I just binge-read through the every bit of 7seeds that I could get my hands on, including ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
torachan's handy summaries for vols 16-18. I am PUMPED. I am also full of spoilers!
( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS )
I also hope the series doesn't suffer the same fate as Basara. I started that one a while ago, and the principal romance felt seriously out of place. The tone was weirdly uneven, swinging between seriousness and lightness way too often. It was also the first long manga series that I'd seriously read, so I think I had higher expectations for it than I should've, and I also wasn't used to manga tropes then. That said, I've read other series that manage to go from OTT ridiculousness to heartfelt scenes to silly fights and back again without annoying me (e.g. Gokusen (<3) and Ouran Koukou Host Bu (:D)), so I don't know.
In contrast, 7seeds keeps hitting me where it hurts. I LOVE how precisely all the little 'coincidences' come together. I love the desperation, the twisted timelines, the cruelty of chance, the resolve to live. I doubt it will stay this perfect until the end, but god, I'm so there for the ride.
That aside, I think I'm coming to the end of my manga binge-- I've been reading so much sugary shoujo that I'm a little sick of it currently. No idea what I'm going to try next, but you can bet that I'll be going through the 'related series' tags on 7seeds' mangaupdates page. Or maybe I'll do another reread of the Attolia books.
torachan's handy summaries for vols 16-18. I am PUMPED. I am also full of spoilers!( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS )
I also hope the series doesn't suffer the same fate as Basara. I started that one a while ago, and the principal romance felt seriously out of place. The tone was weirdly uneven, swinging between seriousness and lightness way too often. It was also the first long manga series that I'd seriously read, so I think I had higher expectations for it than I should've, and I also wasn't used to manga tropes then. That said, I've read other series that manage to go from OTT ridiculousness to heartfelt scenes to silly fights and back again without annoying me (e.g. Gokusen (<3) and Ouran Koukou Host Bu (:D)), so I don't know.
In contrast, 7seeds keeps hitting me where it hurts. I LOVE how precisely all the little 'coincidences' come together. I love the desperation, the twisted timelines, the cruelty of chance, the resolve to live. I doubt it will stay this perfect until the end, but god, I'm so there for the ride.
That aside, I think I'm coming to the end of my manga binge-- I've been reading so much sugary shoujo that I'm a little sick of it currently. No idea what I'm going to try next, but you can bet that I'll be going through the 'related series' tags on 7seeds' mangaupdates page. Or maybe I'll do another reread of the Attolia books.
