ハピネス 1

When I started ハピネス I was maybe N4 level grammar-wise and had about 1000 cards in my Anki deck. I got through it just fine by looking up words and (very occasionally) grammar. I had to look up ~10-15 words per chapter. Previously I read からかい上手の元高木さん, for which I had to look up ~5-10 words per chapter.

There's only a handful of manga accessible to beginners. Happiness brings much-appreciated diversity in storytelling to the beginner level, by being a violent thriller about teens becoming vampires.

The manga has a lot to offer to learners:

• Short overall length - only 50 chapters and you get the whole story!
• Generally short sentences and simple vocabulary.
• Easy-to-follow story and small cast of characters.

I really can't review the actual content of the story because it's so far off from the genres I generally like, it just has nothing in it to appeal to me personally. But I'm glad just knowing that it exists as an option for beginners.