Summary: "Miku has always dreamed of being an actress – but just when she has a shot at making her dream a reality, her life takes an unreal twist. She’s hurled into the “world of the play,” a strange mansion where she meets seven mysterious, and potentially dangerous, characters. They all have their own secrets, but there’s one thing Miku knows for sure: if she doesn’t find the page that was stolen from the script, she’ll be trapped in the false world forever!"
bad end night was the first manga to my memory that i fully binged, i was already a fan of the original songs and was excited to see the story in a more understandable format when i found listings on amazon. i binged them as each novel copy arrived, brought them to school, did art studies, truly my first love
the summary doesn't put the story down the best, so to make it brief and spoiler free: the story (written by hitoshizuku) revolves around a beginner actress, miku, as she participates in a lost play written by the world famous yet mysterious "burlet", where she's cast as the lead. suddenly, she dies while at the theater, and is sucked into the world of burlet's lost play where the actors become the characters and doesn't know miku as she knows herself, and must find an ending to the play before the world of the play ends. the story was originally told in the vocaloid song series "night series" by hitoshizuku (duh) and yamasankakkei, there's only 4 songs and they're all pretty good
the story is a lot more condensed then it's novel counterpart (which i'm currently reading), but i highly recommend reading it if you're interested in the original story and gravitate more towards graphic novels of any kind. the illustrations by tsubata are gorgeous and the official translation is one of my favorite localizations ever
rating: 8/10