Happy Sugar Life - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Sugar Girl Eats Love
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This is promising enough. I'll keep reading.
Things I liked:
Things that make me hesitant to recommend this:
Overall, I think chapter one started strong and then fumbled the landing a bit. I still think it was decent read -- but I'm not confident it will continue to be so.
Things I liked:
The MC's character introduction. She has a bad image at school for sleeping around, but not only doe she not care, she's recently decided to turn a new leaf. Hooked me pretty quickly.
Characterization that makes the MC sympathetic. Hard worker, turning a new leaf in life, taking responsibility of someone(debatably bad in this context but I'll take it as a plus), MC taking no shit from people bullying her.
The obvious enough foreshadowing that I know enough to see where the story's going
Characterization that makes the MC sympathetic. Hard worker, turning a new leaf in life, taking responsibility of someone(debatably bad in this context but I'll take it as a plus), MC taking no shit from people bullying her.
The obvious enough foreshadowing that I know enough to see where the story's going
Things that make me hesitant to recommend this:
The opening panel. It was an off-putting image for me and the none of the words make sense to me other than referring to the title somehow? It tells me this might not be going in a direction I like. I powered through it though.
The switch from the hardworking character redemption kind of plot to the yandere, secret-axe murderer plot. The transitions were jarring for me because the story suddenly went from believable to not believable. The videoing the manager with her phone trick didn't feel very clever to me, and I have no idea how/why she managed to kill three people and apparently take their house. Any kind of foreshadowing or even saying "Oh she had some violent boyfriends and learned some self-defense/made her crazy" could have made it better for me.
The ending. Again, I couldn't quite believe the ending with the heads. Additionally, I have a hard time understanding the MC's goal. Money is an easy goal to understand. Everyone needs money for something. Her goal at the end of the chapter, build a fortress to "protect" the little girl, does not make sense in the fact that no antagonists/people looking for the girl have been introduced yet (no, I am not counting the Missing poster. I need something concrete and threatening).
The switch from the hardworking character redemption kind of plot to the yandere, secret-axe murderer plot. The transitions were jarring for me because the story suddenly went from believable to not believable. The videoing the manager with her phone trick didn't feel very clever to me, and I have no idea how/why she managed to kill three people and apparently take their house. Any kind of foreshadowing or even saying "Oh she had some violent boyfriends and learned some self-defense/made her crazy" could have made it better for me.
The ending. Again, I couldn't quite believe the ending with the heads. Additionally, I have a hard time understanding the MC's goal. Money is an easy goal to understand. Everyone needs money for something. Her goal at the end of the chapter, build a fortress to "protect" the little girl, does not make sense in the fact that no antagonists/people looking for the girl have been introduced yet (no, I am not counting the Missing poster. I need something concrete and threatening).
Overall, I think chapter one started strong and then fumbled the landing a bit. I still think it was decent read -- but I'm not confident it will continue to be so.
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@dotawolfbrother for the fortress thing, I think that's just her being possessive in general not that there's necessarily a threat. She's a legitimate psychopath - throw logic at the window, friend
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So essentially, not only is the MC insane, but seemingly most people in the story are bonkers as well.
Alright, that balances things out. Treat madness with madness, at least that way you don't have an MC that's an eldritch abomination while everything else is normal -- or a situation in which "an unrealistically psychopathic society bullies our MC-chan".
Alright, that balances things out. Treat madness with madness, at least that way you don't have an MC that's an eldritch abomination while everything else is normal -- or a situation in which "an unrealistically psychopathic society bullies our MC-chan".
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"shyo" as romanization for "しょ"? Is this from the same odd family that also produced "jyo" for "じょ"? oddly combining the worst elements of Japanese-style and Hepburn-style romanization?
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Nice
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Oh- OH OH SHIT-
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https://youtu.be/08vk9g-jcsM OH shit! ... The white van is in the street again!
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Oh my gosh...I am speechless..
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