Happy Sugar Life, based on Tomiyaki Kagisora’s manga of the same name, has revealed additional cast members and a new key visual. The key visual is showing the two main characters Sato and Shio.

It has been decided that Kikuko Inoue is to play the role of Sato’s aunt, who is said to have influenced Sato drastically. Inoue left the comment: ‘I am getting nervous because of playing such a tender, sad, loving, and scary aunt, but I will do my best not to put the greatness of manga to shame.’

We have also got hold of general director Keizo Kusakawa and director Nobuyoshi Nagayama’s comments.

Happy Sugar Life is currently being serialized in Square Enix’s Monthly Gangan Joker and is a psycho horror manga about high schooler Sato Matsuzaka living together with Shio Kobe, a child of unknown age. The anime is to air at MBS, TBS, BS-TBS’s Animeism from July 2018.

Comment from Kikuko Inoue as Sato’s aunt

In my career, I have never ever played such a shocking role like Sato’s aunt! I am getting nervous because of playing such a tender, sad, loving, and scary aunt, but I will do my best not to put the greatness of the manga to shame.

Comment from general director Keizo Kusakawa

Happy Sugar Life is labeled as a pure love psycho horror which gradually becomes psychological. Actually, I wanted to do such a psychologically scary work. It feels like I have been waiting for this. I am challenging myself as I am excited about how to incorporate this ‘gradually coming feeling’ into the anime. It seems that this animation will have a completely different taste compared to any other anime productions I have been involved with. I would be happy if you could watch over the stubborn love story of Sato and Shio because there are plenty of ‘cute’ elements in the original manga too. Thank you!

Comment from director Nobuyoshi Nagayama

She can do anything for the one person she loves. And she will do anything. Sato Matsuzaka does not choose the means in order to protect her one and only pure love.

The production team too are watching kindly over her in order to express her single-mindedness and walk until the end.
There are plenty of other deep characters but I personally feel a lot of empathy with the male characters and my body just gets into it. It is a sad, very sad happy sugar life! We are keenly working on it right now! Please look forward to!

TV Anime Happy Sugar Life

Summer 2018 | Anime Info

To air on MBS, TBS, BS-TBS Animeism from July 2018.

Staff

Original Work: Tomiya Kagisora Happy Sugar Life (serialized in Square Enix’s magazine Monthly Gangan Joker)
General Director: Keizo Kusakawa
Director: Nobuyoshi Nagayama
Series Composition: Toka Machida
Character Design: Shoko Yasuda
Animation Production: Ezo’la

Cast

Kana Hanazawa as Sato Matsuzaka
Misaki Kuno as Shio Kobe
Yumiri Hanamori as Asahi Kobe
Natsuki Hanae as Taiyo Mitsuboshi
Aya Suzaki as Shoko Hida
Yuichiro Umehara* as Daichi Kitaumekawa
Kikuko Inoue as Sato’s aunt

(c)鍵空とみやき/SQUARE ENIX・ハッピーシュガーライフ製作委員会

source: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/283164
translator: nifa

* Note: We previously reported that Yuichiro Umehara is suspending his activities due to hospitalization. It is not yet clear if he will still be participating in this anime.