Happiness complete Manga Set Vol 1-10 by Shuzo Oshimi

ハピネス [Happiness] #1-10

by Shuzo Oshimi

This bundle contains complete volumes 1-10 of Happiness by Shuzo Oshimi. THE THIRST Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki's first year of high school. His life is a serise of quiet low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering the truth of what will slake his awful craving, and high school itself.

Genres: Manga, Horror, Paranormal

2000 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Shuzo Oshimi (押見修造, Oshimi Shūzō) is a Japanese manga creator.
Drawn in a realistic art style, his comics tend to be psychological dramas exploring the difficulties in human relationships and often touching on disturbing situations and perversions.
Oshimi debuted in 2001 with the manga series Avant-Garde Yumeko, appeared in Kodansha's 'Monthly Shōnen Magazine.' Most of his works since then have been published by Kodansha and Futabasha.
Among his first successes the single volume manga Sweet Poolside (2004), later adapted into a live-action film, and the series Drifting Net Café (2008–2011), also adapted for TV.
Oshimi reached international acclaims with The Flowers of Evil (2009–2014) and Inside Mari (2012–2016), both adapted into successful anime. Other notable works are Blood on the Tracks (2017–2023) and Welcome Back, Alice (2020-2023) .

Reviews

[Tiago Amaral · Rating 3 out of 5]

[NOTA 3,5]

É divertido, engajante e desenhado maravilhosamente bem, mas não tem aquele oomph a mais que faria ter uma nota melhor. Os personagens também são interessantes e todos passam por mudanças internas variadas, mas são meio monotonais: a yukiko sofre mais que a Juliette, o namorado dela quer ser o namorado dela, o Makoto tem medo de ser vampiro, etc etc. Fora isso, a série tem uma tendência a ser meio torture porn em relação a personagem da yukiko. Ela é meio que mais uma em uma longa fila de personagens femininas no terror a passar pelo inferno e no final achar uma felicidade pacífica na família nuclear.

Arte verdadeiramente inspiradora, o resto é meio que só ok.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

volume 1- 3 stars
volume 2-3 stars
volume 3-4 stars
volume 4-4 stars
volume 5-5 stars
volume 6-3 stars
volume 7-5 stars
volume 8-5 stars
volume 9-5 stars
volume 10-5 stars

Series Overall rating- 4.2

Original review for volume 5-
This series definitely takes a bit to get into and the art is a bit out there sometimes. But OMG it gets so freaking good! This started out as a 3 star series and has now advanced to a 5 star, I really hope it continues to be 5 stars! If it wasn’t 4am right now I would definitely continue right this second. Unfortunately sleep is a thing. Rude.

Original review for volume 6-
The amount of times the characters said ‘oh’ was oh so excessive and oh so annoying.
This volume was very slow compared to previous volumes and definitely felt like a ‘calm before the storm’ kinda book, so wasn’t 5 stars like I was hoping, but I definitely think the next volume has 5 star potential!

Original review for volume 8-
OMG this volume was so messed up and so good. Made me feel all the emotions in such a short amount of time, disgust, horror, sadness, hopelessness, hope, happy, ugh this was so freaking good! Why oh why has kindle unlimited only got volumes 1-8?!!? I could cry, I wanna continue so badly! Probably a good thing I can’t continue right now since it’s almost 3am, but still! Ugh

Original review for volume 10-
WOW! This series was so unbelievablely good!! It consumed my every thought, and all I wanted to do was read it. I haven't felt this way about a series since reading Chainsaw Man. There were so many highs and lows with this series, but I wouldn't change any of it; all the lows are needed to make the highs amazing. Ugh, so good. If you like vampires and horror, I would very highly recommend this series!

[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of the books of Shuzo Oshimi I've so far read. His knack for writing about teen and early adult life, relationships and worries drew me in. So far the books I've read dealt with 2-3 mayor characters and their relationship(s) to one another. This book, as stated by him was meant to deal with a larger cast who weave in and out of one another's life. While his other books have also dealt with dark themes and personal struggle, Happiness was the first series of his that introduced violet crime and murder into its plot. The inclusion of a violent serial-killer was not a plot point I wanted to read about. The series just didn't have the same general aura is his other works I'm familiar with.

[oceania · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love vampire media that is just unapologetically lurid and psychosexual, this was satisfyingly perverse (did go into torture porn territory here and there which is not to my liking lol). i’ve never read any oshimi before, but i wasn’t expecting such a beautiful and expressionistic art style! loved this. loved how weird and gory and at times so beautiful and touching it was.

[Domenico Frezza · Rating 3 out of 5]

È la mia seconda lettura dell’autore, apprezzo come sempre tanto i suoi disegni.
Ho trovato gli sviluppi non particolarmente originali, ma comunque ci sono alcuni spunti molto interessanti, come la questione della setta che si sviluppa intorno a Yuki.
Sicuramente leggerò altro dell’autore.

[Domenico Frezza · Rating 3 out of 5]

È la mia seconda lettura dell’autore, apprezzo come sempre tanto i suoi disegni.
Ho trovato gli sviluppi non particolarmente originali, ma comunque ci sono alcuni spunti molto interessanti, come la questione della setta che si sviluppa intorno a Yuki.
Sicuramente leggerò altro dell’autore.

[Clara · Rating 4 out of 5]

vraiment sympa
je m’attendais à un manga chill avec des vampires mais l’auteur est allé bien plus loin, ce qui en a fait une belle surprise! bonus petite larme lâchée à la fin
pour une série en 10 tomes seulement ça fait complètement le taff

[nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

i cry everytime i read the last chapter literally one of the best and most beautiful manga series ever. actually unreal

[𐙚 . · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel sorry for poor yuki "STARVING FOR BLOOD AND AFFECTION"

[Christian Seims · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good man I didn’t think I’d like a vampire story so much

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Oshimi’s work - though I think this is one of his weaker series in terms of overall themes and narrative, his art work remains striking and on its own is an excellent vampire series.

[Esther · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got to be one of my fav mangas EVER! It was absolutely crazy and very disturbing in a nice way, making you really think "wtf is going on.." Its so peak. 🔥🙏😼

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Captivating horror story, intriguing characters and such a lovely art style.