How much is life truly worth?

Note

This is my first review. So please go easy on me if you catch some grammatical errors. Also, any feedback would be much appreciated.

"3 days of happiness" or " I sold my lifespan for 10,000 yen a year" is one of the quickest reads I had all year, and it's only 16 chapters, but within those 16 chapters it's able to hit an emotional chord with I think almost anybody to the point that it's very very impressive. We're given minimal time with the protagonist, yet we have such a significant emotional attachment to him. This is a manga where you can see where the protagonist went wrong and learn from that. *** #StoryThe premise of this story is this guy who wastes all of his life, 30 years of his life in the future. So he ends up deciding to

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sell his lifespan.

The whole theme and message of this manga are eventually trying to communicate is that you can't put a price on life, and whatever time you have on this earth, you should make the most of it. So essentially, the message of the manga is " why have 30 miserable years when you can have three days of happiness...true happiness."

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At first, when reading it and knowing the conclusion of the story, at times, you can feel like it's an extremely tragic tale, but when considering what his (the protagonist) life would have been versus what his life ended up turning out you end up feeling quite happy and it is quite the bittersweet ending. But throughout the manga, there are a lot of moments where even if you can't connect to the protagonist, the emotion still hits u like a truck.

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He sells 30 years of his life and stays for three months, and during those three months, he has an observer, and he and the observer end up kind of falling in love with each other. Seeing the progression of their romance and coming to terms with the fact that their life would have been an absolute wastewas quite the emotional thing to see. They both reflect and open up to each other about moments in their lives when they went down a path. Especially with the main protagonist as he's someone who ended up cutting ties with everyone he used to know from back in his past.

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Also, the interesting thing about the observer is that it's her job to observe the people who have given up their lifespan until their final moments. It's interesting to see how no one else can see her but the protagonist, and so there's this whole thing in the town where like he ends up becoming a little bit popular because some people think that he's insane, and they end up playing along with it until the very end of the manga where quite the beautiful thing happens.

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

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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.)