Crystal Palace

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I write this review to give you the second point of view of this series (In not gonna be in depth review but more like quick one). I find the series is really enjoyable especially if you are fans of episodic manga. Some people make it sound like it just two brother running hotel everyday and bunch of people who come into their hotel mountain with no reason but actually all of them have their own reason to climb the harshness of Denali (yes, it set in Alaska, probably around late 19th century) mountain and has their own story. From old man who want to ... quit his puppeteer business and want to find new job to widow who become prostitute after his husband goes to war, and two soldier that just came back from war in which one of them lose his sight from chemical warfare. This is story about hardship of two brother abandon in middle of cold Denali mountain and only to found out that this world is can be cruel but as long as you have that one small thing that we call it hope, we can survive even if it through hell. If you like tragedy story with some twist in the end, check this story as it pretty short and at least present you with fresher look in yaoi genre as i always enjoy story that dont try to do same thing over and over again. If you like well written tragedy story and not just for sex, the make sure to check this out.

Closing Qoute:
"No matter what horrible place you're at or how dirt you end up, human can keep living as long as they eat and sleep whether they have hope or not, bit the people that cling just one small piece of hope, a hope that other would easily throw away, always holding it dearly, those people are strongest and being strong is being beautiful" - Mytyl

"When I came to Denali before, i saw one (Aurora). Only after i lost my eyesight did i understand. Once you cant see. you're trapped. Like if you had turned into glacier. Trapped inside your most beautiful memory. Left all alone in there as time has stopped and you cant go anywhere. A sight of end of world. That was aurora is for me" - Blind Soldier

There really isn't much of a storyline here. Just two brothers running a Hotel in the middle of a snowy mountain. And there are very few characters that they deal with and a lot of them end up dying- because it's too cold. From what I gathered Most people who read this Manga mainly read it out of curiosity. Because there no real descript about it and the storyline really isn't there and yeah there was a couple of sex scenes but you didn't really see much and it was rather boringly done. The Artwork was Amazing!! but that's about the only good thing about ... this manga. If you want to read a weird little story about these two brothers then go right ahead- but there really isn't much. Whoever wrote the storyline really isn't cut out for writing because the storyline was pretty much not there at all. In other words, there isn't much of a storyline. As Writer. myself, I'm kind of appalled at the fact there really isn't a storyline not like there was much to do when pretty much being the only two people living in the freezing cold area and running a place where next to no one comes. So I wouldn't expect much hope for this manga. Personally, I don't how this got publish. Mainly because there wasn't much going on or happening and there was next to no storyline there isn't much of a plot either. And it Rather a weird little story that makes you go: 'Ok, I guess.'