Alternative TitlesEnglish: Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge Synonyms: Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge Japanese: ネガティブハッピー・チェーンソーエッヂ
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 8
Status: Finished
Published: 2007 to 2008
StatisticsScore: 7.411 (scored by 2559 users)
Ranked: #50212
Popularity: #474
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SynopsisYousuke Yamamoto is a typical underachiever, searching for a reason to live while struggling to come to terms with the death of his friend Noto a year ago. Everything changes dramatically for him one night when he runs into Eri Yukizaki, a beautiful girl hiding a tragic loss of her own, out on the streets. When a chainsaw-wielding giant falls from the sky and engages her in battle, it marks the beginning of Yousuke finally finding his purpose in life. |
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gdavge2003
33 of 44 people found this review helpful
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8 of 8 chapters read
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| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
8 |
| Art |
7 |
| Character |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
10 |
Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge is a romance, action, comedy manga that tells a deep story revolving around the lives of Yamamoto Yousuke and Yukisaki Eri.
The story is short, filling only 8 chapters, each about 45 pages long. However, despite this, it manages to tell a deep, emotional tale about two high school students. 2nd year Yamamoto is seemingly a slacker who is bored with life, but in fact, faces deep mental troubles, caused by his friend's death and his low self-esteem. 1st year Yukisaki at first appears to be an outgoing girl, but much is hidden beneath the surface. As the story progresses, each character struggles with his or her own problems, while at the same time, faces each other and the mysterious Chainsaw Man who appears every day at night.
The story imparts many deep, serious themes through the thoughts of Yamamoto and as he interacts with Yukisaki. Most revolve around the idea of an ephemeral and short life. But no fear, Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge won't leave you going emo about how your life will end in a few decades. It also shows the bright side of living as well.
Despite the general seriousness, many small comedy scenes left me laughing, so there wasn't any heavy atmosphere as I was reading Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge. Such scenes include Yamamoto's ecchi, visualized thoughts and Yukisada's well aimed kicks at Yamamoto when she's irritated.
The art was drawn very well in defined lines; there isn't any type of smearing, except for some parts in the background. What's noticeable is the way the mangaka draw the male characters when they are surprised: they open their mouth wide, their faces elongate, and you can see each of their teeth individually. It made the characters look somewhat ugly, but you gotta admire the mangaka's detailed attention to teeth :P
Overall, Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge is highly recommended. The story was serious and touching, yet well-placed comedy scenes prevent the mood from being too heavy. A nice epilogue would be nice, but don't get me wrong, the ending's very conclusive and satisfying. read more
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Moon_Light
19 of 27 people found this review helpful
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8 of 8 chapters read
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
9 |
| Art |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
This manga suffers from a disease called, "B.T.S" (Bad Title Syndrome) or as it's more commonly known, "I can't come up with anything so I use random words in the manga as it's title," syndrome. To be fair not only manga do this, but it was just fitting in this case.
Random title aside, this one proved to be a very nice read topped with a great ending.
A boy, a girl, and a guy trying to kill her...nothing calls for romance more than imminent death.
Yousuke Yamamoto’s life is boring. Nothing is the same after his friend dies in a motorcycle accident. He goes to school, studies, and his routine leaves him with an emptiness nothing seems to fill. He needs a purpose. Going home one cold winter day he sees a girl in a school uniform sitting on the floor, literally freezing her ass off. When he tries to make conversation with her, she starts talking like a crazy person about him running away before he dies. Seconds later, a man with a chainsaw appears, and Yousuke watches mesmerized as the beautiful girl fights the man until he disappears.
As he watches her fight, mesmerized, he knows-this is what he needs in his life, this will make it worthwhile. Her. If she’s in his life, it’ll no longer seem boring or meaningless. He’ll help her fight him.
Her name is Eri Yukisaki and as luck would have it, she doesn’t want his help.
Without giving spoilers:
The story line is actually very simple to understand, it's as easy as it is complex. The life that both of them are living is an easy one to relate to. Unfortunately, we've all experienced the mind dulling that is monotony. Their decisions and actions as the story unfolds give hints as to what angle the manga is going. When it gets there it is done effortlessly and smoothly.
Even if the summary doesn’t dwell on the mystery surrounding the "evil chainsaw man", or even this review, the manga is about life and all the bad things that happen that we can’t control but wish we could.
I can understand what made Yousuke cling to Eri. At first, his role reminded me a little of Takaki (5 Centimeters Per Second), he went through life with a sort of longing and a defeated way about him. As if the vacuum that life can be sucked all the happiness or hope away from him, with no plan to return it anytime soon. And although Eri didn’t always show it, since the story is told in Yousuke’s perspective, she is easy to understand and her pain was almost palpable through the story.
The characters are few; four main ones to the story actually. But it doesn’t need any more than that. Even though some people might say that this manga should or could have been longer, I don’t agree.
Why extend a good thing when it served its purpose with it’s current length?
Yousuke Yamamoto (whose name I keep saying as a robot in my head, I don't know why) and Eri, separately, wouldn’t be as dynamic as together. They both add to each others lives. Yousuke is your typical high school boy. If typical includes bad grades in school and getting sporadic fantasies about Eri. All in all he’s a pretty lonely guy. He lives with his friend, and until he met Eri, his life went by in a blur.
Eri is pretty mysterious until the last half of the manga. All we know is: her skirt needs to be longer- because she keeps flashing the chainsaw man and Yousuke, and that she can fight better than most guys. Or at least better than the lead guy of this story. She’s not annoying at all and actually has a serious demeanor.
The art was average. Although I compare the character to other manga, the art is by no way similar. It had its cringing pages: where the characters don’t look appealing, and more on the ugly side. But that effect is not lasting and it’s overall good. Even the chainsaw man was drawn to look like fear and death and it was not sloppy. The panty shots did get old, seeing that it was almost in every four pages. Fan service is everywhere, so can’t really knock it. Well, actually I can, but I understand why the mangaka felt the need to draw her panties on fighting scenes, since no skirt stays in place throughout a battle against a chainsaw wielding man(like I would know), but in other scenes, really unnecessary (not including Yousuke’s fantasies, those are ok).
The story could have actually done without the romance side--I can’t believe I just said that O_o.
It was just such a sweet take on life and feelings that even without the "love" factor it would have still kept it's kick. The romance felt a little pushed on Eri, and even though I know how they felt, it was never really explained throughout that they both saw each other that way. Meaning at the beginning, part of me felt that it was her tsundere side not showing affection.
That being said, the romance isn't forced by any means and there is no gushiness. It has action (chainsaw man) and also some mystery.
It’s short but it does the job.. Ha! I’m sure that’s a pickup line somewhere.
At the end it left me wondering, "If your sadness were to take human form, which form would it take?" read more
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Chances are you read NHK first as it is better known so I am going to focus more on NHCE.
So like NHK, NHCE is a manga adaptation from a novel by Takimoto Tatsuhiko, his first novel to be exact. And from the beginning of the story, we instantly see that we're in familiar ground. Takimoto seems to draw all his main male characters from the same model, he himself that is.
Yamamoto could easily be seen as a young Satō, who hasn't become a hikikomori yet. He is a depressed, lazy, immature high school student and a coward, who'd rather hide in his imaginary "cool" world than face reality. Both characters can be painfully relatable too.
Then of course there's the girl. In both stories, a girl, who comes with her own set of problems, helps the main protagonist overcome his pains, and he hers.
The difference is that NHCE has more symbolism, action and fanservice than NHK.
it somehow has the same feeling to it. in a way they both are comedy manga with a deeper and nice story.
they both are about a guy who has had it with living normally and a way to get over those problems
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Very much the same on a psychological level.
Both are deep, while on the surface they don't look like it.
Both cope with the surpressing of memories and certain emotions.
Both are very good mangas, indeed.
They are both short, psychologically pleasing, and brilliantly deep.
Mii-kun/Maa-chan is more about insanity while Chainsaw is more about depression, but regardless, the psychological aspects of each cannot be ignored. They both have cute romances that are no longer cute when you consider the context they are in.
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