Heaven's Door

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The story revolves around a girl named Harumi who'vs been in the hospital for almost all her life. She's living a dull life, not knowing anything about the outside world.
But all that changes one day when a new patient, Masato is taken in. He appears to be a bad boy, always smoking and breaking the rules. Harumi however, isn't in the least scared to approach him and quickly they find that their lives are more alike than they thought.

The art is ok; the anatomy isn't always correct, but the mangaka manages to convey feelings and the atmosphere decently.
It's a oneshot with four chapters and ... didn't drag out the story too much. Some things that happened were hard to believe, but aside from that the story wasn't too bad.

Sometimes I was bothered and thought that it could've been more vigorous and that the story was too much. But the end throughoughly changed those opinions and I thought it was a manga that definitely hadn't wasted my time.

It may be something you might just read in half an hour, but it's a touching story that lets you forgive the minor mistakes Heaven's Door has.

I must give this manga some merit because of the characters, which aren´t the typical shoujo characters, especially the girl who has a strong personality.

The story isn’t the typical shoujo school love story either (which is good), but there are serious problems with the plot. To be true, there is one big problem, which ruined the whole story, it threw me out of the story completely.

Harumi is expected to die of cancer in a few months. Having lived in a hospital since she was a little girl, she has experience little in life, until she meets Masato, a boy (a man, really, as ... he is at least ten years older than her) who is hospitalized with a similar diagnosis.

He has a brain tumor and is going to die in 4 days. And this is where the problem lies.

I do believe Harumi´s and Masato´s reactions, the way they decide to deal with their situation, I believe their emotions... I just can´t believe Masato would be physically able to do the things he does.

If he really had 4 days to live, his brain should already be in a state that wouldn´t allow him to do anything. He probably wouldn´t be able to walk or speak, even eat. He might even have lost his sight.

Let´s assume that this is a rare exception, and that he can still do all that... how is it that the doctors could predict that he was going to die in exactly 4 days? It doesn’t work like that.


The end, as touching and poetic as it is, is absolutely unrealistic two.

Perhaps my judgment of this work is too influenced by my personal experience. Anyone who has witnessed the death of a relative from brain cancer knows things are way different from how they are portrayed in this manga. I´m not saying every case is the same, but I really couldn´t bring myself to believe what happens in this story.