Manga: 7 Seeds by Yumi Tamura

As you guys know from the last two weeks, I have become obsessed with 7 Seeds by Tamura Yumi-sensei. I got into the series due to the anime being recommended to me on Netflix and I though "why not?" After the fact that I found out it was by Tamura-sensei, the anime art is so polished I had no idea until I googled the series, I wanted to read the manga...


Basara, another series by Tamura-sensei, is one of my absolute favourite manga of all time. Usually I don't feel so strongly about manga, I like manga even love it, but I didn't use to have favourites. Not the point, once I saw that 7 Seeds was by Tamura-sensei, I started to see the art in the anime, for example Hana looks very much like Sarasa.

Moving on, this manga was more than I could've ever hoped for. There is so much that is omitted from the anime that is explained in the manga. I think the anime is doing a good job, but not the best it could do. 

The story spans thirty-six volumes including the one volume sequel, and I cannot wait for this to come to North America. I hope that Viz Media will license this, as it has licensed Basara in the past, for English readers. I was so engrossed in the manga that I read it in two days, but enough of my rambling on, I'll just get right to it... I also might skip some parts that are shown in the anime because I don't want to get too repetitive.

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The first season of the anime spans around the first fifteen to seventeen volumes of the manga so I'm trying my best to condense, maybe I'll just talk about the differences. 

Now the anime follows the manga pretty closely and we end up starting with Team Summer B waking up on the sinking ship in a really bad storm!

So, they get to the cat-shaped island just fine and things mostly follow the anime. They end up fighting giant white bugs on this island though, not something in the anime but was significant to the manga, and Botan-san holds off on telling the group about the 7SEEDS Project until all the members are together. 

Jumping to Team Spring, the guide isn't as bad as depicted in the anime, he's a pretty decent guy in the beginning until the bug laid its eggs in him with the stab. I can't really remember much else about the Team Spring arc, other than the fact that it's revealed that Chisa used to be a lady from a prestigious family, not mentioned in the anime. They also head to Tokyo, split up to take in the terrain and this is when Haru and Hana find the organ. They are running from some creatures out to get them when they come across it and stay in the building overnight. 

When Natsu, Arashi, and Semimaru meet Team Autumn, Ran and Akio originally only invite Natsu into the village, not all three. And there is a drug that's introduced that's similar to weed that all of Team Autumn smoke. And when they meet Aramaki and leave in the middle of the night, Aramaki doesn't stay quiet like in the anime, he gives them advice.

Team Summer A's backstory is revealed way before we meet the characters and the details that are omitted from the anime is so much that I don't know if I'll be able to cover it all. More characters are introduced and shown despite how things turn out. It's stated that Nijiko and Ryo were dating which explains why they were so close in the anime. More of the test is shown than just the small glimpses you're shown in the anime, more detailed, and i jumps between the groups taking the test to show what they are all doing. Also, you're shown more than just Unami-sensei's shooting, there's actually dialogue that happens and such.

The Ryugu Shelter, now a lot of stuff is omitted from this arc. I'm going to do a quick run down: kids start drilling in the storage section to get out, causing the flood that killed Miho, and Takashi saw her drown; the shelter had an observation elevator to have people see the damage happening outside because no one believed the newscast happening; when Mark goes to see the Ise shelter and finds out the truth he tries to run but the ladder going up was freezing and he ends up coming back; the manga gets more into detail about life in the shelter and the people in it; there's a character that helps with the cover up, like Mark, but isn't mentioned in the anime, a famous baseball player, Hino Takeru; Takashi leaves the shelter to catch two people trying to escape due to Acari X, and when he catches them he jumps into the human mincer with the two he caught; Mark slashes his throat because Acari X stopped him from taking the pill, but of course despite how violent the anime is they weren't going to show the suicide that way.

On the teams' way out, Hana finds a cross necklace that's similar to her mother's but she doesn't believe that it is. And when they leave the shelter, it collapses, not how in the anime it stays intact. The photo of Hana and her parents were not in the diary, but in the bedroom of her parents Ran found the photo and took it, along with some other things like the flashlight she gives Hana when she goes in the cavern, looking for water. I thought that Ran had gotten it in her pack from when she awoken when it was shown in the anime. Ran gives Hana the photo after Haru is rescued from the swamp and it is then revealed to Hana that her parents were in the shelter, not before. The anime had it revealed way sooner than that. 

That concludes all the differences for season one off the top of my head. I'm going to try my best with season two now!

So the boys are exiled and bump into Team Summer B. They travel with them and the "tests" Ryo gives them happen. They run across the Fuji ship and explore and all that happens in accordance to the anime. Some things were omitted, but not much, like Semimaru, Matsuri, and Ryo end up in the kitchen and grab a whole bunch of useful stuff before making it to the gym. Also, Botan-san and Hotaru make it to the control room before twelve hours are left on the countdown, so they knew they needed to rush to stop the missiles. Other than that, everything was pretty much the same I believe. And that concludes season two!

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I'm not going to delve into the rest just because the last several volumes should become seasons three and four, if they do a season four. I enjoyed the manga way more than the anime, just because everything felt a little rushed. If this anime was made back in the day, it would have fifty-two episodes for season one and it wouldn't omit as much as twelve episodes did.

The manga is obviously much more detailed, breathing more life into the characters and story than the anime. The Ryugu Shelter arc was much more  heart-wrenching in the manga, I love how it was done. 

I highly recommend this manga for those who enjoy post-apocalyptic stories and the like. I really got into the manga due to the fact that it was done by Tamura-sensei, which got me really excited with somewhat high expectations, and the manga delivered! So, if you like Basara I would also recommend this to you. 

The manga ended pretty recently in 2017 and I want there to be more, just because by the end there are many things that happen and are revealed that I would like a solid conclusion on. I'm going to tell you right now, the one volume sequel isn't a time skip, it's chronicles some of the events that happen right after the end of the manga, so don't get your hopes up that you're going to get answers to your burning questions. 

That's all I think I have to say on the matter. This manga definitely is one of my favourites hands down now. I hope you guys enjoyed this, please comment down below what you thought. I am very sorry about my long rambles, I will try to reign myself in if you guy aren't too much of a fan of it. Hope ya'll will read the next review!

PS. I think this is my favourite ship and I want to see more of them like this. They are really cute together! Also, apparently according to Tamura-sensei...