ハッピーシュガーライフ 6

Happy Sugar Life #6

by Tomiyaki Kagisora, 鍵空とみやき

わたしのために、がんばってくれてるのはわかる。
でもそれって、ほんとうにわたしのため？
あなたのめにうつるのは、
わたし？ それとも、あなたじしん？

一方的な愛を、愛という言葉で括るな。

キャラメルマキアートのように甘い、戦慄の純愛サイコホラー第６巻。

Genres: Manga, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics

189 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2017

About the author

AKA 鍵空とみやき

Reviews

[Michael Sorbello]

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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[Isabella Rocha]

It’s honestly really disturbing just reading this series but as it progresses you become numb to the characters action and how they react to each other like your almost as sick as them for feeling of numbness the main character also experiencies. Shio backstory honestly really hurts and it just something that’s disturbing to read

[KarleeXx0]

These characters are messed up..

[Charlotte]

So inherently disturbing… i can’t even believe this manga is allowed to be published

[Misty]

Nice continuation of the story! I can't wait to see how this unravels!

[Amber]

Shio-chan speaks up after Sato-chan shuts down. Short volume with a strange interlude.

[Chlorobulle]

⭐ 5/5

Ce tome est poignant. L'amour entre Sâto et Shio est encore plus fort et prêt à tout !