An interesting old manga by Bisco Hatori. The character are still lots of fun, and there is some nice seriousness in the plot. ( )

Chiyuki (the name means a thousand snows) is a teenager with a heart condition. She may not live to see the next snow. Toya is a vampire who will live a thousand years but he's hesitant to confer immortality on anyone, including Chiyuki.

Sounded like an interesting manga story. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I think it was too young for me. I enjoy some of the teen manga but this was just too silly. I did not feel like the characters were acting as expected. Their actions from panel to panel puzzled me and did not ring true.

I appreciated the author's funny notes in the sidebars and there was a short interesting tale of two teenage girls and their friendship at the end. The author has written Ouran High School Host Club which I've heard so much about, mainly positive. This predates that series so perhaps the author is more inexperienced with her writing in this series.

I don't think I will be pursuing the rest of this manga series. ( )

A terminally ill girl meets a vampire who could save her life and make her live a thousand years just by drinking her blood. Unfortunately for her, he doesn't want to. If I remember right, this series is very brief, and I can see why. As a vampire romance (or werewolf romance, if you count the guy who shows up later in this volume), it's not very good. The supernatural stuff isn't very prominent, and the romance didn't prompt any fangirl feelings on my part.

(Originally posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )

A bit ridiculous, but still enjoyable (possibly just because I'm a big Bisco Hatori fan because of Ouran). The characters are pretty cute, but there's not much of a plot. Satsuki did manage to surprise me.

But he also looks an awful lot like Tamaki from Ouran. It's disorienting. ( )

Millennium Snow is a Manga or Graphic Novel series written for teens and drawn by author/illustrator Bisco Hatori.

Chiyuki is a teenager living with a heart condition that can take her life at any time. One day, while taking a walk around hospital grounds, she notices a boy fall from the roof of one of the hospital buildings. Hoping that he is all right, Chiyuki finds Toya, an eighteen year-old vampire who refuses to drink human blood.

Because he refuses to drink blood, Toya declines to enter into a traditional partnership with a human – one in which the vampire feeds off of his human partner and in return, the human shares the vampire’s long life span.

Because Chiyuki knows that she will not live much longer, she offers to be his partner, but Toya refuses. And yet, he is strangely drawn to her, even going so far as to become enrolled in her high school to make sure that she is alright.

I read the first book in this series. Although I tend to read a lot of Manga, I thought that this one was just OK. It seems that half of the romance novels out there for teens or for adults either contain vampires or werewolves, and this book has both. When I picked this book up, I didn’t realize that it was another human/vampire romance, or else I don’t think I would have read it.

Although I didn’t really care for this Manga, I believe that girls in their early to late teens who liked the Twilight novels will enjoy this series. ( )