Artwork & Dialogue
The artwork wise is pretty standard; I will say nothing terrible but nothing extremely out of the ordinary, although it has specific images that are impressive and well done. It's a lot like that. I'd say symbolic and abstract in its presentation of the emotions and instead presents them directly through dialogue and expression. And through that dialogue, when he's expressing how he feels about certain things or when the observer feels when she says about certain things, it hits a different level. Because the concepts and the feeling that they go through, loneliness, regret, guilt, remorse, grief, whatever it may be, or expressed in a way that anybody who's ever felt emotion similar to those will ultimately connect.
My thoughts
I will say that for a 16 chapter story, it is still one of the most memorable reads you will ever have, and I will never forget the bittersweet ending that it has.
Now, this is just me speaking to you like person to person, just keeping it real here, I'm incredibly ambitious, and I've always been taught the importance of really making something of your life, whether that's not only enjoying your life now leaving behind the legacy. And regardless of what you believe in or what you don't believe in, the reality is we do have a limited amount of time on this earth. But the reason why I say this manga is a wake-up call is that I think I have been able to witness a lot of people close to me that I care about really the forget the truth of the fact that you do have a limited time on this earth and you can't just spend years of your life doing nothing when you can go out and try things, at times risk things. I'm not saying be stupid. I'm saying to invest this time in something you might want to do. As someone who hates failure, and I mean HATES failure...this manga hit me close to heart. And I guess I'm getting a bit personal here with this because that is the real message of the manga "3 days of happiness". Like I said at the beginning of the review that "what's the point in having 30 miserable years of your life when you can have three days of happiness" but in reality, you could have turned those 30 years into 30 years of happiness. I think it all just depends on the work that you're willing to put in for it and the drive you have to make something of your life.
You can see the protagonist in specific points of the manga pointing out what he did wrong. And with all of that being said, it is truly a story that will benefit anybody who reads it. At the beginning of the manga, you see the protagonist asking
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"Do you wanna sell time. your health or your lifespan?" and the mc kinds of mistakes, although it ends up with the better option when you look at the bigger picture sells his lifespan. At the end of the manga, you see the old man asking somebody else the same question Spoiler, click to view
but the last person answers correctly because, in reality, you should never sell your lifespan, you should never give it up, nor should you allow the "higher-ups" determine what value your life means to you, you should take life into your own hands and live a life at the end of the day you could look back on and be happy.
This manga is one of the shortest reads I had, but it's been one of the most impactful.(I'm sorry that I couldn't make some parts spoiler-free. I mean, it's challenging for me to review a 16 chapter story without spoiling anything.)