#tw satou matsuzaka

[vibeechecker]

The debate on Satou’s feelings for Shio are so hmm. Because there is a level of nuance I think people forget. Satou’s feelings for Shio ARE born motherly/platonically. “But she k*sses her and marries her! They can’t be platonic.” Thats because as stated throughout the series she misinterprets it as romantic!!! It is in where it begins maternal/platonic, but she perceives it as romantic, so acts in the manner that is (aka those scenes). Satou throughout her life never experienced parental love, whith her father being gone from her life, her mother dying when she was a child, and her just terribly neglectful aunt. She also has trouble identifying emotions properly (calling positive emotions “sugary,” negative ones “bitter,” and having an entire scene realizing she feels jealous). And back to her experience with love? for love, she only really has two starting points to the concept: her aunt’s masochist self-sacrificing love of basically letting others abuse you for their enjoyment. And two, societys idolized and romanticized idea of love. You know? Like couples. Romance. What she assumes her love for Shio must be. Because she hates her aunt’s idea of love because all the trauma it caused all her life.

I feel like with the other side its like. Satou having good intentions or her feelings actually being motherly/platonic does NOT justify or make her or her actions okay. She still treats a child as her romantic partner. She still abuses a child. Intentional or not. I feel like there’s this black and white view with it? Because a lot of people who understand the motherly view of satous love uses it to justify but people who dont like her just deny it “like no! She’s a bad person so she cant have any relatable or sympathetic aspects of her character!! Bad jut bad!” Like can’t we say this person is bad while still pointing what led to that point in a sympathetic (but not an entirely lenient) manner that helps point out the systemic issues that leads an individual to terrible actions to AVOID more people following that path. Idk??

[sugarsparadise]

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[iluvyoutoomuch]

[theserlingbucket]

苦い。

[angel-bunny-doll]

auntie's love

Page/panel count: 10

Chapter: 29.5

[risingfire17-the-weeb-trash]

40 Day Anime Challenge Day 34- Most messed up anime you’ve ever watched: Happy Sugar Life (2018)

*Trigger warning: mentions of pedophilia and sexual assault*

Synopsis (from MAL):  Satou Matsuzaka is a beautiful high schooler who has...a chance encounter with a young girl named Shio Koube [that] makes Satou realize that this is her first and only true feeling of love...Satou secretly shares an apartment with Shio. Despite her innocent appearance, Satou is willing to do anything to protect her beloved, resorting to desperate measures to ensure that their ‘happy sugar life’ remains intact.”

Okay look (I feel like I start a lot of these off that way lol) I’m a connoisseur of messed up anime. And something I’ve realized in my history of watching messed up anime is that most of the time, there are some redeeming qualities, especially if the anime ignores some of the more disturbing parts of the source material, particularly regarding children. For example, Kodomo no Jikan addresses the changing role of the school in student life in Japanese culture and the delicate balance between the school’s respect for family privacy and the duty to intervene in suspected child abuse cases. Bunny Drop and If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord both showcase found family and adjusting to the responsibilities of parenthood, particularly in a society that historically has not been friendly to adoption or adopted children. IF we ignore the fact that in the manga versions of all 3 anime, the adult caretakers of these 5-8 year old children become romantically involved with said children when they become teenagers. The anime studios felt the anime would be better received if they just stopped before reaching that point, which was probably a good move. So even anime that show some...less than healthy blips along the way (probably most evident in Kodomo no Jikan), there are some good things to be found.

Happy Sugar Life is NOT one of those anime. Happy Sugar Life is a “love story” (aka Stokholm/Lima Syndrome story) between a 17 year old girl and the 5 YEAR OLD GIRL SHE KIDNAPPED. Multiple people die as she tries to keep the kidnapping secret. Also for some reason EVERYONE wants to get with this 5 year old, except for the ones who want to get with the teenage characters in the show. I don’t think there is a single adult character who isn’t a pedophile and/or hebephile. The only person in this show who actually likes someone her own age dies for discovering the truth. And there was no real point of it all. All we really got out of it were glossed-over tragic backstories of the perpetrators that are somehow supposed to make us forgive their actions. And look, I love a good tragic backstory and redemption arc, and with the right amount of screentime dedicated to each, I’ve found I can forgive a lot. And admittedly, I’ve also shipped plenty of ships between an adult and a consenting teenager (who is usually of the age of consent in Japan.) But I have yet to come across a story that can make me forgive the two greatest atrocities of this anime: sexual assault against an unconsenting teenager, and a romantic relationship forced on a prepubescent child. (With sexual relationship implied but thankfully not depicted.) And if an anime is going to try to redeem that, it better try a whole hell of a lot harder than it actually did. Although (having lived through the 2010s and the golden age of villain redemption) I realize there are people who may be able to forgive this kind of horror, which can cause problems if they also start to forgive it in real life. Which we already see in too many court cases.

Basically, my criticism of Happy Sugar Life can be summed up as: it had too much harmful shock value with no justification for it. And this is coming from someone who loves shock value and finding what motivates these horrifying actions most are too scared to look at. I mean, look at Kodomo no Jikan- is it horrifying to watch an 8 year old throw herself lewdly at her teacher every 5 minutes? Yes. Is it useful to remember that there are children who act like this because that is what’s modelled for them and that educators, social service workers, and anyone else who interacts with children needs to be able to recognize that this behavior means something is horribly wrong at home and intervene appropriately? Also yes. Happy Sugar Life just didn’t have any sort of moral to teach underneath the shock value and exposed viewers to disturbing content for no reason.

[darlingcinnamon]

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[knowbooksandtalkaboutauthors]

AYO DO ALL OF YOU REALIZE THAT SATOU FROM MY HAPPY SUGAR LIFE ACTUALLY KILLED HERSELF AND YUNO GASAI TOO? IT'S LIKE THEY WANTED THEIR 'LOVE' TO LIVE THOUGH THEY HAD DEVELOPED STOCKHOLM SYNDROME (THE DARLINGS OF COURSE) AND THEN THEY HAD SOME QUALITIES OF THEM-

[windtowee]

Any headcanons of Rui, Enmu and Akaza with Satou Matsuzaka!Y/N? Romantic, just in case.

Tw! Cussing and killing Note: platonic for Rui because he’s like 12 but romantic for the others Gender neutral! Reader

Rui

Yeahh, you’re his new older sibling and you have no say in it whatsoever

He might catch on if you’re manipulating him but there’s a high chance that he would just ignore it if you’re doing your job as the ‘Older sibling’

He doesn’t question your methods about killing, he’s a demon after all

He has no room to judge

He finds your possessive love towards him very nice

As he is just as possessive as you are

Enmu

God, he’s very similar to Douma.. (way too similar for my comfort)

He just basks in your possessiveness

He’s around you 24/7

He definitely doesn’t catch on to your manipulation tactics

He wants to know everything about you

He wants to know the funner ways that you kill the people who mess with him

Akaza

He really doesn’t mind the possessiveness but he’s a little bit concerned about your mental health

You kinda remind him of Douma and that kinda freaks him out

Your killing methods are also a bit concerning too but he killed Rengoku (That son of a bitch, Akaza should’ve died) so he has no room to judge you

He really wants to turn you into a demon because you would be absolutely powerful like him

[vibeechecker]

.. bitter bitter bitter

[sugarsparadise]

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[iluvyoutoomuch]

you don't need anyone but me.

[ur-lucky-lover]

I WANT TO BE CLEAN!!!

[angel-bunny-doll]

[goresuckerz]

I hate how people widely misinterpret happy sugar life as some "creepy p*do show" when it's not.

(Spoilers if you haven't watched it)

Happy sugar life is a psychological horror centered around the actions of a girl who has never experienced love before. Growing up everyone around her had a very warped and twisted perspective of love, so she's never been able to differentiate between romantic and platonic/familial love.

When she finds shio, a young girl around 7 or 8, abandoned on the streets, her first instinct is to save her. After taking her off of the streets and living with her, she realizes that she deeply cares for and loves her, but more as a mother or a sister would.

The issue is she has never experienced familial love, she doesn't even know it exists. The only love she had been taught was romantic and sexual.

So she misinterprets these feelings as romantic.

Throughout the show she never does a single sexual thing towards shio, shio is never sexulized in the fist placed.

The people who write of Satous character as a "P*do" are mainly people who have never read the manga or watched the show.

Yes Satou is a horrible selfish person, she never once makes an attempt to look for Shio's family and actively manipulates and kills others to keep Shio from leaving her.

She is a murderer, a manipulator, but not a fucking p*d*phile.

[justanotherstardrop]

happy sugar life covers 3 & 4