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Happy Sugar Life #8
ハッピーシュガーライフ 8
真実の愛は、ふたりきりの約束を交わす。
ベールを脱がせて、指輪を交わして。
瞳を閉じて、そっとキスして。
永遠の愛を誓うのに、立会人はいらない。
ガトーショコラのように甘い、戦慄の純愛サイコホラー第８巻。
ベールを脱がせて、指輪を交わして。
瞳を閉じて、そっとキスして。
永遠の愛を誓うのに、立会人はいらない。
ガトーショコラのように甘い、戦慄の純愛サイコホラー第８巻。
193 pages, Paperback
First published June 22, 2018
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November 19, 2021
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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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.
***
If you're looking for some dark ambient music for reading horror, dark fantasy and other books like this one, then be sure to check out my YouTube Channel called Nightmarish Compositions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPPs...
January 2, 2022
I'm sure there are other stories that do just as good a job of showing that monsters are made, not born, but off the top of my head I can't think of any. It's like watching an inevitable train wreck in slow motion.
February 26, 2024
HOW WILL THIS SERIES END! I can't wait to find outttttt
October 9, 2018
Happy Sugar Life is a fantastic manga. It's so unapologetically dark, attuned to what trauma can do to a person. This is a story of madness. Madness in all the characters, all dark and twisted for their own reasons. So many of the actions of the characters are unforgivable, and yet I root for them anyways. It's unlike anything I've seen before, and I just couldn't stop reading. There is no mercy for our characters, yet, we get an equal amount of fluff in the questionable relationship between Satō and Shio. Despite it's unnerving reality, the two girls look happy together, and it makes me root for them.
The artwork is stunning, and really helps immerse you into the story. Overall, A+
~~~The anime adaptation has been fantastic as well. It is pretty close to the manga, except for the finale which is anime only. I’m almost positive, from the ending, that the anime will not be getting a second season. As for the manga, it is unclear how long and under what events it will continue.
*I've read up to Ch 38.2 (his wish), as so far that's all that's out.*
The artwork is stunning, and really helps immerse you into the story. Overall, A+
~~~The anime adaptation has been fantastic as well. It is pretty close to the manga, except for the finale which is anime only. I’m almost positive, from the ending, that the anime will not be getting a second season. As for the manga, it is unclear how long and under what events it will continue.
*I've read up to Ch 38.2 (his wish), as so far that's all that's out.*
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