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Happy Sugar Life #3
ハッピーシュガーライフ 3
At the end of a long night...
You must pay...
...Satou takes back her angel.
...for the sins...
There's nothing to fear now.
...you commit.
Not a thing. Not one...
You must...
So what is this uneasiness?
...be punished.
What is this bitterness piercing her tongue?
You must pay...
...Satou takes back her angel.
...for the sins...
There's nothing to fear now.
...you commit.
Not a thing. Not one...
You must...
So what is this uneasiness?
...be punished.
What is this bitterness piercing her tongue?
171 pages, Paperback
First published May 21, 2016
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March 1, 2021
This series is starting to lose its edge. This mostly just has the main lead mopping around about how she can't lose her precious sugar. But nothing really happens in that sense. Sure she makes sure a girl she knows doesn't change much on purpose to cover herself but even that scene felt like a rehash of what came before. We move the plot forward with other characters once a girl learns the truth and a certain boy at the very end is given some hope. A 3 out of 5.
April 28, 2022
I’m getting tired of the identically flat side characters (it took me awhile to realize the ex boyfriend and male coworker were two different people) and the lack of any real action. The most unique thing this volume was Sato seducing Shu instead of killing her, but she immediately exits the story… so what was even the point? Every chapter is virtually the same, with Sato poetically waxing about her “happy sugar life” and the meaning of love, then doing her scary yandere eye thing (gets less and less impactful by the chapter) and then threatening or beating another character up. I hope the story picks up speed in the next installment.
November 3, 2020
Creepy!
December 20, 2019
Good lord this series is messed up and I love it
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...
February 29, 2020
While I am enjoying the hell out this story. I cannot condone any of Satou's actions and can't understand why everyone seems to be suffering from some sort of mental health issue.
How is it that EVERYONE we've met so far is screwed up in some sort of way. What is in the water in this town.
How is it that EVERYONE we've met so far is screwed up in some sort of way. What is in the water in this town.
October 2, 2022
Really enjoying seeing some characters beginning to become suspicious of Sato. Looking forward to continuing and finding out what happens! Also - what is up with Taiyo? Is he um.. also.. "interested" in this young child? Some of the most uncomfortable relationships I've read in a manga.
March 25, 2020
2020 Read #302
YIKES, the characters here are all psycho. I’m not even sure if Shio-chan is innocent and innocuous at this point...
YIKES, the characters here are all psycho. I’m not even sure if Shio-chan is innocent and innocuous at this point...
November 8, 2022
This is messed up in all the right ways.
February 19, 2024
Very dark and love the mystery type thrill with each manga of this series!
December 14, 2024
such a creepy series that keeps pulling me in. now you start to see others starting to question and learn things
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January 17, 2025
3.5 - simultaneously feeling stale and getting juicy?
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