Happy Sugar Life: A Study in Sympathy 

Full points.

This is cute and all, but I still think it was a good watch.

Joke's on you, I didn't need him to convince me the show was good and worth watching, ha!

1. Handshakers is WAY worse than the first 2 episodes may lead you to believe 2. Happy Sugar Life is in the top 10% of all anime when it comes to pacing. Right alongside Fate/Zero and Planet With; and above FMA:B and Death Note. Pacing can outdo story, especially when it's short and has many genuine mysteries that don't get foreshadowed for no reason.

@ponquinful I make no claims about _Happy Sugar Life_ 's pacing, at least for now. However, if you think _Fate/Zero_ has good pacing, then you clearly haven't even seen the first episode. Or maybe you have, because it certainly contained a lot of pacing. XD

That should come to mind when watching a lot of shows....especially shows with sympathetic villains.

@@SonicmaniaVideos yeah sympathetic villains something I've noticed a lot of people use other than immediate shorthand to completely excuse reprehensible Behavior such as.... okay let's put it this way people think Gaston from Beauty and the Beast is actually the hero of the story. I bloody hope most of them are joke articles but look it up look it up look it up why I don't know I don't know he's not even sympathetic the sympathy you find from it is something you have to fish for and you completely rewrite the character did justify it. If a character can be completely recontextualized by a subset of absolute weirdos who are honestly watching the movie Wrong imagine what happens when you actually do write a sympathetic character as a villain. They will turn them into a messiah!

That's one extreme. The Beast's only sympathy comes from how...well "why" he got cursed, not from anything he does in the story proper. If people can value his character based on that, they aren't technically watching the movie wrong. People misunderstand characters all the time, it's whatever.

@@SpiderandMosquito The beast is definitely not a "good guy" either though. If the "beauty" hadn't gone out of her way to find her father the beast would have kept him down in that dungeon indefinitely. That doesn't sound like something a good person would do.

@@SonicmaniaVideos it is an extreme example yes but it is something worth noting. Beast is not very sympathetic but he goes through a transformation to the point he becomes a radically different person worthy of your sympathy.... literally at the end. The point is that in my opinion that lying to yourself or others about the content of a story is not simple misinterpretation but flat out lying. But on to the topic at hand it's very easy for some viewers to allow the smallest of humanizing qualities to instantly mean justification and Redemption even when the story does not intend for that. It is worth noting that he is not wrong Brian is not wrong in his examination here that the story does successfully allow you to sympathize for its protagonist and treat her as heroic as you can in this context but that doesn't mean that she was a good person or that you should be forgiving her for her actions and that this is not a normal situation that we should be viewing it as

Same. I'd totally watch it if he looked like that and still only cared about Shio in a parental fashion.

No one would buy manga and watch the anime :\ Japanese aren't stupid...

Like Ramune? STOP FBI will swarm your house...

Ikr lmao I literally couldn't breath

SAME 💀

Well hey, now Yuno.

Sociopaths need a hug, too.

jackson hutchcraft Same here.

True

That’s one thing I’ve been considering. The nature of the relationship is somewhat sustainable (only in the sense that Shio is not being actively abused I guess) but after a certain time, Sato will start being confronted by Shio’s sexual interests once she hits puberty. This leads to a few equally creepy options: 1. Sato will begin engaging with Shio sexually, which, since Shio is 5, and will likely hit puberty by around 12, will make Sato an adult at that point (which will explicitly make their relationship statutory rape and grooming). 2.the likelier option is that Sato will reject Shio’s desires and instead become the antithesis of her aunt; rather than expose Shio to sex too early, she will put a chokehold on her growth and smother her individuality, basically like an overprotective mother, in order to keep her “innocent” and dependable on her. She already has no problem isolating Shio and keeping her from other people. 3. Sato, realizing she can’t keep Shio’s “innocence” intact, may decide to commit a murder-suicide to “protect” Shio from losing it and to prevent herself from living without her “true love.”

shio already acknowledged with taiyo that she wasnt pure, right in front of sato, so it's unlikely she'll see it as something that taints her. they just make each other happy

true. i imagine if their plan had worked out and they'd successfully escaped, in few years Satou would become this horrible posessive overprotective parental figure that basically prevents Shio from having anything resembling a normal life, because she wants to keep her "pure". and then the circle of abuse would just make another round.

Honestly, once Shio stops being a cartoonishly adorable little girl, Satou probably abandons her back to the streets. Maybe picks up another kid and repeats the cycle.

No other characters from her world wouldn't be good partner for her only Satou

@@rachelgardnerray9977 that's the thing though if Shio stayed with Satou she won't be able to survive in the real world. Everyone is forgetting that Satou literally forbids her going outside and because of that she probably won't ever learn how to do maths, how to write, read or anything needed to function in society

@@othzy6149 At least for now, in the story she is hiding from the brother was it? and everyone else cause yes they are far worse. I start to wonder are there any good people in that whole town. I could see a world where shio goes to school like normal, but it would have to be in a very safe space(according to satou) and she has got trust issues in all that baggage so I'm sure it's a long road to better.

@@andrewgoehring9108 at least her brother never killed anybody.

@@othzy6149 .....Sure. That dude's got the same yandere levels of will do anything for my love. I might be mistaken but I thought he did or at least tried to kill some guys in a park at some point.

it would be hard to have a family name that wasn't passed down for generations

Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood?

I just saw that. Damn that was a good reference xD

I was wondering about that.

But I'm still not interested at all.

Yeah, took my a second to get that one.

That sounds sad

Indeed i give an answer a year later but in the manga when Shio has to choose between Asahi and Sato she remembers all past good times she went through with her mother and bro before deciding to get to Sato....so in the manga her choice appears to be more hers than in the anime...dunno if you knew that, if you see that reply sorry for disturbance ( wanted to just make aware) and have a nice day

Fucking agree!! Exclamation point has a point where I did think Satou was the best option, but I really hoped Asahi would get her back because he would be the only one in her life who didn’t take advantage of her in a weird way.

She is not even exploiting Shio's mind though... But yeah Asahi is like one of the few sane ones throughout the anime ;_;

@@ccpmustfall6445 how? she literally just convinced a 8 year old murder is okay if you love someone.

I was actually about to make a comment about how I noticed similarities: ie the use of an unreliable narrator/protagonist that people unintentionally root for because, like a lot of abusers and predators, Humbert and Satou effectively manipulate the audience/witnesses to side with them by trying to garner sympathy or making themselves seem like what they're doing is for the sake of their victim or doing what they do out of 'love.' It's easier to see through the facade in Humbert's case, because as he explained Satou is able to get away with more because she's a cute anime schoolgirl and most of us will subconsciously root for her because of her innocent appearance. And while Satou may be the 'lesser' of the various evils in the show, it's still evil no matter how you spin it. Plus you've got the fact that Shio has been groomed into loving, trusting, and depending on Satou (basically Stockholm syndrome) so while she appears to be happy in this relationship, she's still been abducted by a dangerous and predatory person. I haven't watched the anime for myself, but that's what I got from this video and other people's descriptions of it. An interesting analysis.

yes thank you.There's a lot of value in this show for going this direction. also Episode 7 bares some resemblance to the Obluda children's book episode in Naoki Urasawa's Monster. The direction, some of the symbolism, it's there.

There is a big différence between the two : In Lolita the protagoniste is an ADULT (so it's pedophilia) who sexualy abuses a little girl those who are romanticizes by the movie, in Happy sugar life : the protagoniste is a 14 years old kids (so it' s not thecnically pedophilia) having a romantic relationship with a little girl Who have apparently 6 years old without ever having sex

@@arphangh5409 Satou being a highschooler puts her at around 16~18... also one point in the series that is always being forgotten by people is that it wasn't really Satou that wanted to take in Shio... it was actually Shio that coerced Satou into taking her home I haven't really seen anybody discuss Shio's mentality considering she realizes Satou is emotionally broken(symbolized by the cracked jar) immediately and how she decided that she can "fix" Satou by filling her with happiness that's also after Shio decided that her mom's "jar" cannot be fixed as long as she's with her(hence why she didn't want to come with Asahi)

@@arphangh5409 still child abuse

It's like all those people's brains never developed past the age of 3 and can't comprehend other points of view than their own.

They literally don't. Like in actuality, the moment you see someone think that sympathizing or even just understanding why someone did a bad deed is the same as justifying or supporting...just end the discussion there. Hard coded stances are actual blocks to discussion.

Would *_you_* actively talk about watching a show where the protagonist is an actual child predator?

seg162 probably if it was worth talking about, but I see your point I suppose.

it from the summer

@@seg162 1 "small" issue: Satou is a child too. Also, us weebs do talk about weird shows all the time. I like Happy Sugar Life and have been following the manga a year before the anime came out, but I think the anime is just not too popular for some reason - it being on Amazon is probably one reason. The anime did do the source material justice, just that may be not enough people watch it in the first place it seems.

@@kimcuongvuxuan7413 you're splitting hairs and making excuses. she's still behaving in a predatory manner towards a child. shes a child predator.

oh my gosh thank you so much for this comment !! i know this is old but omg you said everything ive been thinking reading the manga and more i thought i was the only one >

@@z2yn Did you even watch the end of the anime. At the end shio is mentally broken because of sato.

@@goatskin4487 did u use that brain of yours? she was screwed either way, Asiha and his mother aren't able to take care of shio, her brother was already on the verge of becoming just as violent as his dad, her mother was already downhill the moment she slappped and abandoned shio, shio was already broken the moment her mother abandoned her, sato BY HERSELF was able to maintain a job (ulike shio's mom) , smart enough to use her appearance and diligence to manipulate peopleor fend off against enemies, but because shes still naive and trys to do everything herself or with shio (the auntie was explaining it), they can only last so long before they're sins catch up to them, like he said in the video and also through out the series that sato was a better care taker, but is a bad person and the anime and manga made no one a protagonist

@@jtamiing559 True enough

Underrated comment.

I recommend giving the Manga a go. It shows more depth of the other characters, like how Shio's mother became like that (how she even got into that marriage).

@@misheru-senpai1038 Yeah, that would be interesting.

Not quite🤔

Thats one way to put it Although, at the last few episode, that is definitely confronted

Well we wont be having that problem anymore since

Nah I believe that too she’s insane.

@@sarima7621 she dead?

Woolie?

Joshua Smith Doubtful. Like Satou herself said, she has a tendency to “want to keep things to herself”.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick that

His first instinct upon seeing satou was to bash in her leg

And if we actually look at what Asahi said earlier, he only cares about his own happiness ignoring the fact that his own mother abandoned shio and bringing her back would probably only cause Shio more pain. And if we actually think Satou never did anything inappropriate to Shio, nothing sexual what so ever. The only one who really only got molested was Taiyo. We also have to look at this in the japanese laws, and I don't think taking in an abandoned kid is considered kidnapping like it is in america.

I think the huge difference between Manga and Anime adaptation is how the showed us more about the background story of the other characters in the Manga and how they used more visuals to to show how sweet their love is and how creepy the world is that the actually see in the Anime. I was more freaked out by the Anime and how the painter became insane in first person view.

I don't know if you only read the Manga, but it seems like you didn't watch the Anime. FYI, the Anime did already have an ending. I don't know if it's canon or not since the Manga I read is not finished yet.

I heard that in the manga they.. consummate there "relationship"? I'm too afraid to read it because of that. I am a survivor of... Things. Like- I know the damage it leaves and especially when your older and understand better and more about it. My better half, to this day never told his adopted mothers son that because she was a pedo etc that at 8 years old he might have fathered his "brother". Has literally spent most of his life haunted by this. Never had it left his mind in nearly 40 years since. He wouldnt even do normal things boys do when they hit puberty because it just wasn't safe and never felt safe. She would come in and want to touch him and would threaten to tell his adopted dad some bullshit about him being in trouble if he didn't wear speedo's and shit swimming. This is just- If that bitch ever comes around my adorable stepson/nephew(who is about the age his dad was then- to be fair his dad and I have been together almost as long as he has been alive and kiddos mom and I had no idea we were related and as far as I know of she still doesn't- so that part of things isn't related to the other crap but is more that my dad was a man hoe and I have a couple dozen random people out there somewhere im related to and have never met and wouldn't know from anyone else- so it was genuinely a surprise- my dad was a great dad to me before he died but lets face it- he basically lives like a cute sweet talking rabbit trying to repopulate the earth by any means necessary when it came to women-he never did right by any of the mothers so mine was no different complete with that she both loved and believed him before she found that shit out) it's not hard to imagine the lengths I might go to stop her from being anywhere near this adorable and loving little boy. The fuck imma let her anywhere near him after what she did to his father. They adopted him because they had been unable to have children and his adopted mom wasn't really the issue. Despite the odds its possible and that is enough to cause great distress. He was close to his brother before his adopted dad threatened him not to contact anyone of the family brother included while he was in the military. Personally I sometimes wonder if he knew or suspected and instead of placing the blame where it went lashed out at the little boy who literally was a victim in that situation and not at all at fault. This has basically tortured him most of his life(since it happened). The emotional troubles pedophilia causes the child survivor inside for the rest of there lives is... Really bad. Also it can make these REALLY fucked up situations. My younger sisters father tried to condition me by love bombing etc and trying to get me used to things... Grooming basically. I was being groomed. Then suddenly im six being told i want to see something I dont want to, frozen still and scared shitless while he lives this delusion where I understand why he is showing off his erection to six year old me or literally what an it even is or why it does that etc but also really scared when he tried to make me touch it. Later he would attack me more directly and my mom would walk in and beat the living crap out of him and kick him out(only for a social worker to threaten to take us if she didn't take him back- right in front of my younger brother and I by the way- shes dead because of this btw). Im about to hit middle age and this shit can still be haunting as hell. There is nothing good about pedophiles but the illusion they fill there own godamn heads with. Period. So... Yeah. Really just not capable of rooting for her. I cannot imagine the little child would react that way. As someone who has been through it... Younger children dont understand to feel anything but wrong about certain things even when some end up doing things(lots of therapy puts you in touch with others who have survived... Things like that) and its usually because they think they have to and it is being treated the same way as of they did something really good- they simply believed the adult at the time even if it caused them immense emotional harm all the more for having believed it- that comes with a whole bunch of its own specific baggage not all that unlike when a woman is raped by someone she trusts while she still trusted that person in one capacity or another. Yet also different because the child doesnt even understand anything but that a trusted adult is hurting them and they dont know what to do or why it is even happening. So after being told the manga went... Further... I couldn't read it.

@@AuroraLalune I'm not sure who told you that about the manga, but I'm not sure if that's the case. I mean, the manga I read is not finished yet, so I can't tell for sure if the ending will be the same, but until now, it was almost exactly as the Anime. Although they gave people like the mother of Shio a background story and showed why she was that psychotic in the first place. I don't think they "consummate their relationship" in that way, since Satou didn't look at her in a sexual way. In that case, "Banana Fish" would be worse, since Ash was literally raped his entire childhood and lost his trust into adults. And even when he was 17, he still needed to be the b**ch of the guy who made him into a child p*rn star. And your story sounds awful. The only thing I hate more than pedophiles, who actually hurt children without thinking about the consequences of the child, are the people who know about this and do literally nothing.

@@misheru-senpai1038 A lot of people do nothing about a lot of things. Some know and blatantly support it. That would honestly be more my fear with this sort of angling. I suppose knowing that fear is there would be why it would be important to ask the people behind it what there intentions were in that regard. It probably speaks terribly if myself that the world of happy sugar life didn't seem exaggerated to me at all. Worse exist. Rather it seemed more like some characters put into a story to me. Like any other. The again therapists have told me this is at least somewhat normal. It is a minority whose voices are heard so what is normalized is not necessarily normal. Pedos are not normal but they go free and get away with it enough they hurt many. They are not the only evil. Many evils pretend to be good. Hiding behind the notions of being helpful while getting drunk off of the positions of authority they reside in. Most of the people who are complacent make there own excuses to be such. Pony the blame. Put it off on someone else. After I lost my mother and was separated from my siblings some pretty fucked up shit happened. The only thing these stories aren't addressing is how people immediately go to the term "mental illness" or how that is both excuse of ones own lack of actions in a situation denoting responsibility onto someone else to deal with "because mental illness is involved" and also a way to invalidate a persons existence. It can be used as a tool to invalidate the victim, excuse a perpetrator(and thus feed such peoples parasitic "need" to feel powerful rather than dealing with themselves and admitting evil isn't an illness but a choice- therein avoiding what they find uncomfortable in there projections), even excuse the bystander that does nothing. I have ptsd. Despite that it doesnt cause psychosis and is basically intrusive and very vivid memory(flashbacks) replay(usually less organized than it sounds- often they are part of the event or in you might go from end to beginning to middle or to middle to end to beginning or any other combination- though it is more because rather than only three parts doing that its.actually all of them and the smells and the sensations and basically every vivid detail involved- the emotions can actually be re created entirely- not simply remembered but creating wounds all there own within ones heart)of the events that happened in the trauma that caused it. I have both been told my tormentor was sick like that held less weight/choice than it did and also told that having ptsd invalidates me in any way that person finds convenient at the time. Nightmares are basically either flashbacks as described, the event happening, or some fucked up version twisted by dreams to take those all encompassing horrors you cannot imagine being worse and make them somehow worse. I can only imagine this is the mind trying to make the actual things that happened seem less serious but it mostly just means someone with ptsd tends to avoid sleeping. Actively in many cases. Maybe with the occasional sleeping pills to make sure you don't push too far but ultimately it isnt something people tend to realize. They just sort of think your just being difficult and that the answer is clear and obvious without trying to understand. Forget how common suicide spikes when pills become involved with ptsd or its treatment at all. Anxiety pills dont fix the reason your so damn aware and wary etc. Sleeping pills don't make the nightmares go away. In the cases they manage to make sleep dreamless the flashbacks intensify and often become as hallucinations rather than flashbacks. People do not understand and they do not wish to do so. That is always someone elses job. Too many people are like that. Most of humanity. I think the horrible ugly truth of the world we live in is why truly kind and good people who don't waste time trying to force there version of how they think others should live on them or punishing them for not doing so... Are more important to treasure. Def not like happens in happy sugar life but more in the non smothering/controlling sort of way. It doesn't take much for people to show true colors. A little power, money, some secrecy and the ability to systematically and effectively silence or invalidate victims so effectively it is effective silence anyway... Few things happen more than those.

preach !! i was rooting for the kid to realize their situation ugh

XirU I wanted a loli Hentai and was disappointed

well she technically did, she left the apartment, albeit looking for Satou, but then shit hit the fan. As stated in the video, seems like something terrible happens every time Shio goes outside, probably safer in the house anyway.

@tsuuki Shio did seem to realize the situation somewhat towards the end, but accepted Satou anyway.

@Huy Max go talk to shad about that then

Forgotten? Did you comment on the wrong thing? This is Explanation Point, One of the grastest on the platform.

@@aidengray3998 well he may be one of the "grastest" but there are plenty of casual watchers who aren't so invested in his stuff, who would most likely forget for a while before checking back cause of the lack of recent content. I mean, Christ, I can't even remember the last video he did. It might've been the bullshit April fools joke video (seriously, dude, I appreciate that ya tried, but with your mostly understandable content gaps I don't wanna see what appears to be an actual analysis video in a language I don't understand, only to find out via subtitles that there was nothing there to begin with than a dumb gag anyway)

@@gorade1901 Casuals gonna casual. I dont want this channel to be become episodic/chapter "reviews" of ongoing seasonal anime. Those channels are vapid, and there's so much of them. Would get him more ways more money, but I am here for analysies of themes of completed shows.

@@ShionKenobi That's not what I want either, nor is it what I suggested. I only stated that there's a good chance people would've forgotten to check for new content.

Nope I saw a pedo and I hated satou

I do agree with your points and I do think that is a possibility, but again, I'm not sure. I do quite like your take on Satou's psyche.

That's still categorised as kidnapping tho... I agree about their relationship, Satou's a very messed up girl who needs a stable home first and foremost

Didn't Satou and Shio kiss?

@@glennashia1421 yes and that's because the abuse victims satou and shio don't understand the difference between romantic and platonic love like a normal person would it was literally seconds before her death that satou understood it

Yeah, but premiers feel like a lie. They get your hopes up thinking "new video" but it's not, and your hopes are dashed, leaving you worse off than before. THAT'S why people don't like premiers.

Just use a announcement or something

If it was an update video or a community post, there wouldnt be a problem. But Premiers have a tenancy to make you think that RU-vidr actually uploaded something when they didn't. BUT, they're fine for small gaps of time, like having something premier in 30 minutes. But this is *4 whole days* of cocktease. I'm ultimately fine with it so long as we get a new vid, but it's still annoying

My dude, people aren’t upset because they are getting notified when a video is being released (that’s pretty normal). It more of how it looks almost exactly like a normal upload and then the disappointment of having to wait even longer for the video.

It's just incredibly silly to see people be angry about it

You just fucking described Kantai Collection

Isn't that what Kantai Collection is like?

Pfffft the Treaty of Tripoli isn't even the best treaty to animate, I need me some Kawaii Treaty of Frankfurt action

And What i truly hate about this world. People are freaking animals, and really need to wake up to just how manipulated they are

You got at least one of them!

@@ExplanationPointAnime o neat

Grekie Stockholm Syndrome is so overdone.

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick how so?

Grekie When you’ve threshed through the fetid recesses of Internet cartoon conspiracy theories as much as I have in my youth you learn to grow quite sick of Stockholm Syndrome.

Fuck Satou men... Team Asahi and Shoko all the way

Nope, as "innocent" as Satou is, she still killed her best friend, blackmailed a rapist instead of reporting her, kidnapped Shio, etc.

you are not the only one. sautou is like Nendeko from monogatari. all cuteness and so downright disgusting....

Nope my dude

No not at all, I think its down right sickening how much "love" there is for Satou. People really cant see how they getting fooled buy some pretty colors. but i cant hate the show for being that great at trolling the weepleps.

But Satou knows the implactions of marriage and went along with Shio's idea without question. And those vows weren't originally intended to be marriage-like, I think. It was simply a promise from the family to always care for one another. It seems to me that Satou is either asexual, doesn't love Shio sexually but she does romantically, or--even creepier--she's waiting to . . . y'know . . . because she doesn't want to rape her partner . . .

Yeah it was contrived, but I think it did a good job in creating an interesting moral dilemma and unsettling atmosphere, (possibly being the most unsettling show I've watched other than Higurashi). Plus, the animation did an excellent job in reflecting Sato's and Shio's mental state. I've heard people compare it to the literary classic Lolita, and now that I think about it, they are very similar from what I've heard and Happy Sugar Life likely took some inspiration from it. Either way, it's a really good show if you go in with the right mindset.

Hell no, I'm team Satou all the way

I was rooting for her brother, but some people are different I guess lol

​@@Monika-di7vvyes omg! And mainly SHE JUST SAVED Shios life! Why people blame her!? Shio was already mentally broken cause of her family! And her mother which left Shio on the streets!! Satou Matsuzaka is not evil person she is just broken she was sexualy abused she is not pure evil. She could feel little remorse she could feel empathy for Shio and Shouko at least before she found Shouko rejected her as shit. And she is able to protect Shio. She is not evil person

​@@denjidenji9162Her brother would become as his dad anyway so nope Satou is better for her. I mean she never abused her or beated her. SHE SAVED Shios life! Why people blame her for that?! Shio was already mentally broken cause of her family! And her mother which left Shio on the streets!! Satou Matsuzaka is not evil person she is just broken she was sexualy abused she is not pure evil. She could feel little remorse she could feel empathy for Shio and Shouko at least before she found Shouko rejected her as shit. And she is able to protect Shio. She is not evil person

No, the show didn't try to make it looks good, just the least worse. Also yeah, bad ending.

Sato is very clearly shown as deranged. She isn't so much portrayed as good as she is portrayed as pitiful. She does terrible things, but because she was driven to it and no longer understands they are wrong. From there, the show is more or less shown from her perspective. So it depends on your tolerance. The show doesn't "promote" any of what Sato does, but it does show a genuine (albeit manipulative and criminal) relationship between Sato and Shiro, one in which both clearly want to be in. If it is too disturbing for you given any preconceived moral stances you may have on the subject, then I don't recommend watching. If you can get past that, the show has some genuinely nice action, tension and surprisingly enough even tenderness.

The show doesn't try to hide the fact that it is wrong and that the main character is a horrible person, but it somehow manages to make you root for them despite that, as explained in this video. I suppose that's mainly because Sato is the lesser of all evils in raising the little girl, as all the other people trying to get her are probably even worse. Either way it's a good watch, an 8/10 on my scale.

It's like at the beginning they want us to know who the bad guy is and who the good guys are, but as the story progresses, they show us why it came to this, why those characters do or did this. Making the bad Sato a bit more human and the good Asahi selfish and not thinking about what would make Shio happy. Sato is never potrayed as good, at least they don't force that image on you. They just show you that she isn't just a heartless monster who kidnaps a little girl and kills random people. I'd give it a go, at least to see how disturbing those children see the world of adults. It's more horrifying than the manga in that aspect.

I think it’s a very unique anime (I’ve never seen anything like this before) and it’s only 12 episodes so I definitely recommend giving it a try. The show does not paint Satou as a good person (or anyone really) To me, I feel like the show gives you all these details and you as the viewer can judge who is good and who is bad (spoiler alert, not many are good) I give it a 9.5/10

It's like all those people who watched Breaking Bad and were rooting for Walter White until the end.

As I watched it and read the Manga I thought that they wanted to show that those children are corrupted due to the awful adults they are surrounded with. Like the fact that we know Sato is an awful person, we are confronted by how dark and twisted her life is and how being with Shio really brightens up not only Sato, but also the entire atmosphere. It makes you want to stay with Shio instead of going back to those creepy scenes. I personally didn't root for Sato, but I did symphasize with her. One of the reasons were that the first thought about it, as you phrased it, "child abduction, murder and stockholm syndrome" I had was proven entirely wrong. With the progress of the Anime, it becomes clear that Sato never kidnapped Shio, so also Stockholm does not apply. Murderer does fit her, but not as bad as it seems at first. Sato killed two people one of them to actually protect Shio from being killed and the other actually feeling something like regret or sadness.

Because they still can change bro.

And, for fuck's sake, I don't want more than one notification.

Uh, I dont know what other video you're talking about, but I suspect the act of marketing yourself gives views that speak for themselves. This video was picked up by the algorithm for me despite not having notifications turned on, after all

Good boy

linkle witch he’s procrastinating

Yeah heaven forbid a content creator you like have a life or something silly like that

@@Flowtail That's not the problem here. It's just the way that he went about posting this video that only compounded the fact that, hey, he hasn't posted a vid for a long time and now we get cocktease. I'm ultimately fine with it so long as we get the video, and we did, but it was still annoying

Oooh come on, he's doing his best >: /

In retrospect I should have used these days to finish the anime so it wasnt spoiled

StUCaboose he dropped the show after episode 1

@@mrbro6882 Really?

"Just watch Bakemonogatari." There's your video, done.

what is that show like ? only have phone should it be on a mid term bucket list or quick watch dumb fun style?

Mark Benjamin the general premise is interesting (but the explanation in the show for the supernatural stuff is kinda stupid), but the reason anyone is talking about the show is the top notch characters, their interactions and dialog and so on.

Indeed, cracked hard at that, you just cat prepare for seeing that.

The kiss scene though...and the wedding yeah very motherly

​@@dianalovesbagelss8029yes omg like wtf? It doesn't make a sense that mother an daughter would do this thing. They love each other but romantically not sexualy

Orange Man bad.