Well it's finally over, Happy Sugar Life was quite a ride. A story of a love the world would never accept, and doing anything to protect that love.
The story was very well done, particularly the unique writing style for character's feelings and actions which leads to the absolute best part of the manga in my personal opinion (though it would still be nothing without the story). I'll get to that next.
The art is nothing short of spectacular, memorable, aesthetic, the greatest manga art I personally have ever seen. The character's emotions and feelings are put on display so perfectly that you can feel a
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Alternative TitlesSynonyms: White Sugar Garden, Black Salt Cage Japanese: ハッピーシュガーライフ More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 11
Chapters: 62
Status: Finished
Published: May 22, 2015 to Jan 22, 2020
Theme:
Psychological
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Gangan Joker Authors:
Kagisora, Tomiyaki (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #65132 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #710
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The reason I began reading into the Ane-loli manga line was because I had read Yuzomori-san and craved for more stories involving an older girl and a much younger one, as psychological manga is my favorite. Throughout reading Happy Sugar Life, I have encountered all of these things: murder, manipulation, cruelty, sociopaths, pedophilia???, obsession, abduction, domestic abuse, nudity, beautiful art, and almost a sort of sympathy for our main character Satou.
The reason I love this manga so much is because it is incredibly unique to it's kind. The story development and characters are not lazy in the slightest. You will find yourself rooting for ... Nov 23, 2017
The fuck did i just read ? I literally just came from a Yuri manga that's all nice sweet and innocent and i see in the suggested feed Happy Sugar Life. I read the description and thought that it sounded nice and adorable. Then within the first chapter i'm just repeat " What the fuck ?" Over and over.
While it isn't really bad, It's not great either. I feel that this suffers from the fact that the MC isn't likable as soon as you find out she kidnapped a missing child ( Family is searching for ) Then she also goes and straight up murders ... Aug 27, 2021
It is certainly one of the "WTF did I just read" moments when I finally finished this manga. I don't even know where to begin with.
Ok as it's manga we are usually tolerant when characters' psychology and behavior go wild, but they must do so in a believable way to be relatable, and that's where I think the artists failed. Main characters conveniently become stereotypical yandere, stalker or straight-out lolicon for reasons don't make sense at all. Characters talk and act in their most ridiculous way to add more and more drama, when everyone is doing so the work just goes all over the place. ... Apr 4, 2022
Happy Sugar life is the best romance anime/manga Ive ever seen/read. the story of a love seen as forbidden, which would never be tollerated really moved me. This manga showed a very new side of that kind of craziness you find with yandere type characters, as the main character (particularly in the manga) has a simple, but also complex and stirring character. Satou Matsuzaka (16) finds Shio Koube (8) randomly on the street, takes her to her home and begins living together with her. For the very first time Satou feels the love and happiness she has always tried to feel, tried to understand and
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Apr 2, 2022
A healthy sense of perspective comes from constantly reevaluating and examining the things that you like, picking apart and seeing what exactly makes them tick. Happy Sugar Life is a property I frequently try to do this with, because its one that feels like it should not be one of my favorite stories. And so, with a surprise 11th volume coming out, there's not better time for another reread. My point of view is a little bit different than most though, I feel, as not only did I watch the anime before, but I maintain that the anime is actually the superior way to experience
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Aug 15, 2020
If you read the manga, it is a weird experience. I finished reading 10 volumes in just two days. What does that mean? The story is engaging but it is super LIGHTWEIGHT reading for something that is "heavy": kidnapping, psychopathy, pedophilia, murder.
The drawing is like a shoujo manga drawing, lots of inner dialogues, lots of big panels, and all those make reading super fast. Each volumes are not dense with information, mostly just about how the characters are feeling and talking to themselves in their head, trying to make readers understand about what's going on with the characters. The female MC is a badass, she ... Apr 6, 2018
[A/N: This review is for an ongoing series and will cover up to Chapter 37 of the manga.]
Happy Sugar Life is a cute and sweet yuri manga series revolving around the relationship of Satou and Shio. Happy Sugar Life is also a psychological thriller, also revolving around the relationship of Satou and Shio. It does one aspect much better than the other, which we’ll go into detail later. Join me as we look through this manga which attempts to combine two disparate genres together. Happy Sugar Life mainly focuses on the cute yuri between the two main characters Satou and Shio. Satou’s character is really interesting ... Nov 21, 2018
It's just as bad as the anime it comes with. This time I was actually ok with it because my hatred for people who praised the series has finally passed. I read the manga, and my opinion had not really changed.
Story: It had many plot holes, and was a general crash fire. So this yandere girl, Satou finds/kidnaps a young girl, Shio. If you dive deeper into the story, you find out that Satou is completely deranged, killing people and harming them just to have her "lover" to herself. Shio is under 10 I presume, so so far it seemed like yuri trash. To explain ... Mar 25, 2019
Happy Sugar Life is very unique. It's a story that romanticises the development of the relationship between 2 broken girls. Normally, coming of age stories talk about how characters grow out of their own flaws of youth. Well this one's a bit tricky because the flaws are that one girl is a murderous psychopath and the other has had a terrible childhood. If you can accept this outrageous context, you'll find HSL very rich in story and character depth and quite similar in tone to other coming of age tales. Chapter by chapter, the heroines learn something more about themselves, or come to the conclusion
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Apr 2, 2022
Yandere stories aren't uncommon in this type of media, so I was expecting some messed up stuff, but I think what really bothered me the most was that it was a romance story between a high schooler and an 8 year old girl. Like, I felt like I shouldn't have owned this manga - I returned it as soon as I realized that's what it was about. She kidnaps this little girl and falls in love with her, and I read up on the Wikipedia that they end up getting married. Plus, there's sexual assault and obviously very graphic murder that happens. That's so messed
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