ryou never hated her for this, but his friends certainly did. He eventually finds out the truth by chance. Once Ren leaves, Ryou asks Ayana if she’d truly didn’t mean what she said back then but she runs off. The whole scene has Love Bubbles in the background. He continues to hold onto her handkerchief as he thinks back to his Love Confession. Then he finds out what Daisuke did to Ayana and furiously pushes him to his death and decides to hunt down Ren for making Ayana his Sex Slave. By the last chapter, he rushes off to save Ayana from Mari and her gang, and is horrified to find her badly injured from a bad fall from the 4th story of their school. He holds onto her while crying. Nothing becomes official between them since she’s in a coma while he’s turned himself in for killing Daisuke.
• Shrinking Violet: Both Ayana and Ai, for a while.
• Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Ayana unsurprisingly believes in this trope, since her parents hate her and all her friends either abandoned her or died after she reconciled with them. Every guy that ever shown interest in her turned out to be rapists. Then Ryou came into the picture, who had genuine romantic feelings towards her, but the damage has been done beyond repair.
• Teens Are Monsters: The entire manga sums this up in a nutshell. Ayana has been beaten up, nearly drowned, repeatedly raped, and pushed into traffic and nearly killed because of the bullying she suffers from her classmates. Once she’s released from the hospital, her rapists taunt her. When she gets to her class, her desk is vandalized with a funeral flower seated on top, dirt piled up inside the desk, and insults drawn in of her wishing she’d died, while several of the classmates act disappointed that she survived. It should come to no surprise when this leads to her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Part of Ayana's Despair Event Horizon, she ultimately decides that it was.
• Wild Card: Miho is strange, she is seemingly doing her own thing, which surprisingly ends up helping Ayana, but that was completely on her purpose... possibly...
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Ayana has been bullied, abused verbally, emotionally and sexually, gang-raped, threatened and ultimately, someone tried to kill her by pushing her in front of a car. She is willing to kill everybody in her class, but you see where it comes from.
• White Sheep: Some of the characters from class 3 are genuinely nice people, such as Yamase, Ai, Kitaura and Emi. They are, nonetheless, on Ayana's list.
• Villainous BSoD: Ayana has one after Yuuko's suicide, Emi's death, and her assault under Daisuke’s wrath. After which, it becomes her Despair Event Horizon and goes full blown-out Ax-Crazy.
• Yandere: Ren seems to be this for Ayana, as he beats Naoto bloody for declaring on Twitter that he and Ayana are a couple and saves her from getting raped by thugs and beats them black and blue for daring to touch his “toy”. Not that he’s any different.
  • Ai slowly becomes this towards Ayana as the series progresses, to the point where she becomes jealous of seeing Mari get close to her, which leads to her suggesting that they target Mari next.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Shouta's ultimate fate. After killing Ochi, Ayana realizes that it's too much of a liability to keep them around, so she locks him in the basement of the abandoned apartment complex, telling him she will take him out of there after everything ended, that is, if he's still alive by then.