Happy Sugar Life

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Well it's finally over, Happy Sugar Life was quite a ride. A story of a love the world would never accept, and doing anything to protect that love.

The story was very well done, particularly the unique writing style for character's feelings and actions which leads to the absolute best part of the manga in my personal opinion (though it would still be nothing without the story). I'll get to that next.

The art is nothing short of spectacular, memorable, aesthetic, the greatest manga art I personally have ever seen. The character's emotions and feelings are put on display so perfectly that you can feel a ... tiny bit of what they feel as the story progresses, it is a powerful thing to do in a story and I attribute it mostly to this unbelievable art. I cannot praise it enough and the art will stick with me for years to come.

The characters were all "interesting." The main couple was the most interesting as one might expect. There isn't much I can say without giving away plot details but the characters were fun all around.

Overall Happy Sugar Life is a ride, that's the best way to describe it, if you're in the mood for a love story filled with drama, I'd highly recommend it. I can say without a doubt it was worth it.

The fuck did i just read ? I literally just came from a Yuri manga that's all nice sweet and innocent and i see in the suggested feed Happy Sugar Life. I read the description and thought that it sounded nice and adorable. Then within the first chapter i'm just repeat " What the fuck ?" Over and over.

While it isn't really bad, It's not great either. I feel that this suffers from the fact that the MC isn't likable as soon as you find out she kidnapped a missing child ( Family is searching for ) Then she also goes and straight up murders ... someone and chops their body up. Any of the reasoning as to why she murdered that someone doesn't make sense and just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Even getting rid of the murdering of someone you still have the fact she kidnapped a little child and is now for the most part raising her as her child/lover. She even finds a family member searching for her.

I honestly would love to see a story with the same idea. Except get rid of the Killing and Kidnapping of people. I feel this would be a nice adorable story of some teenager that doesn't really care about her image but is still loved by the people around her suddenly find some random girl on the streets and her raising the little kid as either a big sister or a parental figure. Hell, Throw some magic crap that said's the child just appeared out of nowhere because the MC was lonely cause she doesn't know what actual love is or something.

I just couldn't get into this. It was legit funny and cute with the child and the MC being at school with her friends. But the story seems so focused on trying to pull the rug from us, It just ruins the rest of the story.

Something i do like to be completely honest is how when the MC is confronted by someone. She goes total ape shit and absolutely destroys the other person by words alone. Her eyes get all dark and get's this kind of menacing look. I found that to be fun to watch.

But in the end i ended up dropping this, Sadly.

It is certainly one of the "WTF did I just read" moments when I finally finished this manga. I don't even know where to begin with.
Ok as it's manga we are usually tolerant when characters' psychology and behavior go wild, but they must do so in a believable way to be relatable, and that's where I think the artists failed. Main characters conveniently become stereotypical yandere, stalker or straight-out lolicon for reasons don't make sense at all. Characters talk and act in their most ridiculous way to add more and more drama, when everyone is doing so the work just goes all over the place. ... The artists tried really hard to convey the "us against the world" theme but again, if the MCs are portrayed not mentally illed but simply crazy, it can't convince the readers.

The only good part is the art. It's been a long time I felt I wasted every minute reading a manga. That's why I wrote down my very first review.