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Happy sugar life1/8/2023 Happy Sugar Life triggered such a devilishly sweet mania in me that I can only express my answer with pure, meaningless meme: What is the appeal of yandere archetypes and why… is this ketamine or sugar? I wanted this blog to have a bit of writing rigor, so I’ll set out with a discussion question. Instead, I stayed up staring at the dark ceiling, grinning and giggling over the devious thing I had just watched. The first three episodes did not put me to sleep like I had hoped. And woah ho, did I find one, if by “palate cleanser” you mean rapidly alternating between tastes so bitter to turn you to ash and so sweet to melt you away into a puddle of syrupy goo. I needed a palate cleanser after that awful isekai overload. If Happy Sugar Life could capture even half of Mirai Nikki’s mad brilliance, it would be well worth a watch. Though the endless plot holes and criminal character inconsistencies made its psychotic yandere lead Yuno look sane, I can forgive any flaw with the mantra: n-o-t-h-i-n-g-w-r-o-n-g. Mirai Nikki may well have been the greatest natural disaster to ever strike anime, but wow was it entertaining. One eye glows red behind too-long pink banges. As the explosive echo subsides, I hear only quiet rain and the mad, gurgling laughter of an anime girl dragging a bloody fire axe. (At this point, I like to imagine that a bolt of lightning strikes the transformer outside my house and the power cuts out. This time, I read the synopsis and let out a sarcastic “heh.” Oh, a yandere? And pink? I liked Mirai Nikki well enough, let’s give it a whirl, eh? Weeks ago, I had flagged Happy Sugar Life as a “maybe” entirely for its colorful cover art. So, I opened up MyAnimeList looking for a new show. I needed something new to watch while I dozed off. Usually some mediocre tier-two seasonal show will fit the bill, but summer 2018 has mostly disappointed me: The 2.5 isekai anime I tried to watch this season either proved gross, intolerably vile, or just… plain. Because a healthy night-time routine is out of the question ( more blue light to chill the eyes ), I often fill that dead time with lazy anime. One night, I was murderously bored and could not sleep.
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