MILLENNIUM SNOW VOL. 2 (ADVANCE REVIEW) E-mail
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Thursday, 28 June 2007
 RELEASED BY: VIZ MEDIA
 AUTHOR / ART: BISCO HATORI
 FORMAT: JAPANESE  / BW
 PAGES: 206
 RATING: T
 RELEASE DATE: 07/03/2007
 REVIEW DATE: 06/28/2007
 REVIEWED BY: HOLLY ELLINGWOOD


Chiyuki has taken a trip to the Swiss Alps to see the snow fall and Toya the vampire, his bat servant Yamimaru, and Satsuki the werewolf have accompanied her. Since Toya bit her, she seems cured of her fatal heart disease, but is she? When they try to find shelter in a mansion, they soon discover it is haunted and Chiyuki’s condition worsens. Will she live to see another snow fall? And will Toya, a vampire who refuses to curse anyone else with a lonesome thousand years of life, be able to save her or choose to, considering his feelings about vampirism?

The trip to the Alps has fun, a bit of angst and the playing up of the possible love triangle between Satsuki, Chiyuki and Toya. There’s even a surprising transformation in Yamimaru that proves to be a lot of fun and room for comedy. However, when they return to Chiyuki’s school, the story takes a jarring turn. Her cousin Kei has returned from abroad and plans to stay by Chiyuki’s side. When he finds out what Toya is, he goes to disturbing extremes to keep Chiyuki all to himself. It even takes a murderous turn in the story. It leaves the quirky comedy far, far behind and becomes a very different story. The Kei character introduces a much more serious and unsettling overtone than the rest of the manga series. It culminates in a confrontation, but the end is a bit abrupt. True, the author mentions a desire to continue the story but as of this time, there are no new volumes and her time is quite occupied with the smash hit Ouran Host Club High School. Millennium Snow does resolve itself enough for the moment though, so there are no cliffs left dangling over at the end of the volume.

IN SUMMARY:
The off-beat supernatural romantic comedy comes to a quick and unexpected end in this final volume.

 
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