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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 17141,714 users)
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Ranked: #26312
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2699
Members: 6,875
Favorites: 78

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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
Main
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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Apr 4, 2020
Trap_Traps_Traps
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Happy! is a manga series about never giving up, no matter how unfair things may become or however many ridiculously tough challenges appear before you. It's about continuously trying your hardest in order to force things to go well for you. If you're looking for a series like that or a series with an extremely hate-able female antagonist then you should definitely check this out. A full cast of intricately explored characters and interesting plot developments around every corner really makes this story hard to put down.

Happy! is set in a deranged world where Japanese Idol culture has somehow been mixed in with professional ...
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Feb 16, 2018
Confucius
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Happy! is an ironic name for this manga as there isn't really anything happy about this manga at all. Happy! is a story of beating the odds and taking everything to home through tennis. In this story, you will meet everyone trying to screw over Umino, but she always proves everyone wrong as she overcomes any impossible hurdle placed on her by her enemies. You will end up rooting for her because of her unhappy circumstances and how she overcomes these issues as well as how useless some of her companions are.

Naoki Urasawa is a pretty sneaky writer, the more you read Happy! the more ...
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Jan 26, 2022
Jonsitoa
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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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