Sadako-san to Sadako-chan
Sadako-san and Sadako-chan

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Trivia fact: Sadako DOES have a channel on youtube, look it up, it's really good and wholesome, love it.
And I couldn't be more happy to say the same about this manga.
I really didn't like the 2019 "Sadako" movie, but liked all the marketing campaign around it.
The story is pretty straight foward, Sadako and her reincarnation, a child, decide to open a youtube channel, and evry once in a while ask Kazuma's advice, one of the protagonists of the movie.
It's just Sadako looking for things to do with her kid, while she also struggles with modern technology.
It's a pretty short reading, and pretty enjoyable. This is ... the type of thing that makes me glad for that 2019 movie, your existence is now excused.

Like the only other reviewer on this, I stumbled upon this in my local Barnes and Noble Manga section. As a fan of Ringu and Japanese horror in general, I felt obliged to pick it up. If I had to describe it in just a sentence; It is a cute and short manga for fans of the Ring, nothing spectacular, but enjoyable for what it is. I wouldn't recommend getting it if you don't care at all about the Ring, but it can be kind of funny for fans. There isn't much I didn't like about it, maybe that they hinted at some potential developments ... in the story but didn't go in depth with it, but it was still a fun read!
It is exactly what it was intended to be, nothing more, and nothing less, and therefore it is pretty solid in my book.

Sadako-san and Sadako-chan is something I happened across at the BARNES AND NOBLE MANGA SECTION; that ever-growing corner of the bookstore where only those with the biggest of brains go to shop -- so of course I had to pick it up. Recently, it seems English publishers have started acquiring more and more niche titles, so seeing strange one-offs in the wild is getting way more common than it used to be. However, I had yet to see a comedy manga about Sadako, the famous horror character from The Ring. Is it any good?

All I can say to that is that it certainly isn't ... "bad." It has a cute little premise: Sadako meets a little girl who was raised to be like her, and the two become YouTubers. You really don't need to know too much about the source material to appreciate this. Everyone knows Freddy Krueger is the guy with the burned face and the claws who kills you in your dreams. Everybody knows Jason is the freak from the lake with a hockey mask. Therefore, you don't really need to see their respective films to watch Freddy vs. Jason. Horror icons have become ingrained in pop culture enough -- and quite frankly, their stories are also SIMPLE enough -- to where all you really need to know to appreciate off-shoots like this is that Sadako is the spooky ghost girl that climbs out of TVs. Which you certainly already do.

That being said, the manga doesn't exactly explore its fullest potential. It has a very typical "setup --> punchline" structure, but never rearranges it or offers much of substance... even when it comes to comedy. For what it's worth, it's entertaining to see Sadako trying to do normal things and becoming an internet celebrity. It's also charming, as always, to see a horror character act so benevolent. But ultimately, this is all that ever happens.

That certainly isn't a bad thing. If you really like the source material, and have a soft spot for wholesome little comedy stories that don't take too much of your time, then you may enjoy this quite a lot. I did, ultimately. But don't come here looking for much else, because even in the way of laughs this manga is somewhat sparse.