Happiness

[Leikeze]

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[Naneem]

Spoiler

really feel bad for yuki, he's too hot to die

 

[7megumin7]

This as a manga by itself is cool, have a good art and all
But after reading Aku no Hana and Chi no Wadachi I was expecting something else, I couldn't really connect with any of the characters
In both mangas that I mentioned above, I was fascinated with every characters, their feelings and way of thinking (especially Aku no Hana with Nakamura, Kasuga, Saeki, Tokiwa, etc)
But here the only character that I was invested was Makoto and he appears on the start and the ending of the story
Overall a interesting manga but lacks Oshimi's characters development and psychological aspects that his other works have

 

[pacmanyo]

@7megumin7 I am only 10 chapters in but I can totally understand what you're feeling. In authors previous works he focused on a smaller cast of characters while here we get a lot more of them with less focus on developing their personalities but rather the world. It is not necessarily bad, but definitely different. I am a sucker for urban fantasy and so far it seems pretty good, so hopefully it keeps up.

 

[Phuocphuc46]

It's... okay. The manga's a prime of example of having an amazing plot and great world building but failing to account for character development and pacing. The manga tried to do too many things, too quickly, and that just leaves so much to be desired. The manga is still a memorable read however, just not as good as the author's more famous works (which is a testament to how great the author is if anything)

 

[Armand3743]

Absolutely awful, author ain't in their right mind.

 

[Amazing_Retard]

Incredibly stupid manga. Specially chapter 36. If you're a into believability like me. Chapter 36 is just too retarded i lost respect on this manga.

 

[LightningForce]

Honestly started really top tier, devolved into meh. So many plot points introduced, just for all of them to have horrible conclusions since the ending was so obviously rushed.

Spoiler

First off, the relationship between the main character and Nora was so sudden. It's just in one moment, he's all friendly and happy with Gosho along with his family, then he suddenly decides it's better to run off and leave with Nora after one kiss/feeding.

The main character then gets captured and experimented on, thought that'd be interesting, only for a ten year time-skip to happen immediately after. Unexpected, but no biggie. As long as there's obvious effects from the ten year imprisonment on the main character. Yet, nothing. Both Nora and Saku were literally torn apart, yet the main character is just fine. No trauma, no obvious wounds/scars, he just wakes up and escapes.

With help from the same person that tried to kill him multiple times, Saku. Once again, another plot point that was ruined. Clearly had a backstory with Nora, never explained. It also isn't explained why he wants to kill the main character in the first place either. Or why he saved the main character. No good explanation, just some "talking to you made me feel human again" crap, despite only having negative and/or rushed interactions with the main character.

And Nora herself, for such a important character (or something), she had one chapter explaining her backstory... with no words. Are we supposed to draw our own conclusions or something? And after that, both the main character and Nora wake up in a cave somewhere in hobo rags, just to walk off into the sunset together, with either no conclusions or unsatisfying ones to a lot of previously interesting plot points like what the company was doing to vampires, Saku's existence in its entirety, Yuki's transformation and subsequent kidnapping, and the question of why, just why the main character seemingly cares so much about someone that has literally only ever made his life harder, + more.

I just don't get what everyone sees in this story. The art is really the only redeemable part, I'd give it an 8/10, simply because the action scenes felt a bit one note. On the other hand, I'd give the story... Well, if it delivered on everything it tried to put in the story, a good 9/10. But since it didn't, the story is a solid 4/10.
Overall, 5/10.

 

[yurimakesmeuglycry]

Don't let the 50 chapters fool you, it feels much shorter than that.
It's good, but it could have been better. Obviously, it's a story about vampires, but it doesn't delve deep into their origins or culture. If you're looking for something like Vampire: The Masquerade or Anne Rice's works this is not it. It's also nothing like Dracula.

It's still the best vampire manga I've read and the only one I've really enjoyed. So many others are either carefree, nonsensical, or excessively fantastical. Happiness is truly a horror. It reminds me a little bit of Let The Right One In.

 

[daoailuu]

Just wow, breathtaking

 

[ninonaka]

I figured out how to sum up my feelings on this one. Full spoilers:

I really liked the first 24 chapters and the last 26 chapters. I just didn't like them together. I like stuff like this, where the protagonist "changes" in some way, and has to explore and understand themselves anew. But the timeskip felt like it ended the original story too early and started the second story, which was too disconnected from the first. And there's about 10-20 chapters missing from the middle, somewhere before chapter 24, that would actually explain and explore Okazaki's feelings for Nora and Yukiko, because his relationship with Yukiko was something that I expected to be explored as he became more of a vampire, but they never spoke to each other except in passing after a 20-chapter (and ten year) hiatus. And you could call it a "kin" relationship or whatever, but Okazaki got over Nora ruining his life way too quickly. For that matter, Okazaki went from being the main character to being a cameo deus ex machina at the end, which was incredibly disappointing. We never saw any of what happened to him in the facility, and he wakes up ten years later entirely unchanged. He's even wearing the same weird restraining getup.

I didn't care for the cult leader, but it's whatever. He made for a pretty 2D villain. And it was never really explained how Yukiko survived the knife attack? I was expecting her to have some latent vampire in her towards the end from Yuki licking her wound but that never happened. On the matter of plot holes, why exactly is Saku envious of Okazaki early on for being able to die? Yuki was a vampire for ten years and (presumably) drank blood all that time, he should be a full vampire. But having his brain be eaten was enough to kill him. Vampires don't seem to be any more resilient, they just have unlimited healing and cannot be killed, so it shouldn't be difficult to have your body and brain ground up. Feed it to some animals if being digested is necessary. It just felt like a bit of an asspull to claim for so long that it is literally impossible to kill a vampire and then to have Yuki die.

Nora being cut up into pieces and surviving as just a brain was genuinely unsettling, though, and the author has my respect for that.

 

[notcishet]

I read this expecting something like 'Let the right one in' and got torture porn

I've read enough of Oshimi's works to know that it'll be a rollercoaster with lots of messed up stuff along the way but this didn't really work for me. As others have said the Makota/Nora relationship just happened because reasons?