Gyakusatsu Happy End (Massacre Happy End)

High school student Kusakabe Makoto has to work all day to raise money for the treatment of his younger sister, who suffers from a serious illness. The father is unemployed, the mother ran away, leaving the children, bullying at work ... Despite all this, he does not lose hope and continues to live for her sister. But having learned that she did not have long, Makoto falls into despair. Fear of the unknown causes him to take a different look at the value of human life.

(Source: Hakusensha, translated)

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Jul 26, 2023

bergars

Recommended

Shout out to stories about “People put into the absolute worst situation possible”. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

This is a story engineered to question your morality as a human being. Right from the setup, how the hell are you supposed to react when put in a time loop where killing is the only way to tomorrow? Maybe you can react to it properly, formulate a reason, a way, but oh no, of course we can't give the protagonist, Kusakabe, a nice day. Put his sister on a timer, and watch the whole world burn. No time to think, no time to give ... one-self a chance, you gotta kill, and you gotta do it fast. Would you? Would I?

It's such an entertaining, brutal story. I love when an author creates an outlandish set-up, and simply writes how people would react to such a thing. I wish there was an adaptation, or some way to enjoy it visually. Such a potential for a hit, even if the rating will tell you otherwise. However, I know the faults lying beneath the tale. I'd say, convenience is what will pull people away by a mile, even me. Moments where somebody is being mutilated, but they don't react as much as they should. No thrashing around, no screaming of pain. Other times, coincidences do lead to the story continuing because it had to. Still, for the whole complete journey, it was fascinating to see the meaning in the meaningless. This is a story of a desperate person, doing the most desperate things to keep going, to keep fighting. Who will you cheer? People will murder for the wrong cause, as long as they believe it's the right thing.

Every character is given enough depth to justify the actions, save one or two, who really don't get enough screen time to garner the events of the final arc. Still, they work, they serve a good purpose, and you do start caring about them. One of the initially funny characters became my favorite of them all. I was never turned off by a chapter, or wished to have somebody else on screen. Small cast, focused, believable, entertaining, with enough differences between all of them. Great little cast.

Now, holy, mother of god. The art on this manga is INSANELY GOOD. The expressions of every character, body language, fear, happiness, sadness. Sure, it sometimes exaggerates the dialogue, but I can closely believe the things they feel because of the visuals. The moments of tension are palpable, the voices I can imagine feel so lively on everybody, and the gore. My friends, let me tell you how good the art on the gore is. No, this isn't one of those that draw intestines like a bright-colored piece of meat that has no blood on it. I like that in certain series, but here, if somebody smashes a head with a hammer, the eyes will slightly pop out. A cut, done by somebody with experience, can lead to decapitation with enough precision. The expression of death is horrifying every time it happens. I respect the author so much for showing the brutality of death as it is. Gross, bloody, filled with dread, faces that shouldn't be done by a human being, and eyes that have no life on them.

One of the most entertaining stories I've seen in recent manga. Characters that serve the purpose well enough, and perfect art to sell everything. The only problems with it being suspension of disbelief, and constant coincidences that protect the protagonist at times. This is a case where I don't care that much. I love this manga, and everything to do with it, but I can admit, it ain't perfect. Dialogue can be very in your face, stating the obvious lessons and themes, but it works well enough.

9.1/10. No spoilers, but, f*ck that ending. Not because it's bad, but let me put it this way. If you break somebodies leg, they're sure to remember you. That's how it made me feel.

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Jun 6, 2023

Callidus91

Mixed Feelings

Suspension of Disbelief to the max level

Quick emotional thoughts: I feel like people are giving this manga too much credit. The premise is really interesting and it's what got me hooked onto it, but about halfway it just got way too silly. Things started to just happen for no reason with no explanation, and I wish I could give examples on here but it would be spoilers for those that want to read it. It's a real shame too, since last night I went to bed excited to read more, only for this time I'm going to bed annoyed at how it became.

Now with ... this out of the way, lets go into a bit more detail overall:

Story: 4/10 As stated in the opener, the premise of this story is really interesting, and to it's credit they did do the time-loop scenario very well here. That's about where the good I can think of ends when it comes to the overall story. For the bad, way too many things fall into place for convenience sake just to keep the plot going. Characters are introduced last minute for this, the MC is suddenly a magician for this and knows exactly how things will play out without the time loop, and the timeline in quite a few scenarios stop making sense just to speed things up for tension and the plot. One character even comes back later on just for the sake of the plot, which actually makes the entire past however many chapters moot if you put any thought into it.

Characters: 4.5/10 Sheesh. Everyone is crazy for crazy's sake. In the beginning for the first few characters it made sense why they would be so quick to go insane, but later on it becomes ridiculous. For instance, for the MC and the first "love" interest it makes sense why they would be quick on becoming, well, psychopaths, considering their backgrounds and what they've already had to go through. It was really well done. For the rest though, especially the detective and the second love interest, they descended way too quickly. I can understand the detective to an extent, the whole "crazy detective that will do anything to solve the case" trope, but he's still a detective. Regardless of his own personal vendetta, getting to that role isn't an easy feat, and his tendencies probably would've gotten him psych eval'd before he ever made it to becoming a detective. Really the only redeemable character was the detective assistant.

Oh, and fairly quickly the MC gets a massive strength buff for no real reason. Suddenly he's able to take on the police and a Kendo practitioner with no issue, as well as overpowering basically anyone and everyone aside from one instance when the plot needed him to be weak.

Actually, let me speak real quick about the background characters, especially in regards to the police. They're all terrible...that's all. Just terrible. Stupid, moronic, idiotic, weak, fill in whatever negative adjective you want and it would probably fit well here.

Setting: 6.342/10 Japan. That's basically all I can say, just Japan. One day they're in Tokyo, next day they're out in the sticks. Just wherever the plot needs them to go.

Art: 9/10 Honestly the art is pretty great in this manga. I have no real complaints with it.

I guess that's about it. If you want to kill time and you're in an edgy mood, go for it. If you want a good, thought-provoking story that will stick with you, this ain't it. Overall, 6/10. Not a complete waste of time, but I wouldn't put it in my top 100.

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Sep 27, 2022

ArcadeRice

Not Recommended

I'm the type that reads most random manga that's out there, as long as the premise is interesting. Gyakusatsu Happy End has an incredible start that starts nose-diving into one of the worst writing imaginable.

Story: 1.5/10
The only thing the story does well is not to let either side hold absolute power and control. It does well on the similarities of Death Note, a cat-and-mouse chase. It has the tension at the start, albeit goofy with the characters that I'll explain later below.

Let's start with the biggest issues thus far - how convenient everything falls into place. The story becomes incredibly dumbed down, not the premise ...

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