Seven Days Review

True love happens in any situation, regardless of any factors going against it. You cannot fake true love or a true love story. Seven days is this story about true love.

Seryou(Left) & Yuzuru(Right)

Yuzuru is a third year student in high school who has a pretty face that the ladies chase. Until they find out about his true personality and leave him. Many think it is a shame he was blessed with such a pretty face and such a bad attitude. His bad attitude is that he is impolite and laid back, not the knight in shining armor everybody thought he was. He hates it that people judge by appearances because it ends up just being a waste of time for both parties.

Seryou is a year younger than Yuzuru and a ladies man himself. He gives one week to anybody who asks him out and he treats them like nothing else matters. But at the end of that week, if he did not fall in love with that person, he would break up with them. In his personal life, Seryou has a complicated relationship with a woman who shares the first name Shino with Yuzuru. He loves her, but she will always love his brother more.

Yuzuru hears about Seryou and asks him for a week of his time. Seryou decides to go along with it and the two are in for the strangest week of their life. Spouts of jealousy, anger, and compassion are everywhere. And of course, falling in love.

Seven Days is a story that will grab at your heart and take you for a ride. The situation under which this all occurs is original, but not entirely realistic. Of course we are all searching for love, but I do not think we would do it like this weekly basis. To be blunt and honest, it sounds like you are a jerk for only giving a person one week. Unless we are speaking of this true love which can only happen in such a short amount of time.

So far this is only a manga, but I have my hopes there will be an animation. The emotions were realistic and the detail was spot on. I am not an expert in art, but it was pleasing to my eyes.

Seryou and Yuzuru felt like actual people with emotions. They had things they hated and things they liked. Seryou is truly sincere and only searching for love. Yuzuru is straightforward and detests those who only consider physical emotions as part of a relationship. I had a connection to each of them and they were like genuine people, as they should be.

If you have not figured it out already, this is shounen-ai. Shounen-ai is a risky thing to start this blog with because it is a controversial subject, being that it is about the relationships between men. Regardless of their sex, true love occurred between Seryou and Yuzuru. Do not let that tag discourage you from reading this, because it is an enjoyable story.

As I am sure many of us did, I had apprehensions getting into shounen-ai. Now I can't set it down. And honestly, is this kind of love any different from love between a man and women?

Did I miss something? If not, what did you all think about Seven Days?