Ever had a day where one bad thing after another seems to happen? What if that day was actually every day, and all you can do is make the best of it? I'm not entirely sure if I could do that, but perhaps that's just because I've lived a rather decent life, with good days balancing out the bad ones. On those bad days, though, I could probably understand what the main character of "Sachiusu" goes through on a daily basis. I don't remember how I found out about Sachiusu, but I do remember thinking that it would be a nice and breezy read, with 19 chapters packed into just one volume. Well, I wasn't wrong, per se, but it wasn't particularly good, either.

Sachiusu is a 4-panel manga starring Sachi Mukai, a young girl infamous for being very unlucky. All too often, she stubs her toe, loses her things, inadvertently changes the weather just by being present.... All that not-so-good stuff. Her abysmal luck eventually catches the attention of Misako Gokurakuin, her beautiful schoolmate who is the only member of the Occult Research Society. She seems to have very good luck, which she sees as her just having an ordinary and boring life, and starts hanging around Sachi in order to experience her strange "power" firsthand, even going as far as to pester her about joining the Occult Research Society. The manga follows Sachi as she deals with Misako and other occurrences in the series of unfortunate events that is her daily life.

As you can see, this is just a simple slice-of-life comedy with the main joke being Sachi's unluckiness. Unfortunately, the gimmick gets old quickly. There are some funny jokes here and there, sure, but when the punchline for each four-panel comic strip is mostly the same thing, it's hard to laugh a lot at it, you know? Fortunately, the manga's short length works in its favor here; it allows Sachiusu to not overstay its welcome too much. As I mentioned earlier, there are only 19 chapters, with each chapter being about 6 pages in length; I'd argue that that's better than having, for example, 200 chapters of the same joke over and over again. Sachi may be unlucky, but her manga sure is lucky to have not run longer than it needed to, right? Oh, and for fans of Minamo Minamori's previous work, "Waratte! Sotomura-san", that manga's main character makes a cameo in the last chapter, so Sachiusu may be worth reading to completion specifically for that.

On the topic of characters appearing in Sachiusu, none of the characters are too interesting, but none of them are bad, either. As stone-faced as Sachi's unlucky bit may have made me by the 20th time it was played out, I sort of admire how Sachi keeps a mostly positive attitude despite it all. I don't like or dislike Misako, either, but I liked the friendship that she and Sachi formed, as well as her good luck acting as a foil of sorts to Sachi's bad luck. It was also kind of heartwarming how kind Sachi's classmates are to her....yet at the same time, I can't remember any of their names because of how unimportant they are in the long run. One character I feel particularly bad about being underutilized is.... looks his name up Kawahara, who has a crush on Sachi. Although it didn't need to be the main focus of the manga, I would have liked some progression in a potential relationship between him and Sachi instead of him just being the butt of every joke he's involved in; maybe that way, I could have remembered his name without having to look it up!

With a slice-of-life 4-koma such as this, cute artwork should be expected, and luckily, Minamo Minamori delivers on that front. It's not breathtakingly good artwork, but the female characters looks cute and anatomically correct; in something like this, that's all that really matters. Uh, what else can I say about the art....? Oh! Minamori-sensei may have used their experience with drawing a manga about a girl struggling to smile to create some unexaggerated yet still effective facial expressions! Yeah, I think I've said enough.

Overall, Sachiusu is cute and inoffensive, but the main joke gets old too quickly for me to say that it's good. That being said, though, I can see those who are into clumsy anime girls getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. Perhaps it'll make you feel better after an unlucky day.