An example of Satou's warped justifications.
Happy Sugar Life is a dark series that leans itself more towards the creepy side of the spectrum, but there are some moments that are hilarious whether it is intentionally so or not.
Manga
- Towards the end of chapter 4 Satou is on the verge of whacking half-unconscious Asahi to death, which would be utterly horrific if she wasn't wielding a crowbar.
- Mitsuboshi's reaction to Shio touching his hand looks like he was electrocuted.
- Shortly after that sudden punch right in his face.
- In Ch 17 Satou's aunt pushing herself on the male police officer, encouraging him to smack her and suck on her bosom and giving him a real Marshmallow Hell.
- Mitsuboshi's worries about Shouko being invited to Satou's home seems to be genuine. It only makes revealing the true reason funnier as Mitsuboshi's hyperventilating over the thought of Shouko becoming a "competition" to him after being entranced by Shio's cuteness. The look in Mitsuboshi's face is exactly as hilarious as depraved his motivations are.
- Chapter 19.5 Some fanatic "love" cult member woman actually gets some sense beaten into her by Satou and it works. Basically Satou - a deranged lunatic managed to make some other lunatic come to their senses. Talk about paradox.
- Mitsuboshi being startled by random women at night. Due to his mental trauma this literally scares the crap out of him. When he thinks he's safe, Satou gets the jump on him with creepy blank stare. This guy never gets the end of it.
- There's an error in the panel where Satou collapses after murdering Shouko and Shio locking herself away from her. The error in question is a figure standing in the front door, that looks very much like Shouko. The translator at Dynasty Scans turns it into a hilarious omake
◊, stating Satou "didn't finish the job properly" and announcing second round like in a Mortal Kombat game.
Anime
- Episode 2:
- Satou telling her friend that it's wrong to kill people even though she herself is guilty of the act. It's made clear that it's only "wrong" to her because she couldn't get away with it.
- Mitsuboshi becoming obsessed with Shio is disturbing in and of itself, but it is also slightly hilarious given how he begins to hyperventilate over Shio's flyer.
- Episode 3:
- Meeting Shio face to face, what is the first thing Mitsuboshi asks her to do for him? Pat his head to make the "boo boos" go away, of course!
- Mitsuboshi gets unexpectedly punched by one of the thugs from the previous episode.
- Episode 5:
- Mitsuboshi's Stalker Shrine of a room. While (rightly) unnerving, it is also unexpectedly hilarious because of the assumption that his mother never entered his room. Mitsuboshi also having a near breakdown over Shouko accidentally stepping on one of the missing person reports is also hilarious in its over-the-top nature.
- Episode 7:
- Everything about Satou's aunt. While she is undoubtedly the most disturbing character to appear in the anime by far, she also has moments where it's evident that her psyche is far from average. When one of the police officers assigned to investigate asks for permission to open a room in her apartment, Satou's aunt smiles before flatly telling him not to as it was "too smelly."
- Episode 8:
- Mitsuboshi desperately chases after Shouko not because he's worried harm might come to her, but because he feared that she would take Shio herself.
- Episode 9:
- During the tense climax of the episode, it cuts to Satou's aunt sitting with a police officer's cap next to her. He really did accept her invitation to return.
- Episode 10:
- Shio decides to do some cleaning around the room, blissfully unaware that Satou was sulking partially because of her actions in the previous episode. Deciding to wash the clothes, Shio opens the washing machine...only to find the bloodied clothes Satou sustained from killing Shouko. And then Shio casually drops some more clothes into the washing machine without much thought.
- Episode 11:
- Satou's Aunt practically steals every scene of the episode she appears in. Satou's Aunt proves herself to be an incredibly hectic driver; the conversation between Satou and her aunt is more humorous in the manga where Satou's Aunt casually mentions that she didn't have any citations.
- Mitsuboshi's over the top Freak Out when* he suddenly comes face to face with Satou's Aunt bearing a sinister smile and glowing blue eyes.
- While the end result is sinister, Mitsuboshi's Skyward Scream as Satou's Aunt slowly walks towards him is hilarious.
- Episode 12:
- Satou's Aunt is charged for starting the fire, which she happily takes credit for.
