10 Things You Didnt Know Abouot Happy Sugar Life
Review
past Rebecca Silverman,Happy Sugar Life
GN viii - x
The walls are closing in on Sato and Shio. Taiyou's increasing desperation, Asahi'south determination, and the deaths Sato is responsible for are all making Sato nervous, and in her business organization she reaches out to her aunt for a solution. Only can there exist resolution for this twisted, tortured cast? Or will they burn in flames of their own making? | ||||||||
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| The walls are closing in on Sato and Shio. Taiyou's increasing desperation, Asahi'southward determination, and the deaths Sato is responsible for are all making Sato nervous, and in her concern she reaches out to her aunt for a solution. But can there exist resolution for this twisted, tortured cast? Or will they fire in flames of their ain making? | |||
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| We all knew, I think, that at that place was never going to exist a happy ending to this story. From its starting time book, Happy Sugar Life has dealt with the sort of mental health crises that scream for interventions that never came, and in its later on volumes delved into the idea that when the people with those issues grow up with them unresolved, the children in their care are ultimately betrayed and twisted to the breaking point. That point comes in these three volumes that mark the end of Tomiyaki Kagisora'southward psychological horror story, and if the ending isn't one that's entirely comfortable, well, at least it'south too one that nosotros can't say nosotros didn't come across coming. One of the interesting elements that these final volumes cover is the nature of the relationship betwixt Sato and Shio. While information technology has been easy to armchair-diagnose Sato with some variety of Lima Syndrome (in the simplest possible terms, this is the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome, where the captor falls for the captive), nosotros didn't necessarily see that Shio was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome herself; her beliefs could very easily have been the reaction of a child getting proper care for the first time in her life. But as we approach the final pages, we're forced to revise that thought: Shio's repressed memories of her female parent and blood brother brainstorm to look a bit less "forgotten" and her devotion to Sato takes on a much more serious edge. This idea, driven habitation by her reunion with older brother Asahi, is an important counterpoint to the idea of Shio somehow existing as a "pure" being. Based on notions of babyhood innocence and purity, it was like shooting fish in a barrel to exist lulled into the thought that Shio was unaware of her past and but imprinting on Sato. But that implies that she was unmarked by her abandonment by her mother and the miserable weather of her pre-Sato life, and that's non actually possible. Shio was never new-fallen snowfall; that's simply how readers and characters were primed to see her by antiquated notions of what fiddling girls are like. But Shio herself is perfectly aware of who she is. Again, this isn't something we really see until volume nine, when Taiyou begs her to heal him. Taiyou, who has just suffered his second rape by an adult woman, is desperate for something expert to save him, to bring him back to himself, as he puts information technology. Merely Shio is largely unmoved by his pain, simply telling him, "But I'k not pure…I've done lots of bad things." This moment of self-awareness is shocking to Taiyou, and in hindsight it lets us know that Shio has been at to the lowest degree partially cognizant of her by, and perhaps what Sato has been doing, all along. Sweet Shio isn't necessarily an deed to keep Sato with her, but it does imply a sure corporeality of performance on her part, an urge to be who people want her to every bit a measure of self-preservation. Taiyou, when she met him, needed her to be a sweet angel child, so that's who she was. But now she's certain of Sato'due south devotion, so she doesn't need to appeal to Taiyou anymore. Similarly, when Asahi finally catches up with her, she doesn't need to be his good trivial sister, because she'south got Sato. Is she really in beloved with the older girl? Is it Stockholm Syndrome? Nosotros don't really get an answer (although there are implications that either could be true in the final pages of book ten), but what is articulate is that she's fabricated her choice and will only be appealing to one person from at present on. It perhaps goes without maxim that these three volumes come with some hefty content warnings, perhaps even more than previous entries. There's sexual assault, cocky-damage, and suicide, and honestly, I recall Sato'southward aunt deserves her very own special make of content warning as a walking disaster for other people. She is, in many ways, the scariest person in this entire serial, the root cause of many of Sato's issues. Her obsession with love is what drove her to become the serial abuser that she is, her apparent sexual activity addiction and conviction that everything she does is in the name of love allowing her to continue to wreak havoc across the board. Sato may have been emotionally damaged when she was given into her aunt's custody in the first place, but she received the reverse of help, and that ultimately immune her to attain the point where we find her in these volumes: badly trying to concord onto the imitation normal that she'south managed to create with a kidnapped child. In some ways, Happy Sugar Life is most the what ifs. What if Sato had never been placed with her aunt? What if Asahi and Shio's mother's parents had prosecuted or protected her instead of forcing her to marry her rapist? What if someone had helped Taiyou after his ordeal? It'd be near too pat to say that part of the signal here is to demonstrate the failure of social support systems, only information technology does experience like the books have a lot to say nearly how children can fall through the cracks. Even more than that, volumes nine and x specifically do a lot to remind readers that the idea of "purity" that Shio represents for nigh of the cast is ane that's not based in whatever reality. Almost no one is seen for who they actually are in this series, and Shio'south confusion over Sato's deportment at the end of book ten seem to suggest that she didn't actually understand the other girl whatsoever more than than near people understood her. Sato'due south human action is one of the clearest demonstrations of love that we go far the series (for a given value thereof, maybe), and Shio's disability to understand it is reflective of both her age and her inability to sympathize the consequences of their actions. Simply and so again, Shio has been the target of everyone's created, personalized realities from the showtime. Why should we deny her the ability to do the aforementioned to someone else? The catastrophe of this series isn't totally satisfying. There are yet unresolved problems for Asahi, and very likely for Taiyou, and we don't know if Shio will ever be okay, any that may mean. But every bit I said before, this was never going to exist a story with a happy ending. Like a windowpane made of melted sugar, everything looks a little warped when you peer through it, and it can shatter with the coincidental moving picture of a finger, leaving but shards of sweetness backside. |
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| Overall : B Story : B Fine art : B + Ideas of Shio's "purity" find closure, continues the exploration of how adults can warp children. | |||
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