Half & Half (SEO Kouji)

Description

Nagakawa Shinichi and Sanada Yuuki both get involved in an accident and die together, but they are given a chance to live again. A voice lets them survive for seven more days. However, after the time limit, one of the two must die again.
Also, their lives will be shared, including emotions (guilt) and physical sensations (pain). They are told not to leave the other's side, else both of them will die. Now, with each of them wanting to save his/her own life, how will the next seven days of non-separation be like? Will they get along?

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

half and half (Seo Kouji)

half-half

ハーフアンドハーフ

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Latest Release(s)

c.But, What If... by Black Cat Scanlations 5 years ago

c.13 (end) by Red Hawk Scanlations 10 years ago

c.12 by Red Hawk Scanlations 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

2 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

Half & Half by genre001

Forum

2 topics, 3 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (851 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.94 / 10.0

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Last Updated

January 23rd, 2022 3:29am PST - 3 years ago

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Genre

Drama Ecchi Mature Romance Shounen Supernatural Tragedy
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

SEO Kouji

Artist(s)

SEO Kouji

Year

2012

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Bessatsu Shounen Magazine (Kodansha)

Magazine Special (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #697

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Monthly Pos #1475 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3430

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6 Month Pos #4745

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Year Pos #5960

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List Stats

On 1227 reading lists

On 580 wish lists

On 2381 completed lists

On 46 unfinished lists

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Seo Kouji to End Half & Half Manga

10 years ago

Serialized- Monthly

13 years ago

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Half & Half

by [deleted member]
5 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Story: 7/10
Art: 8/10
Characters: 6/10
Quality Polish Edition: 8/10
Enjoyment: 7/10
Overall: 7.2/10

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tears

by agartha
7 years ago

Rating: N/A

The one-shot was in no way lacking but this expansion is really pleasing even with the unnecessary drama. The slower pacing of the relationship build makes it even more meaningful. I can't decide which ending is better, the oneshot seems more impactful but the expanded is just better for storytelling. One of Seo Koijis less anger inducing works.(MC's are not stupid and are likeable from the start.)

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A good bittersweet ending

by SangMo
9 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I'm usually not a fan of bittersweet endings, but it worked on this.

Mainly because

you knew one would die at the end unless the author decided to throw a curveball.

They fell in love and he decides to let her live. She has a child and the Shinichi lives on through the child.

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Bitter Sweet Ending

by wenhui89
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

I loved how the author developed the characters feeling in the serialization as much as he did in the one shot. It was an interesting twist from the one shot, with both setting and ending tweaks. But one thing left me a bit annoyed and its just cause I'm being picky. I wanted to see how bad the ex-girlfriend and best friend feel knowing he really did die after the 7 days.

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The oneshot had a better ending than the remake.

by tameflame
10 years ago

Rating: 8.5 / 10.0

Now that the manga has ended, I can make a review:

The original oneshot was a compact and simple story of two people falling in love, even though one is fated to die. The major difference in story between the oneshot and the remake is the ending.
In the original

the girl chooses to die to keep the one she loved alive, and in reality she had a terminal illness In the remake

the boy ends up dying, she doesn't have a terminal ilness and his memory lives on in their child.

To be frank, the remake didn't add substantial development or plot that the oneshot didn't have. Sure it added more character development, but every page in the oneshot had served a purpose, and was paced perfectly, whereas the remake did falter in the development of the main characters, while sometimes getting distracted by the introduction of side characters.

Overall, a great read. A wonderful story of why some people choose to die for the ones they love, it helps you understand the motivation behind love, and the unreserved compassion that man can feel for those he loves.

That said, the story didn't gain much from being remade, the oneshot imho is the superior work. But well done nonetheless, Seo Kouji.

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Seo Kouji's romance story is always good

by deathwarrior
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

"They are told not to leave the other's side, else both of them will die."

why not do this near the end when they tried to kill themselves? is parting in some minutes are that hurting? yeah.. maybe..

Good oneshot though, aside from that plothole, the romance is good and the the tragedy is overwhelming....

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For a oneshot, it is plenty good.

by zlood
12 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

Most of the oneshot I read doesn't have decent ending. Well, couldn't blame the mangaka, maybe they try to make it a series. Only a few oneshot could bring story to a decent closure, and this is one of the few.

As for the series counterpart of this story, it did what the oneshot couldn't do, character development. I think the mangaka tried to make readers empathize the story and the character more with this series. Will see how well it comes out.

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Too short

by kronpas
12 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

The ending twist is somewhat ... disappointing (a bit forceful and Korean-drama like, which I dislike most). Should ve extended to some more chapters to captivate the love developing between 2 characters, since IMO its the best thing about this one-shot (and is what this mangaka is best at, after reading some of his works).

There is a series that does extend this story, somewhat changes the plot to be more logical and is at chapter 3 at the moment of this writing. It is however way less emotional evoking :\

... Last updated 12 years ago

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One-Shot

by MatrixM
13 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

The one-shot was great. To be honest I find most romances that aren't tragedies boring >.> And though it was kinda predictable, it was still emotional and done well.

the series doesn't seem to be off to a great start. In fact I was thinking that this was better off as a one-shot but seeing as there's a 7-day time limit I suppose it won't go full retard due to running too long for its premise.
As of ch1, it's already fallen to using nudity/ecchi. :/
EDIT: Right, ch3, it's pretty predictable and shithouse. stick to the one-shot then move on.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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Pretty good Oneshot

by bull3thole
13 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The ending is sad but there wasn't enough chapters that I can really relate to the characters. I agree that the manga should have at least 7 chapters one for each day because only 1 chapter doesn't make this manga that great. The oneshot is good but the execution like imapepper2 said is poor.

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