I've contemplated back and forth on whether I wanted to write a review on this series. It's storytelling and world building is so complex and intricate that I've felt overwhelmed by how I could even begin to describe my love for this manga. However I'll try my best, since I really feel the need to convey what a special series this is.

7 Seeds is nothing short of a masterpiece, interweaving stories of more than 30 characters in truly unexpected and surprising ways. With each group you come to meet overtime you learn more and more about each character, their motivations, and how they fit into this post-apocalyptic society. Even the flashbacks to characters that were once dwelling in certain places were still intriguing and fleshed out the world of 7 Seeds even further.

This manga was dark, morbid, and bleak while still being able to give you a ray of hope at the same time. There were moments where my jaw hit the floor or where I could not stop crying. Despite this, the tone of the series never felt like it was bogged down with nihilism and cynicism about whether human could successfully live together where the previous way of life has been destroyed. The characters of Hana and Arashi being the main reason we are able to consistently have a slight positive outlook.

It also doesn't shy away from the long term trauma that certain events can cause in a person's life. Ango and most of the Summer Team A being the biggest example of how government control and lack of human empathy can make even the most devoted people turn on their superiors. On the opposite of that spectrum we also have Haru, who suffered great loss on his own in the new world. Unlike Summer Team A, he internalized this trauma and kept it with him.

Real quick, I would like to mention the character of Natsu. I knew right away that people would most likely hate her character, since she's a timid girl (nothing is worse than that apparently). However, I really love Natsu's characterization and how we see her slow and steady growth to become a bit more confident throughout the series. People don't change personalities instantly, even when they have willingly expressed wanting to change. Being thrown into a post-apocalyptic world where you have no idea what happened to your family and have to fend off dangerous new creatures probably won't lend itself well either. I would argue Natsu would represent a large majority of how people would act in that situation.

I could go on and on about how good this series is but I hate reviews that are more than 4 paragraphs long so I'll leave it at that.

The art, characters, and writing are phenomenal. Every new arc makes it hard to put the series down. This is in my top 10 manga series of all time.