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Japanese: Happy!


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Type: Manga
Volumes: 23
Chapters: 254
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 25, 1993 to Mar 8, 1999
Genres: Drama Drama, Sports Sports
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Big Comic Spirits
Authors: Urasawa, Naoki (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.531 (scored by 18601,860 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #27812
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2700
Members: 7,590
Favorites: 83

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Sitting in their cramped apartment, Miyuki Umino's older brother talks excitedly about the new business he's starting, promising to hit it big and bring her and their young siblings out of poverty. Months later, Miyuki is approached by creditors working for the yakuza, who inform her of her brother's disappearance and the two hundred fifty million yen loan he defaulted on. With her brother on the run, Miyuki is now responsible for his debt. The creditors give Miyuki an out: to pay off the loan with her body by working in a soapland.

Wracking her brain for a solution without having to resort to prostitution, Miyuki happens upon an article about the current women's tennis champion, who earned two hundred fifty million yen within the previous year. A once-promising tennis player herself, Miyuki withdraws from school in order to become a pro tennis player in hopes of paying off her debt. However, the establishment that pushed her out of the world of tennis has not forgotten nor forgiven her. Can Miyuki succeed within a world of competition actively conspiring for her failure?

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Characters

Umino, Miyuki
Umino, Miyuki
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Sakurada, Junji
Sakurada, Junji
Supporting
Kaku, Kikuko
Kaku, Kikuko
Supporting
Ryuugasaki, Chouko
Ryuugasaki, Chouko
Supporting
Thunder Ushiyama
Thunder Ushiyama
Supporting
Ootori, Keiichirou
Ootori, Keiichirou
Supporting
Wanibuchi, Kyouhei
Wanibuchi, Kyouhei
Supporting
Ootori, Utako
Ootori, Utako
Supporting

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6 Recommended
0 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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Jan 26, 2022
Jonsitoa
Recommended
A wholesome mamga i love monster, 20 century boys and pluto that’s why i read this Urasawa manga its a very good slice of life tenis manga, its not memorable but its ok, the problem for me its the lenght its very long 254 chapters, overall good, i don’t have anything more to say, i almost forgot i hste choko she is annoying, and ghe rest of characters are ok and funny sometimes expecially the debt collector he is my favorite character of this series, and the madam i didn’t like her either, so tes just great and im glad i read this
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Apr 22, 2021
Griffith97
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Read this after you read the manga, it may contain SPOILERS.

Well, i start this review telling that Urasawa is one of my fav mangakas, Billy bat and 20th are in my fav artists ever, but, reading Happy! i felt some problems.

In the beginning there were some few unfortunate moments, the problem is that chapter after chapters these unfortunate situations always repeat, literally the same situations. I get the message is to be happy even if the world crush you no matter what, but this was maybe a bit too much and unrealistic.

Chouko make the usual "joke" -> Everyone becomes stupid and believe her
-> Miyuki ...
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Nov 9, 2023
StoneFix
Not Recommended
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Absolutely terrible Manga. After 110 chapters of annoyance, sexism and repulsiveness the MC finally gets to have a moment of triumph only for it to be undercut IN THE SAME FKIN CHAPTER by, you guessed it, comically evil villain Choko. The only thing this manga has going for it besides its artwork which is even at best a 7/10 is its underdog storyline but it being undercut EVERY SINGLE FKIN TIME is honestly just mind-numbing. By the end I was so tired that I didn’t even leave satisfied or annoyed. I was just glad it was finally over.

Characters bar the MC are either comically evil, ...
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