6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Happy Sugar Life (2018)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.9
Overview
Satou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new life, and would do anything for love, even if it means threatening, confining, or killing someone.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Negative
Overview
Satou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new life, and would do anything for love, even if it means threatening, confining, or killing someone.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The series primarily explores extreme psychological obsession, abuse, and the search for an idealized happiness, focusing on individual pathology and the tragic consequences of trauma rather than promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies or offering systemic solutions.
The movie, a Japanese anime, features a cast consistent with its cultural origin, where the concept of recasting traditionally white roles is not applicable. Its narrative delves into psychological themes of obsession and abuse, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on DEI themes as defined in a Western context.
Secondary
The series centers on a same-sex, pedophilic, and abusive relationship, portraying it as the driving force behind the protagonist's extreme violence and psychological instability. This depiction associates non-traditional relationships with profound pathology and leads to a tragic, destructive outcome, offering no positive counter-narrative.
Happy Sugar Life does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The story primarily explores dark psychological elements, obsessive relationships, and the impact of trauma, with no narrative focus on gender identity or transsexuality.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The anime adaptation of "Happy Sugar Life" faithfully portrays the genders of all established characters from its manga source material. No characters who were canonically one gender are depicted as a different gender in the series.
Happy Sugar Life is an anime adaptation of a Japanese manga. All characters in the anime maintain the same racial depiction (East Asian) as established in the original source material. There are no instances of characters being portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
7.5
Critic Ratings
N/A
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