![]() Our semi-literal cradle robber and her kidnapee having their beautiful relationship end with an attempted suicide pact.The only decent girl ending up with a knife in her throat.Our protagonist’s caretaker being both a rapist and one who has built her life’s philosophy around being raped (and child protective services thought “yeah, this one’s stable enough to raise a kid”).A man whose abuse starts with raping a woman who bumps into him, and continues in similar veins of deeply offensive farce.A canonically queer teenager who sniffs uniforms and is generally creepy (have I mentioned this is not a queer narrative?).A male rape victim who developed paedophilic tendencies as a result of said rape. #Happy sugar life seriesOver the course of the story, this series swings wildly through a rollercoaster of schlocky plotlines, involving highlights such as: ![]() Please don’t presume that this is a series that gives a terrible first impression but redeems itself once it hits its stride. It even got a review of its first episode on this site (albeit not a glowing one-for good reason). It got some decent critical and reader acclaim, despite having a premise so alienating and controversial you would think it was cooked up by a manga version of The Producers. It got an anime adaption, something most yuri comics can only dream of. Believe it or not, Happy Sugar Life actually got some decent traction in its heyday. It’s going to get even more outlandish when I start arguing this story’s merits as an abuse survivor narrative.īut back to the bygone days for a moment. ![]() Girl proceeds to blackmail, threaten, and occasionally murder to preserve their twisted sense of a stable household. Here, I’ll do your search engine a solid and summarize the plot. We’ve survived so many global crises that this manga, its demented premise, its sadistically stupid cast, and its clowncar pileup of murder and mayhem seems oddly quaint. Man, do any of you guys remember Happy Sugar Life? It’s been about three years now since this was a blip on the “Shock and Awe Yuri Comics” radar before being promptly buried under everything, circa 2019. ![]() Content Warning: blunt discussion of assault, rape, pedophilia, suicide, partner abuse and child abuse ![]()
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