Millennium Snow

I'm sure any respectable anime/manga lover has heard of the wildly popular Ouran High School Host Club, but did you know about Bisco Hatori's first work, Millennium Snow? If you haven't than you're missing out! I read Millennium Snow before ever reading Host Club and it was that story that got me to read the rest of Bisco Hatori's works.

Let me tell you about it.

The story is about a very sick girl named Chiyuki who has a heart condition. She has spent most of her life in and out of hospitals hoping to live long enough to see the next snow, and the snow after that. The manga's name comes from the main character's desire to see, "A thousand years of snow".


Our story starts with Chiyuki seeing a boy fall from the roof of the hospital. Freaking out she rushes out of her room to find the boy and see if he's okay, she finds him laying on the ground and fears the worst. However when she goes to touch him he calls her vile among other things and a badmouthing session begins. Through this verbal abuse of Chiyuki we learn that the boy...is a vampire. And then that's all we learn before he runs away. Like a vampire Cinderella though, he leaves behind a shoe which Chiyuki takes with her back into the hospital.

The next day he comes back for his shoe as Chiyuki sits outside on a bench. The boy has no problem with the sun it seems but Chiyuki taunts him with some garlic. Some more insults fly and he grabs his shoe back from her.

She passes out.

She wakes back up in the hospital with the vampire still there, he introduces himself as Toya and his bat familiar is Yamimaru. Chiyuki gets him to agree to hang out tomorrow. She finds out that Toya doesn't drink blood, making him weak, because he fears forcing a human to live a thousand years with him. Chiyuki wants him to bite her, so that she'll get to see her thousand years of snow. However while out on the town she has another heart attack. A fatal one. Toya reacts with desperation and gives her a small bite, renewing her life for a little bit longer.

With Toya's bite, Chiyuki is healthier than she's been in a long time and is let out of the hospital to go to school again, she gets to meet a werewolf, and live the normal life of a teenage girl. Mostly normal...as normal as you can get with a vampire named Toya and a bat named Yamimaru and a werewolf.

Millennium Snow has what any good manga needs, an interesting story, hilarious characters, and gorgeous art. If you come from reading Host Club first, you'll see the difference because Millennium Snow is Bisco Hatori's old work. Unfortunately there's only two volumes and the story isn't finished! Hatori states she wants to finish Millennium Snow, but her main priority is Host Club (makes sense, that's the money maker). Since there's only two volumes out, it'll be easy to buy them and catch up on the story! I recommend Millennium Snow for manga readers that love cute guys, sweet romance, hilarious shenanigans, and the occasional bit of drama. Sometimes the art is a little crowded and you have a hard time figuring out what happened if you don't look it over a few times. Despite being full of vampires and werewolves, it's no horror story, but a really sweet read that'll have you saying, "D'aaawww!" and also, "Take off your shirt Toya!"

Millennium Snow:
Published by: Viz
Price: 8.99 US
Volumes: 2
Finished: No
Rating: 9/10

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