ハッピーシュガーライフ 7 [Happy Sugar Life 7]

Happy Sugar Life #7

by Tomiyaki Kagisora, 鍵空とみやき

しおが決別した過去。
さとうが決別した過去。
寄り添う二人の少女は、その胸に前日譚を秘めている。

生きるために強制される愛。
そんなのは、寂しすぎるよ。

飴玉のように甘い、純愛サイコホラー第７巻。

Genres: Manga, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics

177 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 22, 2018

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Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the truth of how Sato found Shio and Shio's past revealed, it becomes starkly clear that it's less that the apple never falls far from the tree and more that the tree has far too much control over the apple in the first place.

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a review of the entire series!

Raised by a severely disturbed aunt with a twisted definition of 'love', Satou Matsuzaka tries to find a sense of belonging in the world by giving up her body to every guy she meets in hopes of receiving true love from them. After countless unfulfilling sexual encounters, Satou believes she has discovered true love from an abandoned little girl named Shio she found on the street one day. Leaving her life of sexual deviancy behind, Satou 'kidnaps' the little girl and raises her as if she were her real mother. The two girls have been hurt and abandoned all their life, but they find a warped sense of comfort and affection in each other's companionship. Shio has no idea what type of person Satou truly is, however. Does she genuinely love her, or is she being emotionally groomed as an object by an unstable predator that's capable of murder?

This series begins with a lot of subversive shocks. The bubbly cute girl is a deranged murderer. The popular girl at work is an obsessive stalker. The strong-headed female employer is abusing her underage male staff. The lovable school teacher is sexually blackmailing his female students. The handsome classmate only has eyes for a homeless little girl. Everyone is putting up a happy, sugary facade while being utterly rotten and twisted on the inside. Such is the nature of this manga. It shows that people are rarely what they seem to be in public and how different they are behind the privacy of closed doors. It's depressing and even scary at times.

Happy Sugar Life plays around with a lot of great subversive horror elements, making you believe something is bubbly and cute at first glance but then showing you it's actually extremely toxic and unstable. The series has interesting themes, but it is often dragged down from being drawn out way too long, going in circles and dialogue that feels a bit immature given the disturbing subject matter. If the narrative was a bit tighter, maybe 3 or 4 volumes instead of 10, it would've been more impactful and gotten the message through much more effectively. It repeated itself too many times, some chapters felt like identical clones of each other that were made just to pad out the length.

A good series overall, but it has some glaring weaknesses that prevent it from being as good as it could've been.

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[Isabella Rocha · Rating 5 out of 5]

BEST VOLUME SO FAR!! This one just takes you deeper into the actions of others and who the parents of shio and that homeless dude. Like I could not stop reading and being utterly confused on how someone could make this because it doesn’t leave out. It provides what’s needed for a dark backstory Espically for the mother is complicated to feel sympathetic or hatred for her

[Faeryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume gave so much answers to questions I had during the anime but were never answered then.

[Autumncandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've just noticed but how the manga covers are illustrated is very cute and clever

[KarleeXx0 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really good volume. It provided a lot of context and we finally got a look into the past of out two main characters.

[Misty · Rating 5 out of 5]

This manga is so crazy and dark yet weirdly satisfying to read, I binge read 6th-10th manga in a day-

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

We get to know Shio's story; it is not a happy sugar life.

[rowan · Rating 5 out of 5]

this volume was so sad