I lost count to the number of times I came across Seven Days. I had it bookmarked, too, pretty much since around the time it came out, yet never felt "in the mood" to read it.
Little did I know, however, this two-volume lovely shonen-ai would have satisfied me in its entirety in several different occasions. It's one of those stories simple in its complexity, which doesn't aim at something which it is not, with the right amount of love and drama, and definitely with its well-deserving-of-praise slow heartbreaking moments. It pulls on your heartstrings--and also, sometimes, on your nerves. Funny thing is, although I did feel like breaking in there yelling who loves who and why they were both so pathetic and pitiful in their sweetness, those were definitely not moments where I felt I should just close the damn book because it was all so pointless and stupid. Not at all.
There's a lot of growth and development to go through, concerning the characters, but there's some of that in here already. I particularly loved the fact that both Seryou and Yuzuru spoke to each other and waited and chased after one another. And this was not always like that so in the course of one mere week they got more mature than most BL characters do in a bloody series of nth chapters.
It's a quite sweet, lovely manga we have here, which preserves the warmth and purity of the meaning "shonen-ai" minus all the possible shoujo poopie you may be familiar with--cry-baby, damsel in distress kind of uke, lots and lots of shouting, etc. I liked it a lot.