History YMMV / SpiritCircle

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Compared to Fuuta's other past lives, Fuuko gets considerably less focus and characterization. Her life beyond her teen years and how she and Kousuke died are never revealed. [[spoiler: Her only major use to the story is her encounter with the aliens and the net that captures Fortuna.]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Fone does have legitimate points about not trusting/helping Kouko, such as her violent temper when it comes to Fuuta, her attempts on his life, and her inability to let the past go. However, the thoughts are portrayed as the ramblings of a vengeful and {{hypocrit|e}}ical ghost and are mostly waved off by Fuuta.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The joke about Iwana pressing Kajirou's buttons by pronouncing the ''ji'' in his name is a little confusing withot context. Kajirou dislikes the ''ji'' character because it can stand for "second/next", making it a reminder of his AlwaysSecondBest nature and his status as the second son in the family. An English scanlation rectified this by having Iwana instead refer to him as the "''young'' master", showing she doesn't consider him the real head of his household and implying that there's someone above him.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Fone does have legitimate points about not trusting/helping Kouko, such as her violent temper when it comes to Fuuta, her attempts on his life, and her inability to let the past go. However, the thoughts are portrayed as the ramblings of a vengeful and {{hypocrit|e}}ical ghost and mostly waved off by Fuuta.

* FridgeBrilliance: The fact that the grudge ends in Fuuta and Kouko's eighth lives in Japan makes more sense if you think their spirits are positively drawn to the land already. Warring States Japan was the only time they've ever been able to mutually end their grudge, so they may subconsciously go back to that land because they associate "peace" with Japan. It's also worth noting that they're not on bad terms with each other in Showa 91.

* FridgeBrilliance: The fact that the grudge ends in Fuuta and Kouko's eighth lives in Japan makes more sense if you think their spirits are positively drawn to the land already. Warring States Japan was the only time they've ever been able to mutually end their grudge, so they may subconsciously go back to that era because they associate "peace" with Japan. It's also worth noting that they're not on bad terms with each other in Showa 91.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** How each incarnation seemed to resolve problems from the previous incarnation.
*** Flors, in his last moments deeply regret how he was so distant from his wife Lihanerra, and promised how he would do anything to make her happy if he were given another chance. Lihanerra herself loved her servant Kertenos, but cannot be with him due to their status differences. In their next life, Flors and Lihanerra are now siblings Houtarou and Rihama. Sure enough, Houtarou is willing to sacrifice himself so that Rihama could be with her love Jinkurou, Kertenos' reincarnation.
*** Houtarou and Iwana died rather peacefully, their only regret being unable to fulfill their promise to adopt Akari as their daughter. In their next life, Lafalle and Lapis adopted Akari's reincarnation Carol.
*** Most of Daiki's incarnations are alcoholic. Until Houtarou's life, where the priest blamed himself on getting too drunk to stop Houtarou from sneaking out and dying. His next reincarnations can't stand alcohol even a single drop.
*** One of Flors' regrets was that he was unable to see his mentor, who was like a father figure to him, before his mentor's death. Then we learn his mentor was reincarnated in the present day as Toukichi, Fuuta's ''actual'' father.
*** Houtarou's death in their rendezvous spot, where he was able to confirm that Jinkurou and Rihama indeed survived, despite not being able to see them one last time. Present day, the rendezvous spot is now a fast food joint. When Fuuta and Kouko went there, they met Umi and Tetsu, Rihama and Jinkurou's reincarnations. Houtarou was able to have one final rendezvous with them after all. Furthermore, it's implied that Umi and Tetsu are Rihama and Jinkurou's descendants, implying they did have a happy life together like Houtarou wished.
** The concept of friends reincarnating together is heartwarming by itself. Even after death, you will still be able to see your loved ones again, even if you have different relationships and don't remember it.

* TearJerker: Each incarnation's death is suitably sad, tragic, and sometimes senseless.
** Fone dies trying to save the girl he loves from becoming a HumanSacrifice. Ultimately, he's too late and ends up decapitated for his efforts. Stona, as well, is ultimately rounded up, along with the rest of the elders, by a lynch mob that views Fone as a martyr and executed , despite having good intentions. Worse, it's clear that Fone's spirit still despises Stona and, by association, Kouko.
** The medicine woman is murdered by Vaan on orders from his superiors in the church in what was most likely simply a political move, despite that she was just making medicine for a plaggue in the nearby village. In turn, Vaan is branded by the medicine woman and subsequently disowned by his family. After become a drunk, he does lead a happy life with the past lives of Fuuta's friends, until they die in completely mundane circumstances. Vaan then takes in an abandoned child (who is the reincarnation of Rei). His death comes suddenly when he takes her to find a husband and he falls, hitting his head on a rock. Though, in his final moments, he was actually happy and had no regrets other than being unable to see his daughter get married.
** Despite the fact that they manage to not directly kill one another, Flors and Roca still meet sad ends. Flors lives the rest of his life a bitter and depressed man, known only for the sphinx he built which he hated and viewed as a failure. Along with that, he somewhat blames Roca for the fact that he was unable to see his father again before he died. He marries Lihanarra (Umi's ancestor) but knows that she would have preferred her servant, Kertenos. As a result of this and his bitterness, he is distant from her and his son who leaves after Lihnarra dies and refuses to apprentice to him. At the end, he realizes how he'd wasted his life in his bitterness and that he give his wife and son the love they deserved, ultimately dying sad and alone. Roca, on her end, is killed after the pharaoh declares her father, the noble who contracted Flors to build the sphinx and wanted to make his city of place of free thought and learning, a heretic and exterminates her entire city.
** Houtarou and Iwana, despite a brutal fight which leaves them both heavily injured and hobbled, actually make up, more or less. They even decide to repay the priest and orphan, Akari, (ancestors of Daiki and Nono, respectively) who save them by promising to take care of Akari. However, they leave during the night to check a rendezvous spot where Houtarou was to meet Jinkurou and Rihama. After arriving and discovering they had survived, they both succumb to their wounds and exhaustion and die, unable to keep their promise to Akari. The priest (who was too drunk to notice when they left) feels so guilty that he quits drinking and the rest of his reincarnations follow suit.
** Lafalle and Lapis actually end up getting married, though purely to take care of their late boss' genetically modified daughter (a Reincarnation of Nono and, by extension, Akari). However, after becoming managers of the Sleeping Tower, Lafalle becomes disillusioned of the government and begins to see the Towers as imprisoning peoples souls and keeping them in a state of half-death, with their souls unable to reincarnate and inadvertently causing the slow extinction of the human race. To stop this, he leads a conspiracy to shut down the life support of several towers, effectively killing (or [[MercyKill mercy killing]]) over one hundred million [[BrainInAJar Non-Living]]. Lapis attempts to stop him but is unable to. In the end, both of their efforts are rendered moot as the terrorist organization Arion's black hole bomb experiment fails, leading to the destruction of the planet anyway. The real kicker comes later when Fortuna outright states that what Lafalle did was pointless - the birthrates were simply so low because souls didn't favor that era in the first place.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Compared to Fuuta's other past lives, Fuuko gets considerably less focus and characterization. Her life beyond her teen years and how she and Kousuke died are never revealed. [[spoiler: Her only major use to the story is her encounter with the aliens and the net that captures Fortuna.]]

%%** And then comes [[EvilOverlord Fortuna]].

* CompleteMonster: Fortuna doesn't seem to consider morality to be a thing. Kill 20000 to save a single friend? Of course, what's wrong with that? Or exterminating the population of a city of 50000 people just so he gets access to a large library.

* HeartwarmingMoments:

** One of Flors' regrets was that he was unable to see his mentor, who was like a father figure to him, before his mentor's death. Then we learn his mentor was reincarnated in the present day as Toukichi, Fuuta's ''actual'' father.
** Houtarou's death in their rendezvous spot, where he was able to confirm that Jinkurou and Rihama indeed survived, despite not being able to see them one last time. Present day, the rendezvous spot is now a fast food joint. When Fuuta and Kouko went there, they met Umi and Tetsu, Rihama and Jinkurou's reincarnations. Houtarou was able to have one final rendezvous with them after all. Furthermore, it's implied that Umi and Tetsu are Rihama and Jinkurou's descendants, implying they did have a happy life together like Houtarou wished.

** Lafalle and Lapis actually end up getting married, though purely to take care of their late boss' genetically modified daughter (a Reincarnation of Nono and, by extension, Akari). However, after becoming managers of the Sleeping Tower, Lafalle becomes disillusioned of the government and begins to see the Towers as imprisoning peoples souls and keeping them in a state of half-death, with their souls unable to reincarnate and inadvertently causing the slow extinction of the human race. To stop this, he leads a conspiracy to shut down the life support of several towers, effectively killing (or [[MercyKill mercy killing]] over one hundred million [[BrainInAJar Non-Living]]. Lapis attempts to stop him but is unable to. In the end, both of their efforts are rendered moot as the terrorist organization Arion's black hole bomb experiment fails, leading to the destruction of the planet anyway. The real kicker comes later when Fortuna outright states that what Lafalle did was pointless - the birthrates were simply so low because souls didn't favor that era in the first place.

* CrazyAwesome: Fortuna. The guy just doesn't give a shit about anything. The best part, he genuinely has no idea what he did is wrong. He's confused as to why Koko is so angry at him for [[spoiler: blowing up several cities and killing lot of people]]. In fact, after separating from her, he proceeded to [[spoiler: take over a city with an army of skeletons]], and when they meet again, his first reaction is basically "Nice to see you again! Let's live together again here, all four of us?". It took Koko trying to kill him for him to finally realize [[HeelRealization he's the bad guy]]. His moral compass is so out of sync you can't help but get amused by it instead.

** The concept of friends reincarnating together is heartwarming by itself. Even aftter death, you will still be able to see your loved ones again, even if you have different relationships and doesn't remember it.

*** Houtarou and Iwana died rather peacefully, their only regret being unable to fulfill their promise to adopt Akari as their faughter. In their next life, Lafalle and Lapis adopted Akari's reincarnation Carol.

* MomentOfHeartwarming:

** Lafalle and Lapis actually end up getting married, though purely to take care of their late boss' genetically modified daughter (a Reincarnation of Nono and, by extension, Akari). However, after becoming managers of the Sleeping Tower, Lafalle becomes disillusioned of the government and begins to see the Towers as imprisoning peoples souls and keeping them in a state of half-death, with their souls unable to reincarnate and inadvertently causing the slow extinction of the human race. To stop this, he leads a conspiracy to shut down the life support of several towers, effectively killing (or [[MercyKill mercy killing]] over one hundred million [[BrainInAJar Non-Living]]. Lapis attempts to stop him but is unable to. In the end, both of their efforts are rendered moot as the terrorist organization, Arion's, black hole bomb experiment fails, leading to the destruction of the planet anyway.
*** The real kicker about this? Fortuna later outright states that what Lafalle did was pointless - the birthrates were simply so low because souls didn't favor that era in the first place.
** And then comes [[EvilOverlord Fortuna]].