Happiness 1

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even wanting to. Read at your own risk, all the characters who enter the story are ready for a terrible end. Time Skip: The story skips 10 years after Makoto runs away from home and gets captured, Yuki gets taken in by Sakurane, Gosho barely survives her injuries, and the deaths of Shiraishi and her family. Healing Factor: Vampires can heal from practically anything, though it can take time. Saku recovers from being decapitated by a train, and Nora from having her brain removed from her skull. The only one to truly die is Yuki when his entire body is ripped apart and devoured — and he still manages to communicate for a little while after that. I do have something positive to say about this novel – I didn’t expect the midway plottwist. In fact, I was going to write in this review that the novel is so predictable that I’ve guessed that it would end up with the protagonist somehow making his life more valuable, selling the rest of his life and freeing the girl from the debt. So it was nice to find out that his life was actually worthless from the start, the initial assessment was fake and so that will in no way happen. Sure, it makes no sense for the girl to give out her own money just so some random dude she literally just bet in her business hours doesn’t get even more sense, but at least it’s not predictable. Stupid, yes, but not predictable.

What Oshimi wants to express with this character are the consequences of living too long in a world driven by hatred, by rejection, a world governed by divinities such as C. Baudelaire or A. Rimbaud. Alienation, isolation, estrangement, disaffection towards everyone and everything. In a word, an abomination. This is exactly the importance of Saku’s character in Happiness. He perfectly represents the basic concept of this work: vampirism as a metaphor for social alienation.The author, not showing the past life of Sudo, obliges the reader to have a unique interpretation of this character: colleague of Gosho, a very polite, sensitive, with common sense, respectful, and understanding person … the embodiment of perfection. So impeccable in his behavior that he doesn’t seem real. And it is precisely here that the author shows his genius. In fact, the character who apparently seems the most “normal” of the whole work turns out to be the most surreal. In Happiness, Sudo represents the idea of unconditional, absolute love. Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Makoto tries. He eventually succeeds. Nora and Saku are not examples, both saying they've been around long enough that they've become indifferent to human life and don't discriminate with their victims.

Happiness 2". Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on 22 May 2016 . Retrieved 22 May 2016. Happiness 3". Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016 . Retrieved 22 May 2016.Unfortunately even this did not help Oshimi to find an answer to one of the existential questions par excellence. Indeed, I state that it is my belief, I think instead that the author knows very well the answer to this dilemma, he just doesn’t want to resign himself to such a bitter reality yet. I immediately get to the point of my statement.

a b ハピネス（９）[ Happiness (9)] (in Japanese). Kodansha. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018 . Retrieved 5 December 2018. Sudo enters the scene only in the second part of the manga, when Gosho is already an adult, to be clear. This choice was not made by the author for the exclusive purpose of a correct and sensible development of the plot, but is strictly functional to the message that Oshimi wants to express with Happiness.Approximately halfway through the story takes a turn for the worse. It starts to branch out into different arcs, some of which take the story Just think of the cause of his dispute with Yuki Ono. Attracted by the smell of blood emitted by Shiraishi, probably caused by her menstrual cycle, Okazaki finds himself staring closely at her legs. An undoubtedly symbolic scene, using the vampire theme as a metaphor for the adolescent awakening of sexual instincts. In the ensuing dispute, by striking a punch on Yuki’s nose, Okazaki manages to free himself from the “subjugation” spell to which he seemed doomed. Obviously, compared to Kasuga, Okazaki more than in front of a crossroads is forced to travel a one-way street, given his vampire disease. Oshimi therefore gives a different answer to the question that already arose with Aku no hana. In the latter, the protagonist is initially infatuated with Sawa Nakamura, his femme fatale, consequently rejecting Nanako Saeki’s maternal affection. Only in the end does Kasuga manage to free himself from Nakamura’s obsession, thanks above all to the advent of Aya Tokiwa. In Happiness the premise of the story is almost the same, however the ending is quite different. In fact, Okazaki also initially chooses (he is forced to choose) to follow Nora, thus abandoning Gosho to herself. But in Happiness there is no character who plays the role of Tokiwa, so much so that Okazaki is “forced” to succumb to his condition, and therefore “forced” to follow his femme fatale, Nora. Again, this transition could work and renew the series into a thriller with moments of horror and action, but unfortunately, it fails to provide reasonable justifications for the new events and conflicts. Since this review has no spoilers, the examples below will be described vaguely and broadly. Happiness 10". Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019 . Retrieved 4 June 2019.