 * Your list is public by default. Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Seven SeedsJapanese: 7SEEDSInformation Volumes: 35 Chapters: 178 Status: Finished Published: Oct 13, 2001 to May 27, 2017 Demographic: Shoujo Shoujo StatisticsScore: 8.211 (scored by 55715,571 users) Ranked: #42322 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.Popularity: #780 Members: 24,730 Favorites: 821Resources |
Details Characters Stats Reviews Recommendations Interest Stacks News Forum Clubs Pictures More Info Ranked #423Popularity #780Members 24,730SynopsisNatsu Iwashimizu's last memory of her family is eating her favorite meals with them. Unfortunately, she wakes up from her dream only to find herself in a sinking ship, being rescued by three strangers: Arashi Aota, whose kind-hearted personality does not match his quick temper; Semimaru Asai, who enjoys ridiculing Natsu's meek nature; and Botan Saotome, a skillful woman seemingly aware of their situation. Following the four's successful escape, they sail to a deserted island.Unbeknownst to them, the mysterious island is Japan. After a meteorite landed on Earth, humanity was wiped out and the environment changed drastically. To repopulate the country, the government initiated the "7 Seeds" project, consisting of five groups—Spring, Summer A, Summer B, Autumn, and Winter—each with seven young healthy individuals and a guide. Natsu and the others were put into team Summer B, whose members are considered failures by society.To get more supplies, the group must find one of the seven shelters built by the government. In a hostile, unfamiliar world with no loved ones to depend on, the quartet must learn to cooperate with each other to ensure their survival.[Written by MAL Rewrite]BackgroundIn 2007, 7 Seeds won the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shoujo category. It was also nominated in the Best Comic category for the 49th Seiun Awards in 2018. In the same year, the series ranked 10th on Kono Manga ga Sugoi!'s list for female readers.The series was published in French by Pika Édition from March 3, 2008 to October 20, 2010, up to the 10th volume.The manga was adapted into a radio drama that was broadcasted in Japan from December 9, 2003 to February 6, 2004. The radio drama was then released as three drama CDs from March 26, 2004 to May 21, 2004. A fourth drama CD was later published and bundled with the release of the limited edition 35th volume on August 10, 2017.Related Entries MALxJapan -More than just anime- Characters Reviews  Aug 16, 2018 "The World is beautiful..It's a thrilling place" Wow, I will have the honor to write the first non-preliminary Review ^_^I only review anime/manga which I find to be a Masterpiece, So Let's start.TLDR; 7seeds is a hidden gem, which didn't make it's way to the top 50 because of it's incomplete translation (or that's what everybody thinks..I'll discuss how I read it to the end in a separate forum post) 178 story chapters + 4 extra chapters (only 2 are translated that far) Story 10/10 All of this started when I found this manga... recommendation in an article about "best manga that should receive anime adaptation" (I was in the beginning of building my reading list back then), And it should!I usually don't read the synopsis before the story ,as I want to read the first 1-3 chapters without spoilers, and I advice you to do so to feel it from zero to the peak (It's a matter of taste.) Anyway, This author is very creative, yet realistic in many aspects.She knows well about culture, science, history, classical music, medicine, forensic medicine, physics, animals and even video games. She also knows how to write good monologues, how to break down a sentence to give maximum feelings of it. I won't spoil it but aren't those tags enough to get you interested to read ? Art 8/10 Everyone has a weak point, and it is the art here. In the first chapters the art isn't appealing and it seems below the average, but keep reading then you will find it improving. The colored covers are amazing, Some of the first pages black and white are well-crafted, The mouth line is cute, Faces (especially the boys) are handsome. One of the things that I found weird is the tears and why They're drawn to like froth? :D Characters 10/10 The characterization is Top notch,Every character feels so real. This the first manga that make me sad and happy unlike any other one. Well our MCs are girls and also boys but girls get more screen (ehm..page) time (so the shoujo tag which I suggest to change it to Joesi), Every one with his motives ,skills and back stories. If you ever to hate a character, There are many many more. From the fool to the intelligent, from the clumsy to the courageous type, from the warm heated to whom with a stony heart and from who have many flaws to whom is nearly perfect.Enjoyment 10/10 This manga is a masterpiece in its own but I think there's some kind of problem with the scanlation group , It doesn't mean that I'm not grateful for their work, but to find out after reading chapter 96 that the scanlations aren't complete beyond chapter 150+ broke my heart and the upload rate now is one chapter/six month , I spend almost all my rest time for weeks enjoying this alone, I didn't read another manga or watched anime..only this one satisfied me for that period of time.I went from begging scanlator groups to find alternative solution and I have founded a one (actually very tiring but worth it).Overall 10/10 This isn't much to be said after this long review . If you're planning to read it, change it to currently reading and enjoy this masterpiece. If not then why not to give it a try?Hope it was helpful. Reviewer’s Rating: 10 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0Show all  May 19, 2020 If you woke up from a cryogenic sleep in a hostile dystopian world with the order to rebuild mankind from the ground up, what would you do? Within that question lies the foundation of 7 Seeds. What would a person do under these circumstances? Even more, what would a person without any survival experience handle a more primitive lifestyle with dangers around every corner? As questionable as it would be if the government chose inexperienced and traumatized people to save mankind, it’s interesting from a psychological perspective. Because some of these people can barely take care of themselves, and now they have even more weight... on their shoulders. Every character belongs to a group of seven, hence why it’s called 7 Seeds. With all the existing groups comes a large scale of characters, and it’s handled well. Most if not all of them get some amount of development, with the ones mainly focused on ending up as multilayered and have experienced some sort of growth. Each group is also very diverse with how they tackle survival which I liked. It created conflict between the groups which makes it feel all the more satisfying when they finally put their differences aside to instead work together. The characters are the center point of 7 Seeds, it’s core. But that’s not to say that a good story becomes insignificant, and here is where the manga stumbles quite a bit in my opinion. It ends up being very formulaic, with a format it continuously uses over and over again. With few exceptions, the whole story of 7 Seeds can be summed up as follows. Find a location, learn something new, overcome some sort of hurdle and then leave to find another location. Any sort of progress towards rebuilding humanity takes a backseat, for most of the manga that is. There are attempts for sure but for one reason or another it never works out in the end. So it’s back to square one which I have to admit that I wasn’t very enthusiastic about. It can also drag on for far longer than it has any right to. Making some parts feel very sluggish and uneventful. The different formulaic arcs have at least world-building and character growth coming with it. So it wasn’t too much of a waste of time. But I personally would’ve loved to see any progress or at least something to spice up the story structure a bit.Art-wise it was pretty polished with the character designs being pretty consistent (although hard to tell apart sometimes) with some very solid environmental art here and there. It’s not always consistent however. It could often be simplistic with plain white backgrounds and things like hair and clothing lacking detail. However, at its best it is solid, but dips in quality more times than I think it should’ve.All in all I think 7 Seeds is at least worth a chance. While at first I found it to be extremely mediocre, my opinion has now changed to a more positive side after reflecting on it. Even though I didn’t find all the characters very memorable there’s some genuinely great development for some of them which were definitely a high point. It’s a solid cast overall and made this an alright read. It’s just when the story comes more into focus that it loses that appeal and boredom seeps in. The slow pacing and reused formula definitely didn’t always help either, but that’s a very subjective critique that might not affect you the same way. I can see why so many praise it, but that’s not to say there aren’t flaws to be found. If you don’t like your manga being slow paced or mostly character driven with weak story progression, then look elsewhere. Everyone else, take a dive in. Reviewer’s Rating: 6 What did you think of this review? Nice0 Love it0 Funny0 Confusing0 Informative0 Well-written0 Creative0Show all  Nov 8, 2024 Not RecommendedPreliminary (35/178 eps)Spoiler This Manga was not for me. After the first 20 chapters, I found it exhausting to read.Why?- There are way too many characters, the stories are drawn out really long and the characters are not really compelling enough. In fact, every character's story starts to seem a little repetitive - exotic wild animals, near death, sudden saviour, then all is good.- The world building is too slow and seems a bit...hopeless. Seven teams discover 40 different types of animals, plants, landscapes...but I couldn't find it in me to keep myself interested with no promise of any kind of real character or world development.- The flashbacks... are alright in the beginning and then get stuck in the same rut as the main story.I got bored, exhausted and just couldn't enjoy it beyond 30 or so chapters. 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