I agree with the commenters below... It does seem like something All Gore will talk about and such. And also, that's it's clearly a statement...


So, regarding the manga itself..
Art- not so good, avrage, maybe less.
The story, no, the idea was good, and some of the written was good.
But it was carried out quite poorly, I must say.
Some strange comedic moments, and stuff like that...

About the ending

while reading this, I was listening Peter Gabriel's The Drop. mixed together, it had a great impact on me. I love the idea and artwork. short but full of meanings.

ok my bad i was reading too quickly through the manga and thought that the manga had some incest between father and daughter... although the dude is old enough to be her father. Hotel has themes on global warming, overpopulation, etc. Although you can try and deny it survival of humanity in a 1000 years doesn't exactly look too good. Global warming, over population, terrorists with nukes....the list goes on

... Last updated on January 2nd, 2010, 1:40am

At first glance, I almost would've guessed it was Al Gore's work. "You pulled the trigger, killing the earth with your GW!"

But. At the end I had another thought about this in mind. Maybe it was unintentional; maybe GW was the only thing that he wanted to come across.

Life is eternal. The Circle of Life. We created a machine, became extinct, and then that same machine created/restored us. Man, who had destroyed the world, would create the very thing that would restore it.

It's how I see it. I prefer Poetry over Propaganda. ... Then again, I don't like poetry either.

-edit- Christ, I don't remember this one-shot at all, and my own review didn't help at all...

... Last updated on November 7th, 2010, 6:44am

It goes without saying that this is a political piece. While I in general dislike reading pieces that are overtly political -- rather than stories that integrate political themes into the backdrop -- I am generally willing to overlook that so long as the author can provide us with either an entertaining story or a deeply thought provoking outlook.

Hotel provides us with neither.

The story is just too short and it's like reading from a diary where entries come only on blue moons and are lacking detail to begin with. What little we see of the characters actually does make them seem interesting, but they are badly underdeveloped for the sake of emphasizing the political nature of the story. If anything, I think making the characters more dear to us would have helped emphasize the political message AND make it a better read.

As far as the story, Boichi's (the author) message is simply "global warming will cause a huge and unavoidable disaster." That's it. There's no scientific discussion, no thought provoking insight into the nature of man, and no proposed solution other than self-annihiliation for the sake of the planet.

Compared to authors like Masamune Shirow (author of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell) who engage the reader with deep philosophics, the difference is clear.

My rating: 2/10

This story takes a highly speculative theory (note: global warming is not speculative; a sudden and irreversible catastrophic climate change is) and presents it as a fact to show us that we are dooming ourselves, but even that message is unclear given the very last scene, which indicates that technology might save us as well. In short, this story is purely propaganda.

The redeeming aspects are the characters, who I desperately wanted to see more of, and the art, which ranks among the best I've ever seen in any manga ever. But drawing good pictures does not make good manga.

If you want to read an environmentally driven story, you're much better off checking out Nausicaa or Blue Gender.