Three Days of Happiness

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just not the target audience for romance novels, but I can admit the following story was well put-together and had more than a few pleasant moments until the ending.

After the review by Gigguk, I decided to give Three Days of Happiness a read because the message of living life to its fullest resonates with me as a core belief. The story follows Kusonoki who decides to sell his lifespan. It’s determined that he likely won’t live a very fulfilling life and he’s offered the equivalent of three thousand USD for his remaining 30 years. Kusonoki accepts the offer and sets off with 3 months left. In the end he finds love and lives more in three months or arguably even the final three days than he ever could have in thirty years. At the viewing platform, I had meant to have you wait below and fall right down next to you. Maybe you would say you didn’t realize but I always despised you. For never responding to my cries for help then casually appearing before me now, I couldn’t hate you more. So now that you consider me someone you can’t do without I thought I’d kill myself. The scenario is that the attractive young love interest Miyagi is magically paired with the MC Kusunoki, with her having to be around him constantly due to circumstances. Even without changing the initial premise of selling your lifespan, was this the best way to bring the two main characters together? Maybe I'm If you didn’t get it yet, our protagonist is “terribly depressed”. This seems to be because he wanted to achieve great fame when he was a child, but that didn’t really work out and now he’s just an average Joe. The horror. Oh, and also always had trouble socializing or whatever. The average adolescent problems, but as mentioned previously, the protagonist has a terrible habit of self-pitying. The novel feels like it was made to be relatable to young unhappy people, but given the mixed messages and the moral it gives (more on that later), if you actually identify with the protagonist, consider seeking professional help. This isn’t on the level of relatively harmless self-insert of the likes of “lone wolfs” like Oreki, Hachiman or Ayanokouji. The mc here has issues and it’s not really the other’s fault. I’m also not sure how I feel about the ending as I find myself left with questions that will never be answered. Again not a huge problem but I can’t help wondering what would have happened if Kusonoki did a few things differently. Some of these are certainly things the author could have explored and didn’t.What follows is a tale of regrets and figuring out what happiness means. One major regret of Kusonoki’s is losing touch with his childhood friend, Himeno, who was his only friend early on in his life. The two promised to be together should they still be on their own as adults, but Kusonoki doesn’t even know if she remembers this exchange. Before he passes on, he wants to find her and see how she’s doing now. There is one aspect of storytelling that I really adore, or if I'm being a little haughty; a standard I use to judge it, that is, the deftness to present something incredibly ordinary in a way that feels like "there is nothing better than this". Whenever I'm caught living lifelessly in my mundane life, I'm reminded that "Ah! These little things are what I found so beautiful in that book..", and that alone makes me a teeny bit happy. And make no mistake, this novel does it to a tee.

I do have something positive to say about this novel – I didn’t expect the midway plottwist. In fact, I was going to write in this review that the novel is so predictable that I’ve guessed that it would end up with the protagonist somehow making his life more valuable, selling the rest of his life and freeing the girl from the debt. So it was nice to find out that his life was actually worthless from the start, the initial assessment was fake and so that will in no way happen. Sure, it makes no sense for the girl to give out her own money just so some random dude she literally just bet in her business hours doesn’t get even more sense, but at least it’s not predictable. Stupid, yes, but not predictable. As a single novel, this is a rewarding read. Although it’s one of author Sugaru Miaki’s first works, it reads well and I’d certainly like to see the stories Miaki wrote after this localised in the future. The only real criticism I could give it is that the supernatural element of selling your life isn’t explored quite as much as it could be, but that’s a fairly minor issue. Three Days of Happiness is a drama. You might even think it’s touching if you don’t stop to actually think The novel was licensed for English release in North America by Yen Press; [4] it was released on October 20, 2020. [5] Manga [ edit ] whispers* - It is much more charming to close your own umbrella and get drenched with the other person than offer them yours. Even if both of you happen to fall ill.)

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The story starts at the lowest point of the MC, Kusonoki's, life yet, and continues to grow more morose while simultaneously getting enriched with some very impactful characterisation and developments oh-so very natural. Three Days of Happiness is an interesting drama with a supernatural spin. There is a lot of depth here and keeping a small collection of characters gives it the time to flesh out Kusonoki and Miyagi to the fullest. Initially, I wondered if experiencing Kusonoki’s days would be boring, but actually, this book proved gripping. Well, at least not the protagonist has the money. Surely they will actually be put to some use, right? Nope, the protagonist continues to act poor even though he has literally just 30 days of life left. At some point he starts to literally throw the money out. Why did you even make the exchange in the first place my dude? What was the point? Or is this another “hurr durr there was no point because le depression”? It’s so tiring. It really makes me think the lifespan exchange is there just so the protagonist can kill themselves without the novel having to mention suicide. Cowardice.