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“Horror icon Sadako befriends cheerful Sadako-chan, learning modern life and moving past her tragic, murderous curse.”
Sadako-san and Sadako-chan
貞子さんとさだこちゃん
6.5
17,954 rank · 2,414 readers · 11 favorites
Comedy
Slice of Life
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Horror icon Sadako befriends cheerful Sadako-chan, learning modern life and moving past her tragic, murderous curse.
Sadako is destined to bring death and despair to anyone who's fallen under her curse. One day, as Sadako goes to claim her next victim, she meets another girl named Sadako. Sadako-chan is a precocious young child who's eager to help Sadako-san adjust to the modern era–no more climbing out of TVs, it's all about YouTube now! With help from her new friend, can Sadako finally move on from her tragic past? A hilarious manga featuring one of horror's most iconic monsters! (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 0.82
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.82 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
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Running avg · Mar 2022 → Mar 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Trivia fact: Sadako DOES have a channel on youtube, look it up, it's really good and wholesome, love it. And I couldn't be more happy to say the same about this manga. I really didn't like the 2019...”
- 7 “Like the only other reviewer on this, I stumbled upon this in my local Barnes and Noble Manga section. As a fan of Ringu and Japanese horror in general, I felt obliged to pick it up. If I had to...”
- 6 “Sadako-san and Sadako-chan is something I happened across at the BARNES AND NOBLE MANGA SECTION; that ever-growing corner of the bookstore where only those with the biggest of brains go to shop --...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 7 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 56m approx
- Published Feb 2019 – May 2019
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M51818 catalog