Seventh Heaven vol 1 Akira Review

Oh look, I actually started at the beginning of a series this time.

One of Rejet's older-ish set of CDs brings us some Do-S singing Shinigami! \^o^/ I've actually had this volume sitting around on my computer for a while, so it's high time I listened to it lol. Basically MC-chan is about to commit suicide when one of the shinigami from the Seventh Heaven pops up! The reason you're able to see these Shinigami (lit. Death Gods) is because you long for death so much that you can no longer escape that fate. Whether they send you to Heaven or Hell is up to them, but you have to wait until the next full moon until the doors to the other world are opened. Otherwise, your soul can't enter while it's sealed. In the meantime, you have to live in the Hiiragi Mansion for the month until the time comes. You'll be able to escape the pain of death with the pleasure they give you, and you have no choice but to die by their hand since you've seen them. Ah, but what happens when you fall in love~?

Seventh Heaven volume 1 – Akira
Release Date: April 24, 2013

CV: Nojima Kenji
Artist: 35

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Prepare yo tissues ouob

It starts out with you meeting Akira on the top of a clock tower (that you're about to jump) as he basically gives you an introduction. He taunts you a little, asking if perhaps you want someone to preach to you the value of life, or if you choose death to escape from reality rather than suffering in the world. No matter the reason, since you've seen Akira, a Shinigami of the Seventh Heaven, then you're fated to die by their song, a song that will erase the pain the death. However, it'd be pointless for Akira to kill you right now, because the door to the other side won't open until the next full moon. It also turns out that since he lost a game of poker, he's the one who's fetched to get you LOL. He brings you to the mansion with the requirement that you entertain him during the duration of the stay.

Some time passes and you (finally) return with some tea for Akira, who asks you what took so long. Turns out you got lost because "the mansion was so big." As revealed later, it turns out the manor responds to the wishes of the guest, and because you didn't want to serve Akira tea, it made you get lost lol. But it doesn't matter anyway because Akira won't actually drink it: he just wanted to see you waste some life pffft. He asks for your name, but decides to just call you dobu-nezumi anyway (basically "Rat"). He also teases you a bit and steals a kiss from you, making you flush and stiffen up. And because you're so stiff, he keeps tapping you, asking if you've died. XDD He invites you to his room and upon entering, both MC-chan and I thought things were going to get down and dirty. But nope, he just wants to play poker! 8D (Remember that: Poker. It's important) So you play, and actually beat him, mwahahaha. If he loses poker to a mere human, then no wonder he was chosen to pick you up lol. For laughing at him, you decide to make him tea, and he tells you to make it lukewarm, with cream and ten sugar cubes. *sputters* He can't taste anything anyway, but he used to be bothered by a girl who had a cat's tongue, so he got used to it and doesn't want anything hot. For various reasons, you keep giggling and he sputters in a very tsun manner as he shoos you away. c:

The next track starts with him playing the organ. I admit I was fangirling for a different reason, because I play the organ and the musician in me couldn't resist being ecstatic at hearing organ music haha. ANYWAY. He decides to give you an organ performance, but you fall asleep during it LOL. He finally wakes you up and asks what kind of person falls asleep during an organ performance and has nightmares. (Clearly, he's never met this dude XD) You go out to clear your head and later on he finds you amidst the rose garden. (*hiisssss* another motif Reject throws at us (¬д¬。)) By this time, you've already spent half of your remaining time at the mansion, since the moon is half full. You cast your eyes down so he -tries to- console you by holding your hands. You mention how they're cold and ask him wtf he's doing. He's puzzled, and asks that isn't it normal to stand there and after a while smile and nod? You say no and he curses at Shion under his breath lolol. But it makes you happy, so you cry tears of happiness, which confuses him even more cause you're not sad. You can see the feelings start to develop in this track, because MC-chan is so comfortable around him with her not being scared around him anymore, Akira shows his caring side, and you even ask him to laugh sometime. Then he goes tsun mode and drags you back inside lol.

Akira is reading a book and he muses on how he feels emotion with you, even after they've been "numbed" for a long time. While you're out collecting firewood, Akira approaches you and begins rough-handling you, pushes you against a wall, Do-S teasing you, and kissing you in various places. You know it's not really Akira, so you escape his grip, run, and then BAM magic spell sound effect as the real Akira shows up, making this ashiki mayakashi - lit. an evil deception/phony, so basically a Doppelganger - kneel. He sees what mayakashi's done to you and begins to whip him! 8D (Goddammit Rejet, you and whips) It's really weird, because you hear NojiKen taunt his Doppelganger and then have said Doppelganger groan in pain. XD *ahem* So mayakashi poofs away because the pain is too great, and Akira turns to console you while also grumbling under his breath that Kanade might have something to do with it.. Even if it wasn't real Akira earlier, it was still enjoyable ehe.

Well, today is the last day, so he goes into your room to play poker. He cuts a deal that if you win, he'll send you to the other world like you wanted a month ago. However, he keeps beating you with hands such as flush, full house, four of a kind, and royal straight flush. Clearly you're not at your best today, and it's not like you particularly want to win either. Now that the rain has stopped and the full moon's up, he decides to bring you outside.

(*cough* Prepare them tissues) You choose to have your last moments in the rose garden, and he comments on how you being surrounded by them is beautiful. He's going to sing to you as promised, but wants to touch your soul first so that he'll remember you. You allow him and so he hugs your soul, allowing him to feel warmth for the first time in a long time. It's not enough and so he begins to kiss you, the one who taught him what warmth is, and even gets jealous at the mark mayakashi made, resulting in him kissing you more. The bell tolls, basically telling them to hurry up before the night goes, and I was done once he said "I thought nothing could move a dead heart." ;A; He holds you close and will grant you your final pleasure as he begins to sing to you...

And he actually does sing. I'll be honest, I listened to the song before I listened to the drama, and already it made me really sad. But now that I know the context of the song, UGHHH THE FEEEEEELS. Just... go listen. And cry. Here's a translation of the lyrics. He keeps telling you not to go yet and not to go and then finally lets you go....

Is that it? LOL NOPE. Now that you're gone, Akira muses to himself a bit. Your body is still warm and he'll forever have the pain of remembering you. Even though he'll soon no longer be able to feel your warm body, the pain will hold the two of your together forever.

FINAL THOUGHTS

REJEEEEET. (ノಥДಥ)ノ彡┻━┻ Ughh, I hate- How dare you- I- guh *bawls hysterically* Well throughout the duration of the CD, Akira has some pretty tsun tsun moments that are adorable haha. He also acts like he's high and mighty in the beginning, which is perfectly understandable, because you're some human while he's some shinigami who's lived for who knows how long and could kill you on the spot. Poker was very much a motif in this CD. After all, it's the reason he met you and it's the last thing the two of you did before it was time to send you away. He's the type to treasure things forever, and the poker games add to those memories. Same with the rose garden: it was a place you always returned to. And then as he's singing, you're crying and he's singing all his feels with telling you not to go and just, gahhh. ಥ___ಥ He doesn't want you to die and you don't want to leave either, but promises are promises, and those who enter the mansion can never leave alive. This CD was beautiful, the song was beautiful, all the BGM in drama was beautiful, NojiKen's delivery of everything Akira was beautiful (and hot when need be), Rejet slaps us in the face with feels as per usual, and I cried a frickin' river. With Dialovers and Wasurenagusa and all that, I thought there were gonna be some ero-ish part, but NOPE just feels.

However, I regret nothing in listening to this CD and I wish I had listened to it earlier; it's so good. Once again, it seems I've sold a little bit more of my soul to Rejet...

Until next time (´；ω；`)