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Description
Miyuki Umino was a senior in high school. Although Miyuki, her two younger brothers and her younger sister were poor, they were happy living together. But, one day all of a sudden her older brother's debt of 250 million yen fell upon them. To pay back the debt Miyuki quit school. What was the incredible choice she took to do this?

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
ハッピー!
网坛小魔女

Groups Scanlating
HappyScans!
Hawks
Mangascreener

Latest Release(s)
v.15 c.156 by HappyScans! (7d ago)
v.15 c.155 by HappyScans! (47d ago)
v.15 c.154 by HappyScans! (83d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
23 Volumes (Complete)
15 Volumes (Kanzenban - Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
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Forum
2 topics, 3 posts
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User Rating
Average: 7.8 / 10.0 (102 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.62 / 10.0
10
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9+
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5+
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4+
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3+
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Last Updated
March 18th 2012, 4:00am PST

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Genre
Drama  Mature  Romance  Seinen  Slice of Life  Sports 
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Author(s)
URASAWA Naoki

Artist(s)
URASAWA Naoki

Year
1993

Original Publisher
Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)
Big Comic Spirits (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #852 decreased(-463)
Monthly Pos #1581 increased(+193)
3 Month Pos #1643 increased(+657)
6 Month Pos #2392 increased(+1365)

List Stats
On 494 reading lists
On 442 wish lists
On 39 completed lists
On 20 unfinished lists
On 132 custom lists

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Forum Posts
The Idea Umino is Stupid 340 days, 9 hours, 49 minutes ago
Thanks, HappyScans! 847 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes ago

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 more than a bit aggravating   
Rating: N/A
by shilyte
March 22nd, 2013, 2:28pm
why is the main character so STUPID? she supposedly got top grades in school so i'd like to think she would be smart or just a little savvy. WRONG!!! She's in the top 5 of the most gullible characters i've ever read about. Takes the blame for others mistakes, believes every thing she's told, trusts people when its obvious she really should judge a book by it's cover or at least question a situation. you would think that someone who grew up like she did would have a more realistic grasp on reality. If not for her very very aggravating personality, i would really like this manga. As it is I'm skimming to the parts where she plays tennis which is not as often as i'd like. That's where she really shines and the reason i continue to read
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 Good, but not for me   
Rating: N/A
by foobar
January 22nd, 2012, 12:49am
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Even for Urasawa, this is pretty damn depressing. I have read considerable bits of Monster, 20th Century Boys, etc., but this really hit me badly. I think if I continue reading this, I would end up losing all faith in humanity and go amok.
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 =D   
Rating: 9.9 / 10.0
by sighing
October 1st, 2011, 2:49pm
this is the kind of manga you either love or hate but just can't like when you're too used to happy-oriented mangas. it's just Urasawa's style. the protagonist goes through thick and concrete. a must read for "good" readers.
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 exciting and likable   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by Hell_Clues
June 23rd, 2011, 12:55am
This is another manga about a downtrodden person. But it's not a dark manga. The girl is likeable and strong. The manga's also exciting, you get a nice sense of each volume having something important in it.

Man I am not doing too well at explaining why this manga is good and deserves the score I think it does. Try it. If you're thinking of trying it or you stumbled upon accidentally, then try it. It's perfectly balanced, people of most inclinations will be able to enjoy the story.

Basically, in this world, everyone is either mean or stupidly ignorant, and being led around by manipulative people. The main character is so likeable that pretty much anyone decent falls in love with her. The art style is distinctive, not realistic, Choko, the villainess reminds me of Frieza. But despite that the girls are really pretty.

This isn't a realistic manga, despite it not having anything unrealistic. But it has strong emotions. The matches are intense, exciting, but there for a purpose, as part of the story.

... Last updated on June 14th, 2012, 8:02pm
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 Awesome? Where? Who?   
Rating: N/A
by Sukets
May 1st, 2011, 11:37pm
Ok, i started reading this manga cause it has good popularity, and everyone recommended this one cause they liked ,etc. Then I started reading, and enjoyed some moments, hated others for being over used. Then this somewhere in the middle of chapters 40~50 started to piss me off...cause, seriously, there are different types of bad people, but i really cant enjoy reading this manga at all, simply because, the mangaka dont know how to think as a bad person, all he thinks is, what i can do for her overcome it with a perfect score?
Then here i read someone saying "perfect portrayal of human nature"? Oh yeah, there are tons of people that like's to use others, but, nearly no one as dumb as that gal...and this made me cant read this anymore at chapter 57.

This manga is over rated, main character appear to come straight from a shounen magazine, the drama part from a shoujo (one really bad btw).
Its not that better than prince of tennis, both of them are crap, at least PoT dont make me puke because of a moronic autor that just know how to harass and not to destroy someone...
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 A journey towards happiness   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by Erazen
March 12th, 2011, 7:19am
For most readers, Happy! is anything but.

However, award-winning mangaka Naoki Urasawa takes his audience through a deep and emotional journey to understanding happiness - in the genius of his characters, world and art.

While he adopts a seemingly pessimistic view of the professional tennis world, he does not under-estimate the misfortune that lies ahead of a girl with a debt and a poor man's dream; nor does he sitfle the best and worst of human potential.

Happy! can be truly discomfitting as it evokes true human emotions: sympathy and glee, hatred and anger, despair and (most beffitingly) hope. In fact, it requires the reader to look beyond the inevitable emotion to fully appreciate the deeper meaning of being "Happy!" - for each of the characters, and how their happiness affects those around them.

Thought-provoking and emotive, Happy! is just one work among Urasawa's great works.

A must-read for the serious reader.
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 Too Lacking in "Happy" Moments   
Rating: N/A
by book_lover
March 6th, 2011, 12:06pm
This manga needs more happy moments. I read and read and read, waiting for something to finally go right. I mean, something had to go right, yeah? But no. Things just got worse and worse. That's fine up to a point, but the mangaka passed that point and kept right on going. There's no balance. A mangaka can make the characters fail once, twice, three times, but if they make them fail too many times before they succeed it's no good. I finally hit the point where I just couldn't read it anymore and that's saying something.
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 Moron...   
Rating: N/A
by wotonito
February 20th, 2011, 4:46am
The main character and her brother are both complete morons, it is very aggravating, and it is very hard to consider the possibility that they don't have some form of mental retardation.
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 Give it a try.   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by sirenxsoul
February 5th, 2011, 9:37pm
I enjoyed reading this series. Many people comment on Umino's naivety/stupidity, but I think it's normal considering she's so young and just entered into business. Furthermore; she had no one to guide her and also quit her school. I think the artist did a great job illustrating the expressions of the characters and making the readers fully involved in the plot as well. So far, this manga is anything but happy, but I enjoy watching the characters develop and react to their ongoing bad situations. And I love the rare happy moments; they make it all better. :<

... Last updated on January 2nd, 2013, 11:05pm
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 disgusting   
Rating: N/A
by Romashk
January 29th, 2011, 9:40am
At first I thought the girl was naive and innocent, so that's why she was always duped, but it's gotten annoying. She is not innocent, she's plain stupid. And characters around her aren't even compensating for that fact, or make me look forward to anything in the future. 90% of the manga is contributed to ruining my mood, where's the fun in that?
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