title: The Voynich Hotel
text: # The Voynich Hotel
  
  The Voynich Hotel (ヴォイニッチホテル) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Seiman Douman. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine from October 2006 to March 2015 and published in three volumes.
  
  ## Publication
  
  Written and illustrated by Seiman Douman, the series began serialization in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine on October 17, 2006. It completed its serialization on March 17, 2015. The series' individual chapters were collected into three tankōbon volumes.
  
  In September 2017, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they licensed the series for English publication.
  
  ### Volume list
  
  | No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | November 19, 2010 | 978-4-25-325571-4 | July 24, 2018 | 978-1-62-692820-6 |
  | 2 | February 20, 2013 | 978-4-25-325572-1 | October 16, 2018 | 978-1-62-692929-6 |
  | 3 | May 20, 2015 | 978-4-25-325573-8 | January 29, 2019 | 978-1-62-692987-6 |
  
  ## Reception
  
  Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network praised the characters and setting, though she noted the series "often feels too deliberately weird". Silverman also praised Seven Seas Entertainment's allusion to the Eagles' 1977 song "Hotel California" on the back of the book. A columnist for Manga News praised the use of horror and comedy in the story. He also compared it to the works of Kōji Kumeta and Tim Burton.
  
  