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“High schooler Satou obsessively protects her secret love, Shio, through extreme measures to preserve their "happy sugar life."”
Happy Sugar Life
ハッピーシュガーライフ
6.75
6,058 rank · 333,868 viewers · 2,985 favorites
Drama
Girls Love
Horror
Suspense
Gore
Psychological
Shounen
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Synopsis
High schooler Satou obsessively protects her secret love, Shio, through extreme measures to preserve their "happy sugar life."
Satou Matsuzaka is a beautiful high schooler who has a reputation for being permissive with men. However, a chance encounter with a young girl named Shio Koube makes Satou realize that this is her first and only true feeling of love. Telling others that she lives with her aunt, 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.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 174 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 174 viewers settled on.
75%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 8
σ 2.59
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.59 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.0 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 2.6
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 3.25
Running avg · Aug 2018 → Oct 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I love this anime so much. Never have I seen in anime so many crazy people. This anime is peek inside of their minds and I like it. It tells us why they think and act like this in very believable...”
- 10 “So at first when i saw and completed this anime my rating was 1 if possible 0. But it helped me become more mature and made change my life. It helped me grow up. If you have watched this then you...”
- 8 “This was a weird anime. I'm conflicted because I don't know if I would recommend this show to someone. Although I think it was definitely interesting with a lot of twists and surprises. I don't...”
Verbosity
Short · 28%
Medium · 37%
Long · 35%
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 Summer 2018
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-13899 catalog
Produced by
- VAP Producer
- Square Enix Producer
- Genco Producer
- Mainichi Broadcasting System Producer
- Bit Promotion Producer