Happy!

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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

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Associated Names

!السعيدة

ハッピー!

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Latest Release(s)

v.23 c.242-254 (end) by Yeti Scanlations 10 years ago

v.22 c.229-241 by Yeti Scanlations 10 years ago

v.21 c.218-228 by Yeti Scanlations 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

23 Volumes (Complete)
15 Kanzenhan Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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Forum

3 topics, 21 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.5 / 10.0 (170 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.32 / 10.0

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Last Updated

December 10th, 2024 5:48pm PST - 5 months ago

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Genre

Drama Mature Romance Seinen Slice of Life Sports
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Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Big Comic Spirits (Shogakukan)

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English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #733

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Monthly Pos #1728

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3 Month Pos #3336

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6 Month Pos #4588

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Year Pos #5888

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On 609 wish lists

On 262 completed lists

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Can't find Yeti Scanlations anywhere on the internet

10 years ago

The Idea Umino is Stupid

11 years ago

Thanks, HappyScans!

14 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Good storyplot, but just damn too depressing

by HanaTenshiHimeko
11 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Storyline is good. Very good. Just that there's TOO MUCH bad things happening. If there a happy moment, it got snuffed in the next 2 pages. I hate the rich MC guy, the villains are too many to count, her siblings are those I wanna hit some sense into them, and I'm getting depressed with every chapter. Even though the theme is to keep fighting no matter what happens, I'm just feeling too stressed out to even continue this manga. And even if she does have some allies that have her back, more than half the time they can't help her because of the roadblock the author presents into the story. So on top of the helps that can't be delivered, villains are pecking the poor girl, and it seems everyone is against the MC girl because of a stupid word-by-mouth lies. I mean, hello, shouldn't there be more people who will be like, "I won't believe until there's concrete proof" 😕

So I'm dropping it. If you guys want to give it a try, go ahead. But better prepare a bucket of ice cream next to you 'cause it's gonna be a frustrating ride.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Moron...

by wotonito
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

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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Good, but not for me

by foobar
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

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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very captivating

by 2cubaby
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

I know everyone says this manga pisses people off. It's true. However, I find this manga more hilarious than depressing. It's hilarious in a sense that the overwhelming forces our protagonist had to overcome are stupid idiots. Almost every antagonist especially the spectators/reporters are so stupid that it's funny. Like stupid South Park Characters.

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O vices, o sins, o bloody shitty excesses!

by paschendale
17 years ago

Rating: 7.3 / 10.0

Page-art is quite expressive and most expressively adds to the stupidities or absurdities of crying, snickering, laughing, etc., of the whole c-a-r-i-c-a-t-u-r-i-s-t-i-c manga, but, besides that, nothing impressive.

Umino’s brother leaves her with a huge debt and now she’s got to play tennis – again – in order to repay every yen of it. So… uh… what do you have to do to in order to loose 250 million yen?

Characters are made of vices, sins and bloody shitty excesses, amazingly, it’s not ero-guro-nansensu, amazingly.

I title it: | The most annoying manga of all time! |

Or just

| An expensive feast for masochists: o, we just love da paiiiiin!!! |

... Last updated 17 years ago

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If i read a drama, i want it believable

by matteroffact
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

Urasawa's manga are usually incredible exhibitions of how to control the pace of the drama and how to develop interesting characters over a long and complex arch. Pluto, Monster, 20th Century Boys all have this characteristic and are amazing because of it. This doesn't come close.

First off, so many of the characters are impossible to either believe or care about. The villians - Choko and Mrs. Otori are so one dimensional that they just inspire loathing and present the same stupid tropes over and over again. And even some of the protagonists are irredeemable. Miyuki is too naive for words, Otori senpai is worthless trash who you can't even root for. All the best characters are hamstrung by Urasawa's decision to either take them off stage for obscenely long periods of time or by locking them into narrative positions that don't allow them to blossom into the characters they seem that they should be.

All in all, this reads like some 2D emotional torture porn. You just wait around for the next unbelievably god-awful thing to happen to Miyuki.

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Clueless

by Fey Stardust
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

Miyuki seems so clueless of wats actually going on about her. The stupid chick (Choko) she thinks is her "best friend" is the one who's ruining her life! Her "benefactor", Madame Othori is only using her. even her stupid coach is using her! Everyone's leaching the idiot. I think the only one who's actually on her side is Sakurada and he's her debt collector! I hope she gives up on that useless guy, and gets together with Sakurada. He's done sooo much more to help her and seems to care about her more! Choko can have that useless, whimpy, rich guy!

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Annoying

by [deleted member]
19 years ago

Rating: N/A

Happy is a manga written to piss you off. Over and over again, the Urasawa tries to invoke the emotion of annoyance. He is very sucessful. It made it difficult to continue reading at some points. Bad things kept on happening. There are too many ***holes, **es and dumbes. People are continuing to get "played." It is very annoying.

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Most characters are annoying and hatable. Fore example, the "mama's boy" who wants to help and COULD help if he weren't such a "mama's boy." Miyuki's younger siblings are brats(... well, they are allowed to be brats because they are young but brats are brats). The only likable characters are the mobster dude and Kikuko. Miyuki, although not hatable is not very likable because she keeps on getting "played" like a fool. You feel sorry for her, that is all.

Annoying as it may be, I am still interested in the story. I'll keep on reading; I'll just skim through the annoying parts.

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A journey towards happiness

by Erazen
14 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

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

by book_lover
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

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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